Rather than a short disclaimer, this article is a satire on the dangers of the risky behavior in drinking known as preloading when social drinkers are determined to party by drinking before a public event due to high alcohol prices at the even and/or strict liquor laws. After my monologue on preloading, I will rant about social drinkers who become problem drinkers, which is when social drinking becomes a sociopathy. Finally, I will give my take about American Psychopath and the rebooted Halloween movies to explain my conclusions about problem drinking.
Before I move onto the body of the rant itself, my exposure to alcohol and drugs needs to be shared because I truly care for the social drinker.
During my life, I have mostly been a light drinker thanks to intolerance of alcohol due to my Asian physiology when one or two drinks often made me drunk. As well, I practiced safe drinking because I was never exposed to peer pressure over social drinking.
Apart from the rare forays into drinking until my early 30s, my drinking days only occurred around social events. 2007 was a great challenge because of reconnecting with a friend I had met 10 years earlier who is a moderate drinker.
Today, I don't drink alcohol and am totally dry since June 2014 mainly because I believe in sobriety and have continued prayer and meditation to distract me from seeking comfort in the bottle.
Because I had a brief history of binge drinking and other risky behavior until I stopped drinking in 2009, I retain the privilege of experience to be the party pooper in regards to drinking. However, the following rant is because I am stone cold sober.
Addictive behaviors occur long before children are introduced to alcohol and drugs around middle school (grades 5-7). Peer pressure only causes addictions when children want to fit in and socialize.
So I am glad that I chose to not drink until well into my 30s. YMMV.
Tolerance to alcohol occurs when a person who drinks needs more alcohol during regular drinking hours in addition to the copious amounts of drink at home. However, the myth that drinking is fun is encouraged by the fact that you only live once, an attitude that will be addressed later on in this rant.
According to the anti-drinking propaganda, it is said that risky drinking threatens people who once lived productive lives.
In aother myth, public health (doctors, nurses, hospitals) is anti-drinking. Actually public health recommends 1-2 drinks a day as being safer than drinking up to 14 drinks or more over a 60-hour period on the weekend, depending on whether everyone is in party mood, due to a public holiday or other event.
Perhaps it is more fun and entertaining to drink 1-2 drinks with each meal from breakfast, lunch and dinner, as long as the intended purpose is social drinking, be it at home or every day. For the purpose of social drinking is to be of good cheer, apparently.
As has been stated before, preloading behavior occurs when prices are high and laws are strict.
According to health officials, alcohol preloading is harmful, only if the drinker drinks more alcohol later on in the evening. Thus, the risk of excessive drinking is higher than not preloading. The resulting higher consumption levels increase risk for injuries and possibly death.
Strict alcohol laws increase the chance of preloading. Additionally, licensed establishments have a high risk of liability serving already inebriated patrons.
Thus, lowering alcohol prices tends to lower risk of preloading.
Therefore, liquor laws need to be moderated. Liquor prices need to be low enough to encourage less preloading but not so low as to encourage binge drinking. Additionally, both binge drinking and preloading need to be addressed through the use of propaganda advertisements.
It is less risky and cheaper to drink 1-2 drinks at bars, pubs and restaurants with affordable prices every day of the week than to preload on the weekend and risk higher levels of consumption.
From the viewpoint of the consumer, public education from middle school to college level should still discourage preloading and risk factors that may be encouraged by the "you only live once" myth (YOLO).
You do live once, but it is a factor that is disproved by preloading due to strict liquor laws and high alcohol prices.
Contrary to the myth that preloading is safe, more people risk dying from alcohol-related injuries including poisoning, fights at establishments and car accidents.
From the viewpoint of sobriety, preloading might indicate future risk for alcoholism when drinking also occurs during the rest of the week. However, I believe social drinkers are potential alcoholics when inebriated if they are led to the belief that drinking is so fun that every day must be a party in order for them to feel in control. After that suspension of disbelief, they may turn every evening into a party and the line blurs between social drinking and alcoholism.
However, the alcoholic will deny he is an alcoholic because of two pernicious attitudes about drinking: "everyone is doing it" and YOLO. However, a minority of people drink that much or more, while the majority of people may be their concered friends and family who are saddened by the fact that drink became more important than them.
I know of people who met in bars, had a few drinks, and flew in for a Vegas wedding, including Britney Spears who had hooked up with a high school friend, partied, got married and subsequently got the marriage annulled. Fortunately her Vegas wedding was not a career-breaker.
Despite all the late night talk show hosts joking about Spears at that time, the risk of ruined ratings reduced their call for less drinking. That's because the entertainment industry needs the extra revenue from alcohol sales and often considers safe drinking behavior to be an economic threat to their industry.
Yet safe drinking behavior is actually no threat to their industry because more social drinkers can spend each day drinking up to 6 drinks a day with meals per person and not lose sleep over preloading and binge drinking on weekends.
Also the purpose of buying liquor - preferably beer - at night is not to drink it all away before morning but to have enough alcohol to stay within the 6 drinks a day limit. Public drinking education should consist of math quizzes to meet that limit and stay within it, in order to maintain a healthy social drinking climate.
