LOTTOMIKE's Blog

if Israel attacks Iran and Iran attacks them, then the USA will attack Iran and THEN RUSSIA AND CHINA WILL ATTACK AMERICA?  is this true?

If tomorrow all the things were gone,
I’d worked for all my life.
And I had to start again,
with just my children and my wife.

I’d thank my lucky stars,
to be livin here today.
‘ Cause the flag still stands for freedom,
and they can’t take that away.

And I’m proud to be an American,
where at least I know I’m free.
And I wont forget the men who died,
who gave that right to me.

And I gladly stand up,
next to you and defend her still today.
‘ Cause there ain’t no doubt I love this land,
God bless the USA.

From the lakes of Minnesota,
to the hills of Tennessee.
Across the plains of Texas,
From sea to shining sea.

From Detroit down to Houston,
and New York to L.A.
Well there's pride in every American heart,
and its time we stand and say.

That I’m proud to be an American,
where at least I know I’m free.
And I wont forget the men who died,
who gave that right to me.

And I gladly stand up,
next to you and defend her still today.
‘ Cause there ain’t no doubt I love this land,
God bless the USA.

And I’m proud to be and American,
where at least I know I’m free.
And I wont forget the men who died,
who gave that right to me.

And I gladly stand up,
next to you and defend her still today.
‘ Cause there ain’t no doubt I love this land,
God bless the USA.

well folks i hate that it came to this.i won't be playing tennessee anymore with their RNG nonsense.i can't play online anymore due to the gambling laws that were passed.which means i'm pretty much screwed lottery wise as far as playing.

i'll still be posting on occasions but not as much.i hate that it came to this.two summers in a row i got real bad news as far as how and where i can play.last september the gambling laws were passed banning online gambling so there went that.now this september tennessee has their RNG madness where you can't trust playing.i'll still post here and blog sometimes and do predictions but i won't be playing any time soon as there is nowhere near me to play.

hopefully tennessee will become ball drawn again but i doubt it.i'll keep hoping....

i've had quite a few PM'S this AM.thanks for all the congrats.the best way for you to hit the pick 5 is pick your own numbers and stick with 'em.if you want to play mine go ahead i don't mind.i was hoping maybe someone hit the badger 5 using my picks but its too early to tell.it took me nearly three years of predicting to hit it but i never gave up.the best thing to do is get a system and stick with it.

hello september.good to see you.won't be too much longer and we won't have to deal with all this heat and unbearable weather.the leaves will be falling,kids will be back in school,football will be starting,the world series is coming,i'll be wearing long sleeves,i'll be very happy.

wanna know something?  i think tennessee might let a quad drop here soon to restore faith in their dreaded RNG system.they can let one hit and say well look at there a quad hit so it must be working good now.just like all of the sudden a slew of doubles hitting.pathetic......

it was 103 degrees here today.a couple days ago i had to sit in wal mart for over an hour from dehydration.terrible feeling.couldn't think straight,hotter than a dog and my heart was pounding ninety to nothing.couldn't seem to cool down.no i won't miss the summer at all when its done.i'm glad fall will be arriving shortly.football,cool weather,back to school,etc.

It is time to think about the “unthinkable.”

The Bush Administration has both the inclination and the power to cancel the 2008 election.

The GOP strategy for another electoral theft in 2008 has taken clear shape, though we must assume there is much more we don’t know.

But we must also assume that if it appears to Team Bush/Cheney/Rove that the GOP will lose the 2008 election anyway (as it lost in Ohio 2006) we cannot ignore the possibility that they would simply cancel the election. Those who think this crew will quietly walk away from power are simply not paying attention.

The real question is not how or when they might do it. It’s how, realistically, we can stop them.

In Florida 2000, Team Bush had a game plan involving a handful of tactics. With Jeb Bush in the governor’s mansion, the GOP used a combination of disenfranchisement, intimidation, faulty ballots, electronic voting fraud, a rigged vote count and an aborted recount, courtesy of the US Supreme Court.

A compliant Democrat (Al Gore) allowed the coup to be completed.

In Ohio 2004, the arsenal of dirty tricks exploded. Based in Columbus, we have documented more than a hundred different tactics used to steal the 20 electoral votes that gave Bush a second term. More are still surfacing. As a result of the King-Lincoln-Bronzeville federal lawsuit (in which we are plaintiff and attorney) we have now been informed that 56 of the 88 counties in Ohio violated federal law by destroying election records, thus preventing a definitive historical recount.

As in 2000, a compliant Democrat (John Kerry) allowed the coup to proceed.

For 2008 we expect the list of vote theft maneuvers to escalate yet again. We are already witnessing a coordinated nationwide drive to destroy voter registration organizations and to disenfranchise millions of minority, poor and young voters.

