War on Drugs

They say there is a war on drugs and 2011 its budget will be $15 billion. But we read the papers and hear the news every day that more and more drugs are getting in the country, it is becoming more and more violent and spilling over our borders as well as in other countries. They call this a War on Drugs". Why is everything made to have a war connotation on it first of all? And why have we not won this war in over 50 yrs of fighting it?

Well first of all many of the drugs in question grow naturally and are always growing somewhere. Are we going to burn nature to make this go away? Impossible! Just like a wild tree or plant or flower may hold the key to healing, they may also give off a high if used in a different context. That is nature my friends and we cannot control nature.

Since we began calling it a war it has become more and more violent and more and more innocent people are being harmed or killed. That tells me we are not winning in the present strategy and need to rethink this war.

Now I do not use drugs and I do not condone using drugs. The truth is the spooks and the military have given some if not all of us drugs at some point in time secretly over the last 40 years to experiment and see what happens. If that is not enough the new pushers (the doctors) have us on every kind of prescription drug there is whether we need it or not. Ad to that they say prescription drugs to a certain degree have now tainted our drinking water. Heck no wonder the world is getting more violent.

I say this "war on drugs" is being used to create many new departments of the government and add more manpower and use more technology and weapons and so on. But the truth is it has become more about that than stopping the drugs.

Now don't get me wrong the people fighting this war are doing a very brave and good job but there is just too many dealers and too many sources and too many drugs and too much money to be made for them to win with this strategy.

Now I read an article today about Portugal's legalization of drugs (Fox News) and how it has brought down crime, disease and the number of addicts as well. Now maybe it is time to look at this strategy.

Now first of all no one doing any mind altering drugs should do them at work or in public where they might jeopardize others or driving, etc,. But if we legalized some of them there could be many benefits.

Number one that always gets people's attention is we could tax them and this would add billions to the tax rolls of federal state and local governments. Next we could regulate where it comes from, the potency (now granted if too weak no one would by it but it could save lives keeping it from being too potent), the price, etc. We could require certain training for the sales people (like cpr, etc), we could require a license or certificate to sell and form a series of regulations regarding that, we could require people to have licenses to possess certain types and regulate that and require training in its safe use, etc.

These things would also do more to put dealers out of business and lower their crimes and violence. Also it would get reasonably decent people out of overcrowded jails and prisons where they made be subjected to hardened criminals and abuse and or criminal training or hate training and given a chance to be contributing citizens.

It would also free up law enforcement and military resources to fight other things.
Now I don't claim to know if it would work here as there is too much money and greedy people. Anyway that is my two cents worth.

No PHD here Just common sense

Ok so pardon me all you geniuses. It's global warming,. no wait its not global warming it's bad measurements. No wait its climate change. No wait a minute we caused ,. oh but no wait, we didn't cause it.

Hey I know lets all sit around in a circle and argue about which it is or isn't for oh maybe another 50 years and play like our governments really care and then we can play russian roulette with nukes over resources and in the meantime all the fat sleazeballs at the top stealing all those resources and hoarding all their money can hop on a virgin space plane and go to another planet after they launch the nukes. Then we can all sit back and enjoy their desired armageddon.

Give me a break!!! This is what I think. Now I only have an associate degree and a ged but I hate bullshit and even more I despise politics. Especially when it plays with peoples lives and on an even larger scale a planet's life. But this is what I see.

We are organisms on a planet that is a larger organism. And that planet is in a galaxy with other planets. And these planets are in a galaxy that is an even larger organism. And this galaxy is joined by other galaxies in a solar system and the solar system is an even larger organism that includes all the other lesser organisms and we are all related to each other and connected to each other. And I don't know cause I don't have my PHD but maybe there are multiple solar systems that are even bigger organisms but no matter how hard we try we are neither separate from each other or alone.

Then we add the fact that all these organisms have patterns of movement within each other. Now some of these movement s are on somewhat short time frames and others are on longer and still others are on even larger time frames of movement. Then within that, each organism (large or small) has different patterns of reaction to other organisms.

Please forgive my layman's terms and explanations for these incredibly complicated systems that require PHD's but I can only explain what I see and understand within my limited frame of knowledge since I do not have a PHD and hate to argue and once again despise bullshit.

