This just made my day. Sorry, this is the entire article...

[acmavm]

Former Lotto Winner Helps Omaha's Needy
12-23-2008 3:16 AM

(Omaha, NE) -- For the second straight year, Omaha's homeless are getting gift cards for Christmas. This because local resident Alain Mumaboussou, who hit the Powerball jackpot two years ago, spent another 20-thousand dollars of his winnings Monday on 400 gift cards for the needy. Many used the cards buy winter clothes and cell phones to contact loved ones. Afterward, several of the homeless expressed thanks to Mumaboussou for his generosity.<

http://omaha.cox.net/cci/newslocal/local?_mode=view&view=LocalNewsArticleView&articleId=3918826&_action=validatearticle

This guy IS what the Christmas is really supposed to be about. He made me cry, damn him.

[liberalmuse]

1. That's a lovely story.

I suppose we don't really know how many people out there with money do stuff like this. Many keep quiet. Remember that story where a woman saw another woman crying at a house auction because her home was being sold, and she bought it back for her? I love stories like this!

[TechBear_Seattle]

2. I'd like to think that I would do the same thing

Now, if only the bank exects with $40 million dollar salaries could do this.

[LiberalEsto]

3. What a great person!

That's my idea of true classiness.

Contrast him to those sleazy banking execs who undoubtedly are treating themselves to obscenely huge huge bonuses with the bailout money provided by American taxpayers.

[DS1]

4. Or, if I'm right, .5% of his winnings after taxes

still, I don't see the other 7 winners helping out :D

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[lonestarnot]

5. Merry Christmas Alain Mumaboussou!

:hug::hi:

[skeewee08]

6. There are a lot of people who like to be anonymous

remember the College Football player at Clemson that got custody of his little brother Ray-Ray well their was an NBA player who donated $50,000.00 but did not want to be named. Thank God for all of those that help anyone no matter their race, color, creed, religion, sexual orientation.

Merry Christmas to all:-)

[sandnsea]

7. Our county received $900,000

Someone gave $300,000 in October to help with power bills, and then gave $600,000 to the food bank last week.

http://registerguard.com/csp/cms/sites/web/news/4711034-35/story.csp

I hope all communities are the recipients of the kind of generosity of these two people.

[Danascot]

8. A modern day B. Virdot

IN the weeks just before Christmas of 1933 — 75 years ago — a mysterious offer appeared in The Repository, the daily newspaper here. It was addressed to all who were suffering in that other winter of discontent known as the Great Depression. The bleakest of holiday seasons was upon them, and the offer promised modest relief to those willing to write in and speak of their struggles. In return, the donor, a “Mr. B. Virdot,” pledged to provide a check to the neediest to tide them over the holidays...

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/22/opinion/22gup.html

[Pastiche423]

9. K&R for a genrous heart