One of the individuals recieving more "freedom" is corporations. They are an entity, and though I respect Browne on his anti-drug enforement ending policy and ending corporate welfare he will only help empower the already over-powered multinationals.
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I love this strict almost fundamentalist Constitution talk, ever hear of amendments? Or those part of the evil empire also?
The government does decide who gets fudning, ever hear of federal matching funds? You simply put up rules (petitions, etc) like the 5% rule we currently have.
Nader is also for opening up the airwaves for less corporate programming and more free community access which will allow non-millionaires to get their voice heard and give the 1 million crowd equal time so we can have a real debate.
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Actually communism is state controlled everything while socialism is state controlled means of production. Nader doesn't support any of these.
European healthcare is far from perfect and some also offer pivate insurance, but it sure beats nothing and we're talking about 80 million uninsured americans. Who when need serious medical help find themselves in debt gouged by our out of control HMO system and pharmacutical companies that recieve research grants and corporate welfare but don't give consumers breaks on prices.
Using your ideas, why should we be paying for roads or anything else on the state level? Its "communism", to pay and share the roads and highways?! We accept that, why cant we accept paying political campaigns to remove corporate influence.
Browne sounds way too much like the second coming of the civil war and passing the buck to the states. He doesn't believe in abortion and wants to cut its funding, so when it comes down to the states what will be the outcome? With right-wing libertarians in office we can kiss it goodbye.
Not really recent esitamtes put Nader supporters as first time voters and apathy (on-off) voters, not the backbone of the Democratic party.
Not to mention polls only focus on established voters, people who have voter 2-3 times before. At least one poll only considers you established if youve voted GOP before.
The Green party makes an effort to show that Gore isn't green. His broken promises on raising CAFE (Corporate Average Fuel Economy Standards)standards and not shutting down that huge incenerator right next to school are two of many. The promises made this year will also be broken, the man does not have a respectable track record.
What greens want to do is remove the corporate masters from politics, through publicaly funded elections and let democracy take place. Though i agree the GOP is much more harsh on the environment that the Dems, but they did start the EPA and have supported various pro-environ bills. The dems might have a slightly better track record but if their corporate masters come calling they must bow downto them. Right now Gore's occidental petroluem is drilling for oil on land claimed by a native american tribe.
Its should be democracy first, money later. Not the opposite. Not to mention Browne is the right wing version of Nader, whatever criticism about about vote siphening you put on nader you must put on him. If you believe your argument then they will probably cancel each other out, considering they're neck to neck in the polls.
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Actually polls are based on likely voters, a slippery definition which always includes those who have voted at least 3 times before making them at least 30. When much of Nader's support is from first time voters. As far as the federal judges go, why would Gore vote for Scalia, the biggest anti-abortionist, if your theory was right. There are other examples of conservatives bringing in liberal judges so I wouldn't sweat it.
Vote your conscience, most of the states are already takes, ah the magic of the electoral college, especially if you're a new voter. If your the backbone of the democratic party with weak convictions been like the parent post.
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I can't see how Browne's brand of libertarianism has anything to do freedom, considering he's completely right-wing except for his stance on drugs and will not defend women's reproductive rights and will cut federal funding to hospitals and abortion clinics.
He is also planning on cutting social security calling it a big mess when in reality the administration costs of running it are a fraction of private insurance companies pay. Social Security also pays out worker's comp and disibility. Where will these people go?
He is competely against universal healthcare, which most wealthy nations are handing out like flyers, except we can't seem to get it right. I hope no one voting for Browne is getting federal grants and loans for college, cause it ain't going to be there much longer.
I'm going for Nader because he want's the federal government to work especially with publically funding elections, establishing a living wage, and providing universal healthcare to 80-100 mil uninsured Americans.
He also plans to establish a 'none of the above' options in elections so people like Katz and company don't sit out but voice their protest and force another election if no one gets a decent majority.
