A brain on drugs

“Throw him in the long boat till he's sober,

Keep him there and make 'im bale 'er.

Pull out the plug and wet him all over,

Take 'im and shake 'im, try an' wake 'im.

Trice him up in a runnin' bowline.

Give 'im a taste of the bosun's rope-end.

Give 'im a dose of salt and water.

Stick on 'is back a mustard plaster.

Shave his belly with a rusty razor.

Send him up the crow's nest till he falls down,

Tie him to the taffrail when she's yardarm under,

Put him in the scuppers with a hose-pipe on him.

Soak 'im in oil till he sprouts flippers.

Put him in the guard room till he's sober.

Put him in bed with the captain's daughter.

Have you ever seen the captain's daughter?

Give the poor bastard to Mother Rackett.

Are ye' daft, you might wake Mother Rackett.

Put him in the bilge and let him drink it.

That's what you do with a drunken sailor.”

“Oh I love that song! They always play it at the local Pub and everyone smashes their glasses on the bar!

ARRRRRRRRRRRR!”

“Avast, ye mateys!
Crack open that treasure chest...
Lime Green Jello?!?! ARRRRR!”

“Make friends with Kool-Aide,
Make Kool-Aide with friends.


A freezing, squeezing, sack of deliciousness, that's what a Cool-Pop is.”

“STONED¹⁰”

“Today, we’ll examine George W. Bush and both his nearly admitted drug use and his plans for everyone who follows in his shallow footsteps.

In so far as Tumbleweed’s purported drug policies in this campaign, there really isn’t much of any substance (surprise, surprise!) Even his own home page offers all of just two sentences on the issue, neither of which add up to much. Consider the following:

Under the bold heading Drug Policy, the site offers these pearls of wisdom; “ Bush believes we have a responsibility to confront the problem of illegal drug abuse because drugs are destroying our neighborhoods and ruining lives. We should confront this scourge with a balanced policy of education, treatment, and law enforcement.”

Whew! I’m just all charged up and a rarin” to go, aren’t you? Let’s all confront this scourge, shall we?

If the President can’t admit to his own past drug and alcohol abuse, what right does he have enforcing any law that punishes others for the same sins he committed and now brushes off as “youthful indiscretions”?

In fact, since the closest that Tumbleweed has got in either affirming his use of cocaine or to deny that he ever used it was to claim, in a very Clinton way, that he would only say that he was drug free since he was 28 years old.

Maybe deep within that chunk of manure that Bush has for a brain, he has the sense to feel some pity for those who have followed in his shallow footprints and used the same drugs that he, himself, has very nearly admitted to have done. Would he possibly support allowing the courts to have the latitude to set a person’s sentence to fit the level of the crime? In other words, does Bush support the elimination of mandatory sentencing? You know, the "Compassionate Conservative" thing? Do bears poop on the moon?



Apparently, now that he is no longer in imminent danger of being busted for his nearly admitted use of cocaine, Tumbleweed now not only wants to put everybody and their brother into prison for the longest possible time, but he wants to make certain that no judge is allowed to use his training and intelligence to determine the severity of each case on its own merits.

In fact, Bush happily sent a 27 year old mother to jail for eight months for the horrendous crime of possessing a pipe that had cocaine “residue”. Was this woman a repeat offender? Nope, this was her very first brush with the law. Was she obviously stoned when she was arrested? No, in fact the arresting officers, after a thorough search of the car in which she was a passenger and which they had approached because it was “illegally parked”, found absolutely no trace of any illegal substances on the mother or the other two women in the car. Did the pipe appear to have ever been used to smoke cocaine? No, again. Even the arresting officers reported that the only reason that she was initially arrested and the pipe impounded was because the pipe was “suspicious” and they had to have a well equipped lab test the pipe to find this “residue”. Finally, did this woman, in any way, appear to be high or hiding anything or even acting suspicious in order that the officers acquired the right to search her purse in the first place? Again, according to the arresting officers, their suspicions were raised when the mother made a “furtive movement”. Was that movement along the lines of trying to hide her purse or remove the pipe or something that might have caused the officers to be in fear for their own safety. Well, according to them they felt in danger because the woman, “touched her nose.”
So, if we were allowed to ask this wee little hypocrite a few questions, what would they be?

Q. If the use of drugs is always the result of a personal failure, what right does he have to hold the nation’s highest office?

Q. If, as he so often states, what he did as a “youth” isn’t anyone’s business but his, shouldn’t he be man enough to extend that same principle to the hundreds of thousands of Americans being help in jails and prisons for the non-violent crime of using the wrong drugs?

