Okay…Now the 1960s are officially over
From Time Obit4/30/08 (GENEVA)
Albert Hofmann, the father of the mind-altering drug LSD whose medical discovery inspired — and arguably corrupted — millions in the 1960s hippie generation, has died at the tender age of 102.
The First Trip
The Swiss chemist discovered lysergic acid diethylamide-25 in 1938 while studying the medicinal uses of a fungus found on wheat and other grains at the Sandoz pharmaceuticals firm in Basel.He became the first human guinea pig of the drug when a tiny amount of the substance seeped onto his finger during a repeat of the laboratory experiment on April 16, 1943.
“I had to leave work for home. because I was suddenly hit by a sudden feeling of unease and mild dizziness… Everything I saw was distorted as in a warped mirror,” he said, describing his bicycle ride home. “I had the impression I was rooted to the spot. But my assistant told me we were actually going very fast.”
“What I was thinking appeared in colors and in pictures,” he told Swiss television network SF DRS for a program marking his 100th birthday two years ago. “It lasted for a couple of hours and then it disappeared.”
The First Bad Trip
Three days later, Hofmann experimented with a larger dose. The result was the world’s first scientifically documented bad trip.“The substance which I wanted to experiment with took over me. I was filled with an overwhelming fear that I would go crazy. I was transported to a different world, a different time,” Hofmann wrote.
A Conversation with Albert Hofmann By Hans Plomp
- Nov 2005 Read entire interview hereQ: What are your feelings on the current developments in science?
Scientists used to be pious people, dedicating their work to the Creation. Today the evil side of this double face dominates so strongly that it scares me.
I foresee a huge catastrophe, a terrible time is coming, I feel it deep inside of me. We have strayed so far from the right path, from nature, from what we are.
Politics are created by sick people. And what politics! Bush is a sick person, a madman. He tells the world lies and makes war based on those lies, and still he is elected. Of course there have been tyrants before, but at least they had some stature.
I am actually very pessimistic. Things are going very fast now. We urgently need a new awareness. But awareness can only come from what is put in. What is the input nowadays?
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Before AM radio station managers and parents deciphered the hidden, trippy lyrics on several new records, the damage had been done. Dr. Timothy Leary spread the word for years, but Boomers heard the message for the first time: “Tune in, turn on, drop out.”
As might be expected, the US government supplied the largest single contribution in the development of the counterculture. They selected Ken Kesey as one of their $75-a-day human guinea pigs for a “mind control” experiment with LSD at Menlo Park Clinic in late 1959 and early 1960 (before Leary’s research at Harvard). Ken helped himself to some free samples, and soon he and friends back at Perry Lane conducted their own experiments. They deduced that LSD was a mind-expanding, rather than a mind-controlling drug, and thus, felt compelled to spread the good news to the freak community. By 1965, Kesey, Augustus Owsley Stanley III (“The Henry Ford of acid”), a little-known band called the Warlocks (who soon renamed themselves the Grateful Dead) and a group of Ken’s friends presented The Merry Pranksters’ Acid Tests. Kesey explained his mission: “As navigator of this venture, I try, as much as possible to set out in a direction that, in the first place, is practically impossible to achieve, and then along the way mess up the minds of the crew with as many chemicals as we can lay our hands on.” With everyone in the proper frame of mind, the Pranksters proceeded with their mixed media experience: strobe lights, movie projections, taped sound effects, live cosmic raps, black lights, and some stoned-out Rock & Roll from Jerry Garcia and company, in an effort to provide a thought-provoking, mind-expanding experience and a lot of fun. The performers encouraged the audience to join in the fun, as Garcia explained: “We all preferred the constructive anarchy of the Tests in a lot of ways. Every person was a participant and everywhere was the stage. We didn’t have to entertain anybody. We were no more famous than anybody else.”
Wrapped in the Flag.
Me, too. I’ve suffered through hundreds of sermons, but the only ones that I remember are my own. Sunday Sermons From Rev Greg
One More Flew INTO the CooCoo’s Nest…
Is he nuts? Yes!
This week Rev Wright crossed over into the wacky Jerry Falwell/ Pat RobertsonFundamentalist Fungi Twilight Zone…Hate Thy Neighbor as You Would Hate Thyself…
A proud American tradition since the Salem witch hunts of 1692.
Does Rev Wright Love America? Yes.
