I don' t drink either, but I have to buy my tickets at a beer and wine store because no one else sells them for Mega Millions near the border.  I would have to drive another hour up the road before I would be able to find another lottery dealer.  And I'm already driving a long distance as it is.  And of course, I always give thanks to the good man up above, whether in church or not.

I have to just say here, I take great offense to that amblelamba!

Wow, thanks.  I was defending your previous post.....

According to my book.. majority of lottery players are college-educated, white, upper middle class.......

Yes, that was the part I took offense to also.   It has been my experience that most of the players, especially here at lp, are college-educated.  I also don't like it when people say things like "the lottery is for people who are bad at math."  Really?  If that were the case, every mathmetician in the country would have been a winner of a major jackpot by now.  Truth is, some of the greatest minds this country has to offer has studied the lottery and can't figure it out.  That's why I like the challenge.  I like to do things others say can't be done. 

pecans hey, i think theyre nuts

Well just maybe churches should get in on the game and start selling lottery tickets.  Heck some of them already sell raffle tickets, so what's the big deal?!  The church would get a commission on the daily ticket sales plus commission bonus whenever anyone wins.  I see it as a win-win situation.  I know some naysayer is going to say that a church can't have a lottery terminal installed in their church...I know that...but some enterprising churches do own land and commercial buildings and businesses that could have a lottery terminal.  So a ticket buyer could truly give thanks to the Almighty God both when buying and winning!  HMMMM!  Me thinks I will start me a church and do exactly that...I know my congregation would appreciate not being condemned for wanting to dream of winning a few million bucks and my church sure as heck wouldn't reject a winner's tithe and offering.  I guess it is high time I start writing some sermons...naw I won't even play with that!  But seriously, I don't see any problem with casting lots (or buying lots) in the Bible, so I think it is just those opposing pastors opinion about the lottery.  Peace out.  Gotta go purchase my advance draw Mega Millions ticket...so I can become a first-class world traveler!

They seem like lovely people who will enjoy there win, I hope the government don't claw too much back.

I wish them every happiness.

First off my profile name is "Phokas" not "Phorkas" like you repeated in your remarks. This mistake of yours is glaring evidence that you take no time to read anything properly and that your ability to type is as ham-fisted as your responses.

Secondly, there is no such thing as "ignorant questions" like you defensively and foolishly stated. Either you aren't smart enough to give an answer or are way too embarrassed to give an admission to anything I posed to you. I'm confident in saying that it is both in your case since you dodged all my questions and resorted to invective instead.

You have quite the temerity to claim you were a "teacher" with such an arrogant and two-faced display. It hasn't gone unnoticed that you never mentioned you were a "qualified" teacher. Based simply on your rants it's clear that if you were ever a teacher it could only have been sheer terror and a complete waste of time for any person unlucky enough to be forced to be there having you pitifully attempting to "teach" - if that is what you wrongly believe your skills are. The incoherent way you express yourself, which is completely void of any intellectual merit, proves that nothing constructive or beneficial can be learned from you. It's fine and accurate if you call yourself ignorant but you are in no position to be calling anyone else this.

You hypocritically state I showed no respect yet you consistently think nothing of hurling insulting comments yourself.

There are plenty of people like you who go off to tiny tin-pot countries for a brief stint (often with contact limited to just a few people from only one social class) who then return home fatuously believing they are suddenly and vastly superior to rest of the population. Sadly, there are also plenty of enough cases out there where pseudo-intellectuals have gone off to foreign countries under the guise of doing good works but then leave abruptly under a VERY dark cloud. That is of course if they haven't already been brought up on charges by local authorities for committing some sort of heinous act against the same foreigners they'll brag to others that they have a special insight of and relationship with. You're only fooling yourself if you think spending any amount of time in another country for any reason somehow puts you in some sort of noble league.

An informed society is an important component of any civil society. A free press is the cornerstone of this. Around the world people from politicians to peasants get and share information via a variety of news sources. Only a closed and unsettled mind like your own would cry "shame" at others who prefer to be informed. If you can't distinguish between tabloid, state-controlled and legitimate news outlets then that is yet another of many failings on your part.

You're digression from the topic at hand by bringing the situation in Iraq into this exchange is totally senseless and only demonstrates that your attempt to state any coherent and believable response is a lost effort. Shifting topics won't give you a foothold when you're already in free fall from off the edge of your desperation.

Like any country regardless of its homogeneity there are plenty of differences between North and South Korea as there are plenty of regional differences within each. That goes from styles of dress, to personal and communal beliefs, to dialects and to other forms of expression. In any culture everyone has a sense of place and are fully aware of the differences among each other. North and South Korea are no different and even outsiders could easily become acutely aware of these difference in a short amount of time. Your laughable suggestion that many people can't distinguishing between North and South Koreans is like saying people can't distinguish between a blond haired, blue eyed person from New England and a blond haired, blue eyed person from the American South - even though both speak English and both would consider themselves American and would be referred to as such by non-Americans. There are over 1 million foreigners living and working in South Korea alone (that's just over 2 percent of the population) and 10 percent of all marriages there are interracial. Really, the only contribution your trip to South Korea made was to add more CO2 levels to the atmosphere.

Even though you stated "In conclusion..." I have no doubt Lottery Post readers will be seeing yet another obtuse response from you very soon.

Best of luck to him and his family!

I think if I won all that money, I would become an owner of a hotel chain. I love the travel and touring business and I love people.