Q. If he or his children or grandchildren were arrested and convicted of the crime only of possession of an illegal drug, would he insure that this person be sentenced and punished in the same exact way that he, himself, should have been punished had he been caught during the time that he was experiencing his nearly admitted use of cocaine?

I am not an evildoer.”

“President Bush has been upfront with his alcohol problems. Why do you insist he has a drug problem? What evidence do you have to support such a claim?

You claim President Bush sent a 27 year old mother to prison. The President does not convict people. The Courts do that. The President doesn't create laws. Congress and State legistlatures create law. Who wrote the law that was used to convict this woman? Was it created during the term of President Bush or Bill Clinton?

Your whiney posts are all about partisan opinion and lies.”

“Heck I'd rather have someone who has been there, done that, admitted it and left it behind than someone who has been there, done that, denied it and is still doing it (Gore).”

“And your proof for that is... ?”

“Proof that Bush is on drugs? Have you seen his latest budget figures?”

“Proof that Dubya has a drug problem?

Never revealed his DUI to the voting public. Refuses to acknowledge his cocaine use.

Drug-induced paranoia. The entire world is evil according to Dubya. Even democrats.

Has forgotten how to eat pretzels.

Dubya demands that people obey the rules, but does not himself...e.g. refusing to reveal who Cheney met with for the Energy Task Force. BIG Paranoia... nothing to hide, but won't show it.”

“Everyone with beards should be lined up and shot, LOL!

I was asking what proof Nigal had of Gore's alleged continuing drug use.


Ah, yes, the Bush Budget: more guns, less butter and no money for either. Anyone know that song... "I Want To Grow Up To Be A Politician"? I think it's a Roger McGuinn number... from the "Byrdmaniax" album.”

“What cocaine use?

Where did you come up with the facts on that?”

“"Kenneth Lay? I never met him. But he backed my opponent, Ann Richards, for governor of Texas." - GW BUSH

I ask you... is that the sign of cocaine-induced brain damage, or just pure evil?”

“......besides, the BUSH/REPUBLICAN/ENRON philosophy is to hide everything, and what you can't hide... SHRED! Dubya will hide his drug background until the day he dies. And who's to say he wasn't doing drugs alone in the White House and blacked out and fell. Seems more plausible than a pretzel did it. *wink*”

“PUSH FOR THE BUSH”

“I think it is clear who has the drug problem. You are halucinating again.”

“"I have told the American people all I'm going to say about me and cocaine. Subject closed. Except for this one, last thing. I have stated that I didn't toot the blow for 15 years before Dad became president. That's 25 years that I'm pure as a baby's butt. At this point, I'd like to add that I didn't touch the nose candy for the first 16, hell, probably 17 years of my life! That is all I'm going to say on this issue. Anyone who isn't happy can kiss my hairy Texas [deleted]. Hey, I'm 53. Twenty-five years, plus 17 - the Bolivians haven't gone marching through my head for 42 years of my life! That's all you're going to hear on this from my sweet lips. I will, however, say this: 1964, '65 and, as far as I can recall, all of 1966 - nada! You know I speak Spanish, bucko. Who says Republicans can't be multicultural? That's all you need to know about my personal life. By the way, have I mentioned that I have never cheated on my wife? Everything else of an intimate nature is completely irrelevant and just part of a plot by my opponents to destroy my chances of living in Daddy's house. But I will say this: There was maybe a weekend in '67 for which I can't fully account for my actions. Anyone who holds that against me is a [bleep]ing [bleep]. Of course, 1970 to 1973, who the hell remembers? I've given you the blow-by-blow - I mean the gory details - of every other year of my life. I was young and irresponsible, and had a damn good time. So if anyone wants to judge me based on three, maybe four years of my 53 on God's green earth, that's their problem. If the American people don't like my position, they can go out and find someone else to vote for. That's the great thing about the American system, hombre."

-This is what George W. Bush should have said, according to the New York Post's Andrea Peyser.”

“That's great Violin!”

“LOL”

“Yes, Tarpy, I don't know you, but do you know yourself?”

“I wonder how long before the Patriot Act is applied to supporters of terrorism... oops, I mean drug users?”

“Speaking of surface-to-air missiles... *G*...

We had the Patriot; now we have the Super Patriot. What's next? The Super-Duper Patriot? And when are we going to be able to incorporate DNA fingerprinting in the guidance system?

Imagine putting a sample of Saddam's or Osama's DNA in there with the gyroscopes and whatnot and just turning it lose.

Tangent? What tangent?”

“Very clever illustration Tilt.”

