“ Pills, Pills, Pills “
(For Whatever Ails Ya’)

A pill for this - A pill for that
More types of pills - Than types of hat
You toss and turn? - Can’t get to sleep?
Take two of these - Will soon count sheep

So many ads - Cannot keep track
For sniffling colds - Or aching back
Now hooked on cigs? - Just chew this gum
You’re all stressed out? - Take these, feel numb

For all the men - Can’t get it up?
Try some of these - Act like a ‘pup’
Be careful, though - If lasts, four hours
Get to thy doc! - Take cold showers!

Companies say, - “Take OUR great meds”
No more heartburn - Or throbbing heads
Side effects may - Lay you out flat
Not to worry - Have pills for that!

Cannot afford? - Dear Ma and Pa
Point compass north - Oh, Canada!
Told, “Is not safe!” - Yet, have not seen
One, dead Canuck - (A big smokescreen)

Many recalls - In last few years
Causes people - To have great fears
New studies go - Through F.D.A.
Tested ‘rodents’ - Wrong D.N.A.?

I must now go - (Time for my pills)
One makes me hot - One gives me chills
I sure do hope - They will soon stock
Magical pill - For writers block

Prozac-ically yours,

TallPockets - 2008

"What good is it if a man has TEN times his needs whilst his neighbor has ONE TENTH of his?"

Talk amongst yourselves,

TallPockets.

“ In The Beginning …. “
(Forgive Me, I Know Not What I Do)

In the beginning …….

Man first set foot on planet earth. He was all alone and soon became bored. After what seemed like a billion games of solitaire, most of which he always lost, he was at wit’s end (even for man). He tried humming and singing but there was nothing called ‘music’ back in those days. Unless, of course, you considered the Dinosaurs’ enormous wailings as the precursor to “RAP“. Man heard their sound and he was not pleased. But, man proved the theory that he WAS more intelligent than the soon-to-be-extinct, pea-brained ’saurs, as he knew enough to not complain to them as their huge stomachs were constantly rumbling.

One late evening, over a roaring campfire, man reached in to add another log. As he threw the next wood limb onto the pile, a bunch of sparks flew into the air, hitting him all over his naked skin. Man screamed. Rather, he wailed and howled. Similar to the dinosaurs but much more in tune. Thus, his random accident gave birth to ’music’. More precisely, what we now have come to call ‘the blues’. It was also the first known earthly ‘dance’. Soon, man was finding different wooden limbs from varying types of trees to throw into the fire. To generate different types of sparks. This resulted in man learning how to scream in different tones and octaves. Especially, when said sparks landed on the ‘family jewels’. Soon man was well versed in all music cultures. Even the ‘saurs approved and thumped their mighty tails in unison on the earth. It was the first time a ‘drumbeat’ was heard.

However, man once again became easily bored. He didn’t know why, but he felt like he needed something to do while screaming out his music and dancing around in pain as sparks attacked his body. Eureka! He had another idea. He needed a dance ‘partner’! So, man asked the MAN above for one. When he awoke the next morning, his eyes stared at a scantily clad vision standing beside his hut. Man saw it was good. Mighty fine, indeed. A perfect ’10’! Man introduced himself to this lovely specimen. He named her ‘woman’. Woman was frightened. She did not know where she was. It was like she had just been created or something (groan). Man felt a soreness in his rib area but was too obsessed with staring at woman to pay much attention. That night, over the usual roaring fire, man told her all that he knew. After those five minutes had passed, woman began asking questions of her own. Many questions, in fact. So many, that man eventually learned to speak his first word. NAG. Man then added an ’ing’ to it. NAGGING. Man evolved quickly.

Woman continued on for days on end. Poor man even seriously considered moving in with the ferocious ’saurs but wisely thought better of that idea. Woman kept trying to tell man how he should keep his hut clean. How he needed to wash and cut his dirty, shoulder length hair. Man became angrier as days went by but he was also feeling something he had not ever felt before. LUST. Something happened when his eyes roamed over this new creature called woman. No matter how much and how often woman nagged him, he felt this LUST (I guess man does not evolve as fast as I thought?).

Woman also asked personal questions of man. Like, “Does my butt look big in this loincloth?” Man, as his later fellows would do, made the mistake of saying, “Yes”. Man soon learned woman had a quick temper. Even when man just told the honest truth. Man soon learned that he had to handle woman much differently than all the birds and animals around him. Thus, modern day psychiatry was invented by man. He practiced it on woman daily. He learned what he should think, say and do with woman. In order to be on her good side. Woman enjoyed all this attention from man. She began seeing man in a whole new light.

One summer night, after a belly-filling meal, woman snuggled up beside man. She looked longingly into his eyes, her lips pursed a demure smile and woman curled her hair with those dainty fingers. Immediately, man’s brain was no longer working properly (even more so than not working normally). Before man knew it, he and woman were in his hut. Strange sounds were heard by the ’saurs that night (for well over two minutes). Another music term was born that evening, a ’duo’. In two part harmony.

Not long after, woman became tired of man. He no longer kept his hut clean or kept a roaring fire. He rarely hunted for food. He just slept most of the day in his plush, leafy hammock. Woman began hearing terrible sounds while he snoozed. ’Snoring’ was added to our earthly vocabulary. All man wanted now was to chase woman around his hut. Woman decided she’d had enough of man. She gave him strict orders, “No food, no clean hut, no roaring fire, NO hanky panky!” Again, man took his psychiatric trainings to the next level. He invented the most famous two words yet heard to this day, “YES, DEAR”. Woman saw this was good. Man was not a happy camper but what the heck, a man had to do what a man had to do, right?

