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Feds Spend $402,721 on Underwear That Senses Cigarette Smoke
Cybercast News Service ^
| May 7, 2013
| Elizabeth Harrington
Posted on 05/07/2013 9:46:49 AM PDT by Zakeet
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You Freepers can take some comfort knowing that, as always, the Government is confiscating your money for a good cause!
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posted on
05/07/2013 9:46:49 AM PDT
by
Zakeet
To: Zakeet
The real-time information would be used to design strategies for smoking cessation.
Wouldn't smokers gulags be a lot simpler? /s
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posted on
05/07/2013 9:53:22 AM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
To: Zakeet
$400,000 might be better used buying fuel for Coast Guard boats that are no longer being allowed to patrol (DHS not permitting fuel use). Until Americans rise up in OUTRAGE about this sort of crap, useless, wasteful spending, the government will continue to pick your pockets, wallets, bank accounts, children’s inheritance, and soon ... your retirement accounts. At this rate, the gov’t might as well just confiscate all income and give Americans an allowance that they deem sufficient (via some gov’t calculation) for food, shelter, etc. /s
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posted on
05/07/2013 9:54:06 AM PDT
by
MissMagnolia
(You see, truth always resides wherever brave men still have ammunition. I pick truth. (John Ransom))
To: Zakeet
Great for Obama who is always blowing smoke out his a^s.
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posted on
05/07/2013 9:56:29 AM PDT
by
llevrok
(2013: America is in a cold civil war.)
To: Zakeet
well I want them to make underwear than can tell if I had too much alcohol.
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posted on
05/07/2013 9:57:09 AM PDT
by
brooklyn dave
(I hope the FEMA camps are comfortable when they come for me)
To: brooklyn dave
well I want them to make underwear than can tell if I had too much alcohol.They can all do that, provided you've drunk enough.
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posted on
05/07/2013 9:59:37 AM PDT
by
andy58-in-nh
(Cogito, ergo armatum sum.)
To: Zakeet
I’ve got a freaking nose that tells me how much a person smokes.
It came with the body, didn’t cost me a dime.
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posted on
05/07/2013 9:59:46 AM PDT
by
Venturer
To: Zakeet
I’d rather pay to keep Sandra Fluke from getting knocked-up. At least that would benefit society in some way.
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posted on
05/07/2013 10:01:46 AM PDT
by
bigbob
To: Zakeet
fits like a vest
I don't wear my underwear that high!
To: occamrzr06
President erkel does. Bet he won’t be wearin’ them unless the wookie tells him to.
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posted on
05/07/2013 10:08:03 AM PDT
by
rktman
(BACKGROUND CHECKS? YOU FIRST mr. president(not that we'd get the truth!))
To: Zakeet
This is part of Obama’s job creation strategy .... when the science is perfected we will need thousands of underwear analysts.
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posted on
05/07/2013 10:13:05 AM PDT
by
layman
(Card Carrying Infidel)
To: brooklyn dave
“well I want them to make underwear than can tell if I had too much alcohol.”
They already have those.
Check your underwear. Are they on frontwards... or backwards?
If they’re on frontwards, keep drinking.
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posted on
05/07/2013 10:15:04 AM PDT
by
moovova
To: Zakeet
Is this so someone can tell if their partner is smoking during sex, rather than just after it?
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posted on
05/07/2013 10:17:30 AM PDT
by
Wordkraft
(Remember who the Collaborators are.)
To: Wordkraft
Only if you are an intern and the smoke is coming from a cigar.
To: Wordkraft
May West ... “I never looked”
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posted on
05/07/2013 10:25:27 AM PDT
by
Scrambler Bob
( Concerning bo -- that refers to the president. If I capitalize it, I mean the dog.)
To: sportutegrl
There is a being up n the heavens looking down at us and shaking his head in wonder.
“Why the hell did I let Satan create Iiberals? I knew I should have given the shop keys to someone else while I was on my Disney vacation.”
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posted on
05/07/2013 10:25:35 AM PDT
by
EQAndyBuzz
(The reason we own guns is to protect ourselves from those wanting to take our guns from us.)
To: Zakeet
This is horrible. I mean, if they are successful, where will the National Inquirer get stories about people self-immolating when they fall asleep with a lit cigarette that falls into their crotch?
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posted on
05/07/2013 10:37:43 AM PDT
by
Opinionated Blowhard
("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
To: cripplecreek
No kiddin’
This isn’t for voluntary smoking cessation, it’s for smoking detection.
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posted on
05/07/2013 10:45:22 AM PDT
by
Winstons Julia
(Hello OWS? We don't need a revolution like China's; China needs a revolution like OURS.)
To: Zakeet
Hey, what could go wrong with your drawers full of reactive chemicals?
This whole idea screams of the big brother nanny state. Who would voluntarily wear one of these things & for what reason?
The only possible use for such a device is for someone, possibly your doctor or employer, to police your smoking habit. It follows that you will be punished in some manner if the device says you have been smoking.
The Joseph Mengele Award goes to UA for their even considering such nonsense.
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posted on
05/07/2013 10:45:47 AM PDT
by
Mister Da
(The mark of a wise man is not what he knows, but what he knows he doesn't know!)
To: Zakeet
There was a wonderful tale about a smoking cessation course given by the wise guys. The lapsed smoker’s loved ones would be tortured.
This sounds like a precursor to the fantasy. ( ;
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posted on
05/07/2013 11:03:19 AM PDT
by
OpusatFR
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