What is Scientology?

You know I figured that the best way to explain what Scientology was, would be by showing you what it is to me and what I have gotten from it after doing it these years.

I am a young man so my take on it might not matter to some but in my 25 years I have seen a lot.

I am from Los Angeles and now live in somewhat boring (or “calm” as me mum would put it) Clearwater, Florida.

I grew up skateboarding and still do actually – not as much as I would like to but hey that’s a different topic. ;)

My parents are Scientologists so I was born into it but was a rebel until the age of about 15 and did not consider myself much of anything.

My parents did not force it upon me and 100% let me come to my decision as to what it was and if I wanted to subscribe to that train of thought or not. When I was about 8 years of age I was bit quite badly by a dog of mine, who actually was basically a best friend of mine. Unfortunately after that happened I was VERY scared of dogs which really bothered me as I loved them but was scared of them.

I was offered to receive some Scientology counseling when I was about 9 in regards to what happened with the dog but did not want it, I then took up the offer a year after that and went to a Dianetics seminar at the Celebrity Center International in Los Angeles CA and it cost me about $20.00 if I remember (my mother paid obviously) and at first I did not really care but was just there for the hell of it, we were learning about the book Dianetics and how to do the therapy in that book on each other. I must admit that I was not really paying much attention to the person sitting across from me until he was asking for a fear that I had and I remember reluctantly talking about dogs.

I am soooooo glad that I did say that as we tackled first and foremost my fear of dogs and within 1 hour of doing that I was feeling great and later that day when I was leaving there was a man with a seeing eye dog and I remember hugging the dog with no reservation and was crying I was so happy as I wanted to for so long but had this irrational fear that stopped me.

That for me sold me on it and since then I love dogs and take care of them often. In fact I will be moving into a nice house soon with a dog and I am very excited.

I am not a professional at explaining things and so I am not even trying to do that – I just want to put my honest experience with Scientology out there for anyone to read.

The other basic principles about the church are great as nothing is ram-rodded down your throat as to what to believe and what not to – one of the things that we believe is “what’s true for you is true for you” in that regard if you believe something to be a certain way then fine that’s what you think and we do not make you feel little for thinking it.

The basics skills of communication and the way that people act and think to me are amazing and I use them in my daily life all the time. I use them all the time in my work, life, girlfriends etc. It really does help me out.

So that is why I like Scientology – It has helped me out for many years and I am sure it will continue to do so for many more to come.

Later - Monty

Obama is in!

Hello!

Just wanted to pop in and say, while I do not like Obama and I did not vote for him I am willing to see what he is going to do for the country and since he is (or will be shortly) are new chief of staff I think that we should hold off on criticism and see what his actual actions are. As up until now its all blah blah blah and politics don't usually do what they say they will.. Statistically speaking. And to be honest seeing as I do not agree with a lot of his programs I guess that's a good thing,

Later - Monty

Heroin Pills - A poem

If the devil were a person he would surely be Michael Friedman
If you were shot on the corner He’d walk by and let you bleed man,

For this man is the CEO of what’s known as Purdue Pharma
They manufacture drugs of which create only bad Karma,

Like Oxycodone, Oxycontin and their newest Remoxy,
Their sales girls in n out of doctor’s offices acting real foxy,

The design of these drugs were to treat people with painful diseases,
They’re now being used for people with coughs and some sneezes,

The problem with these pills is that there very addictive,
Many a people are dead now from them and their parents vindictive,

Many will say that “it’s just the addictive type that gets hooked on them”,
I say we give all of those people 100mgs a day and then take em off them

Because I will tell you now friend and I’ll tell you again
You would never again hear those uttered words from them,

So can you see what this means now as I think that it’s real sad,
The drug dealers today have a ton of PHD’s and a prescription pad,

And to top it all off they have us all saying the term “pain killer”
That’s like saying “little house on the prairie” is a psychological thriller,

So please take a closer look at this national epidemic,
If you don’t believe me ask a policeman or paramedic,

Cocaine and some of the other illicit type drugs
Are no longer being used by businessmen and thugs

It’s the drugs in your medicine cabinet that are responsible for the kills,
It’s not much of anything nowadays other than these damn heroin pills.

© Montana Spencer 2008

The way I see things

The point of this poem is not meant to bring you down,
Nor is it sarcastic or witty, ill leave that for a clown,

Just give me a moment of your workaday life,
And Ill give you some data about peoples worry and strife,

I could go on a banter about McCain or Bush and even Obama,
But that’s for another time – this is for everyone else and their mama,

Let’s talk about situations that need solutions like a baby needs milk,
Like to get a full tank of gas, means you must have come from good ilk,

Or what about the fact that the worlds fastest growing island out in the Pacific,
Happens to be made with plastic bottles and other trash to be more specific,

That’s right - its floating out there near Hawaii and Papa New Guinea
It’s the size of Texas so all you green people should do more than buy that hybrid new Mini,

Or what about education and that we (USA) were named #18 by the UNICEF committee,
That’s quite a statement when we are supposedly the best country with all the best cities

And if you read that report I’ll bet you’ll find something in there,
That made me start thinking (which used to happen in this country a fair share)

So this is what it is that I found that made me realize and I was then off and running
The report finds that educational success or failure is not directly linked to funding

It has been estimated that 40% of Americans are on some kind of medication,
What happened to the good ole days when it was all about god and meditation?

Look, if all that would happen is you took the pill and it did what was stated,
Then I would bring up another topic and let “big pharma” go on unabated

But ladies and gentlemen I am sorry to tell you,
That some of the drugs were designed just to sell you,

I’m not talking about blood thinners and drugs of that kind,
I’m talking about Prozac and Rittilin that destroy your own mind,

So pay attention to me now as I have something rather unsoothing,
Those Psychiatric drugs were in the kids involved in school shootings

There is a silent epidemic that must be put to an end,
For it’s up to us now as god himself will not mend,

But just like the planet Saturn with its many turning rings,
These issues orbit me as well, It’s the way I see things

© Montana Spencer 2008

That spark

Hello! I wrote a poem today and liked it so I figured I'd post it... It's about a very special girl whom I have known for a loooooong time... Why not put it up.






Have you ever looked at a crowd of people from a distance?
And seen that certain type of person slide among with no resistance?

It’s hard to explain what is really occurring,
Other then, when you’re with them its rather assuring,

They do what they want because they have that “pizzazz”,
Their like there own type of music, but not redundant like jazz,

There the kind of person that you can throw into a Unknown bar,
Walk-a-way and come back and “What” there now the local star?!?

What makes them tick I know Ill never know,
But I met someone like that – not too long ago

She is the kind of person that argues about characters from the big screen,
Like his name wasn’t “dark helmet” it was “Lord of darkness” and there is no in-between

She matches the description, right down to the last “T”
She is not your average person, not boring yet quite pretty,

She can make you smile without even opening her mouth
And with her it’s always up, things never seem to head south

So its pretty clear to me I was all alone in the dark,
Then out of nowhere she came and with her – That spark

Later - Monty

Obama or McCain... How about neither!

