tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-67009372011-06-30T21:36:37.119-07:00-- means "the Way of the Blog"jerehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13427290547022495899noreply@blogger.comBlogger1491100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6700937.post-88911241751349821872009-01-08T16:31:00.000-08:002009-01-08T16:34:22.764-08:00

I found that Cloudmark was disabling my AVG antivirus email scanning, so I had to uninstall it. Dang. I liked that program. Then I discovered that I could change the exim settings on my dedicated server so that it checks the IP address of all incoming mail against the Spamcop.com database of IP addresses of "known spammers" before it accepts the email. I implemented that and everyone on my

jerehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13427290547022495899noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6700937.post-68700441006926122752008-12-19T16:32:00.000-08:002008-12-19T16:37:24.298-08:00

I get about 3000 spam emails per day. That's not an exageration. I have tried IHateSpam and MailWasher and AVG anti-spam, and all of them were pretty good, but I found it actually took less time to simply let all the spam come in and delete them from my server by hand, using a webmail interface, than it took to go through the spam folder and dig out emails I wanted to get, after they'd been

jerehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13427290547022495899noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6700937.post-9083939424588984142008-12-19T16:28:00.000-08:002008-12-19T16:32:28.042-08:00

I've been spending a lot more time posting to my regular blog than to this Blognomichi blog. You'll find a lot of information about psychiatric abuse and drug company conspiracy there at JMBlog.com.With all the twittering I do on Twitter, and the regular posts to JMblog, I've gotten "blognosis", the condition of having too much blogging to do.Forgive me, I will try to post more often here.

jerehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13427290547022495899noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6700937.post-75502869324418987572008-05-04T17:11:00.000-07:002008-05-04T17:18:15.505-07:00

Back 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 email

jerehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13427290547022495899noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6700937.post-62248635655998804762008-04-05T23:17:00.000-07:002008-04-05T23:27:45.506-07:00

Willie 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.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6700937.post-14691329389316438462008-01-09T16:22:00.001-08:002008-01-09T16:26:27.483-08:00

This video has a decent interview on Hannity's America, talking about the problems with school shootings and linking them to psychiatric drugsI 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.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6700937.post-26902711909849346372008-01-09T16:08:00.000-08:002008-01-09T16:15:25.657-08:00

Generation 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.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6700937.post-24843471084012977882008-01-09T13:05:00.000-08:002008-01-09T13:10:23.604-08:00

CCHR Gets it right again:Autopsy Results Confirm Omaha Shooter Was Yet Another Killer Under the Influence of Psychiatric DrugsWatchdog 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.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6700937.post-83214815253443974932008-01-04T13:58:00.000-08:002008-01-04T14:02:08.561-08:00

A 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.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6700937.post-45218655885912307682007-10-02T11:19:00.000-07:002007-10-02T11:23:11.346-07:00

Here 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 teaching

jerehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13427290547022495899noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6700937.post-69235486798276168812007-09-30T10:55:00.000-07:002007-09-30T11:09:22.321-07:00

Desiree 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.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6700937.post-53850645359643877572007-09-05T22:15:00.000-07:002007-09-05T22:29:04.178-07:00

My 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 on

jerehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13427290547022495899noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6700937.post-40926008280306277662007-08-13T10:07:00.000-07:002007-08-13T10:19:50.067-07:00

A 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. The

jerehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13427290547022495899noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6700937.post-65114947084101370262007-08-12T11:45:00.000-07:002007-08-12T12:02:40.765-07:00

We'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 debate

jerehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13427290547022495899noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6700937.post-39900047212164296672007-08-01T16:58:00.000-07:002007-08-01T17:01:08.913-07:00

This 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.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6700937.post-38329804629921201812007-07-06T11:23:00.000-07:002007-07-06T13:47:08.888-07:00

It'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.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6700937.post-29434393801433293242007-06-27T11:32:00.000-07:002007-06-27T11:56:40.807-07:00

19 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.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6700937.post-11839387918464217892007-06-17T20:24:00.000-07:002007-06-18T11:04:35.368-07:00

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.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6700937.post-68631424710287752702007-06-12T10:45:00.001-07:002007-06-13T11:08:37.297-07:00

The 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.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6700937.post-31775271298320056312007-06-12T09:28:00.000-07:002007-06-12T09:38:54.985-07:00

One 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.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6700937.post-8910567682744857612007-06-08T12:01:00.000-07:002007-06-08T12:09:22.006-07:00

