As long as you offered your opinion.......

RUSH = FINGERNAILS ON CHALKBOARD!

It is hard these days to find someone who isn't a hypocrit. Unfortunately, so many people are on auto-pilot and don't even realize that something they say and do one minute is the opposite of their actions 5 minutes later.

Much of society is unaware, or blinded, or has a jaded, misconstrued perception of reality that they can hardly differentiate the sun from the moon! (In Rush's case he couldn't "read the directions" on the bottle that said, "One dose (1 pill) every3-4 hours; not to exceed8 pills a day." Looks pretty straight forward to me!

Of course I'm not perfect. I speed often enough, but that is why we have Jesus! So we can strive to be better, like Him! (No, not speed better, but be better at following rules!) So, I don't expect Rush to be perfect, but he sure as heck better be trying more than anyone else if he expects to remain in the spotlight.

Who is next? G. Gordon? [8D]

lol... I love that excuse...

so this explains his buying them illegally? from his cleaning lady? she moonlighting as a pharamacy tech?

Though I eagerly agree with you on the hypocrit thing - but when you're a talkshow pundit, a ultra conservative evangalist or rightwing nutjob politico - practice what you preach or at least if you feel tapping boots with homosexuals in men's restrooms - don't go voting against gay marriage (that's just one of waaaaaaaay too many examples).

Rush Limbaugh is a loud-mouthed idiot with a soapbox. One of these days, he's going to have a massiveheart attack.

Anyone who listens to Rush Limbaugh and generally agrees with him should be slapped upside the head.

I'm not trying to excuse anyone's responsibility to themselves, loved ones, or, in Mr. Limbaugh's case, his following, but rather turn these weaknesses into personal strengths. This is what molds our character as we grow and progress into adults and eventually into old senile fogies.

For example, contrary to my past, I do not drink or smoke.With that, I don't run around like a bible-thumping crazed manscreaming atpeople, "DON'TCONSUME ALCOHOLAND DON'TSMOKE!!!" but I do my best to show my friends that by leading a healthy lifestyle they can improve their energy levels, productivity, and personal and professionalrelationships (just to name a few).

Now, if I owned a broadcasting studio and ran my mouth about not smoking or drinking and after work I bumped into some of my supporters at the local pub while I was sippin' on bourbon and tokin' a cuban, what would they think of me then?I agree with you there is no excuse for this.

Taking that into account, we all make mistakes. We(Mr. Limbaugh in this case) must take responsibility for our (his) actions. Sure, this leaves a bitter taste in our mouths and we should feel remorse for our actions. This is part of the learning process. Some call this, "getting older" or "maturing," but I like to call it progression.

Using age as a measure of ones knowledge or experiences or "progression" can often be mis-judged. I've met some extremely brightteenagers that are waves ahead of their preceding generations, butalso some amazingly hard-headedold geezers carrying shotguns (don't ask, please!).

Without turning this into a term paper, I'll use 3 statistics, or traits, to identify 3 pseudo-individuals and their progression in life.

Cylinders Doors Mufflers Total
Palindari 4 2 1 7 (Fail)
i3uddha64 111 (Pass)
railrunner84 2 14 (Superb!)


So, based on our calculations railrunner is far more advanced in life than either Palindari or i3uddha, even though he is only 12 and wears girls underwear on his head. [sm=yeahsmile.gif]

I hope this makes sense;it wasn't proof-read bymy editor! [8D]

^ ah ya lost me on the progression thing...

with ya on taking responsibility of one's actions though. But it's like the pot calling the kettle black - don't know if you're old enough but Rush started off as the voice for the KC Royals baseball. Then went on to talk radio. So when Darryl Strawberry fell from grace with his drug addictions he took it personal (being a baseball guy) and ragged on as how could he (Strawberry) throw away such a career - when he (Limbaugh)was developing one of his own.

To me accountability is this - if you're buying your illegal perscription drugs from your cleaning lady you're sauce is weak. He was scared that now he had an addiction (regardless how he developed it) he should have sought help first - that's being responsible - not get outed by his supplier.

so according to your "progression" chart - if I do buy an R8 I'd still be a failure - or with 8 cylinders that would give me just a passing grade??

Oh, R8 scores? For the R8 you just gotta torque the + an eighth turn and then calculate, thus giving a score of 32!!! [sm=gears.gif]

Back to Rush. He was probably upset with Strawberry about getting caught. I bet Rush thought, "Strawberry got caught? What an idiot! He should have been more careful. How do you get caught!? Absurd! They won't catch me. I'll just take those pills and go invisible again!" I don't know what I'm talking about. Maybe I had too many pills! [sm=lol.gif]

I don't know a lot about Rush other than the basics. Unfortunately, it sounds like he has a few personality disorders along with a "slight" addiction in which he could benefit from counseling of some sort.

In the end, there will always be a pot calling the kettle black because we've all made our mistakes. Eventually we learn from them and, to help us reinforce ourselves that we're doing the right thing, wefeel obligatedto help others that we see making the same mistakes. Human nature (or fatherhood for some of us). [8D]


I'm spent; long day. Hopefully I was coherent enough to be understood!

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