Not that I am an expert on narcotics because my experience with opiates ended when I had my appendix removed and was shot up with morphine. That said, HEROIN sucks. It sucks for everyone involved. It sucks for the user, the parents, the treatment facility and staff, the dealer, the cops, the citizens, God forbid any children, everyone. When America loses someone like P Seymour Hoffman it's almost as if it's the first person to die of an overdose of drugs. To be honest, it pisses me off. Hoffman was a junkie. Plain and simple. He was no different than the thousands of people addicted to this life sucking demon. Hoffman was just like everyone else that falls victim to this drug that shows no discrimination regardless of your race, your background or your income. He lived in a West Village apartment with a 30,000 a month mortgage, but that didn't stop his death. Only because he's an actor are people outraged by this tragedy. I sat in court last week for a traffic ticket and a young pretty girl had witnessed her boyfriend OD on heroin on Christmas Eve and because she tried to hide the evidence, she was charged with tampering, possession, among others. No one is up-in-arms about this though. To further my point, I found this video online of a young junkie mother so out of her mind, she couldn't remain conscious long enough to hold her head up or have any clue what was happening to her daughter. The bad part of this video is no one does anything. One person videos the madness, but no one does anything. The drug war is hopeless. End it. Now. Stop spending trillions of dollars on police efforts, smuggling deterrence, non-violent drug offenders filling up our prisons. Instead, take all this money and move it to treatment. What we're doing isn't working. We need to change the defense. I know this is almost as polarizing as abortion (another debate I'm more than willing to have), but ending the drug war, legalizing drugs and taxing them would eliminate 80% of the violence in the inner city. I know this will never happen because we still live in a country where conservatives can't process the possibility of evolution being taught in school and democrats can't understand why Obamacare can never work. The problem in this country is polarization of two parties that can't kick a ball in the ocean standing on the beach. There are too many problems to count and it's our own fault. Until people start to approach problems differently, from a place of individual freedoms and free will, our country of greatness is lost. It's that simple.
Monday, March 24, 2014
Not that I am an expert on narcotics because my experience with opiates ended when I had my appendix removed and was shot up with morphine. That said, HEROIN sucks. It sucks for everyone involved. It sucks for the user, the parents, the treatment facility and staff, the dealer, the cops, the citizens, God forbid any children, everyone. When America loses someone like P Seymour Hoffman it's almost as if it's the first person to die of an overdose of drugs. To be honest, it pisses me off. Hoffman was a junkie. Plain and simple. He was no different than the thousands of people addicted to this life sucking demon. Hoffman was just like everyone else that falls victim to this drug that shows no discrimination regardless of your race, your background or your income. He lived in a West Village apartment with a 30,000 a month mortgage, but that didn't stop his death. Only because he's an actor are people outraged by this tragedy. I sat in court last week for a traffic ticket and a young pretty girl had witnessed her boyfriend OD on heroin on Christmas Eve and because she tried to hide the evidence, she was charged with tampering, possession, among others. No one is up-in-arms about this though. To further my point, I found this video online of a young junkie mother so out of her mind, she couldn't remain conscious long enough to hold her head up or have any clue what was happening to her daughter. The bad part of this video is no one does anything. One person videos the madness, but no one does anything. The drug war is hopeless. End it. Now. Stop spending trillions of dollars on police efforts, smuggling deterrence, non-violent drug offenders filling up our prisons. Instead, take all this money and move it to treatment. What we're doing isn't working. We need to change the defense. I know this is almost as polarizing as abortion (another debate I'm more than willing to have), but ending the drug war, legalizing drugs and taxing them would eliminate 80% of the violence in the inner city. I know this will never happen because we still live in a country where conservatives can't process the possibility of evolution being taught in school and democrats can't understand why Obamacare can never work. The problem in this country is polarization of two parties that can't kick a ball in the ocean standing on the beach. There are too many problems to count and it's our own fault. Until people start to approach problems differently, from a place of individual freedoms and free will, our country of greatness is lost. It's that simple.
Monday, March 10, 2014
Ecstatic vs Exspecially
People. No. Stop butchering this language. It's not difficult. The improper use of the English language is laziness...nothing more. When you add letters on everyday words that don't belong, people think you're dumb. That ESPECIALLY includes me. Maybe you are, but if you're not, please stop being stupid on purpose. The charade isn't at all funny. Next time, take the time to read a dictionary. Take the time to ensure you know how to read the pronunciation guides with those funny looking characters found in that oh-so-intimidating reference guide. If you don't, no matter how old you are, it's something good to know. Learn it and use it as a tool to bounce through this sometimes unfair and hapless life. I'm sick of hearing these two particularly, but there are literally hundreds more. I'm happy to expand upon this word list of ignorance and apathy.
