(Sigh) Five Weeks in Rehab..Same old Rush...

[mermaid]

I listened to the last half-hour of Rush today. Call it curiousity. I waited til the last half hour, because I know I can take no more than half an hour of Rush before my head explodes!
And, so what do I hear, about 2 minutes after tuning in??

Rush, having the AUDACITY to laugh at the misfortune of a recent college grad having to live with her parents and waitrss in a steak restaurant, while looking for a job in journalism!

Five weks in rehab, and he has the GALL, on his first day back...to LAUGH at the misfortune of others!!

Same old Rush...

When is the last time that fatassed SOB EVER had to worry about where his next meal (or OxyContin fix) was going to come from? When's the last time that fatass EVER had to worry about being unemployed??

The economy is rotten, and that is why this recent college grad can't find a job...and Rush, viewing the world thru his rose colored glasses...he LAUGHS at this!!

Well, it's REAL EASY to view the world and the economy with rose-colored glasses if ya got millions in the bank and know that YOUR rotten ass will never starve nor want for anything...but what if you're Joe Sixpack or Jane Secretary??


What if you're the recent college grad? what if you're the one living paycheck to paycheck, living basically hand-to-mouth?

Hell, I spent six months of freaking TERROR at the thought of being unemployed in this rotten economy that Bush gave us, when I learned my company had lost the contract on which I worked.

Six months later, the new company that will be taking over the contract as of Jan 1, 2004...hired me and most of my co-workers in, so we, fortunately, will not be out on the streets without a penny! but I know ALL OF US spent six months in absolute stark TERROR at the prospect of being unemployed and penniless! Does Rush even REMEMBER what that was like??

Has he EVER known what that was like??

And this guy, straight out of five weeks of rehab, has the AUDACITY and GALL to laugh at the misfortune of this young female cllege grad?!?!?

Sigh...five weeks in rehab...same old Rush!!

And he wonders why we call him "Pigboy??"

[Randi_Listener]

1. Oh well....

...He's a degenerate motherfucker. What else did you expect?

[madrchsod]

2. he never went to rehab

to rehab-just to clean up for awhile and get the ditto`s to feel sorry for him. remember just because you went to rehab doesn`t mean you did anything to help your addiction.he`s a phony. but take heart his "numbers" are falling.

[Djinn]

4. if he's anything like our homegrown shock jocks

he'll feel completely free to trash a college grad because by dint of having an education they're obviously an "elitist"

in the bizzaro land I live in an minimum wage clerk who supports refugees = an elitist

yet a rich middle aged white man who has enough clout that the state govt actually got his approval of the new NSW Police Minister before he was appointed, who lives in a harbour side mansion and dines with the visiting US president and his lapdog Prime Miniature is "a man of the people"

[Dr Fate]

3. The truth about "hillbilly heroin (links provided)

http://www.oxycontinaddiction.info/

http://www.oxycontinaddiction.info/injecting-oc.htm

The most widely used diversion technique at the street level is doctor shopping. Individuals who may or may not have a legitimate ailment requiring a doctors prescription for OxyContin visit numerous doctors, sometimes in several states, to acquire large amounts of OxyContin which they abuse or sell to others.

Individuals who abuse OxyContin by injecting the crushed tablets quickly become addicted. Injecting OxyContin requires a preparation regimen similar to that of heroin. This allows the abuser to receive the full effect of the pure Oxycodone almost immediately. This creates an effect similar to illicit opioid narcotics, such has heroin. Such a regimen requires the removal of the tablet coating by either sucking on it or scraping it with the teeth or a razor blade, followed by melting the remainder on a spoon, adding water, and then injecting the solution. Dissolving and injecting the contents of OxyContin can slow down or stop breathing and lead to death. Injecting OxyContin can also kill the tissue around the injection site and trigger heart and lung problems.


