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2017-07-03

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Posted by Fred 2017-07-03 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11130 views ] Top

#1 Sorry, but I don't do Valium. And for some reason I only get schitzo when I see someone go around a mud puddle... <:-0

Posted by Huporong Oppressor of the Weak3828 2017-07-03 01:57|| 2017-07-03 01:57|| Front Page Top

#2 I occasionally read about Ultra-Marathoners, you know, the folks who run 30 marathons in 30 days. I would propose a 5 month program: Month 1, 5k a day. Month 2, 10 K a day. Month 3, 20K a day. Month 4, 30K a day. Month 5, a marathon(42K) a day. That would calm them down and send them back with vastly improved health (except for knees), and they would have lost all interest in sex so that solves a secondary problem.

Posted by Beau 2017-07-03 07:05|| 2017-07-03 07:05|| Front Page Top

#3 Day after day we get stories about people who just ain't right.

Cause covering 'normal' people doesn't sell. It's boring. So you get a lot of 'not right'. What is it, 5 or 6 billion of us on this planet. Statistics say .001 percent is still a large amount with those numbers.

Part of the problem, there are fewer 'adults' around to shut down the whiners who keep pushing abnormal as normal. No its not normal. Quite trying to sell it, rationalize it as 'normal'. It's all part of trying to destroy civilization and society, the Year 0 cult.

Posted by Procopius2k 2017-07-03 07:32|| 2017-07-03 07:32|| Front Page Top

#4 The turbans would never take valium or bacon. Purity of the mind and body and all that. It would be cheaper and less bloody than all the fireworks.

Posted by Woozle and Company4485 2017-07-03 09:04|| 2017-07-03 09:04|| Front Page Top

#5 I have wondered about this in modern times. I find it dubious at best that there are more nuts than before, I just don't know when we started to listen to them or more importantly why.

That joker with the vegetables was a piece of work. OK, just how deviant to you have to be with the produce isle to get Life? Almost certainly a Lefty.

Posted by Cesare 2017-07-03 09:51|| 2017-07-03 09:51|| Front Page Top

#6 I find it dubious at best that there are more nuts than before

As more and more people are trained as shrinks and psychologists, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5) get expanded to include more and more categories of behavior. More categories of behavior outside the norms, ensures more work for the shrinks.

Posted by JohnQC 2017-07-03 10:08|| 2017-07-03 10:08|| Front Page Top

#7 Charlie Manson, asked about a judge who declared him insane, answered "Sanity is relative. I think the judge is insane."

Liberals I know always blame Reagan for closing the mental hospitals. They say that's why we have so many homeless people on our streets and in our urban riverbeds. But what would they think if the men in the white coats got after Nancy Pelosi? I tend to believe we have so many homeless people because somebody feeds them and gives them money. But what would Jesus do? Lock them up? All I know is when you ride the San Diego Trolley and somebody sits next to you who is talking to himself and smells like pee it's unpleasant.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2017-07-03 10:22|| 2017-07-03 10:22|| Front Page Top

#8 And, lest it be forgotten: GET YOUR GOAT, YOU'VE PULLED Sick revellers at Oxford toff bash ‘romped with a goat’ during debauched uni party

With Social Media, the asylum now comes to you. And, of course, Facecrap now believes itself to be a substitute for religion. http://religionnews.com/2017/06/28/how-facebook-is-like-church-according-to-founder-mark-zuckerberg/

Interesting times...

Posted by Anomalous Sources 2017-07-03 11:58|| 2017-07-03 11:58|| Front Page Top

#9 Abu, I thought it was Bobby Kennedy, Sr. Who was responsible for the closing of the mental hospitals. He called them snake pits.

Posted by Rambler in Virginia 2017-07-03 12:08|| 2017-07-03 12:08|| Front Page Top

#10 #8 Hemingway?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2017-07-03 12:20|| 2017-07-03 12:20|| Front Page Top

#11 Rambler, I don't know who it was. But I've heard stories about the operation that Joseph Kennedy Sr. authorized for his daughter.

And, grom, I read about that goat story too. I could be wrong but I don't think #8 is Hemingway.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2017-07-03 13:13|| 2017-07-03 13:13|| Front Page Top

#12 It isn't.

Posted by Pappy 2017-07-03 13:22|| 2017-07-03 13:22|| Front Page Top

#13 #7 Abu Uluque. Liberals I know always blame Reagan for closing the mental hospitals.

The movement to close large mental hospitals started long before Reagan. Thomas Szasz was involved in this movement to close mental asylums. Community-based approaches were favored as alternative to institutionalization as early as the 1960s. The movement for community-based treatment programs tended to peter out when the money petered out. The large hospitals were closed but the community-based programs did not seem to catch on or garner money and the inmates were just turned out into the streets. Many of these people were really nuts and needed institutionalization. The result is that the police and jails ended up as the front-line intervention. People, if they exhibited craziness, as long as it wasn't criminal, would be taken into the jail, held briefly, detoxed if appropriate, and then released back to the streets. This cycle tended to repeat itself.

Posted by JohnQC 2017-07-03 13:55|| 2017-07-03 13:55|| Front Page Top

#14 Thereby the question mark.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2017-07-03 14:01|| 2017-07-03 14:01|| Front Page Top

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