One day, after a few months, woman woke up screaming. Man ran into the hut. Woman’s belly was much bigger. Both man and woman were puzzled and very worried about what this meant. Six months later, man heard more screaming. Man saw another first. A tiny thing that looked all wrinkly (no, it wasn’t man admiring himself). The tiny thing looked like man but smaller. Man was pleased. Woman was relieved. She looked great again! Woman knew it was a ‘boy’ because he immediately wanted to suckle her breasts.

Ten years and five more children later, man had enough. He didn’t want to work his entire life away to support woman and six kids. All they ever said was, “I love you, MOM”. So, man headed off on an explorative trek. To see what lay beyond the horizons. He told woman, “I am going to see what lay beyond the horizons” (groan). She smiled and said, “Ok, honey. Take your time!” (ladies, laugh here).

Man then asked woman, “How long do you think it will take before I find anything”? To which woman replied, “Well, I guess that depends ……. On whether you’ll FINALLY ask for directions or not!”

Lost, butt-scratching, belching, AND ‘musically’ yours,

TallPockets - 2008

ALL: I just saw Mary Tillman, the mother of Pat Tillman, on the Larry King show.

Pat, as most know, was an NFL football star with the Arizona Cardinals who left his MILLION dollar salaries for the SERVICE of his country.

He later DIED in Afghanistan. Which was reported, at first, by OUR administration as one thing and then it later turned out MUCH of the 'details' about HOW Pat Tillman died and WHO killed him and WHO LIED about it all throughout this entire saga, continue to this day.

According still, to Mary Tillman. His mother. Btw: She has another son, who also served alongside his brother, Pat. This son testified before a Congressional committee about his ANGER and DISAPPOINTMENT about all the FALSE information OUR government officials had, were and ARE still saying and not coming CLEAN about.

This brother said before congress it was SAD enough that his brother DIED, but he was a soldier and he accepted that. But, he also said, that the MANNER and the LIES to this day, in HOW his death and it's details and lies, were HORRIFIC, in HIS words, by comparison.

READ UP, dear citizens!

~SIGH~ .... GRRRRrrrrrr ....

'SALUTE!' to you and your family, PAT Tillman!

From one APPRECIATIVE citizen ....

TallPockets

Families will make case for vaccine link to autism

By KEVIN FREKING, Associated Press Writer 19 minutes ago

The Institute of Medicine said in 2004 there was no credible evidence to show that vaccines containing the preservative thimerosal led to autism in children. But thousands of families have a different take based on personal experience.

Some of them are going to court Monday as attorneys will attempt to show that the mercury-based preservative triggers symptoms of autism.

Two 10-year-old boys from Portland, Ore., will serve as test cases to determine whether many of the children and their families should be compensated. Attorneys for the boys will attempt to show the boys were happy, healthy and developing normally — but, after being exposed to vaccines with thimerosal, they began to regress.

Thimerosal has been removed in recent years from standard childhood vaccines, except flu vaccines that are not packaged in single-doses. The CDC says single-dose flu shots currently are available only in limited quantities. In 2004, a committee with the Institute of Medicine concluded there was no credible evidence that vaccines containing thimerosal caused autism.

Overall, nearly 4,900 families have filed claims with the U.S. Court of Claims alleging that vaccines caused autism and other neurological problems in their children. Lawyers for the families are presenting three different theories of how vaccines caused autism.

The Office of Special Masters of the claims court has instructed the plaintiffs to designate three test cases for each of the three theories — nine cases in all — and has assigned three special masters to handle the cases. Three cases in the first category were heard last year, but no decisions have been reached.

The two cases beginning Monday are among the three that focus on the second theory of causation: that thimerosal-containing vaccines alone cause autism. The plaintiff in the third case originally scheduled for hearing this month has withdrawn and lawyers and court officials are working to agree on substitute case.

Hearings in the test cases for the third theory of causation are scheduled in mid-September.

Lawyers for the petitioning families in the cases being heard this month say they will present evidence that injections with thimerosal deposit a form of mercury in the brain. That mercury excites certain brain cells that stay chronically activated trying to get rid of the intrusion.

"In some kids, there's enough of it that it sets off this chronic neuroinflammatory pattern that can lead to regressive autism," said attorney Mike Williams.

In the end, the families' attorneys hope to convince the special master hearing their case that thimerosal belongs on the list of causes for the inflammation that leads to regressive autism.

To win, the attorneys for the two boys, William Mead and Jordan King, will have to show that it's more likely than not that the vaccine actually caused the injury.

Many members of the medical community are skeptical of the families' claims. They worry that the claims about the dangers of vaccines could cause some people to forgo vaccines that prevent illness.

"I think that what's so endearing to me about the anti-vaccine people, is they're perfectly willing to go from one hypothesis to the next without a backward glance," said Dr. Paul Offit, director of the Vaccine Education Center at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.

Autism is a developmental disability that typically appears during the first three years of life and affects a person's ability to communicate and interact with others. Dr. Andrew Gerber, a psychiatrist, said that medical experts don't have a comprehensive understanding of what causes autism, but they do know there is a strong hereditary component.

Toxins from the environment could play a role, but currently, data does not support that they do, Gerber said.

Arguments are scheduled to go on throughout the month. A final decision could take several more months. Claims that are successful would result in compensation taking into account lost earnings after age 18 and up to $250,000 for pain and suffering.

The families or the federal government can also appeal the decision of the special master to the Court of Federal Claims or to a federal appeals court.

The court Web site says more than 12,500 claims have been filed since creation of the program in 1987, including more than 5,300 autism cases, and more than $1.7 billion has been paid in claims. It says there is now more than $2.7 billion in a trust fund supported by an excise tax on each dose of vaccine covered by the program.

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On the Net:

Background on thimerosal trial: http://www.uscfc.uscourts.gov/node/4428