.Inspired by President John F. Kennedy’s 1961 challenge to “Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country,” Wright gave up his student deferment, left college and joined the United States Marine Corps and became part of the 2nd Marine Division with the rank of private first class. In 1963, after two years of service, Wright then transferred to the United States Navy and entered the Corpsman School at the Great Lakes Naval Training Center, where he graduated as valedictorian. Having excelled in corpsman school, Wright was then trained as a cardiopulmonary technician at the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland where he graduated as salutatorian. Wright was assigned as part of the medical team charged with care of President Lyndon B. Johnson. From Wikipedia
During his military service to America Wright was paid about $200 per month.
The Olympic Tourch survives a rocky trip around the world only to hit a roadblock in Tiananmen Square
.No one in China will ever see this toon because American search engines have agreed to censor all refs to Tiananmen Square in China.
Much more Photoshop Phun on Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama,
John McCain, Mike Huckleberry and GOP Saint Ronnie Reagan, Ralph Nader
Was that the reflection of a naked woman in Cheney’s sunglasses?
There are no bites out of this apple
What was that little glitch in the SURGE?
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By now every American except John McCain knows that Al Qaeda terrorists are Sunnis and they get their money and suicide bombs from Saudi Arabia. American mass-media is not allowed critize our friends, but are encouraged to condemn Iran for helping the ruling Shia. Which brings us to another taboo subject in American media: There are two vastly different groups of Shia:
1) Separatists like al-Maliki who for personal power are happy to divide Iraq into 3 or 4 chunks and turn over the natural resources to the same 5 international oil companies (3 American) who owned Iraq after WWII and
2) Nationalists like al-Sadr who hate all foreigners including the USA and Iran. These crazy religious fanatics believe they should control their own oil and destiny. They are supported by a mere 70% of Iraqis. Which is why the GOP is rushing thousands if Diebold voting machines to help in Iraq’s Oct election.
Salon.com article Why al-Maliki attacked Basra
Congress grilled, or rather, slightly sauteed Oil execs on the high cost of gas
.Congress poses and then backs down again
An Escalation by Any Other Name is Still an Escalation.
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Let’s Get Real. American Politicans are only in this for the money
If Kerry had been elected in 2004
Mayberry, NC would expected payback if John Edwards had won
Oil hit $111 a barrel last week…Gas will soon be $4 a gallon
In 1992 George HW Bush didn’t know the price of a gallon of milk
Last month Dubya didn’t know the price of a gallon of gas
IT’S THE ECONOMY, STUPID!
Dubya’s First Trip to the Holy Land
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The Only Adult in the Room
WTF!
The Vegas Mafia made Sinatra a superstar and we hoped to do the same for Rudy.
Dennis Kucinich and Ron Paul…so different, and yet…
Court: NBC/GE Can Bar Kucinich
Paul: Fox is scared of me
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Happy 2008 in Virtual America!
Colloquially,
‘virtual’ has a similar meaning to ’ quasi-’ or ‘pseudo-’ (prefixes which themselves have quite different meanings), meaning something that appears to be something else…and, perhaps IS in a parallel universe ie Bizarro World when used in the adverbial form.
Gen Hayden as Torture Tsar
Sterling Hayden as Gen Ripper in Dr Strangelove
My favorite movie!Are these two Haydens related? Like the guy in the State Department who was in charge of investigating Blackwater while his brother was on the payroll?
I’m tired…no links today. Use the Google.
Did Cheney Start Fire?
12/19/07: RUSH LIMPBAUGH: I’m sure you’ve heard about the little fire that took place in the Executive Office Building, OEO over across the street from the West Wing of the White House, the ceremonial office of the vice president — which I, of course, a powerful, influential member of the media, have seen on several occasions. It had some water damage and some smoke damage. The Drive-Bys… Some in the Drive-Bys actually think that Cheney might have started the fire to destroy more CIA tapes or other sensitive documents! From MSNBC this morning, the anchorette-info babe Contessa Brewer is talking to reporterette Kelly O’Donnell. Brewer said, “How much paperwork — how many files, important documents — might have been in that building?”
O’DONNELL: We’re talking about top-secret, highly classified documents that are in those offices. What’s important about this is that under the Presidential Records Act, all paperwork that emanates from the office of the president or vice president — and it’s known as the executive office of the president, all of that — must be preserved for legal reasons. Now, when any company has a fire, much less the White House, there’s always a problem about preserving documents. What’s lost? Can records be re-created? It will be an issue for them to explore.
