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<blockquote> <strong class="quote-title">groggerbug wrote:</strong> <hr> Hello? (tap, tap) Is this thing working?? <br><br> Y'all can get back to your hatefest - I'll stop interrupting.</blockquote><p><strong>Thanx bud, you da man!</strong> <img src="http://static.yuku.com//domainskins/bypass/img/smileys/happy.gif" alt="image"></p>
I'm not sayin' that this girl is one of the best, but it does seem to me that most of the all time greatest minds and achievers in most any disciplinewas a drug addict! Isaac Newton and Miles Davis to mention a few. It seems that their innocent adventurous spirit maybe wound up getting them into trouble. Andit's that spirit that led them into the drugs, and then the drugs, especially opiates, took them to heights of imagination and knowledge which they werethen able to bring back to us in one form or another. I'm not condoning the use of drugs, but this is just an objective observation and thought!Andy<img src="http://static.yuku.com//domainskins/bypass/img/smileys/smile.gif" alt="image">
<p>I was not going to post about this thread, but now it's time.<br> She has a serious additction or(and)two. What makes anyone here think, that she thinks, her problems were brought on by anyone else but herself? I'venever read, or heard anything to that "fact". Do I feel sorry for her, no, sad is more the word. I will always feel bad for "anyone" thatmakes drugs and alcohol their ruin, no matter what their status in life. She,like many others make their own beds with alot of help fom others. I can'thelp but wonder where she got her first hit from? A manager, bodyguard, record company exec? I have a very strong feeling that there is a strong culpability ofpeople close to her that "guided" her. Some people are very weak, don't ya know.<br> Take a really good look at the link that Scott posted of her the night of the Grammys, she is not "high". Look at her eyes. Yes, her actions are alittle suspect, but that is Amy. Look at her eyes.<br> She is in rehab. I wish her, and any other person that is thrust into the limelight ,all the best to kick those demons!<br> That is all I'm going to say about this.<br> Later, Steve<br></p>
<font color="#333399">No one should feel sorry for these losers that make millions and then throw it away on drugs and booze. I don't have any sympathyfor any of these people. Now if you want to feel sorry , feel sorry for people who don't know how to pay this months' rent or don't know where theywill get money for their next meal or don't have a place to live. Feel sorry for the old people who have no one to take care of them . etc. Do NOTwaste time feeling sorry for a millionaire who screwed up their own life.<br><br><br>Maribell</font>
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I said, just to clarify:<br> "Do I feel sorry for her, no, sad is more the word. I will always feel bad for "anyone" that makes drugs and alcoholtheir ruin, no matter what their status in life."<br>Just in case you directed your last post at me Maribell.<br> Later, Steve
"Dancing with the daffodils" is a metaphor for going whichever way the wind blows (*cough* Hillary *cough*) and/or doing what the rest of the crowdis doing. So, if you see me doing that, shoot my retarded ass. That's what I was driving at. And should BlueWagon read this and bring in phalic symbolism,if you ever see me lying on my couch in a pensive mood "dancing with the daffodils"...or in a Hot Wheels Freudism..."polishing the helmet on myRed Baron," please quietly close the door as you leave and lock it behind you.
It's ironic her big song is called Rehab... she and only she can straighten out her life if she chooses to... she's got talent... <br><br>Ricky Y
Looks like she's starting to get some color back in her face!!<img src="http://static.yuku.com//domainskins/bypass/img/smileys/wink.gif" alt="image">
Joe, addictions like that age people. Look at Keith Richards. He looked like an old man long ago. When he quit doing drugs, he began to look a lot less like agutter refugee.<br><br>Andy, booboo, there's a difference between recreational drug use as a means of escape from the ties of reality, and blowing off reality altogether viaserious addiction. Need we make a list of celebrity train wrecks? Amy Winehouse's appearance while at the Grammy Awards was pretty scary. She <em>is</em>talented, but she sure as hell wasn't during the awards. What respectable rehab centre would allow someone in her condition out of lockdown for an awardsshow? Sheesh.<br><br>I have more respect for Amy Winehouse now that she has sought treatment. It's really sad, though, that someone is released from treatment for being famous.A <em>proper</em> treatment centre would never allow that to happen. The same thing goes for other celebs who take the day off from treatment to go shopping,and while they're at it go get tanked.<br><br>I don't know if it's that different in California or if it's just that the places these celebrities are going to aren't accredited treatmentcentres, but actually spas for the rich and famous to sneak off to for a holiday. I do know that in Texas, when someone checks in for treatment, they sign astatement saying that they are willingly checking themselves in and if they leave on their own, the treatment centre is not responsible for their actions.However, they still can 5150 your butt (or 5151, 5152) and place you into a state-run facility under actual lockdown. It's prison without the bars, butwith locked doors that have wire-reinforced glass (or plexiglas) and happy pills.<br><br>Maribell, have you never heard of mental illness? Many of the "losers who make millions" deal with various forms of mental illness. Many aren'tnecessarily "throwing it away" on alcohol and drugs. Alcohol and drugs are their means of escaping an otherwise crappy world. In mental healthcircles, it's referred to as self-medication. Look around you, Maribell. Odds are, you have friends and/or family members who deal with depression or oneof many other forms of mental illness.
