With half his brain tied behind his back [Ann Coulter]

WND.com ^ | Oct 15, 2003 | Ann Coulter

[Cold Heat]

I have a rule about not feeling sorry for people worth $300 million, but I'm feeling sentimental.

I love Ann!

[Phantom Lord]

At a recent speech by Ann that I had the pleasure of attending at UNC Law School, she talked of how the democrats are saying Bush's policy in Iraq is a drift.

"A drift like a drunk driver going off a bridge and killing his female passenger?" --Ann

[mass55th]

"Rush Limbaugh's misfortune..."

A self-inflicted misfortune.

[small_l_libertarian]

She looks so pretty in the bottom photo. (Top one, too, but the bottom one is just lovely.)

[_Jim]

A drift ... going off a bridge and killing his female passenger?

Ouch!

[lepton]

Not to your body or brain there's not. It's all the same.

Well, actually, there is.

It came as a surprise to the medical profession that it requires truly remarkable amounts of pain-killers to OD if one is actually in severe pain. Basically, as long as you don't use other medications, drink, or otherwise activate synergistic effects, and you actually need the pain-killing effect, very large doses are not lethal (balanced to the actual pain level. Conversely, it was implied that if you took X amount for pain, and that a short while later the base level of pain (rapidly)went away, you could OD on the same dose because the pain level dropped. This effect was made more severe because of the body's rapidly growing resistant to such things by cutting back on its own natural supply (Endorphins and enkephalins), which encourages ever-increasing dosages.

As a result of this being discovered, pain management has now become a term that means something to more than a handful of specialists.

[StarfireIV]

Thanks for posting this.

[samantha]

Amen to that. Evan Thomas writes like a jealous girly-man. I cannot wait to enjoy dinner with Ann along with our Florida Federated Women's Republican Club on November 1,2003 in St Pete. She will be VERY warmly received.

[ItisaReligionofPeace]

Smart enough not to consider going to law school? While it is very hip to hate lawyers, very few people would be idiotic enough to say that lawyers are not bright people.

[aruanan]

During his treatment, doctors and councilors will tell Rush that he must fight his addiction without the excuse that he is only addicted to a prescription drug.

When Rush enters group therapy if he states that his addiction is not as bad as a street junkies, the doctor and the other patients will tell him that they are all the same. I used to work in a drug treatment center and all the stories are sad. Some find recovery, some maintain a sobriety and the rest fight the battle for the rest of their lives.

So sad to see someone cede his reason to liberal cant. This philosophy of functional equivalence is behind other claims such as "all sex is sex; so no form of sex is really any different from any other form" or "all killing is murder because those killed are equally as dead no matter what the reason for their deaths" or "all societies have rules and societal expectations, so there's really no society that is better than any other society" or "all religions are basically the same since they serve a similar function amongst many and varied societies" or "human and chimp DNA is almost exactly alike so there's no real difference between the two animals".

Although one's body may not know the difference between a prescription narcotic and some smack from Mexico, the reasons one has done the former versus the latter are extremely important because they go to why someone did what he did to begin with, how he acted while in that state, and whether he is likely to do so again. After all, it's the difference that makes the difference, not the similarities.

[ImpBill]

Good on ya Ann. True friends are are to find and Ms. Coulter is one worth having.

[aruanan]

Thank you for a reasonable response to nonsense. Terminal cancer patients can take amounts of narcotics that would kill a person in normal health and yet be entirely rational and in touch with reality.

[ValerieUSA]

I have been lucky to not have to live with chronic pain, but I've had acute pain (kidney stone disease) that demanded pain killers for me to be in any way functional. I consider it a crime to withhold pain meds and pain management therapy from people who need them, rather than a crime to take them when necessary.

[uncbob]

Many heroin addicts have talked to the ease in quiting heroin compared to cigarettes. Rush will make it and come out stronger than ever.

Never tried heroin
gave upthe weed 33 years ago
It was a bitch for almost 2 weeks
I would look at a sexy woman and want a smoke
Talk about getting your lusts screwed up

[netmilsmom]

Thanks Ann!

[longtermmemmory]

What is amazing is that the leftists in the real world are bassing rush. Had fun with one, she was calling stupid and fat. I advised I listened and enjoyed to his show. She was unable to comprehend how I could still like his radio show even though the "fell" from grace.

After I explained 1. he was unlikely to EVER spend a day in jail due to FL's drug court system. and 2. the message is still valid even if the messenger is wounded in action, she did not want to get beyond fat and stupid.

[Hot Tabasco]

Rush was a 3 pack a day smoker and quit cold turkey. Many heroin addicts have talked to the ease in quiting heroin compared to cigarettes. Rush will make it and come out stronger than ever.

Drugs taken to alter your mental outlook are one thing but an addiction to a substance that was prescribed to alleviate pain is another. Once that pain reliever is taken away, the pain will obviously return. Being a sufferer of chronic low level back and hip pain and occasional excruciating episodes that require Viox, I can't imagine what Rush's alternative to pain relievers is going to be once the prescribed medication is taken away.......

[Hot Tabasco]

I cannot wait to enjoy dinner with Ann

Well, aren't you just special! Ask her why she never returned my calls......

[First Amendment]

Well if a Scuz like Imus can stay clean I would think Rush can

Have you ever heard him tell the story of how he gave up cigarettes? He just stopped smoking, cold. I know he smokes cigars (gackk) but I don't think people inhale them so there's not the nicotine? I guess some must get ingested through the mouth, plus how many cigars can someone smoke in a day?