tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-67009372008-05-04T17:18:15.463-07:00Blog no Michijerehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13427290547022495899noreply@blogger.comBlogger146125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6700937.post-75502869324418987572008-05-04T17:11:00.000-07:002008-05-04T17:18:15.505-07:00There's no place like homeBack today from a week of traveling, conferencing, and taking a bazillion photos at the conference. (about 2 GB worth of photos at about 5Mb apiece. That's quite a few photos.) There's no place like home, especially here on our ranch in Western Oregon. Recently I find I am being inundated with spam again. Not from Blogger.com or this blog, but from other sources that have gotten my many emailjerehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13427290547022495899noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6700937.post-62248635655998804762008-04-05T23:17:00.000-07:002008-04-05T23:27:45.506-07:00Back at it... great quote from Willie SuttonWillie Sutton was a bank robber and all-around thief. He was the original "Slick Willie" (long before Bill Clinton earned that appellation) and Willie was also known as "The Actor" because he played various roles during robberies, showing up as a mailman at one or as a telegram delivery clerk at another. The press made a couple of Willie's better lines famous. Here are two of this most popular jerehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13427290547022495899noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6700937.post-14691329389316438462008-01-09T16:22:00.001-08:002008-01-09T16:26:27.483-08:00New Video on Drugs and School ShootingsThis video has a decent interview on Hannity's America, talking about the problems with school shootings and linking them to psychiatric drugs I harp on this because it is such a major issue, one of the defining issues of our times. The 60's had Vietnam, the 70's had disco, the 80's had bad hair - in the 2000's, we have school shootings.jerehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13427290547022495899noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6700937.post-26902711909849346372008-01-09T16:08:00.000-08:002008-01-09T16:15:25.657-08:00New Documentary Film - Generation RxGeneration Rx is a new film by Kevin Miller on the dangers of mind-altering drugs. It will be released later this year. You can read a review of the film on the News Target website. (Click that link.) According to the review, the film "delivers a devastating blow to the psychiatric drug pushers, FDA puppets and Big Pharma marketing fraudsters who have sold an entire nation on an absurd idea jerehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13427290547022495899noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6700937.post-24843471084012977882008-01-09T13:05:00.000-08:002008-01-09T13:10:23.604-08:00Omaha Shooter was on Psych DrugsCCHR Gets it right again: Autopsy Results Confirm Omaha Shooter Was Yet Another Killer Under the Influence of Psychiatric Drugs Watchdog Urges for Investigation Into Psychiatric Drug-Induced Teen Shootings LOS ANGELES: The mental health watchdog group Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR) is calling for a federal investigation into the link between psychiatric drugs and senseless teen jerehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13427290547022495899noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6700937.post-83214815253443974932008-01-04T13:58:00.000-08:002008-01-04T14:02:08.561-08:00Top 10 reasons to ban gunsA bit of satire on the subject of the necessity of banning guns. While it's not up to the standards of "A Modest Proposal" it is still worth reading and quite droll.jerehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13427290547022495899noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6700937.post-45218655885912307682007-10-02T11:19:00.000-07:002007-10-02T11:23:11.346-07:00Teacher testimonials from Oklahoma Drug EductionHere is one testimonial from a teacher who went through the continuing education at Eastern Oklahoma State University, learning the truth about drug rehabilitation:Narconon is a needed program, one that I feel can help with the drug problem in the state of Oklahoma. Things that I learned were great, easy, and informative. This workshop is the BEST workshop I’ve ever been involved in. The teachingjerehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13427290547022495899noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6700937.post-69235486798276168812007-09-30T10:55:00.000-07:002007-09-30T11:09:22.321-07:00Continuing Education in OklahomaDesiree Cardoso of Narconon Arrowhead recently taught the first ever college course for continuing education units that is based on the drug rehab program developed by L. Ron Hubbard. Here's a photo of the graduates. The college where this continuing education in drug rehab technology is being taught is Eastern Oklahoma State University. Apparently three courses have been accredited where jerehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13427290547022495899noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6700937.post-53850645359643877572007-09-05T22:15:00.000-07:002007-09-05T22:29:04.178-07:00Soapmaker's Labeling BookMy gal Marie Gale recently