My Dream.

The Time to Legalize Pot is Now. It Should Have Been Legal Years Ago.

Legalizing it could help pay for a public option in health care. It isn't physically addictive like alcohol or tobacco, which are both legal drugs nor does it lead to increases in domestic violence like alcohol does. When was the last time you heard of someone beating their wife after smoking a joint of pot? Pot makes people actually calm down instead of increase their anger like booze. It makes people laugh together instead of fight. It is the best thing for an upset stomach when you have the flu and doesn't induce vomiting like drinking can nor does it have a hangover like alcohol.

Many responsible people smoke marijuana. I know working professionals who smoke it like drinking a glass or two of wine after work and they are some of the best workers I know. They are invaluable assets to their industries. So it's time to shed this image that all pot smokers are like Cheech and Chong.

Besides, this is America and our country was founded upon personal liberties and freedoms so why is it the government's business if someone wants to smoke a joint in the privacy of their own home and laugh at cartoons? How does that hurt anyone? Sure there need to be laws preventing smoking it and driving and keeping it away from minors. However, did you know that because marijuana isn't legal and thus not regulated that it is easier for minors to get than alcohol?

And It blows me away that taxes from marijuana could pay the salaries of 20,000 teachers in California!! What the HELL are THEY and WE waiting for? You may be personally against using it yourself but what right is it of yours to decide that for everyone else? Sure it can be abused if you smoke it all day but honestly how many people are doing that besides college kids? Another argument is that the pot today is stronger. Blah, blah, blah. Pot has NEVER, EVER led to any over-dose. You simply can't overdose on marijuana. You can smoke it all day and the worst that happens is you fall asleep and get a good night of sleep!! Wow. Soooo dangerous. The stronger pot argument is only valid if it led to overdoses but it doesn't. It simply isn't true.

Sure it might cause emphysema but that's a personal decision that someone shouldn't be making for someone else. Besides you can bake marijuana into brownies and ingest it orally without running the risks of smoking. Plus now there is the vaporizing method, which is a mist that you ingest and it has been shown to be safe. Hell, eating too much junk food leads to heart disease, diabetes and other major health problems but do we make Twinkies illegal? Alcohol leads to liver and kidney damage but we saw what prohibition of alcohol brought us in the golden age of gangsters in the 20's. And the same members of Congress that say pot should remain illegal are guzzling alcohol by the barrel full. Porn can be abused but it's legal, working can even be abused and break up marriages.

Anything can be abused but does that mean we should make everything with the ability to be abused illegal? We'd have to outlaw cold medicine, mouthwash and paint solvents to name but a few things. We wouldn't be able to function as a society or leave our house!! Should we outlaw greed? Good luck. And what about the "legal drugs" that are aired non-stop on t.v. and take half the commercial time listing adverse side effects? No, I choose not to live in fear. It's time to stop demonizing marijuana and throw it in the same category as heroin, cocaine, crack and meth. Marijuana is to those other substances as B.B. guns are to AK-47's.

Then there is bullshit about marijuana being a gateway drug but why do they focus on just marijuana? How about sugar because that is a drug in the sense that is gives you a rush and a buzz. What about caffeine? Shouldn't that be called a gateway drug? It gives people a rush of energy, a buzz and they crash when they don't drink it. It causes withdrawals in people who are regular drinkers when they don't drink it. People drink it all day in their offices and we even have the high octane stuff that's like crewing on handfuls of coffee beans. How come we don't call that the gateway drug?

The Mormon religion sees it bad enough to ban it with all these other drugs so why single out marijuana? The whole war on marijuana is a sham, a failure and a waste of money and resources. It's costing us tons of money when it should be bringing in tons of money for our communities. Enough is enough. Let adults be adults. I find it very odd to say the least that Conservatives who are usually for personal liberties and the government butting out of a person's private life are for keeping pot illegal!! Huh?

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Fuck the Fourth.

This is how I feel about my day:(Click to enlarge).

Links Between Schizophrenia and Bipolar.

If you are suffering from either schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, bipolar disorder or if you are a loved one of someone living with one of these brain disorders then you'll want to read this article. Click here to read it. Basically it's an article showing that Schizophrenia and Bipolar have some common genetic faults, which is probably why in the past few decades Schizoaffective Disorder has gone from a "catch all" diagnosis to a specific condition.

It is a blend of both bipolar and schizophrenia and this article is more evidence that the class of mental illnesses are like a spectrum, say a spectrum of light such as that found in rainbows. Even amongst those who suffer from just say Bipolar or Schizophrenia there are various degrees within them. I think it's important to understand the interconnection between these various disorders.