Indeed, the sly promotion of "drinking is fun" by a bar or club is done to obtain high drink sales to derive enough alcoholic revenue to offset the hourly minimum wage. Beer bongs, drinking shooters off hot models, and associated antics are actually done to encourage social drinking at levels which not too many social drinkers can sustain. Nor does ladies' night with half price on shooters promote safe drinking.
All this does is lead to a 1-5 percent of a party of revelers to encounter blackouts and all the mayhem that happens during blackouts, especially the ones that last a month, a year, or maybe even a decade or two.
Right now, I have to discuss sociopaths who drink, because they are the people who have lied to themselves so much that drinking is fun. One successful sociopath too many has said, "I like to have vodka in my cereal every morning." They thus center their lives around being the pernicious party animal.
Although the public health officials have labeled them "problem drinkers," their problem is the ability to believe the lies that they tell other people about their drinking. Since their world revolves around drinking and socializing, they are able to socially engineer a way to stay drunk throughout their lives and often turn binge drinking and preloading into performance art.
Along the way, alcoholic sociopaths give a bad rap to successful sociopaths like celebrities, business people and even Randolph Hearst, a publisher who made his money from alcohol advertisers before Prohibition but also made money by being a moral compass when Mae West came to New York City. Yet Mae West helped Hollywood make money by challenging the moral taboos about being a sexy and successful sociopath for the entertainment industry.
A marvelous Hollywood celebrity who was quite successful during her career is Tallulah Bankhead, who not only drank her way around Hollywood but also snorted her way around the secret party scenes, too. Being a relatively successful sociopath, she also slept her way from casting couch to the beds of other celebrities, men and women alike. Once she had to get a hysterectomy after a bad case of gonorrhea, and said in passing to the hospital surgeon "If you think this is going to stop my behavior, think again."
Thus, society must be ever vigilant about sociopaths who shall be detected during their first forays into social drinking before their white lies lead to the bigger whoppers they tell themselves once they totally buy into the YOLO attitude and make it their motto for life. For alcohol and sociopaths are a dangerous mix that may lead to risk of violence to themselves and their loved ones.
Anyway, I am all done with ranting and would like to thank Hollywood for popularizing social drinking (Jackass), cocaine (Traffik), risky behavior (American Pie), decadent hedonism (those crazy movies from the 30s involving dancing the shimmie while dressed in sheer fabric), and a sociopathy that fails so horribly that sexual psychopathy becomes confused with benign sociopathic behavior by the sociopath's victims (American Psychopath).
If it wasn't for Hollywood, then we wouldn't have all the failed sociopaths who crossed the line into their five minutes of fame. If it wasn't for the brilliance of American mainstream media to enshrine individualism as freedom from neo-conservative sheep mentality, then there wouldn't be the Craigslist killer meme.
In conclusion, I would like to insert a sober moment here to end this rant by stating that the sociopath is not a broken individual as a child. Rather, she is not a victim of child abuse, neglect or anything that horrible.
Rather, a sociopath learns early that society is based on white lies which help us to sleep at nights. When a child is fibbing, it is child abuse to force them to stop lying when few parents can stomach telling their children the truth too early but sometimes failing to figure out the truth about their society.
For a sociopath learns early in childhood that toeing the line comes with benefits and risks, including telling a white lie to ensure family harmony. What a brilliant career in big business awaits them, if only parents were taught from middle school about ethic and morals in a manner than benefits every child.
Indeed, when drinking becomes a sociopathy in middle school, parents should admit to the double standard and determine if they are narcissists, empaths or sociopaths instead of lying about these descriptions for what passes as normal human behavior.
Even so, "normal" is the biggest white lie to promote social harmony while leading to the stigma of the mentally ill without just cause. As is "denial" a white lie when declaring that a psychopath is sane.
Personality disorders are not a sign of insanity unless a person described as sociopathic are mistreated by former friends who can only see through the lies of the sociopath but have little insight into the white lies that lead to real whoppers like "the mentally ill are not really normal people".
Truth be told: Hollywood manufactured the propaganda that psychopaths are horrible people but the reboot of Halloween turn the story of a failed sociopath Michael Myers, who was neglected as a child but was molded by unprofessional therapy by Doctor Samuel Loomis and the incompetence of the State into a serial killer, the criminal psychopath.
However, American Psychopath is not an honest portrayal of sexual psychopathy because it leaves out the antihero's childhood. On the other hand the rebooted Halloween movies is only a portrayal of two kinds of sociopaths, the failed sociopath known as the criminal psychopath and serial killer Michael Myers and the successful sociopath, Dr Samuel Loomis.
Hollywood tells us white lies about sociopaths like Myers while showing Doctor Loomis as a successful sociopath. It also only documents the sexual psychopathy of the antihero in American Psychopath in adulthood, but offers no insight on the fact that he is a failed sociopath whose social drinking helped him to fit into urban society.
Those people who fail as sociopaths sometimes develop a psychopathy if they maladapt to the stress that society places on them. Otherwise, they would be make fine successful sociopaths such as many CEOs, world leaders, and celebrities whose normative behavior endear them to their fans.
Perhaps society is just as subtly as sociopathic as it is empathetic, narcissistic, for it encourages us to be normal in our lives, which might be described as one big snafu where the situation is normal but all fouled up.
