Rush Limbaugh and the suspicious package

gdb

Any members here follow "Justified" on FX ?

tonyb

I do, love that show Timmy O is pretty good in that role.

Prescription meds does have a black market....but you first get hooked legally, usually from some illness or pain you needed a prescription for. So when a person who gets hooked on legal drugs can't get a Doc to write prescriptions anymore, they turn to the black market, such as Rush was doing. Mind you, it was still wrong of him, but not quit the caliber of getting a heroin fix or an ounce of blow. Not like the guy didn't admit he was wrong. Like all addicts, they have to be prodded to even admit they are one to begin with. Rush was no different, his actions in the beginning were of any addict, denial. But he finally admitted it, got help, lost a few pounds, and seems to be in better health these days. So why is he a big deal now anyway ? Oh yeah....he called the girl a **** who admitted to the world on camera that she actually was one. If it walks like a duck, talks like a duck, it isn't a cow. Just sayin' is all. Rush could have chosen his words better, but in the grand scheme of things worst has been said by his accusers. Pretty much a none issue in my book.

evhudsons

I forgot to add media and entertainers to the list of people I don't trust but can make me chuckle.
I read the book, chuckled, and closed the book.

I've done enough drugs in my life to know there is no difference between legal or illegal drugs other than the law. I also don't need drugs but I do enjoy beer, iced tea, Cuban colada, and honey Meade with a fine cigar.
personally im curious as to why Charles Barkely isn't arrested for saying he thinks fans should be shot.

gdb

"Prescription meds does have a black market....but you first get hooked legally"

OK, if you say so. I've been a guest at more than a few parties where folks without a pain anywhere were popping various scrip pills like tic tacs.Diet pills,tranquilizers,pain meds, etc. have been abused recreationally for decades. BTW, wish me luck with my current use of Vicodin please. I've been graced with an assortment of kidney stone passages and lithotripsy procedures the past 30 days or so. Ask any mother who's had kidney stones, which pain is worse, child birth or the stones......

tonyb

evhudsons wrote: »

I've done enough drugs in my life to know there is no difference between legal or illegal drugs other than the law. .

Exactly....which is why they want you hooked on the LEGAL ones. They don't get a cut of the illegal drugs.

GDB- C'mon man, I wasn't talking EVERYONE started out legally. Of coarse some buy them from others who stole them from their parents medicine cabinet, etc. That goes without saying. Cheap drugs will always be in demand.

sucks2beme

Bottom line- I can understand him getting an addiction by using them for pain. But
he went out of his way to tell everybody how he felt about drug users.

Fact: overdose causes more deaths than traffic accidents.
Fact: prescription drug deaths outnumber illegal drugs many times over.

Doctors are writing prescriptions for way too many pills- and they know it.
Many are paying money to shady doctors to get the prescriptions.
Others are going to pill mills to get them- this is where organized crime gets involved.

This is the current problem. And it involves a lot of middle class and wealthy people.
Blaming the addicts doesn't solve the problem. But it's not going away by pretending
it's not there.

mrbigbluelight

You know .... some of you folks ought to move over to the Middle East where they know how to keep their women folk in their place. And if they get out of line ..... WHAMMO ! That'll learn 'em !

Good grief. :rolleyes:


Rush.
See Rush wave the flag.
Go, Rush, Go !

gdb

Do they WHAMMMO their women for hiding their stash of Oxy or, for no reason at all ? I view Rush as the Gary Busey of the radio waves, you never khow........

codyc1ark

I don't think you guys should be talking about the personal details of the member who started the "what are you listening too" thread...

Gatecrasher

Rush "Limpbaugh" is a junkie whether his loyal followers want to admit it or not.

A "Hillbilly Heroin" addict.



The only difference is, all of us would have been incarcerated for the same drug offenses.

Thank god for the ACLU huh?

lol

Mr. Sharpe

codyc1ark wrote: »

I don't think you guys should be talking about the personal details of the member who started the "what are you listening too" thread...

