Drug War Smrug War

Better results, better war!  More people died due to drug violence between cartels in Mexico this year than deaths in Iraq due to the war!  And the U.S. Government didn't even have to spend a dime on it.  Nope, as a matter of fact, for this war, we skipped the middle man and are funding it ourselves.  Okay, obviously this is a load of crap, but the point is, there is a war in our back yard, and the bad guy is winning people.  We are going to have to step in soon.  Operation Iraqi Freedom was a cover up for oil, which we never even got. What is Operation destroy mexico?  We want secure borders? We want less immigration? One simple answer, help fix Mexico.  Upwards of 16,000 people, HUMAN FUCKING BEINGS, have been murdered in cold blood this year alone.  Families living in fear everyday, exiles persecuted for being outsiders while all they want is to go back home to their friends and communities, which don't even exist anymore.  And if in the papers you read of a police "success",  well, that is just another death sentence because that only spurs more violence.  I guess what i'm saying is that, if we can spend billions and billions half way around the world, we should be able to spend millions from people who actually want our help.  The War on drugs perpetuates this life for Mexican's, that would be my first stop, legalize cannabis and boom there goes a huge percentage of their profits.  Shut down cocaine manufacturer's in Columbia and boom, another hit to their strength and power.  We move from there.  I don't understand how we can hear this on our news every day, and not feel the insatiable need to help them.  AMERICA, defender of freedom!  Who's?  Well, we um, don't really know anymore, we have all but handed ours over to corporate America, and we refuse to actually help anyone unless it will prove to be devastating to our economy and image around the world.  Where is the Fucking Logic to what we do, these people need our help.  No one should ever have to live like they are living.  Ever!

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   Devin aBlard

Rant

Okay, Game over.  When do we start to take responsibility for our selves.  The government can make all the legislation it wants to, or not, and nothing gets done.  Nothing can get done until we stand up as a people and do it.  It is that simple.  We need to make choices, everyday.  Get up on time, don't waste this water while i brush my teeth, walk the kids to school instead of drive, use lean meat and whole wheat bread instead of McDonalds, give the bum a god damned quarter, who cares what he buys with it.   But that isn't what I'm talking about, we want the world to change, yet we do nothing to fix it other than point our fingers at the people who try.  Worse yet; we blame them for our own insolence.  If you want companies to stop outsourcing your jobs, don't fucking use that company.  If you want Wal Mart to stop bullying small traders for unfair prices on magnanimous orders which in turn cause lower wages for workers already in unsuitable conditions, stop shopping and ordering from Wal Mart.  If you're tired of seeing Sarah Palin's face on time Magazine, stop buying the magazine.  If you want industries to stop pumping emissions into our air, stop buying their products.  It is that simple.  That's the best part about our society,  capitalism is controlled solely by money, OUR money.  We stop spending, they stop earning, they disappear.  Veni Vidi Vici.

Man Killed By Police

Imagine, it is 4:40 pm, You are a middle aged male,   You are out front, waiting for your friend to come home because you've been drinking, and decide it isn't safe to drive.  Out of boredom, you're playing now with a hand held sprayer that would attach to a hose, using your imagination and shooting different targets, then boom, you're fucking dead.  Good job Long Beach PD, you just saved a squirrel from a sure soaking.  R.I.P. Douglas Zerby, who's only true crime was maintaining his youthfulness and enjoying a beautiful afternoon.  They shot him with a shotgun and a hand gun at least 15 times according to a neighbor, then handcuffed him while he slowly died on the scene.  I wonder how long it took them to realize they had shot him for a garden hose?  Which by the way, the two officers responsible for the shooting can't quite agree on whether the nozzle was in douglas' lap, or wether he was pointing it at them.  In my modest opinion, these officers should do heavy time, and never be allowed to even look at a gun again.  While i do not request Murder 1, due to the fact that they are apparently retarded.  Sorry if that term offends any of you.

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   Devin Ablard

Obesity: Sociological, not Medicinal

I read an article in the LA Times Health page today about our current obesity problem.  Doctors are begging the FDA to approve drugs that could help fight obesity.  If the major drug companies don't have a big hit soon in that department, many doctors are afraid that they will pull out of the venture and leave the R&D to smaller less reputable companies.  Here is my gripe.  Not with the article, it was wonderfully balanced and extremely well written, but the argument is in the wrong place.  Why do we as a society always try to fix our problems once they've over ridden us?  We don't need medicine to cure this problem.  The source is not a medical one, it is a sociological problem that merely affects our medical condition.  McDonald's across the way from Carl's, next to a Starbuck's in the same center as your healthy food safe haven, the grocery store...? Well safe haven may be a bit mis leading.  Finding food with out high fructose corn syrup or partially hydrogenated oils is hard enough, forgetting all the saturated fat we induce daily.  Every where we turn we are faced with carbohydrates and sugar, and worse now, fake sugar, real butter, fake oil, but its ok, it is a soy latte.  And we want the doctors to fix us?  "Hey Doc, toss me a pill, I've been thinkin' bout droppin' a couple pounds, what do you think?"  Wrong, we need to start with our children and our selves, it is the decisions we make, and we make them well.  Don't blame the FDA for not approving drugs to make you thinner, see a psychologist if you really need to, thats who can help you, not pfizer or lilly.  So if you want my opinion, buy organic, exercise daily and have fun doing it, eat  well balanced meals and laugh often. Oh btw, don't smoke either.  For more information on how to eat healthy balanced meals, go to -----> mypyramid.gov


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    Devin Ablard