I look at the world as a place where goodness SHOULD prevail, but so often does not. What's that old saying, one bad apple spoils the bunch? Ideas that seem so basic and obvious to me seem to ellude so many people. People's agendas get in the way of seeing the real truth.

For instance, we all say we want to be free, but what is freedom exactly? Is freedom in the mind of the beholder, or is it an actual thing? Many people say it's a God given right. Whether or not you believe in God, there are things around us we can touch and feel and all of it comes from the same place. We are all born on this planet the same way, and therefore, no one man is better, inherently, as a being, than someone else. Now through life they my prove themselves to be a poor excuse or great excuse for a person, but I'll save that for another discussion.

I believe that because a human being is a human being, no human has a right over another. I do believe social order is necessary, so within reason people need rules to follow, but to me it all leads back to the same thing, we all should be afforded the same freedom and rights and rules. This comes down to every human on earth until you get to the ones who hurt other people. Once you hurt someone, you are infringing on their right to freedom, therefore, to a certain extent, you forfeit your natural right to freedom.

It is hard to understand how one can stand for freedom, but then desire take other's freedom away. If you have a right to do something, so do I. I was created on this earth, just like you, and your freedom is my freedom. To the point, I think freedom IS a thing, but people turn it into an idea through our morality. I know I fit into that category just like everyone else, but I try my best to figure out what true freedom is. The world is far from a perfect place, and the goodness most of us desire may never prevail. However, if we all aim to treat others as though we all hold freedom in our hands, we can get close. I know we can.

"Free Speech Zones" Those are the things they have in Russia and China to control citizens from protesting the government right? They are usually like a mile away from where the event is actually taking place, and if you go to the actual event to protest you get arrested for protesting outside of the "free speech zone".  That is so draconian right? And that would never happen in America because we have the first amendment right? Free speech as an inherent right, right? Oh wait, that is all we have now in America. When did that happen? Hmmm... When will people wake up and realize our rights are being taken away one by one and "We The People" have about as many freedoms now as they do in China or Russia. Please people, wake up and don't let the freedoms our forefathers fought and died for be taken away.

How come Russia and China are so geographically close to each other yet the people look and speak totally different? These are the things that keep me up at night... I'm sure there is a logical explanation but instead of researching that I'm going to try to figure out how to stop the oil leak in the Gulf. Someone's gotta do it for God sake...

Your next point will probably be that the amount of fluoride in the water is too small to be harmful. That could be true if it weren't for the way our kidney's handle fluoride.

http://www.fluoridealert.org/health/kidney/index.html

So if I drink the recommended amount of water, every day, my entire life, that is a lot of sodium fluoride building up in my body. I for one drink more than the recommended amount most days. So what does too much sodium fluoride affect? Well, the thyroid, a gland important in hormone production and regulation, for one.

http://thyroid.about.com/cs/basics_starthere/a/thyroid101.htm

If this isn't enough, then just read through the MSDS again to see what else it can affect:

3.2 Potential Effects of exposure:     
• Irritating to the mucous membranes, eyes and skin.     
• Risk of cardiac and nervous disorders.     
• Fatalities have been observed after a single dose of 5 grams or mor     
adult weighing 70 kg.     
• Chronic exposure to the product can cause bone or dental fluorosis     

I'm sure by now you're racking your brain to find something to justify your life long buy-in to the idea that fluoride in your water is for you own benefit. Let's say you've come up with that answer and you want to keep taking fluoride. I guess it's fine by me if you want to kill yourself, but I'd like the choice not to personally. If someone wants to take fluoride, why can't they take those handy little pills? No government should force a drug on their population. Do you know another time in history that a population was given fluoride in their water? That's right, in Hitler's Nazi Germany prison camps he gave them fluoridated water to dumb and calm them down.

I'll let you all decide for yourself if you want to fight against giving ourselves and our children a poison every day. I for one own a fairly inexpensive water filtration system that removes the fluoride from my water. That means my pets are also fluoride free. I like to have control over what goes into my body. No one forces me to drink or take drugs, but my government is forcing me to take a substance that is also used as a pesticide. Do they want to get rid of me like I'm an annoying bug? Maybe. We'll talk more about that later.

Contined in blog titled "Sodium Fluoride Part 2"...

Maybe I should start with my favorite time of the day. That would be when I sit down at the table in the morning to eat my breakfast and drink my energy drink. This is my favorite time of day because I've managed to get myself out of bed, I'm getting to eat, and nothing bad has happened yet. Sometimes I let Jude out of his crate, and Sierra, Jude and I all hang out while I have my breakfast and flip through whatever reading material happens to be on the table. The day pretty much always goes downhill from here...

Blog entry one, done.