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Posted by: harold -
on Tuesday, July 15, 2008 - 07:20 PM |
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Page 76 12 X 12 book Seventh Step
The chief activator of our characters defects has been self centered fear- primarily fear that we would lose something we already possessed or we would fail to get something we demanded. Living upon the basis of unsatisfied demands, we were in a state of continual disturbance and frustration. Therefore no peace could be be had unless we could find a way to reduce these demands. The difference between a demand and a simple request is plain to anyone.
The above mentioned spiritual thought is far reaching. When taken in its entirety, it includes all facets of our life. The fear created by the demands can create resentments, our number one offender to a better spiritual life
It can come into play when we are thinking we are doing good. Sometimes we make demands when we should make requests, and other times when we make requests it is none of our business at all. Thus relationships are harmed or very hard to reestablish.
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Posted by: harold -
on Monday, July 14, 2008 - 12:32 PM |
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A casual visual assessment of Portland OR, I have determined there are no unemployed tattoo artist here. I could be wrong.
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Depression |
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Posted by: harold -
on Friday, July 11, 2008 - 12:38 PM |
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A few years ago my youngest son made the statement, "Dad comes home with his thoughts all tangled up sometimes". Well the past few days this is happening to me again. The pdoc says it is depression and suggested an anti-depressant . My wife says we are just tired from our eleven day trip. I think I am just getting old.
The most likely situation is all three of us are correct. I fear the depression the most. I prefer not to take the anti-depressants. They have some many side effects. Also they take so long to take affect. Of course, being exhausted is a factor and it to will take a short time to correct. The pdoc and I discussed the factor of not getting old that has never been a solution for my manic depressive disorder (except once).
The part of my depression the most scary is the part my young son diagnosed at a very early age. This limits my activities. The three symptoms of my illness at present are: scattered thoughts, chronic fatigue, and worthlessness.
I will set set forth a plan to deal with each.
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Hospice House |
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Posted by: harold -
on Tuesday, June 24, 2008 - 12:17 PM |
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Everybody Loses
- The Hospice house loses support
- The investigators lost their job
- The AG lost political support.
- Dr. White lost his senses
- The families of the deceased have lost contact with the grief process, leaving nothing but pain and anguish.
- A law regulating drugs that have a potential for abuse has gain support. A law that should not exist.
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More on the Hospice House |
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Posted by: harold -
on Saturday, June 14, 2008 - 05:23 PM |
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Hospice House case in period of 'limbo'
As a former resident of Tupelo, I sit here 2400 miles away with my perfect lens watching a very sad situation. First I see an institution having a high moral motive of aiding the pain of the dying and giving support to their loved ones as the time of being passes to a time of nonbeing.
Apparently a war of politics was brewing somewhere in the higher levels of government and this institution became a target. Eleven families were found that had received service from the center for comforting the dying. These families suffer from a very common spiritual malady. They do not grieve in a way where good memories of their loved one replace the pain of the loss. They are not at fault. The Hospice House was developed to help, but these eleven families show you cannot help everybody.
The charges against these individuals come from the drug prohibition laws. These laws date back to the early 20th century. It is a failed public policy that gets worse. It is the dream of every politician and prosecutor to receive public approval. I detest these laws because they show an ignorance of addiction. They are based on the "potential for abuse"
The onset of these laws gave the medical professional their pen and pad. However the causes of addiction are obscure to all, even the medical professional. The cluelessness of pharmacology as it relates to addiction has all (including doctors) in a state of discomfort because of the 100 year war on drugs.
To me the answer lies: The two accused should demand their Vl Amendment Rights of a speedy and public trial. Bring forth all their accusers, the experts, the doctors, the lawyers, the politicians. Prove to a jury of the accused' peers two things: One, how do you addict someone that has been determined to die within the next six months? Two, the addiction, proven in the first case, will be worse than the dying' pain.
As I began, this is sad. We have a policy scattered over 100 years which intended to keep drugs with the so called "potential for abuse" in the hands of professionals, under legal restrictions, for medical use, but out of the hands of the public. These individuals were indicted via a conglomeration of these laws, created to continue a popular flawed policy.
