Originally Posted By jasmine7 <<Apparently the medication he was getting from his doctor(s) was not working so he tried to find other sources. Is that illegal? I don't know, maybe. << If your medication isn't working, you go to your doctor and tell them that & ask them to give you something else. You don't pop 30 oxycontin a day! My mother has been struggling with severe back pain for over a decade, stemming from a car wreck in the 80s & subsequent injuries, and she's never been put on oxycontin. She does admit that she is addicted to her pain medicine at this point, but she does not abuse it. Is her case & Rush's the same? No, not in all likelihood, but there are other ways to manage your pain than by breaking the law repeatedly.
Originally Posted By Beaumandy <<LOL! I am looking at my bookshelf right now. A great book that compiles all of the Federalist Papers is there -- still going strong 200 years after those liberal radicals drafted our Constitution!>> The founders who drafted our constitution would HATE todays liberal and would call them traitors at best. I'm talking about a political book written by a liberal today. Will it be accurate 10 years down the raod like Rush's books have been? Doubt it very much. Can someone anser my earlier question.. Tell me a place that has used liberalism as their social system that has fared better than America, a country founded on religious conservative values?
Originally Posted By RoadTrip That's easy. Sweden. They are ahead of the U.S. by almost any economic or quality of live measure you could come up with. They are also by far the most liberal of any of the European/Scandinavian States. Checkmate.
Originally Posted By RoadTrip I was so danged excited about winning I didn't check for typos... It should be: That's easy. Sweden. They are ahead of the U.S. by almost any economic or quality of life measure you could come up with. They are also by far the most liberal of any of the European/Scandinavian countries.
Originally Posted By Beaumandy <<The adjectives I would use are stubborn, pig-headed, mean-spirited and annoying.>> To a liberal who gets called on the carpet, anyone who doesn't go along with their nonsense is " mean spirited " or " full of hate ". Fact is, Rush would have imploded years ago if his ideas were not accurate and true. He is the most positive person on the radio today by far. For example. This week we were all talking about the high oil prices. What was Air America saying to their 5's of people listeneing? Well, I heard it. They were saying the oil companies were greedy, price gouging was going on, Bush's oil buddies were screwing everyone!! Their " ideas " were to tax the oil companies with " windfall profits " taxes. Well, this kind of talk is simply not productive and not based in reality. The people who listen to this stuff are going to be mislead and ignorant to why the prices are high.. not ot mention everyone is going to feel like world calls victims of the oil companies. Rush on the other hand discussed supply and demand and had guests on his show that were at the hiighest levels of government so them could explain the world oil markets. Then Rush went on to explain that the high prices would actually lead to GOOD things because the high prices were going to promote smart, ambitious Americaicans to invent new products and energy sources now that people were feeling the pain of high prices. He gave examples of how people in this country, using capitalism and the free market system always used their inovation to come up with ideas and inventions when the country faced challenges... like the current oil prices. Did Air America have ONE positive thing to say about anything? Uh.... no. Liberals are always negative and then wonder why they are so depressed and broke all the time. So Rush, tells his listeners the positive news from the situation, gets experts on to explain why the prices are what they are, then has a show based on American excellence. The libs... they only know how to whine and play the victim and hat Bush. It's why they lose.
Originally Posted By mrichmondj So, Rush Limbaugh = Pollyanna? Let's play the glad game! I'm so glad gasoline is $3 a barrel, and I'm so glad we're spending 100s of billions of dollars in Iraq, and I'm sooo glad we're running up massive deficits that will force future generations into poverty! Isn't this a wonderful game??!!
Originally Posted By Beaumandy <<That's easy. Sweden. They are ahead of the U.S. by almost any economic or quality of live measure you could come up with. They are also by far the most liberal of any of the European/Scandinavian States. Checkmate.>> Dude... Sweden?? Better than America?? Checkmate?? LOL Besides having a world class bikini team, this socialist nation is not even close to America economically or socially. It's a welfare state like all socialist nations have become. From a Euro writer... "Higher GDP per capita allows the average American to spend about $9,700 more on consumption every year than the average European. So Yanks have by far more cars, TVs, computers and other modern goods. "Most Americans have a standard of living which the majority of Europeans will never come anywhere near," the Swedish study says." "But what about equality? Well, the percentage of Americans living below the poverty line has dropped to 12% from 22% since 1959. In 1999, 25% of American households were considered "low income," meaning they had an annual income of less than $25,000. If Sweden--the very model of a modern welfare state--were judged by the same standard, about 40% of its households would be considered low-income." --- <a href="http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110005242" target="_blank">http://www.opinionjournal.com/ editorial/feature.html?id=110005242</a> Socially, Sweden with their liberal policies including gay marriage is a disaster. 54% of all children are born out of wedlock in Sweden thanks to liberal attitudes toward the traditional man-woman family unit that they laugh at. The kids suffer when liberal policies are put into place, but kids are the furthest things on the mind of selfish people who are willing to destroy traditional marriage so they can feel good. Throw in Swedens Muslim problem and you have a country that is the minor leagues and a liberal cluster.
