On Thu, 06 May 2010 10:12:53 -0400, Jack Stein
wrote the following:

Right, they lose billions in loss of a platform, law suits and PR and
this is good for their business because they will have to raise prices
to cover the loss. What are you smoking?

No, they CAN raise prices, covering all that and making a tidy
(several $B) profit on it at the same time.

I quit smoking (2+ packs/day) in '89 and never missed it. I quit
smoking smoking long before that, even before I sobered up.

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All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian,
or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up
to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.
--Thomas Paine