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Gender: Male
Status: Married
Age: 40
Sign: Scorpio

City: CLARKSVILLE
State: Tennessee
Country: US
Signup Date: 8/4/2006

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Tuesday, March 04, 2008 

Current mood:  knighted
Category: Food and Restaurants

THE BASICS
1. Raised in: wolf den
2. Planned baby: no
3. Birth date: 11/16/69
4. Any siblings: yes, some wolves
5. How many? I think there was 6 in our litter
6. Hair color: pure pearl white
7. Hair length: elbo length hair
8. First school: Hard Knock Elementary
9. Eye color: white
10. Shoe size: M
11. Mood: powder keggish
12. Smell: seaweed and goat
13. Height: 7'11"
14. Lefty/righty: apen..omy


LOVE LIFE:
1. Do you remember your first real relationship? No, I remember my first fake one though.
2. Do you believe in love? I did, until evolution scientist proved it was a myth.
3. Shortest relationship? 14 seconds and it was a midget in case you meant height.
4. Have you ever been heartbroken? No, I eat right.
5. Do you like someone right now? no, I hate everybody
6. Have you ever fallen for a friend? just long enough to catch them and open my parrachute.
7. Are you afraid of commitment? no, I seek it out and challenge it.
8. Do you believe in love at first sight? The eyes are the window to the soul, how penetrating is the beauty of one to take this vision and pierce thine heart?
9. Longest relationship? 38 years, 5 months, eleven days, 25 hours, 16 minutes and 61 seconds.


THIS OR THAT:
1. Love or money? What good is money without love?
2. Coffee or alcohol? What good is coffee without alcohol?
3. One-night stands or relationships? Isn't a one-night stand a relationship?
4. Television or Internet? Books
5. Pepsi or coke? Dr. Thunder
6. Fun night out or romantic night in? Who says you can't be romantic while you're out?
7. Phone or in Person? web cam


HAVE YOU EVER:
1. Have you ever been caught sneaking out? of prison, yes
2. Have you ever skinny-dipped? no, I went fat dipping though
3. Have you ever done something you regret? I wish I hadn't set that plane on fire.
4. Have you ever been on a houseboat? No, I once stayed in a boat house though.
5. Have you ever finished an entire jawbreaker? No, I can't even do the splits.
6. Have you ever colored your hair? Yes I had it colored grey a few years bck to make myself look "distinguished".
7. Have you ever been streaking? Only during one court appearance.


ARE YOU:
1. Are you missing someone right now? No, I hit them
2. Are you talking to anyone right now? myself, but he never listens.
3. Are you German? I don't know, I was BORN in Charleston, you do the math.
4. Are you Italian? You talikin to me?
5. Are you French? No, except for kisses
6. Are you Russian? No, but my racehorse is.
7. Are you Scandinavian? Where is Scandanavia?
8. Are you Indian? How.?
9. Are you Irish? One night a year.
10. Are You Scottish? No, I'm Beasleyish
Are your parents still married? One of them is.

DO YOU:
1. Do you get depressed about things easily? Just the stock market, politics, and ringworms.
2. Do you live life to the fullest? No, I die death to the emptyest.
3. Are you comfortable with the way you look? Yes, My vision was 20/12 at my physical yesterday.
4. How do you dress? Very carefully. Its better to look good than to feel good, my darling.
5. Are you scared of growing old alone? Fear is to be addressed singularly, old age only ripens that wisdom.
6.What do you want to be when you grow up? A state of total consciousness.
7. Favorite season? Duck season, no wabbit season.
8. Are you a vegetarian? Where's Vegetaria?
9. Current song you're listening to? Ten little indians.

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Thursday, February 28, 2008 

Current mood:  overstimulated
Category: Quiz/Survey
..> ..>
Let's have some fun......
Body: 1. Are you dating the person you text most?
I rarely text and I'm married, sorry texters, and ladies.

2. What are you doing right now?
Text messaging my wife.

3. What do you want?
I want it all and I want it now, and patience.

4. Who was the last person you shared a bed with?
My wife, Adrienne and our dogs(yes they're little 4-legged people).

5. Do you talk to yourself?
Yeah, but I never listen to me, so I usually ignore him.

6. Do you drink milk straight from the carton?
I prefer it straight from the cow's teat.

7. Who knows a dark secret or two about you?
If its TRULY a secret, no one. Many people know some disturbing things about me, let's put it this way, I'll never be President. Wait, Clinton was, I retract that last remark.

