For your information, I am advised by Google that there is a connection between Texas Hold'em Poker and Travel Channel, which is owned by Discovery Communications, Inc, which is a private company in turn owned by the parties listed below.

Shame on them.

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"Travel Channel: World Poker Tour Find out more about the World Poker Tour series, Wednesdays at 9 pm Then play Texas Hold'em poker and re-play hands from the show to see if you can guess the right;"

Discovery's shareholder representatives are the following:

1. Liberty Media Corporation (NYSE: L): owns 49 percent
2. Cox Communications, Inc. (NYSE: COX): owns 25 percent
3. Advance/Newhouse Communications (apparently private): owns 25 percent
4. John S. Hendricks

Liberty Media Corporation
Dr. John Malone — Chairman
Robert R. Bennett — President and CEO
Liberty Media Corporation is a holding company owning interests in a broad range of electronic retailing, media, communications and entertainment businesses operating in the United States, Europe, South America and Asia. Liberty Media's businesses are classified in three groups: Interactive, Networks and International and include some of the world's most recognized and respected brands, including QVC, Encore, STARZ!, Discovery Communications, UnitedGlobalCom, Inc., IAC/InterActiveCorp, and News Corporation.

Cox Communications, Inc.
James O. Robbins — President and CEO
With one of the highest capacity and most reliable broadband delivery networks in the world, Atlanta-based Cox Communications, Inc. is among the nation's largest broadband communications companies, serving 6.3 million customers in more than 20 states. Building on its core business of delivering cable television programming, Cox Communications, Inc., also provides advance communications services including digital video, local and long-distance telephone and high speed Internet access.

Advance/Newhouse Communications
Robert Miron — Chairman and CEO
Advance/Newhouse Communications manages Bright House Networks, which has over 2 million cable television subscribers. Advance/Newhouse other interests include: Condé Nast and Fairchild magazines; PARADE magazine; daily newspapers serving 26 cities; American City Business Journals with publications in over 45 cities; Advance Internet and CondéNet, producers of online services, and a significant interest in Time Warner Telecom, Inc.


John Hendricks — Founder and Chairman
Discovery Communications, Inc.
John Hendricks launched the Discovery Channel in 1985 as America's first cable network dedicated to providing world-class documentary programming. As one of the leading visionaries in the media industry, Mr. Hendricks has been honored with a Primetime Emmy® Award and with the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences highest honor, the Governors Award, for conceiving the TLC series, Great Books. The Ark Trust has awarded Mr. Hendricks a Genesis Award for lifetime achievement for his efforts to raise awareness around the globe about animal issues. Mr. Hendricks has also been honored as the first corporate leader to receive the National Education Association's Friend of Education award for "innovations in education and technology and greatly expanding educational opportunity for America's schoolchildren." Most recently, Mr. Hendricks was inducted into the Cable Center Hall of Fame, which "honors men and women whose achievements have provided service to the cable industry and to the people, communities and organizations served by cable TV."

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If these persons have nothing to do with Texas Hold'em Poker and can do nothing to stop the billions of spam messages being sent across the Internet, which jam our systems, and cause untold billions of dollars in damages, then I apologize.

Otherwise, I would like the authorities to investigate. To fail to take action while millions of web browsers and bloggers are under attack, would be a travesty.

Government is supposed to serve the people.

BCara@BillCara.com