July 25, 2012
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Rant: Things that Annoy Me
You know what annoys me?
# 1 I can’t buy enough Allegra D over the counter to treat my allergies.
Allegra D is supposed to last 24 hours. But in order to treat my allergies, I need to take two pills a day. My wife takes it also to treat her allergies. So we run out if we take it twice a day.The government bans you from buying over a certain amount of Allegra D because they are afraid you will use it to make Meth.
So I can only buy about 24 pills in a month.
However, the Batman shooter was able to legally buy 4 guns and 6000 rounds of ammunition online in 60 days.
So the government is afraid I will misuse Allegra D but is not afraid that someone will misuse 4 guns and 6000 rounds of ammunition.
# 2 Smokers would want free health care.
There is a woman on xanga who admits she is on welfare. She is on the internet all day long making comments and not working. I work all day so she can stay at home.
But she also has pushed for free medical care. And in her profile pic she is smoking a cigarette.
So she feels it is unfair she doesn’t have free health insurance and no one understands her hardship and yet she is smoking.
So my money from working is paying for her to sit at home on the internet and smoke and very soon my taxes will increase to pay for her free medical care.
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Smokers should suck non-smokers dicks for special privileges. Just my opinion.
Dan, your rants amuse me.
Gubment won’t let me smoke my Allegra D. FML.
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Villianizing the poor eh? Classy move.
Use Nasonex it’s way better. Long term use of decongestants will make your sinuses worse and increase your risk of sinus infections. And meth heads are disgusting, they should just let them OD so I don’t have to look at their faces anymore. I had a friend who used meth while pregnant and her children look like drowned molerats.
Hahaha, I don’t know who this is about, but I admire your brazen humor/rants.
That’s bizarre about Allegra. They don’t do that in Canada. I got sick when I was in the U.S. once, and they made me show them my passport and provide a U.S. address of a reference and sign something saying I wouldn’t use it for anything illegal. I just wanted some cough medicine, so weird! Come visit me, you can get all the Allegra you want.
You can buy as much Allegra D as you want – you just can’t buy it all at one store. So go down the street to the next drugstore or department store and get more. It’s not that hard of a concept.
I used to use Sudafed up until they took it off the shelves, and dumbed down it’s dosage. Years ago, One Sudafed keep my sinuses clear for more than 24 hours, recently I had to take two at once and still barely got results. I just gave up and blew my nose till my ears popped.
Give liberals control and thats the kinda thinking you get.
@Somefishytales - Or baby booming tea partiers sucking up social security and depleting future wealth for the rest of us
Ha! I almost posted a Sudafed rant last week. You should try buying it in Arkansas. It’s impossible, as we found out when we were visiting and ran out. Then, after we got back to Michigan, I went to the pharmacy to get some and the pharmacist said she’d get me a box of 20 instead of the box she’d just given me. She put the wrong thing in my bag and when I discovered the error and took it back, she wouldn’t let me exchange it for Sudafed because it was “in the database” that I’d bought it. So I got to pay for her mistake and we still didn’t have any Sudafed. And you can’t go from drugstore to drugstore as somebody said because they scan your driver’s license into “the database.” I’m stocking up next time I go through Pennsylvania.
You should get your doctor to write you a prescription for it. Your drug plan won’t cover it, but you can get as much as you need to get through the month.
oh, Dan
Interesting rant…
You know the Apostle Paul said, “No work, no eat,” boy would be pee his pants if he saw all the entitlement some humans expect these days. I’ve always been told, “In America you can do anything you put your mind to do.” These days its more along these lines, “Toss the brain! Who needs a brain when Big Pimp, Sugar Daddy Sam…er…um…I mean Uncle Sam is thinking for you?”
opinions r like assholes, everyone has one
not everyone on welfare smokes and not everyone with guns shoot to kill. dont blame the govt. ur judgement is as biased as anyones
@Melissa___Dawn - Actually, that’s not true. You are required to show your I.D. which they use to enter your information into a drug database. The purchase of these watched drugs (such as allergy meds) are monitored carefully from store to store. So everytime you buy a drug at Walgreens, the information is shared with CVS, Walmart, etc. instantly.