8. How long is your hair?
Well depending on which hair you mean, I would say it ranges from a few millimeters to a couple inches, but enough about my eyebrows.

9. Do you like Batman?
I suppose, but he's no superhero.

10. What is your favorite color?
phoeniceous

11. Who did you last hug?
Some bum on the street, he freaked out.

12. Do you swear at your parents?
No, I usually just do it behind their backs.

13. Do you like anyone now?
I like lamp.

14. When was the last time you lied?
The last time someone asked me if I liked anyone right now.

15. When was the last time you cried?
Last summer when my parachute didn't open and then again that day when I got caught in the gears of a combine.

16. Is your birthday on a holiday?
Yes, its, UN International Day for Tolerance, seriously. Nov. 16th

18. Last thing you cooked today?
up some trouble

19. Did you have a nap today?
No, I had a conniption today.

20. Whose house did you go to last?
The doghouse, I'm always there.

21. What are you currently listening to?
The TV, dog tags jingling, and Adrienne screwing around in the kitchen.

22. Why is the sky blue?
Actually, the sky isn't blue, we've all just been playing a joke on you, The blue color of the sky is due to Rayleigh scattering. As light moves through the atmosphere, most of the longer wavelengths pass straight through. Little of the red, orange and yellow light is affected by the air. However, much of the shorter wavelength light is absorbed by the gas molecules. The absorbed blue light is then radiated in different directions. It gets scattered all around the sky. Whichever direction you look, some of this scattered blue light reaches you. Since you see the blue light from everywhere overhead, the sky looks blue.

23. Do you like green beans?
Not anymore, we had a bit of a falling out.

24. Do you swear a lot?
What the funk do you mean you son of a big shoe? Go to health.

25. Where did you get the shirt you're wearing?
I stole it from Frank.

26. Have any regrets?
Ive had a few;
But then again, too few to mention.
I did what I had to do
And saw it through without exemption.

I planned each charted course;
Each careful step along the byway,
But more, much more than this,
I did it my way.


27. Do you use an alarm clock?
No, it uses me.

28. Where are you?
I'm on a lagre spinning ball orbiting around a larger, firey ball spinning amongst a group of firey balls.

29. Do you ever snort when you laugh?
No but when I snort, I laugh.

30. Whats the first thing you notice on the opposite sex?
The back of their knee.

31. Is cheating ever okay?
That depends, if you are playing a game which the winner is measured by who cheats the most, then it would have to be.

32. Do you want someone you can't have?
Yes, I want Brian off the Family Guy.

37. Are you a social or antisocial person?
I had no idea I only had two choices to describe myself, wow, that's depressing, I guess I'm antisocial, NOW.

38. Where did you last go?
On a psycholgical and philosophical tangent.

39. Where is your best friend?
In the keeping room.

40. Current hate?
Racism, Abortion, and Liberals and people who hate.

41. What do you want to be when you grow up?
a woodchuck

42. Where were you last night?
I wasn't anywhere near the body, I mean, I don't know what you're talking about. I have no idea how they died.

43. What radio station(s) do you listen to?
I'm deaf, I have to listen to the braille station. They play a lot of Beethoven
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45. Are you afraid of the dark?
No, I'm afraid of the monster that I can't see in the dark.

46. What is the status of you and the person you last kissed?
Potentially laughing her ass off, or telling me how silly I am when she reads this in about 2 minutes.

47. Do you miss someone today?
No, I hit them all.

48. Meet anyone new today?
No, I met only people I have met before today, except for the bum I hugged.

49. Do you still have pictures of you & your ex?
No, but I'm sure they're on the internet somewhere.

50. Last person who told you your problems were going to be okay?
I don't have any problems, I create some, but they avoid me like the plague.
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Monday, February 11, 2008 

Current mood:  blustery
Category: Games
1. Anyone who knows your myspace password?
I think the CIA has it on file.

2. What was the last thing you ordered at McDonald's?
A Taco, they didn't have it.


3. Are you an emotional person?
I don't know, what kind of question is that. I haven't done anything. Why would you ask that? I didn't do it, nobody saw me do it, you can't prove anything, GEEZ, GET OFF MY BACK ABOUT, OK? Just drop it for the love of God.