However these individuals must be defended from the creation of these laws: "potential for abuse" which does not exist. This is like indicting a 25 year old man for statuary rape for having sex with a willing 25 years old woman. The crime did not happen no matter what daddy said.
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Washington Post on Prison Population |
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Posted by: harold -
on Thursday, June 12, 2008 - 12:17 PM |
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New Criminal Record: 7.2 Million
Nation's Justice System Strains to Keep Pace With Convictions
From WoPo
Tim Lynch, director of the criminal justice project for the libertarian Cato Institute, called the numbers "scandalous" and said states have resorted to "tinkering" to solve prison overcrowding.
"I think these numbers demonstrate that we've lost our way," Lynch said. "We've lost our way when our laws require such a massive scale of incarceration."
Lynch and others said the drug war is destroying American inner cities almost as much as the drug trade. "When you lock up a bank robber, a child molester or a mugger, you're removing a career offender from the street.
"When you lock up a drug dealer, he is immediately replaced," Lynch said. "We tried this with alcohol during Prohibition and it didn't work. We're not reaching the same conclusion with the drug war. It's slowly sinking in, but it will take politicians some time to turn this around."
Amen
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Short Story |
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Posted by: harold -
on Monday, June 09, 2008 - 02:02 PM |
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Short Story
I seriously doubt that you can find a person that has personally had more conversations with different alcoholics/drug addicts about the subject of addiction than Weirdharold. This does not make me an expert or do I have any more knowledge of this subject than anyone else. However it does give me a different perspective on what might aid the suffering, simply put, allowing the person to use the substance, but holding him accountable for disturbing the peace of others.
This methodology gives honest relationships between the addict and the public. It focuses on disruptive behavior, not on the substance the addict finds misdirected relief.
Of the thousands of alcoholics that I have discussed our malady, none believed they could stop drinking without some form of spiritual aid. Many , many of these the people have gone back to drinking because the can rationalize (or convince themselves) a drink will be okay. This thought continues until the alcoholic develops honest relationships with others.
However Nancy Reagan says,”Just say no”, then convinces our legislators to spend 100s of billion of dollars to stop drugs from being sold, and to education people how not to be alcoholics and drug addicts. I bet if we really try we can teach people how not to be diabetic, or not to suffer from ALS, Alzheimer, and bipolar. I bet it will work just like the Drug War and just say no, such a sweet saying. It is almost as nice as saying do not go near the restroom when you have the green apple quick step.
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This is Not the Way to Sell Drugs |
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Posted by: harold -
on Sunday, June 08, 2008 - 03:15 PM |
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This is not the way to sell drugs
Weirdharold’s Method for Selling Drugs
A taxpaying company would submit to the Federal Drug Administration information on a product that would be classed as one of the following three:
1. Central Nervous System Depressant
2 . Stimulant
3. Hallucinogens
The producers would provide information to the FDA as to the effects on an adult male & female. This information would include shot term effects on the physic, the progressive use, and the long term effect on brain and body. The FDA would ascertain the information and permit or reject the sale of the product. The FDA roll is only to ascertain the truthfulness for the producer not to insure safety of the product. The capitalist economy will determine what is sold.
After the product is approved for sale then the Treasury Department will handle the tax and labeling issues as it does alcohol and tobacco.
At the the point of sale to the consumer, the sale person would give the costumer would be informed of the findings of the effect of the product and he would sign document saying same.
The costumer signs & swears to the following:
1. Will not resale
2. Will not allow to fall into hand of anyone 21 years
3. Will not operate machinery while using products
We now have a product our government guarantees that a producer is selling a product that is what they say it is, only to adults.
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Just A Thought |
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Posted by: harold -
on Sunday, June 01, 2008 - 04:04 PM |
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The more spiritual we are the easier it is to admit our powerlessness and the more powerless we become the easier it is to broaden our spiritual life.