Yeah, it’s always great when I try to buy allergy medicine for my fiancé at the rite aid down the street. He has pretty severe allergies and when he runs out, its not pretty. I buy as big a package as I can of the 24 hour stuff and I always get funny looks from the pharmacist, since I’m obviously not suffering from allergies. Every freakin time… Assholes.
@jbird_7 - Not here, at least it’s never happened to me and I buy allergy meds every season. I’ve been carded for compressed air, but I’ve never been carded for allergy meds. Now, I don’t know whether that’s the cashier not doing their job or if it’s not required in MN, but I’ve never had it happen to me.
Allegra D never did anything for me.
“Free” health care is a scam
I’ve been able to buy Allegra D several times a month. I’ve had really bad allergies mixed with sinus problems and the doc’s keep recommending it to me. I live in Chicago, IL and I’ve even traveled to the suburbs and have been able to purchase more than one 20 pack of Allegra D. As far as the welfare goes. I agree I think people with drug problems (I considere smoking a drug problem) should not be on welfare unless they are trying to get off the drug. And it’s not just the poor I have seen people that are well off on welfare. The problem is that the system is flawed. There are people who really do need it who get denied and people who don’t need it are getting more than they deserve.
you can get more than 24 pills per month if a doctor writes you a prescription for it. the pharmacy will take it off the little shelf behind the pharmacy counter and put it into those little prescription bags as if it was any other medication, and the cost per box will still be the same.
If you stick them up your butt hole they will last longer. BUT, you can’t take them out of the box; That has to go up there too!
Maybe you should start buying antihistamines from meth dealers, they have all the sweet hook-ups.
Dear Dan,
Perhaps if you were to begin smoking your allergies would disappear.
You’ll never know unless you try.
Michael F. Nyiri, poet, philosopher, fool
tired of your welfare rants. some people suck yes, but still tired hearing about how the needy take people’s tax dollars. Over it.
I’ll say this just once and then never address you again: All of your other arguments in favor of limited government, the wrongfulness of entitlements, et cetera, just died the grisly death of hypocrisy. If you were stuck like a dingleberry to my hiney I’d wish to fall into the pit.
buy generic allergy meds online like that guy did. nobody will know until your meth lab explodes and your neighbor dials the cops for disrupting their sleep
@Melissa___Dawn - I haven’t had the issue with allergy meds but I’ve run into that problem when me and the hubs were both incredibly sick and I needed to buy Mucinex D here in Minnesota. I couldn’t buy enough since they took my I.D. down and I wasn’t allowed to buy more than a certain amount. I thought it was stupid.
After all computations there’s enough food for everyone despite a discrepancy here and there. Allergies are no fun for sure…
polls say a majority of NRA members support common sense gun control laws. one GOP Poll:
http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2012/07/gop_pollster_nra_members_suppo.html
and another:
http://www.businessinsider.com/nra-and-gun-control-poll-gun-owners-colorado-theater-shooting-batman-2012-7
one line from the second link: “71 percent believe people on terror watch lists should be prevented from purchasing guns…” that’s something i think most adults can agree upon but the NRA apparently doesn’t.
Many other links popped up in a Google search that support the claim NRA members support sensible restrictions on gun purchases.
here is what the NRA is doing however and why. since the growing urbanization of America fewer people are buying guns. until the 1980s the NRA supported common sense gun control laws. today and for the past two decades the NRA decided to create an environment in which if they couldn’t get more people to purchase guns they would convince people who purchase guns they need to purchase more guns. if you recall, the NRA used fear mongering after Obama was elected and it worked. the NRA convinced a lot of Americans Obama was going to propose strict gun control laws. those Americans went out and spent their money on so much ammunition that the munitions industry couldn’t keep up with the demand. the truth is Obama has signed two pieces of legislation into law which have loosened federal gun laws. one of those laws allows Americans to carry guns on federal lands and parks which means for example you can carry a firearm into Yosemite National Park whereas you could not before but that happened well after the NRA scared people into going on a shop-til-you-drop spree on ammunition and guns. the NRA continues to tell people Obama is going to take their gun rights away. their spin logic is he will do so because he hasn’t yet. fact is he’s done the opposite. the real NRA logic is they are banking on gun and ammo sales to go up again. personally i wouldn’t buy a used car based on an NRA recommendation.
