I like you to read this.

75 percent of Americans overweight by 2015. "Obesity is likely to continue to increase, and if nothing is done, it will soon become the leading preventable cause of death in the United States."


I would like to say this it's not about caring it's about money
"Obesity is one of the thing that will kill people,guns kills
but do you see them talk about all that, all they talk about
is smoking, smoking is going to kill you we will all die one day
and it will not matter if you did smoke are if you didn't smoke.
Right now they are talking about going up on the price of cigarettes
is this the salutation to what needs to be done, if smoking is so bad then why don't they stop selling them,I think you know and I know why.
If they don't give a rats ass about the kids that are dieing in this dam war,what makes you makes you think they care about you are me smoking a dam cigarettes. I don't know about you ,,,,,,,,,but I'm not a kid.



----- Original Message -----
From: The Smokers Rights Newsletter Issue
Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2007 9:21 AM
Subject: The Smokers Rights Newsletter Issue




The United Pro Choice
Smokers Rights Newsletter
August 3, 2007 - Issue #444

"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible
will make violent revolution inevitable."
- John F. Kennedy
Lighting up at the movies. By Jacob Sullum. If anyone is making smoking seem cool, it's self-righteous busybodies like Stanton Glantz.

In the Name of “Public Health.” By Jacqueline S. Homan. In the rush to pound the public health pulpit, Antis would have the public at large in a panic over the “dangers” of ETS. Let us analyze a few real threats to public health that are not based on junk science and fuzzy math, and see how they stack up...

75 percent of Americans overweight by 2015. "Obesity is likely to continue to increase, and if nothing is done, it will soon become the leading preventable cause of death in the United States."

Tobacco may help fight cervical cancer. The tobacco-based vaccine still in the works would cost an estimated $3 for three doses, compared with $360 for three doses of Gardasil. This would make it affordable for developing countries like India, where the disease is the most common malignancy among women.

Glaxo in Nicotine Drug Pact. The agreement gives the European drug maker access to Targacept's neuronal nicotinic receptor compounds, including an experimental drug in midstage Phase II clinical trials for acute postoperative pain.

Anti-Smoking Campaign Achievements Exaggerated. Korea. "It's excessively political to only emphasize decrease in men's smoking rate since the recent trend is that smoking rate amid women and teenager is on a significant increase,'' Choi said.
From The International Mailbag
The Canadian Smokers Rights Newsletter.
Australia: 14 smoking mums fined for smoking in cars.
Western Australia: Outdoor smoking ban inevitable.
Bahrain: Malls ban on smoking is stepped up.
Demark: Against Ban, 700 bar owners legal challenge.
Germany: A ban comes into force in three of the 16 federal states.
India: Delhi High Court reserves order on smoking in films.
Scotland: Plan to ban 'traditional' cigarettes in drive to cut fires.
UK: Government "duped by fake and twisted science."
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IA: Des Moines Smoking wars move into condo complex.
IL: Tax bill has shown true colors and why there is a rush on it.
NV: Smoking foes questioning Nevada tax breaks.
SC: Issac J. Bailey, Smoking ban not the way to go.
TN: State updates on Congress, tax, ban, drinkers.
USA: Federal Tax, SCHIP, update on cigarette tax.
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DC: Late-night noise at Jack's draws neighbor protests.
NV: Barkeeps ways to keep smoking without running afoul of the law.
TX: Beaumont Smoking ban has many businesses in the hot seat.
UK: James Oyebola dies by gunshot while enforcing the ban.
UK: Call Paul Toole for the Protest March on August 11.
The Slippery Slope After Tobacco
Alcohol: 100 a day admitted to UK hospital over drinking.
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Read this people.
The E-mail address that you see is people I sent this too.
Sammantha is with smoker rights.
Some of you may not like what she is doing and what I'm doing
But I like to add this I don't like what the government is doing we are paying taxes
and it's like we are paying them to tell us what we can or cannot do.
we send kids to war and die for freedom and this is what freedom is, taking away your rights, I fine something wrong with that.
Now I know government worker smoke what do they get for smoking a pat on the hand
when they get stop.



