That’s what she said about going to Rehab in her song of the same name.

It’s Monday, and I hate to bring you down, but the death of Amy Winehouse Saturday should surprise no one.

As I write this, the cause of her death is undetermined.

We can only speculate.

Drugs.

I despise drugs.

I look around at friends and family who’s lives have been altered forever and wonder, “Why?”.

So many people, not famous people, people who get no press, little mourning, and many shakes of the head have lost their lives to drugs.   Some are living in a perpetual state of death, some are gone. 

I despise what drugs have done to my friends, my family, my nation.  I know people who’ve been nearly bankrupted by their children’s actions.  Rehab, after care, lawyers, court costs, cars, insurance, more rehab, more lawyers, doctors, more rehab.  It’s a merry-go-round with hideous music, one can not escape.

It’s destroying families and lives and depriving the world of music, art, joy, and life.

Joplin, Jim Morrison, Hendrix, Elvis, Marilyn Monroe; wasted lives, wasted talent, all lives ended before they gave all.

And, don’t get me started on “The War On Drugs”!  Nixon started this one in 1971.  We’ve spent more on the war on drugs than we did in Viet Nam. 

Instead of saying no, no, no to rehab, take a line from Nancy Reagan and say no to drugs!

Seriously, it does!

*photo stolen from Lori Houghton Kasler’s Facebook page taken by Lori, one of my most faithful readers!!

Lynnwood, Washington police said the former boyfriend of a woman broke into her apartment, held her down and shaved her head so she would not be attractive to other men.

Nice guy!

Guess who’s the Ass Of  The Week!

At 4:35 p.m. on a Friday, they were called to an apartment in the 18300 of 52nd Avenue West by a woman who said her ex-boyfriend was trying to break into her apartment.

By the time they got there, he was already inside.

And very busy. 

Lynnwood officers said they arrived at the scene to find the front door kicked in and a man standing in the doorway to the bedroom with a pair of hair clippers in his hand.

They cuffed him on the spot.

The victim, a 30-year-old woman, was crying hysterically and holding her head in her hands, which held clumps of hair. 

According to a Snohomish County police document, locks of hair littered the floor of the bedroom and living room and a phone had been smashed.  Hair had been shaved from the right and back of the victim’s head and the victim’s arms were bruised, according to police documents.

The woman told officers that during their relationship, the man had been jealous and paranoid that she was seeing other men and had been particularly paranoid in the last few weeks.

Ok, someone’s not reading Cosmo’s “How to know when your boyfriend’s crazy” pieces.

“El dumbasso” arrived at her apartment on that Friday and began screaming for her to open the door.  Thinking the better of it, she ran to the bathroom and called 911. 

El Ducho broke down the front door, grabbed the woman and slammed her head against a mirror. He told the woman that she had “given him no choice and that he was going to have to shave her head,” and then pulled out the clippers and began shaving her hair off.

And all this with no beauty operators license!!

Documents said the man had previously threatened to shave her head earlier in the week, while they were at her former boyfriend’s father’s house and also tried to stuff her into a clothes dryer.

Although probably not on Cosmo’s list, this should have been the first sign. 

A detective who interviewed this jerk, said the man admitted to bringing the clippers with him with the intention of shaving his ex-girlfriend’s head so she wouldn’t be attractive to other men. He also said he kicked in the door because he was convinced she was inside with another man.

And, because he was “jacked UP” on methamphetamine, methadone, Xanax and Abilify.

He addmitted to experiencing delusions and hallucinations.

Duh!! 

Danno flew all the way in from Oahu, and  booked ‘em into the Lynnwood Jail for ‘investigation’ of burglary and unlawful imprisonment.

That whole innocent until proven guilty thing is really getting in the way of justice.

Oh, well, since “the girl with the new dragon do” won’t date him any more, he could always move to Orlando, I hear Casey’s not seeing anyone right now.

*Author’s note:  Redneck Latte Ravings does not condone abuse of any kind.  If this was offensive to anyone, I appologize, I was jacked UP on coffee, and thought it was funny!

More than cookies and kook-ade at Bible School, I remember the wonderful after service dinners we had as kids back at First Baptist Church of Germantown.

But alas, all that food might have done some harm.

No, I’m not talking about the mayonaise on the ham biscuits Mother made sitting out all morning, or Ann Hannahan’s Coconut Pies, or Adda Belle Riley’s – well, anything she brought, the Sister could cook!

I’m talking about a new study:  researchers at Northwestern University have made a possible connection between obesity and young people who attend religious activities.

After studying more than 2,400 men and women in the major cities of Chicago, Minneapolis, Birmingham, and Oakland, for eighteen freakin’ years the researchers say there might be a link between religious activty and weight gain.

The folks they studied were between 18 and 32.  None of the people studied were overweight when the study began, they only looked for Skinny Christians. 

By the end of the study, those who had gone to a religious activity at least once a week were 50% more likely to become obese by middle age than people with no religious participation.

Go ahead, blame it on Jesus, you heretic!

Most of the people studied were Christian, “reflecting the dominant religion in the United States,”  – interesting how it’s the dominant religion, and that whole “Christian Nation” thing is passe!

The researchers don’t have a clear-cut reason as to why the link might exist, and the poeple who funded it want to know where the money went I’m sure, but according to Matthew Feinstein, the study’s lead investigator, food could be a big factor. 

Could be?  Ok, what kind of research lab is this?

Matt says,  “We didn’t look specifically at the potluck factor, but anecdotally, we know that oftentimes at these religious gatherings people will eat traditional comfort foods which are often high in fat and calories and salt.”

Well of course they do, why would anyone go for celery sticks and wheat thins?

So, maybe it is Jesus’ fault, I don’t know.

There’s good news however, the study did show that regular churchgoers often smoke less and live longer than those who don’t go to church.

Apparently there were no Southern Baptists in the study!

Dinner on the grounds, anyone?