Posted on 07/14/2010 4:30:26 PM PDT by Perdogg
She’s a bad girl and needs to be spanked!
Well alrighty now. I would say those that really know, have spoken. And well said. Too bad the courts et al don’t see how it works.
I volunteer, then it's my turn.
Sometimes ya gotta hit bottom in life.
Sadly, it is often incarceration, or the threat of same, that provides the alcoholic/addict the incentive to get serious about getting better. I’ve know alcoholics who could breeze right through most treatment programs because they’ve done so many times before. Getting and staying sober must be the most important thing in a sufferer’s life if he/she is to succeed. In the meantime, society has the right to sanction their behavior, up to and including incarceration for the protection of them and those around them. My name is Joseph and, through the grace of God, I will observe thirty-two years of sobriety this Saturday.
That’s true...unfortunately...which is why she needs jail time. She needs to always remember what’s in store for her if she gets into a car drunk again.
Great home page, /salute
well said. dead on the money OLDSmaj. these damn children do not have a sense of anything do they?
Y’all are talking sense while RATner emotes. Stop that, you will hurt her feelings. No fair using logic!
Thanks.
Virginia Beach?
Dude, who forced you to click on the thread?
/Salute
Never been there but I have seen the dolphins play offshore.
At the age of 58 his doctor told him he had about 6 months to live if he didn't stop drinking. He quit cold turkey that day and never touched a drop again and lived until he was 88.
It was only a matter of incentive, he just didn't want to quit drinking until he figured he would rather be sober than to be dead.
Good for you, man! :)
A "therapist" who uses electronic machines to "help" people fight the "disease" of alcoholism and other problems once told me that when I quit the way I did (i.e., on my own without counseling or supervision of adequately trained specialists), I had done a dangerous thing and could have killed myself! Withdrawals from alcohol addiction, he assured me, could be physically lethal, and that while he was slightly impressed with my story, he would not ever recommend the same approach to anyone.
The circumstances of our conversation prevented me from telling him what I really thought of him and his "work." But it was enlightening and reminded me of how many charlatans there are out there who have convinced themselves that they're saviors.
I thought of my grandmother telling me about my grandfather going through the DTs when he was deprived of alcohol. The DTs didn't kill him. A bad liver did, made bad from drinking too much booze.
God hold him and keep him. My grandfather and God gave me a blessing in my alcoholism; out of it, I grew stronger. I resent any government or do-gooder who would deprive me of solving my own problems and learning from the experience.
Bull!
“Treatment” didn’t work before.
JAIL TIME Is what may work.
We love ya!
Thanks for your honesty.
I wish others could have turned out as fine as you!
Even David Crosby said the same thing, though he's still a loony moonbat.
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