Browne is great if you're already wealthy or on your way there and aren't living on the wrong side of the tracks or on hard times and simply don't care about the working poor. Its like Forbes and his flat tax, a scam to keep rich people from paying taxes.
Imagine these things decked out with sharp spikes and dropped from bombers by the thousands landing in a downtown area and just jumping and shredding people to pieces. Put a counter on them and the one with the most frags goes to the Smithsonian.
Exactly. For some many 'raging debates' few people are willing to consider the effectiveness of the human solution. We don't keep the national geographics in the belly of a roving robot that can scan ID cards. We don't keep anatomy books under a force field. The Joy of Sex isn't on an encrypted disk. We don't keep William S. Bouroughs books on the highest shelf in the library behind electric cattle wire. Hopefully, I'm not giving the opposition too many ideas here.
"Yes, yes how much would that roving robot cost and could we arm him?"
Its so much easier to have the library staff shoulder surf one in a while or at least listen for giggles, or heaven forbid provide assistance to the technophones. What we should be teaching youngsters, if we can't go with them to the library, is that there's lots of stuff you probably shouldn't be reading and its against the rules and you don't want to lose internet access.
Machines are good a lots of things, but they sure aren't the best solution for every problem, even a computer problem.
Anti-depressants usually take weeks to work, and each one affects a person differently. Its brain chemistry, we're not exact duplicates for each other. What's hit and miss is finding which drug works for you vs. its side-effects. SSRI's like Paxil and Prozac can cause all sorts of side effects including sexual disfunction, anxiety, etc. Patients usually have to try at least 3 different drugs along with varying doses to see what helps them. There's tons of stories like your friend's, just look on the net.
As far as publicity stopping production, I've never heard of it. Look how badly valium was abused not so long ago and its still around so are lots of other downers.
Like I said, it isn't about feeling good its about being stable and functional. Heaven forbid a patient feels good once in a while and then we have the ignorant assuming he or she is tripping and having a good time. Do some research into popular SSRI's and how many people take anti-depressants and anti-anxiety drugs and you'll be sadly surprised. Start at depression.com and work your way from there.
As for western nations, who knows why its more highly reported. Remember that report last year from the department of health, we have millions of undiagnosed sufferers. Third world nations barely have the healthcare and documentation to give decent records on physical illness let alone psychological. Whatever it is, it isn't about a lifestyle of abusing pills and being high all the time. Trust me its a lot cheaper to buy pot or ecstacy than deal with pharmacuticals for any possible high or low you can get off them.
Whether or not this will be the slow and painful end to the human race is academic, but it is a definate possibility. Who knows, I lean towards a more "what we don't know about the world has a good chance of killing us without even a warning" the same way Dinosaurs couldn't comprehend astrophysics.
I'm glad everyone doesn't hold that opinion, the linux powered autonomous car ARGO could be the future of urban transportation and it could kill a lot more than a couple drivers if it ran over a dozen pedestrains crossing a downtown intersection.
Sure races are dangerous and this is a silly competition because somehow, somewhere someone let out the man vs. machine meme and it isn't going away. I'd much rather see more socially-friendly projects like ARGO than publicity-friendly crap like this.
Oh man who takes this page seriously its starts off with the words, "The Vision..." Not to mention this quote:
Formula One alone has 40-billion-plus television viewers annually.
That must include all the extraterrestial fans in our system. Could be worse they could be watching the 700 club.
I agree completely my friend, and why should my kids even be supervised by me at all? First we must conquer the libraries then we can move on to robot nannies and send them off to a boarding school run by militant robots with drives jam packed with censorware.
The we can sit around with our wives and get back to enjoying 'Friends.' Damn those question-asking, need guidance, little midget wannabes.
The labor movement is powerless against those take the start-up gamble and don't mind working 80hrs a week and think anyone they hire should feel the exact same way because of stock options that are probably worthless.
The best part is this doesnt undermine our rights as workers, these people choose to enter shitty situations and prospective employees can shop around.