Saturday, January 4, 2014
To say my life has been in a transitional phase is an understatement. I've traveled the world, pushed my mind and body to its limits, made some great new friends, and sadly laid some to rest. I've made more mistakes than I care to admit, but 2013 began to shine a little light. You know it's funny how people perceive others, even those whom they know and know well. I feel very privileged and lucky for so many things in my life and it's regretfully been a long time since I've felt that way. Sometimes it seems, despite people telling you how envious they are of your "life", it's far too easy to get lost in the tempest of feeling sorry for yourself and refusing to give happiness an opportunity to cleanse you. This year gave me so many opportunities to break; mentally, physically, and emotionally, I was pushed to the breaking point. Here is part of the journey back.
Thursday, November 28, 2013
As many of you know, I'm not one for celebrating "thankfulness" on social media. I'm not sure why, but I'm much too cynical for that expression of gratitude. I have been asked to blog a little more since I haven't done this in months. That said, I have been collecting many photos throughout history and like a few of my posts in the past, I'm going to share them with you. America may not always be right and we might not always be lead by the someone that represents our ideology, but what we are is a nation of people that believe in freedom. So many of our ancestors have suffered through unimaginable peril so the people after them can live their lives as God intended. That being said, I hope you enjoy these and I hope they mean as much to you as they did to me. Happy Thanksgiving.
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Working out on the Titanic. Too bad someone couldn't whisper in his ear that his rowing would be more fortuitous than he can imagine. |
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This is not Sylvester Stallone in Cliffhanger. This is not a blue screen. This is a dichotomy of huge balls or small brains. |
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This is the result of battle in the South Pacific during WW2 |
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Their crime is simply being black. |
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| This is last public execution in America. |
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| "First Do No Harm" would be a tall order. |
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| Gross Anatomy 1890 |
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| This is one of the saddest pictures I've ever seen. |
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| Hitler and his contemporaries admiring the largest caliber single fire weapon ever created. |
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| 50 years ago, the world mourns the loss of John Fitzgerald Kennedy. |
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| A slave showing just a few of the visible scars. Those hidden are too many to count. |
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| Kent State terror. 1970 |
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| The hearse of Abraham Lincoln |
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| Marilyn Monroe in a Funhouse. |
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| Medical School 1800's. |
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| MLK Jr. and his son remove a cross burned in his yard. This is how you bring people together. What an amazing Leader of Civil Rights. 1960 |
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| A soldier removing Hilter street sign and replacing it with Roosevelt in WW2. 'Merica! |
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| Harriet Tubman and rescued slaves pose for a picture. |
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| King Tut's unopened tomb. |
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| US exploding a German U-Boat |
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| Yes it is. Vietnam 1965 |
Wednesday, July 17, 2013
Since Heidi's divorce from this, she's been getting naked and tweeting. All I can say is, awesome. I truly don't believe there will ever be a day when her blitz doesn't light my weinerschnitzel. Oh, one more thing...that's after four kids...yeah yeah..let me guess, "If I had a personal chef, plastic surgeon, and personal trainer, I could look like that." That's when I trail off and walk away.
If I or anyone else gave two shits about reading Rolling Stone they wouldn't be grasping at straws with this heinous attempt to stir controversy for the first time in like two decades. How can this liberal POS call themselves, or better yet, be considered journalism? I'm not exactly sure why they think this is ok, but I'm sure it boils down to me not being edgy enough or smart enough or open minded enough to not judge him before he gets a trial. Go f yourself. This is man is blatantly responsible for the murder, anguish and/or terror of hundreds if not thousands, while all the while being funded and inspired by the oooosopeaceful followers of Islam. To me, this is nothing but an anti-war slap in the face to all the men and women that have spilled their blood defending this shitty magazines freedom of speech/press etc. Of course, Rolling Stone has every right to put whomever they want on their cover, just like I have every right to protest and not buy it. The water you're bucketing out of that sinking ship, you and Playboy for that matter, will never be enough to save it. I'll be glad when both go down. Arrogance always loses.
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