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Powerball estimated jackpot surges to $400M
Yahoo/ap ^

Posted on 02/16/2014 8:06:16 PM PST by gooblah

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Without a Powerball winner this weekend, the prize has climbed to $400 million — one of the largest in U.S. lottery history.

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1 posted on 02/16/2014 8:06:16 PM PST by gooblah
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To: gooblah; KC_Lion

I need a ticket!

If I win the big one the next FR fundraiser is on me. lol


2 posted on 02/16/2014 8:10:37 PM PST by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans!)
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To: gooblah

Wasn’t there one that got up to $800 million, or something..?


3 posted on 02/16/2014 8:12:18 PM PST by gaijin
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To: gooblah

Maybe I’ll buy a ticket.


4 posted on 02/16/2014 8:13:30 PM PST by null and void (<--- unwilling cattle-car passenger on the bullet train to serfdom)
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To: gaijin

I think it was Mega Millions that went that high.

Only time I buy one is when they get that high.

Actually got my $10 back on the last one. whoo hoo


5 posted on 02/16/2014 8:15:50 PM PST by digger48
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To: null and void

If I win I’ll send it all to Obamas brother in Kenya.


6 posted on 02/16/2014 8:16:30 PM PST by right way right (America has embraced the suck of Freedumb.)
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To: digger48

mega is the one I bought last time, I didn’t know Powerball was bigger


7 posted on 02/16/2014 8:16:59 PM PST by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans!)
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To: gooblah

How can I start a powerball lottery? Or, maybe FR should start one!


8 posted on 02/16/2014 8:17:02 PM PST by Yaelle
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To: gooblah

If I win, I’ll buy Comcast and fire the entire MSNBC division..


9 posted on 02/16/2014 8:21:13 PM PST by max americana (fired liberals in our company last election, and I laughed while they cried (true story))
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To: right way right

The brother that isn’t an active terrorist?


10 posted on 02/16/2014 8:21:41 PM PST by null and void (<--- unwilling cattle-car passenger on the bullet train to serfdom)
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To: max americana

Unfortunately $400 million wouldn’t be enough


11 posted on 02/16/2014 8:22:14 PM PST by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans!)
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To: gooblah

We won $7 with last night’s ticket. It paid for the Sunday paper this morning which netted me $24 in coupons and a week’s worth of starter for the woodstove, The $4.50 balance get another Power Ball ticket and the balance in the car jar.


12 posted on 02/16/2014 8:22:34 PM PST by Gabz (Democrats for Voldemort.)
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I can’t wait to win it so I can give the government my approx. 200 million tax payment.


13 posted on 02/16/2014 8:24:41 PM PST by willywill
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To: gooblah

The Lottery: A self imposed tax for the mathematically challenged.


14 posted on 02/16/2014 8:26:05 PM PST by rey
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To: gooblah

Yes...its a sucker bet. But what the hell. Somebody gotta win.


15 posted on 02/16/2014 8:27:39 PM PST by Yorlik803 ( Church/Caboose in 2016)
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To: GeronL

Don’t forget all your FRiends! lol.


16 posted on 02/16/2014 8:32:07 PM PST by Redcitizen (When a zombie apocalypse starts, Chuck Norris doesn't try to survive. The zombies do.)
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To: null and void

I just want to be on the news, so I can tell about what a POS Obama is.

The other options get me shot.


17 posted on 02/16/2014 8:33:55 PM PST by right way right (America has embraced the suck of Freedumb.)
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To: gooblah
A tax on the mathematically challenged.

I'll take what I can earn by dint of my own efforts and to Hell with anything else.

And as a matter of fact, I did build that, you Marxist MAggot!



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18 posted on 02/16/2014 8:35:09 PM PST by ConorMacNessa (HM/2 USN, 3/5 Marines RVN 1969 - St. Mlicha<center> <table backel the Archangel defend us in Battle!)
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To: right way right
The other options get me shot.

So will doing nothing.

19 posted on 02/16/2014 8:35:56 PM PST by null and void (<--- unwilling cattle-car passenger on the bullet train to serfdom)
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To: GeronL
If I win the big one the next FR fundraiser is on me. lol

Amen. I wish I could lay a cool million or two on Jim Rob, and fund Kristinn's investigative reportage.

20 posted on 02/16/2014 8:35:56 PM PST by montag813
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