3,181 Comments Posted by Lynne

WOWZA!

Truly marvelous.

The combination of yellows and blues has been stunning.

You have such a distinctive style when you do places like this. I enjoy these immensely.

Top ten! Top ten!

Love the composition, color, and texture.

This is a particularly striking shot. I really love it!

Sketch, you don't actually have to BECOME a doctor, you just have to tell people you ARE one. ;-)

Oh Jebus, I'm dyin' here! 8`-)

Why, yes indeed you did, young lady! 6 points for you! :-)

Sketch --> "Yeah, it looks like nothing more than debris to me..."

Or maybe . . . . . . . derbies? ;-)

That's our Motts. 8`-)

No, Luke, I'm a piece of crap to people like you. And I don't mind that one bit, considering the source. [beams happily]

"Who cares how you treat patients nowadays" <-- now that's a piece of work, y'all. 8`-)

Ack! I didn't mean that ~Me was a piece of crap, just ME! Damn you, ~Me, you sure make all this corn-fusing! 8`-)

Anyways, Sketch, thankee kindly. Yes, I do get in trouble for bending the rules on a very regular basis. There is a major irony in bureaucracies doing "people" work. There is a way to run a large organization and there is a way to run a "people" organization, and they do not target the same goals. To be a "people person" in a bureaucracy means you have to fight every day, but it's a good fight and an honest fight - it's a fight to get the needed resources to the people who truly need them and to fix the bureaucracy to work for the same goals. You do that and you're a winner all around.

In my humble piece of crap opinion. :-)

I hope someone is listening. Tough work, crappy hours, rotten pay, being aggressed against on an intermittent (if you're lucky) basis by some very dangerous people, and then being treated like dirt by "outsiders" who think all that ever happened was torture, mutilation, abuse, and murder. It's enough to piss a body off some days.

As well, when people act like the folks who lived in these places were nothing more than innocent souls whipped off the streets for the fun and amusement of the staff, it degrades the people who were sent here to live. The majority of these folks had some pretty serious issues going on. Years ago it was fairly easy to get committed somewhere. That has not been the case for many a long year. In the past several years I have sometimes spent weeks trying to get even a temporary commitment for someone who was suicidal/homicidal. The irony is that had the person gone through with the act before I was able to get them committed, *I* was the one who would have been sued. [Tarasoff v. Regents of the University of California]

Institutions - not always a fun place to work, not always a fun place to live. Sure beats the streets and shelters most of the time, and the folks who did their good deed by "freeing all the inmates" now get to hear about them dying by the truckload every winter down by the railroad tracks or under the local bridges, assuming their deaths even make it on the news.

Yes, yes, yes, lots of nasty stuff happened in these places. Some people shoulda gone to jail for it. That's a fact. However, the jerks who never gave enough money to these places shoulda gone to jail with the staff who were abusive. At least the abusers only hurt one or two people at a time. The people who denied funding to these places hurt/killed thousands of people at once by their penny-pinching antics. Now the abuse happens on the streets with no one to watch it happen and precious few people to intervene.

Once again, rather than being a little Johnny-one-note and bitching and whining about what hell-holes/ghost pits these places were/are, I am hoping to Christ y'all (especially those of you who constantly come on here and bleed about this) are getting off your asses and getting out there and doing something about it. If you're gonna talk the talk, walk the damn walk.

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This was your evening "public service rant du jour". We now return you to your regular programming where you can talk about how morbid and gruesome and pitiful these places are, how many tortured souls' ghosts you see floating about, and about how all the developmental centers sucked - you just don't care what the people who worked there say - they were obviously all assholes anyway. :-)

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