Posted on 01/03/2014 11:29:03 AM PST by thackney
Thanks. Doesn’t seem to be getting better very fast. Kind of discouraging.
Has your wife recovered fully?
She can't walk more than about 1/8 mile without sitting.
She teaches school and is on her feet much of the day. Each night her ankle is extremely swollen and she ices it.
I hope your results are much better.
The war on drugs is an unmitigated disaster. Cocaine is cheaper today than in 1970. It’s universally available 24/7 almost anywhere. When the cartels controlled all of the drugs they policed anybody who wasn’t a member and would kill anybody who competed. When the government crushed the cartels they created the perfect free marketplace and free marketplaces are efficient. Now instead of a limited number of “authorized” importers hundreds, possibly a hundred thousand small operators, some of them probably just students who bring in a kilo or two and never do it again. Its gone from a trickle to a flood that nobody can stop.
Here’s an unbreakable law. If there’s a demand for something there will be a supply. Now the war on drugs, although a total failure, has become the livelihood of several hundred thousand cops and their equipment suppliers. Together they constitute a constituency and a lobby that will keep the beast going forever. And it will NEVER stop the flow of drugs. That’s like a hydra. You chop off one head and two more grow instantly to replace it.
I did a job this fall were the general contractor showed up completely drunk. To be productive I had to have him move 8 home run electrical wires so I could run my ducting through a joist. This was the third time I told him to move the stuff and he always forgot. The last time I told him was when he was drunk. He grabbed a pair of side cutters and started cutting the wires without figuring out which ones they were in the breaker panel so they could be shut off first. Sparks flew and he kept cutting. All of the wires were live and he didn’t really give a damn. It was quite funny to watch him on the job. Too bad the homeowner had to pay for all the mistakes he made, but the homeowner was warned.
For many they are wickedly addictive. Even Rush Limbaugh got caught up in that. Estimated 2m addicted in the US. For a time it was called “Hillbilly heroin”, because there was a broad band of abuse from Kentucky to Virginia.
Importantly, the price of black market pills is ridiculous, in some places $100 a pill. But when deprived of their pills many addicted turn to heroin, at 1/4th the price and greater availability. The saying is that they think they will just smoke or snort it, but two weeks later they are injecting it.
When the pills were reformulated to make them harder to abuse, the switch to heroin took place far faster than they suspected. Suddenly there was a huge jump in the number of overdoses in that region, then shortly after in all four corners of the US: Pacific northwest, southern California, Maine and Florida.
But like so many things these days, it has been dropped off the MSM radar, because they think it might embarrass their chosen one.
I’m an electrician in the oil and gas industry.
Nobody is going to beat me for anything. I don’t touch drugs nor will I work with those that do.
I’m also in the Canadian sector which is hundreds of times safer than the world’s other sectors. Everyone comes to us for the training.
The guy putting out the Iraq well they said was a Texan, they neglected to mention that he was the Canadian guy’s helper.
I’m really sorry to hear that. And not only for what it says about my prospects.
We will pray for her.
Yup. Which is why the only way to win the WOD would be to go after demand.
There would be a number of highly effective ways to do this, but unlikely any would be constitutional, much less politically viable.
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Colorado got off to a deadly start based upon the following thread.
Thanks. The first thing the surgeon said after looking at her x-ray was “I hope you never had any dreams about walking around Disneyworld with grandchildren.” (My wife was in her late 40s at the time)
Ahh, the surgeon’s bedside manner.
How’s it different from booze?
Just think, at one time any stoned or drunk employee could be fired forthwith without any legal hassle to the employer. Now an employer will not only have to hire pot smokers but will also be sued if the stoner makes a mistake. Sometimes I can’t help praying for an asteroid....
Sounds like you and I have the same perspective on the War on Drugs fiasco.
Saliva tests work too, and are good at detecting use within the last 12 hours.
The service companies, especially the smaller ones, that do the manual unskilled labor aren’t real particular with who they hire.
I was a pipe inspector.
I had dopers, ex cons, gang bangers, you name it on my crew at various times.
You screw up around men that sling pipe around for 12 -15 hours a day 7 days a week a lot of time, they will take your head off.
They don’t care who you are, where you’re from, or what you do.
You mash their fingers, they mash your face.
Roll a joint of 20” casing onto someone’s ankle and you would be lucky to make it out alive.
I hear ya, I don’t work around those types. Mostly operational well sites, plants etc, where the power is. That said, I retired from the military in 09, I’m the one they fear on site heh, I’m the unarmed master. There’s always better, just haven’t met them yet. Put a weapon in my hands and then watch the real magic:)
I’m hoping these skills get put to use soon for a good reason. When the real men stand up.
A lot of times it’s not just one on one, it’s 4 or 5 on one.
I could lift and carry a 55 gallon drum of diesel, another guy on my crew, a former rig hand out of Wyoming, made it look easy.
There are some rough characters on those crews.
Handling pipe, a screw up will get someone hurt or killed quick.
It doesn’t take a whole lot to peg out someone’s tolerance meter.
They’re the type I’d rather be on their good side than their bad side.
They don’t back down when push comes to shove.
We got sent out with a couple of rent a winos because we were shot handed one day.
They wanted me to sign their time sheets after a couple of hours so they could leave and get paid for the day without working.
I wouldn’t sign off and told them if they wanted to leave, leave.
One tried to roll a jt of 9 5/8” on me.
A guy on my crew took him off the pipe rack and damn near put a pry bar through his forehead.
Probably would have if I hadn’t stopped him.
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