“That "Drugs Supports Terrorism" statement applies to certain hard drugs, like cocaine an opiate derivatives. We're talkin' about herb here, aren't we? Anywho...for our Gov't to make such a claim is a "pot callin' the kettle black" statement, I mean, the hypocracy abounds for them to say that. Like our gov't NEVER supported drug trade activitiies, organizations or leaders of countries that deal in drug trade to the US.”

“I found some info. that is not necessarily politically related to this discussion, but it might clear up any confusion on what marijuana really is and does. Go to www.howstuffworks.com and look-up marijuana. It is a long article, but based on the research I've done on the subject it seems to be pretty straight forward and isn't full of crap supporting keeping it illegal or legalizing. Very balanced article that tells the facts. Anyone who wants to know exactly what happens in our bodies and brains if we use weed should check it out. Very interesting discussion of how THC works from the scientific stand point. Maybe someone can do a link for me.”

“I forgot what I was going to say...

Oh yeah! Just to clarify, the editor of Defense Weekly was on C-SPAN this AM, and the new Patriot isn't the 'Super-Duper' after all. It's been renamed the PAC-3.

And unfortunately, one of the hallmarks of CIA operations in Third World countries is to leave in its wake a thriving drug trade. It's a dependable cash cow whether the folks doing the dealing are 'white hats', 'black hats' or something in-between.”

“Without drugs, the whole Iran-Contra scam wouldn't have worked for Ronnie and the Boys.”

“Iran Contra...

Republicans (Reagan) selling weapons to terrorists (Iran) for the purpose of sending money to support terrorists (freedom fighters?) in Nicaragua.

Now tell me, where do fredom fighters like Osama get their financial ideas from?”

“Don't forget the Evil Mastermind Hassenfuss! Dat po' boy couldn't think his way out of a paper bag.”

“"I helped blow up a nightclub!"
"I'm building a nuclear bomb for Saddam Hussein."
"We're buying weapons that will kill American soldiers, Marines and sailors! Yahoo!"
"I gassed 40,000 Kurds!"
"I helped hijack an airplane!"



In unison: "We did it all by driving to work in our SUVs."


From http://www.salon.com/news/col/huff/2002/10/22/oil/index.html " target="_blank">Arianna Huffington”

“good article! makes more sense than those stoopid drug ads.”

“Excellent point. They are comfortable vehicles to drive in but is it really worth it? I get sick when I see housewives on Long Island driving big SUVs and they're the only ones in the vehicle. Although I love to drive a standard shift car (Civic coupe right now), I'm looking forward to getting one of these hybrids(Prius, Insight, Civic) in a couple of years. Does anybody have one and what do you think of it?”

“"I helped defeat the Soviet Union!"

"I fed the starving people in Somalia."

"We liberated the people of Kuwait."

"We helping hurricane victims in Mexico."

In Unison "We all did it by driving to work in our SUVs in order to make money to pay our taxes!"”

“I think the Bush Administration already knows the hypocracy it perpetuates, hence, why it wants to go and TAKE the oil and offer it at a reduced cost to all the land-yacht drivers.”

“Been there done that I am 3 years clean and very happy!

8)”

“crazy mike, dude, im not sure they're all out of your system yet.”

“LMAO!”

“there not all out yet-i relapsed this afternoon after all these darn trolls messing with me.

TROLLS suck!!!!”

“i drive a honda crv. we love it.”

“They might not be!

8)”

“Matt, get a Subaru Outback! You know that you want one! All wheel drive, able to carry four people AND their backpacks. The back seat lays down flat so you can sleep comfortably at a trailhead if getting in late. Doesn't have a potty though :(”

“I know that I'm late making a comment but I've been busy all week working.

Yes, that would be a great commercial ( SUVs, oil and terrror) but don't use that to try to make yourself feel better. Those commercials about drugs and terror are accurate. Get over it.

Yeah sure .......I believe all that about Bush doing drugs. So what! He's a jerk and he'll be gone eventually. Whining about him getting away with all that doesn't help anything. Please don't use that to justify drug use.

Question ..............What do people out there think about adults getting stoned with their teenage children? Teenage friends of their children?”

“I started taking Lorazepam (Ativan) on Friday. It's in the Valium family but works as an anti-nausea/sleep aid in conjunction with chemo drugs. I took my last one at 11PM yesterday. I still feel like a drooling spud. Might prefer nausea & insomnia to this.

And me git angry good.”

“The fools gave me Lorazepam.... 0.5mg/pill. And prochlorperazine at 10mg. Think I'll try the Lorazepam tonight.”

“sedative/hypnotic, muscle relaxant, anxiolytic, amnesic and anticonvulsant.
Legal drugs are kewl!”

“nah, give me true narcotics anytime, that crap is lightweight. morphine aint bad, it would certainly improve upon this stupid headache right now.”

“Morphine stops me up.”