After months of refusing to endorse any candidate in November's presidential election race, Congressman Ron Paul—who ran a hard race for the GOP nomination—announced Monday afternoon in a press statement that he was supporting Constitution Party nominee Rev. Chuck Baldwin.
Baldwin, a minister at Crossroads Baptist Church in Pensacola, Fla., and a syndicated columnist, could not be reached for comment, but Frank Fluckiger, the Constitution Party's Western States Area Chairman, told NewsWithViews.com that he and other party officials had "no idea" that Paul had actually decided to endorse their candidate.
"Of course, we are thrilled. It will be a real boost to our party and membership," he said. "It was wonderful for Congressman Paul to do this."
The Baldwin campaign had approached Paul for his endorsement, as had the Libertarian Party and the GOP—with former senator Phil Gramm making the pitch for Paul to endorse Sen. John McCain. But Paul repeatedly refused.
The surprise announcement came less than two weeks after the Texas Republican had hosted a Third-Party Unity Conference at the National Press Club in Washington, under the auspices of Paul's new project, the Campaign for Liberty. At the event Paul called on voters to reject the two major political parties and vote for one of the third-party candidates with him that day.
Joining him at the podium were Chuck Baldwin, Green Party candidate Cynthia McKinney, and Ralph Nader, Independent.
Paul's intention was to focus voters on the idea that there are other parties out there and other candidates than simply the "big two." That's why he hosted the press conference and invited all the third party candidates. All of them.
But one third-party candidate was a no-show: Bob Barr, a former congressman from Georgia, now the Libertarian Party's presidential candidate for the November election.
Not that Barr hadn't been invited. Not only had he been invited, he had accepted. Then moments before the conference was scheduled to begin he sent word that he would not be attending, saying it would be "a waste of time." Worse, Barr had scheduled a press conference of his own to begin a couple of hours following Ron Paul's event.
"I'm not interested in third parties getting the most possible votes," Barr said at his press conference. "I'm interested in Bob Barr as the nominee for the Libertarian Party getting the most possible votes. Adding insult to injury, he said he'd allow Paul to be his running mate on the LP ticket.
Barr also sent a letter to Paul, explaining why he should not stay neutral but join him in the Libertarian Party fold. The letter has been pulled from the Barr campaign website. Today, Paul replied, declaring at the end of a lengthy essay posted on the Campaign for Liberty site:

"The Libertarian Party Candidate admonished me for 'remaining neutral' in the presidential race and not stating whom I will vote for in November. It's true; I have done exactly that due to my respect and friendship and support from both the Constitution and Libertarian Party members. I remain a lifetime member of the Libertarian Party and I'm a ten-term Republican Congressman. It is not against the law to participate in more then one political party. Chuck Baldwin has been a friend and was an active supporter in the presidential campaign.

"I continue to wish the Libertarian and Constitution Parties well. The more votes they get, the better. I have attended Libertarian Party conventions frequently over the years. I've thought about the unsolicited advice from the Libertarian Party candidate, and he has convinced me to reject my neutral stance in the November election. I'm supporting Chuck Baldwin, the Constitution Party candidate."

So it looks like if you were a supporter of Ron Paul (as I am) then i guess its clear who he wants you to vote for. I think that its interesting that he was asked to support McCain but he didnt.

What do you think?

Later - Monty

SIN STOCKS

The below article was written by John Carey. John’s Peace and Freedom II blog always contains topical and insightful material. John has degrees in Chemical Engineering and Computer Science from Texas A&M University, and has worked for a major oil company for over 24 years. As a humanitarian endeavor, he has researched extensively on the psychiatric drugging of children.


