The FDA will not allow doctors to prescribe effective pain medication. So I am going to give you my recipe for poppy seed tea. I have found it to help with pain.
Put enough bulk poppy seeds into a coffee grinder to cover the blades of the grinder.
Grind the seeds. It helps to tilt the grinder. Put the ground up seeds (some will still look whole) into the toe of a clean nylon stocking. Get all the air out, but leave room for expansion. Tie a knot in the stocking. (Cheap knee high nylons work well for this. You are NOT going to want to reuse the stocking.)
Put the ground seed filled stocking into a two quart pan, which is half full of water. Boil gently for one hour.
You can drink it as is or filter it. The scum is also very effective, and can be dried, and then does not need refrigeration.
The tea MUST be refrigerated.
BE CAREFUL. You can always drink more, but you can never drink less.
The federal government has found that there is no opium in poppy seeds. But any effective pain medication can depress the breathing, which is NOT good for your health.
As Dr. House says, oxygen is important to continued life.
Those prosecutors, who have either drunk the prohibition cool-aid or are taking bribes, may try to prosecute you for this tea. Anything to keep the illegal, tax free profits flowing.
Please go to the website for LEAP (Law Enforcement Against Prohibition). They can explain why drug prohibition has to end, because it is spreading corruption into law enforcement, banks, judges. Just like alcohol prohibition did.
If you can NOT prove that it is worse than alcohol, then it should BE LEGAL.
Tuesday, June 30, 2015
Friday, June 26, 2015
BLAME THE VICTIM
The NEWs (Northern European wealthy) spent a LOT of money playing in the sun during the boom times. The resulting increase in Greek property values led the Greeks into believing that they had the income to pay back loans they needed to fix problems like sewage in their ancient cities.
Then the NEWs totally stopped spending money in Greece when the recession hit.
It is totally unfair to blame the Greeks for these actions by the NEWs. In fact, I bet Greece was ADVISED by the NEWs to borrow the money.
I also worry about the unconscious racism in that slap to the face of the new Greek Prime Minister. I know of no culture on Earth where that kind of friendly slap to the face is an act of friendship. Such slaps are usually delivered by a powerful man to a teenager who shows promise. It is akin to patting me on the head while I am in my wheelchair.
No one talks about how the NEWs deliberately sneer at the Mediterraneans due to their skin tone.
I worry that thin, beautiful women in power have not yet learned how NOT to defer to men. Beautiful people get used to the power of beauty, which prevents them from learning independence.
Austerity does NOT work. Let me explain with a very simplistic example.
In your household, when you spend a Euro, that Euro is gone. In your village, if Gerta get a one Euro pension, she spends it to buy a loaf of bread from Hans. Hans spends the dollar to buy a bottle of wine from Pierre. Pierre spends the dollar to buy a book from Hassan. Hassan spends the Euro to pay his rent to Elizabeth.
Economists estimate that each dollar spent in your village increases to five dollars as it goes through the economy.
But if Gerta does not get her one Euro pension, Hans, Pierre, Hassan, and Elizabeth all have one Euro less to spend.
The only economists who think austerity works have been proven to have made methodological mistakes in both data and formula. One could almost say that they deliberately LIED.
Europe should help Greece.
Then the NEWs totally stopped spending money in Greece when the recession hit.
It is totally unfair to blame the Greeks for these actions by the NEWs. In fact, I bet Greece was ADVISED by the NEWs to borrow the money.
I also worry about the unconscious racism in that slap to the face of the new Greek Prime Minister. I know of no culture on Earth where that kind of friendly slap to the face is an act of friendship. Such slaps are usually delivered by a powerful man to a teenager who shows promise. It is akin to patting me on the head while I am in my wheelchair.
No one talks about how the NEWs deliberately sneer at the Mediterraneans due to their skin tone.
I worry that thin, beautiful women in power have not yet learned how NOT to defer to men. Beautiful people get used to the power of beauty, which prevents them from learning independence.
Austerity does NOT work. Let me explain with a very simplistic example.
In your household, when you spend a Euro, that Euro is gone. In your village, if Gerta get a one Euro pension, she spends it to buy a loaf of bread from Hans. Hans spends the dollar to buy a bottle of wine from Pierre. Pierre spends the dollar to buy a book from Hassan. Hassan spends the Euro to pay his rent to Elizabeth.
Economists estimate that each dollar spent in your village increases to five dollars as it goes through the economy.
But if Gerta does not get her one Euro pension, Hans, Pierre, Hassan, and Elizabeth all have one Euro less to spend.
The only economists who think austerity works have been proven to have made methodological mistakes in both data and formula. One could almost say that they deliberately LIED.
Europe should help Greece.