Hello....
Samantha
I don't know how much good this will do but anything is better than nothing.
They do like we are kids not taxs payer,I think if they are going to take away people rights then take away the taxs we pay.
They are sending kids to die and fight for freedom and this is
what they call freedom.
----- Original Message -----
From: Roy & Lori
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Sent: Sunday, July 15, 2007 9:06 PM
Subject: House Bill 1010



Posted: Wed May 17, 2006 11:13 pm Post subject: URGENT/ALERT: LA Senate To Vote On Smoking In Car Ban

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

House Bill 1010, that seeks to ban smoking in cars should there be a child on board, passed the house 66 to 31! Outrageous!

I would like to add this, If you are going to take away my freedom
my wife freedom and my rights, then maybe you need to start paying my bills and taking care of my family, we didn't vote you
in office so you can dictate to us, we or not kids.
Who will give a ticket to the people that works for the state the parish or government enforcement officers that smoke?
Because just like the seatbelt law you pass we see them not wearing it, when they are in their policecar.




Below is what I wrote. You can use as example or just send the same thing... Do try to add your own stuff at the front and inbetween so they look different.

I am writing to express my deep concern in regards to HB 1010.

I feel the bill infringes upon several rights. One being the rights of a parent. Another being the rights of a smoker.

This bill is taking away the rights of parents and how they choose to raise their children. Most unsettling is the thought of where this bill will lead. To make it a crime for a person to smoke with his or her child in their own car will open the door for it becoming a crime for a person to smoke within their own home in the presence of their child. What is to stop that from happening? This is where it all starts.

Even in the car alone! I am outraged that this bill passed the House. Already I have wrote everyone in the House who approved this bill expressing my extreme disappointment. Likewise, those who didn't approve it with praise. It is troubling to me that such a bill that infringes upon the rights of parents even passed.

Equally troubling is the purpose of this bill.

The baby-boom generation was raised mostly by smokers. Parents who smoked at home. At work. In the car. Around their kids. Those of the baby-boom generation have lived the longest. As children, they weren't plagued by any adverse health issues.

Today... Today most people don't smoke. Most children are raised in smoke-free cars and homes. Yet, today's kids are suffering from diabetes, obesity, laziness, heart disease and more.

So where is the logic behind this bill?

Let's also look at scientific facts.

The World Health Organization launched an extensive study to find the health affects of ETS (Environmental Tobacco Smoke). What did they find? They found that children raised in a home where both parents smoke are at a 22% less risk of developing lung cancer.

It must also be noted they failed to find any adverse health affects related to ETS among adults. ETS is virtually free of threatening the health of anyone, both young and old, according to their study.

Of course their findings were not exactly what they were hoping to find so they concealed the study from the public until the British press got hold of it. Unfortunately for that reason, they do not offer the study on their website but I can offer you an abstract on the study found here.

Another, much more extensive 39 year study done by the British Medical Journal shows there is no risk to anyone's health from ETS as well.

A quote from the two who conducted the study says it all: "No significant associations were found for current or former exposure to environmental tobacco smoke, before or after adjusting for seven confounders, and before or after excluding participants with pre-existing disease." -- Enstrom & Kabat, British Medical Journal, Vol. 326

To view that study in it's entirety you can do so here.

Looking at the scientific evidence, and simple logic in comparing today's youth to yesteryears, I can not even begin to comprehend the reasoning behind this bill other than to take away the rights from parents. Already parents have lost many rights in raising their children... We have young girls being escorted out of state by their teacher to have an abortion without their parents being notified. Parents living in fear of ever disciplining their children due to political correctness run amuck and the term "child abuse" being exploited. Public schools not allowing packaged lunches from home containing foods that have been deemed "less than ideal" by the government. And so forth... The list is endless.

It comes down to, simply said, the bill is unconstitutional. Wrong. Disgusting... Goes against everything America stands for. Un-American sums it up best.

How many more rights of parents must we steal before we can be content? And for those without kids who smoke... Knowing they can no longer smoke around their kids, and not just in the car as we both know should this pass it will stem to the home as well, who is going to even want a child? Not to say the pleasure of smoking comes before raising a child but.... Why would I want a child in this country knowing I can not raise him or her how I see best?

The decision for a parent to smoke around his or her child needs to be left up to the parent. Not the government. Especially considering the lack of scientific evidence to back any claims of justifying this bill of stealing parent's rights as Gary Smith, the one who proposed the bill, likes to say, "I'm just trying to protect those who cannot protect themselves." Care to back that by any scientific evidence Gary?

I urge you to strongly consider the repercussions of this bill. How this measure will eventually stem to the home and other areas outside the car. How this measure will take away rights from parents. Other rights too that soon may be infringed upon of both the parent and smoker should this bill pass.