On a positive note, 95 percent of people are not sociopaths. Most of them do not drink and few of them turn to drugs. Society is not inherently sociopathic. Rather, it might be that the empathetic and the narcissists in all of us realize how to be successful without harming other people.
YMMV
Originally posted on Oct 13, 2014 at 5:55 PM
American Psychopath: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Psycho_%28film%29
Halloween: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halloween_(2007_film)
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20140328
Kim Kardashian Has a Normal Female Body (satire)
In my opinion Kim has a normal female body that is mistaken for fat. However, upper middle class people tend to overeat in excess in response to stress.
Poor people, on the other hand, have to go without the two extra meals that constitute the "normal" three meals a day, which actually is abnormal in people over the age of 30, due to the prevalence of high carbohydrate content in those three meals.
I disagree with dieticians that you need three meals a day after the age of 30. You actually need one meal a day and lots of snacking to a maximum of 1000 calories (2000 calories if you lead a strenuous life e.g. body building and similar). YMMV
As well, the privileged tend to overindulge in high ethanol consumption over the 3-4 units a day (each unit = 10 g of ethanol) to a max of 800 ml of 5% beer / 400 ml of 10% wine / 100 ml of 40% hard liquor.
Based on the assumption of 7 calories per gram of ethanol, 40 g of ethanol == 210 calories, which is about 18% of a 1000 calorie / day intake of food.
Yes, alcohol is a food, but the privileged tend to overdo it without cutting out carbohydrates and restricting their fat intake to less dangerous fats such as coconut oil. That's why I rarely go fast food because it rarely has good fat in it.
If Kim cut out the cocktails, changed the kinds of fats she consumed and reduced her carbohydrates intake, she can easily slim down. In fact, she's shown that she can do it.
However, Kanye likes his hard liquor. If that is addressed, then I predict marital bliss for them.
Kim is obviously not drinking booze, being pregnant and all. Most likely, she is knocking back immense amounts of carbohydrates and the wrong kind of fats without doing enough exercise, and that is the reason for the high weight gain.
So her complaints about being fat are nothing new.
Reference:
Kim Kardashian bellyaches about pregnancy weight gain:
http://www.examiner.com/article/kim-kardashian-bellyaches-about-pregnancy-weight-gain
20140226
Are You A Chronic Alcoholic? (satire)
Attention booze lovers! Whether you answer yes or no really makes no difference, for alcoholism consists of a set of behaviors that range from acute to chronic.
If you love booze so much, this is what awaits the chronic alcoholics among you...
One of the disputed signs of alcoholism is more than a drink a day until you get the giggles and start projecting your inner angst as foul-mouthed tirades like a child having a tantrum.
Perhaps the worse thing than this are blackouts during which the chronic alcoholic harms other people yet has no memory of it when sober.
Basically chronic alcoholism leads to a psychosis named for the doctor that described it in detail and what is called "wet brain".
Even though booze is legal, overindulging in drink is known to damage your brain by depleting your body of health in order to ensure that you die very slowly of poisoning caused by alcohol.
One of the signs of such alcoholism is the psychotic rage with a wide range of emotions from melancholy to mania, complete with raging anger to giggly glee. This is what is known as the mean drunk as opposed to the hilarious life of the party drunk. While the sober person is unlikely to encounter harm from the latter, the main harm from the mean drunk consists of gaslighting by an experienced narcissist whose sole means of existence is to make your life hell for daring to ignore his constant need of attention. If he could make you question your sanity, then he is WINNING.
In short, the mean drunk will never strike the first blow but by all intents, tries to goad you into attacking him. While this tactic always works with the drunk people, it never works with trained professionals who have to deal with them day in and day out. This includes temporary shelter workers at homeless shelters and associated building attendant staff and the rare security staff.
If you want to avoid the embarrassment of falling before your pride, then taper down your drinking consumption. Otherwise, you are destined for homelessness or the other forms of self-induced hell the foolish pride themselves in making.
YMMV
Reference:
ALCOHOL’S DAMAGING EFFECTS ON THE BRAIN - Alcohol Alert:
http://pubs.niaaa.nih.gov/publications/aa63/aa63.htm
If you love booze so much, this is what awaits the chronic alcoholics among you...
One of the disputed signs of alcoholism is more than a drink a day until you get the giggles and start projecting your inner angst as foul-mouthed tirades like a child having a tantrum.
Perhaps the worse thing than this are blackouts during which the chronic alcoholic harms other people yet has no memory of it when sober.
Basically chronic alcoholism leads to a psychosis named for the doctor that described it in detail and what is called "wet brain".
Even though booze is legal, overindulging in drink is known to damage your brain by depleting your body of health in order to ensure that you die very slowly of poisoning caused by alcohol.
One of the signs of such alcoholism is the psychotic rage with a wide range of emotions from melancholy to mania, complete with raging anger to giggly glee. This is what is known as the mean drunk as opposed to the hilarious life of the party drunk. While the sober person is unlikely to encounter harm from the latter, the main harm from the mean drunk consists of gaslighting by an experienced narcissist whose sole means of existence is to make your life hell for daring to ignore his constant need of attention. If he could make you question your sanity, then he is WINNING.