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 story

jerehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13427290547022495899noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6700937.post-40979001652611810672007-06-06T11:22:00.000-07:002007-06-06T11:26:28.535-07:00

Babies exposed to Prozac are damaged for life:"In conclusion, our results suggest that maternal exposure tofluoxetine during pregnancy and lactation results in enduringbehavioral alterations in male and female pups throughout life.Presumably, overstimulation of the serotonergic receptors during braindevelopment led to long-lasting changes in brain chemistry orstructure that resulted in abnormal

jerehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13427290547022495899noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6700937.post-18581187165149891002007-06-04T23:48:00.000-07:002007-06-12T09:18:05.342-07:00

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's

jerehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13427290547022495899noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6700937.post-63108173176482973592007-06-02T15:01:00.000-07:002007-06-05T00:29:20.588-07:00

This 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, inhuman

jerehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13427290547022495899noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6700937.post-8719640837621815532007-06-01T22:03:00.000-07:002007-06-05T00:33:35.806-07:00

I'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.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6700937.post-29390263481332987282007-05-17T15:32:00.000-07:002007-06-05T00:34:42.755-07:00

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.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6700937.post-51636750402272093082007-05-09T22:42:00.000-07:002007-05-17T18:05:31.706-07:00

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.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6700937.post-84359823230351400372007-05-08T09:17:00.000-07:002007-05-08T15:24:50.176-07:00

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 the

jerehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13427290547022495899noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6700937.post-57858916795131883112007-04-24T11:55:00.000-07:002007-04-24T12:57:50.724-07:00

The recent Vtech massacre has spurred many people to request a formal investigation into the relationship between these school shootings and the antidpressant medications that the shooters were uniformly taking.The problem is that these drugs are personality altering drugs that induce homicidal rage in the kids who are taking them!Here's an article by Dr. Joseph Mercola about Antidepressants

jerehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13427290547022495899noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6700937.post-81038757417773376762007-04-21T19:01:00.000-07:002007-04-21T19:12:34.752-07:00

My hat's off to Miss America of 1944, (Venus Ramey, now 82 years old) who foiled a robbery attempt on her farm in Kentucky, using her snub-nosed .38.In a world with gun control, she would have been at the mercy of the several robbers, who could have beaten her and left her to die. But she has a handgun, and she used it to shoot out the tires of their car, so that they couldn't leave. They were

jerehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13427290547022495899noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6700937.post-12856222871012080192007-04-21T15:29:00.000-07:002007-04-21T15:36:23.730-07:00

Read what Dr. Peter Breggin has to say about the calls for more mental health screening based on what really happens in the psychiatric industry after someone obviously dangerous to himself and others is put into the system. I couldn't agree more with his analysis.

jerehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13427290547022495899noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6700937.post-1176701458788460152007-04-15T22:01:00.000-07:002007-04-15T22:30:58.800-07:00

Today, April 15, is Holocaust Remembrance Day according to my big wall calendar. Yes, let us not forget that millions of Jews, almost all the Gypsies, and many others were killed by the Nazis in concentration camps across a conquered Europe. The "science" behind the Nazi brutalities was "eugenics", defined as "the study of hereditary improvement of the human race by controlled selective

jerehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13427290547022495899noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6700937.post-1176595218043001132007-04-14T16:49:00.000-07:002007-04-14T17:12:18.040-07:00

I'm posting this email from CCHR verbatim here because I can't say it any better than they do: Top Child Psychiatrist Thrown Back In JailAs media coverage grows on the case against William Ayres, so does the number of victims stepping forward. Ayres, former President of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP), is accused of molesting at least 37 male patients under the

jerehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13427290547022495899noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6700937.post-1175832772449720432007-04-05T20:58:00.000-07:002007-04-05T21:12:52.463-07:00

The European Court of Human Rights found unanimously today in favor of the Church of Scientology of Moscow, which upheld that the Church of Scientology had the right to be register as a religion in Moscow. They had registered in 1994, but a change in the law required the Church to file an application for re-registration, which was denied on spurious grounds.Quoting from the Scientology Today

jerehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13427290547022495899noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6700937.post-1171586309068354382007-02-15T15:56:00.000-08:002007-02-15T16:38:29.090-08:00