To get back on-topic this is a non-profit which when used properly an get volunteers to do all sorts of things, maybe even support. Or if money is especially tight you have to ask yourself which jobs are critical and which aren't and replace non-criticals with volunteers to pay for a decent support team. Either that or suffer.
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Make sure to get one of those magical international subpeonas. The key word here was off-shore.
The best protection is to warn people of the obvious dangers of strangers on-line. We teach children not to trust strangers, we don't lock them up in a closet for their own good. Now its time to teach adults not to trust strangers. Its a simple lesson that can be easily understood by even the lowiest technophobe.
No fancy legislation required.
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Lets see are they trying to force a third party ID check down our throats? A handle without an email address attached to it (or a fake one) is the same as anonymous speech. How many of us have one of those? Non-obvious spam blocking text puts you in that category. Scared yet?
They want to put ID profiling in the power of the moderators? Say I run a Christian Coalition webpage on my home machine effectivly making me the ISP/Moderator and we have a weboard and a few of them get into slandering a well known homosexual.
Now, someone else logs in and says the exact same thing about the members of that group. Guess who gets the lawsuit? It sure ain't my god-fearing people, its that nasty boy who don't like our 'straight talk.' In other words, slander is only slander when someone sues you. Do you think I'd turn in my own members after a good post on what evil things Harvey Firestien puts in certain parts of his body and his 'deal' with little boys?
The sad part is this is all because of some "tips from the internet" style of stockbroking which there is no excuse for. You believed someone on-line whom you've never met or even seen, you fell for it, now you have to deal with it. Just like the real world.
Its called checking your sources, especially if you're in the get rich quick game.
This is so uninformed, the flat tax proposal would only help the rich and hurt working families. The rich pay more taxes percent wise than lower classes, and that's the way it should be. We've given them breaks like corporate welfare and an absurd amount of power to change our laws to their whims.
As for "crackheads," keep your stereotypical views, rehab may not be perfect but there are many people who need it yet can't afford it. What if one of your friends make a few mistkes in his life and tried to get into rehab but was turned down because of lack of insurance. How about physical or mental illness then, dont you think a responsible government has the responsibiloity to help those who can't help themselves?
The flat tax is propaganda sold to those who aren't much interested in poltics but want simple, easy to understand solutions that really just help people like Steve Forbes.
How is the parent of this flamebait? "Oh my, he has a dissenting opinion!" Get a clue moderators. I've got tons of karma do your worst, or read the moderator guidelines.
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USENET doesn't get much use from non-tech savvy users and though it has merits its mostly crap. If you're serious about keeping it you should be the one collecting megabytes worth of threads and discussions and burning them on CDs. Put up FTP sites, do whatever, but if USENET goes I won't shed a tear.
I've seen webboards with better content and email lists that makes USENET look exactly like the infatile playing ground it usually degenerates into yet where's the call to save these and put them on a search engine?
Trivializing mental illness with bad taste in cinema is really a bad start if you want to convince people that mental illness isn't a serious problem with humanity and especially industrialized nations.
Time for insanity? How does this even remotely make sense? Mental illness makes one less functional and in a competitive environment (starving to death as you put it) they will be the first victims to dire circumstances.
Unhappiness and major depression have little in common. Happiness can be affected by a variety of factors and neither state (happy vs. sad) lasts for very long. A person with major depression is stuck in a state of despair and hopelessness for weeks or months at a time. 90% of suicides are from mentally ill persons, which should show you the severity and sheer torture of this condition. Now toss in the generalized anxiety and bipolar disease and you have quite a number of people, mostly untreated, with serious problems that don't need to be trivialized by people like you. In fact bipolars have the highest mortality rate of any disease, it eventually forces you to take your own life by your own hand, just like depression.
Surely no one defends the practices of big business especially in the third world, but there's a reason why anti-anxiety drugs are the most prescribed drugs in the US. Because there are a great many people suffering from anxiety, panic attacks, etc. None of these things should be taken lightly.
