That's setting the amusement bar terribly high for only the second post of the thread...
Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.
Posted on 01/14/2011 12:38:49 PM PST by oneprolifewoman
Jim-Bob's Terrible Confession
Edwin Leap MD
Cast: Mama, 40; Daddy, 42, Chastity, 19; Jim Bob, 17.
Setting: The family is sitting around the table in their subsidized housing discussing the future. Mama is microwaving dinner, as Daddy pops an Oxycontin, which Chastity eyes with interest. Her back has been hurting, too.
Background: Jim Bob, ever the black sheep of the family, is on edge. He has news to tell the family, but he knows it won't go well. Chastity knows about it, and is being a typical big sister. A typical big sister, that is, who refuses to work, loves to party, and has seriously considered a career in government-sponsored childbirth.
Mama: How's your back pain, honey? Any better?
Daddy: Naw, I think them Oxycontin aren't gonna help anymore. I need something a little stronger. That lousy ER doctor offered me Lortab. Can you imagine? Might as well give me Pez!(Laughter from all.)
Mama: He tried that on me, and I called the patient advocate. I got him in all kinds of trouble! By the way, your Aunt Treena's birthday is coming up. Next time someone offers you Lortab, think about the family before you storm off, OK?
Daddy: As always, honey, you're right. (Turns and smacks her on the backside, winces in pain from the effort).
Chastity: My boyfriend has methadone. You want me to ask him if you can try it?
Daddy: Sure, sugar. There's a nice girl! See if you can borrow a couple for your old man. What's Ricky take them for?
Chastity: He fell out of that tree stand a few years ago. Ever since then, he has headaches. And pretty bad....
All: BACK PAIN! (Laughter, but nervously from Jim Bob.)
(Excerpt) Read more at journals.lww.com ...
Putting it in script form was weird... I was thinking Chastity’s back wouldn’t be hurting if she would stay off it.
*shrug*
I’m in a weird mood.
“I was thinking Chastity’s back wouldn’t be hurting if she would stay off it.”
LOL—’beat me to it!
ER doctors have been passing out Vicodin and Percoset like small packs of M&M’s for YEARS. That has to stop. and I think it finally is slowing down.
Its not an inaccurate article but its not very subtle either.
Wrecked him? Darned near killed him!
“....Is this only in Appalachia? Hardly. The inner cities experience similar problems.
But the greater problem, and perhaps the greater tragedy, is that many of those in positions of influence — in medicine, politics, education — know it. But they’re afraid to point it out for fear of being branded judgmental or unkind. I think not telling the truth is the unkindest cut of all....”
Anyone who has worked in an ER has seen this play out time and time again. His closing statement is dead on. This scenario is not limited to any region nor it is limited to any economic level. The well heeled are just as likely be drug seekers as the flat broke.
This story is more true than fantasy, and in a way I don’t blame the people, human nature being what it is. This all goes back to the Great Society and the generational impact of government providing a so called “safety net” for the poorer souls out there. If you provide a freebie out there, people will find a way to exploit it.
There is a complete network these people have created, and they are as sharp as lawyers in understanding and taking advantage of every government program out there.
That's setting the amusement bar terribly high for only the second post of the thread...
I’m usually really late to the party, I got in that one fast though.
Nah, in the inner city there ain’t no father around the house. He is either unknown, in prison or on the Maury Povich show.
That is incredibly condescending and insulting......................
Consequence of licensing and fees for everything. People who once worked, and worked hard develope an instant sense of entitlement when a society legislates their jobs away. It does not take being born into it, as the leftists understood well when they planned this.
Consequence of licensing and fees for everything. People who once worked, and worked hard develope an instant sense of entitlement when a society legislates their jobs away. It does not take being born into it, as the leftists understood well when they planned this.
Damn. He beat me to it.
I've never seen it put this way, but this is as accurate a description as you could get.
This woman was shriekingly liberal 3 years ago. Now, not so much. She says things that would make me blush, if I could blush that is.
lol. That is a very accurate term.
> Consequence of licensing and fees for everything.
You’re not kidding.
Choose a business type and see what forms, permits and other Requirements for opening a new business in California.
http://www.calgold.ca.gov/Default.asp?VW=OUT&TOP=N&KYWD=
Not just one or two, 15 or twenty.
“..people will find a way to exploit it.”
And the most vicious exploitation is that of the bureaucrats, who have figured out their road to promotion is through the miseries of these people via our wallets.
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