I thank you for your time and consideration on the matter.

-- NAME

I would like you to see this and read.

May 3, 2007

[recipient address was inserted here]


[recipient name was inserted here],

Please make sure Mr. President Bush reads this !

I would like to know what the excuse is this time for the price of gas
going sky high again. First they blamed it on the storms (hurricanes) now
they are blaming it on the demand. I would like to know why, if the
majority of our oil is imported from foreign countries, how can this be?
We live in Louisiana, one of the states that produces alot of the oil for
the country. But yet we are paying almost $3.00 a gallon. I wouldn't be
complaining if I was getting $100,000.00, $150,000.00 or $780,000.00 (like
the Bushe's) a year. We live on a fixed income and paycheck to paycheck.
The majority of the people in the United States are in the same situation.
We don't have the pleasure of having "fringe benefits" that go with your
jobs. Like car expenses accounts, paid vacations, etc., etc. paid for by
the tax payers. Mr. Bush, you don't have to pay much of anything out of
your pocket, we pay for it. As with most of the politicians in our
Country. When are you going to make youself concerned with what is best
for the common people of this country? Why are you more concerned with
what is going on in other countries? Why do you let YOUR people suffer,
struggle and beg? We were not all born with silver spoons in our mouths
or with the slightest chance of getting half way "up the ladder". What
will it take for changes to be made to make life a little less dramatic
for all of us. We have suffered and struggled enough. Maybe we should
hire Mexicans in place of our politicians because they like to work cheap.
Being they are flocking here to take our jobs. A response from YOU,
personally, would be greatly appreciated.











Sincerely,

This is a copy of a letter we sent to the one sitting government office.


Dear Mr. Representative,

I don't know who you and everyone of the representatives that voted for this ban think you are. I think ya'll need to change your title to House of Rulers, instead of representatives.
What gives ya'll the right to make up laws without the peoples vote? What is happening to our freedom? We don't have much of any left as it is.
I recently quit smoking over a year ago. Not because I had to or because someone made me. I chose to stop on my own. I understand smoking is bad for you, and others around you. But when will ya'll stop trying to tell us fully grown, law abiding adults, how to live?
If ya'll want to stop the "sickness's" from smoking and second hand smoke, then stop the production of tobacco altogether. But oh no, ya'll would never do that. The government makes way too much money from the sales of tobacco. And the other killer, alcohol. Don't hear ya'll trying to stop that either. The government would go totally bankrupt without it.
And considering we just buried my 27 year old nephew because he was drinking and driving, ya'll have your priorities all wrong. A person who smokes or is around smoke has a good chance of living a pretty decent life, to a good age. But a person who drinks and drives, either kills themselves or some innocent people. It is a traumatic death. Something very hard for their loved ones to overcome for a long time. I don't know if you have had someone in your family die like that. My sister is not taking it too well. When a smoker dies, they usually go peacefully.
But back to my subject. I am upset at all these laws that you are making,making hard working law abiding citizens criminals. Any little thing they can make a law on to collect on fines and court fees is just fine with ya'll.
Back to our freedom. We are supposively fighting a useless war in Iraq for our "freedom". How can you honestly send our sons, daughters, fathers and mothers to die for our freedom while ya'll sit here at home and take away ours. It's not about the Iraqi peoples freedom anyway..It's all about the oil.
Any smoker in their right mind will always open their drivers side window while they are smoking, the smoke gets pulled out as they are driving.
I would like to know who will give the police officers, public officials, etc..etc. a ticket? I see police officers all the time without their seatbelts. But let us get caught without it. I see them speeding and making improper turns all the time.
I feel that if ya'll want to tell us how to live and what is right from wrong, being you think "we the people" are too stupid to know better, then you should start paying my bills. Maybe my car insurance, house/flood insurance, life insurance, etc. Maybe take away all the taxes we have to pay for you to tell me how I should be living. I'm 50 years old and have not been in trouble for anything. Now you are going to make a criminal of my wife because she smokes.
How many of ya'll have been to a funeral of a young person that got killed drinking and driving? How many of ya'll have gone to a funeral of someone who smoked? In case you haven't I can tell you the difference. A person who smoked will look pretty much the same as they did before they died. A person killed because of drinking and driving will not look the same as they did the day before. There will be cuts and bruises and heavy makeup used. The damages from drinking far outweigh the damages from smoking or second hand smoke.
I feel you don't really give a damn about the people or the kids. All you care about is the money.