I subscribe to the Federalist, a conservative newsletter that is very educational about consititutional issues. Here's a quote from Paul Greenberg which they published, that resonated with me: "You can tell a lot about an educational system by its vocabulary. When Calvinistic terms like grace and works are replaced by educantisms like self-esteem, you know the system's in trouble. Or is even to

jerehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13427290547022495899noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6700937.post-1170111250537414272007-01-29T14:42:00.000-08:002007-01-29T14:54:10.553-08:00

A couple of weeks ago it snowed here on the ranch--here are some photos. That's our chicken house above.Our house and hill. Lots of Snow! But it's all gone now.

jerehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13427290547022495899noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6700937.post-1164590485285239502006-11-26T17:07:00.000-08:002007-01-29T15:08:31.883-08:00

It's really raining here on the ranch - about an inch so far today and it shows no signs of stopping.We bought 23 baby Mallard ducks a couple of months ago from the Grange -- they were only a few weeks old when we got them. We kept them in the barn in a cage for a few weeks, but they smelled so bad when confined that it made our eyes water when we went in the barn, so we put them outside in a

jerehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13427290547022495899noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6700937.post-1162182666268712042006-10-29T20:29:00.000-08:002006-10-29T20:37:59.340-08:00

The tomatos in our garden are just too pretty. I don't even eat tomatos (allergies) but these are pretty tempting.

jerehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13427290547022495899noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6700937.post-1160678122506973032006-10-12T11:29:00.000-07:002006-10-12T11:35:39.476-07:00

At the Frankfurt International Book Fair for 2006, Guinness (the World Record people, not the Stout people) gave out certificates for two world records: 1. Worlds most published author - which went to L. Ron Hubbard, with 1084 works published, exceeding the record held by Brazilian author Jose Carlos Ryoki with 1,058. 2. Hubbard also received the World Record for "most translated author" with

jerehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13427290547022495899noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6700937.post-1160507037669154782006-10-10T10:58:00.000-07:002006-10-10T12:03:57.750-07:00

We've recently had a baby come into our family. He is a healthy, happy baby and his mother delivered with minimal labor - it all seemed to go smooth as glass. We welcomed the baby to the family -- it's been ten years since we've had any newborns around. His mother is a Scientologist, and his father is not.In my view: one of the things that sets Scientology apart from mainstream religions is

jerehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13427290547022495899noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6700937.post-1158427868553683742006-09-16T10:23:00.000-07:002006-09-16T14:25:58.953-07:00

This article about Tom Cruise has the ring of truth to it.

jerehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13427290547022495899noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6700937.post-1157663548595942972006-09-07T13:53:00.000-07:002006-09-07T14:14:57.530-07:00

There's an old Japanese Proverb - "Yamai wa ki kara", which means "sickness is a thing of the spirit." I'm not an expert on things oriental, but that appears to be an accepted piece of folk wisdom in Japan, along the line of "many hands make light work" or "a stitch in time saves nine" here in the West.That bit of wisdom has been independently incorporated into the Creed of the Church of

jerehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13427290547022495899noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6700937.post-1156225554224531042006-08-21T22:24:00.000-07:002006-08-21T22:45:54.240-07:00

Barbie Rivera has been running a tutoring center in Miami that has produced many thousands of hours of effective tutoring over the last few years. She sends out a riotously funny newsletter every week that is full of her viewpoint about helping children learn to read, helping keep them off psychiatric drugs and helping them sort out the false mis-labeling the psychiatrists have applied to them;

jerehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13427290547022495899noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6700937.post-1155944562047849082006-08-18T16:42:00.000-07:002006-08-19T13:32:27.936-07:00

The Telegraph reported a Scientology tax victory in UK - where Scientologists have been being discriminated against since the 60's. I'm in it. I'm telling you right here and now, I'm a Scientologist. It's my religion, not a hobby. I've been a practicing minister since 1976, performing funeral services and the occasional wedding, and ministering to others in our community. We have churches

jerehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13427290547022495899noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6700937.post-1155089555100935002006-08-08T18:12:00.000-07:002006-08-08T19:12:37.456-07:00

Here are some recent photos from around the ranch, showing logging and some work that was done restoring fish habitats on our creek.This first picture is some logging being done on one 40-acre parcel in the remotest part of the ranch. They took out mostly Douglas fir, White fir and some alder. Even some red cedar. The baby trees (less than 10 years old) you see in the adjacent lots (left and

jerehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13427290547022495899noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6700937.post-1152468222187531092006-07-09T10:51:00.000-07:002006-08-19T13:39:47.976-07:00

