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I went to get a part for my dishwasher and on the way home stopped at a store to get a can of diet pepsi...Guy in front was getting some cigs...
He asked for 2 cartons of Marlboro lights...girl rang it up...
95 flippin bucks.
Actually it was 95 dollars and change, but damn....I guess my mouth dropped open cause the girl asked me if I was alright...I asked her if that price was right...she said yes...
WOW!!...good thing I dont smoke anymore...
He asked for 2 cartons of Marlboro lights...girl rang it up...
95 flippin bucks.
Actually it was 95 dollars and change, but damn....I guess my mouth dropped open cause the girl asked me if I was alright...I asked her if that price was right...she said yes...
WOW!!...good thing I dont smoke anymore...
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http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/05/11/ex-congressman-says-hes-given-up-on-america-after-sentenced-for-3rd-conviction.html
I realize that most Do's and DON'T's are often placed based on some historical occurance that prompted its inclusion...
But, This is NUTS!
ozma just opened a new Curling Iron that our daughter gave her for CHRISTmas.
While waiting for the iron to heat up... She took a few moments to read the Operating instructions...
Under the "WARNING" section... is No. 7 which reads...
"Never use while sleeping."
Another keeper is No. 11 which reads...
"This curling iron is hot when in use. (Really?)
Do not let heated surfaces touch eyes or bare skin."
Who in their right mind would do this??? Obviously, the gene pool should be BLEACHED HEAVILY...
PORT ST. JOHN, Florida (FL Today) -- A 33-year-old mother went on a shooting spree, taking the lives of her four children during an early morning confrontation, Brevard County Sheriff's investigators said.
At one point, three of the wounded children ran to a neighbor's house but the mother stepped out and beckoned them to return to the home at 7245 Bright Ave., where they were fatally wounded before deputies arrived.
The BCSO, which is leading the investigation, identified the shooting victims as Joel Johnson, 12, Jazlin Johnson, 13, Jaxs, Johnson, 15, and Pebbles Johnson, 17. The mother, Tonya Thomas, reportedly sent a text out to a friend about 3 a.m. saying that she wanted to be cremated with her children but the friend did not receive the message until much later, said Tod Goodyear of the Brevard County sheriff's office.
"I'm a father and I've got kids. I cannot comprehend a person doing that to their child... calling them back to the slaughter," Goodyear said.
"We are just beginning the crime scene investigation and finishing up some interviews," he said earlier.
The Port St. John shootings were the single worst instance of multiple homicides to take place in Brevard County since the April 1987 shootings in Palm Bay involving William Cruse. Cruse shot and killed six people, including two Palm Bay police officers during a shooting spree. It was also the second deadly shooting to take place in Port St. John, an enclave of residential areas off of U.S. 1 in north Brevard, in the last week.
Sheriff's deputies and the SWAT team responded to the home in this modest, working class neighborhood just after a 5 a.m. call from a neighbor reporting hearing shots fired.
The neighbor also went to the door and found three of the children standing outside, bleeding and asking for help, Goodyear said. It was then that Thomas stepped out and told the children to return home. The children, obviously injured, still listened to their mother and walked back to the home, Goodyear said. Once inside, more gunfire ensued, authorities report.
Goodyear said that Deputies arrived a short time later saw someone at the front door go back into the house.
Deputies then spotted one shooting victim, the 17-year-old, lying unconscious in the front yard. Deputies pulled up to the yard in a patrol car, loaded her inside and drove her to a waiting ambulance. She was declared dead at the scene by paramedics.
Deputies positioned outside of the home saw movement inside the residence, including what appeared to be a lit cigarette, Goodyear said. Then came a final shot, he said.
SWAT team members entered the home a short time later and found the bodies of the mother and the three other children, Goodyear said in a brief mid-morning news conference.
Goodyear said there had been previous police calls to the house. One of the teens, Jaxs Johnson, was set to appear in juvenile court today for a misdemeanor battery charge involving his mother. It was not known if that hearing played a role in the shootings.
Neighbors were stunned at the scope of the shootings, which came less than a week after another homicide in Port St. John and just two days after Mother's Day.
Travis St. Peter, 27, who lived about three houses down from the family until two days ago, said that the family was known in the neighborhood for being disruptive and said police were often at the house.
The Sheriff's Office has informed Brevard Public Schools of the deaths and is working with the school district to take whatever action is necessary to prepare school staff and classmates for the news.
The school district is awaiting word from authorities of the individuals' names.
"If it becomes necessary, we are fully prepared to support the schools in whatever capacity necessary," said Christine Davis, spokeswoman for Brevard Public Schools.
Anyone with information on the shooting is asked to call BCSO at 321-633-7162.
J.D. Gallop and Scott Gunnerson, Florida Today
The child, found in the middle of the road, was "perfectly OK," said Officer James Holmes, Phoenix police spokesman, told The Arizona Republic.
The car seat was damaged, Holmes told TV station KTVK.
baby is in the custody of Arizona Child Protective Services, officials said.
At about 1 a.m. Saturday, police got calls from the area near North 45th Avenue and West Cholla Street in northwest Phoenix that a baby was in a car seat in the middle of a road, The Arizona Republic reported.
Phoenix Fire Department officials found the baby and took him to a local hospital, officials said.