P.S.
This letter is not intended for those few that beleive in the rights of the people. And let this be a reminder of who pays your salary.

Why?


To Everyone Concerned,


I put my plywood sign out at the front of our street a couple days after we flooded from Hurrican Rita. It read in big red letters, "Have we been forgotten".
I feel we have been forgotten of by all forms of govenment for long enough. When we flooded for Hurrican Juan 21 years ago in October, they did nothing. All this time they have done nothing but study after study. Now that we have flooded again, they want to try to do something that will take 15-20 years to do.
I feel that the people of South Louisiana have been forgotten about when it comes to getting anything from the State or Federal Government.
We have been through enough. We have waited too long. With the increase in the price for gas, insurance, lumber, utilities, groceries, etc. etc., how much more do the want from us. When we can't get much of anything from them.
Now they want to burden us with this one cent sales tax for our levees. I don't feel that the money will be spent on our levees and that the HNC lock is only going to protect the west side of Houma. That water will have to go somewhere.
It seems to be a loosing battle. We are undecided if we want to sell out or stay and put up with it. We shouldn't have to be making that decision. We cannot afford to move, yet we cannot physically or mentally keep going though this.
I feel that if the Federal Government can send/spend money in Iraq, Afganistan, Indonesia, etc.,etc., then they can give us the money to build the levees and locks to protect us. Why do we have to fight tooth and nail to get anything from the government when all these other countries do nothing for us and they sure don't pay their fair share of any taxes. They get a handout and we have to beg.
I don't think President Bush even cares about what happens to the people of South Louisiana. His oil buddies are more important. He will never walk in our shoes or worry about any of the things we have to worry about.
I don't know if my letters are getting through to anyone, but as long as the government keeps wasting our money I will keep wasting my brain cells and my wifes time writing these letters.

I like you to check this out.


I will never understand why the people are letting this happen. I keep writing letters and posting messages and it's getting us nowhere. I send letters to all the state reps even the President, not one of them replies to me.
This link is to an article that I think sums up our rights issue pretty good. Please read:

: http://www.houmatoday.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060805/OPINION/608040335/1031/OPINION03

To me this is only a money matter, not a health issue. The government wants to get every nichol and dime out of law abiding citizens that they can. By making laws like this thats what they are doing. If you are not a criminal they will make you one. What will be next?

They waste, we pay
Need a trip to hawaii, why not?
Need a new truck, why not? tax payers are
paying the bill.
Need a house, need a camp, need boat,need a big pay check,why not?tax payers are paying, what else is the tax payers paying for?

This was in the news paper as you can see back in May.


I like to say this we don't need somebody that sit on there ass talking about
doing work, we need somebody that will do the work.
They like to make cuts and take away jobs from people that do work,when it comes
to them all they look for is more money for sitting on there ass.
Terrebonne Parish looks to help only the rich.


Louisiana Press Association's Newspaper of the Year | May 11, 2005

April 27. 2005 3:13PM

Parish Council takes trips; others lose jobs



How can the Terrebonne Parish Council afford to go to Hawaii but can not afford to send kids to a summer camp along with saying that the parish is in a big budget cut right now?

They cut 18 firefighters and still today we get threats about more cuts. Parish Administrator Barry Blackwell said that the cuts were just as even with the Police Department, but we’ve yet to see it. The parish administrator has been cutting everyone under the sun, and now they do some crazy stuff like this. They even want a raise.

Well, we want our fire department positions back, but that will not happen. I guess the parish officials will take another trip at our expense.

