does this incident bear any resemblence or relationship to what occurred when Cindy McCain “avoided charges” in an investigation of her theft and use of prescription painkillers in the early 1990s?

Probably not, but interesting…

Although I have worked ages in a healthcare related field, I eschew pharmaceuticals. However, I have observed in the literature from psychiatry, as well as in the Local News section of the local deadtree newspaper that OxyContin is a drug of choice among teens experiencing the ennui of life in bergs in which the locals shutter the sidewalks at sunset. I pity the youth who might have been customers of the reported transaction. It is a regulatorily controlled nonplacebo like the historical parent’s little helper in a popular song ages past. I kind of like the benign neglect of the authorities in the reported way the investigation proceeded. Without reading the germane PDR article, I believe the O-C is potentiated by, e.g., whatever is in a keg. I think from the reporting in the local papers there is ample evidence it is one of the pharmaceuticals in which there is much gray marketing and intensely draws the interest of various government entities. Also, I believe its label has cautions against driving or operating chainsaws, but perhaps forgets to mention snowmobiles or snowthrowers, except in the most generic of caveatted proscriptions. The topic seems more like ‘Take one tabloid one hour before meals.’ But I think a lot of people genuinely rejoice to some degree when the doctor offers O-C during recovery from physical injury, or to elderly people beset with multiple ailments. It has got to be tough to be a bored young adult in a small community in AK.

The Palin’s belong to a family that only recently took the wheels off their house.

bmaz asked me to help him on some research for this and probably other pieces on this subject over last weekend. I was unable to help yet. I wrote a little bit about tangential stuff earlier today.

In Alaska, state and local narcotics investigations are often done by combined units. Back when I was a sworn officer, the unit was called the “Metro Squad.” If you are young, fairly competent and have proven yourself to be productive, you are pressured to serve on the “Metro Squad” in exchange for further promotion.

By sharing resources in such a small state, officers from outside a small town can be used in another small town in a different geographic area of the state, where the chance of them being recognized when working undercover would be greatly reduced. Other small states do this. In Alaska filings, persons described as “informants” are sometimes actually real undercover police officers, sometimes somebody who has been compromised, working their obligation down or away.

Unless Federal issues come up, there is no contact with the Feds during any investigation. But if the Oxycontin was mailed to Ms. Johnston, the Feds should have entered the investigation at the beginning, at least to the point of being informed and seeing where that might have led in regard to something the Feds may have had afoot.

So far, to my knowledge, there has been no indication the intercepted package was sent through the U.S. mail, no indication it wasn’t. Also, there are questions about how some of the attendant documents related to this getting from investigation phase to indictment phase have been or are being handled at the AST and district court level.

From what I’ve learned so far in and near Wasilla, though, this could well be just another local oxycontin bust, with no external meddling.

Oh…and do some research on Michelle Obama’s employment history at the hospital. Her hands are as dirty as Barry’s! Ooops…hope I don’t sound racist.
BTW, I am an African-American. For what it’s worth.

As an Independent-minded Libertarian, I am starting to find you Liberals more hypocritical and significantly more mean-spirited than the Conservatives.
Hmmm…refer back to my initial blog about those with personality disorders. GET SOME THERAPY !!!

Peace out…..and PLEASE, google schizotypal, borderline, and narcissistic personality disorders. Insight is the first step to healing oneself. The world is full of too many angry, nasty people.

Ignoring the facts on the other side that don’t suit your argument. Hopefully just like the media, most of you will be without a job soon, too.
I’ve already hired 2 Obama campaign workers who lost their regular jobs after the election because their employers are covering their assets before our new president screws up the economy even further. No more, though…as a black man, I’m familiar with quotas! And I’ve met mine.
LOL

Laughing makes me miss Jodi. or miss Ms. Jodi. If she was a Ms. If she was a Jodi and not a bunch of freepers. Jodi thought she was thinking and on point. Laughing spews his/her stuff out and hangs it on the most convenient hook.
For example his vitriolic description of our community in response to my comment @1. 25% of which was devoted to “happy new year marcie.” and the other 75% to expressing skepticism that the Palin obstruction would come to anything. But rejoicing in Alaska as our gift that…you know.

If that’s a symptom of what laughing calls “personality disorder” then laughing has a personality disorder. Called extreme paranoia.

The troll did waht trolls do. they have few tricks and often cycle through them all. What I saw here was:
1. Point somewhere else to derail the conversation away from the subject (or any subject ahrmful to conservtive interests).
2. Ascribe any and all observations about conservative lawbreaking, corruption, incompetence, and/or malfeasance to Bush Derangement Syndrome or some other mental illness. Ignore fact at all costs.
3. This one prvided a little blast from the past. I recall during the Clinton administration how often trolls would inform us in all seriousness that Any Day Now the evidence would apear that would finally and conclusively prove that Bill Clinton had personally gutted and beheaded Vince Foster, had shot Ron Brown, had smuggled cocaine into the country, had what-have-you. Any Day Now. This one hearkens back to that halcyon era with his assurances that Any Day Now the smoking-gun evidence of Barack Obama’s obvious, extensive, and thorough “Chicago!!” corruption will be surfacing then that then We Will All Be Sorry and will Admit He Is Right.

Get ready for a lot more of this. And like before, it WILL be fun.