Guns and Drugs

Manipulation and control have always been a hot button issue for me. I hate how lobbyists try to control what goes on in the government and I hate the fact that they usually get their way because they have funds to buy it. Without regard for the betterment or the good of the people, they go about their business, blind to the results of their buying power. It's not that they want to see the results but just as long as their pockets get fatter...that's all that really matters. And the fact that is sadder than all that is the fact that the persons they are buying out are the legislators we vote into office. Even if the supposed public servant had a good heart and good intentions to begin their terms in office, 99.9% of the time they will eventually be bought out due their own greed, succumb to the whims of their party or eventually lose their will to fight for the common good because they get tired of turning away or fighting all the powerful lobbyists. I mean who wouldn't inevitably give in. It would be tough to be in office and not accept all the money being thrown at you. Or telling all your piers (senators, congressmen, law makers) that you want to do things your own way. Suppose you had a strong belief that a certain level of gun control would perhaps be for the good of the people. All of the sudden you got the N.R.A. and every militant right wing activist screaming the 2nd amendment at you. Now, I don't want to get all Michael Moore on you, preaching gun control as in "Bowling for Columbine" but he did have a point in saying that..."the United States has a higher number of violent crimes — especially crimes involving guns — and he charges that the occurrence of violent crimes in the U.S. is relatively higher than other developed nations."*

Don't even get me started about the pharmaceutical companies hawking their wares... endless commercials, that half the time don't even tell you what the drug is for. It cracks me up, that our nation, who has such a supposed harsh stance on drugs allows this kind of filth. This particular issue hits really close to home for me because about 5 years ago I was hospitalized for a serious medical issue and to make a long story short... while I was in the hospital, certain drugs were prescribed by my doctors that were known to have a risk of raising chances of getting cancer by 3% every single time it was administered. WTF!!! They prescribed a drug that could cause another serious health issue!!! OH MY GOD!!! How could this drug have possibly made it through the F.D.A. Well, I'll tell you how. Those big pharmaceutical companies have lots of money to help speed along the process of getting their drug accepted and then distributed. "Connections are highlighted between Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA), the lobbying arm of the largest drug companies in the United States, lobbying groups in Washington D.C., and the United States Congress. Hillary Clinton, who once championed the Clinton health care plan, is cited as the Senate's second-highest recipient of health care industry campaign donations."** Is it too much to ask to not allow the expediting of drug approval to happen. Could we hold off trying to find out if these supposed miracle drugs will actually work and try to find if they will cause more harm than good in the long run. Shouldn't we run each and every drug through the ringer for extended periods of time to make sure there will only be positive results, which brings me to my next point... Why do all these drugs have more side effects than they do cures. Some of them actually have the sames symptoms listed as side effects as the ones your trying to cure! It doesn't take a genius to figure out that you probably shouldn't take it but somehow, someway, every single day, these drugs are being bought and used in droves. People, people, people... there is no panacea... no magic elixir that will make you all better. Save your money... and better yet, save yourself. Try exercising and eating properly and most of your issues will take care of themselves.

*reference taken from " Bowling for Columbine" link
**reference taken from "Sicko"

Up and Running

My music is up and running via last.fm (took me long enough) but now it is out there to be heard. I don't have any comparisons to other artists but all in all my music is ambient, electronica, drum and bass, downbeat, triphop. If you have any suggestions of who my music sounds like, I'd like to hear them. It's hard for me to compare myself cause I'm too meek and modest when it comes to my music. I hope you all like it. "Tell your brotha and your sista and your momma too..." Word Up. lol

Raised Energy

I've been thinking about how people get along as of late. I'm sure in your life, there were certain people that you just got along with, certain ones that you just couldn't stand and a select few who you almost immediately bonded with. Why do you think that is? I'm not speaking specifically of that "golden child" who has charisma pouring out of every part of their being that everybody seems to like, or his polar opposite...the poor nerd that constantly got picked on that nobody seemed to like. I'm talking about ordinary everyday interactions that either blossomed or fizzled based solely on whether there was an instant magnetism or repulsion between the two of you. For example, when I started my current job, I went in just being myself not trying to impress anybody in particular and there were some immediate synergies that started to happen. For some reason, I happened to get along with three guys (who were all in different departments and had nothing in common with each other) better than anyone else. All had different qualities and all three were in different age brackets (20's, 30's, 40's).

Another example is my sister-in-law. We get along great. Whenever I'm around her, I seem to be able to make her laugh and we can talk about anything. It almost feels as though the level of energy in the room is raised because there are so many positive emotions. Which brings me to my point... (anybody who's read "The Celestine Prophecy" will know what I'm talking about) We can raise each others energy levels by positively interacting with each other. We can just be ourselves without fear of humiliation or condescension. It is a truly amazing feeling when we feel safe, comfortable and not judged. It makes me wonder about all those people who try to make everyone feel horrible, either by physical or mental intimidation or ridicule. What did their parents or the people who raised them do to make them so disgusted with others that they feel the necessity to dominate or control everyone around them. These are people living in so much fear that they try to instill that fear into others around them. Personally, it makes me sick. Before I go on and on sounding like a hippie preaching, "What's so funny about peace, love and understanding?", I just want to say... What's so funny about peace, love and understanding? :)

Let me know your thoughts and opinions on this subject.

"The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people." ~ Theodore Roosevelt

"The true triumph of reason is that it enables us to get along with those who do not possess it." ~ Voltaire

Lunacy

I added a lunar cycle tracker to the site. Perhaps now I can keep better track of all the crazies :) It has always intrigued me...Lunacy... the idea that peoples moods are affected by the cycles of the moon. It stands to reason. If the lunar cycles affect the oceanic tides, why couldn't they affect other natural processes on Earth.

"There is nothing in the whole world so painful as feeling that one is not liked. It always seems to me that people who hate me must be suffering from some kind of lunacy." ~ Sei Shonagon

Happy Easter!!!

La Poemme

As she sits upon the window, teetering on the sill

she wonders which is stronger, her agony or her will.

And although she seems despondent by the misery she sustains,

One element is not forgotten, her beauty still remains.

Littlewood's Law

Hi all, today I wanted to share an intriguing concept called, "Littlewood's law". For everyone out there that doubts anything miraculous ever happens, well... "Littlewood's law, making certain suppositions, is explained as follows: a miracle is defined as an exceptional event of special significance occurring at a frequency of one in a million; during the hours in which a human is awake and alert, a human will experience one thing per second (for instance, seeing the computer screen, the keyboard, the mouse, the article, etc.); additionally, a human is alert for about eight hours per day; and as a result, a human will, in 35 days, have experienced, under these suppositions, 1,008,000 things. Accepting this definition of a miracle, one can be expected to observe one miraculous occurrence within the passing of every 35 consecutive days -- and therefore, according to this reasoning, seemingly miraculous events are actually commonplace." Of course, every one's definition of a miracle is different but the prejudiced opinions of the truly negative is consistently balanced by the subjective conceptions of the positive. Some believe that having children is a miracle but some don't and disregard it as simple biology. Some would say, the sun rising and setting every single day is purely commonplace and non fantastical but if you consider the possibility that if it didn't happen, we wouldn't be here right now. That seems pretty phenomenal and very much a benediction to me. Wherever you stand on the issue, don't allow your cynicism to prevent you from seeing what is always around us...the veritably divine.

“There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle." ~ Albert Einstein