SIN STOCKS by John Carey

“It is part of the American dream to put a dollar into a company stock today, and get lots of dollars back when you sell. The only modifier to this dream by some is an aversion towards "sin" stocks - avoiding companies that make alcohol, cigarettes, pornography, guns or provide gambling.But when I suggest that you pitch drug companies into this same sin-bucket you probably think I'm joking. But I'll let you in on my reasoning, which includes numerous lawsuits against the companies, lying by the company executives to market their drugs under false pretenses for profit's sake, and drugs pushed on the public which knowingly harm more people with the side effects than they ever help. Side EffectsAll drugs have side effects! Taken for a short time to cure something worse, it is a beneficial exchange. But drug companies can't make the huge profit for an antibiotic you take for two weeks as they can for a "mental-health" pill you take every day for the rest of your life!With the first group of antipsychotics marketed, drug companies freed many people from the state hospitals. But one debilitating side effect of these drugs (like Thorazine, Haldol and Prolixin) was that they caused involuntary, repetitive, and purposeless movements. In the 1990s, newer drugs called atypical drugs (like Clozaril, Zyprexa, Seroquel, Geodon and Risperdal) largely replaced the older meds and were marketed (at eight to twenty times the cost of the prior drugs) as causing fewer involuntary movements, but they have their own side effects such as weight gain, diabetes and early death.* Tens of thousands of people sued Eli Lilly and AstraZeneca, saying that their drugs, Zyprexa and Seroquel, gave them diabetes and elevated blood sugar levels. Eli Lilly reports having paid $1.2 billion to settle over 30,000 lawsuits.
* In 2008, Alaska sued Eli Lilly for the medical costs of Medicaid patients who developed diabetes while taking Zyprexa. One of Eli Lilly's top executives sent an email encouraging Lilly to promote Zyprexa for a use not approved by federal drug regulators (known as "off label") and while doctors can prescribe a drug "off label", it is against federal law for a drug company to encourage this practice. Alaska settled with Lilly for $15 million and now other states are going after this legalized drug pusher. (Global sales of Zyprexa approached $4.8 BILLION in 2007.) Lilly also faces 1,200 cases as well as a federal probe over its marketing tactics.
* Janssen's Risperdal got FDA approval to expand the use of the drug to address adolescent schizophrenia, the irritability of autism in kids and for bipolar disorder. In 2006, it was the most heavily prescribed psychiatric drug in New York's Medicaid kids program, given to 17,393 children. It is also blamed in lawsuits nationwide for side effects including diabetes caused by weight gain, Parkinson's-like movement disorders and gynecomastia, in which males grow breasts which have to be surgically removed.
* The pharmaceutical companies have made astronomical profits since promoting the atypicals to treat mental disorders. Since the drug companies couldn't claim that the atypicals were better than the old drugs, they paid doctors to say so. This brought about a widespread false belief that the newer medications were safer and worth the additional billions of dollars in taxpayer money to make these the states' preferred drugs of choice. Since then, the life expectancy of people treated in community mental health centers has plunged to a point twenty-five years LESS than the average due to a higher incidence of cardiovascular disease as a side effect of these drugs. (For comparison sake, being homeless cuts ten years off your life expectancy.) Chuck Areford said in a 2008 article titled "Antipsychotic Drugs are Doing Harm" that this "…must be ranked as one of the worst public health disasters in U.S. history."Drugs Marketed Under False PretensesIf you are the CEO of a company, a large part of your multi-million dollar compensation is tied to how well the stock does during your tenure. This has led the companies to promote their drugs much like the rest of Madison Avenue promotes cars or the latest perfume. However, while the brand of car you drive doesn't adversely affect your health, which psych drug you take to hide your problems does.* The entire basis for the use of psychotropic drugs is a THEORY, not a fact! The media presents it as a fact that depression is caused by a chemical imbalance. However, even the psychiatric bible clearly states that the cause of depression and anxiety is unknown. Jeffrey Lacasse, a doctoral student co-authoring a study on this is quoted as saying, "… there are few scientists who will rise to its defense, and some prominent psychiatrists publicly acknowledge that the serotonin hypothesis is more metaphor than fact."
* In 2006 4-year-old Rebecca Riley died of an overdose of psychiatric drugs that had never been approved or tested for children. She had been taking drugs for ADD and bipolar since she was two years old and died with four prescription drugs in her system. Her heart and lungs were damaged due to prolonged abuse of the prescription drugs.
* Cheyenne Delp, a five year old, died in 2004 while on five prescription medications. One of the anti-depressants required that she undergo an EKG to determine if her heart was healthy enough for her to take it. The child psychiatrist, Dr. Saran Mudumbi, testified that Cheyenne was out of control and that she suffered from paranoia, depression and anxiety.
* One of the main psychiatrists pushing treatment of children with psychiatric drugs is Dr. Biederman who has financial ties with fifteen drug companies and serves as a paid speaker or adviser to half of them, including Eli Lilly & Co. (Zyprexa) and Janssen Pharmaceuticals (Risperdal).
* A drug is approved by the FDA for narrow uses, but gets tried off-label on hard-to-treat conditions and the drug company's sales force stokes up this usage until the research catches up years later that shows the initial enthusiasm was unfounded. With the limited schizophrenic and bipolar market for the atypicals, the drug companies marketed them as safer than their predecessors. They came to be tried beyond the approved uses for nursing home residents, prisoners, and children younger than six years old. Total U.S. sales for this class of drugs reached $13 billion in 2007, doubling the sales just five years earlier.
* Research by three universities says long-term use of anti-psychotics offers "no long-term benefit for most patients." And while anti-psychotic medication is not licensed to treat dementia it is being given to 100,000 elderly patients in England to keep them manageable! Studies show that these drugs increase the risk of strokes and other harmful side effects. One study showed that after 3½ [years, 60% of the Alzheimer's patients given a placebo were still alive while only 28% of the group given the anti-psychotic medication were.
* While an estimated 30-60% of U.S. nursing home patients are placed on antipsychotics, at the Bronx's Providence Rest nursing home, the staff gives massages to the patients. Utilizing this therapy, the nursing home has cut its use of antipsychotics to 2-3%, the lowest rate of any nursing home in New York!
* The drug companies funded the committees which set up the state plans for defining which drugs to use for which treatments. Drug company profits then soared because the atypicals were listed as the first three choices over the older generic drugs. The states' medical costs for patient care also soared! Now that the links to the drug company funding and the terrible side effects have become known, nine states have sued Eli Lilly, four sued Janssen, and two sued AstraZeneca. Dozens more states have teamed in a joint investigation, seeking billions of dollars in restitution for money they say they overpaid for atypicals through Medicaid.
* In Minnesota alone, since 2002, drug companies have given $88 million in gifts, grants and fees to Minnesota doctors and caregivers. Several states, including Pennsylvania, are suing some drug makers for promoting their drugs beyond approved uses and commissioning "ghost-written" articles to increase sales.
* Drug companies fund and support front groups like NAMI (National Alliance on Mental Illness) and CHADD (Children and Adults with Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder )and programs such as TeenScreen, in order to create a demand for their products covertly. These groups may not promote drugs directly but rather they promote disorders, legitimizing mental illnesses that have never been validated as true medical diseases. Drug companies cannot make these claims directly but accomplish the same goal through these other groups and programs. TeenScreen, an invention of psychiatrist (with drug company connections) David Shaffer, is a screening program asking children as young as 9 years old questions like, "Have you often felt very nervous when you've had to do things in front of people?" and "Are you Hispanic or Latino?" Based on their answers, TeenScreen refers them to mental health "professionals", who inevitably decide that these children have symptoms defined as "mental disorders", writing prescriptions for antidepressants and other psychotropic drugs for children with no objective medical testing. TeenScreen's staff and advisory board are loaded with ties to Big Pharma. See: www.teenscreentruth.com/teenscreen_advisory_board.htm. TeenScreen's Director, Laurie Flynn, was formerly at the helm of NAMI, which received over $11 million in drug company funding from '96 to '99: Janssen ($2.08 million), Novartis ($1.87 million), Pfizer ($1.3 million), Abbott Laboratories ($1.24 million), Wyeth-Ayerst Pharmaceuticals ($658,000), Bristol-Myers Squibb ($613,505) and Eli Lilly $2.87 million.
* In 2008 researchers using the Freedom of Information Act dug out information on Prozac that shows it is no more effective than a placebo! The study included clinical trials that Eli Lilly chose not to publish when they studied the drug. The data showed that patients had improved - but those on the placebo improved just as much! (The only exception was in the most severely depressed patients.) 40 million people take this drug, earning tens of billions of dollars for Eli Lilly.Is it the same sin to give capital to Playboy as it is to molest a woman? That is a question that only you can decide (with perhaps help from your pastor), but it doesn't take much of a leap to imagine someone viewing porn and then going out and committing rape. You aren't on the corner selling crack but you are just as guilty if you gave the crack dealer $10,000 to finance his supply.Who knows what potentials for bad hearts, mis-wired brains and early deaths these drug companies have caused our society in their profit search for a daily-pill-solution to what ails us? If putting money ahead of people's lives and preying on those needing real help doesn't make you a sin company, I don't know what does.So whether you now agree that pharmaceutical company stocks belong in the sin-stock category, or you simply believe that there are just too many liabilities for these companies to be good investments, either reason is enough to remove them from your portfolio forever.”CONCLUSION

While none of us may directly own any of these “Sin Stocks”, if we own shares in mutual funds or have an interest in a company retirement plan, it is highly likely that the managers of these funds have purchased these “Sin Stocks.” After all, these managers may not approve of the activities of these criminals and may even have seen the devastating effects of their drugs, but these stocks have shown profits and that is what they value most. If they don’t make profits for their funds, then they will be fired.

Do you want to send a message to the amoral drug companies? Then send the fund manager a copy of John’s excellent article and a demand that they either sell their “Sin Stocks” or you are going to withdraw your money. If it is a company retirement fund, then urge your fellow workers to read John’s article and also to write a letter to the company and to their fund manager demanding that they immediately liquidate these Sin Stocks.

Will these actions have the desired effect? I am not sure but the 18th century British philosopher, Edmund Burke, said, “All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.” Each of us has the power to protest in our own way anyone who condones the acts of these criminals. Evil has not yet triumphed but it is time for good men to do something.

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So what did you think? Interesting or what?

Later - Monty

Oil is dropping...

Hello All,

Please if you will, observe the price of unleaded gas during the election year of 2004. watch as the price plummets as the election approaches, then takes off like a rocket as soon as the election is done with and an oil man is safely in office once again.

I only write this as recently I have been hearing people around me "Thanking god" for the low gas prices and frankly I think that there deity might be off in this one - I trully believe that this is purely political - Now don't get me wrong - I fill up at the pump with a smile well worth a photo of but... I just know who to thank, thats all.

So? Do you agree or disagree with me on this?

Later - Monty

Thinking in billions...

A Billion seconds ago it was 1972.

A Billion minutes ago it was 102 A.D.

A Billion hours ago it was the Old Stone Age.

A Billion Dollars ago in Washington is 4 hours ago.

Later - Monty

The "trash" island

A heap of trash that's twice the size of Texas is floating somewhere between San Francisco and Hawaii. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch, as it's called, is 80 percent plastic, and weighs in at 3.5 million tons.

Trapped in a circular course by winds and currents, it's been around since the 1950s, and has been growing tenfold every decade. It's not a dumping ground in the sense that people are flying or boating by and throwing their refuse into the heap. Instead, it's picking up trash that originates onshore, and has since made its way out into the Pacific.

Cleaning it up doesn't sound too likely, since the effort would cost billions, but it would be nice if we figured out a way to stop adding to it. Another possibility: turning it into a sort of anti-Disney World. Surely that would convert even the worst plastic-wasting offenders among us into ardent environmentalists.

This is its pattern - a little blurry but thought it was interesting.

Well - What are we going to DO about this!?!?!

