Court authorized wiretaps in the U.S. surged last year

[keith]

On Fri, 06 May 2005 07:54:10 -0700, John Larkin wrote:

On Fri, 6 May 2005 08:19:54 +0000 (UTC), toor@iquest.net (John S.
Dyson) wrote:

In article <d5ehop$mur$3@blue.rahul.net>,
kensmith@green.rahul.net (Ken Smith) writes:
In article <jtui7151e6cfns9tvt6rru0t9p9hj1edj4@4ax.com>,
Ben Bradley <ben_nospam_bradley@frontiernet.net> wrote:
[...]
Looking at the total number of deaths caused by alcohol, caused by
tobacco, and caused by all illegal drugs combined, it looks like the
US laws are totally backwards! Illegal drugs might as well be
legalized, but tobacco and alcohol should be made illegal!

More people die of cancer or heart disease.

If you look at the long term numbers, no more people die given tobacco
smoking than if no-one smoked!!! It is just that people tend to die
sooner. .


Actually, fewer die. Smoking causes both cancer and impotence, both of
which reduce the birth rate.

How many cancer deaths, caused by tobacco, are in the child bearing age?
Incontinence I wouldn't know anythign about. ;-)

--
Keith

 

[Ben Bradley]

On Fri, 6 May 2005 01:37:29 +0000 (UTC), kensmith@green.rahul.net (Ken
Smith) wrote:

In article <jtui7151e6cfns9tvt6rru0t9p9hj1edj4@4ax.com>,
Ben Bradley <ben_nospam_bradley@frontiernet.net> wrote:
[...]
Looking at the total number of deaths caused by alcohol, caused by
tobacco, and caused by all illegal drugs combined, it looks like the
US laws are totally backwards! Illegal drugs might as well be
legalized, but tobacco and alcohol should be made illegal!

More people die of cancer or heart disease.

Then for goodness sakes, let's make cancer and heart disease
illegal!

--

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http://mindspring.com/~benbradley

 

[Jim Thompson]

On Sat, 07 May 2005 22:59:41 -0400, keith <krw@att.bizzzz> wrote:

[snip]

I was carded about five years ago in NH. My gray/silver hair didn't
matter much to the bimbette behind the counter at the quickie mart.

I've NEVER been carded. As a teenager I was the one assigned to drive
over to Ohio to buy booze ;-)

...Jim Thompson
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I love to cook with wine. Sometimes I even put it in the food.

 

[Robert Latest]

Jim Thompson wrote:

"N" got carded in a San Francisco "joint" when she was 31... she had
already borne our fourth child. Made her day ;-)

A 30-year-old friend of mine (also SF) was REALLY miffed when she didn't
get carded any more. When I go out in SF, the door people always like to
pass around my Texas license to each other for giggles...

bob