Holmes told reporters that the mother, Catalina Clouser, had apparently been smoking marijuana late Friday night at a nearby park with her boyfriend.
About 11 p.m. they left the park to buy some beer, and the boyfriend was arrested on aggravated DUI charges while on the way, Holmes told The Republic.
An upset Clouser then reportedly went to a friend's house, where police say she admitted smoking more marijuana, Holmes said. Clouser left the house with the baby asleep in the car seat about midnight, he said.
Before driving away, Clouser apparently forgot that she had left her child sitting on the roof of her car, Holmes said.
Clouser realized the baby was missing when she reached home, and started calling friends to look for him and retrace her route, KTVK reported.
The friends ran into the officers investigating the found the baby, and when Clouser arrived, she was arrested, KTVK reported.
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Seriously, they cost a lot more than money. I have no friends who smoke. I used to have several, but the last one died in April last year. They are all gone to cancer. I watch "My Cousin Vinnie" with Fred Gwynne playing the judge and in one scene he is smoking. Gwynne died of lung cancer shortly after the movie was released.
In 1973 I was working in a store and I recall when cigarettes went from 50 cents to 55 and people went berserk. I mean yelling and cursing and throwing a fit. Now they are around $50 a carton and I heard that in NYC with the state and local taxes a pack of smokes is almost $10.
And people keep smoking.
Former Member U.S. Navy Shooting Team
Former NSSA All American
Navy Distinguished Pistol Shot
MO, CT, VA.
You would think I would be a millionaire wouldnt you.. we get paid 1.70 a pound for the best of what we grow.... Smokers pay 50 bucks a pound.. Something just dont add up there does it?
Farming is the only business where you pay retail for everything you buy and charge wholesale for everything you sell and pay the freight both directions.
Carton of marlboro in NY State: $65.00 [:0]
I also remember paying less for a pack of cigarettes, than for a gallon of gas!
cost and taxes pay for health care for cancer patients. its sorta like an escrow account.[:p]
You are a moron,.....and I am not even a smoker.
The only thing it pays for is possibly "SOME" of the Medicaid related expenses, and the "hundreds of millions of un-insured."
Number highly inflated on purpose BTW.[:p]
The rest goes to waste like all the rest of the tax money.
I guess you like BO's healthcare plan?
You would think I would be a millionaire wouldnt you.. we get paid 1.70 a pound for the best of what we grow.... Smokers pay 50 bucks a pound.. Something just dont add up there does it?
Sadly, farmers always get screwed, no matter what the crop is.
So yes, 45 year old smokes his brains out, gets cancer and dies over the course of 6 months or so and runs up a bill. But that bill isn't nearly as much as the relatively healthy guy who ages from 60 to 70 to late 80s and 90, using alot of health care towards the end.
It's an interesting theory I think, and one that if correct really makes me wonder about the whole government run "we're going to save money by keeping you healthy" pitch.
Good thing a pack lasts me over a months.
Anyhow's the agreement was tobacco companies were to pay each state many billions for the next 25 years to help with the health costs of smokers, educating the youth against smoking, medical equipment for hospitals, anything patient related.
Well, the state government was/is using the money for other things, not related one iota to the initial cause. Big surprise huh?
The smoker picks up the tab by an increase in tobacco costs.
Now recently we see more hikes in tobacco, greedy politicians[V]
I knew a guy who smoked 3 and a half pack a day for 40 years, he said that with a mean average of a pack of cigs cost him over that time he could have bought a new house...not exactly money well spent he said.
I agree.
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You would think I would be a millionaire wouldnt you.. we get paid 1.70 a pound for the best of what we grow.... Smokers pay 50 bucks a pound.. Something just dont add up there does it?
Not anymore Quick.... I pay 18 a pound. My tobacco store found a new "outlet" for my tobacco.
Do you guys have the tobacco you sell color cured and flue/air cured when you sell it?
IF your tobacco is ready to shred (color and fue/air cured) I may have another outlet for you to sell it. It will not need to be shredded, just ready to shred and smoke.
The second carton was generally traded for some short times.
By the grace of God, I was able to quit in the mid '60s. The price per pack was $.34 and I smoked 2 1/2 packs per day.
Carton of Marlboro in Virginia: $35.00
Carton of marlboro in NY State: $65.00 [:0]
Where are the $35.00 per carton cigarettes? If it's 200 miles or less, I need to check that out. $50.69 is the best I can find around here in the middle of tobacco country. [:(]
7 and change per pack, so 70+/carton.
bought smokes when i was in mississippi for 4 and change and though i was in heaven.
anyone recall the days when the liberal cry babies said: "we just want you to stop smoking on airplanes" ?? incrementalism has destroyed many things.., such as GUN CONTROL laws, and the NRA co sponsored many of those laws !! [}:)] [}:)]
quote:Originally posted by Spider7115
Carton of Marlboro in Virginia: $35.00
Carton of marlboro in NY State: $65.00 [:0]
Where are the $35.00 per carton cigarettes? If it's 200 miles or less, I need to check that out. $50.69 is the best I can find around here in the middle of tobacco country. [:(]
"The Border Station" at the Va/NC border and on the Eastern Shore.
cost and taxes pay for health care for cancer patients. its sorta like an escrow account.[:p]Well, the lack of paying social security for a long time seems to cancel those costs out, IMO.
http://your-cigs.com/