Call It A Comeback
Errr…so I heard dis guy say dat he saw some guy who kinda sounds like dis guy say “blah, blah, blah”
That’s not evidence, it’s, well, hearsay and completely inappropriate for a criminal trial. Why our lege Members feel they need to tamper with long established law because they think one guy might be getting away with something is a bit of a mystery.
The more appropriate lesson to take from Peterson is that we need better police and coroners.
And another tremor early this morning. It was rather subtle which is perhaps even more odd in the midwest.
After a busy two weeks, nothing like being awoken to an earthquake. And then sitting here during the day and the aftershock.
Its a pretty amazing day when you can say a "Republican snorted animal tranquilizersrecreationally" and use his own statements as source materials.
Jeebus, Stuart Levine’s pharmaceutical experience is long…
To get the proper framework for Levine’s testimony, you’ve got to imagine it coming from the mouth of a 62-year-old businessman in a gray suit and wing tips who used to make the black-tie social whirl as a major charitable fund-raiser.
Levine said he first experimented with drugs in 1972, primarily using marijuana and cocaine during that decade. He said he also tried quaaludes a couple of times in the same period and did LSD once.
In the mid-1980s, Levine said there was a change in his drug use when he began partying with a group of five male friends — two or three at a time — once or twice a month as his business schedule allowed.
For a while Levine said he was doing mostly ecstasy and cocaine, but by the mid-90s he had switched to crystal meth amphetamines and ketamine, both of which he would snort in their white powder form.
“I preferred the combination of those two to other drugs,” he said, describing the effect as “euphoria” and lowering inhibitions.
Levine usually partied on weekdays “in order to deceive my family,” he said. That made it easier for him to feign business reasons for being absent.
“On the weekends, we were all home and together,” he said.,
For the in-town parties, Levine said he met his friends at the hotel in the morning and did drugs until early evening, but always went home afterward.
“I was expected home,” he explained.
When they left Chicago, usually for Springfield but also for another town he did not name, it was an overnight trip in which they used drugs nonstop and never slept.
Levine said he would take drugs five to 10 times a night during the parties.
How did this guy not OD in all that time? These aren’t your mild experimentation drugs, these are your drug connoisseur Hunter S. Thompson mixes.
Even weirder when you know what the guy looks like:
This blog is older than the Iraq War so, unfortunately for me, if you go back to that time I was in favor of this godforsaken war. I really have no excuses. The only one I ever tried after figuring out how stupid I was really that dumb, was that I figured even the Bush administration couldn’t be that wrong. Austin Mayor then pointed out to me that they have been unsuccessful at everything they have ever tried except making Democrats wet their pants. Point taken. I have no excuse.
In the early 1960s, at a time when many young people were being radicalized by the Vietnam War, Wright left college and volunteered to join the United States Marine Corps. After three years as a marine, he chose to serve three more as a naval medical technician, during which time he received several White House commendations. He came to Chicago to study not long after Martin Luther King Jr.’s murder in 1968, the U.S. bombing campaign in Cambodia in 1969, and the shooting of students at Kent State University in 1970.
Read the whole thing as they say. I understand white fear of angry black men, but I don’t understand the refusal to look more deeply at ministry of a man who is so well regarded within the religious community.
Please remember that no one has ever gone broke by underestimating the American Public
- That’s not enough, madam, we need a majority!
- Response to a woman who called out to him: “Senator, you have the vote of every thinking person!” during his 1956 campaign, as quoted in Anatomy of the Cuban Missile Crisis (2001) by James A. Nathan, p. 156
2011 when Rod Blagojevich leaves office and his job returns to normal.
Another horrible audit via Kevin at The Capitol Fax Blog
Looks good--haven’t tried much navigating yet, but a big improvement.
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