This carefully choreographed campaign is complemented by the widespread use of electronic voting machines. As reported by the Government Accountability Office, Princeton University, the Brennan Center, the Carter-Baker Commission, US Rep. John Conyers (D-MI) and others, these machines can be easily used to flip an election. They were integral to stealing both the 2000 and 2004 elections. Efforts to make their source codes transparent, or to require a usable paper trail on a federal level, have thus far failed. A discriminatory Voter ID requirement may also serve as the gateway to a national identification card.

Overall, the GOP will have at its command even more weapons of election theft in 2008 than it did in Ohio 2004, which jumped exponentially from Florida 2000. The Rovian GOP is nothing if not tightly organized to do this with ruthless efficiency. Expect everything that was used these past two presidential elections to surface again in 2008 in far more states, with far more efficiency, and many new dirty tricks added in.

But in Ohio 2006, the GOP learned a hard lesson. Its candidate for governor was J. Kenneth Blackwell. The Secretary of State was the essential on-the-ground operative in the theft of Ohio 2004.

When he announced for governor, many Ohioans joked that “Ken Blackwell will never lose an election where he counts the votes.”

But lose he did….along with the GOP candidates for Secretary of State, Attorney-General and US Senate.

By our calculations, despite massive grassroots scrutiny, the Republicans stole in excess of 6% of the Ohio vote in 2006. But they still lost.

Why? Because they were so massively unpopular that even a 6% bump couldn’t save them. Outgoing Governor Bob Taft, who pled guilty to four misdemeanors while in office, left town with a 7% approval rating (that’s not a typo). Blackwell entered the last week of the campaign down 30% in some polls.

So while the GOP still had control of the electoral machinery here in 2006, the public tide against them was simply too great to hold back, even through the advanced art and science of modern Rovian election theft.

In traditional electoral terms, that may also be the case in 2008. Should things proceed as they are now, it’s hard to imagine any Republican candidate going into the election within striking distance. The potential variations are many, but the graffiti on the wall is clear.

What’s also clear is that this administration has a deep, profound and uncompromised contempt for democracy, for the rule of law, and for the US Constitution. When George W. Bush went on the record (twice) as saying he has nothing against dictatorship, as long as he can be dictator, it was a clear and present policy statement.

Who really believes this crew will walk quietly away from power? They have the motivation, the money and the method for doing away with the electoral process altogether. So why wouldn’t they?

The groundwork for dismissal of both the legislative and judicial branch has been carefully laid. The litany is well-known, but worth a very partial listing:

The continuation of the drug war, and the Patriot Act, Homeland Security Act and other dictatorial laws prompted by the 9/11/2001 terror attacks, have decimated the Bill of Rights, and shredded the traditional American right to due process of law, freedom from official surveillance, arbitrary violence, and far more.

The current Attorney-General, Alberto Gonzales, has not backed away from his announcement to Congress that the Constitution does not guarantee habeas corpus. The administration continues to act on the assumption that it can arrest anyone at any time and hold them without notification or trial for as long as it wants.

The establishment of the Homeland Security Agency has given it additional hardware to decimate the basic human rights of our citizenry. Under the guise of dealing with the “immigration problem,” large concentration camps are under construction around the US.

The administration has endorsed and is exercising its “right” to employ torture, contrary to the Eighth Amendment and to a wide range of international treaties, which Gonzales has labeled “quaint.”

With more than 200 “signing statements” the administration acts on its belief that the “unitary executive” trumps the power of the legislative branch in any instance it chooses. This belief has been further enforced with the administration’s use of a wide range of precedent-setting arguments to keep its functionaries from testifying before Congress.

There is much more. In all instances, the 109th Congress—and the public—have rolled over without significant resistance.

Most crucial now are Presidential Directive #51, Executive Orders #13303, #13315, #13350, #13364, #13422, #13438, and more, by which Bush has granted himself an immense arsenal of powers for which the term “dictatorial” is a modest understatement.

The Founders established our government with checks and balances. But executive orders have accumulated important precedent. The Emancipation Proclamation by which Lincoln declared an end to slavery in the South, was issued under the “military necessity” of adding blacks to the Union Army, a step without which the North might not have won the Civil War. Franklin Roosevelt’s Executive Order #8802 established the Fair Employment Practices Commission. Harry Truman’s Executive Order #9981 desegregated the military.

Most to the point, FDR’s Executive Order #9066 ordered the forcible internment of 100,000 people of Japanese descent into the now infamous concentration camps of World War II.

There is also precedent for a president overriding the Supreme Court. In the 1830s Chief Justice John Marshall enshrined the right of the Cherokee Nation to sovereignty over its ancestral land in the Appalachian Mountains. But President Andrew Jackson scorned the decision. Some 14,000 native Americans were moved at gunpoint to Oklahoma. More than 3,000 died along the way.

