3,181 Comments Posted by Lynne

Thanks, y'all - I didn't have time to hit my head - I was too busy pokin' my eyes out so I didn't have to look at it again. Have we given any thought to "most unusual comments" awards this year?

Amen. I work with a dozen people right now who could scale that without a backward glance. There's toe holds EVERYWHERE! 8`-)

Correct! They aren't used any more for bedroom areas due to the revised fire safety code of several years back.

With the luxury of 20 to 60 years' hindsight under our belts it is easy to say that many things that occurred were terrible and shouldn't have occurred when there were no other alternatives at that time. The true challenge is talking about something that is occurring right now and making sure something gets done immediately rather than waiting until something negative occurs and then complaining that it never should have happened.

However, you need facts and data and experience to find out where the real problems are. If people wait to be told about problems by the press (or by people who are paid to testify for or against something and have a financial stake in things being a certain way) then you have a harder time separating out the facts from the misperceptions, of which there are many. The sorting of the wheat from the chaff is the hardest part of the problem and can only occur if you know the true history of what options were (or weren't) available at the time. But you do need to keep in mind that the public didn't care enough at this time to make sure that this didn't happen by increasing public funding. Most communities worked quite hard to get people who were different placed elsewhere, and for long periods of time, if possible.

Poke at the docs all you want, but they aren't the ones who sent their loved ones away or made laws allowing people to be locked up and have these techniques utilized. Poke at the families, but they had no alternatives as far as community options or funding. Poke at the staff, but they worked long hours with terrible pay doing a damnable job that few would choose, even today. Poke at the people who had the problems, and that will get you nowhere because these are mostly physiological problems.

Sorry - that leaves you and me and our wallets at tax time. Take a poke there and see how many people raise their hands and accept responsibility for the lack of funding and for the lack of interest in people with mental illness and the folks with intellectual disabilities. Bet you'll have damn few takers.

Ask how many would rather blame the docs, the hospitals, the staff, and sometimes the families, and that's where the majority of raised hands will be, because it's easier and we don't like looking in mirrors, especially when the mirror reflects back a distorted image and it's not even a funhouse mirror.

[Thump thump thump]

Just pick a more credible source, please, instead of the black-&-white folks who get paid large consultation fees to say this.

Tee hee! 8`-)

Whatever are you talking about, child?!?!?!?!?!?!?!

Why would aliens need to do it when the doctors, nurses, and state employees had already done all the experimenting and torturing and profiteering? Such an active imagination.

Yes, state workers as well - I say we shoot them all.

Yep. that's us asshat doctors, kin to the fatass nurses who are so damnably lazy. We are all retired now and living off the fat of the land in Florida from the trust funds set up when we manufactured all those bogus medications to torture the people we had sworn to serve.

Detestable swine, aren't we? :-)

Don't know about this particular place, but yes, people have frequently jumped or tried to jump out of upper floor windows at institutional facilities - hence all the bars and mesh wire that people dislike so much.

No, I only had two - I knew my limits - kinda sorta. I'm 5' 1", so three woulda been too much. However, ye olde spousal unit was driving, so I was able to relax and unwind a tad. Still have the little umbrella and sword - reached in my purse for a writing implement at a meeting yesterday and stabbed my finger with the sword, though, so the drink had its revenge several times over. 8`-)

Yes, Truckie, the idea of standing microphones crossed my mind as well.

Jude, Motts is gonna HAVE to do it - otherwise it will fall on some of us to do it for him. >:-)

Voila!

http://www.swiftfirepr...fire_sprinklers.html

Poor Jude got corn-fused and wrote my name twice. Very much like someone else (whose name shall remain hidden but rhymes with "frug") did once (with someone whose name rhymes with "chuckie").
While I am obviously my own biggest (and usually only) fan, even I am not imperious enough to kiss my own hindquarters in public. Well, at least not enough to get caught while doing it - besides it throws my neck out something fierce. :-)