Later - Monty

Examining the EPDS - what Obama wants to be used to examine mothers.

Hello,

I have had some great comments recently about my post concerning Obama Vs McCain. I want to thank the people that spent the time to give me feedback - even the ones that I did not post.


But one thing that I wanted to mention was what the EPDS is - This is the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale and is what is used when a mother potentially might have Post natal depression.


I am not against people being helped as some have mentioned this to me - its just that I do not agree with all forms of "help"


I mean you must admit that Hitler did think he was helping the rest of the "pure race - blonde hair and blue eyes" by getting rid of Jews and other nonsense but was that really "Help?" NO!


So back to this scale - This scale is used to determine if a person needs treatment for being depressed after having a baby - I have included it here:



Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDS)



"As you have recently had a baby, we would like to know how you are feeling. Please UNDERLINE the answer which comes closest to how you have felt IN THE PAST 7 DAYS, not just how you feel today.



I have been able to laugh and see the funny side of things.

As much as I always could Not quite so much now Definitely not so much now Not at all I have looked forward with enjoyment to things.

As much as I ever did Rather less than I used to Definitely less than I used toHardly at all
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* I have blamed myself unnecessarily when things went wrong.

Yes, most of the time Yes, some of the time Not very often No, never
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I have been anxious or worried for no good reason.

No, not at all Hardly ever Yes, sometimes Yes, very often
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* I have felt scared or panicky for not very good reason.
Yes, quite a lot Yes, sometimes No, not much No, not at all
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* Things have been getting on top of me.

Yes, most of the time I haven't been able to cope at all Yes, sometimes I haven't
been coping as well as usual No, most of the time I have coped quite well No, I have been coping as well as ever
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* I have been so unhappy that I have had difficulty sleeping.

Yes, most of the time Yes, sometimes Not very often No, not at all
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* I have felt sad or miserable.

Yes, most of the time Yes, quite often Not very often No, not at all
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* I have been so unhappy that I have been crying.

Yes, most of the time Yes, quite often Only occasionally No, never"
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* The thought of harming myself has occurred to me. Yes, quite often Sometimes Hardly ever Never


So - that is the scale.


Now - my main upset with this is two fold...


1. The "handling" for someone like this is getting put onto prescription medication such as : selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRI), tricyclics, serotonin and norepinephrine reuptake inhibitors (SNRI), norepinephrine and dopamine reuptake inhibitors (NDRI), combined reuptake inhibitors, receptor blockers and monamine oxidase inhibitors (MAOI). There are MANY different types but the main thing is this... It does not handle the problem! These drugs adjust the different fluids in your brain, and if you actually study these drugs you will find that that there is NO clear knowledge as to what is going on completely. These drug side effect are almost exactly what its supposed to be handling - and there are no tests that can deem what you need IE - what fluid is out of wack etc! IT DOES NOT EXIST - So when someone says Prozac or Zyprexa its a guess!!!

2. My other upset is that when a women gives birth it is a MAJOR cycle for the body and for the most part there hormones and basic body functions and levels are up and down so yes a woman can feel all over the place and then after birth you give them lots of love and nutrients and vitamins and supplements and they do well.

I could go on and on but my main point is - I dont like it as it is NOT adressing the problem! I respect Mothers and think we should pay them more respect then giving them a trial and error method approach. I would think that you would also agree.


Well?

Monty

What would Ron Paul do?

Here is something that I was able to get that is Ron Paul's ideas and suggestions as to what is going on in the current financial market and its impact upon all of us.


Later - Monty
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The financial meltdown the economists of the Austrian School predicted has arrived.
We are in this crisis because of an excess of artificially created credit at the hands of the Federal Reserve System. The solution being proposed? More artificial credit by the Federal Reserve. No liquidation of bad debt and malinvestment is to be allowed. By doing more of the same, we will only continue and intensify the distortions in our economy - all the capital misallocation, all the malinvestment - and prevent the market's attempt to re-establish rational pricing of houses and other assets.
Last night the president addressed the nation about the financial crisis. There is no point in going through his remarks line by line, since I'd only be repeating what I've been saying over and over - not just for the past several days, but for years and even decades.
Still, at least a few observations are necessary.The president assures us that his administration "is working with Congress to address the root cause behind much of the instability in our markets." Care to take a guess at whether the Federal Reserve and its money creation spree were even mentioned?
We are told that "low interest rates" led to excessive borrowing, but we are not told how these low interest rates came about. They were a deliberate policy of the Federal Reserve. As always, artificially low interest rates distort the market. Entrepreneurs engage in malinvestments - investments that do not make sense in light of current resource availability, that occur in more temporally remote stages of the capital structure than the pattern of consumer demand can support, and that would not have been made at all if the interest rate had been permitted to tell the truth instead of being toyed with by the Fed.
Not a word about any of that, of course, because Americans might then discover how the great wise men in Washington caused this great debacle. Better to keep scapegoating the mortgage industry or "wildcat capitalism" (as if we actually have a pure free market!).
Speaking about Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the president said: "Because these companies were chartered by Congress, many believed they were guaranteed by the federal government. This allowed them to borrow enormous sums of money, fuel the market for questionable investments, and put our financial system at risk."
Doesn't that prove the foolishness of chartering Fannie and Freddie in the first place? Doesn't that suggest that maybe, just maybe, government may have contributed to this mess? And of course, by bailing out Fannie and Freddie, hasn't the federal government shown that the "many" who "believed they were guaranteed by the federal government" were in fact correct?
Then come the scare tactics. If we don't give dictatorial powers to the Treasury Secretary "the stock market would drop even more, which would reduce the value of your retirement account. The value of your home could plummet." Left unsaid, naturally, is that with the bailout and all the money and credit that must be produced out of thin air to fund it, the value of your retirement account will drop anyway, because the value of the dollar will suffer a precipitous decline. As for home prices, they are obviously much too high, and supply and demand cannot equilibrate if government insists on propping them up.
It's the same destructive strategy that government tried during the Great Depression: prop up prices at all costs. The Depression went on for over a decade. On the other hand, when liquidation was allowed to occur in the equally devastating downturn of 1921, the economy recovered within less than a year.
The president also tells us that Senators McCain and Obama will join him at the White House today in order to figure out how to get the bipartisan bailout passed. The two senators would do their country much more good if they stayed on the campaign trail debating who the bigger celebrity is, or whatever it is that occupies their attention these days.
F.A. Hayek won the Nobel Prize for showing how central banks' manipulation of interest rates creates the boom-bust cycle with which we are sadly familiar. In 1932, in the depths of the Great Depression, he described the foolish policies being pursued in his day - and which are being proposed, just as destructively, in our own:
Instead of furthering the inevitable liquidation of the maladjustments brought about by the boom during the last three years, all conceivable means have been used to prevent that readjustment from taking place; and one of these means, which has been repeatedly tried though without success, from the earliest to the most recent stages of depression, has been this deliberate policy of credit expansion.
To combat the depression by a forced credit expansion is to attempt to cure the evil by the very means which brought it about; because we are suffering from a misdirection of production, we want to create further misdirection - a procedure that can only lead to a much more severe crisis as soon as the credit expansion comes to an end... It is probably to this experiment, together with the attempts to prevent liquidation once the crisis had come, that we owe the exceptional severity and duration of the depression.
The only thing we learn from history, I am afraid, is that we do not learn from history.The very people who have spent the past several years assuring us that the economy is fundamentally sound, and who themselves foolishly cheered the extension of all these novel kinds of mortgages, are the ones who now claim to be the experts who will restore prosperity! Just how spectacularly wrong, how utterly without a clue, does someone have to be before his expert status is called into question?Oh, and did you notice that the bailout is now being called a "rescue plan"? I guess "bailout" wasn't sitting too well with the American people.The very people who with somber faces tell us of their deep concern for the spread of democracy around the world are the ones most insistent on forcing a bill through Congress that the American people overwhelmingly oppose. The very fact that some of you seem to think you're supposed to have a voice in all this actually seems to annoy them.I continue to urge you to contact your representatives and give them a piece of your mind. I myself am doing everything I can to promote the correct point of view on the crisis. Be sure also to educate yourselves on these subjects - the Campaign for Liberty blog is an excellent place to start. Read the posts, ask questions in the comment section, and learn.H.G. Wells once said that civilization was in a race between education and catastrophe. Let us learn the truth and spread it as far and wide as our circumstances allow. For the truth is the greatest weapon we have.



