Today in "I will destroy whatever faith you have left in humanity"

[Hauldren Collider]

No, I was thinking about the flesh eating krokodil. You could say "bathtub gin isn't dangerous, it's the impurities", but the way bathtub gin is made it's still dangerous. The same with krokodil.

QFT. Saying "krokodil is safe without the impurities" is like saying "communism is good when you avoid the whole dictatorship thing". Russia

[Sava]

or like saying "capitalism is good without all the cronyism"

[Hauldren Collider]

Do you even understand what cronyism is? It's a result of government interference in the economy. Not capitalism.

[Aeson]

You have it backwards. The result of cronyism is (or at least can be) government interference in the economy.

[DaShi]

Do you even understand what cronyism is? It's a result of government interference in the economy. Not capitalism.

HC, I'd suggest getting a dictionary.

[Sava]

HC, I'd suggest getting a dictionary.

He's not about to let facts stop him.

[Alexander's Horse]

there is a good book for someone on armies fighting on drugs, I saw the allied forces handing sedatives and anti-depressants out like candy in the ME, it was even called a "management tool"

[regexcellent]

In the US military people submit to frequent "random" urinalysis, generally after block leave and liberty. It is, to my knowledge, pretty difficult to get away with using illegal drugs in the US military these days.

Abuse of prescription medication on the other hand...well, if you have a valid prescription then what can they do to you? There's a saying about military doctors...what do you call a man who graduated in the bottom 5% of his med school class? Captain.

[DaShi]

Dude, you need new material:

http://apolyton.net/showthread.php/201721-Starving-the-beast-the-U-S-Military?p=6184987&viewfull=1#post6184987

[regexcellent]

I know I've used the joke before.

[Dr Strangelove]

Cronyism merely referred to favoritism to ling-standing friends. It need not involve government interference in the economy. An example I know of personally: We had a nurse who's ex-husband was abusive. She divorced him and obtained sole custody of their child. One day he and some of his friends grabbed the baby and fled across the county line. In the other county her ex's father was a hunting buddy of the county judge. Needless to say the previous custody judgement was reversed. That's cronyism.

If the county manager gave the job of building the new court house to a friend without going through a fair bidding process, that would be cronyism. If the sheriff hired his old high school buddy as deputy despite a lack of qualifications that too would be cronyism. Cronyism could also conceivably not involve government at all. If a group of businessmen entrenched in a community conspired to exclude new comers from establishing businesses in the community or to set prices of commodities in the community, that would be cronyism.

[DinoDoc]

Sounds more like kidnapping and/or custodial interference.

[Krill]

It is all three, actually. Just because one specific concept applies doesn't mean others automatically do not.

[Kidlicious]

I have an eight-year-old patient who is currently under treatment for an extremely rare form of bone cancer.

Her cousin’s mother apparently stole her liquid pain medication (Percocet) and replaced the liquid in the bottle with god-knows-what.

So, yeah. **** everyone.

There's a place in Hell for her.

[Dr Strangelove]

Sounds more like kidnapping and/or custodial interference.

Oh that's just the shortened version of the story. When the baby was taken the mother and her new BF followed her ex back to his home. They confronted him and he pulled a gun and held them for the police. The police arrived, heard the story and arrested her, letting her go a few days later.