Archive for May 2nd, 2008

Fluoride

This week I bought my first tube of non-fluoride toothpaste. I mentioned it to some folks here at work. One coworker asked why. I told him because it does other things than what we’ve been taught. He said that his son’s dentist swears by fluoridated water. I told him that the dentists have all been indoctornated.

Maybe if the dentist reads the ADA published report by Dr. Mullenix on the Neurotoxicity of Fluoride he’ll learn to swear at it instead of swearing by it.

Euphemism

I’m not badmouthing I am right-mouthing the establishment.

The American Square Dance of the Left-Right Paradigm

Picture Presidents Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush the Elder, Clinton and Bush the Younger, David Rockefeller, Donald Trump, Phyllis Schafly, Anne Coulter, Hillary, Obama, Stephanopolous, Paul Begala, Colin Powell, Condi, Mary Matalin, Serpent Head, Brzezinski, Bela Abzug, Carlucci, Bebe Rebozo, Al Haig, Caspar Weinberger, Prince Bandar, Tom Brokaw, Peter Jennings, Walter Cronkite, Tip Oneill, Barry Goldwater, John Connally, Ross Perot, Orrin Hatch, Oliver North, Tom Foley…everyone you ever hear about in the news good or bad, sharp as a tack, sharp as the other end of the tack, alive and dead. Picture the friends, the wives, the concubines, pets, all of them. They’re all in a town hall in one of the flat country midwestern states where everyone knows everyone and they have square dances. Limbaugh is the cigar smoking auctioneer-sounding caller. Roger Clinton is playing the banjo with the USMC band.

Now everyone is eating and drinking lemonade and you think there are going to be two sides in this like we get the appearance of outside. Outside we think they all despise each other and that there are two distinct philosophies and theories of economy. Inside they’re laughing and talking, locking arms, promenading, bowing all to the tempo and at the behest of the caller.

The inside is the picture we need to engrave in our minds. The dancers and other participants change over the years and my illustration is quite anachronistic. Everyone has their role and function and this is all working out according to a plan. This false left-right paradigm has the country and many people’s minds split in two. We need to develop the ability to see the connection, dot by dot, over the years between the nuclear testing in the 1940s, going off the gold standard in the early 1970s and the current corporatocracy that we are in today.