…the vast majority of the people who drove by our protest on the Boardwalk in Coos Bay (right downtown on the waterfront) were overwhelmingly in favor….
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Nigerian Scam Moves Headquarters to United Nations
“… today’s United Nations, which now resembles nothing more than a thoroughly corrupt, bloated and incompetent whore.”
Thoughts
Think for yourself.
One-legged man bicycles his way out of bitterness…
An excellent human interest story from the LA Times about Felix Hackenberg, the one-legged bicyclist who is often seen cruising the hills of Griffith Park in LA. The message Felix (a name which means “happiness” in Latin) gives is this: “… he has let go of the despair that followed the loss of his leg. […]
New video on mandatory mental health screening
I’m of the opinion that mandatory mental health screening is nuts. There are politicians and lobby groups from the APA and Big Pharma in Washington DC right now pushing “The Mother’s Act”, which should really be called the “Medicating All Mothers” Act. The real purpose of this lobbying effort is to get a whole new […]
Tax Day Tea Party “Flash Mob” – Coos Bay, Oregon
I don’t usually talk about politics or economics, except as they relate to psychiatric abuse, government funding of the field of psychiatry or big pharma. (Can you really tell those two apart these days?) But after hearing about it on twitter, I decided to attend the tax day “Tea Party” in Coos Bay, Oregon, on […]
Free widget – make a button so people can easily follow you
Rafferty Pendery over at Social Follow has come up with a new FREE tool that lets you create a button so that others can easily follow you on your favorite social media sites, such as Twitter, LinkedIn, and Facebook (my three personal favorites). His free tool allows you to set up easily used “follow me” […]
Rolling Stone Article: Marketing a Phony “Miracle” Drug
There’s a great article in Rolling Stone about Eli Lilly marketing their phony miracle drug, Zyprexa[link is behind a paywall now]. It does a good job documenting how Lilly misled doctors and the public in order to rake in billions of dollars. It fails, however, in ascribing their misdeeds to oversight and wishful thinking. The […]
No Google Filter for Lies
I am reading “The Compleated Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin”, which was compiled and published by Mark Skousen, Ph.D. The book is fascinating and picks up where Ben Franklin’s own autobiography left off in 1757, when he was just 51 years old and before all the events of the American Revolution. Franklin wrote many thousands of […]
Open Letter to Governor Tim Pawlenty re psychiatric abuse
November 8, 2008: Dear Governor Pawlenty – One of your citizens there in Minnesota, a Mr. Ray Sanford, has been forced to undergo weekly electro-shock therapy (ECT) for several months, against his will, by court order, on an outpatient basis. Will you please investigate this abuse of his human rights and common decency? According to […]