published a book about labeling. The book got a great review today on About.com from the Candles and Soap About.com editor, David Fisher. The book is a very comprehensive and helpful guide to how to label soap and cosmetics, for the handcrafted soapmaker. Big corporations making soap (usually making detergents, not actually soaps at all), have teams of lawyers jerehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13427290547022495899noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6700937.post-40926008280306277662007-08-13T10:07:00.000-07:002007-08-13T10:19:50.067-07:00Scientology restores historic house in PhoenixA lowly house near Camelback Mountain in Phoenix, Arizona, once the home of L. Ron Hubbard, the founder of the Scientology religion, has been restored by the Church of Scientology to exactly how it was in 1952, when Hubbard made his breakthrough discoveries into the spiritual nature of man. Here's an article about the L. Ron Hubbard House in the East Valley-Scottsdale Tribune, with photos. jerehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13427290547022495899noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6700937.post-65114947084101370262007-08-12T11:45:00.000-07:002007-08-12T12:02:40.765-07:00Cool summerWe're having a very cool summer here in south coastal Oregon. We bought an air conditioner after one hot day in June, and we've only had to use it twice so far. Today we're wearing sweaters at noon! I do not subscribe to the religion of global warming. Any time scientists say they have reached a consensus, I back away carefully and try to look at the actual data. When anyone says "the debatejerehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13427290547022495899noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6700937.post-39900047212164296672007-08-01T16:58:00.000-07:002007-08-01T17:01:08.913-07:00Psych quotesThis site has some terrifying quotes from leading psychiatrists. Psych Quotes. I say terrifying because they've been at it for over a hundred years now, and have made inroads into every aspect of modern life. There is evil in the world, and you'll find it candidly expressed in the words of the psychiatrists themselves, on that site.jerehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13427290547022495899noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6700937.post-38329804629921201812007-07-06T11:23:00.000-07:002007-07-06T13:47:08.888-07:00Psychiatrist appointed to leadership position in AMAIt's clear that the Psychs have taken over the AMA from this one fact: The American Medical Association has appointed psychiatrist Jeremy Lazarus, M.D., to a leadership position within the AMA. Not the APA, but the AMA. For more info on this, go here. It may be a victory for the APA, but it is a major defeat for the forces of reason. Medicine in the USA needs to get out of bed with the jerehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13427290547022495899noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6700937.post-29434393801433293242007-06-27T11:32:00.000-07:002007-06-27T11:56:40.807-07:00Liberty19 years ago, I gave my youngest daughter the name "Liberty" in part because I always liked the nickname "Libby" and in part because I truly believe that people should be free to do what they want -- as long as they don't actively harm others through their actions. The famous example of the limits of freedom of speech being that it doesn't give one the right to yell "Fire" in a crowded theater jerehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13427290547022495899noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6700937.post-11839387918464217892007-06-17T20:24:00.000-07:002007-06-18T11:04:35.368-07:00One Psychiatrist breaks ranks....Dr. Douglass C. Smith, MD, board certified psychiatriest, has broken ranks with psychiatry. Here's his take on deadly psychiatric drugs. He says they "work" by impairing the brain from properly functioning, dampening feelings, and are harmful. If you've ever wondered how Cho and others could go into a school and start shooting, consider that the reason they are given psych drugs is to stop jerehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13427290547022495899noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6700937.post-68631424710287752702007-06-12T10:45:00.001-07:002007-06-13T11:08:37.297-07:00Psych Bust of APA ConventionThe recent annual convention of the American Psychiatric Association drew hundreds of protesters with placards, showing their disapproval of psychiatric drugging of children, and other psych abuses.Here's a photo of my friend Tom Solari videotaping the protest activities. Of course this protest was sponsored by the Citizens Commission on Human Rights, of which I've been a member since 1971. We jerehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13427290547022495899noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6700937.post-31775271298320056312007-06-12T09:28:00.000-07:002007-06-12T09:38:54.985-07:00Front Sight Firearms Training FacilityOne of my clients (Front Sight Firearms Training Institute) has gotten a lot of press since 9/11, for offering to train airline pilots in firearms safety, more recently for offering to train 100 Marines going to Iraq (at no charge to them) and for offering to train school safety officers