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"If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing."
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May 6th, 2008
I admit it, I’m a fan of Tom Cruise. Ever since Top Gun, anyway. I didn’t care much for Risky Business.
And now Tom is back on Oprah’s couch. He’s not jumping for joy this time, but he is celebrating 25 years of being a leading actor in films. In other words it’s been 25 years since Risky Business was released.
Two sites worth seeing about Tom:
Oprah’s slide show
and the new Tom Cruise official site
Very slick videos on that official site.
Have fun! I did. And let me know what you think.
Continue Reading Tom Cruise celebrates 25th anniversary of Risky Business release.
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April 24th, 2008
When I see the news with its talk of ruin, injustice, inequities (and iniquities) and failures in the world, it all seems very “gloom and doom”. Terrorism, the rise of militant Islam in the world, the impossibly high cost of health care, the high taxes, the unemployment, the failing educational system, man-made global warming etc., hurricaines, earthquakes, ad nauseum. The things that they are trying to get us to believe in so we’ll be too upset to resist their efforts at control because we’ll ASK them to come in and protect us from the bogey-men.
I try to keep my …
Continue Reading “These are not dark days…”.
Posted in Opinion, Scientology, Global Warming | No Comments »
April 24th, 2008
The group Downsize DC has put up a good quote from Thomas Jefferson about taxes, which I’m adopting and putting on my quotes page:
“We must make our election between economy and liberty, or profusion and servitude. If we run into such debts, as that we must be taxed in our meat and in our drink, in our necessaries and our comforts, in our labors and our amusements, for our callings and our creeds, as the people of England are, our people, like them, must come to labor sixteen hours in the twenty-four, give the earnings of fifteen of these to the …
Continue Reading Tax Freedom Day - Thomas Jefferson quote.
Posted in Opinion, Human Rights | 3 Comments »
April 22nd, 2008
Global warming is happening - there’s little controversy over that (although with snow here in Oregon in mid April, it’s sometimes hard to believe that other areas are warming up enough to average it out). There’s a lot of controversy over how much, and to what degree it is caused by human activities.
Here’s a cute little test of your knowledge of Global Warming, in honor of Earth Day. How hysterical should we all be, and to what degree should we all be trying to shut down carbon emissions and cripple industry, in an attempt to “handle” the causes of global …
Continue Reading Global Warming Test.
Posted in Opinion, Global Warming | No Comments »
April 19th, 2008
This trailer for a new movie, called “Generation Rx” is generating some buzz. The movie itself has already garnered some great reviews. Paul Haggis called the film “A powerful and often chilling eye opener. The stories continue to haunt me.” The film will be released within the next few months, if all goes well in post production. Take a look at this trailer for Generation Rx and let me know what you think:
Continue Reading Generation Rx.
Posted in Psychiatric Abuse, Human Rights, Big Pharma | No Comments »
April 18th, 2008
I rarely post humor. Something about Gaping Void (cartoons from Hugh MacLeod, a cartoonist currently living in Alpine, Texas) got me laughing. There’s not enough of some kinds of laughter in the world, and too much of the laughter out there is mean-spirited. This cartoonist seems to have done a good job of being — what’s the opposite of mean-spirited? — right, NICE!
I think I’ll keep this widget in place until he does something mean, rude, or in some other way offends my sensibilities.
Continue Reading Humor.
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April 12th, 2008
Just a couple of weeks ago our grandkids were building little snowmen after what was probably the last snowfall of the season:
It seems like Spring only arrived yesterday, in that we haven’t had to have a fire going in the woodstove the last couple of days. That’s a lovely break as it seems like we’re always chucking wood in the firebox.
I was out trimming down some brush along the road to the top of the hill near our house, and took a couple of photos to document the lovely spring weather.
The little white dot in the bottom …
Continue Reading Spring is here at last.
Posted in Ranch Life, Opinion, Photography | No Comments »
April 6th, 2008
A new hard-hitting anti-psych video from CCHR, the Citizens Commission on Human Rights, of which I’ve been a member since 1972, highlights the firm link between school shootings and the drugs that the shooters were on. Drugs like Ritalin and Prozac ARE the reason these school shootings are taking place. These drugs need to be outlawed and the criminal drug company executives and FDA officials that have conspired to keep the public in the dark so they can keep raking in their profits need to be tried and imprisoned for their complicity in these murders. The psychiatrists who have been prescribing …
Continue Reading Prescription for Violence - psych drugs causing school shootings.
Posted in Opinion, Psychiatric Abuse, Big Pharma | No Comments »
April 3rd, 2008
This article from London’s Daily Telegraph reports that a psychiatrist often picked by the BBC as a talking head Tonmoy Sharma is being struck off the medical register for fraud and misconduct, including pretending to be a PhD when he wasn’t. After a ten-month hearing process, he was found guilty of “serious professional misconduct”. He was found to have acted unprofessionally in relation to five major studies between 1997 and 2003, involving four Big Pharma companies, including Eli Lilly and the Janssen Research Foundation.
Continue Reading BBC psychiatrist Tonmoy Sharma is found guilty of serious professional misconduct…..
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March 28th, 2008
Received a funny email today about Caffeine-related disorders.
In the clinician’s handbook for diagnosing mental disorders (the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, known as the DSM-IV-TR), caffeine-related disorders are classified under the category of substance-related disorders. DSM-IV-TR specifies four caffeine-related disorders:
- caffeine intoxication
- caffeine-induced anxiety disorder
- caffeine-induced sleep disorder
- caffeine related disorder not otherwise specified
What a pantload of crap!
It’s true that caffeine is a mild drug with euphoric symptoms, which can be abused. Those who drink more than a cup or two a day are caught in some cycle of highs and lows. And over the long term, coffee is bad for your …
Continue Reading Caffeine-related disorder.
Posted in Opinion, Psychiatric Abuse, Big Pharma | 1 Comment »
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