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Jara sang Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-04-06 04:05 PM
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'News of the weird' Injustice in Florida
I know that 'Injustice in Florida' is a redundant statement. Hell, the two words are interchangeable. But this is just sickening.

http://www.newsoftheweird.com/archive/index.html

Wheelchair-confined Richard Paey committed almost exactly the same violations of Florida prescription drug laws that radio personality Rush Limbaugh did, with a different result: Limbaugh's sentence, in May, was addiction treatment, and Paey's, in 2004, was 25 years in prison. Both illegally possessed large quantities of painkillers for personal use, which Paey defiantly argued was (and will be) necessary to relieve nearly constant pain from unsuccessful spinal surgeries after an auto accident, but which Limbaugh admitted was simply the result of addiction. (In fact, if Limbaugh complies with his plea bargain, his conviction will be erased.) Paey's sentence now rests with a state Court of Appeal.
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Minnesota_Lib Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-04-06 04:08 PM
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1. MR . Paey obviously didn't contribute enough cash to the local Repugs
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Dr.Phool Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-04-06 04:36 PM
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7. I want some of what Pickles is on in that photo.
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druidity33 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-04-06 05:28 PM
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12. speculation...
was that at the time that Putin(?) was goosing her... rascal that he is. Either way, it's a classic.

Do you really want some Putin pinching?
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MissWaverly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-04-06 05:41 PM
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13. actually I think it was from Prince Charles visit
and I think it's from Botox injections, which makes her look like the Queen of the Zombies
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Tom Yossarian Joad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-04-06 06:56 PM
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18. here's the whole pic.
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liberalhistorian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-04-06 10:05 PM
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20. Good Lord, Charles looks more and more
like the dull, boring mediocrity he is with every pic now.
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LuckyLib Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-05-06 04:21 PM
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37. He and chimpy have to be from the same gene pool. It's the eyes.
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louis-t Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-05-06 11:03 AM
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25. I pinch.
I want to pinch.......I pinch.
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MiniMandaRuth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-04-06 04:14 PM
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2. k and r
hey everyone, lets get this on the greatest page.
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BrklynLiberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-04-06 04:19 PM
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3. 5th Rec. Off the greatest page with you!!!
Edited on Sun Jun-04-06 04:20 PM by BrklynLiberal
How disgusting is the "JUSTICE" in Florida!???
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tblue37 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-04-06 04:23 PM
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4. Send it to Keith Olbermann and John Stewart.
Send it to John Conyers, Cynthia McKinney, and Brbara Boxer. Send it to anyone who might be able to get publicity for it.
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movonne Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-04-06 04:30 PM
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5. It would be good for Jon Stewart.....
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undergroundpanther Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-04-06 04:36 PM
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6. Damn..
Paety wasen't in the thug club.. so he gets jail. He didn't grease rich boys palms enough and he isn't a tool for thugs to exploit,so he is in the 'useless eater' category.



Fuck these rich thugs fuck them all and thier little billionares clubs.May they be destroyed and thier idealogy of "divine order" where the rich are alays the top and the poor or sdiabled are always the bottom it;'s no accident it's not the fault of those on the lower rungs..the rich and elitist thugs and thier idealogy justification lies are what keep things this way,make no mistake..
Conservatibves WANT things this way because equality under the law scares the shit out of these insulated wealthy,deluded decadent thieves and bullies.


______________________________________________________________
From What do conservatives conserve anyway?


The central idea of The Conservative Mind, upon which American conservatism is essentially based, is this idea called "ordered liberty."
But when I hear some snotty elitist speak of "ordered liberty," I can't help but ask, Liberties come in which order? And whose liberty is the most important and first here? And order implies a hierarchy -- where you are located at on said hierarchy is very relevant to how "free" you are in this "order of liberties."

Read more..
http://www.unknownnews.org/060502a-Panther.html

In the article I wrote on Unknown news.. I link to more writings by Gray Brechin who wrote the Great endarkenment on the greatest page today..And some other deep thinker-writers...This time Brechin he looks at conservatives and he was very inspirational for what I wrote on Unknown..check it out.. http://www.graybrechin.com/GBrechinArticle2.html

Back to Paey's situation,in the news you can see how this "divine order"works in action in so many ways..It works like Anal cyst Limbaughs 3 days in rehab "sentance" for the crime of posession of too many oxy contin pills and Paeys harsh 25 year jail sentance for posession of too much oxycontin. Double standards one for the upper rungs and another for those "other people"...
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Rex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-04-06 04:42 PM
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8. Rich bloated RW blowhole - treatment.
Poor soul with constant backpain - 25 years.

If that ain't class warfare, I don't know what is.

Current score:

Bourgeoisie - like 6 gillion and skyrocketing.
Proletariat - still trying to score in the positive.
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lpbk2713 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-04-06 04:47 PM
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9. Two significant differences between Paey and Pimple-Butt.



1) Their bank accounts. Paey obviously couldn't afford the best justice money could buy.


2) Paey didn't have the guvna on his speed call list.


