Simplification

Wow - it's been nearly six years since I posted anything here in blognomichi.

The problem was that I couldn't spare the time to figure out how to log in, after they moved from blogspot over to blogger and Google bought them out.  When I was simplifying things here in the office, I found my old login, and viola! we're back.

We'll see if I can keep both blogs -- this one and www.jmblog.com -- refreshed with current posts from time to time.

 

Cloudmark not quite heavenly after all

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 server is much happier with the dramatic decrease in spam overall.

Now I receive less than 50 spams a day, and those are easily sorted by AVG's mail scanner. So Cloudmark is not really needed after all.

Anti-Spam Heaven in Cloudmark

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 sorted by IHateSpam, Mailwasher or AVG.

Then I heard about Cloudmark and tried it. I have been using Cloudmark for about a week and can tell you it is the best of them all. It does not mark as spam anything that isn't actually spam. So far out of 13,000 spams I've checked in the spam folder in the last 4 days, it has not put one email into the spam category that did not belong there.

I'm not affiliated with Cloudmark, and I don't usually rave about Microsoft products. But Cloudmark is an exceptional product and deserves many accolades. It has reduced my time spent handling spam from about an hour a day to about 3 minutes.

Highly recommended.

Blognosis

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.

There's no place like home

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 addresses and are sending me approximately 100 spam emails per hour. I've set up captcha's on my websites' forms, but that's not the problem. The problem is just getting a bazillion spams to my valid email addresses I can't get rid of.

I have Spam Assassin turned on, on the server. I am now looking at going through various anti-spam solutions (IHateSpam from www.sunbeltsoftware.com and MailWasher, to name but two) on my own computer. I have already set up numerous anti-spam filters, which catch some of it, through Outlook Express.

About spammers, my feelings on this remind me of the words of an angry mob: "Hanging's too good for them!" When I think of how much time is wasted around the world every day because of these idiots....

Your thoughts on this?

Back at it... great quote from Willie Sutton

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 quotes:

“I have always found you get a lot more in this world with a kind word and a gun than you do with just a kind word.”

and

When asked why he robbed banks, he stated:

"Because that's where the money is."

Willie spent a lot of his life in jail, escaped several times, was always quickly re-captured, and after his final release from prison for health reasons, he even made a commercial in 1970 for photo identity cards for a bank.

Even career criminals can have a wicked sense of humor.

New Video on Drugs and School Shootings

This 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.

New Documentary Film - Generation Rx

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 that turns out to be a grand medical hoax: that millions of children have 'chemical imbalances' in their brains requiring treatment with patented, profitable pharmaceutical drugs like Prozac and Ritalin." Which we know from experience to be true.

It's a rave review of a film that features interviews with many notable doctors, authors and health experts, including Dr. Julian Whitaker, Dr. Fred Baughman, Robert Whitaker and many others. According to this review, the film "weaves a terrifying tale of criminal conspiracy, the mass abandonment of medical ethics, and the routine betrayal of an entire generation by an industry that seems fixated on the idea of profits at any cost."

You can find out how you can view this film by signing up here: http://www.winhs.org/members/index.htm