Lanny -------
Houma

Terrebonne Parish government


I am writing concerning the lock they are planning on putting in the Houma Navagational Canal. I do not feel that this will benefit the whole parish. I feel they are putting it where it will only benefit the City of Houma itself and not the low lying areas that flood.
I feel that the Parish should have done something 20 years ago when we flooded for Hurricane Juan. Instead they felt that it was more inportant to have a Civic Center, the Bank One building, and a state of the art Library. The highest cell phone bills and trips to Hawaii. I live in Upper Little Caillou. We are only 7 miles from Prospect St. We flooded for Juan and had one foot of water in our home then. This time, for Rita, we had 3 feet in our home. What about the people in Montegut that have flooded four times in the past 20 years? How is this lock going to protect them?
Every time the Parish of Terrebonne wants something they pass a tax. They put the cost on the tax payers. Who do we pass the cost onto? Who do we pass the cost of rebuilding our homes on to? Who do we pass the cost of replacing all our funiture and appliances on to? Not to mention all the things we lost that cannot be replaced. All we get is higher insurance cost and wishfull thinking that it won't happen again.
I feel that they are only looking to protect the city of Houma, especially the west side, and all the fancy camps along side the deep water channel, down Dularge and the condo's across from the Civic Center. They must not let Martin Luther King Blvd. or Hwy 311 flood. But who cares about us dumb coonass's down the bayou. The hard working, low and middle income families who cannot afford the insurance and cannot afford to move either. We are expendable. But they sure want our tax money.
Why don't you tax the oil companies that are using the Navigational Canal? We are taxed enough and our money is not being spent as it should. Terrebonne Parish should have gotten it's priorities straight a long time ago. We cannot even get the parish to fix our school bus turnaround much less protect us from flooding again.
Terrebonne Parish Government keeps forgetting who they work for? They work for us, the tax payers. We pay their salary. We pay for all their fringe benefits. Yet we keep getting the short end of the stick.

Louisiana at it's best

I like you people to take a look at this.
Take a look at these pic,we took for the flood.

This is what we got but it was a lot wrost in other parts
of south Louisiana.
You know, We can send money to other countrys but
who check to see where the money is going
but when it comes to us we have to go to so much bullshit and that isn't no lie

I like you to read this.


Louisiana at it's best.

Don't all these politicians have anything better to do with their time than make all kinds of stupid laws that infringe on the rights of the people? This law is just another dollar in the pockets of the criminal justice system. Making crimianls out of law abiding citizens. Smoking is legal (freedom of choice). It's only going to give the cops another reason to stop women and try to seduce them. It's going to take their time away from tracking down the real crimials. Who is going to give the cops a ticket? They break the laws all the time. Or is it they lost their camp down the bayou and need more money for a pay raise to fix it?
How much more can you squeeze out of the people?
I'm sure the Governor will not read this email because she has never responded to a single one I have sent her. But this will be sent to every Congressman and Senator in Louisian and posted on as many web sites as I can.
If you are so concerned about our children, why aren't you fighting tooth and nail to get us the money we need to fix our levees so our children don't have to worry about having to move away because our land is washing away. You are more concerned with who's smoking where? This is not the time to be wasting time on such a freedom of choice issue.
Governor Blanco, you seem to only be worried about New Orleans. What about us in Terrebonne Parish? Do we not exist? We flooded just like New Orleans. We are struggling to fix our homes as best we can. Terrebonne Parish floods every time there is a storm to our west. Not once in 75-80 years like New Orleans.. Our lower part of the parish floods with a South wind. We have been fighting for years and years and getting no where.
If they have so much time to waist then why don't they come here and help fix our house. Instead of having volunteers from out of state coming to do it.

Roy

Is this a good one.


Can anyone tell me what is going to happen if the price of cigarettes keeps going up? I feel this is what will happen.
Besides getting people to quit because they cannot afford it, it will cause more people to start stealing them. Or stealing anything they can to sell to buy a pack.
Is this what the Federal, State, and Local governments are banking on? That way they will be able to put more people in jail and collect on the fines and fees. So they will have more "trustees' " to pick up trash on the side the roads?
Are maybe they don't want to say it free labor
is slave labor and by pasting them law that is what they are doing.
One more thing we have to obey the Laws but they don't.
You sure don't hear them talking about going up on the tax for alcohol and that kills more people than smoking!
I have been emailing Senators and Representatives for a long time now and none of them EVER answer my questions.
Maybe someone can shed some light on my concerns.

Roy Rowley

I like you to check this out.

Sender's Name: Roy ROWLEY

Message:
I would like to know how many people can tell me what would happen if you take 10 people and put them in a
room with 10 smokers. How many will die?

Now If you to take 10 people put them in a room with a car or a truck running and tell me how many will die.

Ok one more time. You take 10 people stand them in a room and you get somebody with a second hand gun and shoot at them,(they may get lucky, they may not ) What you think.
Is going to happen?

Another one, if you take 10 people stand them up in a line facing a car or a truck with somebody that has been drinking driving. Can somebody tell what can happen?
I'd like to say I don't have anything bad to say if you drink at home.
There are little kids out there on the road don't kill them. thanks

Now if you send our kids, Fathers, Mothers,etc, to war, How many do you think will die?
If you think that only one will die,..........NOT....... Not going to happen.
So now with this being said I hope you can understand where I'M coming from.