here’s a picture of NRA CEO Wayne LaPierre in case you don’t know the face behind the NRA agenda:
http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/wayne-lapierre1.jpg
@firetyger - Only the “D” products, which contain pseudoephedrine, are restricted. That would include drugs like Claritin-D, Allegra-D, Sudafed, Mucinex-D, etc. Regular allergy meds like Claritin, Allegra, and Zyrtec have no restrictions. Codeine products like codeine cough syrups are also restricted because codeine is related to morphine. Both pseudoephedrine and codeine have high potentials of being abused.
To Dan:
Try this for your allergies: take benadryl at bedtime and allegra-d when you wake up. This combo works really well for severe allergies as benadryl is one of the strongest allergy medications. Benadryl will make you sleepy so it is best taken at night.
Also, I would avoid taking more than the recommended dose of Allegra-D listed on the label. Excessive amounts of pseudoephedrine can quicken your heart rate and raise your blood pressure, which are both detrimental to your body. If your allergies are poorly controlled, I recommend visiting your physician who can prescribe you a nasal spray like Nasonex that would more effectively and safely treat your sinuses.
Lastly, do not use decongestant nasal sprays for over 3 days as your body may become dependent on them.
Hope that helps!
@firetyger - It must be the “D” label ones, like @IchigoBunny - said. I’ve always just grabbed what was on the shelf, so I’m guessing the “D” label ones are behind the counter and need to actually be asked for. Hmmm, I think maybe I’m going to ask for some Allegra D then, cause my allergies have gotten really, really bad and I stopped taking Allegra because it just didn’t seem to do anything at all – and that must be why. I’ve just been suffering with them and it’s been terrible.
My mom’s coworkers belittle her because she helps pay for my college education (they make their kids take out loans/apply for grants). And she gets upset because she’s the one who’s paying taxes so those said coworkers can cheat the government and use that money for their own personal expenses.
Why don’t you get a script from your doctor for your allergy medicine?
Healthcare is more or less free here if you’re sick or need hospital treatment for whatever reason. We (well, the smokers – not myself) pay huge taxes on smokes so that all the smoking related illnesses are sort of covered. Doctors visits are expensive though, unless you’re on ACC. And all doctors visits and most medicines are free for small children. Most government subsidized prescriptions for adults are $5 (just gone up from $3).
I guess we pay a lot more tax than you guys.
Love this.
Huh, they check and scan your i.d. for allergy meds, but when I was addicted to painkillers and buying needles from those same pharmacys, I hardly ever had to get it scanned. Seems odd that cashiers would look at me and obviously see what I was using those for, and yet they didn’t document it. That’s pretty odd to me that they care more about people buying behind the counter meds than the people who are buying insulin syringes who obviously don’t have diabetes.
Smokers should pay health care for non-smokers.
@EmilyandAtticus - I think it’s because Canada doesn’t have such a strict FDA policy as America does. You can get muscle relaxers in Canada as well, but here you need a prescription… I used to live in Canada and now in the States. My mom would get people to bring her some when they would come to visit lol. That and ketchup chips
Really? You guys can’t buy allergy meds just from the store? Huh. I bought two packs of allergy pills last week, contained about a months worth of pills, and I could go everyday and buy the exact same amount (or more) and nobody can question me about it. We just pick allergy pills off the shelves of the grocery stores here. I mean, you can get stronger ones from the pharmacy, but they’re more expensive and the cheap generic ones do a decent enough job.
