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Powerball Lottery.
The Powerball lottery was just won with a $700,000,000+ jackpot.  It occurred to me this lotto gives many millions of people something unavailable centuries ago. Given is a measure of hope for wealth and position far beyond any expectation but more important, any possibility. Of course, the measure is faux, false, incorrect, wrong, mistaken, misleading, faulty, inaccurate, invalid, improper, unfounded, erroneous, and downright effectively impossible.  Yet, for these same millions, it gives a few minutes of hope, the small flicker of light within a dark life without much chance of escape.

Is the Lotto wrong?  Or is it a tool used by those in power to quiet the distant drum of revolution? Possibly not.  Maybe it’s a tool merely for those in power to make money and also to quiet the resonance of grumble? Possibly so.

BTW, I bought a ticket for the last drawing.  Though I have enough for comfort, still I did see that flicker of light, feel that brief hope, and dream a bit – if only for a few moments.

When you understand the chance of winning the Powerball is smaller than being struck by lightening twice in the same year, then you know the meaning of the word “impossible.”

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And speaking of dreaming....

Ferrari
Ferrari has announced it newest model sports car, the Portofino.  The price is not yet announced but they say it will be the most affordable model yet.  “Incredibly affordable,”  they stress.   

“Affordable, affordable, affordable,” chimed in House minority leader, Nancy Pelosi, right on cue. 


FACHA - the Ferrari Affordable Health Care Act.  We got that. Now for the car.
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