My Michael Jackson Tribute.

So much has already been said about Michael Jackson the King of Pop and so instead of rehashing a lot of what has already been said I decided to post my favorite MJ videos/songs. I am still in shock that he died and so suddenly. I grew up on his music and we all knew him as larger than life and I guess I somehow thought he'd always be around. Yet in his videos and songs he will indeed always be around.

Jackson pretty much invented the modern music video that has characters, a story line and elaborate costume and set designs, which started of course with the unforgettable "Thriller" video. That album was the first album (I really liked the tiger on the inside cover) that I ever owned and I wore it down until it was so scratched that It barely played at all. Anyway, here are my favorite MJ songs in no particular order until final video:

ABC:

Billy Jean: This isn't the official video but I think it's better as it shows off his mad dancing skills more:Beat It:

Michael Jackson |MTV Music

Smooth Criminal:Thriller:

Michael Jackson |MTV Music

Black or White: This song did more for race relations than people give it credit. It helped show kids that we have more in common than not. I think it aided in raising the youngest generations to be the most color blind of all the generations today:

Michael Jackson |MTV Music

The Man in the Mirror: This last video is my favorite and I think sums up Jackson's contribution and message to the world. May his music never die. I hope now that you have finally attained true peace.

Two Gay Penguins Raising a Baby Chick at Zoo.

BERLIN — A German zoo says a pair of gay male penguins are raising a chick from an egg abandoned by its parents.

Bremerhaven zoo veterinarian Joachim Schoene says the egg was placed in the male penguins' nest after its parents rejected it in late April. The males incubated it for some 30 days before it hatched and have continued to care for it.

The chick's gender is not yet known. Schoene said the male birds, named Z and Vielpunkt, are one of three same-sex pairs among the zoo's 20 Humboldt penguins that have attempted to mate. Homosexual behavior has been documented in many animal species.

HBW: So why would "God" create gay penguins and he's apparently o.k. with that (he hasn't destroyed them all in a flood or wiped them out with fire and brime stone like at Sodom and Gamorrah) but with humans--another animal, its different. There has been no mass extinction of the penguin species because of homosexual behavior amongst them. I echo two comments about this on The Huffington Post: Fred Phelps must be printing up signs now that say, "God hates penguin fags." They must be possessed by evil gay penguin demons!!

Don't they know that homosexuality leads to beastiality? Oh wait, shit--that argument doesn't work with gay beasts. You know why the other penguins don't shun them? Because penguins don't have religion to shame each other into repressive, self-destructive behavior. Now I don't want to say that ALL religion or religious people are like that but religion has a tendency to repress people and deny our human nature and dare I say animal nature?

How is homosexuality "going against nature" when most of "nature" is full of examples of homosexual behavior!! Yet you don't see other penguins and non-gay animals shun, assault and kill their gay brothers and sisters. Maybe we're not so "civilized" after all? I'd say absolutely YES. Homosexual behavior has been observerd in close to 1500 different species!!!! This is a point found in many sources but one in specific is Biological Exuberance: Animal Homosexuality and Natural Diversity, By Bruce Bagemihl.

So-Called, "Christian" Heidi Montag Poses for Playboy Magazine.

My introduction to Heidi Montag (star of some pseudo reality show on MTV) has been with the guilty pleasure reality show, "I'm a Celebrity...Get me Out of Here" which started recently. She appeared with her equally as annoying, immature, arrogant, prima donna husband--Spencer Pratt. They were clueless, antagonizing, rude, lazy, argumentative and patronizing of the other celebrities in the show--most of whom were much more well known and accomplished.

However, these two (the Pratt's or as I call them now, "The Brats") quit only a day or two into the jungle survival/charity drive show because they, "Were too famous and rich" to have to deal with bugs. They also claimed that they were too "famous" to be seen on national t.v. hanging out with the other celebrities. They claimed just being around them made their own "celebrity status" go down in value like it was some stock portfolio. Yet then they convinced people to let them back on the show and they quit again and what's worse is they allowed them to return yet again!!

And yet despite all this they claim to be "Christians" and spent much of the time they were in the show ranting and raving at how awesome their god, Jesus and Christianity are. They were being annoyingly preachy and praying over any little thing. Spencer even went so far as to be baptized while on the show by Stephen Baldwin!! When I was a Christian I had to be baptized by an ordained clergyman but apparently today's Christian can be baptized by anyone provided they too are a Christian. Doesn't that defeat the whole purpose of an organized religion?