Omaha Shooter was on Psych Drugs

CCHR 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 shootings, following autopsy results confirming 19-year-old Nebraska mall shooter Robert Hawkins was under the influence of the “anti-anxiety” drug Valium when he killed eight people and wounded five before committing suicide last month. Hawkins is the eleventh recent teen shooter under the influence of psychiatric drugs, resulting in 48 dead and 89 wounded. Many of these drug-induced shootings occurred in schoolyards, including the massacres by Eric Harris at Columbine, Colorado and Jeff Weise at Red Lake, Minnesota
Another notorious figure, John Hinckley, who shot President Reagan and three secret service agents in a 1981 assassination attempt, was under the influence of the same drug as Robert Hawkins—Valium—which has been documented to cause violence, including murder and suicide. Hinckley was prescribed the drugs by his psychiatrist, and later admitted that the drugs turned him into a killer.
Another 19-year-old, James Wilson, killed two 8-year-old girls and wounded several others with his revolver at a South Carolina elementary school in 1988, after seeing psychiatrists and taking psychiatric drugs including Valium since he was 14. Californian Lynwood Drake III also took Valium before he shot and killed six people and himself in 1992.
Clinical psychopharmacologist and psychiatrist Dr. Peter Breggin wrote in his book, Brain Disabling Treatments in Psychiatry (1997) that “benzodiazepines [a class of drugs that includes Valium and Xanax] can produce a wide variety of abnormal mental responses and hazardous behavioral abnormalities, including rebound anxiety and insomnia, psychosis, paranoia, violence, antisocial acts, depression, and suicide.”
Although it is not yet known if Hawkins was prescribed the Valium found in his system (something investigators are looking into), what is known is that a staggering $265,000 in state funds were spent on Hawkins’ behavior and addiction “treatment.” This expensive state “care” included four years in and out of treatment centers, psych evaluations, regular therapy and extensive prescriptions for powerful drugs including Zoloft, Adderall and Effexor, warned to cause “homicidal ideation.” This case clearly refutes the mental health industry's standard negation of psychiatric drug-induced violence--the claim the patient did not get enough treatment, used to clamor for increased funding.
CCHR, concerned that most parents and consumers are unaware of the risk of homicide and suicide connected with these drugs, has launched a striking series of three PSAs warning of these side effects. The PSAs can be viewed at www.cchr.org/psas/. CCHR hopes that these PSAs serve to inform the public about the dangers of these drugs, and encourage support for a federal investigation into the link between these drugs and senseless teen violence.
The Citizens Commission on Human Rights is an international psychiatric watchdog group co-founded in 1969 by the Church of Scientology and Dr. Thomas Szasz, Professor of Psychiatry Emeritus, to investigate and expose psychiatric violations of human rights. Contact CCHR's Media Department at 800-869-2247 or humanrights@cchr.org.

Top 10 reasons to ban guns

A bit of satire on the subject of the necessity of banning guns (the link died).

While it's not up to the standards of "A Modest Proposal" it is still worth reading and quite droll.

Teacher testimonials from Oklahoma Drug Eduction

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 was wonderful. I walked away with skills that I can use on a personal level as well as with clients that I have that do have drug problems. Thank you Narconon for coming to our state!

M.M First Steps Program Course





I have to tell you that I almost backed out of coming to this seminar. I just didn’t know if I could sit through another boring seminar--------and for two whole days! I told myself that I would be receiving 15 CEU’s,and the seminar was being held fairly close to home, the cost was not too expensive so I came------and now I can’t believe that I almost missed this experience. I was very surprised and delighted with this seminar. I learned so much about addiction and the process of overcoming addiction. All this information was new and innovative for me. Narconon handles this process of overcoming addiction in a simple step-by-step process that works. I learned the natural remedies to help overcome the physical addiction, as well as process of of re-learning to assist clients in dealing with the real world when they go home, this was a GREAT experience.

S.W. First Steps Program Course.

The Narconon drug rehabilitation experience is unlike others in that each part of it is simple, it works, and is extremely effective.

Continuing Education in Oklahoma

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 counselors can come and be trained in workable drug rehab technology.

I have several friends working at Narconon Arrowhead. They do an incredible job of getting people off of drugs. If you are losing a loved one to drugs, I invite you to call them at 1-800-468-6933.

The first course, according to Desiree, is a course where they unlearn some of the things that they've been taught about drug addiction. One of the first things they learn is that it is not a disease. Then they learn the real handling for drug addiction.

Soapmaker's Labeling Book

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 retainer or in-house to help them cope with the many requirements of labeling soaps and cosmetics. There are so many regulations that it is quite possible to be in non-compliance with one or more of the regulations, despite one's best intentions, which noncompliance can put the small soap maker at legal risk.

