[Rhodes22-list] Could I Have Another Helping of Big Government, Please?

[Robert Skinner]

Yup.  When I had a cough or the runs, my father would 
give me a dose of paregoric -- tincture of opium with 
camphor.  Until the 60's, I could still buy it at the 
local drug store -- great for the trots, etc.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paregoric

/Robert (note that this is not critical of anyone else,
and contains no sugar, trans-fat, or socialism)
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Steven Alm wrote:
> 
> That reminds me of a story in our family.  When I was just a toddler I got
> sick with a bad cold or something and my grandmother gave me a little
> whiskey.  Although I was sleeping soundly, my mother was furious.  Gramma
> never got arrested but I've had a taste for that stuff ever since.  How
> times have changed.
> 
> Slim
> 
> On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 7:54 PM, Herb Parsons <hparsons at parsonsys.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > You're not going to believe this, but I STARTED to write about how so
> > many beauracrats **pick the "low hanging fruit" to do their job, and
> > thought "Nah, better not open that can of worms ..."