The profit margin is especially high in the US because of the politicians here are very easily bought and breaks on prescription medicines are rare for non-senior citizens and universal healthcare will probably never happen.
Anti-depressants do not make you happy, if they did they'd be used in recreational ways. When was the last time you saw someone selling Prozac or Paxil at a rave? They simply don't just put you in la-la land like ecstacy, they treat a serious mental disorder. They help balance serotonin levels to keep people non-depressed and functional.
I can see you're upset about sleeping sickness, but the problem lies not with mental illness being a myth for fattened westerners, but with how the pharamcutical industry operates and the politics of the nations of the people who get this disease.
As a progessive lefty I think the consensus would be not to block any religious site, while the right has an interest to keep Jesus (or whichever religion the group is part of) on top of the crowd as not to question/empty the pews.
Actually the only contemporary group I can think of that would actually want all religious sites blocked are radicals like CSICOP. Their mailing list has group attempts of letter writing to networks that do air anything that goes remotely questions scientific materialism by threating boycotts. I definatly see them as a very conservative group, not liberal in any way.
I think an extreme far lefty (anarchist-type?) would want no censorship at all, porn and drugs for everyone regardless of age.
I really see this one as the slow downfall of the human race. The most prescribed drug is anti-anxiety medication and millions who are mentally ill go wandering about untreated living an extra-difficult life of mood-swings, suicidal feelings, anti-social behavior, etc. Not really knowing if they're ill or just "lazy", "dumb", "moody", "a loner", etc.
These are the people we hear about on the news who hang themselves, go on shooting sprees, kill their family then themselves, etc. While the clueless media focuses on video game violence and how many "subversive" books he or she owned.
I don't know when its going to reach critical mass, but considering that universal healthcare in the US is largely cosidered a joke, toss in the stresses of overpopulation, and the taboo on mental illness is as strong as its ever been I have a good feeling where its going to start.
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One of the individuals recieving more "freedom" is corporations. They are an entity, and though I respect Browne on his anti-drug enforement ending policy and ending corporate welfare he will only help empower the already over-powered multinationals.
I love this strict almost fundamentalist Constitution talk, ever hear of amendments? Or those part of the evil empire also?
"Sorry buddy you're just 5/8ths of a person."
The government does decide who gets fudning, ever hear of federal matching funds? You simply put up rules (petitions, etc) like the 5% rule we currently have.
Nader is also for opening up the airwaves for less corporate programming and more free community access which will allow non-millionaires to get their voice heard and give the 1 million crowd equal time so we can have a real debate.
Actually communism is state controlled everything while socialism is state controlled means of production. Nader doesn't support any of these.
European healthcare is far from perfect and some also offer pivate insurance, but it sure beats nothing and we're talking about 80 million uninsured americans. Who when need serious medical help find themselves in debt gouged by our out of control HMO system and pharmacutical companies that recieve research grants and corporate welfare but don't give consumers breaks on prices.
Using your ideas, why should we be paying for roads or anything else on the state level? Its "communism", to pay and share the roads and highways?! We accept that, why cant we accept paying political campaigns to remove corporate influence.
Browne sounds way too much like the second coming of the civil war and passing the buck to the states. He doesn't believe in abortion and wants to cut its funding, so when it comes down to the states what will be the outcome? With right-wing libertarians in office we can kiss it goodbye.
Not really recent esitamtes put Nader supporters as first time voters and apathy (on-off) voters, not the backbone of the Democratic party.
Not to mention polls only focus on established voters, people who have voter 2-3 times before. At least one poll only considers you established if youve voted GOP before.
The Green party makes an effort to show that Gore isn't green. His broken promises on raising CAFE (Corporate Average Fuel Economy Standards)standards and not shutting down that huge incenerator right next to school are two of many. The promises made this year will also be broken, the man does not have a respectable track record.
