CONSERVATIVE BUSTED AFTER DRUG FRENZY WITH DOMINICAN HOOKERS

[Ed. Note: Uh-Huh. BIG surprise there...]

TITLE: RUSH LIMBAUGH DETAINED AT AIRPORT OVER VIAGRA
AUTHOR: Casey Woods (MIAMI HERALD)
SOURCE: http://www.miamiherald.com
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A Customs inspector going through the baggage of conservative radio show host Rush Limbaugh on Monday afternoon found 29 small blue tablets — a supply of the impotence drug Viagra.

Trouble is, the name on the bottle wasn’t Limbaugh.

”Limbaugh said it was for his own personal use and that the name on it was his doctor’s,” said Sgt. Pete Palenzuela, a spokesman for the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office.

Possession of drugs prescribed to someone else is a second-degree misdemeanor.

Limbaugh, 55, arrived on a private plane at Palm Beach International Airport from the Dominican Republic at 2 p.m. U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents discovered the drug while making a routine inspection of his bags. The agents turned the investigation over to deputies from the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office.

”He was totally cooperative with the investigation,” said Paul Miller, a spokesman for the sheriff’s office. “At this point, we will send it over to the state attorney’s office to determine if charges will be filed.”

The 29 pills were confiscated and are being held by the sheriff’s office. Limbaugh was detained for more than three hours but was not arrested.

”The last thing we want to do is violate someone’s constitutional rights by making a physical arrest when we shouldn’t,” Palenzuela said.

A doctor had prescribed the drug, but it was ”labeled as being issued to the physician rather than Mr. Limbaugh for privacy purposes,” Roy Black, Limbaugh’s attorney, said in a statement, according to The Associated Press.

Limbaugh was arrested on prescription fraud charges in April, and is bound by the terms of a deal he cut with prosecutors that dismissed those charges and allowed him to plead not guilty as long as he fulfilled certain conditions, such as random drug tests. A new charge could jeopardize that deal, said Palm Beach State Attorney’s office spokesman Mike Edmondson.

Limbaugh admitted on the air in 2003 that he was addicted to painkillers after a housekeeper at his Palm Beach mansion alleged he abused OxyContin and other painkillers. Prosecutors launched a three-year investigation into accusations that Limbaugh engaged in ”doctor shopping,” meaning he deceived multiple doctors to obtain overlapping prescriptions.

Authorities said Limbaugh had obtained up to 2,000 painkillers prescribed by four doctors within six months.

Limbaugh completed a five-week drug rehabilitation program in 2003.

Last month, Limbaugh cut a deal with prosecutors that would dismiss the prescription fraud charges in 18 months if he continued treatment for his painkiller addiction, submitted to random drug tests, and did not own a gun.

He did not, however, have to admit guilt.

ISRAEL STARTS WW3?

EDITORIAL – POLITICS

ISRAEL STARTS WORLD WAR III
by Rev. Skip Colon
The Palmetto Patriot

Israeli forces are poised to go to war with Lebanon, Syria, and their favorite target the Palestinians once again. Hamas offered the exchange of military prisoners and was rebuffed by attacks against an airport in Beirut, attacks in Gaza, and talk of war from the Israeli heads of state.

Rather than acting diplomatically and exchanging the hostages, Israel will use this chance to further degrade chances for peace and will undoubtedly look to its best buddy in the West to help them, which will make the US complicit in even more death.

Sometimes I wish I hadn’t woken up, or even less likely that those in power would.

WAR BETWIN’ DE ESTETS, MENG!

SOUTH FLORIDA POLITICS: NOW FOR XBOX!
by Raul Padron
Senior Correspondent, The Palmetto Patriot

MIAMI – Cuban-Americans are mostly thought of as ‘insane’ after the Elian Gonzalez trauma, maybe some big-hair memory of Gloria Estefan ’80s videos, and maybe a favorite scene from the movie Scarface. In political circles, people are wondering about the homogeneity of the only Hispanic subgroup in the US with such devoted loyalty to the Republican party.

During the late ’70s early ’80s Democrats in power locally forced the rising group of aspiring politicians in the Cuban exile population to see a glass ceiling in position. Their claim was about ‘room’. The Republican party in Miami is a group of family feuds carried over from Cuba by the same families that held powers during former Cuban dictator Gen. Batista’s regime.

Resentment over Kennedy’s choice to not support the action in the Bay of Pigs angered the families involved with that and crushed the hopes of older Cuban hoping to return to isle within time to re-establish control. This tipped off Ronald Reagan to begin establishing community ties before his bid in the 1980 election.

Cubans traditionally have a long and unspoken racist view. Cuba never had a Civil Rights movement. It had a communist revolution that enveloped the racial tensions and many of the most ardent supporters were oppressed Afro-Cubans. This fitted the Republican political sweep of the South in tone and manner perfectly. The Cuban population here apparently doesn’t realize that we of Hispanic background are the same to the majority of Americans, especially in our own prized political party.

I attempted in 2004-2005 to create a youth-focused political activist group called Next-Generation.US: I worked for a year and got little interest from actual Cubans that were already democrats! It depressed me. But honestly, I had little resources. So maybe its worth another shot in the future. But what i discovered is that everyone saw the value in locally creating an organized counter, and specifically towards the aging political body which caters to fears and misconceptions among Cuban-Americans. No one was willing to help with it though… ‘haha’ on me, I guess.

In my state government, the capital is filled with young Cuban-American assistants from the elected candidates and more from the lobbying firms. I always wondered how lonely my position would be if I was ever elected to the Florida house?

I have found that troubling, being a Cuban-American Democrat. When you put a few dozen activists from South Florida into power, they racially range around the map: African-American, other Hispanics, Jews, even generally colorless persons. It is is only a matter of time before someone cries, “f*** the Cubans…they are ruining everything!” before they realize I am still in the room. Besides sheepish looks and half-hearted apologies because they do look at the group as homogeneous, I typically get the “oh not you, Raul …you’re ‘different!’” placation.

After a few years of that, you get used to it. But it never sits well with me. I begin to see why the local democrats are losing out on young people locally.

And the foolish obsession with el Ché as a fashion item…boy, nothing is funnier then when foreign activists come here for some event like the Free Trade meetings, and see the angry looks of people whose families were actually harmed by that ‘cool rebel’.

Good Lord. Help me.