In liberty,

Ron Paul

Washington Mutual is up for sale?!?!?

Washington Mutual, the giant US savings and loan bank beleaguered by mortgage losses, has put itself up for sale.

The Seattle-based bank has hired Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley to run an auction and potential suitors include Citigroup, HSBC Holdings, JPMorgan Chase and Wells Fargo, one source said.
A sale is neither imminent nor guaranteed and the bank is exploring other options, a second source said.
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Analysts have long expected the credit crisis would force weaker lenders into the arms of stronger rivals. A sale of Washington Mutual, the largest US savings and loan bank, had been widely expected.
On Monday, Bank of America agreed to pay $50 billion for Merrill Lynch, which has lost $19.2 billion in the last four quarters.
Wachovia, which lost $9.11 billion in the second quarter, approached Morgan Stanley about a merger yesterday, according to published reports.
WaMu overcame a critical hurdle to a merger yesterday when its largest investor, David Bonderman's private equity firm, TPG, agreed to let the bank raise capital, even if TPG's holdings were diluted.
Washington Mutual shares rose have fallen 94% in the last year on concern about mortgage losses and that, in a worst case scenario, it might face the same fate as mortgage lender IndyMac Bancorp, which regulators seized in July.
Washington Mutual has lost $6.3 billion in the last three quarters and was downgraded to junk status by Moody's Investors Service and Standard & Poor's. The bank has projected $19 billion of mortgage losses until 2011.
Last week, Washington Mutual said it expected to set aside $4.5 billion for credit losses in the third quarter, down from the second quarter's $5.9 billion, and that it expected to remain well-capitalised.
JPMorgan Chief Executive Jamie Dimon is considered the most likely acquirer, given his goal of expanding in retail banking in the western US.
Washington Mutual ended June with $309.7 billion of assets and 2,239 branches.

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Later - Monty

Its 9/11 again

Well it is 9.11.08 and I thought it was time to bust out a good poem because of it. And hear she is:


America still survived


It was one sunny Tuesday
And the entire street is so busy

And people working quietly
Happy and free from anxiety.

Hours passed so quickly
When they heard a sound deafeningly

That distressed them miraculously
Where they work peacefully.

A moment after, they glanced up the sky
And could feel the building wobbly

That made the room sooty and dusty
Screams and cries could be heard ubiquitously

And rushing people finding their way
People are under fire and creepy

From that awful tragedy today
And the heartbreaking wound of the blast.

Thank you God for comforting those who grieve
And giving us new hope and Light

For bringing us to a new bliss of Life

America still Survived!!!

Thanks again to all the people that went out of there way to assist and god bless all the fire fighters!!! You are what keeps America safe.

Later - Monty

This is uncensored territory baby!: McCain vs Obama on mental health

This is uncensored territory baby!: McCain vs Obama on mental health

This is uncensored territory baby!: McCain vs Obama on mental health

This is uncensored territory baby!: McCain vs Obama on mental health

McCain vs Obama - Where do they stand on mental health?

Mr. Obama is a charming man. However, I will not be voting for him.

There are many issues with his candidacy, including his rise to power in the wretchedly corrupt Cook County political system (his first election was won through pure chicanery, where he used technical loopholes to disallow the candidacies of every single opponent, thus running unopposed).

Despite the eloquence and good looks, make no mistake about it: The man is a very, very savvy politician. And with his reversal on the critical FISA amendment (granting immunity to telcom companies, despite an earlier stated promise to filibuster such an act), he is proven to be, simply, like all the rest.

His agenda is clearly socialist -- simply go to his website and read for yourself. There's also some indication (not completely founded, but worthy of some research) that he found inspiration in the revolutionary writings of French psychiatrist Frantz Falon, where there are some parallels to Falon's work in Obama's book, Dreams of My Father (feel free to Google this).

There's also the other issue of his unabashed support of mental health policies.

* Background Data *

The "New Freedom Commission on Mental Health"

The New Freedom Commission on Mental Health is a 93-page report put together by the psychiatric/pharmaceutical industry in 2003 as a recommendation to the President for mental health plans in the US.

The only words to describe the recommendations of this report are "Orwellian" and horrifying.
This plan lays out detailed programs to screen all Americans for mental "disorders" and includes recommended drug treatment plans. It includes specific mental health screening programs for the elderly, all military personnel, all U.S. school children, drug addicts (and redefining drug addiction as a mental "disease") the poor, screening all pregnant women and infants, (the Mothers Act and another bill detailed below) specific drug treatment "flow charts," mental health "parity" (equal coverage for mental illness as that granted for real physical illness/disease) and more.

It also includes a comprehensive drug plan, which is basically a flow chart of psychiatric drugs -- essentially "try this drug; if it fails, try this other drug; if that fails, combine drugs; if that fails? down to electroshock."
Please keep this in mind when reading the following data.
More on the New Freedom Commission (from Wikipedia):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Freedom_Commission_on_Mental_Health>

* Raw Data: Obama vs. McCain *

The Mothers Act:
This is a bill that calls for mental health screening and "treatment" of all pregnant women and those who have recently given birth.

Obama is one of 10 co-sponsors.

McCain is not.

http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d110:SN01375:@@@P

More information on the Mothers Act:

http://www.christiannewswire.com/news/803007275.html

* Obama: "Mental health screenings for all troops" *
In remarks prepared for delivery on Sunday, the Illinois Democrat proposed changes to recruitment and deployment of military mental health providers.
He called for the Pentagon to recruit more professionals to help identify and treat problems. And he seeks mandatory mental health screenings of all troops.
According to Obama's plan, the military would require face-to-face mental health screenings for all service members. By making it mandatory, Obama said the military could reduce the stigma associated with mental health screening and treatment.
The plan also would institute early mental health screenings so future psychological injuries could be more easily diagnosed and treated.
http://www.thenewhampshireprimary.com/news/2007_05_28_news_1.html

McCain opposes this bill.
http://tinyurl.com/6a9deq
Obama on McCain: "I have great respect for John McCain's service to this country and I know he loves it dearly and honors those who serve. But he is one of the few Senators of either party who oppose this bill."
http://tinyurl.com/5t7zbr

* Mental Health "Parity" *
Obama: "I am a longtime supporter of mental health parity. I helped pass the Illinois mental health parity law. And my national public health plan will include coverage of all essential medical services, including preventive, maternity and mental health care. I strongly support mental health fairness and parity of mental health coverage in all federal health programs. I cosponsored the Mental Health Parity Act of 2007 and I am a supporter of the bipartisan Paul Wellstone Mental Health and Addiction Equity Act of 2007.
Similarly, I believe in prohibiting group health plans from imposing treatment or financial limitations on mental health and substance related disorder benefits that are different from those applied to medical or surgical services. I am also committed to ensuring that Americans with disabilities or mental illness receive Medicaid and Medicare benefits in a low cost, effective and timely manner."
http://www.yourcandidatesyourhealth.org/profile.php?c_id=MjU1MjQx