What greens want to do is remove the corporate masters from politics, through publicaly funded elections and let democracy take place. Though i agree the GOP is much more harsh on the environment that the Dems, but they did start the EPA and have supported various pro-environ bills. The dems might have a slightly better track record but if their corporate masters come calling they must bow downto them. Right now Gore's occidental petroluem is drilling for oil on land claimed by a native american tribe.
Its should be democracy first, money later. Not the opposite. Not to mention Browne is the right wing version of Nader, whatever criticism about about vote siphening you put on nader you must put on him. If you believe your argument then they will probably cancel each other out, considering they're neck to neck in the polls.
Actually polls are based on likely voters, a slippery definition which always includes those who have voted at least 3 times before making them at least 30. When much of Nader's support is from first time voters. As far as the federal judges go, why would Gore vote for Scalia, the biggest anti-abortionist, if your theory was right. There are other examples of conservatives bringing in liberal judges so I wouldn't sweat it.
Vote your conscience, most of the states are already takes, ah the magic of the electoral college, especially if you're a new voter. If your the backbone of the democratic party with weak convictions been like the parent post.
I can't see how Browne's brand of libertarianism has anything to do freedom, considering he's completely right-wing except for his stance on drugs and will not defend women's reproductive rights and will cut federal funding to hospitals and abortion clinics.
He is also planning on cutting social security calling it a big mess when in reality the administration costs of running it are a fraction of private insurance companies pay. Social Security also pays out worker's comp and disibility. Where will these people go?
He is competely against universal healthcare, which most wealthy nations are handing out like flyers, except we can't seem to get it right. I hope no one voting for Browne is getting federal grants and loans for college, cause it ain't going to be there much longer.
I'm going for Nader because he want's the federal government to work especially with publically funding elections, establishing a living wage, and providing universal healthcare to 80-100 mil uninsured Americans.
He also plans to establish a 'none of the above' options in elections so people like Katz and company don't sit out but voice their protest and force another election if no one gets a decent majority.
Browne is great if you're already wealthy or on your way there and aren't living on the wrong side of the tracks or on hard times and simply don't care about the working poor. Its like Forbes and his flat tax, a scam to keep rich people from paying taxes.
Imagine these things decked out with sharp spikes and dropped from bombers by the thousands landing in a downtown area and just jumping and shredding people to pieces. Put a counter on them and the one with the most frags goes to the Smithsonian.
Exactly. For some many 'raging debates' few people are willing to consider the effectiveness of the human solution. We don't keep the national geographics in the belly of a roving robot that can scan ID cards. We don't keep anatomy books under a force field. The Joy of Sex isn't on an encrypted disk. We don't keep William S. Bouroughs books on the highest shelf in the library behind electric cattle wire. Hopefully, I'm not giving the opposition too many ideas here.
"Yes, yes how much would that roving robot cost and could we arm him?"
Its so much easier to have the library staff shoulder surf one in a while or at least listen for giggles, or heaven forbid provide assistance to the technophones. What we should be teaching youngsters, if we can't go with them to the library, is that there's lots of stuff you probably shouldn't be reading and its against the rules and you don't want to lose internet access.
Machines are good a lots of things, but they sure aren't the best solution for every problem, even a computer problem.
Anti-depressants usually take weeks to work, and each one affects a person differently. Its brain chemistry, we're not exact duplicates for each other. What's hit and miss is finding which drug works for you vs. its side-effects. SSRI's like Paxil and Prozac can cause all sorts of side effects including sexual disfunction, anxiety, etc. Patients usually have to try at least 3 different drugs along with varying doses to see what helps them. There's tons of stories like your friend's, just look on the net.
As far as publicity stopping production, I've never heard of it. Look how badly valium was abused not so long ago and its still around so are lots of other downers.
Like I said, it isn't about feeling good its about being stable and functional. Heaven forbid a patient feels good once in a while and then we have the ignorant assuming he or she is tripping and having a good time. Do some research into popular SSRI's and how many people take anti-depressants and anti-anxiety drugs and you'll be sadly surprised. Start at depression.com and work your way from there.
