No unemployed lawyers.

This story caught my attention, not because someone did something incredibly stupid, and not because we're getting the wool pulled over our eyes, but because it's a report card on society in general. The only part of the story you need to read to understand the whole of the story is the first half sentence, "Doctors are being sued for creating prescription drug addicts".

On the surface, this is a personal responsibility case. If you go to the doctor and he gives you some little pills to take to "cure" what ails you, as a thinking being with choices you should do a little homework. Take a moment to peel yourself away from reruns of "Dancing With the Stars", and read the fourteen pieces of paper the pharmacist stapled to the bag your little pills came in. If paper isn't your thing, try typing the name of your latest miracle pills into Google, it works, I've seen me do it.

Whatever you do, educate yourself just a little bit. I know it's hard on the three brain cells you have left, but trust me they are "use it or lose it" anyway. If you don't fill some of that grey matter up with something besides song lyrics, they all get soft and the next time you take a shot of Croatian Brandy, you'll kill all the weak ones.

What I'm really getting at here is that everyone needs to be responsible for what they put in their bodies. We've all heard the commercials, "If you laugh when someone tickles you, ask your doctor about "Libtard". (side effects may include: diarrhea, nausea, dizziness, dry mouth, farting, blurred vision, acne, loose stools, erectile dysfunction, heart murmur, restlessness, hair loss, dry skin, a loss in IQ, amputation, or death)". Now, I don't know about you, but when I hear the list of side effects on the TV, I tend to want to just deal with whatever the latest cash cow from a drug company is supposed to cure.

If we take our car to a mechanic for a squeak in the door, and he tells us he'll fix it by putting in a new stereo, we'd probably run, but if your doctor tells you to take one of these little pills three times a day we don't question it. In fact, we stop at the pharmacy on the way back to work, and we really don't care what they cost because the insurance will cover it, and if it makes us sick we just call a lawyer and sue someone.

BUT, that's not really the meat of this story. The part of this story that really intrigues me lies right in this sentence: "They are prescribed to deal with common social and psychological complaints, from exam stress to relationship problems and bereavement."

Look people, there can be no pleasure without pain, no happiness without sadness, no success without failure, no rich without the poor, and no yin without the yang. We are meant to suffer, we (as human beings) need the contrast. Where in these pathetic people's lives were they taught that they should always feel happy, or when they crash their snowboard into a tree it's not supposed to hurt??

If you're going to the doctor to get drugs because you have stress about an exam or you have relationship problems you're already just a recreational drug user, using prescription medication to hide from the consequences of your decisions. If you can't handle the stress of a test, maybe you should drop out of school and get a job sacking groceries at your local grocery store. If your relationship is bad enough that you want to dope yourself up so you can survive it, maybe you should GET OUT!

Accept that you made bad decisions, learn from it, take whatever punishment the world passes along to you, and move on! Maybe next time you won't have rectal cranial inversion and you'll have the opportunity to reap the rewards of making good decisions...

Torqued

Learning to dance

It's been a while since I've been to this place.


Yep, still looks like home. :)

I don't really feel like talking about the election or politics, the great SUV uprising seems to have been overtaken by the global warming cult. Is it just me, or does anyone else find it ironic that every time Al Gore goes someplace to speak about global warming, it snows? I really have trouble believing there is an active God in this world, but even I can't help but question my beliefs when Al Gore gets snowed out for the umpteenth time...

I've learned something about myself in a conversation with a friend that I feel like I need to get written down for one reason or the other. We were talking about dogs and the communication between a dog and handler, and as I took a step back (in my mind) and tried to pull some generalities out of the big picture, it dawned on me. The human condition demands that we listen before we speak, we must be students before we can teach, and that we must be able to follow, before we can really lead.

I'll be back....

Perspective...

So many things depend on a person's perspective that I wonder if we all perceive things the same. This is hard to explain, but I'm going to try anyway...

From the time we are born, we are told that when we look at the crayon that has green written on it, it's called green. What I'm trying to wrap my brain around is the possibility that in another person's mind they could be seeing what I call red, yet they have been trained to call it green. We all have different eyes, and no one really knows if my perception of green is the same as another person's perception of green. Really it's possible that I've been stopping at lights that if you were looking through my eyes and translating the signals through my brain, you might drive through. The whole process depends on perspective.

We can take that same concept to taste, sound, or any other sense that the human brain translates from electrical impulses sent by our nerves. This whole perspective thing might explain why people have different favorite colors, or why one person likes broccoli, but another person does not. What if when I eat broccoli, I taste what another person perceives as ice cream, and when that person eats broccoli, they taste what I perceive as pickled beets? That certainly would explain why they wouldn't eat it.

Torqued

The magic store...

Does anyone else not care what happens to Paris "who gives a crap" Hilton?

Why does she make the news? I suppose it's probably because we all know she's filthy rich, and it's fun to watch someone with something to lose, screw up. Hell she might as well get married to Al Gore's son, at least that way they could get a group discount with their lawyer. After the sex video, what more is there to see?

