Monthly Archives: April 2009

News from MindFreedom

Just sharing- 1 May 2009 – This Friday! State Capitol Rotunda, St. Paul, Minnesota, USA May Day for Ray: Protest Forced Electroshock of Ray Sandford Join MindFreedom International in protesting the ongoing forced  outpatient electroshock of Ray Sandford of Minnesota … Continue reading

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It’s getting close to time

For scouting for frog habitat that may be unable to support amphibians to maturity. My annual quest. More later. Rest assured that I will rescure as many tadpoles from annihilation as possible.

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Stories From Mental Hell Treatment

These are stories of people subjected to torture and humiliation in the name of “treatment” for mental health issues. They are found (with many others) on the website: http://psychrights.org/index.htm CHOMP Hell On October 15, 2007, I was kidnapped, put in solitary … Continue reading

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I have updated the Space page (see tab above)

I added about 3 dozen pictures to the Space page today. Most are very big, Hi-Res pictures, so click on them to get the full size. Here are some thumbnails of some of the new additions.               

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Happy Weekend

Great show last night. Good radio. I don’t have the recording yet so it will be in archives later this week. To Daniel, the absent groupie: Nyah! We did it without you (again). To Roxxie: Have fun! Wish we were … Continue reading

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MLBM Announcement

Re: Looney Radio 4/17/09 Mental Health consumer-talk-radio This Friday night, 1 a.m. to 2 a.m.- April 17th, 2009 KBOO 90.7 FM or streamed on the web: kboo.fm Call in at 503-231-8187 to be on the radio (or show up at … Continue reading

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Ray Update from MindFreedom

MindFreedom News – 15 April 2009 Nonviolent Revolution in Mental Health http://www.mindfreedom.org/ray – please forward     Ray Sandford Declares “Guarded Victory” for MindFreedom Ray Campaign     Because of Public Pressure, Ray’s Psychiatrist May Quit Case The bad news … Continue reading

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T’ang Poetry- Chapter 5?

I’m losing track of how many of these I’ve done. I just know that these are not included in the previous posts. Li Bai HARD ROADS IN SHU Oh, but it is high and very dangerous! Such travelling is harder … Continue reading

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Thought Relics- Tagore

Today’s offering is another book by Rabindranath Tagore, Thought Relics, which he also translated into English. It is in the public domain and the full download is at the bottom of this post as a Word Document. First, some excerpts: … Continue reading

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Rig Veda

The best place I’ve found on the web for Vedic scriptures with both English translations and Sanskrit originals, access to commentary, etc. is http://www.sacred-texts.com/hin/index.htm For a taste, offered here are the first 30 hymns of the Rig Veda, the oldest written … Continue reading

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