As for western nations, who knows why its more highly reported. Remember that report last year from the department of health, we have millions of undiagnosed sufferers. Third world nations barely have the healthcare and documentation to give decent records on physical illness let alone psychological. Whatever it is, it isn't about a lifestyle of abusing pills and being high all the time. Trust me its a lot cheaper to buy pot or ecstacy than deal with pharmacuticals for any possible high or low you can get off them.
Whether or not this will be the slow and painful end to the human race is academic, but it is a definate possibility. Who knows, I lean towards a more "what we don't know about the world has a good chance of killing us without even a warning" the same way Dinosaurs couldn't comprehend astrophysics.
I'm glad everyone doesn't hold that opinion, the linux powered autonomous car ARGO could be the future of urban transportation and it could kill a lot more than a couple drivers if it ran over a dozen pedestrains crossing a downtown intersection.
Sure races are dangerous and this is a silly competition because somehow, somewhere someone let out the man vs. machine meme and it isn't going away. I'd much rather see more socially-friendly projects like ARGO than publicity-friendly crap like this.
Oh man who takes this page seriously its starts off with the words, "The Vision..." Not to mention this quote:
Formula One alone has 40-billion-plus television viewers annually.
That must include all the extraterrestial fans in our system. Could be worse they could be watching the 700 club.
I agree completely my friend, and why should my kids even be supervised by me at all? First we must conquer the libraries then we can move on to robot nannies and send them off to a boarding school run by militant robots with drives jam packed with censorware.
The we can sit around with our wives and get back to enjoying 'Friends.' Damn those question-asking, need guidance, little midget wannabes.
The labor movement is powerless against those take the start-up gamble and don't mind working 80hrs a week and think anyone they hire should feel the exact same way because of stock options that are probably worthless.
The best part is this doesnt undermine our rights as workers, these people choose to enter shitty situations and prospective employees can shop around.
To get back on-topic this is a non-profit which when used properly an get volunteers to do all sorts of things, maybe even support. Or if money is especially tight you have to ask yourself which jobs are critical and which aren't and replace non-criticals with volunteers to pay for a decent support team. Either that or suffer.
Make sure to get one of those magical international subpeonas. The key word here was off-shore.
The best protection is to warn people of the obvious dangers of strangers on-line. We teach children not to trust strangers, we don't lock them up in a closet for their own good. Now its time to teach adults not to trust strangers. Its a simple lesson that can be easily understood by even the lowiest technophobe.
No fancy legislation required.
Lets see are they trying to force a third party ID check down our throats? A handle without an email address attached to it (or a fake one) is the same as anonymous speech. How many of us have one of those? Non-obvious spam blocking text puts you in that category. Scared yet?
They want to put ID profiling in the power of the moderators? Say I run a Christian Coalition webpage on my home machine effectivly making me the ISP/Moderator and we have a weboard and a few of them get into slandering a well known homosexual.
Now, someone else logs in and says the exact same thing about the members of that group. Guess who gets the lawsuit? It sure ain't my god-fearing people, its that nasty boy who don't like our 'straight talk.' In other words, slander is only slander when someone sues you. Do you think I'd turn in my own members after a good post on what evil things Harvey Firestien puts in certain parts of his body and his 'deal' with little boys?
The sad part is this is all because of some "tips from the internet" style of stockbroking which there is no excuse for. You believed someone on-line whom you've never met or even seen, you fell for it, now you have to deal with it. Just like the real world.
Its called checking your sources, especially if you're in the get rich quick game.
This is so uninformed, the flat tax proposal would only help the rich and hurt working families. The rich pay more taxes percent wise than lower classes, and that's the way it should be. We've given them breaks like corporate welfare and an absurd amount of power to change our laws to their whims.
As for "crackheads," keep your stereotypical views, rehab may not be perfect but there are many people who need it yet can't afford it. What if one of your friends make a few mistkes in his life and tried to get into rehab but was turned down because of lack of insurance. How about physical or mental illness then, dont you think a responsible government has the responsibiloity to help those who can't help themselves?
