Cops Hospitalized After Exposure To Unknown Substance At Strip Club

To all on this thread...and especially to HCD; HCD is a troll who just hangs out on this site to stick his finger in your eye. He's just here to satisfy some egotistical malfunction in his sad life. Typical bombastic progressive saying outrageous things to get a response. The more you respond, the worse he gets. Watch now, he's got to figure a way to attack this post...or ignore the temptation to do so. What say you HCD?

@Hi_estComnDenomn actually I read the other day that our generation - the so called "Y" or "millennials" is full of entitlement and are big whiny babies. I suppose it's all a matter of perspective. As for the opioid crisis - something much more interesting and relevant than your fight with @JBo (who's story I really admire) - as a person with chronic pain who lives in the Midwest (South-Central to be accurate) I can tell you that the crack downs on drs and pharmacies is doing little to curb the deaths (usually by fentanyl overdose) and is causing those with legitimate issues and above-board histories of use an awful time. Here in Oklahoma we've passed medical marijuana law which should definitely help (although since I'm a cop's wife I'll be screwed there). Hopefully easing the war on MJ will have a direct effect on reducing the amount of fentanyl abused in our state. It will be interesting to find out.

@JBo Dredge*

And not everyone is cut out for military. And virtually no job will cover for college alone nowadays.

And again, good for you personally, it's good to see you have progressive ideas. But the vast majority of you are a giant societal drag, and don't share your ideas about energy or college or many other important issues that you won't be alive long enough to live through the repercussions.

No, I don't believe you. My generation is not a "durge". You said my generation is a cancer and we should die. As far as competing in the 21st century...my generation and previous generations, in general, is what helped you get to the 21st century.

I support renewable energy. I drive a hybrid vehicle and have solar panels at my home. I like renewable energy but I'm not a fan of land based wind power. Nuclear energy, while not renewable, is an option that is efficient if handled correctly with safeguards. The main problem with spent nuclear fuel is that it's...spent. It's gotta go somewhere and sooner or later we'll have to transition to renewable energy.

I believe that all generations should be able to go to college and not incur mountains of debt. They can do what I did...join the military and then use the GI bill (or whatever it's called today) to get started. While that didn't come close to covering my school expenses back in the day, working while going to school and living like a pauper made up the shortfall.

@JBo Great story individually. But your generation in general is a durge to society and one of the few things holding this country back from competing in the 21st century. Don't believe me?

What is your stance on coal and fuel, versus much, much more renewable resources like solar, wind, and nuclear?

You say you paid your own way through college. Do you believe Gen Y and Gen Z should be able to do that today without incurring tens of thousands in debt?

I don't know why you presume to think of me as a cancerous boomer that's had it so easy...I started work on my family's farm stringing tobacco and skinning timber at 8 years old, then as a paperboy at age 12 for my "second" job. My first job that paid me by check was as a busboy...83¢ per hour.

I started with nothing except a work hard ethic and a desire to get the best education possible. I paid for my college education and continued to work for the next half dozen decades. I'm financially secure, I earned it, I share it and I still have the callouses on my hands.

Each generation tries to make life easier for the next generation. The Depression Era parents tried to make life a little easier for their children, the Greatest Generation, and so on up the line. I didn't want my children to have to string tobacco or go hunting in order to put food on the table if they wanted to eat each day.

Just remember that someone, somewhere has made your life a little easier than it was for them or their generation or generations before them. A silent "thank you might be in order for someone in your genealogical time line instead of wishing entire generations would die.

As for jailing drug abusers, you can't build enough prisons to house everyone in this country that abuses drugs. The war on drugs doesn't work. New thinking is needed and it will have to start at the family level.

I've spouted off enough, I'm tired. Bye.

I'm not sure what more the government can do to protect people from themselves. Putting more drug abusers in jail hasn't worked to solve drug problems over the last 50 years...there's no reason to think that'll start working now. The war on drugs failed long ago.

Maybe you should treat the drug abusers with the same regard you treat the baby boomers that you despise so much when you say, "Boomers are cancer and this country will be better after you either die of old age or we continue to make you completely obsolete."

I suppose you also include the "Silent Generation" and the "Greatest Generation" in your cancers remark so when we all die...that would get rid of more than 31% of the population for you and you would finally be happy.

Hi_estComnDenomn said: It would be great if the government did more to protect people from opioid abuse. I don't understand why Midwest jails aren't packed to the brim with abusers, because that area is awash in fentanyl.

Smartest comment made by you!!!

It would be great if the government did more to protect people from opioid abuse. I don't understand why Midwest jails aren't packed to the brim with abusers, because that area is awash in fentanyl.

The police will need to start wearing hazmat suits to these calls.