In short, the mean drunk will never strike the first blow but by all intents, tries to goad you into attacking him. While this tactic always works with the drunk people, it never works with trained professionals who have to deal with them day in and day out. This includes temporary shelter workers at homeless shelters and associated building attendant staff and the rare security staff.
If you want to avoid the embarrassment of falling before your pride, then taper down your drinking consumption. Otherwise, you are destined for homelessness or the other forms of self-induced hell the foolish pride themselves in making.
YMMV
Reference:
ALCOHOL’S DAMAGING EFFECTS ON THE BRAIN - Alcohol Alert:
http://pubs.niaaa.nih.gov/publications/aa63/aa63.htm
20130701
The Rant of a Social Drinker
Chronic alcoholism appears to be a common theme with my roommate's ex-husband, who drank himself to death and a co-worker's mother who brews her own booze but denies being an alcoholic.
These are two separate stories, and not uncommon.
In actual fact, even social drinking masks the chronic alcoholic, turning him into a funny party animal that mass media morphs into marketing propaganda for liquor sales.
Nations make money off social drinking, yet leaves us with the bromine, "Drink responsibly."
As sober people, we should stigmatize alcoholic consumers as "drunks" and conjure up the annual family story of misery and tragedy, rather than perpetuating the trope that social drinkers almost never become alcoholics.
A beer a day is indeed the beginnings of alcoholism. Weekend binges and the parties are not coming-of-age material but alcoholism.
Anyone who does not feel a buzz from one beer are most likely an alcoholic.
As long as we live in denial about the dangers of regular drinking of alcohol, one day drink will affect us in ways that we would never imagine.
For my name is Stephen, and I'm an alcoholic.
These are two separate stories, and not uncommon.
In actual fact, even social drinking masks the chronic alcoholic, turning him into a funny party animal that mass media morphs into marketing propaganda for liquor sales.
Nations make money off social drinking, yet leaves us with the bromine, "Drink responsibly."
As sober people, we should stigmatize alcoholic consumers as "drunks" and conjure up the annual family story of misery and tragedy, rather than perpetuating the trope that social drinkers almost never become alcoholics.
A beer a day is indeed the beginnings of alcoholism. Weekend binges and the parties are not coming-of-age material but alcoholism.
Anyone who does not feel a buzz from one beer are most likely an alcoholic.
As long as we live in denial about the dangers of regular drinking of alcohol, one day drink will affect us in ways that we would never imagine.
For my name is Stephen, and I'm an alcoholic.
20130516
Update: adapting to no medication and observations of bipolar patients
Although I've been battling insomnia, the lack of flexiril and gabapentin hasn't cause insomnia. That's a fallacy. Rather, the insomnia has come and gone during those two weeks mainly due to how much time I've been online.
Overall, though the the end of the fortnight, I've been getting adequately amounts of sleep, by going to nap when I want to. My reasoning for going off the medication is twofold: 1) gabapentin and flexiril are being used to give a hint to sleep, since neither is a sleep aid, and 2) to understand that without the gabapnetin, I don't get quality sleep, and without the flexeril, I don't fall off to sleep.
As well, I've tried the hypoglycemic reaction, to observe the role of high glycemic foods in sleep quality
I'm sure after a two week washout, both the gabapentin and flexiril will do their job.
In other news, anti-histamine effects of mirtazapine and quetiapine are directly related to binge eating. You just never see it with first-generation antihistamines due to the strong sedative effects.
However, low doses of quetiapine have no effect on the manic part of bipolar disorder except to stabilize the mood. It's more likely alcohol consumption has a lot to do with a bipolar patient's recovery as the less consumed, the more stable the patient is.
Sadly though, a lot of bipolar patients are moderate to chronic alcoholics. As well, the higher level of anger observed in bipolar patients is a good indication of their level of stress.
It appears that the psychiatric staff have no means to deal with the alcoholism that the bipolar patient retains. However, it is associated with anger and stress.
Overall, though the the end of the fortnight, I've been getting adequately amounts of sleep, by going to nap when I want to. My reasoning for going off the medication is twofold: 1) gabapentin and flexiril are being used to give a hint to sleep, since neither is a sleep aid, and 2) to understand that without the gabapnetin, I don't get quality sleep, and without the flexeril, I don't fall off to sleep.
As well, I've tried the hypoglycemic reaction, to observe the role of high glycemic foods in sleep quality
I'm sure after a two week washout, both the gabapentin and flexiril will do their job.
In other news, anti-histamine effects of mirtazapine and quetiapine are directly related to binge eating. You just never see it with first-generation antihistamines due to the strong sedative effects.
However, low doses of quetiapine have no effect on the manic part of bipolar disorder except to stabilize the mood. It's more likely alcohol consumption has a lot to do with a bipolar patient's recovery as the less consumed, the more stable the patient is.
Sadly though, a lot of bipolar patients are moderate to chronic alcoholics. As well, the higher level of anger observed in bipolar patients is a good indication of their level of stress.
It appears that the psychiatric staff have no means to deal with the alcoholism that the bipolar patient retains. However, it is associated with anger and stress.
