Jeffrey Castanon

San Diego, Ca

2009-10-27T19:18:00.000-07:00

Health Care Reform Commercial

2009-09-09T23:36:00.000-07:00

I just saw a commercial from Patients United Now in which a woman says that she had brain cancer, and her Canadian health care wouldn't treat her for 6 months. Supposedly, the only reason she is alive now is because she sought care in America. Here is the link to the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWxcv0Dummk

1) The writers of the health care bill have been more than clear that the new bill will not reflect the Canadian health care system.
"We are not Europe. We are not Canada... We need a uniquely American solution. It
has to be a partnership of public and private players." -Sen. Max Baucus

2) Shona Holmes explains to have a 'brain tumor' and if she had waited for 6 months to get treatment in Canada she would be dead. So what she is saying is that she has a malignant brain tumor that is going to kill her within 6 months? False. Shona Holmes was diagnosed with a Rathke's cleft cyst. Although the Cyst is rare, and can cause headaches and vision problems, IT IS NOT DEADLY. Seriously, don't believe me? Read the case study for yourself: http://www.mayoclinic.org/patientstories/story-339.html

Why are organizations like Patients United Now so afraid of health care reform that they feel it necessary to misconstrue information to the American public? Maybe because Patients United Now is supported by companies such as Blue Cross, Pfizer, Kotch Industries, CIGNA, and Altria (formerly Phillip Morris).
So, you can either actually sit down and read the actual health care bill and form an opinion that way. OR, you can let corporate America tell you what is best for you.

Ps: In case you don't know, Altria (Phillip Morris) is the biggest tobacco company in America. Seriously, a tobacco company dares to tell people about what is best for their health? Seriously?

Pendleton Fire

2009-08-31T15:56:00.000-07:00

A particularly beautiful day.

2009-06-04T17:48:00.000-07:00

Aly Quesada Graduation Photos

2009-05-13T21:23:00.000-07:00

Here is the final product of my graduation photo shoot. This is my first attempt at photography of this kind; as well as my first time using a lighting umbrella. I shot this with the Canon 40D, Canon 17-85mm f:4-5.6, Canon 580EX II Flash, Alien Bees Translucent White Umbrella, and the Alien Bees CyberSync wireless remote.

Yucaipa Fire

2009-05-07T18:09:00.000-07:00

A fire broke out East of Crafton Hills today. The fire was quickly contained by ground and aerial fire crews. No homes were destroyed, but an estimated 150 acres were burned.

I tried getting closer, but I was quickly discovered, harassed, and turned around by the Yucaipa Sheriffs Dept.

mewithoutyou - it's all crazy! it's all false! it's all a dream! it's alright

2009-04-28T15:53:00.000-07:00

Mewithoutyou will never be popular, they will never go platinum, gold, or even bronze; and this is what makes their newest album It's all crazy! it's all false! it's all a dream! it's alright truely spectacular.

MWOY is just too talented, too deep, too challenging too to be popular. It is a fortunate truth.

Adding musical characteristics comparable to that of Bob Dylan and Joanna Newsome, MWOY gives the listener a musical experience that is completely unique to the genre; while at the same time exploring relevent spiritual and moral issues through their narrative storytelling. It takes no effort for one to recognize that the band has drastically matured both musically and spiritually.

Please, for the love of God and all that is holy, buy this album. In twenty years your children will thank you.

It’s all crazy ! It’s all false ! It’s all a dream ! It’s alright is set to releases on Vynil and Compact Disc on March 19. Preorder the album now from Itunes or from Tooth and Nail .

Protesters unite against Iraq War.

2009-03-21T18:16:00.000-07:00

Hollywood, Ca.
Six years after the invasion of Iraq protesters gathered to demonstrate against the U.S. occupation of Iraq, Afghanistan and Palestine.

The Great Dictator

2007-05-23T13:13:00.000-07:00

Charlie Chaplin is my hero. His film The Great Dictator serves as one of my favorite films of all time. This is a quotation from his grand speech in the film. It is great to witness how Chaplin's words still resound strongly nearly seventy years after the films release.

Hope... I'm sorry but I don't want to be an Emperor - that's not my business - I don't want to rule or conquer anyone. I should like to help everyone if possible, Jew, gentile, black man, white. We all want to help one another, human beings are like that.

We all want to live by each other's happiness, not by each other's misery. We don't want to hate and despise one another. In this world there is room for everyone and the earth is rich and can provide for everyone.

The way of life can be free and beautiful.

But we have lost the way.

Greed has poisoned men's souls - has barricaded the world with hate; has goose-stepped us into misery and bloodshed.

We have developed speed but we have shut ourselves in: machinery that gives abundance has left us in want. Our knowledge has made us cynical, our cleverness hard and unkind. We think too much and feel too little: More than machinery we need humanity; More than cleverness we need kindness and gentleness. Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost.

The aeroplane and the radio have brought us closer together. The very nature of these inventions cries out for the goodness in men, cries out for universal brotherhood for the unity of us all. Even now my voice is reaching millions throughout the world, millions of despairing men, women and little children, victims of a system that makes men torture and imprison innocent people. To those who can hear me I say "Do not despair".

The misery that is now upon us is but the passing of greed, the bitterness of men who fear the way of human progress: the hate of men will pass and dictators die and the power they took from the people, will return to the people and so long as men die [now] liberty will never perish...

Soldiers - don't give yourselves to brutes, men who despise you and enslave you - who regiment your lives, tell you what to do, what to think and what to feel, who drill you, diet you, treat you as cattle, as cannon fodder.

Don't give yourselves to these unnatural men, machine men, with machine minds and machine hearts. You are not machines. You are not cattle. You are men. You have the love of humanity in your hearts. You don't hate - only the unloved hate. Only the unloved and the unnatural. Soldiers - don't fight for slavery, fight for liberty.

In the seventeenth chapter of Saint Luke it is written " the kingdom of God is within man " - not one man, nor a group of men - but in all men - in you, the people.

You the people have the power, the power to create machines, the power to create happiness. You the people have the power to make life free and beautiful, to make this life a wonderful adventure. Then in the name of democracy let's use that power - let us all unite. Let us fight for a new world, a decent world that will give men a chance to work, that will give you the future and old age and security. By the promise of these things, brutes have risen to power, but they lie. They do not fulfil their promise, they never will. Dictators free themselves but they enslave the people. Now let us fight to fulfil that promise. Let us fight to free the world, to do away with national barriers, do away with greed, with hate and intolerance. Let us fight for a world of reason, a world where science and progress will lead to all men's happiness.

Soldiers - in the name of democracy, let us all unite!