David Dempster, a Scientology Volunteer Minister from Clearwater, Florida, recently published this report:This weekend I handled a 20-year-old girl who had ended up in hospital in a coma. The doctor said if she didn't wake up within 12 hours she wouldn't wake up at all. I was called in after she had been in a coma for about 8 hours. I gave her assists for handling unconscious persons and after

jerehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13427290547022495899noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6700937.post-1151540213085439612006-06-28T16:55:00.000-07:002006-06-28T17:16:53.106-07:00

I'm not making this up... Here's an article matter-of-factly reporting from Queensland that based on an anonymous complaint, the psychs have the right to force their way into homes in Australia and intimidate people with personal questions to determine if they are crazy, in the opinion of the examining psych. And it's all "perfectly legal". The psychs tried to get legislation like this passed

jerehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13427290547022495899noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6700937.post-1151285512584877512006-06-25T17:47:00.000-07:002006-06-25T18:31:52.740-07:00

We have some wild roses that bloom this time of year on our ranch, along Charlie Rock road. I have to remember exactly where these are so I can pick the rose hips in the early fall, before they turn mushy with the fall rains.

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Today I only had time for a short walk, and a few pictures from our garden and from the road to the top of the hill. Here they are:Tiger Lily -- we have a million of these blooming right now on the ranch. RhododendronJune-Bearing Blackberry - these are creeping everywhere along the ground. These are Oregon's native blackberry; the big aggressive climbing blackberries are feral.Broccoli from our

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Coastal Oregon this time of year is wonderful. The air is clean, the days are still cool, and we have been enjoying occasional showers for the last couple of weeks so the plant life is exploding. Suddenly grass is four feet tall. The rhododendrons are blooming out my window. So are the foxgloves, wild roses and a bazillion daisies and buttercups. I took a walk a couple of days ago in

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It's gratifying to see the LA Times (a most unlikely source if you are aware of their history of anti-religious bias) has put up a mostly favorable article about the sponsorship of NASCAR driver Kenton Gray. Of course they go for the bloated controversy and innuendo -- "NASCAR monitors sponsorship and advertising closely, but has no objection to the 'Dianetics' entry, said NASCAR spokesman Jim

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Narconon Great Lakes is one of the newer Narconon groups, going strong in the Chicagoland area. They are a 501(C)3 charitable group, a non-profit dedicated to getting rid of the scourge of drugs from the Chicago area, one addict at a time. If you can help them, send a donation -- for books used in putting drug users through the Narconon program. Make donations via PayPal to:

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My friend Barbara Ayash of the Set A Good Example Club recently sent me some pictures of murals that were put together by juvenile inmates of a correctional facility in California. These kids were participants in the "Set a Good Example" program that Barbara founded. So far more than 12 million kids representing more than 12,600 schools in all 50 US states have participated in the Set a Good

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Kelly Preston is one of those gorgeous Hollywood women with everything going for them. Looking at her, you'd think she'd never had anything go wrong in her life, but that's not so. Now she is married to John Travolta, has lovely children and a successful film career. Who could forget Kelly seducing the Governator in "Twins"? and punching Tom Cruise in the face in "Jerry Maquire"? But her

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The Volunteer Ministers are asking for our help in their efforts to help in Indonesia at the site of the quake in Yogyakarta. Abour 4300 people are known dead, with at least 120,000 homeless in the wake of the disaster. If you want to go and help them, contact vm@volunteerministers.org or ihelpwestus@ihelp.org. You can also make donations via paypal to the vm@volunteerministers.org site. They

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In 2002 Tom Cruise helped start the NY Rescue Workers Detox Center in Manhattan. Since then, 640 rescue workers have gone through the program. The detox program involves sauna and exercise (and vitamins) and I've seen photos of the "blue sweat" that comes out of their bodies in the sauna while on the program. More than 40 of the rescue workers from Ground Zero have died from the toxins to

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Something important happened for humanity on May 10, 1950, and most people don't know it and couldn't associate that date with anything of significance to their lives. That was the date that the book "Dianetics, The Modern Science of Mental Health" was published by L. Ron Hubbard. It's a date of signifigance now mainly to Scientologists, who celebrate it annually as one of the beginning dates

