CunningLinguist - I agree with you on the Texas Lottery. Don't we sometimes have the most backwards government in Texas? Please don't put all the blame on Bush though - Perry isn't too much better!

One more thing on the smoking subject from me: Our insurance costs do not go up because of the smokers of the world. Insurance goes up because some people refuse to get a job and take care of themselves and so therefore the taxpayers of the world are going to continue to pay medicare and medicaid and everything other damn thing that the government can think of in order to make the citizens of the US that don't do a damn thing elegible for healthcare. When I started at my current job I did not have any healthcare for about a year. However - every paycheck i received had money taken out of it for things that I personally have nothing to do with such as medicare. Now, having health insurance I pay an unreasonable amount a month becuase of the people that won't get their own health insurance and pay for it themselves and instead decide to waltz into a hospital and demand treatment. That is where your cost of health insurance comes from, and for lack of a better phrase - its fucked up!

People have been mentioning pot smoking throughout this thread. My opinion? HELL YEAH!! MAKE IT LEAGAL!!!

<------- takes a hit and blows the smoke all over the place!!!

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