regular pot smokers have less of every disease.
Posted By: NM on 2008-09-17
In Reply to: Early studies show that regular smokers of pot, (don't know...sm - nm
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Early studies show that regular smokers of pot, (don't know...sm
how regular regular is), seem to have less incidence of Alzheimer disease. If true, an interesting tidbit I thought.
smokers
Do you know what? Aside from the retired who are drawing social security, I can name only 1 person I know who draws a monthly check from the government (and I know quite a few) who does NOT smoke. That is a lot of cigarettes being bought with tax dollars. It's disgusting and it is WRONG. I work VERY hard and even if I wanted to, I can't afford to smoke.
Elitist my a$$.
This has NOTHING to do with whether you have sympathy for smokers or not.
There's a much more fundamental principle involved here.
But that still doesn't say WHY smokers should pay for this whole program?? sm
You are taxing 20% (at most) of the nation to pay for this program. IT'S NOT FAIR - tax junk food, soda, sugar products to spread it around.
And what happens when more smokers quit? Who is going to pay for the unfunded sm
mandate then? I say spread the pain around now and find a viable way of paying for the program.
That is correct, ms. And I don't believe that your regular...
Democrat on the street agrees with this nonsense...at least I hope not!! But they are allowing the DNC to define their party as low-life attack dogs and this stuff is as low as it gets. It is orchestrated with the media hoping John McCain will drop her from the ticket because they are scared spitless they will lose in November. All I hear is tap, tap, tap...hammering nails into their own coffin. Who wants ANYone from a party with this kind of values or lack thereof in the white house? Not me. Not now. Not EVER.
The amount of $$ paid out in benefits to smokers
the amount of tax revenue generated by the sale of tobacco. You don't seem to protest too loudly when it comes time to spend it and waste no time marginalizing and bashing people with an addiction. These are tired tactics designed to take the focus off of the REAL issues raised in this thread with regard to the economy and differences between party platforms, policies and plans. Just how long do ou think pubs can run and hide from the fact that what they have to offer is EXACTLY the same thing as what we all are running fast and far away from? Careful, your desperation is showing.
Regular people with a subprime mtg
We have owned 2 homes in our married life...never missed a payment for 25 years, not even one day late. I was MTSO of my own service, and suddenly the hospitals were taking longer and longer to pay my invoices. I had 8 subs working for me who I continued to pay before I paid myself. Then I had to have emergency surgery which took a while to recover from so I had to give up my business. Then I went to work for a local service, who did not pay, even while she was building a 3000 sq foot $300,000 house. In the meantime my son was a senior who wanted to go to a private college and his scholarships did not cover everything. We had used our savings so pay our bills so refinanced our house. Our credit rating had gone down some due to being late on credit cards (but never on mtg) so our rate was higher but we were supposed to get enough money to pay off all our bills including car payment but we get there and oops interest rate is higher and not enough money to pay off all our bills. We should have walked away but what were we going to do our son was already at the college and we had no other way to pay for it. Got another job, oh they didn't have enough work, picked up part time work job, they lost the account and before you ask, I looked for work outside this field but could not find anything more than $10/hour even with my skills (Exec secretary at that fortune 500 company and all my transcription skills and customer service skills) so we ended up having to file Chapter 13 bankruptcy. We pay our mtg but if I have 1 bad month (and you know how this business is) we are in danger of losing our house all over again. We always tried to do what is right and pay our bills...we did not get more house than we could afford but when you lose your job (not once but 3 times), then in our industry the hospital personnel thinking because you work at home you don't need the money and don't pay you for weeks and weeks, have to have major surgery, etc. things just snowball out of control. Oh last year I finally did get a job outside this field making pretty good money a year managing a multiuse building with arts and crafts but after less than a year when the owners weren't making a million dollars a month they lost interest and closed it. Believe me my husband and I never thought we'd be the ones to be in this mess, not in a million years. Just thought I'd let you know that not everybody in this mess was trying to get more house than they could afford or pull one over on anyone, things just snowballed.
Both parties are hypocrites, just as in regular
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disease is not a choice
Do you actually think disease is a choice? What about babies born with congenital defects - what bad choice did they make? My new grand-daughter was born with an ASD and PFO. What did she choose to deserve that? My daughter has a friend who was born with CF? What do you think he chose? I don't think anyone makes the choice to be ill. My best friend's daugter just suffered a miscarriage, late term. what bad choice did that baby make? By the way, I am calling you self-righteous because that is how you sound, not because I don't like your belief but because I don't like the way you present it. And Tiller did not have the choice to repent; someone cut his life short before he could. Had he lived, you have no idea whether or not he would have lived to regret his actions but you are okay with him being deprived of the opportunity.
Aids is not a gay disease!
I'm sorry but you sound like a huge homophobe full of hate here. Mental illness....what...are all old people in homes with Alzheimer's secretly gay and this is their punishment for being gay? Listen to yourself. You are so full of hate for gay people it isn't funny. Even other people who are against gay marriage can see this.
I type psych reports for a living and I see a lot more mental patients who are there for drugs, alcohol, and gambling problems more than because....Oh I'm gay. The reason some gay people do have issues is because of people like you who hate them.
Farmer down the street says regular Americans
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O'Reilly, etc. are not "the regular news."
Try watching the morning news at 6 a.m. or during the day until 5-6 p.m. That's the news I'm talking about.
O'Reilly and the others are like Chris Matthews, Keith Oberman, and all those other fellas. They are more like a political talk shows. That's not news.
Do you know that emergency rooms are not for regular healthcare?
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Alcoholism is a terrible disease. sm
I wish him only the best and hope he is able to find help and solace. He is a deeply religious man. He needs to lean on that. As for the rest, having been raised in a family where alcoholism was very prevelant, I have learned to turn a blind ear to things people say when they are intoxicated. It's between him and God. He was making a film about the holocaust, so it's kind of hard to believe what he said was true. More likely alcohol and the moment talking. I know many in Hollywood are attacking him, but many are not. I wish him the best.
Again oblivion is a disease in this country
We have absolutely no grasp of the horrors that go on in the majority of the world.
Religionopathy - an incurable disease.
Religionopathy is an incurable disease.
Do you know that emergency rooms are for emergencies and not regular healthcare?
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Religionopathy. Terrible, debilitating disease.
Incoherence is a contagious disease in McC camp
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Actually I don't think it's fair that smokers bear the brunt of paying for children's healt
And no, I'm not a current smoker. It just seems unfair that a single group should pay for most of the costs. Why not tax soda pop or junk snack food? That's contributing to the childhood obesity episode - and poor health - so why not make those products pay for SCHIP?
LOL You prove the ugly part of mental disease.
I can't believe this obsessive hatred you have for gays. Are you maybe closeted or something and fear coming out? Because usually the amount of vitriol you spew makes "me think you protesteth too much". Is your own sexuality so fragile that you are threatened by gays? The scientific community is pretty much convinced that gay is not a choice any more than the color of your eyes is; you can try and disguise it, but you are what you are. Free yourself, friend, and embrace your inner KD Lang.
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