My apartment makes me happy. At 3pm the sunlight streams in all four windows illuminating streaks of dust floating through the air and making me feel as if there couldn't be a more perfect moment. just the sun through the window as I sit on my bed and type out some garbled thought that has popped into my head. just a thought.
I am clearing out my office and putting things in order for the big EXIT. How nice it is to know that I will only be working in planet g-berg for one a half more weeks. I lined up four people already for interviews tomorrow. Everyone wants this job but me.
I started doing some research on autism. It is a hot button issue. There is so much controversy surrounding the vaccination debate. Is autism on the rise because of increased awareness or is it partially due to thimerosal found at dangerous levels in vaccines throughout the eighties and nineties? What is most unbelievable is how politics has played into the debate? Or maybe not unbelievable at all. We are talking about the pharmaceutical industry. "In November of 2002, while the final version of the Homeland Security Act was being voted, someone snuck in as the last four paragraphs of the 484-page document a provision that protected the Eli Lilly Company -- largest maker of thimerosal -- from future autism lawsuits. Dan Burton -- a Republican member of the House of Representatives from Indiana -- whose House Government Reform Committee has been investigating autism increases for three years, raised hell on the floor. He said that "the legislative process was hijacked" by lobbyists who pushed the Lilly protective provision into reality. A year ago last week (2003), the House and Senate -- impressed by the ensuing public uproar -- took away the Lilly cloak against liability lawsuits." an excerpt from an article on salon.com. I have no words. Well maybe actually I do... I ask you, my fellow citizens of this country, if not for each other who are we for? Big business? It's like that poem about the holocaust. (pardon the bad paraphrase) First the German's took away the gypsys but I said nothing for I was not a gypsy. Then they took away the Gays but I said nothing because I was not gay. Then they took away the Jews, and again I said nothing for I was not a Jew. Finally they came to take me away and no one was left to speak for me.
Our lives are only enriched by one another. Shouldn't we be working to defend them and not the corporate giant who enslaves us. Gosh, I sound naive. I can see you shake your heads. I just have high hopes. I'd rather start from above then below.