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I've had several days to myself recently, with my fiancee gone on a business trip for a week. I enjoy the solitude and freedom: I can stay up til 2 AM on a whim now without anyone complaining! It feels like a vacation of sorts, even though I'm working away while she's gone, in silence and without all those annoying distractions. But I LIKE those distractions, and I like my fiancee, so it's a

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It's hard for us to imagine the difficulties that a college professor in Tanzania or Botswana or Mali faces compared to, say, a tenured professor in an American university. Yet they are trying, with very limited resources, to educate their students to be competent and able to excel in the modern world. Applied Scholastics (developed by L. Ron Hubbard) is engaged in a broad program to teach

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One evening last week our chickens alerted us to the fact we had an animal wandering the yard. They make a great sustained racket of crowing and calling to each other when there is an animal, especially a predator, around their chicken run. When we checked it out, it was a fairly large coastal elk with nubby antlers just coming in. We've never seen them in our yard before -- our dogs usually

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It's that time of year when everything seems to be blooming here on the timber ranch. The ceanothus (aka false lilac and tickweed) is flowering all over. That's not a good sign - ceanothus is considered a weed here. Wherever it grows is someplace that a fir tree isn't growing. We're always hacking it back. Here's some growing on a steep hill under some madrone:We were surprised this year to

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More Eli Lilly drugs foisted on kids as this NY Times article today details, Eli Lilly and the NIMH have been funding a drug study since 1997, trying to determine if it is efficacious to drug kids who are "at risk" of schizophrenia with anti-psychotics. The biggest result? The kids gained an average of 20 pounds. This drug being tested, Zyprexa, causes those taking it to get fat. So let's see

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I was a very glib student when I went to school (back before the last ice age). I could parrot back whatever the teachers had said, and had near perfect eidetic memory of the textbooks I read. So I did really well on tests, skipped a grade, etc. But when it came to actually applying what I'd learned, it was as if I never really absorbed any of what I was studying. It wasn't until my

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I recently saw someone trying to treat his child like a dog. He was at the mall, and the child was wearing a harness attached to a leash held by his father. I suppose if one believed (as the psychiatrists have been promoting for the last century) that we were all soulless animals, then it would make sense to treat a child like a dog, control him as you would a dog by guiding him at the end of a

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I often refer my friends who are hung up on one thing or another, waiting for some kind of clearance or approval, to this quote from L. Ron Hubbard:The only possible way that you can get any freedom is to stop asking everybody's permission to be.I first heard that when listening to the Philadelphia Doctorate Course lectures given in the early 1950's by Hubbard. I've listened to them 4 times

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We have a lot of madrone trees here on the ranch. They look naked compared to the other trees, especially when the light is right. Here's a photo I took of the peeling bark of a madrone (bottom left of pic), and the smooth, almost sensual wood that has no bark left on it (upper right). The little tendril of plant growing across it is poison oak. The reddish marks on the madrone are scars of

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Australia recently had a category 5 hurricane (they call them cyclones down under) named Cyclone Larry hit northern Queensland. We've had Scientology Volunteer Ministers from Brisbane and Sydney on scene helping people since right after it hit. If you can spare anything from your Paypal account to help support these volunteers as they pass out food and water and minister to those in dire need,

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If you watched the Primetime show on ABC last night, you saw that Diane Sawyer interviewed Tom Cruise about a lot of the subjects that have been written up in the tabloids lately.It's been at least a decade since I last saw Diane Sawyer on TV and I was surprised how old she looked. Tom looked great and I thought the interview went very well; he came across as credible and enthusiastic. Regarding

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CNN almost gets it right in this video. Their reporter quotes Tom Cruise from a GQ magazine article. It would have been much more effective as a news piece if they'd gotten an interview with Tom, but they didn't bother. This piece feels kind of patched together with whatever footage was laying around. They did interview one psych, who runs the favorite PR line from the psychs about how black

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As a person who has been a practicing Scientology minister for more than half his life (I was ordained thirty years ago in 1976 by the Church of Scientology of California) I have been very interested in all the news Tom Cruise has been making about Scientology over the last few months. Although we don't normally read them, we picked up four tabloids that all mentioned Tom and Katie at the

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One of my favorite quotes from L. Ron Hubbard is this one: "What is true for you is what you have observed yourself. And when you lose that you have lost everything." (I'm quoting from a book called "Understanding, The Universal Solvent", and the quote originally came from an article about personal integrity.)I read many philosophers in college, and none of them put it that well, or gave you

