― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 9 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― Michael Daddino, Tuesday, 9 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― Kim, Tuesday, 9 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
Google is right on the case.
― Graham, Tuesday, 9 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― bnw, Tuesday, 9 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― geeta, Tuesday, 9 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― mike hanle y, Wednesday, 10 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― Tadeusz Suchodolski, Wednesday, 10 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
I'm glad that some money's going towards chimney restoration. A nation is nothing without its chimneys.
― isadora, Wednesday, 10 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
SPAM!
― Queen G, Wednesday, 10 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― mike hanle y, Thursday, 11 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― CarsmileSteve, Thursday, 11 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
Thus now "pork" in general = wasteful or questionable expenditures designed to pump taxpayer dollars into a region for purposes that don't themselves really benefit anyone at all.
― Bitsuh, Thursday, 11 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― Lindsey B, Thursday, 11 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
This is what our tax dollars are going to, eh?
― Nichole Graham, Thursday, 11 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― Jamie madrox, Sunday, 23 May 2004 03:35 (twenty-one years ago)
― bnw (bnw), Sunday, 23 May 2004 04:36 (twenty-one years ago)
― nickn (nickn), Sunday, 23 May 2004 04:42 (twenty-one years ago)
i didn't want to start a missouri-specific thread and this one has the words "missouri" and "fear" in it, so good enough.
Missouri Alone in Resisting Prescription Drug Database
...Missouri is the only state in America that has declined to keep a prescription drug database — the primary tool the other 49 states use to identify people who acquire excess prescriptions for addictive painkillers and tranquilizers, as well as the physicians who overprescribe them....Not having the database has not only hampered Missouri’s ability to combat prescription drug abuse, but also attracted people from neighboring states looking to stockpile pills and bring them home to take themselves or sell to others, according to law enforcement officials, legislators and data compiled by a prescription drug processing firm....But while proponents say the vast majority of the Legislature supports the measure, it has been blocked by a small group of lawmakers led by State Senator Rob Schaaf, a family physician who argues that allowing the government to keep prescription records violates personal privacy. After successfully sinking a 2012 version of the bill, Mr. Schaaf said of drug abusers, “If they overdose and kill themselves, it just removes them from the gene pool.”“There’s some people who say you are causing people to die — but I’m not causing people to die. I’m protecting other people’s liberty,” Mr. Schaaf said in a recent interview in his Senate office. “Missouri needs to be the first state to resist, and the other states need to follow suit and protect the liberty of their own citizens.”
...Not having the database has not only hampered Missouri’s ability to combat prescription drug abuse, but also attracted people from neighboring states looking to stockpile pills and bring them home to take themselves or sell to others, according to law enforcement officials, legislators and data compiled by a prescription drug processing firm.
...But while proponents say the vast majority of the Legislature supports the measure, it has been blocked by a small group of lawmakers led by State Senator Rob Schaaf, a family physician who argues that allowing the government to keep prescription records violates personal privacy. After successfully sinking a 2012 version of the bill, Mr. Schaaf said of drug abusers, “If they overdose and kill themselves, it just removes them from the gene pool.”
“There’s some people who say you are causing people to die — but I’m not causing people to die. I’m protecting other people’s liberty,” Mr. Schaaf said in a recent interview in his Senate office. “Missouri needs to be the first state to resist, and the other states need to follow suit and protect the liberty of their own citizens.”
― Karl Malone, Monday, 21 July 2014 12:58 (eleven years ago)
brb driving south to get some xanax and percocet prescriptions filled
― mh, Monday, 21 July 2014 13:42 (eleven years ago)