Presidential Politics

Welcome to the Quiet Mouse Strikes Back. It's been a whole since I've written a new blog, so thanks for joining me, my friends, family, and fellow knowledge seekers.

If you look at the news today, I'm sure it's riddled with political ideology and articles about the current candidates for the November election for President of the United States  (POTUS). Here's a few things you NEED to know...

1) Nearly all of the candidates for this election are career politicians.
2) All of the candidates, Democrats or Republicans, have been bought and paid for by the SAME corporations and no longer represent the will of the average American.
3) All of the candidates are millionaires and are out of touch with the needs of the middle class and poor who they (the career politicians) all swore an oath to serve and protect.
4) You may think with a two party system that voting is fair, but it is NOT. No matter who you cast your ballot for, the corporate military industrial complex that REALLY runs the country WINS, while the people and the planet LOSE, cause no matter who wins, the next day is business as usual. This is why we keep losing as a nation... a Democrat is in office, he fucks up the country, so we vote in a Republican, he fucks up the country, so we vote another Democrat and the cycle goes on and on and on. They win, we lose.
5) NONE of the candidates have the testicular fortitude to stand up against the global corporations, corrupt leadership, and banking cartels like the Federal Reserve, IMF, or world bank let alone England's monarchy or the United Nations (U.N.)

Really when it comes down to it good candidates and representatives are difficult to find. It is easy to be swayed to the dark side because in America money is king. I'm sure it's justified because it's just one vote here or there they got paid off for, BUT, the cumulative effect of hundreds of corrupt politicians repeatedly acting in the best interest of corporations, special interest groups, and PAC's (political action committees) instead of "We the people", the result is catastrophic. And here we are one again faced with the displeasing choice between "the lesser of two evils". Again, let's be honest it's probably going to be Trump and Clinton in the final two.
Trump comes off as a misogynistic racist that will get us as a nation into World War 3, except it will probably be the world against US with him running his mouth and pissing the world off.
Clinton doesn't really seem like a great candidate either. A lot of people think she was running the country when Bill was president, but I'm not convinced she's a real leader when she has all the characteristics of a puppet politician. I'm sure she would love to represent her special interest groups like the CFR and U.N. agendas. I am POSITIVE that if she is elected it will be the same agenda as we have now under the leadership of Obama.

Things could be worse, for sure, but they could also be better. A good way to do that would be to have MORE than just two bad choices that the elite have chosen to represent THEM before us. There are other political parties than just Democrat and Republican and there are good people out there that would love to genuinely HELP the nation and it's citizens within. I don't think, however, that anyone besides the two major political parties gets a fair chance. With the media owned by the elite, they really only broadcast and write about the candidates THEY want to enforce THEIR agendas.

Also, something to think about when researching a candidate to vote for is...
What are the REAL issues you as a citizen SHOULD be concerned with?
1) Is your candidate part of the globalist agenda that desires wars for profit and biased laws that support for profit incarceration of non violent offenders like marijuana?
2) Is your candidate going to support the interests of the citizens or the corporations that slip money into his/her back pocket?
3) What is your candidate going to do about the Federal Reserve and the continued interest rate hikes and devaluation of the dollar? Is your candidate in favor of auditing the Fed and forcing them to have accountability for trillions of dollars of mismanaged money?
4) What is your candidate going to do about getting us off this toxic petroleum and fossil fuel based economy and into renewable energy sources like solar, wind, and hydro?
5) What is your candidate going to do about companies that poison rivers, destroy forests, and generally fuck up our planet with pollution of industrial wastes?
6) Is your candidate going to be a force of POSITIVE change? Or is it going to be the same old bullshit?
7) Is your candidate going to be for or against the legalization of marijuana, hemp, and the plethora of products that can be made by a highly versatile plant?
8) What is your candidates views on HEALTH care (as opposed to the horrid SICK care we have now that profits off the suffering and illness of people who often cannot afford proper medical treatment when there ARE cures available, just NOT here in the US) which includes preventative medicine, holistic approaches to illness, and weaning the public off of the pharmaceutical pills that cause more deaths than ALL OTHER ILLEGAL DRUGS COMBINED!?!
9) What is your candidate going to do about the war on drugs? Are we going to take responsibility as a culture of sex, drugs, and violence to help our fellow men and women by treating this issue with empathy, medical treatment, and compassion? Or are we just going to turn another generation of young people into tomorrow's prison planet by wrongfully incarcerating non violent minor offenders?
10) Last, what is your candidate going to do about our welfare society? Are we going to find jobs for people? Are we going to we going to embrace our citizens and keep jobs here instead of shipping therm over to China, Korea, and other Asian countries?