McCain has voted against mental health parity and, in his health care plan on his website, makes no mention of mental health as an issue.
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/9/6/02436/44844/247/588598

* Mental Health Screening of Low-Income Families *
"Barack Obama would expand the highly successful Nurse-Family Partnership to all low-income, first-time mothers. The Nurse-Family Partnership provides home visits by trained registered nurses to low-income expectant mothers and their families. The trained nurses use proven methods to help improve the mental and physical health of the family by providing counseling on substance abuse, creating and achieving personal goals, and effective methods of nurturing children."
http://www.nationalplatforms.com/candidates/barack_obama.html
More information on the Nurse-Family Partnership: "Early detection and treatment of mental disorders can result in a substantially shorter and less disabling course of illness. As the mental health field becomes increasingly able to identify the early antecedents of mental illnesses at any age, interventions must be implemented, provided in multiple settings, and connected to treatment and supports.
"Early interventions, such as the Nurse-Family Partnership, and educational efforts can help a greater number of parents, the public, and providers learn about the importance of the first years of a child's life and how to establish a foundation for healthy social and emotional development. Quality screening and early intervention should occur in readily accessible, low-stigma settings, such as primary health care facilities and schools, and in settings where a high level of risk for mental health problems exists, such as juvenile justice and child welfare."

http://www.mentalhealthcommission.gov/reports/FinalReport/FullReport-05.
htm

* Side-by-Side Comparison *
Obama's and McCain's Positions on Mental Health Care
http://tinyurl.com/5svtgk
The above is an excellent article comparing the two candidates. Here are some excerpts:
Barack Obama's position on mental health issues as stated in his health care
plan:
Obama specifically includes mental health care in his health care plan.
It states: Improve Mental Health Care. Mental illness affects approximately one in five American families. The National Alliance on Mental Illness estimates that untreated mental illnesses cost the U.S.
more than $100 billion per year. As president, Obama will support mental health parity so that coverage for serious mental illnesses are provided on the same terms and conditions as other illnesses and diseases.
John McCain's position on mental health issues as stated in his health care plan: McCain's health care plan does not mention mental health.
Obama and McCain on H.R. 1424/S558 "Paul Wellstone Mental Health and Addiction Equity Act of 2007? Bill:
Obama co-sponsored, along with 56 others, the bipartisan Senate's S558 version of H.R. 1424 "Paul Wellstone Mental Health and Addiction Equity Act of 2007? bill.
McCain did not sponsor the bill. The White House is opposed to it.
* In Their Own Words *
Barack Obama:
"As you may know, mental illness affects approximately one in five American families, and we must do more address this issue. The National Alliance on Mental Illness estimates that untreated mental illnesses cost the U.S. more than $100 billion per year. As a member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, I worked to improve mental health services for people with serious problems who are going untreated and undiagnosed.
"It is important to end discrimination against those with mental illness, and that's why I support the bipartisan Paul Wellstone (D-MN) Mental Health and Addiction Equity Act of 2007, an updated version of legislation that Senator Wellstone championed for over a decade in Congress. This bill works to end discrimination against people suffering from mental illness and addiction.
"I also support mental health parity. When suicide is responsible for more deaths in America than AIDS and homicides combined, we must act.
That's why I have championed efforts to improve awareness of mental illnesses and provide timely and appropriate treatment, and why I cosponsored the Mental Health Parity Act of 2007. Parity means that we don't allow group health plans to impose treatment or financial limitations on mental health benefits that are different from those applied to medical or surgical services. The bill closes the loopholes that allow discrimination in coverage that does not apply to other illnesses.
"I'm proud of my record on this issue. I helped pass mental a health [sic] parity bill as an Illinois state senator that requires coverage for serious mental illnesses to be provided on the same terms and conditions as are applicable to other illnesses and diseases."
http://psychcentral.com/lib/2008/obama-on-mental-health-care/


John McCain:
"The next President will face a great challenge due to the rising cost of health care of all types. America has the finest doctors and medical science, and the treatment of mental health has shared in these advances. However, as with other aspects of our health care system, spending on mental and behavioral health treatments is rising rapidly.
The challenge is to ensure high quality care, establish incentives to control the growth of costs, and thereby permit greater affordable choices.
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"A sensible goal is to design reimbursement for taking care of the whole patient, whatever ails them, and recognize the essential role mental health treatment plays in the overall health of the patient and the reduction in physical health needs.
"I have stressed the central role of personal responsibility in leading to lower health care costs. Personal fitness and better lifestyles, especially reduction in addictions of all types - food, narcotics, or cigarettes - can yield dramatic improvements in the cost of chronic illness and high?cost medical care. We can do a better job of treating addictions, but we also have an obligation to do a better job of teaching our children the benefits of good lifestyles and the perils of addictive activities."
http://psychcentral.com/lib/2008/mccain-on-mental-health-care/


The VPs
Joe Biden: Redefining Drug Abuse and Alcohol Abuse as a Mental Illness and Changing the Names of Government Organizations to Reflect This
A bill introduced by Sen. Joe Biden (D-DE) that would define addiction as a brain disease is moving in the Senate. Treatment professionals, mainstream scientists, and recovery advocates see it as a good thing.
There are some skeptics, though. The bill, the Recognizing Addiction as a Disease Act of 2007 (S. 1011), would also change the name of the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) to the National Institute on Diseases of Addiction, and change the name of the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism to the National Institute on Alcohol Disorders and Health. "Addiction is a neurobiological disease -- not a lifestyle choice -- and it's about time we start treating it as such,"
said Sen. Biden in a statement when he introduced this bill this spring.
"We must lead by example and change the names of our federal research institutes to accurately reflect this reality. By changing the way we talk about addiction, we change the way people think about addiction, both of which are critical steps in getting past the social stigma too often associated with the disease."
http://www.november.org/stayinfo/breaking07/BrainDisease.html
Gov. Sarah Palin has no national record on introducing legislation on mental health issues.
http://tinyurl.com/57dma8

Conclusion: Who Do Psychs Pick?
From PsychCentral.com:
"Based upon our findings, we'd have to say the stronger mental health and psychology candidate is Obama. Whereas McCain tends to support mental health causes when in the majority, he doesn't appear to go out on a limb for anything in the areas of mental health or psychological sciences funding.
Obama, on the other hand, has co-sponsored a major piece of Senate legislation in mental health (mental health parity) and shows he understands the stigma still associated with mental health issues in his co-sponsorship of the Mothers Act."
http://tinyurl.com/6orx35

From AnxietyPanicHealth.com:
"McCain does not mention mental health care in his health care plan, and his approach to it is not clear. His response to the National Alliance on Mental Illness questionnaire seems to combine mental and physical health together in a more holistic approach. He states that he would, 'where possible provide incentives to treat physical and behavioral health together.' This implies that he would favor the first line care of mental health issues to be handled by family physicians or primary care doctors rather than by mental health professionals."
http://tinyurl.com/5svtgk

From "Psychiatrists for Obama":
"We are a group of psychiatrists who support Obama and his positions on ensuring effective mental health care for the disenfranchised. Adequate access to treatment for mental illness and addiction is our main concern in this regard."
http://my.barackobama.com/page/group/PsychiatristsforObama

From DailyKos.com:
"Obama co-sponsored and voted for mental health parity bill that requires coverage for serious mental illnesses to be provided on the same terms and conditions as are applicable to other illnesses and diseases. McCain has voted against mental health parity and, in his health care 'plan' on his website makes no mention of mental health as an issue.
"The choice is very clear if one cares about this issue."
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/9/6/02436/44844/247/588598

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Later - Monty

Tattoos Can Be Removed By Cream without Pain Or Scarring

Tattoos can often be a case of ink now, regret later. Extracting the dye from the skin has usually been a painful process. However, cosmetic surgeons are now offering what they say is a more efficient and less painful way of removing body art.Crazy eh?!Later - Monty

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Psyched out - New online store

ADHD.... Another Dumb Hypothetical Disease

Hello everyone...

