A while back, yours truly was verbally buggered for poking some what I believed to be well deserved fun at Jack Whittaker, the multi-multi-million dollar lottery winner from some long forgotten corner of West Virginia. Well, as it turns out, this chap isn’t quite the upstanding citizen that my detractors made him out to be. Citing THIS STORY from the Chicago Sun-Times, it seems that The Cat with the Hat thought it wise to keep better than half a million dollars IN HIS CAR.
Where was the patron saint of Jumping Branch WVa (I called it pig knuckle junction at first, but I digress) you ask? Church? A home for sick and wayward children? Nope. The Pink Pony Strip Club in Cross Lanes West Virginia. It’s ironic to me that the subject of so much praise and deifying is out boozin’ and whorin’ like the rest of us.
Even my cynical mind is forced to admit that he does indeed give back to the community, in just enough of an amount to be an effective tax shelter. I mean his millions are his millions, and I’d probably do the same bloody thing, but in doing so, I wouldn’t hide behind the mantle of some fraudulent Christian Stewardship whilst knocking back 5 dollar beers and slipping hundreds into the g strings of local strippers (complete and utter speculation on my part, by the by).
Then in the story, he says he was drugged. I’d bet the folks from what ever coal mine he’s from believe that is the ONLY way that Mr. Whittaker would EVER go to such an establishment.
NONSENSE! I was right about him then, and I’m right about him now. He’s no better and no different from the rest of us “sinners” it just seems that he’s ashamed about it, now that he nearly lost half a million bucks. What a schmuck.
I don’t think anyone said he was God.
I also don’t really give a shit about whether he was at a strip club. It’s not illegal to do that, you know.
I’m sorry that you’re jealous about how rich he is. Guess what? He’s pretty damn rich. That’s not illegal either.
Sorry to ruin your schadenfreude, but as pointed out in this thread, he recovered the money because the thief thought behind the dumpster was a good hiding place to stow the stolen goods until they could be recovered.
Oh phooey, I’m posting too early without caffeine again. Missed the bit in the article that mentioned that - in the previous thread, there was an article that didn’t cover that fact.
Anyway, from the article you quoted:
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So at this point, I’m trying to see where you got out of the article any justification for your speculation that he’s “hiding behind” his Christian-based charity.
He can be a faithful churchgoer, believe in Jesus Christ, help others in need and still have “vices”. I don’t see any inherent hypocrisy there. If he had at some point pointed fingers at those who frequent strip clubs and those who gamble, then I would say he is a hypocrite.
I don’t know what the man thinks. It could be that he doesn’t necessarily want to be someone who watches strippers and gambles. People have compulsions. If sometimes they act on these compulsions, I don’t think it necessarily makes them evil people or hypocrites.
Talk about resentment and jealousy. Who gives a fuck if the man goes to strip clubs or not? He’s not President or the Pope. Just a dude who won some big bucks, and fair fucking game to him for spending it anyway he pleases.