Sad day yes? that is funny that he made that his user name

evhudsons

I always wondered, was that really Rush or just a Rush wannabe that started the longest daily thread "what are you listening to now?" thread? Even though "rush Limbaugh" is banned does that person know the thread still lives on vibrantly?
If it was really Rush then I would have to give some credit.

thsmith

Limbaugh is such an idiot, his latest birth control comments further show his ignorance.

steveinaz

I agreed with his message, but did not agree with his delivery/choice of characterization. You wanna get your groove on, buy your own damn contraceptives. Simple. I agree, Limbaugh is more often than not--an idiot.

Funny how you notice the "entitlement" mentality in that young lady. Scary.

camp21178

I want to thank my fellow conservatives for posting much more eloquently than I could. Great thread without too much name calling.

tonyb

steveinaz wrote: »

Funny how you notice the "entitlement" mentality in that young lady. Scary.

Thats the story....but it was reduced to being about Rush instead no thanks to his own words. Nobody is talking about the real story here, which is sad.

markmarc

sucks2beme wrote: »

Rush Limbaugh, yuck! I hate extremists on both sides. If they had all been around 250 years ago,
there wouldn't of been a constitution. It was a document of logical discussion and compromise.
NWO? Sorry, most of the founding fathers were in this camp. All men created equal was pretty
forward thinking at the time. Freemason ideas were used to form a new government.
Personal freedom without government control AND compassion for your fellow man.
You can have both. But you can't pass a law to make it happen.

Those of us who have studied American History knows that our country was founded by some serious radicals. One can only imagine the level of hate spewed out in the Boston Taverns by members of the local Sons of Liberty.

Right now our country is going thru another period of political extremism. Sadly, this version equals the period surrounding the 1796 thru the election of 1800, which IMHO was the most vitriolic period in our country's history. When one looks back at such polarizing periods our country doesn't moving forward together into better times. The times when all Americans and the country as a whole does well is when our political discourse is calm and substantive rather than blindingly far wing.

While I agree with the republican view on the rights of religious organizations not having to pay for BC based upon their religious values and teachings, Rush made a total a$$ of himself. Not only that but he stood by his views of Ms. Fluke the next day. He only apologized once he saw the combination of the disgust by many conservatives and dollars disappearing from his wallet from advertisers pulling business (Ron Paul just said the same thing on Face the Nation right after I finished typing it). IMHO, his "apology" is completely disingenuous. It also took the high ground of Second Amendment rights away from republicans in this debate and placed it in the hands of the democrats. Personally, it once again proves to me the foolishness of the far wing talking heads of both parties and why I refuse to give them my time. Instead, I'll read the thoughtful commentaries of reasonable people of both sides, i.e. Charles Krauthammer.

nooshinjohn

thsmith wrote: »

Limbaugh is such an idiot, his latest birth control comments further show his ignorance.

Why are we talking about birth control to begin with? This should be a non-issue. It is being framed as a "women's health" issue when it is anything but. If it were a health issue, then condoms and viagra should be free for men too. After all, what about my reproductive health??? See through the BS spin for what is really happening, and you will find that it is nothing more than a political ploy by the White House to undermine Rick Santorum and Mitt Romney in one shot. If you cannot run on your record, then fabricate a false issue and claim the high ground. In this case, you launch an assault on religious liberty, and when you get the churches to respond, you get your surrogates to jump all over them by leveling the false charge that those "EVIL" conservatives don't care about the health of women. Classic Ed Bernaise/ Chairman Mao strategy.

Follow that up with the news media releasing stories like this one...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/larry-doyle/the-jesuseating-cult-of-r_b_1296358.html

This WAS on the editorial page, then in an effort to back-track, moved to the comedy page, but you get the point.

Why we cannot see this for what it really is escapes me, and Rush effed up with his approach, but his argument is still a sound one.

Gatecrasher

Women should be provided birth control pills by their insurance providers. It's a non-issue that only plays to fools.

Birth control pills are prescribed by doctors for a host of medical reasons and illnesses, not just to prevent pregnancy. They are hormones that are used for everything from irregular menstrual cycles to severe cramping and pain to even acne. The fact that they are also used to prevent pregnancy is the only reason Rush in his latest drugged-out rant wants to force women to be denied insurance coverage.

Rush also thinks women should be denied insurance coverage for mammograms too.

