13 Week Pennsylvania Power Ball Pool - Game Two - 5th Update

13 Week Pennsylvania Power Ball Pool - Game Two

Date: 10/21/2007

To: Kenneth E. Stutzman, Jr., Juanita L. Brown, Charles W. Rutherford, Mac Almond, Sheila J. McGriff, Jared N. Moore, Libra/Goat, Melinda G. Cook, Johnnie M. Dodson, and Chauncey Stumpter

Membership List: http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=ddn3r8c7_96cbhwdp

From: Michael E. Porter

RE: 5^th Newsletter

A funny parallel...

I bought a bird feeder. I hung it on my back porch and filled it with seed. Within a week we had hundreds of birds taking advantage of the continuous flow of free and easily accessible food. But then the birds started building nests in the boards of the patio, above the table, and next to the barbecue.

Then came the poop. It was everywhere: on the patio tile, the chairs, the table...everywhere. Then some of the birds turned mean: They would dive bomb me and try to peck me even though I had fed them out of my own pocket. And others birds were boisterous and loud: They sat on the feeder and squawked and screamed at all hours of the day and night and demanded that I fill it when it got low on food.

After a while, I couldn't even sit on my own back porch anymore. I took down the bird feeder and in three days the birds were gone. I cleaned up their mess and took down the many nests they had built all over the patio. Soon, the back yard was like it used to be...quite, serene and no one demanding their rights to a free meal.

Now let's see . . . our government gives out free food, subsidized housing, free medical care, free education and allows anyone born here to be a automatic citizen.

Then the illegals came by the tens of thousands. Suddenly our taxes went up to pay for free services; small apartments are housing 5 families: you have to wait 6 hours to be seen by an emergency room doctor: your child's 2nd grade class is behind other schools because over half the class doesn't speak English.

Corn Flakes now come in a bilingual box; I have to press "one" to hear my bank talk to me in English, and people waving flags other than "Old Glory" are squawking and screaming in the streets, demanding more rights and free liberties. Maybe it's time for the government to take down the bird feeder.

Sorry we had no wins in Saturday, October 20th, 2007.

The good news is that there was no winner in last night’s drawing, so this Jack Pot is rising.

Here are your numbers for the entire game:

Power Ball Numbers	Power Ball	Dates Valid	Notes
25 31 44 50 54	08	10/10/2007 – 01/05/2008	Not Quick Pick
07 11 17 31 39	06	10/10/2007 – 01/05/2008
04 22 38 39 49	07	10/10/2007 – 01/05/2008
08 31 44 50 54	25	10/10/2007 – 01/05/2008
24 37 46 52 55	31	10/10/2007 – 01/05/2008
06 22 23 32 47	05	10/10/2007 – 01/05/2008

Here is Mac’s Spreadsheet:

http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=p1yrwg4cb6UBRs9EiKdA0RA

What you’ve won so far:

Amount Won	Date Won	Running Total
October 10, 2007	$12.00	$12.00

Our next drawing is on Wednesday, October 24^th, 2007. The Jack Pot is worth $34 Million. The Cash Option is worth $15,900,000.00. There were 12 shares issued in this game. I will divide the Cash Option by 12 and your portion in posted in the chart below.

Shares Purchased	Amount you could win (before any attorney fees, Taxes or Tithes)
.5	$662,500.33
1	$1,325,000.00
2	$2,650,000.00
3	$3,975,000.00

Game Announcements

1. Mega Millions Lottery Pool – Game 38 – Cost is $10.00 per share. This game plays for 10 drawings. Game starts on Tuesday November 6^th, 2007. I need your money by Saturday November 3^rd, 2007.

2. Louisiana Power Ball Pool – Game Three – Cost is $20.00 per share. This game plays for 20 drawings. Game starts on Wednesday November 14^th, 2007. I would need your money by Thursday November 8^th, 2007.

3. Lotto Texas Lottery Pool – Game Ten – Cost is $10.00 per share. This game starts on Saturday November 24^th, 2007. I need your money by Wednesday November 21^st, 2007.

Darwin Award Nominees

And once again, it's time for the Darwin Award Nominees. The Darwins are awarded every year to the persons who died in the most stupid manner, thereby removing themselves from the gene pool.

This year’s nominees are:

Nominee 1: An unidentified man, using a shotgun like a club to break a former girlfriend’s windshield, accidentally shot himself to death when the gun discharged, blowing a hole in his gut.