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Have you ever seen the movie "Alien IV", where they clone the aliens and keep them in cages? The scientists control the aliens by hitting a button that gives them a painful blast of cold gas when they do something they shouldn't. And there you have it, the essense of "aversive therapy". You do something the psychiatrists don't like, and the psychs will shock you. Of course, the state is paying

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Since I first heard of him the early 80's I've admired David Miscavige's direct, no-nonsense approach and the results he gets. His work in getting IRS tax exemption for the Church of Scientology in 1993 effected great relief for the Church and its parisioners. I'd like to thank him publicly here: Thank you, David Miscavige! Found an interesting article in Freedom Magazine about an event I

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Filmmaker Paul Greengrass (of "Bloody Sunday" and "The Bourne Supremacy") has a new film coming up for release, called "Flight 93" -- about the events of 9/11. The squeamish are already howling that the movie trailer should not be being shown, much less the film. That's it's too soon for such a film.Personally I've been wondering what was taking Hollywood so long. It's been nearly five years,

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Here are some new photos from the ranch.That bright yellow stuff on the stump is some kind of fungus, I think. The slim branches are poison oak, before they leaf out in the spring. To be avoided!Today the trees are waving in the wind. The soughing is soothing and peaceful to me.

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I've been walking around as much as I can here on the ranch, trying to take a walk every day that it isn't pouring. I always take the camera, a walking stick (it gets steep in places) and a hat. The hat is for the sun or rain, of which we get both in copious amounts. The walking stick is an affectation, but it also keeps me from losing my balance and falling down on some of the steeper slopes.

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The FDA has too long been in the pocket of the drug companies.You know it and I know it.Drugs are approved for uses they never should be, based on completely bogus pseudo-scientific "double blind" studies that are rigged in every way possible. They have the trappings of science, but are not based on the truth, applied the way any rational human would see it.Here's a recent white paper from CCHR

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The Narconon of Canyon Oaks facility is sorely needed in LA County. They have 46,600 admissions for drug treatment last year, and of those, 42,000 had had prior emergency room admissions. So there's a high incidence of repeat traffic emergency drug treatment traffic. Of those, 52% reported they had failed to get off Meth, 60% reported they had failed to get off Cocaine, and 79% reported they

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Here's an article in "The Australian", about the research they've been doing under their Freedom of Information laws, to document the links between heart attacks ( including deaths ) in children using Ritalin and other drugs.CHILDREN as young as five have suffered strokes, heart attacks, hallucinations and convulsions after taking drugs to treat attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.Documents

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Yesterday's article in the LA Times called "The Future Holds More than Pills" touted the benefits of Electro Convulsive Therapy, or ECT. While I wasn't exactly "shocked" to see the LA Times following the party line of psychiatry, it still hit me that some people might actually believe that ECT could benefit anyone. So I wrote the following letter to the editor:Citizens Commission on Human

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Here's a site where a petition is being circulated to allow 12-year old Canadian Gabriel Lavigueur back in secondary school. He's been kicked out for refusing to take psychiatric drugs: just more psychiatry at work. There are so many other things that can be wrong in the life of a child -- psychiatrists seem to always reach for the drugs first, and of course hammer their solution home by force

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Spring is almost here on the ranch and we've just had what will probably be our last snowfall of the year. I've been walking a lot lately, exploring off the main roads. I found a small pond we didn't know existed on one trek. Found some quartz on the top of one of the hills around here, which was odd. Most of the beautiful white quartz seems to wind up in the creek eventually. In this

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Last week I received the honor of being asked to put together some "talking points" on the basics of internet marketing, for a series of seminars to be given in Spain and Holland by Gilleard Marketing. That is the firm belonging to Keith and Deborah Gilleard, long-time marketers. They've been marketing for about 30 some years and have achieved many excellent marketing products over the years.

