The Father of LSD

The father/inventor of LSD died today. The acid caused numerous deaths and lives to be altered states forever in the 60s & 70s. Art Linkletter's daughter jumped from a high rise window to her death while on LSD. It was the psychedelic drug of the 60s. To read more about the subject, click on the underlined link above. The video of The Bicycle Song dedicated to him .


We have other drugs, probably worse than LSD today, but not by much. I was a child of the 50s and 60s. I thank God everyday I was never a drug user. I might have done a few too many alcoholic drinks on occasion, however, I was never hooked on it.

Please teach your children to avoid drugs, alcoholic drinks and cigarettes at all cost. They are the "robbers" of your life as well as your family's lives. They can literally destroy you from the inside out each time you use any of them. They are all powerful hypnotic drugs. Please ask your doctor for pamphlets about drugs, alcohol and cigarettes. You can read and discuss the negative effects of them with your children. To be forewarned is to be forearmed. Don't let drugs put you in a casket like the one shown above!

Please pass along the love and kindness in your life as bread on the waters. May God grant you peace, love and harmony everyday and the strength to rise above the stress of of life!

GA Peach

ST. PATRICK'S DAY IN DUBLIN, IRELAND

IF YOU THINK WE GOT TROUBLES ON ST. PADDY'S DAY IN SAVANNAH, GA, USA, CHECK OUT THIS ARTICLE AND WEB SITE LINK FOR DUBLIN, IRELAND!

Dublin throws diverse St. Patrick parade
By SHAWN POGATCHNIK, Associated Press Writer
Sat Mar 17, 12:58 PM ET

DUBLIN, Ireland - Lithuanian musicians, drum-beating Punjabis and West African dancers used Dublin's St. Patrick's Day parade on Saturday to celebrate their place in a booming Ireland that has become a land of immigrants.

One man dressed as St. Patrick in papal hat and sunglasses did the samba, while another float nearby featured "Miss Panty," Dublin's premier drag queen.

Dublin's freewheeling parade drew a half-million spectators and included Christine Quinn, the first openly gay leader of the New York City Council. Quinn is boycotting the more conservative New York parade because the organizers refuse to let gay and lesbian groups march.

This year, she accepted an Irish government invitation to be part of the Dublin City Council contingent.

"The fact I'm here in Dublin and able to march and participate in inclusive events should send a message of how backwards the New York parade is," said Quinn.

The Irish economy has been booming for the past 13 years, drawing immigrants from around the world to the country — and its festivities.

"Nowadays there's far more color in the parade. It's great to see all our new Irish from across the world dressed up in green," said Prime Minister Bertie Ahern, who normally spends St. Patrick's Day in the United States but returned overnight after visiting President Bush in the White House.

The parade also featured about a dozen U.S. high school and college bands.

The leader of Ireland's 4 million Roman Catholics, Archbishop Sean Brady, appealed to Ireland to remember the religious roots of the holiday in this rapidly secularizing, heavy-drinking land.

"The challenge for all of us is to be consistent and coherent, not just in honoring Patrick with our lips and our parades, but with our hearts and lives — to honor what he really represents by earnestly trying to embody it in our own lives," Brady said.

More than 1,000 police were on duty to deal with expected alcohol-fueled trouble in the evening, following widespread drunkenness that led to 700 arrests in 2005 and lesser trouble last year.

Dublin liquor stores were ordered closed until 4 p.m. to deter public drinking until well after the parade concluded.

This was the first St. Patrick's Day period when police have been empowered to breathalyze drivers randomly on road checkpoints — a new law that resulted in 60 arrests in the hours before the parade.

On the Net:

St. Patrick's Festival, http://www.stpatricksday.ie/cms/home.html
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It just goes to demonstrate the grass is not always "greener" (I just had to say it.) on the other side of the world! Share the love and kindness in your life as bread on the waters. I am sending you some southern style hugs and good wishes for your week! Tomorrow is the first day of Spring! I detest cold weather but it does have its uses, and the Lord did make the world this way. Who am I to argue with him? I am just a GA PEACH hailing from Sugartown and proud to be here!