20130102
Male Subway Pusher: Hate Crime or Cultural Clash?
Imagine if you would, two men, one an unemployed Korean man, drunk and totally smashed, and a homeless black man, off his bipolar medication and high on pot.
Regarding the Korean, his wife argued with him that morning, possibly about getting a job. As for the black man, he's from Sierra Leone, an apostate Muslim.
They meet before the turnstiles of the New York City subway in the Q Line.
Right from the start they argue. However, the Korean is so drunk he is actually harmless.
However the black man is not only incapacitated by marijuana, he also has been off his bipolar medication since Hurricane Sandy made him homeless.
It was the aggression that Han displayed by repeatedly charging him, not once but three times before Davis made his mistake and pushed the man away, thus escalating what was simple verbal assault into a physical assault.
Due to the effect of THC on reaction time, Davis then could only watch as Han was crushed and rolled between the oncoming subway train as it pulled into the station, leaving a blood streak to the dismay of waiting passengers who witnessed the altercation between the two men.
By doing so, Davis made a serious error both in his timing and in his hesitation to save the man he pushed away.
In his recent interview with a mass media outlet, Davis then attempts to reduce the impression that he didn't mean to push Han that hard. However, his action after doing so was to simply watch him get hit by the train and then leave. A truly regretful man would have simply awaited the police, rather than trying to change his appearance, which to me indicates guilt and the desire to "hide until the coast is clear".
Thankfully, the police caught Davis before the full impact of letting Han die worsened his mental condition. For guilt is for the weak worse than hell on Earth.
While I really feel sorry for Han's family (his daughter and wife), the tear felt appeal by the daughter is interesting. After being asked why no one on the station tried to help rescue Han in the 23 seconds before he died, she said "What's done is done." And then she added, ""The thought of someone helping him up in a matter of seconds would have been great,"
However, Mr. Davis' trial hasn't begun yet. On December 11, he appeared before the court. Though I haven't found a news story to follow up on his charges and when the trial will be.
Suspected Subway Pusher Charged With Murder: http://abcnews.go.com/US/suspected-subway-pusher-charged-murder/story?id=17886112#.UONpEUhgaUF
Naeem Davis: 'Subway pusher ' Says Ki-Suk Han 'Attacked Me First': http://newsone.com/2096716/naeem-davis-murder-charge-ki-suk-han-subway-pusher/
Naeem Davis, Fatal Subway Pusher, Says He Was High On Pot, 'Didn't Mean To Push That Hard': http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/07/naeem-davis-man-who-confessed-fatally-pushing_n_2258875.html
Subway pusher Justified: http://www.thedailybeast.com/cheats/2012/12/11/lawyer-subway-pusher-justified.html
Is NYC Subway Pusher a "Hate Criminal?" :http://www.canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/51601
"What's Done is Done": http://lancasteronline.com/article/ap/789403_NY-subway-victim-s-daughter---What-s-done-is-done-.html
Regarding the Korean, his wife argued with him that morning, possibly about getting a job. As for the black man, he's from Sierra Leone, an apostate Muslim.
They meet before the turnstiles of the New York City subway in the Q Line.
Right from the start they argue. However, the Korean is so drunk he is actually harmless.
However the black man is not only incapacitated by marijuana, he also has been off his bipolar medication since Hurricane Sandy made him homeless.
It was the aggression that Han displayed by repeatedly charging him, not once but three times before Davis made his mistake and pushed the man away, thus escalating what was simple verbal assault into a physical assault.
Due to the effect of THC on reaction time, Davis then could only watch as Han was crushed and rolled between the oncoming subway train as it pulled into the station, leaving a blood streak to the dismay of waiting passengers who witnessed the altercation between the two men.
By doing so, Davis made a serious error both in his timing and in his hesitation to save the man he pushed away.
In his recent interview with a mass media outlet, Davis then attempts to reduce the impression that he didn't mean to push Han that hard. However, his action after doing so was to simply watch him get hit by the train and then leave. A truly regretful man would have simply awaited the police, rather than trying to change his appearance, which to me indicates guilt and the desire to "hide until the coast is clear".
Thankfully, the police caught Davis before the full impact of letting Han die worsened his mental condition. For guilt is for the weak worse than hell on Earth.
While I really feel sorry for Han's family (his daughter and wife), the tear felt appeal by the daughter is interesting. After being asked why no one on the station tried to help rescue Han in the 23 seconds before he died, she said "What's done is done." And then she added, ""The thought of someone helping him up in a matter of seconds would have been great,"
However, Mr. Davis' trial hasn't begun yet. On December 11, he appeared before the court. Though I haven't found a news story to follow up on his charges and when the trial will be.
