If this area is any indication of anything, RT, Oxycontin is BOTH a street drug and a prescription drug.
You can get it (often ground-up so its effects come about more quickly) on the street. There’s a reason this is called the Oxycontin capital of the world. fizzy and I were going through one of her yearbooks and she was telling me who was addicted to what various substance(s).
This is precisely why I detest Limbaugh. While I do not agree with the political viewpoint of Limbaugh or Liddy, I’ve always respected Liddy and detested Limbaugh. Liddy is honest, both generally and intellectually. Limbaugh isn’t.
And I’ll say what I said earlier. I intend to follow Rush’s own directives regarding how we should feel toward drug abusers. Currently I’m not exactly sure what he’s said in the past. If Rush has counseled compassion and understanding, why, that’s what I intend to extend to Mr. Limbaugh. If he’s told the dittoheads to think some other way, well, I think we should all follow his advice. After all…
Rush is right.
Odd thing to say about a man convicted of conspiracy, burglary, and illegal wiretapping… 
Ah, but Liddy went to prison, paid his debt, etc., etc. Did he emerge a changed man? I’m seriously asking – I haven’t followed his post-Watergate career.
I couldn’t have said it better myself. Let’s contemplate whether Rush would have told his audience about his drug addiction by himself - I believe not. This news, on top of his fiasco attempting to be a sports announcer without making racist statements, makes me dislike him more than ever. Hell, I’ll listen to Howard Stern before I listen to Rush Limbaugh.
True, he was convicted of each of these crimes. He also readily admits that he committed them and takes full responsibility for them. I think he believes himself justified in committing them, but he doesn’t deny his actions in the slightest and was always prepared to take the consequences (even to the extent that he was willing to be assassinated if necessary).
Please understand that I am diametrically opposed to Liddy politically, and I do not agree with his methods. But Liddy at least has the common decency to apply the same standards to himself that he judges others by.
Also, speaking as a lawyer (another reason I feel an affinity for Liddy, we share a profession) neither conspiracy, burglary or illegal wiretapping involve intentionally telling an untruth to another. Conspiracy = plotting with another to commit a crime; burglary = breaking into premises to commit theft; illegal wiretapping = listening to electronic communications without permission from Congress or a judge. None requires you to tell a lie.
I realize this is a hijack, Frank, but I don’t understand your value system here. Exactly how high up the ladder can one go before it’s as bad as a lie? Criminal conspiracy, illegal wiretapping, burglary, breaking and entering…well, they’re bad, but it’s not like he lied. (For purposes of this discussion, it’s too bad the Brookings firebombing was headed off. :D) At least that’s how I’m reading your words here.
Can you clarify? Because I can’t quite believe that’s what you meant.
I don’t have cites handy, but I remember his very heartless comments on the deaths of Jerry Garcia and River Phoenix (and I believe Kurt Cobain). Deaths, mind you.
As someone said earlier in this thread: rejoicing in a fellow human’s suffering is cruel, and diminishes you.
But I’m having a damn hard time feeling a whole lot of sorrow for Rush.