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The less flash, the more kept cash!
We were watching TLC last night when they showed the lottery programs. When David Edwards came on my wife said he sounded likedecent guy. I told her people on LP said he was just like Jack Whitaker. She asked why so I looked on the net (couldn't remember exactly what he had done) and found this. Considering all our threads here about What would you do if you won $ _ _ _ million , this is well worth reading (my bolding, article on blue background):...
Dec 26, 2007, 9:26 am - Coin Toss

'Ghetto Culture' Worries Social Critics
(April 17) - The USA's younger generation is being wooed by the flashy hip-hop lifestyle, which has gone increasingly mainstream - from baggy fashions and bejeweled 'grillz' to 'pimp and ho' slang. But a growing chorus of cultural critics is wondering At what cost? Journalist Cora Daniels stumbled on the first raw material for her new book quite literally on her Brooklyn doorstep, where teenagers found it terrifically fun and ghetto to play cards, drink bee...
Apr 18, 2007, 3:48 pm - LOTTOMIKE

Imus has history of offending, surviving
(CNN) -- Don Imus has gotten himself into trouble numerous times during nearly four decades on the radio. He has taken verbal shots at everybody from presidents to media colleagues, but in calling the women of the RutgeImus has history of offending, survivingrs University basketball team nappy-headed hos, most observers believe he crossed a line. Those women did not deserve those hateful and hurtful comments, Democratic presidential candidate and New York S...
Apr 13, 2007, 5:27 am - LOTTOMIKE

daylight savings time TONIGHT
United States European Union Year DST Begins...
Mar 10, 2007, 10:59 am - LOTTOMIKE

Papers, please! NOW!!!
Papers, please! Remember Germany in 1939? Failure to show proper identification is now cause for our law enforcement agencies to taser you repeatedly for non-compliance. Another violation of the Fourth Amendment... The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly des...
Nov 21, 2006, 1:55 pm - Rick G

two years till election day and the race is on
WASHINGTON The 2006 midterms are finally over (almost). Let the 2008 games begin. A handful of congressional races aren't quite over yet, but the jockeying for the 2008 presidential contest - going on for months, if not years - has burst fully into the open. For the Republicans, Sen. John McCain of Arizona and Rudolph Giuliani, former mayor of New York, have registered committees and signal...
Nov 15, 2006, 8:49 pm - LOTTOMIKE

Quick Pick Candidates
Jeanne (luckierlady) told me the other night on the phone that Ann Richards is dead. I had a flash of memory of a movie I saw a long time ago, first scene of which was a funeral. Everyone there went up for a close, squinting look at the corpse. Someone even poked...
Sep 26, 2006, 8:13 pm - Rip Snorter

is it fair to compare terror to cold war?
Is it fair to compare terror to cold war? Bush likens the conflict to previous struggles, but analysts say the analogies can go only so far. By Howard LaFranchi | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor WASHINGTON As the fifth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks approaches, President Bush is reemph...
Sep 9, 2006, 5:40 am - LOTTOMIKE

"When Donkeys Turn into One-Trick Ponies
Haven't seen it better stated than this. When Donkeys Turn into One-Trick Ponies By Frank Salvato CNSNews.com Commentary August 11, 2006 While the circumstances surrounding the August 9 primary elections in Georgia and Connecticut were quite notable in and of themselves, t...
Aug 11, 2006, 1:26 pm - konane

Redneck book of manners ....
Came in email ... hope you get a chuckle!! THE REDNECK BOOK OF MANNERS 1. Never take a beer to a job interview. 2. Always identify people in your yard before shooting at them. 3. It's considered poor taste to take a cooler to church. 4. If you...
Jun 8, 2006, 9:27 am - konane