Suspected Subway Pusher Charged With Murder: http://abcnews.go.com/US/suspected-subway-pusher-charged-murder/story?id=17886112#.UONpEUhgaUF
Naeem Davis: 'Subway pusher ' Says Ki-Suk Han 'Attacked Me First': http://newsone.com/2096716/naeem-davis-murder-charge-ki-suk-han-subway-pusher/
Naeem Davis, Fatal Subway Pusher, Says He Was High On Pot, 'Didn't Mean To Push That Hard': http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/07/naeem-davis-man-who-confessed-fatally-pushing_n_2258875.html
Subway pusher Justified: http://www.thedailybeast.com/cheats/2012/12/11/lawyer-subway-pusher-justified.html
Is NYC Subway Pusher a "Hate Criminal?" :http://www.canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/51601
"What's Done is Done": http://lancasteronline.com/article/ap/789403_NY-subway-victim-s-daughter---What-s-done-is-done-.html
20120128
On Bob Saget, Bobo the Clown and Whoopie Goldberg
Bob Saget is what happens when one fat cocky 22 yr old has a life or death situation involving a burst appendicitis: he becomes a blue comedian.
I don't doubt that in Bob Saget's case, scleroderma is because being a blue comedian is more stressful than being a circus clown named Bobo.
Poor Bobo on the other hand would be a chronic alcoholic clown, which would make him a sad drunken clown. It's much more tragic than Saget.
If only Bob Saget had a sister who was a celebrity; because, if he did, she'd be in San Francisco saving the AIDS patients incognito like that famous lesbian comedian, Whoopie.
I don't doubt that in Bob Saget's case, scleroderma is because being a blue comedian is more stressful than being a circus clown named Bobo.
Poor Bobo on the other hand would be a chronic alcoholic clown, which would make him a sad drunken clown. It's much more tragic than Saget.
If only Bob Saget had a sister who was a celebrity; because, if he did, she'd be in San Francisco saving the AIDS patients incognito like that famous lesbian comedian, Whoopie.
20100904
Why I Don't Drink
In excess, alcohol does not do the positive things that social drinkers tell us it does. Even I know that.
Since I only drank when there is drink available, and now having stopped drinking, do not drink at all, it is obvious that the right decision has been made.
My life is better when I am not drinking. It has improved because I am able to think clearly, and to reflect on each of my decisions in the present moment.
Even when tempted I do not resort to drink, because of the commitment I make daily to AA. The positive benefits of physical health due to sobriety outweigh any of the temporary effects alcohol had on me.
However, I am not perfect. Each of us has their moments of irrationality. During such moments, it may be difficult to return to the basics, i.e. remembering any of the following:
Easy does it.
Live and let live.
First things first.
One day at a time.
Keep it simple.
Yet each of these sayings will help us to pause, and to help gain one's original sense of reason.
Once we are reasonable, it becomes easy to return to the present moment.
At this point, it helps me to reflect on this phrase:
"My worst day sober is better than my best day drunk."
Reference:
Phrases, Acronyms, and Clichés of AA: http://www.minnesotarecovery.info/literature/phrases.htm
Since I only drank when there is drink available, and now having stopped drinking, do not drink at all, it is obvious that the right decision has been made.
My life is better when I am not drinking. It has improved because I am able to think clearly, and to reflect on each of my decisions in the present moment.
Even when tempted I do not resort to drink, because of the commitment I make daily to AA. The positive benefits of physical health due to sobriety outweigh any of the temporary effects alcohol had on me.
However, I am not perfect. Each of us has their moments of irrationality. During such moments, it may be difficult to return to the basics, i.e. remembering any of the following:
Yet each of these sayings will help us to pause, and to help gain one's original sense of reason.
Once we are reasonable, it becomes easy to return to the present moment.
At this point, it helps me to reflect on this phrase:
"My worst day sober is better than my best day drunk."
Reference:
Phrases, Acronyms, and Clichés of AA: http://www.minnesotarecovery.info/literature/phrases.htm
20071003
BC Premier Sets Good Example for BC Drinkers
Well, the side effects of former lush and Premier of BC, Gordon Campbell's cash grab from the pockets of 20something drinkers is confirmed: Wakefest will not operate in Kelowna again, due to the lack of moderation shown by Wakefest patrons, many of whom showed up without a ticket.
The crowd got so bad the Kelowna RCMP almost panicked and called in the riot squad, which would have been wonderful to see in action throwing tear gas to pacify the crowd as they stumble away with eyes tearing.
Other venues cancelled due to hard drinking rowdies:
WTF is with people who drink to excess and then act out of control? Don't they care that the BC government is laughing all the way to the bank?
Probably not, but with government coffers bursting at the seams with millions of provincial sales tax dollars you'd think someone with a sober head in Victoria is actually pressuring bars, clubs, lounges and restaurants to put up pro-moderation posters to curb thirsty patrons' excessive drinking.
Sadly though, most recreational drinkers just laugh at the posters and drink more.
The crowd got so bad the Kelowna RCMP almost panicked and called in the riot squad, which would have been wonderful to see in action throwing tear gas to pacify the crowd as they stumble away with eyes tearing.
Other venues cancelled due to hard drinking rowdies:
- Vancouver's First Night Festival
- White Rock's Sandcastle Competition
- North Vancouver's Hose Reel Festival
- Kelowna's Regatta
- Vancouver's Sea Festival
WTF is with people who drink to excess and then act out of control? Don't they care that the BC government is laughing all the way to the bank?
Probably not, but with government coffers bursting at the seams with millions of provincial sales tax dollars you'd think someone with a sober head in Victoria is actually pressuring bars, clubs, lounges and restaurants to put up pro-moderation posters to curb thirsty patrons' excessive drinking.
