The NY Times, furthering its attempts to demonize George W. Bush and the GOP, buried the story of the breaking up of the plot to blow up JFK airport on page 30 of its Sunday editions, between the obits and the chess collumn. It was good news (albeit a bit scary) and it directly related […]
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“Bonkers Institute” is not so bonkers
I respect what one fed-up citizen named Ben Hansen (aka M. I Bonkers) is doing to bring some humor to his exposés of various psychiatric abuses in the state of Michigan. Documents he obtained under the Freedom of Information Action (FOIA) show alarming increases in psychiatric drug use and drug-induced movement disorders in children under […]
Too true…
Psychiatry is to medicine what astrology is to astronomy.
Volunteer Ministers Tent in Portland
For the last week or so, the Church of Scientology of Portland has been sponsoring a Volunteer Ministers‘ Cavalcade in Pioneer Square in Portland. They put up a huge yellow tent and spoke with anyone who wanted to talk. In one week they had about 4500 people go through the tent, looking at the exhibits, […]
Viral video
This amazing video demonstrates the level of protection provided for skin by “Gloves in a Bottle” (one of my clients). I’ve been using their product for about 8 years, whenever dry skin becomes an issue for me, or when I work out where I might get some poison oak on my skin. First I put […]
History Channel
May 9th of this year marks the 57th anniversary of the publication of the book Dianetics. The History Channel noted it with this silly clip: Dianetics Anniversary. They camp it up a bit, but it IS true that Dianetics was published 57 years ago. Old as I am, that’s before I was born. They make […]
BBC’s smear campaign pre-empted
John Sweeny, a BBC reporter doing an “exposé” on the Church of Scientology, has found that the church is not a normal victim of sensationalist journalism, willing to take whatever they dish out. Before the BBC could get their smear job on the air, the Church completed its own exposé of the slipshod journalism of […]
Perfect Spring Day
Saturday was a perfect spring day here in Coastal Oregon. Sunny and crisp. I took my dog for a long walk; it felt good to get outside again and look around. When I first got to the ranch 8 years ago, I brought with me a Pentax ME Super camera, which I’ve had since about […]
Mad Rights
This group MindFree.org[link died] has similar goals to CCHR. MindFree headquarters seems to be in Eugene, Oregon. Their leaders seem to be survivors of psychiatric repression. I like their tag line, “Mad Pride”. Psychiatric labeling has no basis in reality, those damaged by it could do worse than joining up with MindFree.org. Although I think […]
Psych Drugs create homicidal ideation
As it says in the black box warning on psych drugs, they can create homicidal and suicidal ideation. Fancy words for making you go into a killing rage. Here’s a quote from the Chicago Tribune: Professor Carolyn Rude, chairwoman of the university’s English department, said she did not personally know the gunman. But she said […]