You don't hear ol' Rush complaining that Viagra is covered by insurance though.

Rush is the last person I'd ever want "advice" on morality from. A self-confessed adulterer married three times, a convicted drug offender, draft-dodger, and a bought and paid for mouthpiece for corruption. He refused to retract his BS until his advertisers started to jump ship. That's all that matters to him.

tonyb

Gatecrasher wrote: »

Rush in his latest drugged-out rant wants to force women to be denied insurance coverage.
.

See, thats the typical partisan spin, nobody wants to take away insurance coverage for women, simply absurd.

I don't believe insurance carriers should be forced to provide any coverage for birth control, viagra. You want it,cool, pay for it. Also, the word "no" doesn't cost anyone anything when it comes to sex.

brgman

Can someone find me the thread with all the lefty outrage that was on here when Ed Shultz called Laura Ingraham a sl*t a few months ago? oh and the list of boycotts against his show?

tonyb

It's called phoney outrage for political gain. Think about it, from racism, verbage, OWS, social issues. It's election season, so this stuff gets ramped up fairly well. Where's the anger on the real issues, economy, jobs, gas prices, food prices, healthcare costs, utility bills, etc. It's just a matter of switching the conversation to what benefits a political end.

thsmith

Ok, let me restate it, no matter what he says Limbaugh is such an idiot.

I do not see how anyone could compare him to our founding fathers.

He is a fat ****, period.

brgman

tonyb wrote: »

It's called phoney outrage for political gain. Think about it, from racism, verbage, OWS, social issues. It's election season, so this stuff gets ramped up fairly well. Where's the anger on the real issues, economy, jobs, gas prices, food prices, healthcare costs, utility bills, etc. It's just a matter of switching the conversation to what benefits a political end.

Yup.Avoid the facts and real issues at ALL costs!

nooshinjohn

thsmith wrote: »

Ok, let me restate it, no matter what he says Limbaugh is such an idiot.

I do not see how anyone could compare him to our founding fathers.

He is a fat ****, period.

And when you cannot find a way to frame your point with fact, go to the insults... well played!

There are so many issues and positions Rush has taken over the years that you could make an eloquent point with, but you go there instead.

Rush has put his foot in his mouth more times than I can possibly list, but he has put his foot in the a$$ of politicians and talking heads on the left and right for decades now. If you don't have at least one thing you can agree with him on at this point, it is because you don't listen to him or you have drunk way to much kool-aide.

thsmith

Just my opinion and no one has to agree with me nor do I have to justify it.

brgman

Liberal Doctrine
1.Listen to mainstream media and follow in lockstep.
2.When faced with facts resort to name calling.
3.If this fails repeat steps 1. and 2.

Gatecrasher

Rush Limpbaugh is scum. As immoral as they come yet has a bunch of idiots convinced he's some kind of hero or something.

According to Rush and his drones, all of our wives or daughters or girlfriends who take birth control pills are "****" and "whores".

The wingnuts might as well have Bin Laden as their mouthpiece.

nooshinjohn

brgman wrote: »

Liberal Doctrine
1.Listen to mainstream media and follow in lockstep.
2.When faced with facts resort to name calling.
3.If this fails repeat steps 1. and 2.

Lets not forget calling or comparing conservatives to Stalin, Hitler, Mousollini, BinLaden, Mao, or some other evil POS. The fact is that ALL of the evil pos's mentioned come from the left-leaning "totalitarian" mindset. Totalitarianism is total government control by an individual or small group, and communism is much the same except the "people" supposedly control everything.

The path espoused by those that think as you appear Gatecrasher, leads to some pretty horrific places that conservatives do not want to go. We stand for liberty, not the oppression of it. If you think giant government is the way of the future, look at the ash-heap of history and you will find that it never ends well for the individual, or for the nations that have tried it.

markmarc

I watch all the news networks and they all have good and bad to them, and some are more biased than others.

However, I have to laugh when FoxNews promotes (correctly so) that half of all news viewers watch them, while the other half are split among the other networks. And then claim they are NOT the mainstream. If you have half the viewers you are the mainstream.

I'll time how long it takes for me to get attacked.