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Welcome to the USO Canteen FReeper Style USO Gives Service Member Care Package Program Global Reach The Operation USO Care Package program for service members deployed overseas in support of Operation Enduring Freedom is being expanded globally, said Elaine Rogers, president of United Service Organizations of Metropolitan Washington. USO-Metro has distributed 1,000 care packages monthly to armed forces members to boost morale since last December, Rogers explained. That successful program, she noted, also included messages of support and was sponsored by community businesses and other local organizations. The USO care package program, Rogers noted, replaced the "To Any Service Member"...

Editor's File | A letter to Coulter Dear Ann Coulter: You're fired. It's not that extreme viewpoints are unwelcome on the opinion pages of the Centre Daily Times. All political viewpoints, from Cal Thomas on the right to Molly Ivins on the left, are welcome here. But, we don't welcome haters, Ann, and that's what you are. Well, you are either a hater or a hypocrite who calls names and spews enmity because you believe it will get your pretty face on television more or sell more copies of your best-selling books. In either case, we won't be publishing...

<p>LEWISTON, Maine (AP) Maine gubernatorial candidate John Baldacci says no snub was intended when he passed over a chance to debate his rivals in Lewiston, and says he'll participate in the Oct. 10 exchange after all.</p> <p>The Democrat said earlier he would bypass the event at the Ramada Inn but show up for seven others in cities around the state. Now he says he's accepted a Chamber of Commerce invitation to take part in the Lewiston event.</p>

RHODE ISLAND SMOKERS' CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE STATE ECONOMY 2001   Rhode Island smokers comprise only 23.5% of the adult population in the state. Here is what they already pay because they choose to buy a legal product: Smokers Pay Excise Taxes $ 67,580,560Smokers Pay Sales Taxes $ 21,455,280Smokers Pay Tobacco Settlement Payments $ 44,500,000                                                                                               $133,535,840 Smokers’ Economic/Tax Profile Income Rhode Island smokers’ median income 2000 $28,154 Median Income Smoker Rhode Island State Tax Liability Annual state income tax liability for a couple $589Annual state income tax liability for a couple with two children $364 Smoker Excise Tax/Sales Tax/Tobacco Settlement...

I have been trying to "update" my profile in Free Republic this morning. Now, when I click "ok" it puts all the HTML with NO pictures on my BOOKMARK page. The follow errors is what I need help with because I do not understand what FR is trying to tell me: HTML Error Summary HTML Error Summary Count Tag Attribute Error Correction 6 P STYLE invalid attribute remove attribute The above errors must be corrected before your HTML will be accepted. Try selecting the "HTML - Auto Corrected" option from the Format menu. I need to know what Count -...

SACRAMENTO -- Ending a record two-month budget impasse, the state Assembly approved a $98-billion spending plan late Saturday that includes $2.4 billion in additional taxes. Republicans blasted the budget proposal as unbalanced and irresponsible, but it passed the Assembly with the minimum 54 votes on the final night of the two-year legislative session . The Senate, which approved its version of the budget two months ago, was expected to agree to at least most of the Assembly version by early today. The deal, negotiated by Speaker Herb Wesson (D-Culver City) and Assembly Republican leader Dave Cox of Fair Oaks,...

Every so often, customers stroll into Nenex Deli and Grocery in the Wakefield section of the Bronx and ask for a pack of cigarettes. Only when the clerk asks for $7 do they realize their mistake. They've just unwittingly crossed from Mount Vernon in Westchester County to the Bronx, where cigarettes cost $1.50 more per pack. "Customers come in, and when I tell them the price, they say, 'No way, I don't want it,'" said Naser Mozeb, a clerk at Nenex, just two blocks from the Mount Vernon-Bronx border. Nenex isn't alone. Wakefield clerks say the high cost of cigarettes...

      Home > California Laws for Sale View Category: California Laws for sale     California Laws for Sale   678 items found for Davis Administration Sort by items:  ending first  | newly listed | lowest priced | highest priced Picture Item Title Price Bids Time Left RARE! Dioxin Dumping Permission Pump 400% More Cancer-Causing Chemicals into the San Francisco Bay ! $55,500.00 1 122d 21h 3m 45s New State Labor Contract - with a big RAISE Government-enforced monopoly INCLUDED $251,000.00 2 122d 21h 3m 45s Avoid annoying health warning labels on your products! $25,000.00 1 122d 21h 3m 45s Veto or...

<p>Sacramento -- A measure touted as one of the best ways to reduce smoking among young people -- raising the legal smoking age -- is expected to fail in the state Legislature this week.</p> <p>By most accounts, it isn't big tobacco money or partisan politics that threatens a bill that would make California the first state in the nation to raise the smoking age to 21.</p>

Join the FR smokers lounge bump list...click on the logo Welcome Friends, foes and associates to the completely remodeled Free Republic...Smoker's Lounge Here you will find a comfy place to smoke, drink, joke or whatever. We always have a great time, so sit back, relax and...Smoke 'em if you got 'em shsshshsshsshsshssh shsshsshsshsshsshshsshsshsshshsshshsshsshsshssh shsshsshsshsshsshshsshsshsshshsshshsshsshsshssh shsshsshsshsshsshshsshsshsshshssh aaaaa,:`___________________________||`,:'.",`.;'`,:'.',`: <--------Life is good! A very special thank you to Registered for providing us with this fine logo....we will bear it with pride.