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Treat Alcoholics |
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Posted by: harold -
on Friday, May 23, 2008 - 12:48 PM |
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Methodology For Treating Alcoholics
1. Avoid scorn and ridicule.
2. Respect the fact that alcoholism is a physical, mental, and spiritual disease with many complexities.
3. Never allow yourself to be ashamed of the alcoholic’s behavior.
4 Never assume the alcoholic’s responsibilities.
5. Never cover up the alcoholic’s misbehavior.
6. Love one another.
If this fails double up on #6.
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Alcoholic |
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Posted by: harold -
on Thursday, May 22, 2008 - 12:54 PM |
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An alcoholic is a person who has a distorted perspective of the value alcohol has for him/her. This distortion is caused by some unknown disorder. This disorder may have existed before the onset of alcohol use.
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War on Drugs is Just Another Vietnam |
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Posted by: harold -
on Tuesday, May 20, 2008 - 01:27 PM |
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In 1964, some months before the elections, incumbent leaders asked the military to stage an incident in the Gulf of Tonkin, then asked Congress to give the military war time power "to prevent future aggression." The incumbents feared that the opposition party would tag them as "soft on communism." 58,000 young Americans proved with their lives that we are not soft on communism.
In 1953, my father (a graduate of the third grade and a tobacco farmer) stated he wished they would stop worrying about those Russians. He thought their economic system would destroy their agriculture incentives. They could not feed an army to cross Honey Run Creek (a stream running through our farm about 6' wide). He was not asked for his opinion when we started a troop buildup in southeast Asia to stop communism. Thirty-seven years later, I was astonished by my father's thoughts when the Soviet Empire's economy collapsed.
Note: Some writing from 12/25/93. Sounds a lot like what we hear today |
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Parenting According to Weirdharold |
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Posted by: harold -
on Monday, May 19, 2008 - 07:12 PM |
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The government has inserted itself into the roll as praent. We are trying to make the parent insignificant. One another subject on this forum I posted a cartoon by Signe Wilkinson the link I thought gave a pretty good picture of what is going on with government and parenting.
This forum is about drugs, not parenting, so I will stick to that subject, drug laws as it relates to parenting. Most parents are duped into thinking the drug laws protect their children from the perceived evils of drugs when nothing could be nothing further from the truth. It is just more expense and easier for the child to obtain. (No ID requested). If the parents have succeeded in keeping the child from drug until he goes to college, some children start experimenting there and learn how they have been lied to, then they are off to the races. When the law enforcement intervenes, then parental pride comes to the home front. Here is where the laws do a great damage.
Some parents think the laws are full of sh*t and and give their children drugs. Here we get a great disrespect for all laws. More damage the drugs laws create.
Now we get to the parent of the addict. It does not matter if the parent or child come from Yale or Harvard or a tobacco farm in KY, as I. The most likely path followed is this, addict in and out of jails, treatment centers, and continual binges, while the parents pay fines, lawyers, treatments centers fees. There may be siblings and they become angry at the addict and parent both causing hatred in the family. The saddest of all is the 70 year old mother tending to a 50 year old as if he were 12 years old. Some call this "enabling". I think it is very complicated relationships and we never will find an answer in the research labs and for sure not on the law books. Remember we have 500,000 in prison, who knows under house arrest, and/or on bail.
Often the addict marries, has children and the child becomes the parent.
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Education First part of War on Drug Program |
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Posted by: harold -
on Monday, May 19, 2008 - 10:46 AM |
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5/21/1990
Much is being said about efforts to educated our youth on the perils of drug use. My heart goes out to those trying to carry this message. All to often, we attempt to present a certain thought about these highly emotional issues and we find our message was received completely devoid of what we are trying to say.
A perfect example of this is a story I was told in school down in central Kentucky. It seems that a young lad had put some of his father's moonshine in a small bottle, hid it in his trousers, and went off to school. As his history class was making an in-depth analysis of the 18th amendment, he was sipping on his father's shine. Midway through the class the very astute teacher caught the lad nipping, took the bottle, ascertained its contents and changed her lesson plan.