My good friend Zack and I are making an online anti-psych merchandise store!!!

Its called "Psyched out"

Its in the making but you can already buy the above T-shirt!!! Can you imagine the impact you will be able to have on others when you are wearing this great t-shirt! There are others up there and more to come as well, but this was just made and are ready for you to have them!!!

There are mens tee's and womens as well and sweaters and hats and pins and bumper stickers!!! its all there!

So check it out at http://www.cafepress.com/psychedout/home/

Later - Monty

The "Mothers act" - A bad idea

Hello Again... I saw this great article on the Mothers act and so I decided to put it in my blog... By the way please look at this "new" drug that I have advertised here, look at the name as I think that its very apt.

The Mother's Act - A Bad Idea

By Steve Hayes,
All of us have heard that Congress' approval rating is falling and now hovers between 10% and 15%. We hear about the millions spent on building a bridge that only a few people will cross and wealthy farmers being paid to not grow food. We hear about $1,000 hammers and shoddy work done by government contractors with seemingly no repercussions to the culprits. However, our biggest problem with Congress is that their solutions seldom provide good results. They have "good intentions", but their solutions seem to reward the lobby that contributes the most to their campaigns or makes the most noise, and there is little attention paid to whether the legislation actually produced the intended product.

It is for these reasons that most of us agree with Will Rogers' observation about Congress, "This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer."

Is there anyone who is not concerned that there are mothers who feel not joy but sadness or depression after the birth of their child? If the mother is not happy, what kind of life is in store for the child? We all want to help the mother and the child.

None of us would oppose legislation that would really help. The answer lies in the definition of the word "help." This proposed legislation in Congress has the stated intention of helping mothers and young children who are depressed, by providing grants to "public or nonprofit private entities for projects to establish, operate, and coordinate effective and cost-efficient systems for the delivery of essential services to individuals with postpartum depression or postpartum psychosis and their families."

Besides being invasive, this is the first step on the "slippery slope" to requiring all of our expectant mothers and new mothers and their children to submit to "evaluations" by people who will be making determinations that are based not on scientific studies but subjective opinion.

Then if these evaluators determine that treatment is needed, it will be a treatment not based on successful procedures but on failed treatment protocols. Like many of the acts of Congress, the real beneficiary of these laws will not be the mothers and their children but the "mental health" workers who will be handsomely paid and the drug companies that are behind this legislation. THE MOST IMMEDIATE PROBLEM

Melanie Blocker-Stokes Postpartum Depression Research and Care Act has already passed the House of Representatives and is being considered, without the opportunity for debate, in the Senate. Harry Reid (D-NV), the Senate majority leader, has tried to put the legislation to a vote without the usual process of allowing amendments and debate.

Senator Tom Coburn, M.D. (R-OK) criticized Reid's plan, stating, "What the staff members are saying is we want to bring a bill, but we don't want to debate it. We don't want to vote on it. We don't want to have it amended. We don't want the American people to know what we would rather do in secret."

In plain English, this legislation will insert government into the lives of our citizens and mandate the use of antidepressants by people that are determined by "professionals" to need "treatment."

Of course, this legislation ignores:

· The fact that the proposed "treatment" using antidepressant drugs on pregnant women can create dangerous side effects for these women and their unborn children;

· The fact that recent real scientific studies show that antidepressants are no more effective than sugar pills;

· The fact that almost all of the school shooters were taking antidepressants;

· The fact that Andrea Yates was taking antidepressants when she killed her children;

· The fact that in the past ten years, numerous scientific studies and international drug regulatory warnings have documented the dangers of antidepressant drugs, ranging from suicidal and homicidal ideation to premature births, spontaneous abortions and birth defects;

· The fact that Melanie Stokes was "treated" with these same drugs and given electroshock, and she is no longer depressed because she committed suicide and her child lost her mother to these ineffective treatments;

· The fact as expressed by Dr. Dan Fisher, a psychiatrist, that "A superficial screening by overworked pediatricians would likely result in many false positives with devastating consequences for the children and their families. These quick-fix screening tests invariably end up with quick fixes of kids by labeling them and placing them on medication, without a comprehensive psychosocial evaluation and assistance to the children and their interpersonal environment. As a psychiatrist who has evaluated children in schools, I know that myriad factors can cause what appear to be symptoms of mental illness";

· The fact pointed out by Dr. Karen Effrem that, "One commonly used screening instrument has a 73% false positive rating, meaning that for every 27 children supposedly correctly identified as having an emotional problem on this screening test that follow admittedly 'subjective' criteria that are 'value judgments based on culture' according to the Surgeon General, 73 other families are falsely told that something is wrong with their child and referred for further evaluation and treatment which more and more commonly involves ineffective and sometimes lethally dangerous drugs";

· The fact pointed out by Dr. Effrem that studies in 1999, 2004, and 2005 showed that home visiting programs did nothing to decrease child abuse rates but cost up to $47,000 per family in 1999 dollars and did nothing to improve the cognitive development of the children;

· The fact that many of the bill's strongest supporters have financial connections to Big Pharma;

· The fact that an estimated 2,900 babies died via spontaneous abortion because of SSRI antidepressants given to pregnant women;

· The fact that babies exposed to SSRIs in pregnancy have a six-fold increased risk of persistent pulmonary hypertension (PPHN), a potentially fatal lung problem;

· The fact that nearly one-third of women who take SSRIs during pregnancy have a baby who dies, is premature or underweight, or who has seizures;

· The fact that women being screened are not guaranteed sufficient data to allow the women to give "informed consent." (This is because if they were given all the data about the side effects created for them and their babies, few women would ever take the drugs.)
CONCLUSION

Big Pharma has no conscience and could care less if people die or become more ill-if they can sell more drugs. At Novus Medical Detox Center, we could choose to view the Mother's Act and the other bills attempting to "treat" people by putting them on these dangerous drugs as guarantees of our beds being always full of people needing medical detox. In the same way, undertakers could choose to view these bills as good for business because more people will die before their time through suicide or mass murder.

The drug store chains will expand more because more people will be hooked on these dangerous drugs. Doctor's offices will be more crowded because we know that these dangerous drugs often lead to serious health side effects that will require medical treatment.

The real problem is that we could have legislation that makes available real and proven medical and nutritional tests to actually find the cause of the depression in most people. Others who are depressed because they have no way of effectively providing for their child and themselves because they are not trained in any skilled position could be helped through the provision of training to allow them to become more productive.

Instead, we ignore the likely causes for the great majority of depressed mothers and treat them with failed treatment options. This is not only cruel but unnecessary and will create far greater costs for society and far more problems for the mothers and their children.

This bill and the other bills pending in Congress seeking to "treat" mothers and their children are good examples of why more and more of us are agreeing with the American Indians saying that the biggest lie is, "I am from the government and I am here to help you."

Picketing the "Pill Mills" in Pinellas Park

Hello All!


