Friday, August 21, 2009

Obama may tank faster than the Titanic.

He is championing the right causes but…
Put simply, people are not as gullible as they used to be.

On the war front:
The administration is expanding our wars on and off budget,
increasing the use of agencies like Prince's Blackwater militia in areas
like Afghanistan. Blackwater is part of the CIA assassination program
which uses a private militia to fill in where official government action
could be called into question. They operate above the law, courtesy
of policies established in the Bush administration, and they cost
at least 10 times what our own military personnel would cost.
And the deaths of their forces don't enter into "official" statistics.

On the health front:
It is hard for many Americans NOT to hold obese people
or drug addicts or people with unwanted pregnancies responsible
for their condition. While aids has lost steam as a major contributor
to death in our nation, to fight the disease costs a fortune and it is hard
NOT to hold the indiscriminate drug user or sex deviant responsible for
the consequences of their actions. People who live on Big Macs and
dingdongs at the expense of their bodies earn little sympathy from those
who protect their body's health with a proper diet. Unwanted pregnancies
are a result of raging hormones, but are also a result of a disgusting head
in the sand approach to sex education on the part of our government. The
backward facing Bush administration and religious communities can be held
directly responsible for the lack of responsible sex education but we all share
the burden of these irresponsible policies.

We can't trust the government to solve our problems since they are
in many respects enablers. We can't expect "for profit" businesses like
insurance companies not to capitalize on opportunities created by our own
personal lack of self discipline or self-respect.

So our only answer is to rely upon ourselves, our own good judgment,
and the hope that wisdom and experience will win out.

Geez we are in trouble.

Friday, August 7, 2009

Drug companies promote drug addiction.

I am not dissing drug companies. They do what they do and they do it well. They create a market for drugs and then they sell drugs to that market.

Just good business.

But they have moved from selling drugs we need to creating a need for drugs.

They are better at it than crack salesman. And they're not against the law. They're free to do whatever their lobbyists can convince Congress they should be able to do. If crack salesman had lobbyists crack wouldn't be against the law. In fact, for most of our history cocaine has been legal. Cocaine was the coke in Coca-Cola.

We are now promoting drugs to children to combat "childhood" depression, or blue days. Blue days are a symptom of childhood.

To put children as young as three years old on antidepressants is, IMHO, beyond ridiculous. It is scandalous. Parents too busy to pay attention to their children's needs follow the prescriptions of "doctors". Doctors are the drug companies first line of offense.

Any doctor who treats childhood as a curable disease should be defrocked and run out of town. Our children are being taught pill popping is the answer for everything. They get started on mood elevators or mood levelers like Ritalin and they end up popping Vicodin like candy when they are old enough to convince a doctor they need medicinal help. And the doctors oblige. In Michael Jackson's case, he was obliged to death.

Alcohol is legal and it is perhaps the most destructive drug available.

Marijuana is illegal and it is perhaps the most constructive drug available.

We have no drug sense anymore. Gimme some Ritalin.

Tuesday, August 4, 2009

As the story unfolds...

It becomes clearer, day by day, that the Bush
administration consisted of some of the biggest
liars of the century. Guys like Rove, Panetta,
Cheney and, hopefully Bush himself, will
eventually fall under the relentless questioning
of the Justice Department and Congress.

These guys lied us into a war, lied about weapons
of mass destruction, lied to the Justice Department
about political reasons behind the firing of numerous
justices affiliated with the opposite party, lied to
convict a governor of the opposite party of crimes he
didn't commit, and just lied, lied, and lied some more.

No justice could be severe enough to compensate
this country for the damage these people have done
to undermine the world's opinion of our national integrity.
We stand disgraced.

Hopefully these people will stand convicted of their
crimes and be stripped of all benefits unfairly
awarded to people of their ilk and be known
as the common criminals they are.