posted April 15, 2004 08:14 PM              

i find it curiouser and curiouser that when it's "one of those *#@! liberals who has a drug problem, rush says they oughta lock 'em up and throw away the key

but when rush has some pain, and gets addicted, he breaks the same law and gets a bunch of "aw, poor boy" sympathy. jwhop, you do not see any duplicity here?

and maybe we oughta take a look at the drug laws, the crux of the whole problem. what about dennis kucinich's approach? he says it's a medical problem, and has no business in the criminal justice system.

posted April 15, 2004 09:36 PM            

And as an occasional listener of Rush Limbaugh - I have never heard him diss drug users wholesale, but rather when for example, a person commits a (usually violent) crime to obtain their drugs or as a result of being high on drugs.

Regardless, when ON drugs, people are usually NOT the person they become once off them. I have also heard him express a lot of remorse regarding his problem.

posted May 10, 2004 07:05 PM              

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jwhop, you do not see any duplicity here?

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are you not evading my question, as the liberals are accused of doing? i really would like you to take a look at this issue--without changing the subject, please?

fair enough?

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yes, this statement is inflammatory and a gross generalization, just as your statements were Raine...)

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do you really think that this applies to me? was i not not merely parroting what the conservatives say? then, who would really be making inflammatory generalizations?

or you could be like my brother who is way out there to the right of rush limbaugh. his "final solution" to the drug problem is to kill them...keep killing until the rest of them "get the message"--and he is dead serious about this spirit of murder in his heart

whatever happened to "thou shalt not kill?"

and while i am on my soapbox, just thought i would let you know that i pray for rush limbaugh. are we not to pray for our enemies? and he is the enemy of all that i hold dear in life...from the dissipating vision of joining the other civilized countries in seeing that no one is shut off from health care to being good stewards over our environment

it is the only one we have

is it okay that an entire alaskan tribe has to pull up stakes and leave their ancestral home because of the "myth" of global warming? normally their waters are frozen from around september through late spring, but it's been open through december

it is not okay with me, and i would like to implore you all to look at these serious issues. i only see the flames of hate and condemnation being fanned; not love

you know, i was thinking earlier today how linda was so full of love. i get all light-hearted when i think about her, and i am inclined to think she would agree with me about its absence, not only in rush radio but from those on this site. people have been hurt here, although that was probably not anyone's intention. or was it?

how about we all check our "love level" and see if we come up short?

can we make this commitment as a tribute to linda to redeem global unity?

please remember that we are all in this ship together, and as linda would point out, six will win out over nine, so let's all try a little sixness

posted May 10, 2004 08:04 PM              

and this must have been a gargantuan task, considering the enormity of abuse he has cast at anyone in our society who is either gay, feminist, suffering from drug abuse, poverty or illness (often they go together)or whose status is illegal alien or--the worst appellation that could be hurled...

LIBERAL!

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liberal: "not limited to or by traditional, orthodox, or authoritarian attitudes or dogmas; free from bigotry. favoring proposals for reform, open to new ideas for progress, and tolerant of the ideas and behavior of others; broad-minded...generous in amount; ample. not strict or literal

"synonyms: liberal, bounteous, bountiful, freehanded, generous, handsome, munificent, openhanded. The central meaning shared by these adjectives is 'willing or marked by a willingness to give unstintingly'"

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