4. Does the person you like know that you like them?
Shouldn't you be asking them that question?

5. Do you like your name?
Its not MY name, I share it with others.

6. Do you believe in love at first sight?
As soon as I had seen her, I was lost. For Beauty's wound is sharper than any weapon's, and it runs through the eyes down to the soul. It is through the eye that love's wound passes, and I now became a prey to a host of emotions...

7. What was the last thing you did?
Googled Love at first sight.

8. Who was the last person you ate with?
Everybody at Rudy's

9. What are you listening to right now?
The history channel and the pitter patter of Jack Russell paws.

10. How's the weather right now?
Mostly cloudy if your a pessimist, partly sunny for those optimists out there.

11. Last person who called you?
Bumpus, before that it was M.A.D.D., before that it was Faith Hill, AGAIN.

12. Last lie you told?
Question 11

13. Last song you sang?
The free credit report.com song. Its stuck in my head.

14. Lost a friendship over something stupid?
Not really, unless to call attempted vehicular manslaughter stupid.

15. Last thing you bought?
An omlette, a watermelon, some duck tape and a dead cat. Don't ask.

16. Last time you had Starbucks?
At $4 a cup, don't you mean the last time Starbucks had ME?

17. Where do you wish you were at?
Sitting 8 inches to the right. There, that's better.

18. Faked being sick to miss work/school?
No, I always say I have anal glaucoma. I just can't see my ass coming into work.

19. What time did you wake up today?
3 am.

20. What did you do last night?
Watched a little of the Grammy's and wrote an opera. In my spare time I oversaw a coporate merger between Microsoft and Wal-Mart.

21. Last person you made fun of?
Some retarded girl. I mean Hillary Clinton.

22. What are you wearing right now?
Right now I'm wearing Valentino, but I'm contemplating slipping into something a little more Versace.

23. What's the first thing you notice about the opposite sex?
That they are the opposite sex. DUH

24. Where are you right now?
I'm running a black op in Saigon, where the hell do you think I am? I'm in front of a computer.

32. What's the most annoying thing someone has said to you?
"Where are you right now?" would have to qualify as 1.

33. Do you like music?
Yes, it soothes the savage beast in me.

34. Do you want to get married?
Again? I don't know, the wedding was fun, maybe one day the wife and I will do it all over and renew our vows. I ask her, Honey, will you marry me again?

35. Would you bungee jump?
Only to break the world record.

36. Can you speak Spanish?
No, perdón, usted me debe tener confundí con otra persona. Cuándo viene a hablar español, yo no expreso con palabras el idioma de spainsh muy con fluidez, ni hago quiero emprender un nuevo idioma en este momento.

37. Do you like roller coasters?
My life is a roller coaster.

38. Is there anything you wished for this summer?
Yeah, I wished I could speak Russian, and ????? ? ??????????, ? ??????????? ??????? ????? ? ??? ???????? ?? ??????? ?????.

41. Thinking about someone right now?
Yes, I wonder what Tom from Myspace is doing right now. I also wonder where Bin Laden is.

42. Concerned about life right now?
Well, I'm concerned about many things. I guess since life is a prerequisite to ultimately enable me to be concerned about those things, I'd have to say yes.

43. Have you ever tripped going up the stairs?
No, I take the elevator.

44. What are you looking forward to this summer?
June 21st
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Monday, November 19, 2007 

Category: News and Politics
I don't think economic rights should be "lumped" together with civil and political rights. Economic rights are more of a by-product of the establishment of civil and political rights than a equal entity.  More developed countries have firmly established civil and political boundaries which have been attained (for the most part).  This allows them to concentrate on economic rights with much more focus and attention than lesser developed states who may be struggling with political turmoil or civil rights unrest.

There is another aspect to consider when evaluating a comparison between the two.  If a country has just started a "fledgling" revolution of civil rights and they are concerned with problems of race, they have to progress through a "phase" if you will.  As we witnessed in our country, people could not vote because of the color of their skin, even after getting the right to vote, minorities still were faced with obstacles from a political standpoint.  Societies do not "change" overnight.  Though the laws are clear today, there still is an unequal balance in the economic aspect of race which is prevalent in the US, even today!  To expect a country which is struggling with political and civil issues to adhere to economic regulations would be shooting for the moon.  I believe this is why the UN chose to make the ICCPR and the ICESCR separate entities.

