She looks pretty strung out. Hope she gets help.
Posted on 01/29/2002 7:31:58 AM PST by Buzznutt
Sorry for the confusion that resulted.
To be critical of someone is one thing, but to add invectives like shrub, or spineless, or any of the hundreds of demeaning one liners that pepper this forum is wrong.
What the heck has common courtesy and respect got to do with political correctness. It was not long ago that to put the image of the president on a commercial advertisement was unheard of. To fashion garments from the American flag was considered anti-American. To press a law suit against your parents or a family member was rare and to have a 12 or 13 year old be involved in a debate on whether to try as a adult or child for murdering classmates was absolutely not thought of.
I pose the question..........What is missing from our society to make these things possible?
FAKE PRESCRIPTION CALLED IN
Police said the arrest involved the anti-anxiety drug Xanax, a sedative that can become addictive and is often abused for its heroin-like effect of slowing the brain down.
A Tallahassee Police report released Tuesday said the incident started when a woman claiming to be a doctor called a Tallahassee Walgreens, authorizing a prescription for Noelle Bush.
The pharmacy checked with a colleague of the doctor, Dr. Noel Scidmore, who said he was no longer practicing in Tallahassee and that the phoned-in prescription should be treated as fraudulent.
Pharmacist Carlos Zimmerman said Noelle Bush later called the pharmacy to ask about the prescription and was told it couldn’t be filled because no quantity was given, according to police. Someone claiming to be Scidmore called back and gave a quantity. When Noelle Bush called back she was told the prescription would be ready in about 40 minutes, according to the report.
Police were called when she arrived for the prescription, and she was arrested while waiting in her car in the drive-thru lane early Tuesday morning.
Noelle Bush later admitted to police that the contact number for Scidmore that was left on the pharmacy answering machine was her second home phone line, investigators said.
sigh.... exactly..
Me, too. But based on what the article said, some questions arise for me. She reportedly "tried to fill a false prescription," and yet she was charged with "fraudulently obtaining a controlled substance." To me, this means the pharmacist actually handed her the drug, and that she was in possession of it at the time of her arrest. He would not have done this if he had first called the MD to confirm the legitimacy of the Rx. So how did she get caught? Under these conditions, the only way I can think of is that after she left, the pharmacist had an afterthought, took another look at the Rx, became suspicious, called the MD and confirmed his suspicion. If the Rx had been somebody else's, she would only have gotten caught if the patient's physical description did not fit her and that patient had then been contacted and fingered Noelle. But if the Rx named Noelle as the patient and the MD told the pharmacist he never wrote that Rx for her, that would mean that she either stole part or all of an Rx pad or illegally reproduced same and then forged the order and the MD's signature -- much more serious. I wonder which it is...
So you know what the moral of the story is? WE need to be on the lookout for stuff like this and call the press with legitimately verifiable info. And I mean police reports, etc., not just our word. I think you'll be stunned at the response, because again, there are more people in the business, liberal though they may be, whose No. 1, overriding agenda is selling papers and getting ratings than there are people whose No. 1, overriding agenda is furthering the liberal cause.
I think the problem is we hold ourselves up as above the fray, thinking that we're right on the issues and we're right morally and that we ought to just play it straight and in the end, good will win out. B.S.! That attitude, IMHO, is why Bill Clinton played a GOP Congress like a marionette on strings for six years. We took the high road when we were dealing with a gutter fighter who abided by no rules or bounds. We should've gotten down in the gutter with him and used the Jimmy Malone philosophy from "The Untouchables": "He brings a knife, you bring a gun ... he sends one of yours to the hospital, you send one of his to the morgue."
It's sad that things have gotten like that ... but again, that's the reality of politics 2002 and we either need to get with the program or get run over.
Cant say that I am surprised at all.
No problem. This is so much of a non-issue for GW. Focus on the war and the economy. Those who try to make this issue into a national issue will be ridiculed via public opinion, in my humble opinion.
President Bush hasn't had a drink for how many years? I don't know everything the Bush girls have done, but college kids trying to buy a margarita with dinner at a Mexican restaurant somehow doesn't strike me as "boozed out" (more like stupid), and this ONE daughter of Jeb Bush's may simply be one of many individuals with an out-of-control anxiety problem. I don't see any reason to exaggerate.
Ronald Reagan had a couple of goofball kids, too. How much did it really reflect on him?
Concerned, you may have misdirected this, my #360 was about the young lady being a neice of a president, not a daughter.
She looks pretty strung out. Hope she gets help.
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