Thanks for share, i have a question about the drug Allegra-D is it useful in dust allergy or cold allergy ? I am suffering with this type of allergy for many days. Its an OCD drug and must in antihistamin group Allegra-D . I have in long term medication with antihistamin.
I agree it should be easier to buy allegra d.
It’s getting harder and harder to find diphenhyramine chewables too… Multiple food allergies that can go anaphylactic in an eyeblink evidently isn’t a concern. I think the actual long term goal is to reduce population, Dan. Actually, the local vets keep recommending that people give benadryl to their dogs, one pharmacist told me a pet owner was wiping out their supplies.
6000 in 60 days…
That’s only 100 rds a day, 2 boxes of handgun ammo, or 5 boxes of 7.62×39 (AK47). It’s a typical purchase for a day at the range.
Nothing extraordinary about it, per transaction.
Kind of defeats any attempts to limit “mass” quantity purchases.
It’s a suggested law that’s as stupid, and ineffectual as, say…limiting ephedrine sales.
I do not think that if you are a smoker or a drug addict you should be allowed on welfare. I believe in helping my neighbors, but if I have two neighbors one is a good person down on their luck trying to claw their way back to the top, and the other is a bum who hasn’t worked in who knows how long sits around all day smoking and drinking beer, I don’t want to split the money up and give both of them the same ammount, I would rather give it all to the person who is more responsible.
@HappierHeathen - while i may not agree with you, that was an amazing little micro rant you had there.
To the gun control thing: Gun laws do not reduce gun crime, simple as that.
@IntoTheWind1 - Why don’t we just make it illegal to kill people, wouldn’t that be easier?
@obamawatch - oops, lol
I hate some of the new medication regulations. For example, I went to CVS to buy Nyquil and they carded me.
1. A doctor’s prescription should get you and your wife enough allergy medication. It is very frustrating–I mean, if you’re only allowed to get 24 pills a month, there is no way to get through the month without significant suffering considering if you take even just one pill a day it won’t last you a whole month. The government can put restrictions all they want on the decongestant medications, but if it is someone’s prerogative to make meth out of it, he/she will find a way to obtain it.
2. I don’t believe we can group together all women who choose to smoke (and/or drink) during their pregnancy as people who want to have free healthcare/other handouts. There are people of all types who want to take advantage of the system. I cannot think of any good solutions yet though…
1) ask the NRA lobbyists.
2) if u use one bad example to ban a whole system, u can essentially ban any system u want.
I get allertec, and I’m sure you can get more than one bottle. I think you can get it at costco, I’m not sure. And, secondly, I bet that is annoying. I’m all for reducing taxes by alot, so everyone has tiny tiny taxes, and for those that are extremely poor, removing them and offering basic health care. That way, they can work their way up instead of getting something for nothing, Obama is a no go for me. Increasing taxes never really created jobs, he’s making a sink hole for himself and the U.S. =/
@babybug329 - I know! I had a young couple move in next door and she smoked cigars and drank heavily during her pregnancy and gave birth to a birth defect baby, then she had the audacity to cry about it and ask God why. -_____-
I think you make a good argument that guns should be banned! If we can ban OTC substances used to make Meth, we should be able to ban the senseless sale of assault weapons. By the way, stop ranting about the small things. See your doctor and get a prescription of the larger dose.
You seem to spend a lot of time on the internet for one who claims to “work all day.”
1.) Use cash and go to different stores. There is no way to trace what and how much you buy.
2.) I know plenty of people like that in my life but I can’t think about that aspect of it. I just have to focus on me and my family and the government do what they want with the taxes. As much as I hate it there are going to what they want with them anyway it doesn’t matter how much we scream. My voice will be heard loud and clear when I cast my vote and as a citizen that is all I can do.
@IniquitousxAffliction - Not all allergy medications are included, only the ones marked “D”. The drug that is the decongestant is the part that some people make meth out of. It still shocks me how many people either don’t know or ignorant to the fact what smoking and alcohol does to the fetus. Just last week I read an article that stated 1 in 13 pregnant women admitted to intentionally drinking. I don’t know how big the control group is, or if the group was diversified enough, but either way, even if the number is higher than actual–it is still a lot of women behaving stupidly.
