The random political thoughts thread (Part Deux)

[wendybeth]

No, the scrips are documented.

Every prescription of legend drugs, especially tightly controlled ones like that, are tracked by computer. Then, there are the drugs his housekeeper scored for him.....

He's admitted he's a drug addict- are you saying he isn't?

[Nephythys]

Originally Posted by wendybeth

No, the scrips are documented.

Every prescription of legend drugs, especially tightly controlled ones like that, are tracked by computer. Then, there are the drugs his housekeeper scored for him.....

He's admitted he's a drug addict- are you saying he isn't?

No- I am saying that clearly there was a reason they scaled back the charges. So maybe there was less to it than thought-

[wendybeth]

One wonders why he didn't just fight this all the way to the courts, then?

Couldn't possibly be that he made a fantastic plea-bargain? He also has to pay $30,000 do defray the costs of the investigation. It must be galling to have to do so when one is so very innocent.

[scaeagles]

Originally Posted by wendybeth

Couldn't possibly be that he made a fantastic plea-bargain? He also has to pay $30,000 do defray the costs of the investigation. It must be galling to have to do so when one is so very innocent.

Or you can look at it practically, being that $30K is probably less than he paid his lawyers in a month. Of course it is a great plea bargin. Nothing on his record, and 30K to him is probably like 30 cents to me. After 2.5 years, I'd just want it to be over. It is.

[scaeagles]

I don't know about oxycontin - I really don't - but when I was on percocet after my surgery I was told to take 1-2 every four hours as needed for pain. If I took two every four hours, that would be 12/day.

Granted, I never took that much and did my absolute best to get off the stuff as quickly as I possibly could.

[wendybeth]

Originally Posted by scaeagles

I don't know about oxycontin - I really don't - but when I was on percocet after my surgery I was told to take 1-2 every four hours as needed for pain. If I took two every four hours, that would be 12/day.

Granted, I never took that much and did my absolute best to get off the stuff as quickly as I possibly could.

Your posts while on Percs were hilarious!

[scaeagles]

Originally Posted by wendybeth

Your posts while on Percs were hilarious!

Just as long as I don't have to type the word "discussing"......

[Gemini Cricket]

Human rights groups have condemned the "barbaric" murder of a 14-year-old boy, who, according to witnesses, was shot on his doorstep by Iraqi police for the apparent crime of being gay.

Ahmed Khalil was shot at point-blank range after being accosted by men in police uniforms, according to his neighbours in the al-Dura area of Baghdad.

Campaign groups have warned of a surge in homophobic killings by state security services and religious militias following an anti-gay and anti-lesbian fatwa issued by Iraq's most prominent Shia leader, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani.

Source

"And I think to myself... what a wonderful world..."

[Alex]

In the fight for control between John Negroponte and Porter Goss, the wrong one won.

[Nephythys]

Nice way to twist it to your satisfaction. You'll see the boogey men you want to see no matter how little information you have.