Yesterday was a blast as I went for a picket in Pinellas Park area!

As most of you know I participate on a radio show called "Prescription addiction Radio" In the Tampa Bay area on a station called 860am WGUL and it covers the facts that this society has a opium epidemic among it and its not doing enough (if anything) as a whole to put an end to it.

As the host of our show is a pharmacist and does fill prescriptions he has noticed in the past certain prescriptions that did not seem correct etc and they were coming from a certain clinic. Upon further investigation in turns out the clinic will fill what you need for a certain price... If that does not violate the Hippocratic oath then I don't know what does! This clinic on 8800 49th St in Pinellas Park FL is actually supplying peoples habits in states other than Florida!!!

SO... We got some people together and went out and picketed. It was great and a lot of people were honking from their cars etc. I thought it was good and I am very glad that we did it.

The point of the whole thing was to bring awareness to the neighborhood of what was going on here, we know that if there was a man on the corner there selling Heroin or Cocaine that the neighbors would not tolerate it and do something to end it even if the Police were not doing something, this we KNOW.

But then why do the same people let this clinic pass out Oxycodone or Roxys or other opiates? If you think that there is a difference, then think again. I work as a Counsellor at a Detox and let me tell you... There is NO difference - The Heroin users will use Dilaudid or Oxy's to substitute their habit - So why is this then acceptable to be going on?

Well - We have no brought about public awareness and we shall see if they start pulling together as a society and group to put an end to this.

We will be doing more in the future and I will keep you informed.

Later - Monty

Doctors are taking gifts from pharma companies...

Hello again,

I wanted to share this with you as I know that I have blogged about this before but this is good data on the fact that Doctors (over 2/3) are accepting gifts from the pharma company's... This makes me remember that I read a quote once that was from a man who had been in the area of Counterespionage his whole career and he stated coolly and calmly that "everyone had a price, all of the people he ever went to had a price. Some big and some small, but all had one." That being said and the fact that around 50 BILLION dollars is spent annually on marketing TO the DOCTORS... I have nothing further your honor.

Later - Monty

Dangerous Online Drugs

This video goes into the facts and figures of what the online pharmacies are doing and how and why YOU could be affected. Watch it and let me know what you think.

Later - Monty

Tom Cruise, family enjoy holiday outing

Tom Cruise was seen with his family at a Fourth of July celebration in Telluride, Colorado.

The "Top Gun" star wore a cowboy hat as he enjoyed the holiday Friday with his wife, actress Katie Holmes, 29, and their two children, the Daily Mail reported Saturday.

Cruise's son Connor, 13, is from his previous marriage to actress Nicole Kid man.

Suri, donned a headband with two American flags sticking out of it, was the star of the family's holiday outing based on Cruise's glowing comments about the child's outgoing personality, the Daily Mail reported.

The actor also said his daughter was emerging as a star performer and is apparently a Spice
Girls fan.

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Wow - I think that Suri is SOOO lucky, she is growing up to have the greatest parents ever and she seems to be super happy. I always see her glowing in all the photos that I see of her.

Later - Monty

Guns don’t kill people; psychiatry does

In view of the rash of shootings recently, may I suggest that what the United States needs is not gun control, but shrink control. When you trace the cause of most of these shootings, it is inevitably mental-health problems in the shooter, and all too often, the shooter is receiving or has received treatment.

There are almost as many theories of psychiatry and psychology as there are practitioners. Which theories work? Which don’t? Nobody seems interested in finding out, lest someone’s lucrative income be lost.

Some years ago, when we suffered another of those acute reforming impulses, the powers that be decided that too many mental patients were locked up. Why, now with our new miracle drugs, they can all be let go and receive outpatient treatment in their hometowns, said the powers that be.

That was one of the reforms that sounded good, but it had two flaws. In most towns, there were no outpatient treatment facilities, and there still aren’t. The second flaw was to expect that people who are mentally ill will nevertheless show the discipline to take their medications without any supervision. I should add that a third flaw in the reformist scheme was the usual blind faith in pills. The main result of this reform was to greatly increase the number of homeless people.
Psychiatry remains the most primitive of the medical arts. Most of the medical arts concern themselves with mechanics of the body. There is an infection. One of the organs in the body goes awry. These, at least, are tangible things that doctors can see, locate and sometimes repair.

The psychiatrist, alas, deals with the mind, which is not the same thing as the brain. The brain is the machine. The mind is the product of that machine, and it is an intangible product. We might liken the brain to a movie projector and the mind to the flickering images that are projected.

But where exactly are these images? Where are the voices no one else can hear? Where are those things no one else can see? Another problem psychiatry faces is that most mental patients do not realize they are ill. If you’ve ever talked with a delusional person, you will know that he or she has no doubt whatsoever that the delusion is real. Such people, first of all, are difficult to persuade to seek treatment, and if they do, the treatment is often difficult or ineffective.

The medical profession, like the legal profession, is supposedly self-regulating and self-policing, but neither one does a decent job at either task. Perhaps one day a creative prosecutor will charge with manslaughter members of a medical board that refuses to lift the license of an incompetent physician. That might get their attention by reminding them that they are responsible for the consequences of their decisions.

Because physicians claim to be scientists rather than artists, it’s past time to subject the various theories of psychology and psychiatry to scientific testing and then reject the theories that fail the test. As for the law, perhaps the liability laws should be revised to make the psychiatrist or psychologist who says a person represents no threat to himself or others subject to suit when the opinion turns out to be wrong.

It is obvious that when someone turns a dangerous person loose on society, he or she shares responsibility for whatever harm that dangerous person causes. We hold dog owners liable if their dog attacks someone, yet we let psychiatrists get away with unleashing people who are far more dangerous than a pit bull.

Crimes are never caused by inanimate objects. They are always caused by humans.

Later - Monty

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Its Hurricane season...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Hurricane Bertha should remain out of the oil-rich Gulf of Mexico for at least the next five days as it approaches Bermuda, meteorologists forecast Monday.

The center of Bertha, which formed this morning, was located about 845 miles east of the northern Leeward Islands, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said in an advisory.
The Leeward Island include the Virgin Islands, Anguilla, Saint Martin, Saint Kitts, Nevis, Barbuda, Antigua, Montserrat and Guadeloupe.

While a hurricane does not form in the Atlantic every year in July, the NHC noted another Hurricane Bertha formed in 1996 which, coincidentally, also happened on July 7.
The current Bertha was moving west by northwest at nearly 17 miles per hour with maximum sustained winds near 75 mph.

The NHC forecast Bertha would strengthen some over the next couple of days, but expects the storm to remain a Category 1 hurricane over the next five days with winds of 74-95 mph.
Energy traders watch for storms that could enter the Gulf of Mexico and threaten U.S. oil and gas production facilities.

Commodities traders also watch storms that could hit agriculture crops like citrus and cotton in Florida and other states along the Gulf Coast.

The NHC will issue another advisory at 11 a.m. EDT.

Later - Monty

Happy Independence day everyone!!!

I hope you have a great day and that you make it worth it for yourself, here are some quotes that I have always liked in reference to this day.

On the day when we can fully trust each other, there will be peace on Earth." - L. Ron Hubbard

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves. ~Abraham Lincoln

For what avail the plough or sail, or land or life, if freedom fail? ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved. ~Franklin D. Roosevelt

No one is free when others are oppressed. ~Author Unknown

Freedom has its life in the hearts, the actions, the spirit of men and so it must be daily earned and refreshed - else like a flower cut from its life-giving roots, it will wither and die. ~Dwight D. Eisenhower

Later - Monty