So Marie's book, while not a replacement for a lawyer's advice, will certainly help many small soapmakers become conversant with and more likely to be compliant with the rules and regulations. These rules and regs are buried in among other non-applicable laws and regulations, so Marie dug them out and organized them by industry and state. It's a very useful book. She has been getting and delivering many orders for the book since its first publication in May of this year (2007).

There was also a very good review of Marie's book in the Saponifier magazine, which she will have up on her website soon. You can only read Saponifier Magazine online if you have a subscription, so there's no link directly to the article about her book.

Scientology restores historic house in Phoenix

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 Church of Scientology has also recently renovated homes Mr. Hubbard occupied in South Africa in the early 1960's, and in Washington, DC in the mid 1950's. These basically serve as museums of the history of Dianetics and Scientology around the world.

I've toured Hubbard's mansion in East Grinstead, Sussex, England, which is within walking distance of the Scientology college he established there in East Grinstead. From that tour, I recall a basement room which had been made into a recording studio and lecture hall that might hold 50 people. It was here that Hubbard recorded some lectures that I found particularly inspiring. It wouldn't mean much to most people, but it was significant to me.

Cool summer

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 is over" on any subject, experience has taught me that the debate is just getting going, and someone wants to shut up the other side.

It appears that the global temperature seems to have gone up slightly in the last 150 years. Maybe one degree. The earliest data is sketchy and unreliable. In Oregon, it was actually hotter in the 1930's than presently -- that whole decade was hot here.

So, if I don't believe in the global warming mythic, then why is it cooler this summer? For the same reason it's hotter on some summer days than others. Variance. Randomness. Chance played out across a bigger area than is comfortably grasped by the human mind.

I'd be really worried if I believed that humans were causing global warming. Did we cause the global warming of Mars, as well -- which has gained about one degree in the last 30 years?

What do you think?

Psych quotes

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.

Psychiatrist appointed to leadership position in AMA

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 pseudo-science of psychiatry.

Liberty

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 when there's no fire. Freedom of speech also doesn't give one the right to tell harmful lies about another.

The Federalist publishes a "Patriot Post" newsletter, which has the strong purpose of promoting freedom in America. It promotes the view that things are good which lead to freedom, and things are bad which seek to take away our freedoms.

The current popular consideration (it seems to me) is that freedom should consist of "freedoms from" such things as hunger, poverty, war, illness and various other unpleasantnesses of one kind or another. Freedom from being reminded that others have deep religious beliefs seem to be one of the "freedoms" that the ACLU is promoting, in their aggressive actions against the Boy Scouts of America and others who dare to include religious displays or actions as part of their daily lives.

My view is that the better definition of freedom is the "freedom to" do things, not the "freedom from" things. Otherwise a "freedom from" mentality sets in and you have the modern-day liberal, nanny-state, wanting freedom from a host of things that make up reality.

Here are some quotes from the Federalist today that got me thinking on this subject:

"By liberty I mean the assurance that every man shall be protected in doing what he believes is his duty against the influence of authority and majorities, custom and opinion." ---Lord Acton

"But to manipulate men, to propel them toward goals which you---the social reformers---see, but they may not, is to deny their human essence, to treat them as objects without wills of their own, and therefore to degrade them." ---Isaiah Berlin

My view, which is the view of a typical Scientologist is that life is a game, and that games consist of freedoms, barriers, and purposes. Without freedoms to do things, it's difficult to play a good game in life.

Enabling people to do things like study, get off drugs, run a successful business -- these are the things that Scientologists do that make a better life for everyone involved.

What's your view on freedom?

One 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 them from feeling anything -- such as remorse, or compassion, or pangs of conscience.

Psych Bust of APA Convention

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 think the drugging of children for profit, when those drugs have been proven to cause suicidal ideation, homicidal ideation, suicide and homicide (witness the many school shootings by those on psych drugs) is a VERY bad thing, definitely worth spending a weekend to make that point in front of the APA convention.