The UN seems to understand that in order to fly, one must learn to crawl and walk, one cannot fly into flying.  Once political and civil stability is attained, THEN states can, and should, concentrate on economic rights to ensure the political and civil rights are stable.  Eventually, they become intertwined and are necessary to procure the other, but this must be done in a step by step process.
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Saturday, November 10, 2007 

Current mood:  giggly
Category: Writing and Poetry

JANUARY

1. Who kissed you on New Year's Eve?
Actually I was in the emergency room after being kicked in the head by a mule.

2. Did you have a New Year's resolution this year?
Yes, I resolved not to stand behind any mules and not make anymore resolutions.

3.Does it snow where you live?
No, it doesn't snow in my house, it snows outside.

4. Do you like hot chocolate?
As if there was a choice, Mmmmm hot chocolate or cold vanilla...... 

5. Have you ever been to Times Square to watch the ball drop?
Yes in 1999, but it wasn't very crowded, I think it was so hot, that people stayed home.

FEBRUARY

1. Who was your Valentine?
My wife, and Martina McBride, she even wrote a song about it.

2. When you were little did you buy Valentine's for the whole class?
When I was little?  I did that last year!

3. Do you care if the groundhog sees its shadow or not?
I really pay little attention to a large squirrel predicting the weather.

4. Something special in February?
The 30th.

MARCH

1. Do you have Irish in you?
Not consentually.

2. Do you wear green every year on St. Patricks day?
Green is so last year.

3. What did you do for St. Patty's Day in 2007?
Clinique bonus days.

4. Are you happy when winter is pretty much over?
No, I am happy when winter is COMPLETELY over.  I hate cold weather sooooo much, I would rather burn to death than freeze to death.

5. Something special in March?
yes, its,  Cataract Awareness Month.

APRIL

1. Do you like the rain?
We dated for a while, but she was always here and there and never reliable. 

2. Did you play an April fool's joke on anyone this year?
Yes, I called the fire department and told them my house was on fire.  When they got here, I called the police department and told them a bunch of homosexual strippers had just showed up in a fire truck at my house for a party.  Wow, it was hilarious.

3. Do you get tons of candy on Easter?
I don't recall ever getting candy in 2,000 pound increments.

4. Something special in April?
Kite Flying Month

MAY

1. What is your favorite flower?
Jerusalem Tulip, or the Venus Flytrap.

2. Ever send/received flowers?
Yes, I sent them to myself to make a co-worker jealous. 

3. Finish the phrase "April showers..."
Are worth two in the bush.

4. Do you celebrate May 16th?
We actually celebrate it on the eve of the 15th.

5. Is May anything special to you?

The 19th is Malcolm X's birthday.

JUNE

1. Did you do anything fun during this month?
No, I read and worked, oh yeah, I also tried nude skydiving at night on acid, if you call that "fun". 

2. Have a favorite baseball team?
Yes, the Miami Dolphins.

3. Was it really sunny this year?
No more than any other, there just may have been some clouds that blocked it at times.

JULY

1. Did you go on any vacations?

I took a vacation from myself.


2. Do you blast the A/C all day?
No, just the hot part.

3. Anything special happen this month?
Yes, its Hemochromatosis Screening Awareness Month

AUGUST

1. Did you do anything special at the end of your summer?
Yes I had a memorial service and 21 gun salute.

2. Meet anybody special?
Everyone I meet is special.

3. Did you have a sunburn?
Not to spare, No, I don't burn.

4. Did you go to the pool a lot?
I dropped the kids off there a few times.

5. Anything special happen in August?
Catfish Month

SEPTEMBER

1. Will you be attending college/school?
Yes and loving it.  I'll be going to school to learn.

2. Do you like fall better than summer?
No, fall is a liar.

3. What did you do on September 11th?
Got mad again.

4. What was special in September?
Star Spangled Banner was written by Francis Scott Key, 1814 (due to Fort McHenry being successfully defended against a bombing by English ships) on the 14th.