All this will be relevant should Team Bush envision a defeat in the 2008 election and decide to call it off. It’s well established that Richard Nixon—mentor to Karl Rove and Dick Cheney—commissioned the Huston Plan, which detailed how to cancel the 1972 election.

Today we must ask: who would stop this administration from taking dictatorial power in the instance of a “national emergency” such as a terror attack at a nuclear power plant or something similar?

Nothing in the behavior of this Congress indicates that it is capable of significant resistance. Impeachment seems beyond it. Nor does it seem Congress would actually remove Bush if it did put him on trial.

Short of that, Bush clearly does not view anything Congress might do as a meaningful impediment. After all, how many divisions does the Congress command?

The Supreme Court, as currently constituted, would almost certainly rubber stamp a Bush coup. If not, like Jackson, he could ignore it as easily as he would ignore Congress.

What does that leave? There is much idle speculation now about what the armed forces would do. We also hear loose talk about “90 million gun owners.”

From the public side, the only conceivable counter-force might be a national strike or an effective long-term campaign of general non-cooperation.

But we can certainly assume the mainstream media will give lock-step support to whatever the regime says and does. It’s also a given that those likely to lead the resistance will immediately land in those new prisons being built by Halliburton et. al.

So how do we cope with the harsh realities of such a Bush/Cheney/Rove dictatorial coup?

We may have about a year to prepare. Every possible scenario needs to be discussed in excruciating detail.

For only one thing is certain: denial will do nothing.

 by Harvey Wasserman & Bob Fitrakis

were you dumb enough to think that you were gonna click on this and find the numbers for a nevada lottery drawing?  GOTCHA!   LOL

MEMPHIS, Tennessee  - Call it the international house of Presley. With tens of thousands of Elvis Presley fans gathered in Memphis to mark the 30th anniversary of the singer's death, a striking number of the most dedicated returnees are carrying passports and international flight tickets along with their VIP passes for Graceland tours.

 The first time I came here, it was like a dream. I could hardly see through my tears," said Toshiko Okada, who has made the trip from Japan six times to mark either the January anniversary of Elvis' birth or his August death.

"Now when I come here, I run into friends I've made from Hawaii, Alabama and California," said Okada, 66, as she waited in line to buy tickets to tour Presley's Graceland mansion.

Although Presley never toured overseas during his career, many of his most ardent fans remain in Europe and Asia and hundreds have come to Graceland for Elvis Week -- a string of events organized by his estate.

Lesley Stewart, president of an Elvis fan club in Scotland, came to Graceland on Wednesday morning with a group of fellow fans in kilts and tartan to celebrate both Elvis and a friend's wedding at the chapel on the mansion's grounds.

"She's an Elvis fan but she also wanted a full Scottish wedding with as many of the men in kilts as possible," Stewart said of the bride-to-be from Edinburgh.

Nearby, Coral Johnson, 63, and her husband, Francis, were taking a tour of Elvis' private jet, the Lisa Marie, after flying in from Melbourne, Australia, earlier in the week.

"We're having an absolute ball," Johnson said of the trip the couple planned for over a year. "I'm afraid of flying, but I knew that this was the 30th anniversary and I had to come."

Some of the Elvis faithful from closer to Memphis also say they enjoy the oddly international nature of the annual celebration of an American icon.

"Every year, I meet up with people from all over the world, because of Elvis," said Gigi Dixon, 47, of Florida.

Dixon, who sports a tattoo of Presley's profile on one arm and the abbreviated emblem of his "Taking Care of Business" motto on the other, added: "Elvis has brought us all together."

Presley, widely credited with revolutionizing popular music and re-defining the power of international celebrity, died on August 16, 1977.

Up to 50,000 fans are expected to pay their respects on Wednesday night in a candlelight vigil in which visitors will stream into Graceland and pass Presley's grave site.

a couple weeks back a guard working security got shot and paralyzed around the corner from where i work.the business was having trouble with people stealing copper.

a few nights back my dad who lives a few blocks from me chased a guy who broke into an old lady house and him and another guy turned the man into police.

my van had air trouble i went to a garage at the end of the block.a family owned one.later that night on the news the man i saw that day and his brother are wanted on warrants.i did not turn them in.

last night about 4:45am  i was sitting at work when i heard a loud boom.a few minutes later my supervisor drove up and told me a black dude a couple doors down was gunned down in a drive by.

i think i'm going to be finding a new city in which to live and raise my kids this is completely ridiculous.

well i had 5486 number falls 1486.i wonder if they get you to keep playing these RNG draws by letting you almlost hit the number.you'll think your close to hitting so you'll keep playing.