Sadly though, most recreational drinkers just laugh at the posters and drink more.
20070517
Poor Diet Kills
**I am using two personal examples because I knew these people. Though I regret having to add personal details where I see fit, hopefully that gives you a more complete picture...
1. My Father
My father used to eat the most unhealthiest food, basically meat and potatoes with gravy and lots of salt and the occasional beer.
He also would respond to defiance to his authority with anger, and took delight emotionally abusing my mother.
Yet he also would have social anxiety sometimes.
Then he had a stroke in 1995 and died on May 2, 2007, age 86. He gradually faded away over 12 years.
Yet the emotional abuse continued because my mother opted for home care until he requested he be placed in a hospice.
My suspicion is that he may have been depressed all along, since men display depression differently from women.
The social anxiety and the aggression are clues that possibly diet played a role in his mental health. anger management issues are associated with depression in men.
2. My Best Friend
To add to this refutation that a poor diet does not affect a person's disposition, let me give you a brief history of my best friend.
My best friend passed away May 27, 2006, age 52, from pancreatic cancer. He'd been diagnosed circa 2004.
A recovered alcoholic, he'd stopped drinking circa 1991.
Between 1996 and 2004, I can recall that he had a sweet tooth and smoked alot, but had cut down A LOT since his heart attack in 2004.
The meals he ate contained meat and potatoes, and he explained that well-cooked vegetables cannot be determined by sight alone, he'd always been shy of cooking them.
Clinical depression is associated with pancreatic cancer, and, when the cancer impairs the pancreas' ability to secrete insulin, diabetes -- which is associated with schizophrenia.
In the case of my friend, I suspect that because he relied on alcohol for most of his calories for most of his adult life and loved sugar, that both substances mainly and possibly exposure to industrial solvents, including the use of isopropyl alcohol to relieve joint pain, and the use of painkillers may have contributed to both the heart attack and accelerated the development of pancreatic cancer.
He also had anger management issues especially with respect to social communication. Yet he evolved from having a god complex to a philosophy of "it's my way or the high way" mixed with "only the most loyal should endure my final moments".
And endure his final moments I did.
In retrospect, both my parents liked him a lot because he was sociable.
1. My Father
My father used to eat the most unhealthiest food, basically meat and potatoes with gravy and lots of salt and the occasional beer.
He also would respond to defiance to his authority with anger, and took delight emotionally abusing my mother.
Yet he also would have social anxiety sometimes.
Then he had a stroke in 1995 and died on May 2, 2007, age 86. He gradually faded away over 12 years.
Yet the emotional abuse continued because my mother opted for home care until he requested he be placed in a hospice.
My suspicion is that he may have been depressed all along, since men display depression differently from women.
The social anxiety and the aggression are clues that possibly diet played a role in his mental health. anger management issues are associated with depression in men.
2. My Best Friend
To add to this refutation that a poor diet does not affect a person's disposition, let me give you a brief history of my best friend.
My best friend passed away May 27, 2006, age 52, from pancreatic cancer. He'd been diagnosed circa 2004.
A recovered alcoholic, he'd stopped drinking circa 1991.
Between 1996 and 2004, I can recall that he had a sweet tooth and smoked alot, but had cut down A LOT since his heart attack in 2004.
The meals he ate contained meat and potatoes, and he explained that well-cooked vegetables cannot be determined by sight alone, he'd always been shy of cooking them.
Clinical depression is associated with pancreatic cancer, and, when the cancer impairs the pancreas' ability to secrete insulin, diabetes -- which is associated with schizophrenia.
In the case of my friend, I suspect that because he relied on alcohol for most of his calories for most of his adult life and loved sugar, that both substances mainly and possibly exposure to industrial solvents, including the use of isopropyl alcohol to relieve joint pain, and the use of painkillers may have contributed to both the heart attack and accelerated the development of pancreatic cancer.
He also had anger management issues especially with respect to social communication. Yet he evolved from having a god complex to a philosophy of "it's my way or the high way" mixed with "only the most loyal should endure my final moments".
And endure his final moments I did.
In retrospect, both my parents liked him a lot because he was sociable.
20070429
The Propaganda of Drug Prohibition
"The propaganda that caused people to believe that Germans were a master race and Jews were an inferior race and needed to be exterminated has an exact parallel in the war on marijuana. You create false evils, create fear and hatred for a certain class of people and proceed to inflict horrific punishment on the targets of your lies. All the while seizing totalitarian power for yourself and your cronies based on the need for people to abandon their normal concepts of right and wrong and leave those decisions entirely to the propagandists." -- Daryl Verville, in his documentary The Naked Queen
In a recent example, the US FDA indicates it has bought the propaganda about medical marijuana which it claims has no benefits. At the same time, the FDA has historically allowed SSRI anti-depressants go on the market while pharmaceutical companies have hidden data which shows risk of suicide amongst patients, especially teenagers.
Meanwhile, marijuana has been considered a dangerous narcotic which causes anxiety and paranoia, but only among one out of four people who have used it since they were teens. This means that among people who use it occasionally (less than once a week) as adults, more than 75% of them will experience no ill effects, apart from mild intoxication, increased ability to get to sleep at night and associated changes in sleep patterns. In short, for the majority of users, marijuana is a non-addictive alternative to habit-forming benzodiazepines, used by consumers by prescription as sleep aids and sedatives.
