Normally I hate talking about politics, but my good friend has sold me on voting Ron Paul in 2008. I used to be very much into politics up until around 4 years ago. Lately however I am thoroughly convinced that all politicians, both Republican and Democrat are crooks.

I am not going to lie, I used to vote republican. Primarily because I hate the fact that the harder I work, the more taxes I pay. In the U.S. it’s like you get punished for being successful.

Why should I pay a higher tax rate because I went to college, got a degree, became an entrepreneur, and made something out of my life? But the people in the U.S. that can’t hold a job or want to mooch off the welfare system get all kinds of handouts and pay a lower tax %. Hell, don’t even get me started on immigration. Maybe I should revoke mine and my daughters U.S. citizenship. This way when they want to go to college someday, they will get all kinds of scholarships and free handouts.

Regardless of all this, U.S. politics are totally fuct right now. The more I travel around the world, I am starting to see how the United States is the laughing stock of the world. Looking at Ron Paul’s views, he seems like the only candidate that is not politicking. When you listen to him speak, you basically get the feeling that he also thinks the current U.S. government is a joke. As a poker affiliate, it also nice that Ron Paul is against the UIGEA.

Ron Paul - Good for Gaming Affiliates <———–Read this article.

Now onto more exciting things. Last year my wife and I bought a new house and I have a great home office set-up. Yesterday I bought some new furniture and spent an entire afternoon putting it together. What a pain! Here is the final set-up though. One of these days I’ll do a “JE Cribs” post in the blog with more pics. Below is where it all happens though.

Before we get into Operation Turkey Fry at the Enke house, let’s talk about the good, the bad, and the ugly. A long weekend it was indeed. Not only did the Chicago Bears get destroyed by the Lions, my fantasy team also lost. Damn I hate bye weeks in fantasy, a few of my studs being off killed me.

As if this was not bad enough, I always bet a parlay bet on the NFL each week with my neighbors and good friends John and Jay. We each put in $20 and discuss our picks over Sunday morning coffee in the front yard…… (I promise I am only 31 years old.) Although I realize this does make me sound like an old man. Anyhow, we missed our 5 game parlay and $1439 payout by one f***** game. Like dumb asses, we bet Washington to cover the Patriots….. oops.

One last piece of advice to the gentleman out there. If you decide to promise your wife to get up with the kids on Saturday morning, you should not stay out on Friday night until 3:00 AM drinking Johnny Walker Blue. And if you do something stupid like this, by all means actually get up with the kids. I did all this but made one fatal mistake. When I got up with the kids at 7:00 AM I thought it would be a good idea to fall back asleep on the couch……… Oops, I forgot I was supposed to feed the kids breakfast and actually “take care of them”. Needless to say, when my wife came downstairs and I was sleeping on the couch, she was far from impressed.

But now on to the good. This weekend I deep fried my first turkey. My buddy Karl was telling me how good it was a few weeks ago and I just had to see for myself. <————Keep in mind Karl is the guy I go to Nascar with and occasionally drink at local bars with. A turkey fryer very well may be their standard mode of cooking at his house.

Anyhow I went to Gander Mountain and bought all the supplies. I even bought an injector and some garlic butter marinade. I prepped everything the night before and bought the biggest turkey I could find. To make a long story short, and I know this is very unlike me. If you have never deep fried a turkey, do it. This was probably the best turkey I have ever eaten. Forget all the rumors you hear about it being dangerous. If you do it outside and follow instructions, it is actually very easy and not that unsafe.

Here are the instructions I followed. Operation Turkey Fry.

So go buy yourself all the equiptment and you too can be a superstar at this years Thanksgiving dinner. Trust me, it will be the best turkey you will ever eat.

For those of you that read Shoemoney.com, you have probably read the Party Like A Rockstar promotion he is putting on for this years Pubcon in Las Vegas. I am planning on attending anyways, however after reading this I figured I would throw my name in the hat and try to win the contest.

So here is why I should be rolling with the rockstars at this years pubcon. For starters, it’s Las Vegas. Can you think of a better affiliate than the one who owns the world’s largest Poker Affiliate Forum. Shoemoney has picked some pretty impressive judges and they all talk up a great game about partying and staying out all night. However, I think anyone who has attended an affiliate convention with me would agree when I say……….you will be outdrank and out partied.

In true affiliate baller style I will even forgo the $500 spending money and ask that it be donated to a charity of Shoemoney’s choice. If that charity happens to be one spin on red, then so be it. <——-Some might ask why I would do this. One answer, because I can.

