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Posted on 02/19/2012 4:28:40 AM PST by Kaslin
Read that the stuff ruined her gifted voice-—she had no voice left......and it was obvious it had destroyed her ravishing beauty.
Her ex should be flogged in the public square-—he was the one that apparently got her addicted.
Right on, Kaslin — in your post and in your response to the vitriolic attack by databoss.
Frankly, I am getting a little sick of the personal — and, yes, sophomoric — attacks on FR by people who ridicule any stand taken on moral grounds reflecting traditional values.
If I want to endure the musings of those who put “toleration” above all else (and endlessly bleat about being “non-judgmental”), I’ll move over to Daily Kos and swim in the liberal sewer.
Why was a believer and no worse or better than the author.
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I wish the music industry would put half their effort spent mourning their dead into wiping out the cause—their out of control drug culture.
You’re expecting the Music Industry of all people to clean this up?
The Moody Blues made a total of $500 to split 6 ways from their first gold 45. Then they formed Threshold Records in response. Nothing’s changed since then.
Has it occurred to you that the waiting line for a contract is 99 miles long 24/7 7 days a week? Houston and everybody else is replaceable.
It’s a Lot Easier to screw artists even with Top Music Lawyers if the Artists are kept off balance, or keep themselves off balance with drugs and drink.
The term non sequitur would be lost on you and the author....
The term non sequitur would be lost on you and the author....
Never understood the public obsession with celebrity culture, and why her death has become such a media event with everyone thumping their chests to outdo each other in their grief is beyond me. It was disappointing to see Gov. Christie pander to the public by using his office to lower the flag in her memory. Sure she was a once-talented singer but was her death really deserving of such a state honor? It’s not like she was some firefighter hero who died while saving a baby from a burning building. Rather, she was a self-indulgent addict who had every whim catered to for the last thirty years.
I know logic when I srr it.
Since when is a mild critique a ‘vitriolic attack’? If I had said “the imebecilic author can’t form a single coherent thought because they are obviously a misogynistic Tea Party racist”, then you could call that a personal attack filled with vitriol. Get a grip on yourself man. Dissent and criticism are part and parcel of civil discourse, use your brain power to counter arguments instead of casting stones....
Drugs cost. Hanger-ons cost.
But I'd like to see Bobby Brown's bank account(s).
He may not have started her on the drug/behavior downfall - I don't know - but he sure did accelerate it. He and his fellow bandmates honored the contract last night and put on their show. Too bad he could not honor WH in her life and in her passing.
And, we cannot fathom His ways but we can know He is here and with His help, the hurt becomes more bearable.
Please no Flame; I respect the rights and peoples of all faiths or no faiths, except for the one who has turned the world upside down with its evil.
It is so easy to be hyperjudgmental when one is not in that situation.
Drug addiction *is* a disease. Not everyone is susceptible to it, and not everyone has the same degree of susceptibility. A highly susceptible person’s brain can be changed so much by drugs that they literally become powerless to stay away from them.
Clearly, there is more going on with a severely addicted person than just a desire to go “have a good time”. Maybe, at first, it’s fun, but once the addiction takes hold, and their life is falling apart all around them, it’s no longer a rational decision to keep using the drugs. Even while they know the drugs are destroying them, they keep using them. That is a strong indication that an addiction really does take over a person’s life, and they have little control over it.
I think that within the entertainment world, the situation for people prone to drug abuse is far worse than it is for ordinary people. The entertainment industry in general is very tolerant of drug use, and there are plenty of leeches ready to provide whatever the stars desire, because they want the money. Whitney is not the first star to be crushed by the entertainment industry, nor will she be the last.
Our government puts over $1 billion per year into drug addiction research. That wouldn’t be necessary if “just say no” were an actual workable solution to drug abuse.
No need to be hypersensitive. Perhaps you simply need to study your vocabulary more assiduously to learn the distinctions between connotations and annotations in the lexicon. I’ll give you the benefit of the doubt. A mind is a terrible thing to waste.
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