She sent the fastest boy in the class to get 2 fishing worms while she brought out 2 pint Mason jars. She filled one jar with water, the other with the shine. Then, she placed one worm in the water jar, the other worm in the shine. A short time later the worm in the shine had died, while the one in the water looked as if it was taking a sun bath. The teacher said, "Now do you know what will happen to you if you drink this stuff?" The young lad replied swiftly, "If I drink Pa's shine I won't get worms."
Afterthought:
In the early 60s a hospital was built in Lexington, KY. They took in indigent clients. 50% were treated for worms.
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Kick off the Drug War |
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Posted by: harold -
on Sunday, May 18, 2008 - 07:04 PM |
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The following snippet is the method for getting a good start on a, “Drug War”
The Bureau of National Affairs will celebrate its new publication, “Drug Free Workplace”, by serving champagne and high tea at a book signing party.............
As reported by: Wall Street Journal - January 26, 1988
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Marie Antoinette and Nancy Reagan |
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Posted by: harold -
on Thursday, May 15, 2008 - 02:26 PM |
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Marie Antoinette said, "Let them eat cake"
Nancy Reagan said, “Just say no”
Weirdharold says:
My personal opinion is that these statements show depraved indifference of suffering people. I was not around when the French Queen made her statement, but I was when the president’s wife came on stage with hers. To state,”Just say no drugs”, to an alcoholic/drug addict is like saying to the homeless, "Just buy a house".
Oh, I know you are saying she may have prevented some youngster from dipping into a life of mood altering drugs. Education or role models did not do much for me, and I think it was applied in the the most loving caring manner that any parent could.
Jesus Christ said, "This kind can come forth by nothing, but by prayer and fasting."
Now, believe Nancy Reagan if you must, but remember whose teachings you are choosing to ignore.
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A Thought on the Drug War |
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Posted by: harold -
on Thursday, May 15, 2008 - 01:54 PM |
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Today we hear much about war, Afghanistan and Iraq. The politicians talk about winning and losing. To me winning a war is imposing our will upon others. Any win will only be an appearance our political representatives tell us. I would like to talk about another war. The war on drugs is fact it is a war on our sickest, individuals in this nation. All we are doing is imposing our will upon these people. When they do not respond we punish them more and more. The politicians and media do not separate criminal behavior from behavior of the ill. They focus their attention upon on the unscrupulous entrepreneurs providing the substances to wants of the suffering.
We often missed the intended message such as Genesis 9, 20-29. The directive here is abuse of alcohol/drug will destroy family relationships even within a clan of faithful. Then we can go to the other extreme where politicians play upon our fears and prejudices both religious and secular. Here is one of the best I have found:
“There are 100,000 marijuana smokers in the US, and most are Negroes, Hispanics, Filipinos and entertainers. Their satanic music, jazz and swing, result from marijuana usage. This marijuana causes white women to seek sexual relations with Negroes, entertainers and any others.”
– Harry Anslinger, 1937
I say, "Yes, shop lifting is criminal activity whether the individual steals diapers or drugs." Shoplifting must be addressed. Also I say, "There is no domestic tranquility in allowing unscrupulous entrepreneurs to manufacture meth in the back woods of Lee County for the purpose to sell to anyone that has the money to purchase, including our youth. However I do not have any trouble letting Merck Drugs manufacture the same under the supervision of the FDA and allowing to be sold to adults after qualified medical persons have informed them of the dangers. This would definitely result in less loss of live than Vioxx. I am well aware that a very small minority agrees with me. If only we could agree we cannot save individuals form addiction, no more than we can save many from Alzheimers. Our lives would become so much simpler. The enforcement of non-crimes would decrease, as would the need for prisons. The need for mandatory sentences would end. Building more prisons to address crimes is like building more graveyards to address a fatal disease.
The drugs user would have to accept the responsibility for his actions, not his addiction. We put addict in prison for non-violent crimes that confuses the addict and keeps him from the real attention he needs to address his sickness.
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The Addict and the Extinguisher |
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Posted by: harold -
on Tuesday, May 13, 2008 - 01:26 PM |
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The one area where our society is so misdirected about psychoactive drug control is the vast unknown. The thought, if the law enforcement can keep drugs away from our populace there will be no addicts or we will reduce the number of addicts. There is evidence this not true.