Signs of OxyContin addiction may include withdrawal symptoms when the OxyContin is discontinued, requests for OxyContin at frequent intervals around the clock, personality changes

Continued increases in the diversion and abuse of OxyContin are likely. Reliable strength, potential prescription cost coverage, and significant profit potential make OxyContin attractive to both illicit distributors and abusers.

OxyContin addiction is serious and is very difficult to overcome through out-patient or home treatment.

[dreissig]

5. Rush Is In Trouble, And He Knows It

Based on the short CNN report about his rehab, Rush's trainers told him he has to stop being a people-pleaser. It the report is true, he's still clueless about his addiction. Cluelessness is the one thing recovering addicts cannot afford. They have to be alert to what's going on, and he doesn't sound like he is.

I don't think of him as a people-pleaser, I think he's too personally nasty for that to fit. Maybe it's the character defect he negotiated with the rehab staff, but if he can't get honest he won't stay clean.

[Dr Fate]

7. Symptoms of Withdrawal include : diarrhea...

http://www.oxycontinaddiction.info/withdrawal.htm

Symptoms of Withdrawal include :

diarrhea

insomnia

cold flashes

muscle pain / bone pain

restlessness

involuntary leg movement

vomiting

nausea

severe stomach cramps


OxyContin withdrawal is similar heroin withdrawal , it is almost impossible to go through alone. Withdrawal symptoms of OxyContin are worse than heroin and last longer. Professional help from a drug rehab center is the best and safest way to do this. Unfortunately, there is no known "painless" method for OxyContin withdrawal.

[The Zanti Regent]

10. He sure has that Diarrhea, all right.

Rush proves that every time he opens his mouth!

[ClintonTyree]

8. Exactly..............

one thing you learn in rehab is humility. You learn that addiction comes from all walks of life and that the rich addict is no better than a poor addict. They're still an addict. That Rush hasn't learned this cold, hard fact tells me that he hasn't really accepted responsibility for his addiction. It's still "all those damn liberals fault".
There is no doubt in my mind that his rehabilitation will not succeed. Until he is able to humble himself before (fill in name of diety here) and his fellow man, he's doomed to fail.
Success for him would mean a totally different outlook on life, and it's painfully obvious that his hasn't changed one iota.
Go straight to hell Rush, when you relapse the next time, I hope you OD.

[xray s]

6. He admitted taking the drugs for recreational purposes

He likes them. He is a drug addled bullying lying creep who revels in the misery of others. He is a pathetic loser.

He is the jerk you remember in sixth grade who had the big mouth in the school playground and taunted anyone who was weaker than him or different than him. And Rush has his little cadre of admirers just like that kid did.

I do not listen to him. And, if indeed he "mighty" audience is the 15,000,000 "weekly" listeners I heard reported today, 272,000,000 other Americans do not give a sh*t about what comes out of his blowhole either.

[tntoak01]

9. Rush in his younger days

At some point, either in the late 70's or early/mid 80's Rush was collecting unemployment and gathering dust on his excessively super-sized rear for no other reason than he didn't want to work at hte time. I have read this in several books, including his first book "The Way Things Ought To Be." It's amazing how this maniac can insult people who are trying to find a job in this "economy-lite" that his buddy Shrub created, when he was in the same situation and doing nothing.

And is it just me, or could the whole rehab thing be a ploy to regain some of the "respect" Rush lost over the McNabb remarks? Let's face it, if the NFL and the media wanted to prop up a quarterback because of his race, there were others who could have fit the bill: Michael Vick, Quincy Carter, Shaun King, even Doug Williams (who actually won a Super Bowl with the Redskins). Of course the difference between McNabb and the others (excluding Williams) is that McNabb made it to two consecutive NFC Title games.

[Cat Atomic]

11. He'll be back on the "horse" soon enough. Ha ha.

Ha ha ha. I made a funny.

[supernova]

12. It'll take him years, not 5 weeks

to overcome his addiction. It's something most addicts have to work at everyday, not just a short vacation at a fancy rehab center.

Sounds like he hasn't found that out yet.

