Monday, May 19, 2008

Illinois Lottery Oddity

I plugged into Microsoft Excel the Illinois lottery numbers from 1999 to 2006. Following is what was vetted out by Microsoft Excel as the most frequently picked of the individual numbers.

Lotto: 1, 11, 25, 31, 43, 51
Pick-3: 2, 6, 4
Pick-4: 8, 2, 9, 8
The Big Game: 1, 11, 27, 38, 47, 3, 0
Mega Millions: 1, 10, 27, 40, 52, 3

In all that time, the Pick 3 number combination appeared only three times, and the Pick 4 appeared twice. No other combination of most frequently picked individual numbers from any of the other games appeared during that entire time. Coincidence?

Wednesday, May 7, 2008

Food prices overseas falsely linked to Ethanol by news media

In Haiti and other countries, years of importing U.S. grain at prices below the cost of growing it locally, forced local farmers out of business and the local farm land changed ownership.

Then, one day, oil prices went up, gas prices followed, and then the cost of shipping grain overseas went up.

Suddenly, there’s nobody to locally grow cheaper crops, and the land is no longer owned by farmers.

Massive propaganda is being put out by the oil companies to blame Ethanol for the cost of corn while people are mostly complaining about the cost of rice.

This is what years of donating food has done to other countries. It has forced people into a state of dependence by making it impossible for them to grow their own food, and now we are starving them.