The flat tax is propaganda sold to those who aren't much interested in poltics but want simple, easy to understand solutions that really just help people like Steve Forbes.
How is the parent of this flamebait? "Oh my, he has a dissenting opinion!" Get a clue moderators. I've got tons of karma do your worst, or read the moderator guidelines.
USENET doesn't get much use from non-tech savvy users and though it has merits its mostly crap. If you're serious about keeping it you should be the one collecting megabytes worth of threads and discussions and burning them on CDs. Put up FTP sites, do whatever, but if USENET goes I won't shed a tear.
I've seen webboards with better content and email lists that makes USENET look exactly like the infatile playing ground it usually degenerates into yet where's the call to save these and put them on a search engine?
Trivializing mental illness with bad taste in cinema is really a bad start if you want to convince people that mental illness isn't a serious problem with humanity and especially industrialized nations.
Time for insanity? How does this even remotely make sense? Mental illness makes one less functional and in a competitive environment (starving to death as you put it) they will be the first victims to dire circumstances.
Unhappiness and major depression have little in common. Happiness can be affected by a variety of factors and neither state (happy vs. sad) lasts for very long. A person with major depression is stuck in a state of despair and hopelessness for weeks or months at a time. 90% of suicides are from mentally ill persons, which should show you the severity and sheer torture of this condition. Now toss in the generalized anxiety and bipolar disease and you have quite a number of people, mostly untreated, with serious problems that don't need to be trivialized by people like you. In fact bipolars have the highest mortality rate of any disease, it eventually forces you to take your own life by your own hand, just like depression.
Surely no one defends the practices of big business especially in the third world, but there's a reason why anti-anxiety drugs are the most prescribed drugs in the US. Because there are a great many people suffering from anxiety, panic attacks, etc. None of these things should be taken lightly.
The profit margin is especially high in the US because of the politicians here are very easily bought and breaks on prescription medicines are rare for non-senior citizens and universal healthcare will probably never happen.
Anti-depressants do not make you happy, if they did they'd be used in recreational ways. When was the last time you saw someone selling Prozac or Paxil at a rave? They simply don't just put you in la-la land like ecstacy, they treat a serious mental disorder. They help balance serotonin levels to keep people non-depressed and functional.
I can see you're upset about sleeping sickness, but the problem lies not with mental illness being a myth for fattened westerners, but with how the pharamcutical industry operates and the politics of the nations of the people who get this disease.
As a progessive lefty I think the consensus would be not to block any religious site, while the right has an interest to keep Jesus (or whichever religion the group is part of) on top of the crowd as not to question/empty the pews.
Actually the only contemporary group I can think of that would actually want all religious sites blocked are radicals like CSICOP. Their mailing list has group attempts of letter writing to networks that do air anything that goes remotely questions scientific materialism by threating boycotts. I definatly see them as a very conservative group, not liberal in any way.
I think an extreme far lefty (anarchist-type?) would want no censorship at all, porn and drugs for everyone regardless of age.
Congratulations! This whole seperation of church and state nonsense has gone on too long. Philips is the love child of Buchanan and Browne.
Email is almost completely ignored, you'll have to lick a stamp or pick up the phone to get heard.
I really see this one as the slow downfall of the human race. The most prescribed drug is anti-anxiety medication and millions who are mentally ill go wandering about untreated living an extra-difficult life of mood-swings, suicidal feelings, anti-social behavior, etc. Not really knowing if they're ill or just "lazy", "dumb", "moody", "a loner", etc.
These are the people we hear about on the news who hang themselves, go on shooting sprees, kill their family then themselves, etc. While the clueless media focuses on video game violence and how many "subversive" books he or she owned.
I don't know when its going to reach critical mass, but considering that universal healthcare in the US is largely cosidered a joke, toss in the stresses of overpopulation, and the taboo on mental illness is as strong as its ever been I have a good feeling where its going to start.
Thanks for the plug, I posted it on memepool.