Monday, June 22, 2015
WORLD WIDE RACISM
It did not take the shooting of nine Black Christians to teach me about world wide racism.
The way I judge world wide racism is by the number of people who carefully do NOT get tanned, because they know that the darker their skin, the worse they are treated.*
Personally, I think the problem is that racists are wanna be control freaks. They want to control every aspect of the lives of women, of minorities, of people who believe other than they do. If you are not one of THEM, then you are supposed to be subservient to THEM.
I spend a lot of time dreaming that someone else will fill out the nasty legal forms, which ignores the fact that trained legal secretaries make more money than disabled attorneys. Sigh.
As the truly nasty have an increasingly hard time finding people willing to work for them, they look for ways to FORCE people to HAVE to work for them.
People from Africa were made into slaves using reprehensibly cruel methods. I LOVED the book GONE WITH THE WIND, but I always knew that it was a totally romantic view of that world.
I honestly do not understand why people would want to have skin that gets burned by the sun after 10 minutes on a beach.
I honestly do not understand why anyone thinks that the surface of a person is a good way to judge valor, intelligence, loyalty, or any of the other things that make a valued friend.
*This is a health risk. If you are using sun screen to stay "white", then you need to take vitamin D.
The way I judge world wide racism is by the number of people who carefully do NOT get tanned, because they know that the darker their skin, the worse they are treated.*
Personally, I think the problem is that racists are wanna be control freaks. They want to control every aspect of the lives of women, of minorities, of people who believe other than they do. If you are not one of THEM, then you are supposed to be subservient to THEM.
I spend a lot of time dreaming that someone else will fill out the nasty legal forms, which ignores the fact that trained legal secretaries make more money than disabled attorneys. Sigh.
As the truly nasty have an increasingly hard time finding people willing to work for them, they look for ways to FORCE people to HAVE to work for them.
People from Africa were made into slaves using reprehensibly cruel methods. I LOVED the book GONE WITH THE WIND, but I always knew that it was a totally romantic view of that world.
I honestly do not understand why people would want to have skin that gets burned by the sun after 10 minutes on a beach.
I honestly do not understand why anyone thinks that the surface of a person is a good way to judge valor, intelligence, loyalty, or any of the other things that make a valued friend.
*This is a health risk. If you are using sun screen to stay "white", then you need to take vitamin D.
Thursday, June 18, 2015
BEING RUDE
I am not certain who was more rude. Was it the woman standing in the doorway blocking a wheelchair from leaving or the disabled woman who said "Move" in a loud voice?
Was it rude for a Greenpeace beggar to stand in front of handicap parking even after being asked to move? Or was it rude for the handicapped person to get angry when the beggar did not move?
Was it rude for the waitress to disobey her boss by turning up the sound of the TV? Or was it rude for the disabled person to yell rather than walk over to the waitress who was ignoring her?
When every step is painful, it is often impossible to control irritation at what is a small problem for the able bodied and a LARGE problem for the disabled.
For the disabled, there is also the difficulty of controlling the anger portion of the grieving for the loss of mobility. I used to have difficulty controlling my tears when I saw an older man and woman holding hands while walking down the street. Such a simple act of love which was no longer possible for me.
I prefer to concentrate on what I CAN DO, not on what I CAN NOT DO. But I am not a perfect person. Sometimes even I have a bad day.
I actually have more problems in the week that I am going to court. Attorneys get used to being treated with respect. Attorneys are expected to be effective advocates in a court room. But the normal attorney attitude just upsets people who expect the disabled person to be grateful that society allows them to live.
I have the humble person bit down pat. If you are a humble disabled person, people are GLAD to help.
But if you are a powerful advocate in a wheelchair, everyone thinks you are rude.
LIFE IS SO NOT FAIR!
Was it rude for a Greenpeace beggar to stand in front of handicap parking even after being asked to move? Or was it rude for the handicapped person to get angry when the beggar did not move?
Was it rude for the waitress to disobey her boss by turning up the sound of the TV? Or was it rude for the disabled person to yell rather than walk over to the waitress who was ignoring her?
When every step is painful, it is often impossible to control irritation at what is a small problem for the able bodied and a LARGE problem for the disabled.
For the disabled, there is also the difficulty of controlling the anger portion of the grieving for the loss of mobility. I used to have difficulty controlling my tears when I saw an older man and woman holding hands while walking down the street. Such a simple act of love which was no longer possible for me.
I prefer to concentrate on what I CAN DO, not on what I CAN NOT DO. But I am not a perfect person. Sometimes even I have a bad day.
I actually have more problems in the week that I am going to court. Attorneys get used to being treated with respect. Attorneys are expected to be effective advocates in a court room. But the normal attorney attitude just upsets people who expect the disabled person to be grateful that society allows them to live.