People that are 21+ jobless/not looking for a job and are living off their parents AND bringing their jobless bf/gf to live with them at their parents as well AND get pregnant and STILL don’t see a reason to get a job. Like do you expect your dad to buy you, your boyfriend, and baby food, clothes, water, makeup, pampers, formula and you just sit your ass at home. UGH that annoys me so much. I would understand you live with your parents but have your own job and help them out, or even if you don’t help them out at least buy your own shit. Don’t just sit on your ass all day…… sad to say that’s a cousin of mine…
You know you are going to make meth with that Allegra D.
@MomWithoutaMinivan - take a picture of him when he looks his worst, carry it in your wallet and then when they give you dirty looks shove it in their faces and yell “LOOK AT THIS FACE! HE NEEDS DRUGS”
@bbanmen420 - LOL people always ask me about Ketchup Chips, can’t stand them.
I think we are as strict but in different ways. There are some drugs I get only in the U.S. It’s all a bit over the top I think. Where in Canada did you live? Cool!
@Melissa___Dawn - Most places have implemented a tracking system that you are required to show an i.d. and your info is put into the system. If you go down the road, the system flags that you’ve just purchased that specific medication and your information is then forwarded to local authorities. I’m not sure what all states are using this system or if it’s nationwide, yet, or not.
@somethingyou__forgot - We know, but there’s a new act in California that allows sale of needles without a prescription by the pharmacy. This act was to encourage not sharing needles with others because the incidence of HIV was sky rocketing. You can read more about it here: http://www.cdph.ca.gov/programs/aids/Pages/OASyringeAccess.aspx/
So you’re an addict who makes more than 250k a year and life isn’t fair? There there dear.
Would you like me to send you some Allegra D?
batman shooter? who shoot batman?
Interesting rant.
@TheSutraDude - Liberals have no idea what common sense is. They wouldn’t know common sense if it slapped them in the face.
To a liberal, common sense means standing on the ceiling and expecting not to fall on your head.
you know Dan you can go buy four guns and ammo and then trade it on the black market for alleges. Just a thought.
@PrisonerxOfxLove - so you’re implying the majority of NRA members who say they would like to see common sense gun laws put in place, which is who i was talking about, are liberals? i don’t see why you even bother loborn. you seem to argue for the sake of arguing and throwing whatever you can think of, which isn’t much, against a wall to see if anything will stick. must be difficult to do while standing on the ceiling hoping not to fall on your head.
Get a box from store A. Then get a box from store B. Honestly, it pisses me off enough that I even have to go up to the damn counter. I also hate having to get a prescription for anything. *shrug*
I honestly do not know anyone on welfare who ‘deserves’ it. To paraphrase, everyone that I know of who is on it, is abusing the system in one way or another. Why the hell would they want to give up free everything? “Oh, I’m so poor. Poor me, I have nothing to do all day sitting here on my fat ass watching my HD TV and not working. Hey, let’s go to Red Lobster for dinner.”
@TheSutraDude - I’m not like you. I don’t parrot what I’ve been told by news outlets aka Democrat Party mouthpieces. And I don’t pretend to speak for all NRA members.
@PrisonerxOfxLove - so republican strategist who took the NRA poll is a liberal? sorry loborn. that one doesn’t stick to the wall at all.
@TheSutraDude - Yes. He could be. The entire GOP establishment is liberal. That’s why the Tea Party came into existence.
Dim wit GOP Senator from Arizona John McCain just excoriated Michelle Bachmann for writing a non-public letter of inquiry concerning possible security breaches.
That’s her job since she is on the Intelligence committee.
But her letter upset some liberals. So along with liberal McCain, liberal GOP Senator Lindsay Graham also joined in.