Daniel Baldwin called them 'convenient Christians'. "I do agree with Daniel, though [host Damien Fahey said]. If you're going to be Christian and have all these beliefs, you really have to live your life accordingly, especially when you get preachy." "They were born-again and they started fasting, and when you're out in the rain forest in 100-degree heat, it doesn't matter how much you believe in Jesus, you have to drink water!" (HBW: They haven't lived accordingly AT ALL on the show with all of their judgements of the others and Heidi wearing her skimpy shorts and tank tops, which reminds me of a recent photo shot she did in a very skimpy and revealing bikini):

"Right now I'm also reading the Bible, beginning to end. I'm very religious. That's how I've gotten to where I am." Yes, Jesus is very pleased you got fake tits and got on all fours on the beach to advance your life. Isn't that in Mark or John?"

Oh but she wasn't done with just the skimpy bikini!! This good, wholesome, devoted Christian role model just posed for Playboy. I guess she read the first part of the Bible in Genesis too fast were their "God" commanded Adam and Eve to cover their naked bodies once sin was introduced into their minds via eating the forbidden fruit. Because Christians believe that the act of eating the fruit was the beginning of sin and that one can not look upon a naked body without thinking lustful thoughts. Thus nudity outside marriage in Christianity is frowned upon because it creates lust in people's hearts and causes people to "sin." Personally I'm all for nudity as long as it's not around minors or otherwise breaking the law. It's a free country but I will call out Christian hypocrites because they certainly call us non-Christians everything imaginable. And not good things.

Clearly she missed the scripture 1 Corinthians 6:20 (New International Verison) which says, "you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your body." Also, "A related passage is Job, Chapter 31. Job says (NIV), “I made a covenant with my eyes not to look lustfully at a girl. … if my steps have turned from the path, if my heart has been led by my eyes, … If my heart has been enticed by a woman, or if I have lurked at my neighbor's door, then may my wife grind another man's grain, and may other men sleep with her. For that would have been shameful, a sin to be judged.”

And, I TIMOTHY 2:8-10: “I desire therefore that the men pray everywhere, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and doubting; in like manner also, that the women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with propriety and moderation, not with braided hair or gold or pearls or costly clothing, but which is proper for women professing godliness with good works,”

HBW: And would the Christian "God" or Heidi Montag's pastor/priest consider having breast implants and posing naked for Playboy being "modest in apparel?" HARDLY!! She's wearing NO apparel!!! LOL. Hmm, maybe she missed all of these in her reading of the Bible because she does appear not so smart so I'll throw another scripture out there for her. Try I JOHN 2:16-17: “For all that is in the world -- the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life -- is not of the Father but of the world. And the world is passing away, and the lust of it; but he who does the will of God abides forever.”

HBW: As you can probably tell by now I'm not a Christian but I don't want to deny people the right to practice it. However, I am beyond fed up and tired with these "convenient Christians" and Christian hypocrites who use Christianity only when it suits them but otherwise don't follow it consistantly. Especially when they are so quick to judge the rest of us as "heathens." These Christian hypocrties are everywhere and then they wonder how and why so many hate Christians and Christianity!! Well, try this one for starters--you shove it in our face, tell us how bad we are and that we need to change our ways and then go off and do something utterly non-Christian over and over again!!!! So those are reasons (to name but a few) as to why many of us just don't take you or your religion very seriously.

One of the things that annoys me the most about some Christians are those who abuse prayer by praying for things like winning the lottery. Or praying for you to win a game of Pictionary at a family reunion. I always think the same thing when people pray for stuff like that, which is, "So your "God" plays favorites?" For example Heidi Montag Pratt and Spencer Pratt prayed for NBC to let them back on the show after they quit the first time. At one point when Heidi had to eat a rat's tail in a challenge between teams she PRAYED to Jesus to help her swallow the tail and thus be the winner. The worst one though to me was when, "Spencer told him [Stephen Baldwin who is also on the show and a Christian] that Heidi said God will answer his prayers — as evidenced by the time that he prayed to hang out with Miley Cyrus and it actually happened!"

Personally I don't believe in prayer but I don't necessarly mind sitting through a dinner prayer at the houses of Christian friends. However, I do have a problem with having to be around excessive praying and using prayer to get an advantage over someone else.

As one person joked on a comment thread about these two wannabes, "Maybe they should try "We're Not Really Celebrities, So Throw Them Out of Here." I'd actually call the show, "We're Not Really Celebrities or Christians, So Throw Us Out of Hollywood." Another person said that our society need's a celebrity, "St. Helena Island" where we can banish "celebrities" like these two--for good.