SC House approves 50-cent cigarette tax increase Augusta Chronicle

22.04.10

House leaders lost a fight to lower a proposed increase in the state's cigarette tax to 30 cents a pack instead of the 50 cents approved last week by the Senate.

"I thought at 30 cents the House was very likely to override the veto. I'm not sure at 50 cents," House Speaker Bobby Harrell said after the bill was sent back to the Senate.

South Carolina's cigarette tax is 7 cents a pack, the nation's lowest rate. The tax has been unchanged since 1977.

Gov. Mark Sanford has vowed to veto any cigarette tax increase that doesn't reduce some other tax.

The version heading back to the Senate generates $136 million. About $125 million of that goes to a new Medicaid trust fund, setting aside the cash to be used beginning in July 2011 to help fill what's expected to be a half-billion-dollar gap in what's needed to pay for health care for the elderly, disabled and poor when federal bailout cash disappears.

The measure also sets aside $5 million each for cancer research at the Medical University of South Carolina and smoking cessation programs and $1 million for agriculture marketing.

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What to do with a mess of crawdads?

Apr 23, 2010 by Don't Touch My Mountain Dew | Posted in Fishing

A doxy of mine called me up earlier today and asked if I wanted to gather up some crawdads with him. I said sure, why not, philosophy it was going to be about a dozen or so, maybe 2 dozen. Anyway, he picks me up, and as I get in his truck, I see a kiddie pool in the bed with a little salt water in it. I ask what the hell that's for and he says you'll see. So we show up at this ditch near a wrecking yard and the little trickle of water is very recently full of these damn crawdads. Tiny ones, small ones, medium ones, big ones, superhuman ones, some that were close to 7 or 8 inches long. So he opens the tailgate to his pick up, scoots the pool over the crowd and damn near backs the truck into the ditch. And we begin tossing them into the pool.

All in all, long fishing short, we have almost 350 crawdads in the back of his pick up that are between 1 1/2" and 4" long. We're going up to our limited fishing spot tomorrow, and there's no way we can use that many. There's night fishing also, so I'm sure we're gonna use a few of them.

Should we release what we don't use or should we sell them to strangers walking along the shoreline and in boats? He wants to justified give them away, I wanna sell them at 50 cents a piece, that's reasonable, isn't it?

Also, how do we rig these things? What size hooks? Somehow through the hinie, I know. I'm used to rigging plastic crawdads backward Texas style so they look like they hop averse, but won't jabbing a hook through their tail kill them? Oh well, if they die, we got plenty!

If I had that many I would no disbelieve eat them. As long as they came out of clean water they're safe to eat. Crawfish are definitely one of my top 5 favorite things to eat. If you don't need to cook them then yes, release them. There's no sense in killing anything for no good reason. I doubt you'll get many "takers" that are amenable to buy them.

I've never personally used Crawfish for bait although I have been around many people who have. Everybody that I have seen have simply hooked them through their shadow, as you said. I never seen it kill any any of them.
unmamfqlm | Apr 23, 2010

50 Cent bulks up after dramatic 54 lb weight loss for cancer ...

by Kristina Lopez

The rapper reportedly dieted and walked on a treadmill every day for weeks to bit from 214 to 160 pounds so he could minimize a cancer-stricken football musician in his upcoming talkie.

50 Cent, whose corporeal name is Curtis Jackson III and who is said to be 6 feet far-fetched, said he exhausted the persuasiveness by current on fluent food and talking walks on a treadmill for three hours every day for nine weeks.

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