There is a lot of other things that can kill
but having the government looking to make more money from you because of it is sad.

I think some of them look to do it just to see how much power they have telling people what they can or cannot do....... So I like to say this I'm not a kid I'm going to be 51 years old and I pay taxes and my kids pay taxes.

Thank you for your time.
Roy Rowley

Louisiana Dictators

Dear Mr. Representative,

I don't know who you and everyone of the representatives that voted for this ban think you are. I think ya'll need to change your title to House of Rulers, instead of representatives.
What gives ya'll the right to make up laws without the peoples vote? What is happening to our freedom? We don't have much of any left as it is.
I recently quit smoking over a year ago. Not because I had to or because someone made me. I chose to stop on my own. I understand smoking is bad for you, and others around you. But when will ya'll stop trying to tell us fully grown, law abiding adults, how to live?
If ya'll want to stop the "sickness's" from smoking and second hand smoke, then stop the production of tobacco altogether. But oh no, ya'll would never do that. The government makes way too much money from the sales of tobacco. And the other killer, alcohol. Don't hear ya'll trying to stop that either. The government would go totally bankrupt without it.
And considering we just buried my 27 year old nephew because he was drinking and driving, ya'll have your priorities all wrong. A person who smokes or is around smoke has a good chance of living a pretty decent life, to a good age. But a person who drinks and drives, either kills themselves or some innocent people. It is a traumatic death. Something very hard for their loved ones to overcome for a long time. I don't know if you have had someone in your family die like that. My sister is not taking it too well. When a smoker dies, they us usually go peacefully.
But back to my subject. I am upset at all these laws that are making hard working, law abiding citizens criminals. Any little thing they can make a law on to collect on fines and court fees is just fine with ya'll.
Back to our freedom. We are supposively fighting a useless war in Iraq for our "freedom". How can you honestly send our sons, daughters, fathers and mothers to die for our freedom while ya'll sit here at home and take away ours. It's not about the Iraqi peoples freedom anyway..It's all about the oil.
Any smoker in their right mind will always open their drivers side window while they are smoking, the smoke gets pulled out as they are driving.
I would like to know who will give the police officers, public officials, etc..etc. a ticket? I see police officers all the time without their seatbelts. But let us get caught without it. I see them speeding and making improper turns all the time.
I feel that if ya'll want to tell us how to live and what is right from wrong, being you think "we the people" are too stupid to know better, then you should start paying my bills. Maybe my car insurance, house/flood insurance, life insurance, etc. Maybe take away all the taxes we have to pay for you to tell me how I should be living. I'm 50 years old and have not been in trouble for anything. Now you are going to make a criminal of my wife because she smokes.
How many of ya'll have been to a funeral of a young person that got killed drinking and driving? How many of ya'll have gone to a funeral of someone who smoked? In case you haven't I can tell you the difference. A person who smoked will look pretty much the same as they did before they died. A person killed because of drinking and driving will not look the same as they did the day before. There will be cuts and bruises and heavy makeup used. The damages from drinking far outweigh the damages from smoking or second hand smoke.
I feel you don't really give a damn about the people or the kids. All you care about is the money.


Sincerely yours,

This letter is in red because of the blood that was lost when my nephew was kill this morning.
They say smoking kills will so does alcohol.
Antoine C Verret died this morining because of it. At 3;29 am monday he lost control of his car and I'm sorry to say but he may have been drinking.
So with this in mind, I would like to say that smoking didn't have anything to do with it.
This is what is left of his car.
The loss of this young man, may or may not mean any thing to some people, and what he did was wrong. But this is what he got for doing it.
What he got for doing this (he will not do any more).
But the ones selling it will go on.
So the taxs that the state gets is more important than life.
Maybe one day your kids will find out what Alcohol can do to them.