There is a lot to think about for sure, but I urge you to vote for the BEST candidate. Please don't just vote along party lines or because your religion endorses a particular candidate or because your family or someone else told you so. Don't believe most of what you hear on t.v. as the network has it's own biases and the candidates have their own agenda that usually changes based upon the audience they are taking to. I'm sure you have to talk to New Yorkers differently than someone from Texas or California...
Do some research and you might find that a green party candidate fits more with a better direction for our nation. I for one do NOT want the USA to be another third world nation as peasants to the elite globalist agendas.

Opiate Addiction

Namaste and thank you for joining me today for this short blog. Welcome to all my friends, family, and fellow knowledge seekers. Today I want to talk briefly about opiate addiction.

I know that things like this are often a difficult subject to discuss for many people. The horrific thoughts and images associated with drug addiction are painful, destroying lives and families. Drug addiction is one of the worst things an individual can go through in his or her lifetime. Chronic mental or physical pain that drives a person over the edge and into the hands of a potentially life ending drug is unimaginable for most people. It all starts simple enough with an injury or chronic pain that won't seem to go away. The doctors don't know what to do with you but prescribe you narcotics like Oxycontin and Vicodin. Soon the pills aren't enough to take the pain away, or the all too familiar prospect of not being able to afford the expensive pills.
Pain is entirely subjective and is difficult to look at in an objective manner. It is nearly impossible for one person to accurately be able to describe and understand the pain of another. We all have different tolerances to pain and unfortunately the tolerance of some is low. We all have different levels of tolerance to drug addiction. It can happen to the best of us. What sufferers need is empathy and understanding rather than the typical responses of fear and judgement.
So pain can drive a person right into the open arms of addiction to the street drug market and for the sake of this discussion we are talking about opiate pills leading to the use of street heroin. Heroin is cheaper and more available than over the counter prescription pills. I am in NO WAY glamorizing or an any way saying that ANY part of this drug is okay. It is NOT. However, as a former drug addict who was addicted to methamphetamines, I can look at it and see; truly understand the pathology and psychology of addiction. IT'S A MOTHER FUCKER. It takes strength and courage like most people would not understand to quit.

Okay, I got a little off topic there. The overall point is that opiate addiction hasn't been taken seriously enough. There isn't a lot of talk about it in the media. They just bury the junkie bodies and pretend like it's business as usual. The only time they seem to take it seriously is when a fake "celebrity" or athlete is caught using. THEN it becomes a big deal!!! Opiate pills lead to heroin use. What's the real gateway drug? It could very well be the pills in your medicine cabinet. Big Pharma is the big drug dealer, creating addicts from their product to which they show no remorse. Big Pharma is only concerned with making a profit, even if that means turning their customers into drug addicts. Then we have the military industrial complex that is STILL to this day in Afghanistan using American troops to guard fields of poppy that are used to make opiates INCLUDING heroin that since the war on terror has flooded the illegal drug markets in the USA making it cheap and easy to get.
But why would you want to go through this? I'll tell you. Chronic pain makes a LOT of people desperate for relief. Desperation is step one in making a addict who then becomes a junkie. A good movie that shows the effects of heroin addiction and the fucked up shit it does to the body is "Trainspotting"; also "Requiem for a Dream". Both of these movies show the darker side of addiction and even though they are sensationalized for a Hollywood movie, the effects ARE REAL.