Another untruth preached is; if the addict does not use psychoactive drugs he is a state of remission or cured. The effect of psychoactive drugs upon the brain is not fully know and the addict must find some solution to change his life in a manner the psychoactive drugs are not thought to be an extinguisher for a brain on fire.
We might point the addict in some direction to change his life. We should punish his misbehavior. We should never take away his extinguisher nor his methodology for change.
So goes a misdirected "Drug War" via Drug Prohibition.
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More Jail Cells in Lee County |
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Posted by: harold -
on Monday, May 12, 2008 - 03:39 PM |
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The media has the Drug Prohibition Laws and the treatment of addiction so so wrong. I was watching Law & Order:SVU and one of the stars said, "Love will not cure an alcoholic". That is the only thing that can bring peace to the affected and afflicted. This insults me
There is a trial going on in Fulton County, GA where the Narc Cops killed a 92 year old lady. Google and see if you can find, very very little, sad. Then go here and see if this makes any sense
More of the same
“When you're sending SWAT teams in after low-level drug users, you're creating violence,” he said. “You're creating a confrontation where there wasn't one before.”
More from the text
Balko said that the rise of the SWAT team has largely been in response to the fear that inner city drug dealers and other criminals have amassed hordes of automatic weaponry to use on police (by contrast, he said, the National Institute of Justice has found that the overwhelming majority of gun crimes were committed using small-caliber, easily concealed handguns). Originally conceived in huge, high-crime cities like Los Angeles, tactical teams have since spread to almost every police department that can afford one, and have often been accompanied by a corresponding militarized mentality — one that can trickle down even to the rank-and-file officers on the street.
It's easy to see why. Highly trained and armed to the teeth, often given the most dangerous assignments, being a SWAT officer is about as close to being Batman as most cops are ever going to get: decked out in ninja black, identities hidden from evildoers, with a utility belt full of the latest tactical gadgets. Even so, Balko said, many older police officers he knows are suspicious of the new breed of gung-ho cops who gravitate toward SWAT — and the us-versus-them mentality an overly militarized police force can create.
“We're giving these cops military equipment,” Balko said. “We're giving them military training in military tactics, and then we send them out and tell them they're fighting a war on drugs. It shouldn't surprise us at all when they start to treat public streets like a battlefield and private citizens like enemy combatants.”
You know we could do away with the SWAT teams and the dogs we would be a little less violent.
The Brown Shirts are out in force and nobody is watching.
Next time you hear the words, Dangerous Drugs," apply your own experience not the media or the law enforcement. See if we can do without another jail in Lee County
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NMDJ 05/11/2008 Opinion |
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Posted by: harold -
on Monday, May 12, 2008 - 12:49 PM |
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As stated from the NMDJ 05/11/2008 Opinion
Police Department affairs need more space for the same reason the jail needs expansion: a growing city and county generate more law enforcement business.
I must disagree. The reason we need a new jail is our obsession with our Drug Prohibition Laws. In the past century we have decided drug addicts are criminals so we put them in jail. We fail to look at our Basic Text for our spiritual life to seek the answer.
Mark 9 17And one of the multitude answered and said, Master, I have brought unto thee my son, which hath a dumb spirit; 18And wheresoever he taketh him, he teareth him: and he foameth, and gnasheth with his teeth, and pineth away: and I spake to thy disciples that they should cast him out; and they could not
his disciples asked him privately, Why could not we cast him out? 29And he said unto them, This kind can come forth by nothing, but by prayer and fasting. Spoken to the followers, not to the possessed. I suggest a complete reading to understand what was said to the father.
Will somebody look in the jail and determine how many non violent drug offenders are lock up and ask what are we doing building another jail.
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Two Reasons I am Sad |
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Posted by: harold -
on Sunday, May 11, 2008 - 04:17 PM |
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"Reality cannot be described in terms of being and nonbeing. Being and nonbeing are notions cerated by you, exactly like the notions of birth and death, coming and going. If your beloved one can no longer be seen, does not mean that from being she has become nonbeing. If you realize this truth about your beloved, you will suffer much less, and if you realize this truth about yourself, you will transcend your fear of dying, of nonbeing."