Back to the subject of accountability:<br><br>From last Thursday to this Wednesday, I was hit up no less than 6 times by the "needy."<br><br>In Dodge City, KS, one guy was watching through the windows. As the truckers were signing their fuel tickets, some of them (myself included) got cash. As wecame out, he hit us up for money. "It's just a dollar," he insisted;<br><br>I was hit up for some diesel fuel by a band of traveling musicians in Tucumcari, NM;<br><br>In Winslow, AZ, it was a husband and wife team. "We are on our way back from a relative's funeral and our car broke down and was towed. We need moneyso my wife can get something to eat. She's diabetic;"<br><br>In Bakersfield, CA, a man was standing in front of his 1980s Chevy full-sized conversion van, parked conveniently at the corner by the truck stop. The hood wasup. "Need Gas," read his sign. I didn't make eye contact, but glanced over out of the corner of my eye as I went past. He was telling me I wasnumber 1;<br><br>Back to Albuquerque, NM, I was hit up by a young vagrant with a backpack. "I'm hungry. Can you give me some food off the truck?"<br><br>And about an hour later, here came another husband and wife team. "Our car broke down and I sold our luggage (WTF???). I don't care about anything butgetting my pregnant wife some food. We'd like to get a motel room for the night, but I know that's a lot to ask."<br><br>Six stories, one answer.<br><br>No.<br><br>If I give "just a dollar" to every panhandler who asks, I'm going to be standing on beggars row myself. "Hey, buddy, it's just adollar...."<br><br>If I give food out my window to one vagrant, how many more will be beating on my truck door the remainder of the night?<br><br>I'm sorry if those of you on this board think I'm a cruel, heartless bastard.<br><br>The fact is, you can't save 'em all. And you won't save just one.<br><br>There's a reason that zoos and national parks have signs that say "Don't feed the bears." If you do, they'll just keep looking forhandouts instead of fending for themselves.<br><br>Now, if someone is stranded alongside the road and they need help, I'll stop if it's safe to do so. Or I'll call the highway patrol to go help themout if I can't.<br><br>But the constant barrage of begging.... You know, maybe I'm cynical now because I see it so much. Just about every day. Every time I pull in a truck stop Isee the "beggars row" outside the driver entrance.<br><br>Everyone's got a story.<br><br>And I've got an answer: Can't help you. Sorry.<br><br>Imagine if every day you went out your door to work and there was a bum standing on the corner of your drive. "Hey, buddy, got a dollar? It's just adollar."<br><br>Day one would you give him a dollar?<br><br>How about day two? Ten?<br><br>How about when he tells his chums at the shelter where the soft-hearted mark lives? You invite 'em in for dinner?<br><br>As a truck driver, that's what I put up with every day. You get fed so much bull that when someone really is in a temporary crisis and needs help, youdon't know.<br><br>In Bakersfield, CA, I saw the same van with Ohio plates parked on that truck stop corner three weeks in a row. "Stranded. Need Gas. Need Food. God BlessYou," read the cardboard signs. The family was a dad, mom, and girl. The dad was dressed every detail a Menanite or Quaker. Then one week the van wasgone. But a few weeks later, it was back. Most truck drivers don't run a regular route. They didn't know it's just a scam. They gladly roll downtheir windows and hand out their money.<br><br>In Albuquerque, the middle of the street in front of the truck stop. Same young guy. Same sign. "Hungry. Anything helps." You see him all hours ofthe day or night. Sometimes he's not there. But then next time you go through, he's back. It's his career.<br><br>There is a cure for hunger, homelessness, and poverty.<br><br>It's called work.
I think if you give them that buck, you're an enabler. "Just say NO"...<br><br>You can teach a man to fish...<br><br><br><br><br><img src="http://www.ezboard.com/image/posticons/pi_freak.gif" alt="image"><br>
<strong><em><font face="monospace" color="#0033FF" size="5">Jeff your little popcorn eating icon made me lmao since thats how i feel on this thread.<br><br>Mark<img src="http://i60.photobucket.com/albums/h10/bigdaddykarz/Gifs%202/bevis.gif" alt="image"></font></em></strong>
I did she her sing on the HDMTV channel and i must say she is as good as any MoTown singer i have ever heard before .. but her crack smoking is ashame..<img src="http://redlinesonlinemessageboard.yuku.com/domainskins/bypass/img/smileys/pimp.gif" alt="image">