Katrina Deja Vu Strikes SoCal
Big fires to the West and East of my house on Monday. But, I was lucky as the wind continued to blow South. Many, many others were not so lucky. Our fireman are incredible, but they just don’t have the numbers to fight back. Finally, two days late, some guardsmen are arriving from the Mexican border.WED UPDATE: 500,000 have fled and at least 1,800 homes have burned to the ground. Fires still burning a few miles away to either side of Castaic lake. The LA Fire Chief is still begging for more planes and especially more men.
The biggest problem is that our brave firemen knock down one fire then rush to the next location, only to have the first area flare up again. No one is available for mop-up operations and to check for hot spots…EXACTLY WHAT THE NATIONAL GUARDSMEN WOULD BE DOING IF THEY WEREN“T IN IRAQ!
J.K. Rowling Outs Hogwarts Character
Ted Haggard
By HILLEL ITALIE,AP 2007-10-20
NEW YORK (Oct. 20) - Harry Potter fans, the rumors are true: Albus Dumbledore, master wizard and Headmaster of Hogwarts, is gay. J.K. Rowling outed the beloved character Friday night while appearing before a full house at Carnegie Hall.
After reading briefly from the final book, “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows,” she took questions from audience members.
She was asked by one young fan whether Dumbledore finds “true love.”
“Dumbledore is gay,” the author responded to gasps and applause.
She then explained that Dumbledore was smitten with rival Gellert Grindelwald, whom he defeated long ago in a battle between good and bad wizards. “Falling in love can blind us to an extent,” Rowling said of Dumbledore’s feelings, adding that Dumbledore was “horribly, terribly let down.”
Dumbledore’s love, she observed, was his “great tragedy.”
Has a Duel Monarchy Replaced Democracy in America?
Blackwater
Erik Prince of Blackwater
Let me explain my Master Plan for Iraq again
Yes, I agree.
Nixon does look like Family Guy’s Quagmire. We wonder if Glen will have a twin brother next season who looks like Dubya named Occupation or Surge or (our favorite) Sergio.
General Petraeus or General Betray Us?
Link to Move On NY Times ad
A message from FDR: a REAL PRESIDENT:
Tyrants use fear as a tool to control the masses.
Good American presidents stomp on fear and those who fearmonger.
2004
Vote for me…Greg.
Write in my name in 2008. Within my first month in office I will pull ALL of our wonderful kids out of Iraq and join them in Afghanistan to complete the MISSION: Hunt down Osama bin Laden.
I have shades, half a tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes and I’m on a mission.
After we take out Osama (4 weeks) I will resign as president, so think carefully about your choice of VP…We’re leaning towards Mike Gravel or Ron Paul right now..
Six years of fear-mongering is enough! How about some action?
Give me a month.
PS: Dear BIG OIL companies: Like all Republicians and most Democrats politicans…
I can be bought.
Please send several million in small bills and I will withdraw my candidacy immediately.
Now the Iraq Mission is to Save Face and Dubya asks, Which one?
2007
1980Dick and me need more study time on this new Intelligence Report
More Baseball News: 113 Vermin Violations in the past two years ! There’s only room for one rodent in this town
Anaheim Smells a RatBarry Bonds: Our Hero……….This is Your Hero on Steroids.
____________LEFT: 1986-1999…The Barry I loved…slim with natural speed and power. RIGHT: 1999- to Present…
The Incredible Hulk. Barry suddenly grew from a size 42 to 52 uniform, size 10 to 13 shoes, and the weirdest thing…his head is still growing!
Get Smart like Cheney
Only Cheney’s Inner Circle may join him in the CONE OF SILENCE.
Lackies listen from afar on Dick’s National Security SUPER NETWORK:
Human Beings now the minority on the Supreme Court!
Top row (left to right): Stephen G. Breyer, Clarence Thomas, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and Samuel A. Alito. Bottom row (left to right): Anthony M. Kennedy, John Paul Stevens, Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Antonin G. Scalia, and David H. Souter.
Crash Test Dummy Smack-Off
Dubya vs Britney
“Click it or Ticket“…That’s just for you common folk. The ELITE don’t need no stinking seat belts!
Swearing in/ Swearing at
Hundreds of thousands of Iraqis celebrate 4 years of American Occupation
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Published by Greg at 11:34 PM on April 28, 2008