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Drug, alcohol treatment vital in solving problem

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Alamogordo Daily News
By Ken Nicholson,  For the Daily News

In spite of the nationwide prohibition of street drugs, New Mexico and Otero County, as well as the rest of the United States, has a persistently growing drug problem with increasing numbers of younger students using drugs and alcohol.

With that is the typically disastrous results of addiction, incarceration, unintended pregnancies, failing grades and school drop-outs. While education and law enforcement are making strides in stopping the illegal drug trade while educating our youth about the consequences of drug use, drug and alcohol use continues to be a devastating problem, suggesting once again that peer-pressure can be a stronger force than education. (more…)

Nicolaus Copernicus (19 February 1473 – 24 May 1543) was the first astronomer to formulate a comprehensive heliocentric cosmology, which displaced the Earth from the center of the universe. His epochal book, De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres), published in 1543 just before he died, is often regarded as the starting point of modern astronomy and the defining epiphany that began the Scientific Revolution. His heliocentric model, with the sun at the center of the universe, demonstrated that the observed motions of celestial objects can be explained without putting the Earth at rest in the center of the universe. His work stimulated further scientific investigations, becoming a landmark in the history of modern science that is now often referred to as the Copernican Revolution.

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What I would like to suggest is that it is time, in Christianity, for a kind of Copernican Revolution that, curiously enough, brings us closer to the spirituality of Jesus. (more…)

It probably would be better if we could put a lid on drug use, same with nicotine, and alcohol. This is, however a real Pandora’s Box that we’ve opened and it will be impossible to ever stuff it back in and close the lid. Imagine doing away with alcohol. Every fourth house in the nation would have a still and beer fermenting in the closet.

People like to get high and they will get high. And since nothing will stop people from gettin high, the next best thing is to reduce the harm done by illegal drug use. Legalize, control potency and purity, just like for alcohol users. Tax it and make it available through licensed businesses, just like alcohol.

It is already illegal to drive while high, just like alcohol. Make treatment available for those who get sick, just like alcohol and nicotine. We have millions of young men and women in prison because of using, buying, distributing, and manufacturing, illegal drugs, many of which are less harmful than legal nicotine and alcohol. (more…)

Words from the “right”

Choice quotes from the Summer of 08.

1. Rush Limbaugh: “I tell people don’t kill all the liberals. Leave enough so we can have two on every campus – living fossils – so we will never forget what these people stood for.”

2. Senator Phil Gramm: “We’re going to keep building the party until we’re hunting Democrats with dogs.”

3. Rep. James Hansen on Bill Clinton: Get rid of the guy. Impreach him, censure him, assassinate him.”

4. John Derbyshire intimated in the National Review that because Chelsea Clinton had “the taint,” she should “be killed.”

5. Ann Coulter: “We need to execute people like John Walker in order to physically intimidate liberals, by making them realize that they can be killed, too.” (more…)

MLK March Alamogordo, NM 1/19/09

I live in a Republican county and some Republicans here, bless their hearts, don’t really understand what a liberal really stands for.  So they make stuff up, or more aptly, they repeat the words of their great conservative teachers, Rush Limbaugh and Bill O’Reilly from radio and TV.

In their definition of liberals they say the same things over and over as if we all alike “singing the same tune”.  They are not only out of touch with reality, but also tone deaf!   However we liberals do agree on some points.  For example: We tend to care about other people, many of whom we don’t even know—even people from other countries.  We believe that everybody should get an even break in life such as access to a good education and health care.

Our Republican neighbors don’t understand and are afraid that we want to take away all their money and will ruin the moral fabric of the country.  Here is my answer to their comments, which you have probably already heard and which I will therefore omit. (more…)

Denise Lang
Executive Director Peace and Justice of La Luz

The film, V Day Until the Violence Stops, will be shown twice on Saturday, Jan. 17, at 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. at the New Mexico State University-Alamogordo campus in the Technical Education (Pro-Tech) Building, Room 128. (NE side of campus) The subject is how people are working to end violence, reclaim peace, and to celebrate women’s sexuality and strength. Admission is free!

Peace and Justice of La Luz (Pajoll) proudly supports 2009 events to help celebrate women, their strength and their sexuality.  Pajoll is part of Otero County’s Take Back the Night Committee, bringing a controversial documentary film to Alamogordo to share with community members.