as long as they are then allowed to have a concealed carry permit on campus. Over the last couple of years jerehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13427290547022495899noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6700937.post-8910567682744857612007-06-08T12:01:00.000-07:002007-06-08T12:09:22.006-07:00First Do No Harm....The first rule of the Hippocratic Oath taken by new doctors when they are sworn into the profession is: "First, do no harm". It's hard to reconcile that with the factual over-drugging of Americans, being done for the profit of and at the instigation of, the drug companies making drugs they have pushed through the FDA without adequate testing. This came up because I just received this success jerehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13427290547022495899noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6700937.post-40979001652611810672007-06-06T11:22:00.000-07:002007-06-06T11:26:28.535-07:00Babies exposed to Prozac are damaged for life!Babies exposed to Prozac are damaged for life:"In conclusion, our results suggest that maternal exposure to fluoxetine during pregnancy and lactation results in enduring behavioral alterations in male and female pups throughout life. Presumably, overstimulation of the serotonergic receptors during brain development led to long-lasting changes in brain chemistry or structure that resulted in jerehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13427290547022495899noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6700937.post-18581187165149891002007-06-04T23:48:00.000-07:002007-06-12T09:18:05.342-07:00Australian Packer Wedding a Mystery?It was nice to see the Daily Telegraph try to write a balanced piece about Australian James Packer's upcoming wedding. While the Australians are in a dither over where and how Packer is to be married, and speculation is rife about the exact location (reportedly somewehre near the French Riviera), Americans haven't heard much about Packer. He's not on our celebrity radar here even though he'sjerehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13427290547022495899noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6700937.post-63108173176482973592007-06-02T15:01:00.000-07:002007-06-05T00:29:20.588-07:00Psychiatric Coercion - a Form of TortureThis German newsletter, ZWANG (which believes that Coercive Psychiatry is a Torture System), is working hard to make sure that the coercive practices of psychiatry are labeled properly as torture in Germany. Here's what the United Nations adopted as point #5 of its Universal Declaration of Human Rights:Article 5 (prohibition of torture): No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, jerehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13427290547022495899noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6700937.post-8719640837621815532007-06-01T22:03:00.000-07:002007-06-05T00:33:35.806-07:00Ultra MarathonI've known JR Radich for many years. He is an ultra-marathoner, and in July will be running his seventh (!) 135 mile long Death Valley race, billed as the world's toughest footrace. Temperatures reach 125 degrees, and pavement can hit 180 degrees. Last year he finished 11th in the race, with a time that was nine hours better than his best previous time, from 2003. JR makes this event a jerehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13427290547022495899noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6700937.post-29390263481332987282007-05-17T15:32:00.000-07:002007-06-05T00:34:42.755-07:00Inhuman beings...An old friend, Tom Solari, has a new typepad blog, where he has posted an excellent essay, called "Inhuman Beings - The Chemicalized Personality". His premise is that the observable increase of violent behavior in recent years is directly attributable to the psychiatric drugs that these people were on. According to Tom, it's not post-partum depression, combat stress, or rock music or video jerehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13427290547022495899noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6700937.post-51636750402272093082007-05-09T22:42:00.000-07:002007-05-17T18:05:31.706-07:00Dianetics revealed to me my spiritual nature.In 1968 I first saw a copy of Dianetics at a corner drugstore in Portland, Oregon, on the 'best-sellers' rack among the latest novels of the time. I picked it up and saw some hyperbole on the back of it about being more in control of your own mind, leafed through a few pages, put it back on the rack and dismissed the book with this thought: "This came out 20 years ago. If there was really jerehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13427290547022495899noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6700937.post-84359823230351400372007-05-08T09:17:00.000-07:002007-05-08T15:24:50.176-07:00Beautiful...Leah Remini is beautiful. In person, she's stunning. Here's a great photo of Leah and an article where she gives the reason she got into Scientology. It's very simple - she saw good changes in her mom as her mother started doing Scientology, and she communicated well enough to want to check it out for herself. About nine years ago, I met Leah at Celebrity Centre, when she was just enjoying jerehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13427290547022495899noreply@blogger.com