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Jara sang Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-04-06 05:03 PM
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10. Prisoner Of Pain
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/01/25/60minutes/main1238202.shtml

At the Tomoka Hills maximum security prison just outside of Daytona Beach, Fla., barbed wire and constant surveillance are meant to keep its hard cases from escaping. But there’s at least one inmate who poses no such threat.

Richard Paey is in a wheelchair because of a severe spinal injury. Without constant medication he is in excruciating pain. It was pain that put him on the path to prison.

"I felt like my legs were being dipped into a furnace," says Paey. "They were burning, and I couldn't move them. It's an intense pain that, over time, will literally drive you to suicide."

Paey says he tried to kill himself twice. "And for me, death would have been a form of relief."

Pain-killing drugs were his salvation but pain-killing drugs put him behind bars for drug trafficking.

How did this Ivy League-educated lawyer and 47-year-old father of three end up as a convicted drug trafficker?
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lpbk2713 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-04-06 05:08 PM
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11. He's suffering several times over.



Not only is he imprisoned but he is probably not getting the dosage of medication he really needs. And you can rule out any neurological surgery that would lessen the pain.


I wonder. If he had a decent lawyer, could he argue cruel and unusual punishment?



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MindPilot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-04-06 06:13 PM
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15. If he had a decent lawyer? He is a lawyer.

I'll bet the jury was an "interesting" bunch.
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High Plains Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-05-06 12:21 PM
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28. Ironically, he is getting very good pain medication in prison.
He has a morphine pump.

This is a guy prosecutors said couldn't possibly be using all those pain pills for himself and had to be a drug dealer. They followed him around as he went in his wheelchair from pharmacy to pharmacy filling 'scrips.
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pooja Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-05-06 01:37 PM
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33. They did a feature on this man I think on 60 minutes.
And yes... now that he's in jail, he's getting a higher dose of pain med than the pills gave him and it is being provided to him by the same state that convicted him. The morphine gets pumped directly in to his body. Before moving to Florida he lived in New Jeresey. There he had no problems getting the pain medicine that he needed.
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Tab Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-04-06 06:12 PM
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14. Rush was doctor-shopping
Lord knows I'm neither fan nor defender of Rush, and he did deserve much more than he did. Paey was forging prescriptions, even if it was just for himself...


"In Richard Paey's room, all over his room, there were the raw materials to make prescriptions," says Andringa. "They found a lot of documents that suggested forging prescriptions, copying prescriptions, in order to create new blank prescriptions."

In addition to the blank prescriptions, Andringa says police also found a copy machine, a doctor’s stamp and Nurkiewicz’s DEA number written in Paey’s address book.

"It's a crime to forge prescriptions, which is what he did, and it's a crime to use a forged prescription that you stole in order to get drugs from a pharmacy, which is what he did," Andringa says.


They offered him a plea deal with no jail time, but he rejected it, because he thought the convictions would make it hard to get drugs in the future. Because of the forgery stuff above, he did get convicted on the original charges and under Florida law had to get 25 years. Unfortunately the judge wasn't allowed any discretion in sentencing (which I would argue he should have, but that was a result of everyone's "get tough on drugs" movement).

I don't know if a conviction would or would not make it harder for him to get prescriptions, but he was offered a deal no jail time and the guy is a lawyer himself but he decided to roll the dice and go for it anyway.

The big question is, how do you treat patients in heavy chronic pain that do need unusual amounts of medications?

But because of the forgery, I would argue that this is a different case than Rush's. Not that he should be in jail for 25 years, but he did forge and then reject a jail-free plea bargain.

Somewhat complicated.
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1monster Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-04-06 10:03 PM
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19. Wasn't that what Noelle Bush (Jebby's daughter) got arrested for?
Forging a Xanax Rx?
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soup Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-05-06 07:03 AM
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24. Yep, sure was.
MARK POTTER, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Good morning, Daryn.

Orlando police were called to a drug treatment facility last night about 8:30, because of a problem with a residence there, Noelle Bush. She had been found according to police, in possession of a small white rock about two grams in size, and officers field tested it and found it tested positive for cocaine. The young woman is not yet in police custody. We are told this case is still under investigation. The judge that oversees her involvement in the drug treatment program has also not yet been notified. This is clearly a work in progress. We are told within a half hour or so, we may be getting more information from the Orlando police department.

>snip<
You may recall that Noelle Bush has been this trouble for some time. In January, she was arrested in Tallahassee for trying to use a false prescription to obtain the drug Xanax, used as an anti- depressant or to fight anxiety. She was placed into a drug treatment program in July. She was hit with a charge of contempt of court for allegedly taking some prescription drugs. She was found in possession of these drugs. They had been taken from a medicine cabinet. She was put in jail for three days.