I have the humble person bit down pat. If you are a humble disabled person, people are GLAD to help.
But if you are a powerful advocate in a wheelchair, everyone thinks you are rude.
LIFE IS SO NOT FAIR!
Monday, June 15, 2015
ADVERBIAL SEXISM
Until we have irascible old women, and spunky old men, we will never have equality between the sexes. When we have pretty men and handsome women, and it just means they are attractive, then we know we are equal.
When heterosexual men are plucky and petulant, then we may have equality.
As per usual, the Magna Carta, in its original reiterations, was only intended to apply to rich, white, aristocrats. (Barons were the equivalent of today's Dukes.) The main issue was that Robin Hood's Prince John became Bad King John. Bad King John started declaring Barons to be outlaws, and stealing* their land, because they were outlaws.
The original Magna Carta was denied, re-signed by John's son, and rewritten over the years. But it was the first time in recorded history that a document said that even the king needed to obey the law.
However, there is NOTHING in the US Constitution which declares that women are equal to men. That is why we wanted the Equal Rights Amendment. We were told that it was unnecessary, as the current law would protect us.
As we watch our equal right to control our own bodies be eroded again and again, we know that, once again, the Republicans LIED TO ALL OF US.
HAPPY 800 YEAR BIRTHDAY TO THE MAGNA CARTA!
* Bad King John called it "seizing" land. Now it is called "asset forfeiture".
When heterosexual men are plucky and petulant, then we may have equality.
As per usual, the Magna Carta, in its original reiterations, was only intended to apply to rich, white, aristocrats. (Barons were the equivalent of today's Dukes.) The main issue was that Robin Hood's Prince John became Bad King John. Bad King John started declaring Barons to be outlaws, and stealing* their land, because they were outlaws.
The original Magna Carta was denied, re-signed by John's son, and rewritten over the years. But it was the first time in recorded history that a document said that even the king needed to obey the law.
However, there is NOTHING in the US Constitution which declares that women are equal to men. That is why we wanted the Equal Rights Amendment. We were told that it was unnecessary, as the current law would protect us.
As we watch our equal right to control our own bodies be eroded again and again, we know that, once again, the Republicans LIED TO ALL OF US.
HAPPY 800 YEAR BIRTHDAY TO THE MAGNA CARTA!
* Bad King John called it "seizing" land. Now it is called "asset forfeiture".
Friday, June 12, 2015
THE US REVOLUTION
Sam Adams started the US revolution when he was not granted the rights of a free Englishman. Since the thirteenth century, the Magna Carta prevented the king from seizing property without due process of law.
The English stole Sam's beer, and drank it. No judge, no hearing on "it is the product of a crime." Sam was joined by the wealthy when the English governor started moving his people into already built mansions. The people already living in these mansions resented losing their homes.
SUPER IDIOT, Bush, decided to go back to the old ways. I was SHOCKED when the US Supreme Court found that it was OK to seize property without even a probable cause hearing. Of course, very few rich people lost their property. But what fun it became to steal from the poor.
The theft defined as property seizure is the entire source of funds for some police officers. DA offices are using it as an excuse to get around the rule against using public funds to run political campaigns. For all I know, the idiot, vindictive US Attorney for San Francisco is using this tainted money to keep harassing Oakland medical marijuana clinics.
The solution is simple. The reasons that the constitution is fairly silent about the powers of the President, is because EVERYONE knew about the powers of a king. (A mistake, as the Constitution needed to be amended with the Bill of Rights.)
Our President can issue kingly decrees called executive orders. They must be obeyed unless changed by Congress or found to be unconstitutional by the Supreme Court.
But with our incredibly stupid war on drugs, attorneys have been quietly working for over thirty years to tie all defined drug crimes into the federal drug schedules. The US Attorney General has the legal, Congress approved, right to move ANY DRUG from ANY SCHEDULE.
The US Attorney General is the servant of the President. That is what the words, "I serve at the pleasure of the President" means. If a servant can do something, then the master can also do that something. (You are welcome to read these British or old US common law rulings.)
So President Obama can just say, "If it can be scientifically proven by peer reviewed science, that the substance is worse than alcohol, for the drug user, then it will be put back on the federal schedules. Otherwise everything is off the schedules until it can be proven that it is worse that alcohol."
WE WILL ALL BE VERY GRATEFUL. It would be our emancipation proclamation, freeing the disabled into BEING ABLE TO DO ALL THAT WE CAN DO.
The English stole Sam's beer, and drank it. No judge, no hearing on "it is the product of a crime." Sam was joined by the wealthy when the English governor started moving his people into already built mansions. The people already living in these mansions resented losing their homes.