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My friends at CCHR Florida now have a website. CCHR is, of course, the Florida bastion of the only psychiatric watchdog group, "Citizens Commission on Human Rights", founded in 1969 by Dr. Thomas Szasz, author of the best selling book "The Myth of Mental Illness", and the Church of Scientology. The website has some good graphics but needs to be tweaked to work perfectly in FireFox and in various

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My friends at CCHR have put together a terrific four minute video debunking psychiatry. It contains statements of fact from several psychiatrists about how the entire field is bunk. It's worth a look to see what the psychiatric industry does not want you to know about how they diagnose mental illness. Their elaborate scam involves controlling what goes into the DSM IV, their diagnostic manual,

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TeenScreen is one of those things that sounds like a good idea at first. After all, we are all concerned about the rising violence and suicide rates among teens. But when you start actually looking at the plan and its consequences, you soon realize is a nightmare designed to make the situation worse. The main push behind setting up TeenScreen is coming from the drug company lobby, that want to

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After a long summer and no rain, we're very admiring of fall weather here in coastal Oregon. The last of the maple leaves are falling from the trees, and we're getting frost every night. The light has been magical at twilight.

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Here's a question from someone who is afraid of overspending at Google:Our sponsored link is on page 5 of Google. We signedup for $.10/click and $33.33/day. What should we do to bring it to page 1?Please help.Remember that Google wants to make as much money as possible from your ad. It uses at least three factors to figure out which ads it is going to display.1. How much per click each ad is

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I read an email summary of the New York Times every day, which they kindly provide by email. It's a masochistic thing to do, I know, but I do it to see just how slanted their coverage really is. So it was with great relish I saw an article in The Federalist that announced the following:The Gray Lady is deep in the red, but can anything stop the bleeding? Amid weak advertising revenues,

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Here's FEMA's Katrina Donations page. Pick one, empty your paypal account.

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Make a donation, help put volunteer ministers on the ground helping people in Louisiana. Scientology Volunteer MinistersHurricane Katrina Relief Effort

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Found a factual article about why gas costs what it does and how much is typically tax. It goes a long way to disprove the common assumption amongst left-leaning young Americans that the war in the Middle East is all about oil. Here's the article: Gas Prices Primer. It's a couple of years old but the data is still valid.Hmmm. According to this other article in CNN Money about gas prices

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Here in southern coastal Oregon, we've had the most wonderful weather so far this summer. It rarely gets much past 80 during the days, and nights it is in the 50's.During the warm days we've been taking walks up into the hills or down to the creek. Here's a picture of one of the views from the road.Life is good.

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My friend Dean Blehert has been busy looking up words.Here's his candid report on what psychiatric jargon means: Psychiatric jargon explained.Read it and you'll be able to withstand the onslaught of psycho-babble that will come at you when you try to point out that drugging 8 million American children might not be a good idea, or that treating post partum depression with drugs might be the wrong

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Definition of pseudoscience from the American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, fourth edition:pseudoscience: A theory, methodology, or practice that is considered to be without scientific foundation.Doesn't that describe the wayward step-child of medicine that votes to determine what is a mental disease (like "Math disorder") and what isn't (homosexuality)? Doesn't that definition of

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Get the truth about post partum depression, dyslexia, bipolar disorder, ritalin and school violence, and other frauds the psychiatric and drug industries don't want you to know:Post Partum DepressionMore on Postpartum DepressionDyslexiaADD/ADHDAntidepressants & chemical imbalanceMental disordersBipolar & manic depressionAnxiety disorderDepressionRitalinSchool violenceSchizophreniaRacial

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Lots of stuff on the airwaves these days about Tom Cruise and the kerfluffle with Brooke Shields and her book touting psych drugs as the remedy for post partum blues. (Here's a clue - they are NOT!)Here's one MD's take on Shield's position: Doctors Lambast Shields’ Dangerous Position on PaxilHow about this one: AMERICAN PSYCHIATRIC ASSOCIATION ADMITS THERE IS NO TEST FOR "CHEMICAL

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The recent Michael Crichton novel, State of Fear, has in it hundreds of footnotes that lead to real (non-fictional) information about the lack of global warming. As well as being an excellent yarn, I'm sure it's an eye opener for many people who have been being alarmed and misled by the press about the state of the world's climate.Like a creep in a theater yelling "Fire" when there is no fire,

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The last few years here in Southern Oregon have been dry during May - but not 2005. This year we are getting hammered. I walked to the top of a local hill and took this photo.I've been too busy to blog much but will try to get back in the swing of it. With beautiful days like these popping up it's hard to keep the seat of my pants in the seat of my chair and work.

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Here on our timber ranch in Southwest Oregon, most events taking place in the world have little effect on us. But some simple events do create an impact--like the price of gas rising because of the law of supply and demand. Globally, crude oil is in demand in China and India as it never has been before, as their growing economies continue demanding more and more oil and gas to fuel their

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