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on 6/22/00 7:12 PM, Jim Cobb at cobber@ma*.ci*.co* wrote: > I guess you have not heard, the "GOP" has voted to pursue the lawsuit > against "big tobacco." > > Also I have to comment that cancer has become an institution. Tens of > thousands of government, educational and private sectors jobs now have > become permanently dependent on the billions being pumped into the cancer > research programs. It would be a socio/economical disaster if a cure was > actually found and implemented. > > AIDS is another "disease boondoggle" with the cancer folks fighting the AIDS > folks for the cash you and I pay out in taxes. Trouble with AIDS group is > you can prevent it by keeping your dick out of the wrong places while, as my > Dad's doctor once said "everybody will die of cancer if you live long > enough." The perfect boondoggle disease. Jim, You might want to look a little closer at the GOP's support for suing tobacco companies. It's soft and they came in kicking and screaming adding riders to water it down and obfuscating the language like hell to make it ineffective. I can see you're on a political kick here, AIDs & cancer research. Sorry, I don't have any interest in playing. The notion that someone somewhere is keeping the cancer "cure" because there's too much money in it is the dumbest thing I've ever heard. Good for effect, but pure BS. And AIDs. Wow. Boondoggle . . . the cornhole argument. AIDs is the fastest growing killer of heterosexual men and women outside of the US. Out there it's an epidemic. In the US, yes, it's mostly in the homosexual community. So the money spent on AIDs research is well spent. Our military doesn't spend billions on military tactics for the third world and peacekeeping because we have unruly librarians. It's to keep the bombs from falling over here. Same logic applies. If the Bubonic plague is devastating Europe, you don't wait until it's in Poughkeepsie before you hire a scientist to look into it. Gay men do bitch it along, but that is actually a good thing for all of us. Now the GOP and tobacco money. Just how much do you know about who represents who? If you want to find a politician to support a Union where do you look? Not in the GOP. If you want to find a politician to support abortion rights where do you look? Right! the Democrats. Now, this is where it gets tough Jim . . . concentrate. If you want to find a politician who might support legislation that is friendly to tobacco companies, who ya gonna call . . . no, not Ted Kennedy. That would be the Guinness lobby. Now everyone say it at the same time: The GOP! Good! You get a star! If You're a tobacco executive and you want to slip a rider into a bill at the last minute in the dead of night that will give the tobacco companies a $50 billion tax break who do you call? Ex-cheerleader Trent Lott (Newt too, but he's home now) You can find that here: http://www.usatoday.com/news/smoke/smoke51.htm I didn't say GOP for any reason other than the same reason I call the sky blue and the ocean wet: reality. Now, I think the subject was smoking and diving not smoking and conniving. <g> Later, JoeL -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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