[tom_paine]

13. You might as well have expected Josef Goebbels to "reform"

Actually, Rush is much more the equivalent of Julius Streicher.

A person like Rush, without conscience or ethics, a piad propagandist of the most loathsome magnitude, is incapable of feeling pity or remorse.

Plus, the fact that he as an integral Imperial Family ally means that he doesn't have to worry about a trial because the Empire would never allow it to happen one of it's most useful monsters.

So, he never had to worry about the consequences, either, he just had to go his Hippie Rehab and lie for 5 weeks.

But that would be no problem...he's used to lying.

And Emperor-in-Waiting Jeb has probably already set Rush up with HIS connection for Prescription Drugs...when the heat's off, Rush will get back on the drugs.

Since the dealer connection will be the Imperial Drug Connection, who undoubtedly knows well what the punishment for betrayal is, Rush will be popping Oxy in no time...

[mermaid]

14. He Already Admitted Being On

a substitute drug for Oxy. A caller, in the last few minutes, kinda gave a really loaded question about it. The new drug starts with a "V" and it is not Vicodin. I disremember the name of it, but he says he discovered this drug while in rehab.
Supposedly to control his back pain that doesn't seem to affect his golf swing. He asserts the back only hurts when he is sitting. That he has two herniated discs in his back.

So maybe he won't go back on Oxy...maybe he'll just start to OD on this new drug. One way or another, I bet Rush is already...or soon will be...abusing Oxy or this new drug. I say this because from what I listened to of Rush, he obviously hasn't learned to humble himself, and has no idea what humility is.

And without that, he will eventually fail at rehab. I know, I had a drinking problem myself for a long time. I was drowning my problems and my pain, in alcohol. I was so busy denying a painful truth about myself, drowning it in alcohol, that I nearly became an alcoholic.

A therapist I was working with at the time recognized the underlying problem, and encouraged me to deal with it...and put me on a 90-day sobriety check. I followed through. I've no doubt that, had I failed that, I'd be an alcoholic today.

As it is now, I am able to drink socially, put it down when I've had enough....I can go a month or more with no alcohol and it doesn't bother me....been YEARS since I got anything more than a mild buzz, which nowadays takes only about 2 beers.

I can buy a 12-pack of beer, and it'll sit in my fridge for over a month, usually, before I have drunk it all.

I suspect Rush has some OTHER problem, somewhere else in his life, and is using Oxy...or was using Oxy...the same way I used alcohol. And, by his words yesterday, I'd gather he has yet to face up to whatever internal monster he has that turned him to Oxy.

In my case, my internal monster was transgenderism. But I couldn't at the time, face up to what I knew. I couldn't face the potential loss of friends, family, job, career, etc...that would come along with a gender transition. I needed a support network. My therapist saw to it that I got one. I was then able, eventually, to face that inner monster, and do what I needed to do...and the support network helped.

I'm kinda also wondering if Rush has any sort of support network, post-rehab. My own guess is no...he seems the type that would eschew any such support network, choosing instead to view rehab as a "punishment," not as a potentially life-changing experience. And if that is the way your mind works, you are doomed to addiction, in one form or another.

Maybe he won't get back on Oxy. But I bet if he doesn't, he finds something else to get himself addicted to. Even food has the ability to become addictive to some people.

Anyway, this is longer than I meant for it to be already. But, it appears that we have the same old Rush back. He's not in the least sorry, repentant, or humbled. In fact, he probably is pissed at his former maid for opening her mouth about it.

After all...one thing I have learned in talking to, and observing conservatives....it's okay if you sin...so long as no one else SEES the sin. this, I think, is a main reason conservatives hate homosexuals and transgender people like me. They can SEE our "sin."

[kentuck]

15. We'll know when Rush is back on the heavy "downers"....

There will be these long pauses between thoughts. Neither he nor his listeners are aware of this effect. But, sometimes if you're looking for Rush on the radio, there is so much dead space that you simply pass him up on his station...