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Rush Limbaugh Arrested On Drug Charges

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla., April 28, 2006

Okay, so the headlines were a bit misleading. I must admit that I was all a-twitter at the thought of Rush L. being in the pokey.

But this whole thing is confusing to me. Here it says: Prosecutors’ three-year investigation of Limbaugh began after he publicly acknowledged being addicted to pain medication and entered a rehabilitation program. They accused Limbaugh of “doctor shopping,” or illegally deceiving multiple doctors to receive overlapping prescriptions, after learning that he received about 2,000 painkillers, prescribed by four doctors in six months, at a pharmacy near his Palm Beach mansion.

But then there’s this: Limbaugh, who pleaded not guilty Friday, has steadfastly denied doctor shopping. Black said the charge will be dismissed in 18 months if Limbaugh complies with court guidelines.

So he wasn’t doctor shopping. But he did receive a couple thousand pills from four different docs in half a year. But there’s nothing weird about all those different doctors. Hmm Mmm. Just regular stuff, visiting my four different doctors to get my sick mitts on two thousand pain pills.

Prosecutor: Teen Attack No Hate Crime, White Teens Charged With Beating, Sodomizing Hispanic Teen At Party Near Houston - CBS News

UNBELIEVABLE.

Sometimes I am ashamed to be human. And… how is this not a hate crime?
Briefly:

“Prosecutors will not seek hate-crime charges against two white teens accused of brutally beating and sodomizing a 16-year-old Hispanic boy after he tried to kiss a young girl, officials said.”

And:

“Authorities said the two dragged the boy from a house party Saturday and into the yard, where they sodomized him with a plastic pipe from a patio table umbrella and poured bleach on him. Trent on Friday described the pipe as being sharpened at one end and said Tuck stomped on the boy with steel-toe boots and kicked the pipe into him.

“At one point, the teens tried to carve something on the boy’s chest with a knife, he told CNN Friday.

“I don’t know that the very beginning of the attack was racial,” Trent said, “but there’s no question that they were venting quite a bit of hatred in their hearts.”

“The victim lay behind the house for more than 10 hours before he was found and someone called an ambulance. Trent said there were witnesses to the beating, though no one else had been charged.”