Nominee 2: [ Kalamazoo Gazette]: James Burns, 34, (a mechanic) of Alamo, MI , was killed in March as he was trying to repair what police describe as a "farm-type truck." Burns got a friend to drive the truck on a highway while Burns hung underneath so that he could ascertain the source of a troubling noise. Burns clothes caught on something, however, and the other man found Burns "wrapped in the drive shaft."

Nominee 3: [Hickory DailyRecord]: Ken Charles Barger, 47, accidentally shot himself to death in December in Newton, NC. Awakening to the sound of a ringing telephone beside his bed, he reached for the phone but grabbed instead a Smith & Wesson 38 Special, which discharged when he drew it to his ear.

Nominee 4: [UPI, Toronto ]: Police said a lawyer demonstrating the safety of windows in a downtown Toronto skyscraper crashed through a pane with his shoulder and plunged 24 floors to his death A police spokesman; said Garry Hoy, 39, fell into the courtyard of the Toronto Dominion Bank Tower early Friday evening as he was explaining the strength of the buildings windows to visiting law students.

Hoy previously has conducted demonstrations of window strength according to police reports. Peter Lawson, managing partner of the firm Holden Day Wilson, told the Toronto Sun newspaper that Hoy was "one of the best and brightest" members of the 200-man association. uh-oh...

Nominee 5: [The News of the Weird]: Michael Anderson Godwin made News of the Weird posthumously. He had spent several years awaiting South Carolinas electric chair on a murder conviction before having his sentence reduced to life in prison. While sitting on a metal toilet in his cell attempting to fix his small TV set, he bit into a wire and was electrocuted.

Nominee 6: [The Indianapolis Star]: A cigarette lighter may have triggered a fatal explosion in Dunkirk, IN. A Jay County man, using a cigarette lighter to check the barrel of a muzzle loader, was killed Monday night when the weapon discharged in his face, sheriff’s investigators said. Gregory David Pryor, 19, died in his parent’s rural Dunkirk home at about 11:30 PM. Investigators said Pryor was cleaning a 54- caliber muzzleloader that had not been firing properly. He was using the lighter to look into the barrel when the gunpowder ignited.

Nominee 7: [Reuters, Mississauga, Ontario ]: A man cleaning a bird feeder on the balcony of his condominium apartment in this Toronto suburb slipped and fell 23 stories to his death. Stefan Macko, 55, was standing on a wheelchair when the accident occurred, said Inspector Darcy Honer of the Peel Regional Police. "It appears that the chair moved, and he went over the balcony," Honer said.

Finally, THE WINNER!!!: [ Arkansas Democrat Gazette]: Two local men were injured when their pickup truck left the road and struck a tree near Cotton Patch on State Highway 38 early Monday. Woodruff County deputy Dovey Snyder reported the accident shortly after midnight Monday. Thurston Poole, 33, of Des Arc, and Billy Ray Wallis, 38, of Little Rock, were returning to Des Arc after a frog catching trip. On an overcast Sunday night, Pooles pickup truck headlights malfunctioned. The two men concluded that the headlight fuse on the older-model truck had burned out. As a replacement fuse was not available, Wallis noticed that the .22 caliber bullets from his pistol fit perfectly into the fuse box next to the steering-wheel column.

Upon inserting the bullet the headlights again began to operate properly, and the two men proceeded on eastbound toward the White River Bridge. After traveling approximately 20 miles, and just before crossing the river, the bullet apparently overheated, discharged, and struck Poole in the testicles.

The vehicle swerved sharply right, exiting the pavement, and striking a tree Poole suffered only minor cuts and abrasions from the accident but will require extensive surgery to repair the damage to his testicles, which will never operate as intended. Wallis sustained a broken clavicle and was treated and released.

"Thank God we weren't on that bridge when Thurston shot his balls off, or we might both be dead," stated Wallis... “I’ve been a trooper for 10 years in this part of the world, but this is a first for me. I can't believe that those two would admit how this accident happened," said Snyder. Upon being notified of the wreck, Lavinia (Poole's wife) asked how many frogs the boys had caught and did anyone get them out of the truck???

(Though Poole and Wallis did not die as a result of their misadventure as normally required by Darwin Award Official Rules, it can be argued that Poole did, in fact, effectively remove himself from the gene pool.)