OCTOBER

1. What was your last Halloween costume?
A Jewish Hitler.

2. What is your favorite candy?
Mud and salt.

3. Who's birthday is this Month?
Nipsey Russel

4. What is your favorite thing about October?

Ramadan

NOVEMBER

1. Whose house do you go to for Thanksgiving?
Run's house

2. What is best thing about every November?
My birthday and elections.

3. What are you thankful for?
Freedom.

4. Do you love stuffing?
That depends on what I'm stuffing.

DECEMBER

1. Do you celebrate Christmas?
Yes, usually on the 9th.

2. What is December 1st, 2007?
A day that will live in "infamy".

3. Have you ever been kissed under the mistletoe?
No, usually I get kissed on the lips.

4. Get anything special last year?
A lump of coal and a bag of switches. 

5. What do you want this year?
I want it all and I want it now.

6. Do you like cold weather?
If you consider 85 cold.

7. Anything special in December?

Ice Cream and Violins Day -- December 13 each year

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Friday, October 26, 2007 

Current mood:  cranky
Category: News and Politics
I have a major problem with the concept of socialized medicine.  When the government wants to provide something it first must take something.  I have heard there are 40 -50 million people in the U.S. currently without health insurance.  Of those 40-50 million, I wonder how many have cable TV or satellite, internet service, cell phones, 22 inch rims, smoke cigarettes or drink alcohol regularly, and generally just waste or mismanage their money.  Now I'm certain there are those that truly NEED help and we should not deny them help but if they can afford luxuries and they prioritize them before their children's health, they have issues.  If they are looking for sympathy from me, they can find it between Shit and Syphillis in the dictionary.  I'm all for helping people who want to help themselves, but the so called "poor" in our country will continue to be poor as long as we keep paying them to remain there with more entitlements.  If you expect the government to provide for you, I have a pretty good feeling you will end up being disappointed.  Are there hard working Americans that can barely make ends meet?  Sure.  Does this mean that if they can't afford health insurance for their kids because they refuse to cut back on their lifestyle choices, that I should have to pay for it?  No.  I'm not in the business of being an enabler for them to continue their negligence of their kids.  What we need in this country is some good old fashioned common sense.
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Sunday, March 04, 2007 

Current mood:  complacent
Category: Life
You know what I hate?  That stupid commercial about the Visa debit card where everyone is moving like a herd of cattle through a cafeteria and swiping their card and moving on. Then the one guy pays cash and everybody crashes into one another and the whole sequence is stopped. Drinks are spilled, food is dropped, a cricket chirps, and a little girl cries.

Why don't they tell the truth? You're in line, you get up to the register and you're ready to pay with your card and as you get ready to swipe it, the cashier says, Oh you have a card? As if this is a shock. She says, NO, wait a second, OK, go ahead. Now you may have to become familiar with that particular machine and decipher which way to turn the card and at what speed to swipe, so it can read it. This takes several attempts. Oh I forgot about the debit or credit question you must answer before you can swipe. If debit, you have to now punch in a number and theres always that one guy(me sometimes) who can't remember the number for that particular card or forget to hit enter, so you stand there like a lab rat waiting for a food pellet that never comes after nudging the feeder bar.

Half the time, the cashier says, "here, let me try it on mine, that ones been screwed up today for some reason(slang, for "you're a moron").

Then you have to wait for approval, which granted, has sped up a little, but you still have to wait......Just when you think it's safe, bam another question, "Do you want cash back?" decisions, decisions, hmmmmm. You start trying to speculate if your going anywhere that you may need cash, so you now have to become a psychic and map out the rest of your afternoon in a matter of seconds.

The catch is it has to be in $10 increments. Well what if I want $9.73 back, Einstein? As soon as you say NO, you remember you meant to get money to put in a birthday card you were about to mail. Oh well, nevermind, little Jimmy will just get a card this year.

Just as the receipt is printing and you can feel everyone behind you staring a hole in the back of your head, you gather your purchase, the receipt comes out, the cashier grabs it, and you reach, but WAIT, the cashier puts that one in her drawer! Oh no! 2 MORE seconds to wait for another stupid receipt which you toss in the trash can on your way out.

Whatever happened to handing them a few dollars and getting some change? It is my belief that there's a little man in a Visa cubicle somewhere watching a video feed for any sign of a person having a bad day, so he can slow down the aforemention process any way he can for his own personal amusement.
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Monday, January 15, 2007 

Current mood:  confused
Category: Life
Dr. King was an American leader, not solely a leader for blacks. He taught us to fight rascism and bigotry with intelligence, knowledge, and education, not violence. He wanted people of every color to have the same rights and tremendous progress has been made to which he is directly responsible.

