I get the thorough search every time I fly. Probably because I'm usually a lone male passenger. I resent it but obviously have to go along with it. Somehow I don't think I'd be the "profile" they're wanting as I'm about as lilly white as they come.
Were it up to me, I would kick every Arab out of the country that wasn't a U.S. citizen; temp. workers, students, etc.
I still clearly remember people jumping from the top stories of the Twin Towers...will never forget it. Regretfully, most Americans have~~
"The overall CDC recommendations nationally for state programs to fund tobacco control is about $3.7 billion. Currently about half a billion dollars is being spent," he said.
Most of the $22 billion a year states get from a $246 billion 1998 "master settlement agreement" reached with tobacco companies goes not to tobacco prevention efforts, but to general spending such as road building, McKenna said.
"We know what to do," McKenna added. Media campaigns, tobacco taxes and subsidizing treatment all work, he said.
"Utah has a (smoking) prevalence rate of 9 percent. New Zealand has gotten it under 10 percent. So the idea that there is an irreducible number of people who will smoke is probably true but it is much less than one in five people," he said.
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Why not take that $22 billion and fund the kids health care to begin with.....
Starry starry night paint your palette blue and grey
look out on a summer's day with eyes that know the darkness in my soul. Shadows on the hills sketch the trees and the daffodils
catch the breeze and the winter chills
in colors on the snowy linen land. And now I understand what you tried to say to me
how you suffered for your sanity how you tried to set them free. They would not listen they did not know how
perhaps they'll listen now.
Starry starry night flaming flo'rs that brightly blaze
swirling clouds in violet haze reflect in Vincent's eyes of China blue. Colors changing hue morning fields of amber grain
weathered faces lined in pain are soothed beneath the artist's loving hand. And now I understand what you tried to say to me
how you suffered for your sanity how you tried to set them free. perhaps they'll listen now.
For they could not love you but still your love was true
and when no hope was left in sight on that starry starry night. You took your life as lovers often do; But I could have told you Vincent this world was never meant for one as beautiful as you.
Starry starry night portraits hung in empty halls
frameless heads on nameless walls with eyes that watch the world and can't forget. Like the stranger that you've met
the ragged men in ragged clothes
the silver thorn of bloddy rose lie crushed and broken on the virgin snow. And now I think I know what you tried to say to me
how you suffered for your sanity
how you tried to set them free. They would not listen they're not list'ning still perhaps they never will.
Saw James Arness on tv about a month ago. For the big strong guy he was on Gunsmoke in the 50's and 60's...now he's frail and somewhat hunched over. But, it was a great interview.
If I had no ties to Indiana, I might move to another state, but I enjoy my son and grandaughter too much to leave...and in reality, Indiana seems to be "home" to me.
Every now and then people in the U.S. have a taxpayers revolt. Sometimes it's on a state by state basis. There's a tendency to be passive though and just let it happen.
I've found that I call my Senators and Rep's more the older I get. I like the government staying out of my wallet.
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RE: The Drug Paxel
I agree w/the 2nd opinion idea.... I think it's a drug that has to be "weened" from though....seems like I faintly recall that from someone I knew?