When she was released, the judge said that he hoped that she had learned her lesson. He offered support. She is back in the treatment facility, and now there is this problem. And we're not certain where this is going to lead, but she definitely appears to have a problem. Police are still working on it. When we get more, and we expect to have it shortly, Mark, we will bring it to you.<
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0209/10/lt.01.html
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jasop Donating Member (172 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-05-06 01:23 PM
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30. PUH - F*CKING - LEASE!!!
You gotta be kidding me. just do a few searches on politically connected celebs especially on the conservative side and you will find an endless list of crap just like crackhead Noelle Bush FORGING prescriptions for PLEASURE not PAIN. I get so sick and tired of have to be part of the liberal side which is filled with non-stop apologists. That is the biggest problem next to the lack of balls.
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Coexist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-05-06 02:18 PM
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34. Did someone say "Noelle"?
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lpbk2713 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-05-06 04:48 PM
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38. He may have been a lawyer at one time but is not now.



Not if he has been convicted of a felony.



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Pastiche423 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-05-06 08:47 PM
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41. A few questions...
Do you have a spinal cord injury?

Are you paralyzed?

Do you know what "Central Pain" is?

Have you ever experienced burning pain 24/7?

If you have answered no to any of my questions, then you have no idea what pain can make a human do.

I'm very glad he has a morphine pump and that it is helping w/the pain. I am very sorry it took him going to prison to ease his physical pain.

I'm also very glad I live in Oregon, where we have a Death with Dignity law.
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yellerpup Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-04-06 06:26 PM
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16. K & R
Reveal the hypocrisy.
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madmusic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-04-06 06:53 PM
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17. Justice Kennedy criticizes mandatory minimum sentences
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progressoid Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-04-06 10:14 PM
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21. That's not weird - That's business as ususal.
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Gregorian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-04-06 11:06 PM
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22. ^^^ Spread this wonderful news around.
Calling John Stewart. Calling Stephen Colbert.
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calmblueocean Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-05-06 06:41 AM
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23. See Tab's post above.
Edited on Mon Jun-05-06 06:42 AM by calmblueocean
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ThomCat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-05-06 11:29 AM
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26. If we had a real healthcare system in this country
Richard Paey would have legally had whatever painkillers he needed.

And if we had a real justice system in this country Rush would be in prison right now.
:grr:
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rateyes Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-05-06 11:38 AM
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27. I guess Paey didn't have the $30,000 it takes
to buy a "walk" as does Flush Limpballs. "Justice for sale, Justice for sale! You got the money, we got the justice!"

SUX!
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LincolnMcGrath Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-05-06 12:28 PM
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29. more here
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baldguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-05-06 01:33 PM
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31. "...with Liberty and Justice for all."
All who can afford to pay for a high-priced celebrity attorney to represent them, who can afford to bribe the prosecutor and judge, and who have the "right" political connections.

If you don't, then screw you. If can't afford to pay for justice, then you don't deserve it.
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krispos42 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-05-06 01:35 PM
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32. Google Ad
Ironically, the Google ad at the bottom of this thread is for a drug-rehab center. More proof that Rush needs to spend more time here!
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McCamy Taylor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-05-06 03:15 PM
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35. So now the state pays for his health care in prison at a very high cost
for the next ten or so years. This, for a person who is NO risk to the general public safety at all. This is such a waste of the criminal justice system and tax payer resources that it should be a crime. I mean, the habitual hot check writer is more of a threat than this guy is. Rehab I can see.

Incarceration in prison for someone like this is done only when you have a bunch of empty beds that need filling. The minute the prisons get too crowded, he will be one of the first booted. The prison industrial complex is a scandal.
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simplemath Donating Member (1 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-05-06 04:03 PM
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36. Kennedy
Let's see if I get this game....

I read a story of a man who got two years in jail for driving drunk and crashing his car into a police cruiser. He got little justice due to cruddy public defenders.

Now we have Mr Kennedy crashing his car into police barricades and he can just jet off to the Mayo for a nice month rehab.

This game is easy...try to focus on issues and not gotchas.


GO EVAN BAYH 2008!!!!!!!!
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EST Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-05-06 06:27 PM
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39. I saw the pictures of the "damage" on Kennedy's SUV.
There was no Crash. I have seen parking lot rash that left more damage than that.
A bit of plastic trim showed some comparatively insignificant rub marks, repairable for way under $1000.
All that breathless ejaculation was nothing more than idiot "news" talking head hyperbole.
The issue was a concerted effort to paint him in as bad a light as possible.
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agincourt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-05-06 07:55 PM
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40. Limbaugh's case was two fold
First they wanted to rub people's noses into what you can get away with if you are a pigcocksucker conservative. Just like Rove, the whole thing was to send a message to the population that if you're a conservapig you can get away with anything scott free. Unless of course you were a Viet Nam era fighter pilot like Duke Cunningham, whom did something else besides being a pigboy even if he ended up that way. The second thing is Jeb didn't want the Florida pig's anus croaking from too much dope or going brain dead when he's shitting out his propaganda to the vacuum headed freepers. They used the law to clean him up a little so he wouldn't OD. I wish he would have myself. One less one of those kind would be fine by me.
Richard Paey is another unfortunate victim of an obscene justice system. Had he a radio show shitting out propaganda like Savage or Beck he wouldn't be facing no 25. Sickening doesn't begin to describe it.
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