After 22 years of smoking up to 2 packs per day, increasingly bad health and high prices... and many previous attempts to quit smoking, I used Chantix plus an e-cig.
Chantix alone was OK at first, but then I started cheating, grabbing a puff or a half cig. I quickly learned it was the physical habit of taking a drag from a cigarette that was really hitting me. I grabbed a low nicotine e-cig and used it for those cravings (zero nicotine wasn't available locally). An "equals two packs" e-cig lasted me 2 to 3 months and after 9 months I just stopped using that too.
I've been smoke free for 18 months now. And yes, I had the weird dreams with Chantix... I liked them!
Actually, there is not a single company in the US that pays ANY tax. Zip, nadda, nothing. Oh, they might get a dollar figure from accounting and then send in a check to the IRS... But those costs are then passed on to us in the form of higher prices. So you see, we get screwed no matter what.
... except that these cancelations are happening during the current fiscal year budget which was signed into law br Pres Clinton. GW's first budget has not even been debated yet... much less been signed into law and gone into effect.
It occurs to me that NASA is canceling these programs while operating under it's current fiscal year budget. This budget was signed into law by Pres Clinton. Pres Bush's proposed budget has not even been debated yet, much less become law. When it does become law, in whatever form, it will be the budget for the next fiscal year.
I figure that they have either...
a) Blown their current budget, which was signed by Pres Clinton.
-or-
b) Reacted out of fear as to what might or might not be in the next budget.
If it is due to B, then I would say their actions are irresponsible. NASA, along with the rest of us, has no idea what the actual numbers will be until the next budget becomes law.
If it is due to A, which I fear it is, then I would say their spending actions are irresponsible. Hmm, a common theme.
As far as the tax cut goes, I want my money. I would like to pay my own debts. If Mr. Buffet wants to pay more than required, he can mail a check to the US Treasury and specify that the funds be used to pay against the national debt.
In DC, they baseline the budget. Basically, everything will increase by 10% for the next year. If they reduce the amount of increase from 10% to 5%, we hear them screaming about a massive 5% budget cut when they are actually increasing the budget by 5%.
I know that last summer when gasoline went up so much and again this winter when natural gas went up so much, I had to cut my budget. The difference is that my household budget cuts were actual reductions is spending... not a reduced amount of spending increase.
Politics, like sausage, is not a pretty thing to watch being made.
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After 22 years of smoking up to 2 packs per day, increasingly bad health and high prices ... and many previous attempts to quit smoking, I used Chantix plus an e-cig.
Chantix alone was OK at first, but then I started cheating, grabbing a puff or a half cig. I quickly learned it was the physical habit of taking a drag from a cigarette that was really hitting me. I grabbed a low nicotine e-cig and used it for those cravings (zero nicotine wasn't available locally). An "equals two packs" e-cig lasted me 2 to 3 months and after 9 months I just stopped using that too.
I've been smoke free for 18 months now. And yes, I had the weird dreams with Chantix ... I liked them!
I agree. It sounds like it must be good enough to have Apple scared.
With the economy and all, I'm totally there. Who needs a job when you can get your cheap drunk on!
Actually, there is not a single company in the US that pays ANY tax. Zip, nadda, nothing. Oh, they might get a dollar figure from accounting and then send in a check to the IRS ... But those costs are then passed on to us in the form of higher prices. So you see, we get screwed no matter what.
... except that these cancelations are happening during the current fiscal year budget which was signed into law br Pres Clinton. GW's first budget has not even been debated yet ... much less been signed into law and gone into effect.
It occurs to me that NASA is canceling these programs while operating under it's current fiscal year budget. This budget was signed into law by Pres Clinton. Pres Bush's proposed budget has not even been debated yet, much less become law. When it does become law, in whatever form, it will be the budget for the next fiscal year. I figure that they have either ...
a) Blown their current budget, which was signed by Pres Clinton.
-or-
b) Reacted out of fear as to what might or might not be in the next budget.
If it is due to B, then I would say their actions are irresponsible. NASA, along with the rest of us, has no idea what the actual numbers will be until the next budget becomes law.
If it is due to A, which I fear it is, then I would say their spending actions are irresponsible. Hmm, a common theme.
As far as the tax cut goes, I want my money. I would like to pay my own debts. If Mr. Buffet wants to pay more than required, he can mail a check to the US Treasury and specify that the funds be used to pay against the national debt.
In DC, they baseline the budget. Basically, everything will increase by 10% for the next year. If they reduce the amount of increase from 10% to 5%, we hear them screaming about a massive 5% budget cut when they are actually increasing the budget by 5%.
I know that last summer when gasoline went up so much and again this winter when natural gas went up so much, I had to cut my budget. The difference is that my household budget cuts were actual reductions is spending ... not a reduced amount of spending increase.
Politics, like sausage, is not a pretty thing to watch being made.