Here’s a drug ad petition to make the FDA require that drug ads on TV have a toll-free number so that people can call in and report problems they are having with those drugs being over-advertised, and requiring more of a detailed disclosure of the side effects that the drugs have, and the prevalence of […]
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Clayton Holmes helped by Scientology courses
I thought it appropriate that on this Super Bowl Sunday, I found an article about Clayton Holmes, the three-time Super Bowl winner who squandered his money on strippers and drugs, fathered four kids with four different women, and by age 38 was living in a shack on his mother’s place in Florence, SC; financially broke […]
I’d be mad if the attacks were working…
Who’s funding this attack, anyway?
Dianetics – the book I’m reading
I’m doing an extension course on the book “Dianetics, the Modern Science of Mental Health”. The last time I read this book was about 30 years ago. I’d forgotten how much info was in it, and what a kick it was to read this book. The work you do on the extension course makes sure […]
Scientology Portland buys new building
My local Church of Scientology in Portland, Oregon, has just bought a new building, located at 812 SW Washington St., downtown. The building was bought for about $5 Million, using donations from the thousands of local Scientologists (including me!) There’s no mortgage – it’s now owned outright by the Church. A little personal history – […]
Citizens Commission on Human Rights
The Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR) is a group to which I’ve belonged and which I’ve helped to support financially for about 35 years. One of my nephews was put on psychiatric drugs as a teenager. He immediately quit being an honor student and star swimming athlete, and became a zoned-out zombie for the […]
The global warming scam
Here’s a great quote fom John Coleman, a meteorologist and founder of the Weather Channel: “It is the greatest scam in history. I am amazed, appalled and highly offended by it. Global Warming; It is a SCAM. Some dastardly scientists with environmental and political motives manipulated long term scientific data to create in allusion of […]
NY Times Drowning in Red Ink
Despite layoffs of about 500 people in 2005, the NY Times (in my opinion the most dishonest, corrupt and immoral of all American newspapers) is drowning in red ink. Here’s an article about the NY Times that has a graph showing the NY Times stock price over the last couple of years. As one of […]
Ban ADHD drugs, not Tag
Tony Zizza writes an excellent on Reality Check [original article taken down] about how a school in Colorado has banned tag on its playground, supposedly because “some children complained they were harassed or chased against their will.” Tony says: Ban ADHD drugs, not tag. That’s right. You would have to be a moron with a […]
Good luck to this teacher… she’s gonna need it!
A teacher in Medford, Oregon (about three hours from where we live) has a concealed weapons permit. But her school board, in its infinite wisdom, has warned her that she is not allowed to carry her weapon on school grounds. Apparently they didn’t get word of what happened at Vtech, Columbine, or up in Springfield, […]