Originally Posted By Beaumandy <<So, Rush Limbaugh = Pollyanna? Let's play the glad game!>> Again, Rush backs his opinions with historic reference, facts, and rock solid logic. You can call it polyanna, but the people on the left who think the oil prices are the result of big oil companies doing price gouging, will continue to be as ignorant as always. You can't tell me that these high gas prices are not speeding up a new invention or fuel source that somebody is now working on. If gas was .99 a gallon, there would not be the push to invent something different. That was Rush's point and he is right. Of course he threw in some examples of this happening in the past to make his point. What do we get again from the libs during these times regarding oil again? Nothing but whining and misdirected anger that have zero chance of helping the situation. In other words... they suck.
Originally Posted By mrichmondj Rush Limbaugh playing the glad game about $3 gasoline isn't going to help incumbent politicians in the November elections. People feel their pocket book being squeezed, and they will vote their pocket book.
Originally Posted By Beaumandy Rush was pointing out what is going to happen because of the high prices.. and that is new inventions or new sources of fuel will be invented by free, capitalists who can take this situation and make the world a better place. In our nations history, when things seemed bad, or we had challenges, people developed solutions that helped the nation and also made that person rich. He never said paying $3 or $4 a gallon made people happy. Well, he did say he liked to pay as much as possible because he could.
Originally Posted By Jim in Merced CA With Bush and high gas prices and looking for alternative fuel sources -- where was he on this 5 years ago?? I was listening to President Bush talk about corn as an alternative fuel, and thought I was hearing things... What are all his oil buddies going to do when America starts filling it's tanks with vegetable oil. Convert? I'll give Bush credit for one thing when it comes to the oil situation -- he sure is reactionary.
Originally Posted By Jim in Merced CA Also, I am so excited to be paying $3.50 per gallon at the pumps. That way, someone will create an alternative fuel source and he/she will get rich. And when they get rich, I don't. I'm so excited!!
Originally Posted By Beaumandy <<With Bush and high gas prices and looking for alternative fuel sources -- where was he on this 5 years ago??>> Hate to do this... but what did Clinton do in 8 years besides VETO ANWAR drilling in Alaska which would have given us oil today as we speak.
Originally Posted By vbdad55 <Then there's the works of Dickens, Capote, Miller, Bradbury, Frost, and a host of other great writers who put into words the issues of the day that still ring strong decades later. < learn something every day in WE -- I wrote my senior thesis on Charles Dicken's - and never knew he was a liberal....geesh !
Originally Posted By vbdad55 <So, two wrongs make a right, eh? < No but one cannot be excused because it was Bill, and the other held as the reason for the issue....cannot give a free pass to ones own side to make a point-- although that seems to be popular
Originally Posted By cape cod joe The bottom line for Rush, like all of us, is to be more humble as we all have issues. He just shouldn't be so black and white, my way or the highway and maybe this will teach him a valuable lesson that he can pass on to his many followers. Lemon into lemonade!
Originally Posted By Beaumandy The left don't like Rush because he matters. What he says matters and he has done more to influence politics and culture than all his critics combined. A guy addicted to painkillers in not the same as a loser doing crack. Rush has never made excuses, he has also never been charged with a crime. As far as him being so black and white Joe, his popularity comes from him being strong and sure about his convivictions. Who wants to listen to some guy who is wishy washy or unsure about his views? That describes liberals who like to live in a grey world. It also describes moderates who can't figure out what they think in many cases. The special thing about Rush is that his black and white world ends up being what he says it is. Rush is usually right. ( 98.3% of the time accoring to the McCarthy institute )
Originally Posted By mrichmondj Rush Limbaugh is an entertainer and performer. He plays a right-wing nut-job on the radio. People enjoy the drama he puts into his character. The sad thing is that a large part of the Rush Limbaugh audience doesn't recognize that his whole spiel is a performance designed to make him a lot of money, and not a socially responsible commentary that deals in facts, logic, or sensible debate.
Originally Posted By cape cod joe Beau and Mrich -----You are BOTH 100% correct. I know Beau that if he "appeared" more sensitive i.e. more caring for the down and trodden than Mrich's point about his schtick wouldn't be so entertaining hence so popular but he should be a LITTLE bit more humble as even I try to be)))
