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If this is your year to quit this will make it happen
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Regal Ecigs)
Wed Jan 22 11:04:33 2014
Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2014 08:04:32 -0800
From: "Regal Ecigs" <RegalEcigs@on-hitgyredhup.us>
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Make this the year you say goodbye to smoking
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e conservative. But lets not
forget that on many issues, Bush was more compassionate than conservative
indeed, he was sometimes closer to Republican Theodore Roosevelts free-market
progressivism than William Howard Tafts laissez-faire conservatism.Examples
include No Child Left Behind education reform, presented together at the
White House by Bush and the liberal icon Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.)
in the early days of the Bush presidency; support for broad immigration
reform, very similar to the bipartisan legislation recently proposed in
the Senate; and an extension of Medicare to include prescription drug benefits
the most far-reaching and generous Medicare reform since Lyndon Johnson.Third,
it is important to remember what a good man with a good
heart George W. Bush is.I know from personal experience.As I have written
before, I remember sitting next to Bush when we were in the
same residential college at Yale (Davenport he graduated a year after
me). I recall an evening when a group of us was sitting
in the common room outside the college dining hall after dinner and
a fellow Yale student walked by who was known to be gay,
but in those days was not out. Someone said some ugly homophobic
slurs.I didnt like it, yet sat silently. But Bush snapped, saying something
like Hey, knock it off. Why dont you walk in his shoes
awhile and feel what he feels?I remember thinking, Whoa. This guy is
much different inside than the fun-loving frat
Thursday, April 25, on the Southern Methodist University campus in Dallas,
Texas, four living presidents Jimmy Carter, No. 39; George H.W. Bush,
No. 41; Bill Clinton, No. 42, and Barack Obama, No. 44
will honor one of their colleagues, George W. Bush, the 43rd president
of the United States, at the dedication of his presidential library.So I
take this occasion to remind my fellow liberal Democrats, many of whom
continue to attack Bush in harsh and personal terms, of three things
about him that I dont think they understand or appreciate.First, while there
were many polices under Bush with which liberal Democrats (myself included)
disagreed such as tax cuts, the Iraq War and not paying
for either (as well as the Afghan war) with current revenues rather
than borrowed money there must be a distinction between disagreement and
personal attack.For example, many Democrats still use the lie word in describing
Bushs rationale for the Iraq War that Saddam Hussein had weapons
of mass destruction. This turned out to be wrong.But Democrats in the
Clinton administration also believed Saddam had WMDs, as did most experts
in the U.S. intelligence community.Our politics have become so poisoned
and our government so dysfunctional precisely because too many people on
both sides cant make a distinction between lies and being sincerely
wrong.Second, Bush is known for his brilliant slogan when he first ran
in 2000, describing himself as a compassionat
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<p style="font-size:xx-small;">The U.S. and South Korea are extending for two years their current
civilian nuclear agreement and postponing a contentious decision on whether
Seoul will be allowed to reprocess spent fuel as it seeks to
expand its atomic energy industry.Wednesday's announcement is a setback
to South Korea's new leader, Park Geun-hye, who had made revision of
the 39-year-old treaty one of her top election pledges, but it alleviates
a potential disagreement between the allies when Park visits Washington
in two weeks to meet with President Obama.State Department spokesman Patrick
Ventrell said the extension will provide more time for the two governments
to complete the complex negotiations on a successor agreement that will
recommence in June."These are very technical talks, and both parties felt
that we needed more time," he told reporters.South Korea is the world's
fifth-largest nuclear energy producer and is planning to expand domestic
use of nuclear power and exports of nuclear reactors. But its radioactive
waste storage is filling up, so it wants to be able to
reprocess spent plutonium. It also wants to be able enrich uranium, a
process that uranium must undergo to become a viable nuclear fuel. Currently,
South Korea has to get countries such as the U.S. and France
to do enrichment for it.Revising the agreement is a sensitive matter as
the same technologies can also be used to develop nuclear weapons. Washington
has historically opposed allowing repr
ies to collect sales taxes if the store has a physical
presence in the state. As a result, many online sales are essentially
tax-free, giving Internet retailers an advantage over brick-and-mortar stores.While
Republicans generally oppose higher taxes -- and agreed to an increase on
top earners as part of the fiscal crisis deal only after negotiating
a narrower hike than the administration originally envisioned -- supporters
of the Internet sales tax bill insist it is not a tax
increase.Instead, they say, the bill merely provides states with a mechanism
to enforce current taxes."This bill has nothing to do with imposing any
kind of new tax or revenue generator," said Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn.
"What this law does is allow states that already have laws on
the books to carry out the implementation of those" laws."South Dakota Gov.
Dennis Daugaard, a Republican, called it a "matter of equity and fairness.""The
same people who are selling the same products should be paying the
same taxes," he said.Supporters say the bill is about fairness for businesses
and lost revenue for states.But opponents say it would impose complicated
regulations on retailers and doesn't have enough protections for small businesses.
Businesses with less than $1 million a year in online sales would
be exempt.While online giant Amazon has come around to the tax, major
online retailers like eBay are strongly opposing it.Many of the nation's
governors -- Republicans and De
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