I like you to read this.

outrageous gas prices


I am writing to you concerning the extremely high gas prices we are paying. I don't know about ya'll but I don't live on a $100,000.00 a year salary. No where near that. President Bush and all the other Senators and State Representatives in Washington and Baton Rouge make that or even more. They don't feel the bite in their wallet when they fill up their vehicles. They fill up their vehicles at the tax payers expense anyway. We live on less than $20,000.00 a year. My wife works and I'm on disability. We have family that have to live on that much or less. My Mom is stuggling since my Dad passed away. My Mother-in-law is stuggling since her husband died. It makes it real hard for a person working a minimum wage job to be able to afford to even go back and forth to work.
The government claims it's because of the storms that hit the Gulf. But all we hear about is that we are so dependent on foreign oil. If we were so dependent on foreign oil then why do they want to blame it on the loss of production in the Gulf? If the U.S. Government would stay out of the foreign countries business than we wouldn't have to worry about them cutting us off. They have us where they want us. If the Govenment would stop controlling the flow of oil from the Gulf States, there wouldn't be a shortage or a reason for oil to be so expensive. The Gulf States produce the most oil, but we suffer the most. Why was the U. S. Government paying $1.50 a gallon and selling it to the Iraqi's for .05 cents a gallon???? What made them more important than our own people?
Business's can pass their rising cost onto us, the consumers. But who do we pass the cost onto?
With the HIGH cost of gas, insurance, utilities, groceries, etc. How much more do you think you can squeeze out of us less fortunate people.
I just read a letter written by Johnny Adriani, a candidate in the New Orleans mayor race. Even though he is discussing the levee's in New Orleans he makes a very good point that the U. S. Government is more concerned with a Democratic Government in Iraq and the illegal immagrants than for it's own citizens. Check the letter out yourself.....
: http://www.bayoubuzz.com/boards/philboard_read.asp?id=1646
I know ya'll probably don't like what I have to say, but our tax dollars are paying your salary and your retirement benefits. Your kids education, your camp down the bayou, your luxury vehicles, million dollar mansions...etc..etc..etc.
We are here in South Louisiana trying to recover from two major disasters and ya'll can't find any way to help us with the extra burden of the the gas prices? It's not enough we have to pay high prices for the lumber and appliances and furniture that we have to replace, lets get them on the gas too.

Sincerly,

Louisiana at it's best

I'm desperately looking for someone willing to donate (or sell cheap) an old truck. I have a 1980 Ford F100 that is on it's last leg. It looks like crap but kinda still gets me where I want to go...to an extent. My wife thinks I love my truck more than I love her...hum....she hates it and says it has to go. It don't have to be in the best of condition but I'm looking for one that doesn't have much rust and no holes in the floor boards...must have matching dash and seats...widows that don't rattle and a tail gate that opens easily...and one that she can drive without the cops thinking she's drunk (she don't drink)...she even threatens to put a paper bag over her head when she rides with me. SHe said she is going to bury me in it too, after she gets it smashed into one of those square shapes...lol
Please help me !!

This is it.

Please read....
This is a letter I received from FEMA. They feel like they have given me so much money. They are wasting more money than they are giving to the people who lost so much. THey are paying the people working for them more money in a month than they give to us. I had to buy new tools to fix my house myself because I lost all my tools in the flood and the contractor wanted $69,000.00 to fix my house.Our damages were estimated over $45,000.00 by our insuance company. FEMA only gave us $11,000.00 for contents,loosing everything under 3 feet in my house. Not counting everyting we lost that was outside and in our shed. The bank is holding $12,000.00 until the house is 90% complete. How are we suppose to pay someone to help me? Sometimes I feel like giveing up, not knowing if it will happen again next hurricane season. I know some people who have received more money from FEMA that had very little damages and didn't loose nearly what we lost.
I'm hurting and we are tired. But what are we suppose to do?


Dear Ms. Rowley,

Your case has been reviewed and you are not eligible for home repair from FEMA. Your insurance settlement is $32,200.00 and the FEMA maximum grant is $26,200.00 therefore you are ineligible for assistance with home repair.

This does not include assistance for rental if you are unable to stay in your home while repairs are made.
The following documentation will be required Recertification for requesting continuing Rental Assistance:

1) A letter from you stating why you have a continued need for Rental Assistance
2) A submission from you outlining a realistic Housing Plan to indicate your plans for self sufficiency
3) Documentation of appropriate use of previous Rental Assistance, i.e. verifiable rental receipts with the landlord's contact information


If you should you have additional questions about your registration you can also call FEMA’s toll-free helpline number at 1-800-621-3362.

Thank you for your inquiry.

Connie ID#7384

I LIKE YOU TO CHECK THIS OUT IT'S THE LOCACL NEWS PAPER.

http://www.houmatoday.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060324/NEWS/603240330&SearchID=73239543103134