In order to win any contest the contestant needs to know how to “sell” the judges. Instead of posting a bunch of drunken pictures like the rest of the entries, I will write some personal responses to each of the judge’s requests with a few pictures of my own;

Dax Herrara - The only thing I can say about seeing pictures with peoples pants down is that they should be coming from Cheetahs or Rhino. As far as you asking what a true baller is going to do in Las Vegas, I am going to play the $100 slots, just like I do every time I go there. Likewise if you hear me asking you any questions that starts with “What do you think of……?” you have permission to kick in me in the nuts as hard as you can. Unless of course it’s “What do you think of getting a few more drinks, it’s only 3:30 A.M.”

Rebecca Kelley - It sounds to me like you’re looking for someone to bring that is funny, witty, and can joke. Well for that, there is no better choice than myself. In 2005 I did a promotion with Golden Palace where they won my ebay auction for me to play in the world series of poker dressed like a pink bunny…… no shit…. true story. I even went around town dressed as a pink bunny. As of recently I made a bet with a friend to shave my head if the Chicago bears have a worse record than the Packers. If you want witty, clever, and fun, look no further. P.S. I am not dressing up as a Jester!

Neil Patel - I could talk shop with the best of you guys, but isn’t that what we have email, forums, and messenger for? Like any affiliate at conventions I have done my fair share of hanging out late. And believe me, in Las Vegas I will do the same. I will more than likely get extremely intoxicated, stay up late, and of course lose a ton of money. But as long as we are having fun doing it, that’s all that counts right? Oh yea Neil, when it comes to private parties, I have a knack for getting the best looking girls in the club to our table. This is from the Bodog VIP party at The Tao……………….How can you not vote for me dude?

Greg Hatrnett - Greg, everyone in the contest is going to sell you on how they can hang out until the wee hours of the morning. Some will even sell you on how they want to play cards. I’ll do even better, I’ll have a private poker tournament set up just for our group at the MGM any night of your choice. It pays to be a baller in the poker business. Now…..Are you you ready to play some cards?

David Dellanave - Dave, I understand you’re not into the funny, witty, or cute entries. Fair enough, if you want me to bring it, I’ll bring it. I read your blog regularly and I know you’re a pretty hard core dude. Something tells me if I win that you and I are going to drop some coin in either a strip club or a sportsbook. The good news I suppose is with your past history as an Eagle Scout and mine as a paramedic, we may get into trouble, but we will probably survive. To be honest I have a feeling this is what I may look like in the cab on the way home after a night out with you and Jeremy. Nonetheless, you bring it! vote for me.

There you have it. This is my entry into Shoemoney’s contest. Surely I have to be a 3-1 favorite to win this thing right now.

You may have noticed that PAW is either down today or experiencing some massive lag today. Don’t worry, the vbulletin forum was not hacked again. Finally I was able to get the guys to move PAW to a new server. Hopefully this will alleviate the downtime that PAW seems to experience way to often. This is actually way overdue.
In some exciting news, Kyle and I are in the process of selling one of our sites together. Providing there are no last minute snags in the deal, we will have a nice 5 figure payday. It kind of sucks to see this site go, but I think the time has come. Both of us are extremely busy with our own personal projects, and to be honest it really isn’t fair to Kyle having to do 99% of the work. If you know Kyle, then you probably know this dude works 22 1/2 hours a day and never sleeps.

Nonetheless I think liquidating the site will be good for both of us. Not only will it put some extra green in our pockets, it will get us motivated to do something big, and I mean really BIG. We are in the process of potentially developing something that could make the profits of this site made look like peanuts.

I have mentioned before that I have a lot on my plate which is true. But I am still always looking to grow my business. I have been looking for a few weeks to buy some new websites that are established but somewhat stagnant. My plan is to buy the sites and hire content writers to grow them. Likewise I have quite a few connections in the poker affiliate industry, so doing SEO and getting some decent backlinks shouldn’t be to hard.

Either that or I am going to develop one of the aged domains I have. It’s really a toss up right now. Actually I don’t even know why I am so gung ho about adding another site or putting even more work into my daily schedule. It should be a fun experiment though to see how well a new site can do outsourcing almost everything. Figuring out the foundation seems to be the hardest part right now. What domain, what CMS platform, do I buy a site, do I develop an old domain. decisions, decisions.

See you on the flipside when PAW is back up. Hopefully the Lithuanians have a handle on what they’re doing. With PAW down, the only logical thing to do right now would be to go golfing. Adios