Taming the Tiger Within
Thich Nhat Hanh
Transformation from life to death at times can come with excruciating pain. This can be often times be emotionally disturbing to love ones. Doctors, nurses, aids, and friends can give aid to all who suffer, the dying and the love ones of the dying. This work is praiseworthy and hopefully their goals are not disrupted. When life can no longer be seen, as Thich Nhat Hanh states, the funeral home businesses, friends and others take over to assure the love ones the deceased is still with them. I hold those who carry out this work in high esteem. This is one of the two reason the Sanctuary Hospice House situation saddens me.
The other reason is two investigators were sent to look into the work of some at the Sanctuary Hospice House using laws (Please take a look) that can convict Doctor Albert Schweitzer and Mother Teresa without having a trial.
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Opium: Then And Now |
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Posted by: harold -
on Friday, May 09, 2008 - 05:42 PM |
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found here
Addicts of opium were very frequent. It has been estimated that one US. citizen of 400 was an addict of opium in 1914, much more frequent than today, and the number had increased fast for a number of years. The user were mostly white or Chinese.
Hellaous statement, we do not have very many opium addicts, we have crack addicts, meth addicts, crack hos, & whatever. Now, is somebody telling me that we have less than 750,000 drug addicts in the USA. We have that many is prison or some type of judicial supervision. However since nobody agrees what is an addict, lets' just call them criminals.(sic)
However the last sentence says it all, it is about race. Here is more!
"There are 100,000 total marijuana smokers in the US, and most are Negroes, Hispanics, Filipinos and entertainers. Their Satanic music, jazz and swing, result from marijuana usage. This marijuana causes white women to seek sexual relations with Negroes, entertainers and any others."
Harry Anslinger, U.S. Commissioner of Narcotics, testifying to Congress on why
marijuana should be made illegal, 1937.
(Marijuana Tax Act, signed Aug. 2, 1937; effective Oct. 1,1937.)
It is still going on. Look here
Our Drug Prohibition Laws are working. That is, if you are a racist.
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Prosecutor: Cop's actions in botched raid led to death |
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Posted by: harold -
on Monday, May 05, 2008 - 07:06 PM |
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Does this not disturb anybody.
We give powers to people to carry out Prohibition Laws and we get this. You think this is a rare occasion. May someone getting killed. I think not. I happens everyday and most think these folks are protecting our children. When will we awaken.
Prosecutor Kellie Hill put the photograph of the 92-year-old woman on a monitor as the trial in Superior Court began.
Then a steady BANG, BANG, BANG ... rang out from a recorder, eventually reaching the number 39.
"That was 39 shots, the last thing Kathryn Johnston heard," Hill quietly told the jury before testimony started. " She died in the sanctity of her home.
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Dying With Dignity |
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Posted by: harold -
on Sunday, April 27, 2008 - 01:57 PM |
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I am totally dismayed over this fracas at the Tupelo Sanctuary Hospice House. Maybe someone could explain what motivation of those accused could have except to help a person die with dignity. The two paragraphs below might show how dying with dignity works and how it is an aid to the grieving process for those living.
My mother had 5 siblings who had Sunday dinner from birth to death with each other almost every Sunday. In 1978 the first brother died shoveling snow of a heart attack. I did not make the funeral but came 2 months later to find my mother very sad and distraught over her brother's death. I said, "Mother I do not think you could have helped much since he was probably dead by the time he hit the ground." She replied quickly, "I could have held his hand."
Eight months later my mother died and my family was staying with my father he was very sad and crying. I said, "Daddy you have been through this before. I am sure you know what to expect." He said crying, "It ain't no easier this time."
The grieving process is a very complicated affair and is different for all as any funeral director call tell you. Here are some of my thoughts. Most come from my mother, some from my experience. Grief from the loss of a close family member is resolved by good memories. The loss of a child messes up the, God Clock", and only the most spiritual can handle. God bless them. When there is anger and resentment present in the family some transfer that resentment and do not grieve.