HARRISBURG, Pa., Aug. 29 /PRNewswire/ -- On behalf of Pa. Gov. Mark Schweiker, Secretary of Revenue Larry P. Williams today announced that the department is cracking down on illegal Internet sales of cigarettes. "Our main goal in increasing Pennsylvania's tax on cigarettes was to discourage our children from smoking," Secretary Williams said. "If children have access to purchasing tobacco products over the Internet, it defeats the purpose. "The number of Internet sites selling cigarettes has increased dramatically, and many of those websites are falsely advertising that cigarettes may be purchased tax-free. In Pennsylvania, smokers who possess more than one...

<p>In my book, smoking tobacco is unfathomably stupid. About the only thing more lethally dumb are extortionate taxes on tobacco.</p> <p>Egged on by anti-tobacco activists, politicians in state after state around the country are indulging in an orgy of greed. Tobacco taxes have become a golden goose for government coffers. With a city tax alone of $1.50, a pack of cigarettes now costs $7.50 in New York City. The tobacco companies' standard objection is that higher taxes will lead to more cigarette smuggling. The anti-tobacco crowd's standard response is to demand adjacent cities and states have ever-higher tobacco taxes as well.</p>

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - Anti-smoking groups said they'll keep pushing for smoking bans around the state despite an Ohio Supreme Court ruling Wednesday that prohibited health boards from enacting such bans. In a 6-1 ruling, Ohio's highest court called the goals of anti-smoking activists well intentioned but said state law does not allow them to overrule the Legislature, which exempted bars and restaurants from smoking bans. "We grant that local boards of health are better situated than the General Assembly to protect the public health," Justice Andy Douglas wrote for the majority. "However, local boards cannot act in any area...

The City Council's anti-smoking crusaders are teaming up again to try to ban patrons from lighting up in Chicago restaurants.

<p>KENTUCKY'S ludicrously low cigarette tax is not only hurting Kentuckians by keeping it alluringly cheap to smoke and depriving the state of badly needed revenue.</p> <p>It is also hurting other, more responsible states by turning Kentucky into a haven for Internet cigarette sales.</p>

NEW YORK, Aug 26, 2002 (AP Online via COMTEX) -- Standing behind a chest-high pile of more than 237,000 seized cigarettes, city officials said Monday they had cracked down on stores selling tobacco without a license. But smoker advocates say black-market sales will only grow in New York, where a tax hike has pushed cigarettes to $7.50 a pack and the mayor is waging a policy war against smoking. The city seized 11,871 packs - or 237,420 individual cigarettes - from 40 unlicensed sellers between February 2001 and February 2002, said Pansy Mullings, enforcement chief of the Department of Consumer...

<p>ANYONE who's not happy with Mike Bloomberg's crusade against smokers should show up at City Hall on Monday. A group of freedom-loving citizens led by artist Scott LoBaido will converge on City Hall at 6 p.m. to demand that the mayor drop his quest to see cigarettes banned from all city bars and restaurants. Organizers will hand out flyers with statistics from OSHA, the Dept. of Energy, and the surgeon general to counter Bloomberg's wild claims about the dangers of secondhand smoke.</p>

NEW YORK, Aug. 22 (UPI) -- If you were to be strapped down on a surgical table while four guys exhaled smoke directly into your mouth and nostrils for 30 years, you MIGHT get lung cancer 40 years after they stopped -- but it's not likely. I'm using this absurd example, because ALL of the other examples in the available scientific literature are equally absurd. The second-hand smoke scare is a political farce. It was invented in the mid-1990s by the Clinton administration -- it has Hillary's hands all over it -- because anti-smoking radicals, who tend to be...

Join the FR smokers lounge bump list...click on the logo Welcome Friends, foes and associates to the completely remodeled Free Republic...Smoker's Lounge Here you will find a comfy place to smoke, drink, joke or whatever. We always have a great time, so sit back, relax and...Smoke 'em if you got 'em shsshshsshsshsshssh shsshsshsshsshsshshsshsshsshshsshshsshsshsshssh shsshsshsshsshsshshsshsshsshshsshshsshsshsshssh shsshsshsshsshsshshsshsshsshshssh aaaaa,:`___________________________||`,:'.",`.;'`,:'.',`: <--------Life is good! A very special thank you to Registered for providing us with this fine logo....we will bear it with pride.

. . If you know a Veteran, someone in your family, friend of the family, neighbor, who served their country, take a brief moment of your day to thank them. Thank them for the sacrifice they made for the better good of their country. We at Free Republic, and the USO Canteen FReeper Style, are thankful for every service member in our military, who has served our great nation. So, to the men and women who answered the call, in both times of war and peace, thank you. . Message from Snow Bunny to all those who visit the Canteen....