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Aug 21 2010
Warning: My interest in this topic has approached zeal in recent months, and it’s not likely to abate.
Let’s start the conversation with a lighthearted laugh, and in later posts we can get down to business.
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Jul 24 2010
Dear Person:
Where should I begin? Well, for one, today I got two bar stools for ten bucks at a garage sale. So they wouldn’t tear up the carpet, I cut slits in 8 tennis balls and plugged them on 8 rusty chrome legs. I’m sitting on these walkers now, and I’m happy to be sitting on them.
I also walked into a head shop and found a flier that caught my eye because it seemed to make some kind of sense. I don’t think the writers of this flier would mind if I do a little plagiarizing.
Side:
TAX HEMP!
HEMP for MEDICINE
HEMP for the
ENVIRONMENT
Re-Legalize Hemp
If hemp were re-legalized and taxed at the same rate as pipe tobacco, over 1/2 a billion dollars could be raised annually for Texas schools. If it were taxed at the same rate as cigarettes (which pose the greatest health hazard to most Texans) over a billion dollars could be raised.
Hemp relieves the side effects or symptoms of glaucoma, AIDS, cancer, chemotherapy, migraine, muscular dystrophy, PMS, asthma, and other medical problems.
Hemp plants could replace all fossil fuel and their by-products, reducing pollution. One acre of hemp produces the same amount of paper as four acres of trees, four times a year, at 1/4 the cost of wood pulp paper and with 1/5 the pollution.
Flip Side:
WHO NEEDS A BAILOUT?
TAX HEMP
MAKE JOBS
A legally regulated hemp crop would yield billions of dollars in tax revenue.
A new hemp industry would replace thousands of jobs being lost today in the wood pulp industry and in other agricultural & industrial occupations, saving thousands of acres of U.S. forests and forests around the world.
Over 300,000 Americans a years are arrested for marijuana possession, at a cost of $840,000,000 to taxpayers.
Texas prison costs are skyrocketing because we jail nonviolent hemp offenders. Once-productive citizens become wards of the state, sometimes along with their families.
Hemp is the Number One $$ crop in California, Oregon, Washington, Hawaii, Missouri, and North Carolina and the Number Two $$ crop in Texas. Hemp has been safely used by humans for thousands of years, for fiber, fuel, food and medicine.
And there are only two sides two this flier. It’s lime green, like my 8 tennis balls, which I’m liking more every second. Oh yeah, this flier was made by the TEXAS HEMP CAMPAIGN, known in some quarters as the THC.
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Jul 21 2010
“In case I have a seizure don’t touch me or keep me from moving. Let my body beat how it wants.”
“Like a skyscraper sways in the wind?”
“No. If you keep my arm from seizing, or my head, you could permanently take away any movement in that part of my body. By stopping me from convulsing freely, you’re not letting my brain work how it thinks it should work and it could un-learn.”
“I see.”
“If I start seizing keep time. Anywhere from 2-3 minutes and I don’t have to go to the hospital. But if I seize for like 5 minutes, that’s more brain damage, which I don’t need. You can call an ambulance then, but try to get them to take me to the VA hospital because it’s free then, and they have my record on file. I keep a separate wallet on me with all my medical data. Here’s my VA card.”
“I’ve seen this blue card before. My stepfather has one.”
“If I start seizing try to take a video, or take a series of photos, because then my doctor can prescribe the medicine I need and take me off what I don’t. Like if I’m frothing from the mouth, or my eyes roll back, that’s useful information.”
“Should I keep your head safe?”
“Use your judgment. If I’m beating the ground real hard, maybe slip a towel under my head. Don’t use a pillow. And don’t touch my head.”
“OK.”
::photo by christopher sly::
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Apr 06 2010
Health insurance is not something that should ever be taken for granted in a society. Even in enlightened countries like Sweden or Canada, the limits of socialized healthcare are always monitored and within sight. Funding a healthcare system isn’t something that governments take lightly. Most industrialized countries in the world have some type of publicly-funded healthcare system in place, with the ultimate goal being to have universal coverage for all citizens. Because the United States is one of the only industrialized and wealthy nations that has no real universal healthcare system in place, it is often the target of political issues concerning government mandated coverage.
While waiting for the health care bill to enact our sweeping government-funded healthcare system, many states have taken it upon themselves to enact their own healthcare legislation for their citizens. California, for example, has recently formulated a plan to ensure that every citizen of the state has comprehensive, affordable health benefits available to them, including their own choice of doctors and hospitals. And it couldn’t come at a better time; Affordable Health Insurance, a consumer quote site found that 45 million Americans – approximately one in every seven citizens – remains uninsured.
Healthcare costs grow three times faster than the rise in wages, creating an endless cycle of healthcare cost shortages for average citizens to deal with. It’s estimated that healthcare spending will double over the next decade, meaning that in ten years time healthcare alone will eat up twenty percent of the nation’s budget. A Harvard University study found that half of all bankruptcies in the United States are due primarily to high medical costs, with many employers trying to eliminate as many benefits as they can in order to cut health insurance costs.
Without some form of control over healthcare costs, it can be assured that the future duties of state and federal legislators will be almost entirely taken up trying to sort out how they’ll be able to assign any sort of budget to pay for the rapidly-rising healthcare system for their citizens.
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Mar 24 2010
Plaque blocking an artery!
My father was on the verge of death due to aneurysm and stroke, which are usually caused by plaque blocking bloodflow in the arteries.
Want to avoid letting this disgusting mess fill your arteries?
Want to live longer?
Here’s a good place to start.
TRY VERY HARD NOT TO INGEST THE FOLLOWING:
For more info:
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