Now here is the tricky part since in our current stage of humanity we can only see and comprehend in 10 minute segments (to match our consumer diet of soundbites, news flashes and product commercials but all of these organisms are ruled by cycles of patterns that effect them in many different ways. Part of this is the continuous movement of them through space and also the effects they have on each other as well as how they all move within each other.

So while we argue about the name (hell who knows some corporation may want to steal the name from someone so they can market it and make even more money to take to that new planet) let's understand one thing. In our present state that seems more important than truth clarity and preparation for change. And that is that we are taking up a new position in this solar clock like system as are all the other organisms within it. And this new movement and positioning creates new and different effects on all of the contained organisms large and small alike.

Now the word we use for things like this is "CYCLES" here let me say it again for people like me who don't have PHD's, "CYYYYYCCCCLLLEESS". Cycles are of various lengths of time ( and again usually longer than the new BEER commercials).

Now cycles are things that happen and have already happened and will happen "AGAIN". The greatest civilizations new of such things and tracked them. Maybe they had PHD"s. And they even left us tons and tons of clues and explanations but we don't seem to be able to comprehend them yet. Well what the heck lets drink another beer, watch a commercial and argue about it or what to call it.

The thing is we are going to be going through changes and some of them are even spoken of in various religious texts all though they are veiled or obscure references. and some of it is warming and some of it is cooling and all sorts of other shifting and moving and different weather patterns and so on. But lets be clear these things have happened before and will happen again. But it is how we deal with them or not deal with them that matters.

But wait before the "exploiters" get all warm and fuzzy and think they are off the hook and justified and want to go and exploit more resources cause they read from this that it is happening anyway, let me just say that irregardless of that information all of our actions have consequences that can in fact alter things and in a very negative way. So be warned cycles does not mean free pass to be dangerous or thoughtless.

Now I could continue on in much greater detail (even though I don't have a PHD) but I know you are all busy arguing over what to call the changes that are beginning. And anyway......... oh what was I saying.....gosh I think it has been over ten minutes....... Oh well I don't have a PHD and gosh that was a cool commercial lets go buy one after a beer and a juicy fat burger and we can argue about what to call the changes. At least until we get bored and then we can play russian roulette with some nukes or something....

At least some people care

Well we had a great "natural" tragedy in Haiti and many many people were killed. It is a poor country and many people there live modest lives. IT is poor mostly because there is not that much there for the rich people and big corporations to take advantage of. In other words there may be little resources there to exploit.

Anyway there was some great uproar when Pat Robertson(an incredible idiot with money and power and an audience) said that this "natural" tragedy happened because the people made a pact with the devil some time long ago. You make me sick jerk. Why don't you just shut up and open your pockets to help them.

The first thing I noticed was that some corporations with the most money gave the least to help. In particular I saw a report of a bank with billions in profits was going to give $100,000.00. Oh how thoughtful of you. And I don't see where any of the energy companies who also reap billions in profit are offering to give anything.

I did however see reports that some of the stars in hollywood are giving a bigger chunk of money. Sandra Bullock, Brand and Angelina, to name a few are giving a million dollars each. My hat goes off to them for acting like decent human beings that actually care about others and about trying to make the world a little better place.

I myself am having trouble getting by right now but when I have money I always try to give something to charities I believe in. And I do this because it is the right thing to do and because if I were in trouble I would hope that someone would care and help me. And there are people in the world that really need help and we cannot not help them just because there are others who take advantage of that assistance. And finally because it is the right and humane thing to do in a society that professes to hold of some religious or god fearing beliefs

And finally back to the Pat Roberson comments. He states that because of this pact with the devil that is why Haiti is poor and the Dominican republic next to it is thriving. I say put a lid on it idiot. The reason one is thriving and the other is not is because one has more resources for jerks like you to exploit and steal and profit from and the other, people like you and these big corrupt money making machine corporations care little about investing in Haiti and their people.

So cudos to those who put there money where their mouth and heart is and for those who do not see the profit potential in it shame on you.... and to Pat Robertson and people like him I repeat an old adage "if you cannot say something nice then don't say anything at all". These people are experiencing a great and serious devastation and for you to say such a thing only shows your true colors and your true beliefs of seclusion ism and racism and a general lack of humanity.