I believe the last sentence is the crux of what is happening here. Now take a tort lawyer, the best, and public opinion on the use of narcotics. You just might just make public policy as was done with tobacco and asbestos. I hope my thinking is wrong!
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Posted by: harold -
on Saturday, April 26, 2008 - 05:39 PM |
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(Link no longer up)The late spring and early summer of 1959 and 1960 I was a Farm Reporter (parochial "Measuring Tobacco") for the USDA in Hart County, KY office. On one beautiful spring morning, I had the papers for a farm own by a person I knew by word of mouth. I knew nothing about the family and had to get direction to the farm place. The road to the driveway to the home was fairly good but the driveway was not in shape for me to drive my father's 1958 Custom 300 Ford down to the house. The house was in the woods the only yard was wood chips. When I arrive there were two women outside washing clothes. They both were between the ages 50-60 ?? bare foot with facial features from Deliverance. I expressed my reason for being there. One went and found a man near his 70s ? that took me to the place I had to report the amount of acreage of tobacco they were growing.
I remember the man had a sore about the size of a dime right below his lip. It was of a color I had never seen and an oder I had to avoid. He had a hearing disorder that I had to get close for him to hear. All things considered, I tried to get his and my work done quickly.
When we got back to the house three more people became visible. A young lady and her two children. She walked back to the car with me and we chatted a bit. She and the children spoke, looked and dressed to KY standards. I do not remember any names of this family except the stated owner, Harvey, who was not there that morning.
Most people in there area thought they knew who was the mamma, the papa, the children, the siblings, but I think mostly guess work.
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Ever heard of AA or NA? |
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Posted by: harold -
on Monday, April 21, 2008 - 03:12 PM |
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Here is a comment from a statement I made on another blog that was e-mailed to me but for some reason I cannot find on that blog.
Author: msgirl
Comment:
No method for treating addiction? Ever heard of AA or NA? Dr. Russell's method just enabled addiction.
Here again I have not made myself clear. Yes, I have heard of AA, NA, CA, & others. I also have heard that some 10 million have found relief from the agonizing slow death of the spiritual malady called alcoholism, since its onset in 1935. I know of no method anyone, including our Justice Department, can use to apply this to a suffering individual.
I also know of another group called the Al-Anon Family Groups that uses the same principles as above to emotionally separate themselves from those they Love that are demonized by the aforementioned spiritual malady.
I am convinced if ALL employees of the DEA would attend a Al-Anon Family Groups and seriously apply these principles to their work, they will find another job in short order.
Of course, my thoughts here are the same as sending a drunk to AA excepting him to behave as I wish.
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The Silliness Of Drug Courts |
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Posted by: harold -
on Sunday, April 20, 2008 - 04:25 PM |
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Lafayette, Prentiss drug courts in operation
And slowly we build our tower of Babylon. Our drug prohibition laws do not work so we continue to try extensions of a failed policy.
In the USA we have between 25,000,000 to 30,000,000 addict/alcoholics. They are out there dying like flies around a slop jaw and we continued these failed policies.
from the text
"Our court dockets are saturated with drug cases," Pounds said, "and a workable alternative is desperately needed to deter repeat offenders.
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Creekmore said every tool is crucial because each case of drug abuse creates multiple victims.
"I would say 80 percent of all crime is drug-related," he said. "That's people breaking into people's houses, crimes of violence. By the time a criminal defendant is addicted to illegal drugs, their families have already paid a high price."
Of course, our dockets are saturated with drug cases, we send 80% to 100% of our law enforcement out trying to stop the manufacture, transporting, possession & sale of prohibited substances.
Another statement that does not make any sense.
"You'll have a lot of addicts who steal a checkbook from their grandma to supplement their habits," he said.
Are addicts the only people that steal? Our drug prohibition laws are hell bent on keeping him from using not stealing!! The statement is silly because grandma is too full of pride to press charges against a family member for stealing, so let's blame it on the drugs and hide the real issues.
I get angry when I read such rhetoric. We are creating a pride that kills.
The only person more insane than an addict/alcoholic that continue to use is a person tying to make him stop.
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