Go buy some crack, it is in the same category as meth and helps to dry the sinuses. Or you can stop drinking dairy products and other mucous producing foods and your allegies could also lessen.
Too bad for every evil gun user taken off the street another evil gun user is born. They have stopped gun sales at conventions in Colorado but they should take your Allegra D idea and put gun purchases in the community data bank to prevent folks from buying too many guns.
retired nurse here-the plain Claratin or Allegra without the D is for your allergies but because you don’t take it when you need it or take it too late to help your allergies. you have to use the D. D is for congestion only.
I take Nasonex for my congestion since I can’t take the D cause it causes my blood pressure and heart rate to go up.
I can usually tell when my allergies are bothering me cause my ears stop up. In the spring and fall I take Claratin daily cause of my allergies;this prevents the nasal congestion.
ps I didn’t miss your big picture message.
Same goes for robitussin with the G stuff in it. They limit you to how much you can buy. Round up your friends and ask them to get it for you with their licenses HAHA thats what we do! Either that or find something that works just the same. OR get a prescription.
As for welfare and smoking.. it only lasts so long and that’s it for the rest of your LIFE. You can’t live off the system for ten years. The rules have changed. Also, is that her real picture or are you ASSUMING that all women who are on welfare are pregnant that smoke?
Dan, I hate to break it to you, but your tax dollars already pay for her free medical care. Ever heard of Medicaid? If she’s on welfare, she’s got Medicaid.
I’m truly sorry for your allergies.
But I am curious–let’s say the US never stops having some form of publicly offered health insurance. Would you get so irritated you’d move? Where would you move? I would recommend Canada, or the UK, or even Costa Rica (it is quite lovely there) but they all have some form of government-funded health care.
I get it–there are lots of different attributes to those countries that make those systems work over the US. Like the fact that they don’t smoke. Except for French women.
But… you’re the one who wants the government to regulate marriage. I think meth is slightly more dangerous than marriage. Maybe.
I’m pretty sure I know who that xangan is, and she/it can go fuck itself.
As for numbers 1-3. Fuck the government
Palm. To. Face. It’s all about the human entitlement. “so long as my presence graces this planet I am deserving of all comforts of the world, at the expense of others…” Might as well ask the government to pay for the cigarettes… oh wait! That’s right, they do!!! >.<
I was going to suggest that you go to your doctor and find out if you could get a prescription. Personally, Zyrtec works better for me.
I’m trying to get us all into labor camps because this is disgraceful. All I do is wander all day. Sometimes, I don’t feel good. Torturing me this much was unnecessary.
Do you need a hug? Or maybe a shot of whiskey?
Dude! You’re missing the most obvious solution. Make some fucking meth! I bet that will clear up your allergies. Or turn you into a rage zombie… but then allergies will be the least of your worries, right?
There, I fixed it
i’m with you, bro. this ain’t so cool.
You could always have your wife buy some too since she is using yours. The limit is “per person” not per family. Make her buy her own.
RIGHT THERE WITH YOU WITH THE ALLERGY MEDS. AMEN to #2.
I hate lazy people, who refuse to work, and live off the system!
I have to take two Zyrtec D pills a day and since it went over the counter it is way more expensive. But I have a prescription from my doctor so I can get what I need each month, which ends up costing me about $40
I totally agree! It makes me angry to see someone sit at home all day. I pay taxes for you to sit at home and get free medicare. I don’t have insurance, and you do.
if you need to use that much allegra, you should probably ask your PCP about your allergies for their advice. like maybe getting a referral to an allergist. or trying a neti pot! my sister swears by that thing.
this was a pretty entertaining rant. although not everyone on welfare abuses the system. welfare is intended to give people help for a short amt of time to get them back on their feet. unfortunately in any society you will always have people who take advantage of it. if you focus too much on the extreme, like ppl who dont need to be on it but are on it.. then it shifts the help and we begin to neglect or take away from the people who do need to be on it, who are barely surviving. like people who work 2-3 jobs a day and have families to feed, and can’t afford their healthcare.