I've often wondered how involved people like that are with politicians. Do you think Hollywood and Washington coordinate their events to keep us looking the wrong direction? Think about it, Al Gore's global warming concerts are tanking miserably. So in order to work a little slight of hand magic, he sends Al Gore Jr to get busted for pot (drug light) so we'll all feel sorry for his family problems. The media spends a whole week talking about the bust, the cops role, the rehab, and the pressure this puts on Al and Fifi (or whatever her name is).

I just can't figure out which party Paris is tied into. Her little jail fiasco coincided quite nicely with the Illegal Amnesty bill our elected representatives tried to ram down our throats a few weeks ago. It's really sad that we allow them to use race and class warfare on us so effectively. There were hundreds of stories about how the rich white girl was going to get away with not doing her time, and if she were black, or poor, or both, she would be locked up blah, blah, blah...

If the media isn't getting the job done distracting us, they call up the Reverend Jesse "extortion" Jackson and the Reverend Al "race baiter" Sharpton to stir the pot. What church do those two media hounds preach in anyway?

While we're all arguing over the crumbs of our society, Washington is busy trying to sell the country to Mexico. I still can't believe that GW wanted to sign the bill that would dissolve this country, on Independence Day. I wonder how the history books would have written that little piece of irony?

If cinco de Mayo is Mexican independence day, what were they going to call July 4th?? I suppose after they renamed the country the United States of Mexico, Coors would still need a holiday in July to sell beer to the Mexicans. They could just chrome plate the Washington monument and rename it the "Silver Bullet".

Maybe tomorrow I'll try something a little lighter...
Torqued

Independence Day...

July fourth is right around the corner, Independence Day. The skies will be full of fireworks, the lakes full of boaters, backyards full of barbecue and beer, and parades all celebrating the adoption of the Declaration of Independence. We throw around words like “independence” “liberty”, and “freedom”. Ask almost any American and they'll tell you “it's a free Country”, but are we really a free people?

Freedom is a word we throw around almost daily in this country, but have any of you thought about what it meant to be free? The dictionary defines freedom as: the state of being free; exemption from external control, interference, regulation; the power to determine action without restraint. Most of you probably think those definitions fit your lives fairly well, but do they really?I'd like to believe that we live in a free country, but more and more our freedoms are being eroded, and sadly the citizens of this country give those rights away so easily that it makes me believe that most don't truly want freedom.

Freedom is something that only a society based on personal responsibility can have. Personal responsibility is what makes people save for their retirement. Personal responsibility is the thing that causes people to save or get insurance to cover their health needs. It's the thing that causes people to put shampoo on the outside of their bodies, and to not use electrical appliances in the shower. It's the thing that puts a man on trial for murder instead of his gun.

Freedom would be allowing people to send their kids to whatever school they thought would best teach their children, it would be allowing their children to pray to whatever god they chose in those same schools. Freedom would be not getting a ticket for failure to wear your seatbelt. Freedom would be having the choice to not spay and neuter your pet, or to choose how many pets you owned.

No folks, the reality is that we are not free because we don't want the responsibility for our actions. Instead of working hard and saving money, we would rather the government take care of us in retirement and supply us with health care. We'd prefer that the government educate our children and teach them right from wrong instead of doing it ourselves. We want the government to give us a false sense of security by giving us a number to call in case of an emergency, instead of protecting our property and family. We want the productive to pay more in taxes so the unproductive can remain unproductive.

Freedom has a cost, and that cost is personal responsibility. Over the last one hundred years we've lost a lot of our responsibilities, we've given them to others to take care of so we aren't burdened with them, but along with those responsibilities we gave away our freedoms. So this fourth of July while the fireworks are going off and the burgers are burning, remember the Bill of Rights, remember the Constitution, and remember the reasons the founders of this country declared independence from the government that ruled them.

If we aren't willing to be responsible for our persons to gain our freedom from the countless regulations that our government has put in place to protect us from ourselves, we might as well call July fourth Hypocrites day, the day we say we are free, but aren't willing to be responsible enough to deal with freedom.

Torqued.

WTF...

http://www.charlotte.com/118/story/174578.html

Here we have a guy who has been convicted of murder. He's in prison serving a life sentence and he's suing the prison system for a sex change. Now the kicker here is the reason his lawyer claims the taxpayers should pay for this surgery is because he's suicidal, has already been on hormone treatment, hair removal procedures, and psychotherapy, but he still has anxiety and depression.

What am I missing here?

He's in prison, right?
Yup.

He's depressed and may commit suicide?
Yup.

He's serving life?
Yup.

Hand him a rope and a pack of razor blades, feed him bread an water, and turn the sprinkler on twice a day. If we're lucky this psychopath will to the right thing and off himself. He's already tried twice, obviously he needs a little help to even do that right...

Torqued

Immigration bill still kicking...

In Iraq when people cross the border to commit crimes against the country we call them insurgents and shoot them.

In America when people cross the border to commit crimes against the country we call them immigrants, give them health care, welfare, subsidized housing, social security, and citizenship to them and their families.

Is there any question as to why we are mad?

Torqued