So to get down to brass tacks of the subject, addiction is a bitch. If you know anyone who suffers from this addiction it is good to know that there IS help out there for those in need. No one should have to suffer alone. If you or anyone you know is smacked out on heroin, please urge them to stop now before they become just another overdose statistic that ruins lives and families.
This has been the one and only Quiet Mouse.
Peace. Love. Respect. Empathy.

Churches Should Pay TAXES Too

Namaste and welcome to another posting for the Quiet Mouse Strikes Back. Thank  you for taking time out of your busy day to join me for reading this short blog. And thank you for being one of the over 33,000 readers of my blogs. Please hang around and read some of my past blogs when you are done with this one.

Today I want to write about taxes. We are full into the prime of the Presidential election season where the candidates are having primaries and debates. A LOT of the candidates claim to want to cut taxes, but cannot say from where... they say they want to balance the national budget, but they don't have a clue where to get the money from. NO ONE is willing to stop the gross and excessive military industrial spending which could feed every man, woman, and child in this country, plus send them all to college... but hey we have to get money from somewhere. I KNOW that the average Joe taxpayer is already strapped for cash and you can't get blood from a stone.
Well, folks, here is a REAL WORLD suggestion of where to get BILLIONS of dollars. Tax the churches that have claimed exemption in the past. BILLIONS of dollars in taxable revenue could be created from a portion of the donations made to your local churches. These monies could pay for our children's education and school lunches; to fix roads and give more money to our failing teachers. This blog isn't meant to bash the religious system, but to point out that if WE have to pay an exorbitant amount of taxes, then I think they should have to as well. NOT EVERY DIME goes toward a worthy goal like helping the poor and needy for the church money. I've seen a LOT of preachers driving around in pretty nice cars and wearing pretty nice clothing that the majority of the tithing congregation cannot afford.

Speaking of election season, the hot topic is to get the support of the religious crowd on the candidates side. I agree with the quote from the late George Carlin up above in the picture... if the churches are so invested in politics and government then they should have to pay their fare share of the cost of running this fucking country, rather than just running it into the ground. For example, do you really think that the churches care if there is a recession? They still want YOU to put money in the plate or basket every week. Again, I'm not dissing and saying that paying a tithing to the church is bad necessarily. But if you can pay 10% of your income to the church, then the church can damn sure pay at least 10% of that money back in taxes to our domineering government to pay for the things that are a necessary and integral part of our society. IT JUST MAKES SENSE PEOPLE!!!
Let's END the tax exempt status for these mega churches and raise some money to pay for the expenses of our society. NO MORE EXEMPTIONS!!!

Well, that's about all I have to say about this subject... for now. This has been the one and only Quiet Mouse 420.
Peace. Love. Respect. Fairness. Equality. 

Gauged Earrings

Namaste and welcome to another posting for the Quiet Mouse Strikes Back. Thank you for joining me today for this short blog about earring gauges.

Now this is totally my personal opinion here, but I think that they don't really look good on anyone. That opinion however isn't the primary focus of this topic. What I really want to say is that I understand that it's a fad and like everything else it will loose interest and fade away in time. Overall, it's just NOT FOR ME.
However, in the meantime, I have to be absolutely honest and say that I would rather an employer allow the gauges to be IN rather than out. I think it's extremely tacky when the person is forced to have their hangy dangling earlobe all drooping down without the gauge to hold it open. I'd much rather see the earring in.
I think that most of the people who have done this body modification to themselves will ultimately regret their decision after they end their rebellious 20's. For those who do not know, the ONLY way to fix the earlobe after it has been stretched out like this is for it to be surgically repaired and the excess stretched skin cut away. I have worked as a surgical tech and done this procedure with physicians. It's a simple enough procedure, but it still looked supremely painful to cut up the ear and sew it back together. I don't see the attraction, but I'm sure as it is similar to tattooing there is a cult following that are loyal to their body modifications and will keep them forever... and heaven forbid you piss someone off and they rip your gauged earring out...

Well, that's about all I have to say about that. Just be aware and be careful when you are causing a PERMANENT change to your body that is not so easily taken back. Be good to your body.
This has been the one and only Quiet Mouse.
Peace. Love. Respect. Tolerance.