Sadly, we still have a long way to go and I'm not sure some will ever view others as equals because of their skin color. Skin color is a descriptive characteristic holding no more importance than eye color or height. Unfortunately, no matter how people are viewed, some only see the differences among ourselves in a negative way.

Racism, whcih is defined as the belief that a particular race is superior to another or discrimination or prejudice based on genetically transmitted physical characteristic, does have its place in our society. It should be used as a reminder of how NOT to act.  It should be a sobering account of our historical ignorance. It should serve as a tool so that we may never forget what some have experienced in the greatest country the world has ever seen.

Dr. King exemplified a spirit of opposition to ignorance and a willingness to confront it using his intellect. He was truly a great leader and just imagine what might have been, had he not been taken from us when he was. We should all celebrate this day with enthusiasm no matter what color your skin. It still befuddles me why some still today, insist on making race an issue to suit their backwards and regressive agenda.
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Wednesday, January 03, 2007 

Category: News and Politics
How can we accurately say that worldwide, we know the globe is warming? Do we have accurate records to indicate what the temperature was 100 years ago? 200 years ago? 500? 1000?

The essence of the global warming media frenzy is supposedly justifed by the arctic drilling of polar ice caps. By taking a cross section they can speculate as to what the temperature was for several thousand years. One problem is that it is only that region measured, but that's another story in itself.

Their conclusion was that the earth radically changes temperature periodically. Sometimes in a matter of a few years. It has remained relatively stable recently and man has flourished. Global temperature stability has caused us to thrive as a species.

Does anyone remember the "global cooling" scare in the mid 70's? I have heard arguments from both sides and the one I find most compelling is that according to scientists, the earth has warmed about 1 degree the last 100 years. That seems to be the consensus, even though I would be skeptical of historical temperature readings.

For example there are many factors such as time of day the temperature was recorded and are we basing it on highs and lows or average? If so, I find it hard to believe that there were people in 1900 taking temperature readings periodically throughout the day, averaging them out and corresponding with others all over the world. This would have been necessary to accurately compare the data, but we will take their word for it for arguments' sake.

The first half of the 20th century saw about a .6 of a degree in increase, with the last half showing the remaining .4. This doesn't jive with what the fear merchants are telling us. Logic would dictate that most of the warming would take place in the last half. There's more people, industry and emmissions than the first. Much more. To think that man has contributed to the extent they would have you to believe is asinine.

If you think we are cutting down too much forrest and paving all our farmland, then I suggest you open you eyes and look out the window when you fly at 30,000 feet. We are but a spec.
I heard a comment about how we have ruined the planet with overpopulation and another that we could fit everybody in the world in the state of Texas and it would be as densely populated as New York City. Just something to chew on. I don't think we are as influential as we would like to believe.
 
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Wednesday, December 13, 2006 

Current mood:  optimistic
Category: News and Politics
 I have an idea for the $315 million dollar state lottery suplus.  How about giving it back to the people?  The lottery funds we supposed to go to education because, if you recall, that was the first thing that was going to be cut when we had a budget crisis what, 3 or 4 years ago?   Now that it has met and exceeded our projections this year lets give the average citizen a break and divide the excess up to everybody in the form of cash.  Seeing as how the money each citizen used to purchase a lottery ticket was already taxed once anyway by our federal government, this can be viewed as simply returning it to the people.  This way, everyone can do with it what they wish.  Since we have a sales tax on everything we purchase, we will be returning about 10% of it back to the state almost immediately. That's still $30 million more than the state had anticipated anyway directly into the general fund. That's about $50 a piece to you and I, which may not seem like much to most, but if you think the state has proven that it can spend your money better than you, by all means let them keep it.  The state constitution directs all excess proceeds from the lottery go to capital outlay projects for K-12 facilities and early learnig programs and after school programs.  If these are necessary, then the state should budget it.  As it is now, it's a very dangerous doctrine in that after a few years of the surplus being funneled that direction, it becomes expected.   Expectations tend to transform into need after we have become accustomed to them.   In a down year, our legislators may look to other forms of income to supplement the void, such as higher taxes or a state income tax.  They will now be able to spin the facts and say "its for the kids" to create or inflate an artifical "crisis".  When the state shows me that it can consistently be responsible with our tax dollars, I might cosider letting them keep it, until then I think they should return it to the rightful owners.  If this means amending the constitution, so be it.
11:45 PM 
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