When Sally Harpold bought cold medicine for her family back in March, she never dreamed that four months later she would end up in handcuffs.

Now, Harpold is trying to clear her name of criminal charges, and she is speaking out in hopes that a law will change so others won’t endure the same embarrassment she still is facing.

“This is a very traumatic experience,” Harpold said.

Harpold is a grandmother of triplets who bought one box of Zyrtec-D cold medicine for her husband at a Rockville pharmacy. Less than seven days later, she bought a box of Mucinex-D cold medicine for her adult daughter at a Clinton pharmacy, thereby purchasing 3.6 grams total of pseudoephedrine in a week’s time.

Those two purchases put her in violation of Indiana law 35-48-4-14.7, which restricts the sale of ephedrine and pseudoephedrine, or PSE, products to no more than 3.0 grams within any seven-day period.

When the police came knocking at the door of Harpold’s Parke County residence on July 30, she was arrested on a Vermillion County warrant for a class-C misdemeanor, which carries a sentence of up to 60 days in jail and up to a $500 fine.

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I like the hardwood floors through out the factory.

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NASA predicts world-wide destruction by an asteroid strike on Feb 1, 2019.

I have checked this out and I would call it low-probability at this point.

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You know its bad when the French are tougher then the United States….what a change:

Sarkozy: “We live in the real world, not the virtual world. And the real world expects us to take decisions.”

“President Obama dreams of a world without weapons … but right in front of us two countries are doing the exact opposite.

“Iran since 2005 has flouted five security council resolutions. North Korea has been defying council resolutions since 1993.

“I support the extended hand of the Americans, but what good has proposals for dialogue brought the international community? More uranium enrichment and declarations by the leaders of Iran to wipe a UN member state off the map,” he continued, referring to Israel.

The sharp-tongued French leader even implied that Mr Obama’s resolution 1887 had used up valuable diplomatic energy.

“If we have courage to impose sanctions together it will lend viability to our commitment to reduce our own weapons and to making a world without nuke weapons,” he said.

Mr Sarkozy has previously called the US president’s disarmament crusade “naive.”

Ouch!

Flopping Aces

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On Thursday the U.N. Security Council called for worldwide nuclear disarmament. It is extremely naive to believe worldwide nuclear disarmament is achievable.

China has already said they will not disarm. China has said they will keep a stockpile large enough to serve as a nuclear deterrent. It is implausible countries such as North Korea, Iran, Russia, and Pakistan would actually disarm.

While the goal of removing nuclear weapons from the world is admirable, it is also illogical. Nuclear weapons will always exist. If Obama proceeds to disarm America, then he will be painting a massive target on our backs. Our enemies would no longer have to fear nuclear retaliation, thus the probability of a nuclear detonation on US soil would increase tenfold. This is by far the most dangerous policy proposed by President Obama.

Disarming the United States would result in the deaths of thousands of Americans.

News report from Reuters

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