SUPER IDIOT, Bush, decided to go back to the old ways. I was SHOCKED when the US Supreme Court found that it was OK to seize property without even a probable cause hearing. Of course, very few rich people lost their property. But what fun it became to steal from the poor.
The theft defined as property seizure is the entire source of funds for some police officers. DA offices are using it as an excuse to get around the rule against using public funds to run political campaigns. For all I know, the idiot, vindictive US Attorney for San Francisco is using this tainted money to keep harassing Oakland medical marijuana clinics.
The solution is simple. The reasons that the constitution is fairly silent about the powers of the President, is because EVERYONE knew about the powers of a king. (A mistake, as the Constitution needed to be amended with the Bill of Rights.)
Our President can issue kingly decrees called executive orders. They must be obeyed unless changed by Congress or found to be unconstitutional by the Supreme Court.
But with our incredibly stupid war on drugs, attorneys have been quietly working for over thirty years to tie all defined drug crimes into the federal drug schedules. The US Attorney General has the legal, Congress approved, right to move ANY DRUG from ANY SCHEDULE.
The US Attorney General is the servant of the President. That is what the words, "I serve at the pleasure of the President" means. If a servant can do something, then the master can also do that something. (You are welcome to read these British or old US common law rulings.)
So President Obama can just say, "If it can be scientifically proven by peer reviewed science, that the substance is worse than alcohol, for the drug user, then it will be put back on the federal schedules. Otherwise everything is off the schedules until it can be proven that it is worse that alcohol."
WE WILL ALL BE VERY GRATEFUL. It would be our emancipation proclamation, freeing the disabled into BEING ABLE TO DO ALL THAT WE CAN DO.
Friday, June 5, 2015
HARMING THE DISABLED
The most devastating way of harming the disabled is to suddenly remove help upon which the disabled person has come to depend.
The FDA did this by promulgating new rules which effectively prevent doctors from being able to prescribe the most effective pain medications. I wonder if they were bribed by Tylenol, which is the biggest cause of liver damage in the US.
San Jose did this by allowing friendly neighborhood medical marijuana clinics, then sending notices to close within 30 days. Chuck Reed seems willing to damage both the disabled and government workers in order to pretend to be a powerful politician. It is probably unfair to call Liccardo his errand boy.
By underfunding the handicap taxi services, governments make disabled people wait in vain for an on time ride to the doctors.
All of this is in the name of "those people are just complainers and addicts, they are not really ill."
Yes, it is true that some people enjoy the fantasy of being ill. But for the truly disabled, even getting out of bed can be a monumental task.
The FDA did this by promulgating new rules which effectively prevent doctors from being able to prescribe the most effective pain medications. I wonder if they were bribed by Tylenol, which is the biggest cause of liver damage in the US.
San Jose did this by allowing friendly neighborhood medical marijuana clinics, then sending notices to close within 30 days. Chuck Reed seems willing to damage both the disabled and government workers in order to pretend to be a powerful politician. It is probably unfair to call Liccardo his errand boy.
By underfunding the handicap taxi services, governments make disabled people wait in vain for an on time ride to the doctors.
All of this is in the name of "those people are just complainers and addicts, they are not really ill."
Yes, it is true that some people enjoy the fantasy of being ill. But for the truly disabled, even getting out of bed can be a monumental task.
Tuesday, June 2, 2015
CALIFORNIA WATER WARS
I blame Downton Abbey. Pretending to be an estate in England takes A LOT OF WATER.
The rest of us are conserving the best we can. But the large estates, and the large estate wannabes*, are crazily committed to preserving their water sucking ways.
Honestly, we live in California, which is semi-arid. To pretend to live in rainy England is a waste of water.
However, if you have large trees and hedges, those are worth saving. You are rich, so you can always buy sod grass. Usually, everyone over-waters. They sell devices which tell you how much water is in the soil. For trees and hedges, you need DEEP WATER. By watering every day, you damage the trees and hedges by leaching minerals from the soil and encouraging the roots to be shallow.
I personally find a meadow of native plants to be WAY MORE COOL than boring green grass.
* Slang for "want to be", meaning those who pretend to be rich.
The rest of us are conserving the best we can. But the large estates, and the large estate wannabes*, are crazily committed to preserving their water sucking ways.
Honestly, we live in California, which is semi-arid. To pretend to live in rainy England is a waste of water.
However, if you have large trees and hedges, those are worth saving. You are rich, so you can always buy sod grass. Usually, everyone over-waters. They sell devices which tell you how much water is in the soil. For trees and hedges, you need DEEP WATER. By watering every day, you damage the trees and hedges by leaching minerals from the soil and encouraging the roots to be shallow.
I personally find a meadow of native plants to be WAY MORE COOL than boring green grass.
* Slang for "want to be", meaning those who pretend to be rich.
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