Does the propaganda against marijuana indicate the relative harmlessness of the drug when compared to cigarettes (nicotine) and alcohol? No, most anti-marijuana literature addresses the health risks, including cognitive deficits and especially high use side effects, and claims marijuana is addictive. Indeed, most anti-marijuana literature uses subtle scare tactics and promotes abstinence.
However, neither the pro-marijuana nor the anti-marijuana proponents advocate moderation of use. It is barely brought up in debates for or against the drug.
Quite possibly, moderation of use may be covered under harm reduction. If moderation works for some alcoholics, it can work for marijuana users.
"Because let's face it: there's no bigger pusher than the state. There are far more dangerous and mind-altering drugs than marijuana being pushed on us every day by huge pharmaceutical companies, with the blessings of our doctors and the government. And no one's raiding the drug companies." -- Bonnie Burstow, senior lecturer at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education
20070420
In Moderation Marijuana Beats Alcohol
420 beats alcohol. Here's how:
Alcohol, when consumed during binge drinking - the pastime of today's youth - can lead to violence. It is also a dangerous gateway drug, like tobacco!
Pot, when consumed in moderate amounts - two puffs - leads to the typical stoned feeling with momentary lapses of consciousness.
Only in people who associate violence with getting drunk or stoned, and binge drink and/or smoke too much pot, may become violent.
Please pass it on! Puff puff!
Alcohol, when consumed during binge drinking - the pastime of today's youth - can lead to violence. It is also a dangerous gateway drug, like tobacco!
Pot, when consumed in moderate amounts - two puffs - leads to the typical stoned feeling with momentary lapses of consciousness.
Only in people who associate violence with getting drunk or stoned, and binge drink and/or smoke too much pot, may become violent.
Please pass it on! Puff puff!
20070222
Alcohol consumption preceded rape-murder in Iraq
A soldier cited in U.S. court documents as the first witness told investigators that Green and three others drank alcohol and discussed rape. They then told the soldier to keep watch on the radio as they set off for the house, some in civilian clothes.
This once again shows that alcohol aided in the reduction of inhibition to commit rape and murder.
However, this does not excuse any of the five participants in this crime.
Nor does Green's "personality disorder" excuse him by reason of insanity.
Yet his antipathy towards Iraqis showed that with enough "courage" he might incite such a crime.
Men such as Green are not only a threat to families in foreign lands, but also to one third of all female troops.
Maybe it's time to water down the hooch.
This once again shows that alcohol aided in the reduction of inhibition to commit rape and murder.
However, this does not excuse any of the five participants in this crime.
Nor does Green's "personality disorder" excuse him by reason of insanity.
Yet his antipathy towards Iraqis showed that with enough "courage" he might incite such a crime.
Men such as Green are not only a threat to families in foreign lands, but also to one third of all female troops.
Maybe it's time to water down the hooch.
20050507
The "Experts" on Psychosis Fear "Psychos"
"To many, mental illness is frightening. Unfortunately, this fear can discourage people from seeking help early. Neither denial of the problem nor delay will help a young person with psychosis. Much of the fear surrounding mental illness is based on myths and misunderstandings. Mental illness need not be feared. Like other medical conditions, mental illness can be treated."
Fear is what drives the members of a certain website for club-goers to perpetuate myths and misunderstandings about psychosis.
Rather than seeking to understand it, they continue to live by myths and misunderstanding, contrary to the truth.
Just by talking about it without any knowledge about it, only by their rumours about it, they only show their fear, not their compassion.
These armchair psychiatric savants thus perpetuate their own psychotic state of their own little world, but may perpetuate this state through drug use, especially alcohol or, possibly, the illegal substances.
My advice to them, which shall fall on deaf ears, is you need cognitive and dialectic behavior therapy, STAT.
Chasing success doesn't make you immune to what you fear.
Indeed, you fear in others what you fear in yourself.
For the sociopaths who wish another person dead just for suffering the psychosis attendant to post-postpartum depression have proven to be liars repeatedly.
Sadly though, they are in denial, and thus a greater threat to those of us who are confirmed mental health consumers.
Fear is what drives the members of a certain website for club-goers to perpetuate myths and misunderstandings about psychosis.
Rather than seeking to understand it, they continue to live by myths and misunderstanding, contrary to the truth.
Just by talking about it without any knowledge about it, only by their rumours about it, they only show their fear, not their compassion.
These armchair psychiatric savants thus perpetuate their own psychotic state of their own little world, but may perpetuate this state through drug use, especially alcohol or, possibly, the illegal substances.
My advice to them, which shall fall on deaf ears, is you need cognitive and dialectic behavior therapy, STAT.
Chasing success doesn't make you immune to what you fear.
Indeed, you fear in others what you fear in yourself.
For the sociopaths who wish another person dead just for suffering the psychosis attendant to post-postpartum depression have proven to be liars repeatedly.
Sadly though, they are in denial, and thus a greater threat to those of us who are confirmed mental health consumers.
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