Spain says smoking ban to be in place in 2011 | Reuters

history does repeat itself
Spain says smoking ban to be in place in 2011 | Reuters
81-year-old Chomsky, an outspoken critic of Israel, was to speak at a West Bank university last week when Israeli authorities barred him from entering from neighboring Jordan./http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ToQQorOYDy4&NR=1///52510/Taliban win £1,600 bounty for each Nato soldier killed 23 May 2010/from Spain's Hotel and Catering Federation, which said a full smoking ban would badly damage the industry, with sales projected to fall by 7 percent in restaurants and 10-15 percent in bars and cafes.

According to statistics presented by the health minister, 44.2 percent of Spaniards oppose tougher smoking restrictions, with 47.4 percent in favor and the rest undecided.//52410/Stupak also revealed an “astonishing document” that Transocean prepared in 2001, when it bought the BOP from Cameron. It said there were 260 separate “failure modes” that “could require pulling of the BOP.” According to this report, “the predominant failures” included “ram locking mechanisms.”
“How can a device that has 260 failure modes be considered failsafe?” the congressman asked.
/We are such sheep. Our American Revolution ancestors would be astonished and ashamed of us. I don't know about anyone else, but it is difficult to keep from shaking with rage when I see or read reports of how gigantic that oil spill really is and how much bigger it gets by the day. Yawhooster is absolutely right - hang those BP and TransOcean bastards! Find 'em and put 'em in chains while we decide what to do with them. Bring back the guillotine! And someone should put egomaniac Sarah Palin over their knee and spank her ass 'til it bleeds - "Drill Baby Drill" indeed..//Beck hit a new all time low which is now 50% off of his peak. /arstechnica.com — Scientists have recently had success teleporting information between photons over a free space distance of nearly ten miles,/52310//married teacher has become the first woman priest to be ordained in Italy.
Maria Vittoria Longhitano, 35, who belongs to a breakaway faction of the Catholic Church, received the holy orders at an Anglican church in Rome. /BP Defends Dispersant After EPA Orders It Changed
Wall Street Journal - 9:21am/Archeologists have unearthed 57 ancient Egyptian tombs, most of which hold an ornately painted wooden sarcophagus with a mummy inside,/HELENA, Mont. — The vandals struck in the middle of the night, hurling Molotov cocktails through the windows of two medical marijuana businesses and spray-painting "NOT IN OUR TOWN" just before the Billings City Council was supposed to take up a ban on any new pot shops. public anger rising and politicians passing laws to slow the proliferation of pot shops and bring order to what has become a wide-open, Wild West sort of industry.
They are looking to avoid what happened in California, which allowed the pot industry to grow so out of control that at one point Los Angeles had more medical marijuana shops than Starbucks – about 1,000 by one count.
"Yeah, it's out of control – and it needs control, if not extinction," Montana Sen. Jim Shockley said Friday. "There's no control over distribution. There's no control over who's growing it. There's no control in dosage."/Palin did have her own Tea Party message to deliver, though. She said she saw it on a sign at a Tea Party rally: "I can see November from my house."/"I love California . I practically grew up in Phoenix ."-- Dan Quayle /"If you can't think of anything intelligent to say, just make something up and attribute it to a really smart guy."Albert Einstein/A Catholic priest, a Protestant minister and a Jewish rabbi walk into a bar. The bartender takes one look at them and says, "Is this some kind of a joke?"/Heather Whitestone was selected as Miss America 1995.)
Question: If you could live forever, would you? why?
Answer: "I would not live forever, because we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever,
then we would live forever, but we cannot live forever, which is why I would not live forever," //
(http://www.examiner.com/x-17299-Hernando-County-Political-Buzz-Examiner~y2010m5d9-Gulf-Oil-Spill-2010-Plans-to-evacuate-Tampa-Bay-area-exp
ected-to-be-announced) incredible amounts of Benzene are being released into the
atmosphere and is a clear and present danger not only for the old and people with
respiratory problems but the general Gulf population as a whole.
The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) has determined that
benzene is a human carcinogen, and can cause various forms of cancer from
prolonged exposure.Exposed to high levels of benzene show association with
leukemia cancer; including acute myelogenous leukemia, acute lymphocytic
leukemia, and chronic myelogenous leukemia. Benzene-related leukemias have
been reported to develop in as short as nine months,(read more below)
This is much more serious than they are letting on, especially as one of
the options here is to burn the escaping oil!/

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