California and Florida: Sponsoring Terror

So if materially supporting terrorists, terrorism, and terror in general is enough to lose you your rights and get you "disappeared," who then would go to GITMO for investing nearly $90 billion dollars in part of the Axis of Eeevil?

The move, which mirrors actions by Florida and California, comes after state Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli announced $86 billion of the nearly $150 billion state pension fund has been divested from companies involved in Iran and Sudan. 

Yes, I know what "divested" means.  It means that until they were in danger of having the country holding most of their money blown up, Florida and California were investing in terror.  At least by the definition given by the NDAA.

How much does a nuclear program cost?  More than $90 billion? Apparently the startup of each plant is about $30 billion, give or take.

If we consider that this $90 billion was used to prop up some Iranian government loans, those loans would have been worth about $900 billion*.  More than enough to get a really good head start on nuclear war.

Still think we can win, guys?  Still think it will be easy?

*Inkwell  money lending means that banks can loan at least 10 times what they actually have on hand.  Using derivatives and other complex and vaguely Gordon-Gecko-esque terms it can get to be as much as 100:1, but I doubt anyone is crazy enough to loan 9 trillion dollars to Iran.

Too damn smart. Cut it out.

Apparently, it is now illegal to be super duper smart.

First, she won $5.4 million, then a decade later, she won $2million, then two years later $3million and in the summer of 2010, she hit a $10million jackpot.
The odds of this has been calculated at one in eighteen septillion and luck like this could only come once every quadrillion years.

Harper's reporter Nathanial Rich recently wrote an article about Ms Ginther, which calls the the validity of her 'luck' into question.

First, he points out, Ms Ginther is a former math professor with a PhD from Stanford University specialising in statistics.

A professor at the Institute for the Study of Gambling & Commercial Gaming at the University of Nevada, Reno, told Mr Rich: 'When something this unlikely happens in a casino, you arrest ‘em first and ask questions later.'

Unless there's something missing in this story (you know, something like actual wrong doing...) the professor at the institute for gambling and commercial gaming is suggesting that people smart enough to figure out really, really, really quite hard math problems should be arrested.

Mr Rich details the myriad ways in which Ms Ginther could have gamed the system - including the fact that she may have figured out the algorithm that determines where a winner is placed in each run of scratch-off tickets.

He believes that after Ms Ginther figured out the algorithm, it wouldn’t be difficult to determine where the tickets would be shipped, as the shipping schedule is apparently fixed, and there were a few sources she could have found it out from.

According to Forbes, the residents of Bishop, Texas, seem to believe God was behind it all.
 

The Texas Lottery Commission told Mr Rich that Ms Ginther must have been 'born under a lucky star', and that they don’t suspect foul play.

What sort of foul play could possibly be involved, other than being super smart and putting it to good use?  I suppose she could have bribed a lotto official, but the immediate assumption that foul play is the best answer to how she pulled this off is weird. To be fair, the lottery is being very decent about this, far more decent than I would have expected from minor functionaries.