Shortest summery of my stance on prostitution ever.

Still, I doubt he would be chewing up $9.3 trillion in debts, with a hungry eye on medical insurance, and all the rest. He would suck, but he wouldn’t be on a hard push for more socialism, more socialism, more socialism.

In short, McCain wouldn’t have been as bad to the average American, even if he was hypocritical with a nutty VP.

Obama: Still bad on the issues where we thought he’d be bad, and still bad on the issues where we expected better from him. Oh, and he’s also still breaking campaign promises.

Radley, what’s this “we” nonsense? Some of us knew better, tried to tell you, and were kicked around by you for our trouble.

BTW: drugs with codeine were over the counter in a lot of countries, and it didnt seem to cause any major addiction problems compared to the people it helped. e.g. cough suppressant.

Or maybe he’s not a hot blonde chick.

Beautiful!

ps IV morphine does wonders when you need it, I was glad I got it just after surgery when in the recovery room.

With pills you also must consider not just the “diversion” issue, but also the practicalities of formulation. You only need a tiny amount of pure opioid (e.g. 10 milligrams). 10mg is a spec of dust, and it would be easy to lose it, take too much etc. You could sneeze and inhale an overdose. Thus, to make a pill, you have to mix it into something else- why not add something that works with the opioid?

@ Jozef #6
Thanks for the heads up!

Free Staters in NH know that the “Live Free or Die” motto is a bunch of hot air.

Most of this alleged “new research” is just a ploy by clinical doctors to gain research funding, and media outlets (especially local news stations) only encourage it by constantly reporting on what “the latest study” says about some food or behavior being good or bad, as if simply eating a little more chocolate (“a recent study says it can prevent ankle sprains!”) will help someone remedy an otherwise unhealthy lifestyle.

The fact is, we already know exactly what to do to live a healthy and long life: regular aerobic exercise combined with consuming an appropriate amount of calories, ideally in the form of unprocessed, vitamin-rich foods. Absent an unusual personal health issue, anyone who bases lifestyle choices on anything beyond that is an fool.

#12 Ron
If antioxidants curb the benefits of exercising, then we all better stop eating oranges, weet potatoes, bell peppers, etc. becuase they are loaded with antioxidants. Junk science.

Read the article. Fourth paragraph from the bottom:

“The advice does not apply to fruits and vegetables, Dr. Ristow said; even though they are high in antioxidants, the many other substances they contain presumably outweigh any negative effect.”

The reason I remember it is because my wife commented that she was not sure she had ever seen it without the acetominophen.

RE: Craigslist. They are moving it to the adult services section, where there is a cost involved. So it is no longer free, but they are actually making a profit from it!

#7 nicole

That is most definitely the case. That’s why you can’t get hydrocodone (in the US) without the added acetominophen. Nice, eh?

I didn’t know that. I was hoping I was wrong. Now I’m depressed and need a drink (yet another chemical that’s bad for my liver).

The First Amendment provides no exception for advertisements of services that have been outlawed. No matter what any judge or legislator says, it’s just not there. You either have freedom of speech, or you don’t. We don’t. We only have what they haven’t taken away yet.

I am opposed to prostitution laws mostly because they unnecessarily interfere with the “pursuit of happiness”, both for the prostitute (in the form of income) and for the customer (in the form of a “good time”). But these laws also criminalize honesty. Almost all women can (and very many do) secure for themselves some form and degree of security in return for sex. With few exceptions, only the simplest and most direct of such transactions, an exchange of cash for sex, is criminalized.

The only reason most people need to support the outlawing of some activity is the knowledge that it’s not an activity they engage in. The real villain when it comes to loss of freedom isn’t the government. It’s the guy who lives next door.