Try to get Primatene tablets (or their generic equivalents) over the counter. No dice.

Not prescription yet, but you have to ask the pharmacist and show ID and sign a statement , and acknowledge the grams per day limits, etc. Your purchases are tracked in a database.

As some might know, Primatene is one of the few truly erstwhile over-the-counter drugs that you used to just purchase by taking to the cash register. No more. Why? The claim is that the active ingredient in it can be used by the occasional redneck lab expert to mix with other components and make meth.

Welcome to America. Land of the regulated and not much better for the efforts at that.

Paraphrase Orwell, the purpose of government power is not to foster a better world or culture or societal infrastructure. Nay, the purpose of power is power. It shows betrays the ideology of those who'd promote possibly dangerous chemicals to girls who've not even reached the geared down ages of sexual consent in order to stanch a pregnancy, but must show ID for purchasing a useful and cheap product like Primatene tablets to help asthmatics open their lungs and purge the mucus. Priorities speak.

AdkinK is correct.

The ISM has PLAINLY and OPENLY admitted that their goal is not ultimately some "human rights" based initiative (unless "human rights" is to be equated with the will of the Prophet, perhaps), but rather the destruction of Israel. All of it. No, not just Gaza or the "West Bank".

And like the Pallies themselves, if you grill the ISM for more than 3 minutes, they'd get around to admitting this even if stateside the Obamanauts can't bring themselves to admit what the "Pally" cause is all about, or the crackpottery of the "Palestinian perspective" on things being something other than sheer hatred.

As with the Pallies, if we shan't take them at their word, then whose word should we take?
Hillary Clinton's State Department?

They plainly say that the whole point of BDS has less to do with some protest movement on principles regarding alleged "war crimes", such as stanching the flow of Jihadist weaponry via Gaza (as one example where Israel has to act at some point, as in the Jihadtilla/"Flotilla" episode a few years back) and more to do with isolation and de-legitimization of an entire nation in the eyes of the rest of the world; the thinking here being that so isolated, Israel would be abandoned with little trade, aging weaponry, and fall to Arab powers finally empathetic to the Pallie "cause" (though in a fit of perhaps poetic justice, most of the Arab nations hate the Palestinian Arabs. They use the "Palestine" issue as a way to cook up hatred for Israel and keep matters in the region on a rolling boil on the front political burner and away from their own daily internal horrors far more real than anything the IDF has ever done).

For more fun and adventure and ammo about how to take a machete to the weedy thicket double-talk of local dingbat politicians who're into this kind of thing, as well as answering left wing street zombies who’re bunking over to spread the ISM bullseed stuff, see also:
http://stoptheism.com/

But Daniel, while it may very well be that media and lefties are spinning around on this so fast it might warp space-time, if I recall correctly, the GOP at the time--and more than a few conservative commentators, said Clinton's idea for the COPS in schools program was a waste of time and money and mocked it openly. Did they not?

I think we've reached a higher plane of social intercourse. Sort of....

I’ve been to Zack Rawsthorne’s site numerous times, and will gladly attest my personal opinion that Zack’s parody of the Secular Progressive Multi-Cultural Left (or SecProgs, as Dennis Miller calls them) is hilarious.

One can just imagine the high jinks and self-parody involved in growing up as the perky but hapless little girl named “Diversity” (of all names--considering the ideological purity enforced all around her by her “adult parental units”, and other alleged betters) amidst this cast of loopy characters and their unending supply of Mutli-Cultural pieties, delusional hang-ups, and other ideological donnybrooks with enemy notions--both real and perceived.

In these dark times, Zack’s wry, witty, and snarky take on the Left’s flight from earthbound reality is a welcome comic relief (respite?) from the insufferably dry, bland, bureaucratic, Statist, humorless, milkwater blahs of Leftist fetishes, governances, and cultural attacks.

Media Matters and other Sorosian handpuppets are the very paragons of truth and virtue, no doubt.

Better get some new sticks and props, though. The muppets are starting to sag of late:
http://legalinsurrection.blogspot.com/2009/08/fau...
http://legalinsurrection.blogspot.com/2010/04/hea...
http://legalinsurrection.blogspot.com/2010/03/cbo...
http://gatewaypundit.firstthings.com/2010/04/amer...

Other than the fact the Dickens had this depressive knack for making barbed wire out of chicken wire, and mountains from molehills, and exaggeration from issues that were more an issue of technological prowess of the age more so than government's wise and magnanimous hand in things, I'm sure somewhere you'd have a point. Maybe. Historians note his charm in making sappy Christmas tales about how horrible life was until advanced socialism came to Ye Olde Isle, but are not so happy with his BS on some accounts.

Technically legal or not, am I to understand (and maybe you have the full Monty on this, as I truly don't know and don't live in Canada) that these sham marriages, or mere "blessings" have no legal standing whatsoever when it comes to issues of property, inheretence, and state benefits of one type or another?

They are therefore totally and utterly null and void in the eyes of the state?

Yes, he deserved the medal. Keeping a nasty situation from getting nastier.

But I swear (and go ahead and quote me on this, all the libs who're peeping in on the Intense Debate comments from me--and you know who you are) the NEXT time a Palestinian/Hamas/IHH "Love Boat" heads for Gaza loaded with activists and more than one operative trying to aid the Sons of Allah's continuous attacks on Israel, let's skip the commando part and just blow the damned thing out of the water.

That will start getting the point across. We know this was not some purely "humanitarian" effort.

In sum, we get to keep plopping those War is NOT the Answer bumper stickers on the backs of Priuses and smirk at what might've been a better, Sons of Allah-free world if only we'd let others do the "wet work" for us, and bring female liberation and honor--via fuel air bombs and those handy Soviet-made poppers designed to look like toys that merely take children's hands off. Nice touch. Oh, and we've not even gotten into Soviet adventurism in the region that was halted.

So, in sum: Others will go to war using the pamphleteering of Lenin and Marx--so WE don't have to. No matter how murderous the use of proxy here, eh?
Of course. How could we have missed that? Golly.

But while I'm not totally opposed to proxy warfare, I think the Soviets would've been a little over the top for a new "ally" in the general neighborhood. And a little too close for comfort on some accounts.