If Obama is as smart as I think he is and if he really cares about this Nation like I think he does

and if he must use a tragedy to enact legislature then what he should PUSH THROUGH is a real Honest To Goodness HealthCare Bill.

Mental Health has been negligently defunded for the last twenty years and we are beginning to reap the sad benefits of that which we did not tender or sow.

Do you know how many mental facilities have been closed due to defunding? Do you know how

swamped are our ERs with mental health issues? Do you know how hard it is to have someone committed and how easy it is for them to sign themselves out in 72 hours? Do you know how hard it is to get someone declared incompetent and adjucated?

It is fucking HARD>>>>>

OBAMA: NOW IS YOUR CHANCE!!! PUSH THROUGH A NATIONAL HEALTHCARE PROGRAM. ENACT TO TAKE CARE OF OUR MENTALLY ILL.

SHOW THAT YOU CARE ABOUT THOSE OF OUR NATION WHO ARE HOMELESS AND WITHOUT HOPE.

CHANGE THEIR LIVES FOR THE BETTER. GET THEM THE HELP AND MEDICATION THAT THEY NEED TO SHUT OFF THE VOICES IN THEIR HEADS.

ONSET OF SCHIZOPHRENIA IN OUR YOUNG PEOPLE MANIFESTS AT ABOUT THE AGE OF NINETEEN!!!!!!

THEY ARE SCREAMING FOR HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

HELP US HELP THEM.

People: if nothing else please see two movies ---

A Beautiful Mind
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0268978/
Biopic of the famed mathematician John Nash and his lifelong struggles with his mental health. Nash enrolled as a graduate student at Princeton in 1948 and almost immediately stood out as an odd duck. He devoted himself to finding something unique, a mathematical theorem that would be completely original. He kept to himself for the most part and while he went out for drinks with other students, he spends a lot of time with his roommate, Charles, who eventually becomes his best friend. John is soon a professor at MIT where he meets and eventually married a graduate student, Alicia. Over time however John begins to lose his grip on reality, eventually being institutionalized diagnosed with schizophrenia. As the depths of his imaginary world are revealed, Nash withdraws from society and it's not until the 1970s that he makes his first foray back into the world of academics, gradually returning to research and teaching. In 1994, John Nash was awarded the Nobel prize in Economics.

and

We Need To Talk About Kevin
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1242460/
Eva Khatchadourian is trying to piece together her life following the "incident". Once a successful travel writer, she is forced to take whatever job comes her way, which of late is as a clerk in a travel agency. She lives a solitary life as people who know about her situation openly shun her, even to the point of violent actions toward her. She, in turn, fosters that solitary life because of the incident, the aftermath of which has turned her into a meek and scared woman. That incident involved her son Kevin Khatchadourian, who is now approaching his eighteenth birthday. Eva and Kevin have always had a troubled relationship, even when he was an infant. Whatever troubles he saw, Franklin, Eva's complacent husband, just attributed it to Kevin being a typical boy. The incident may be seen by both Kevin and Eva as his ultimate act in defiance against his mother.

Thank you.

couldn't have been out of respect for those families.

nawh.

unh-uh.

no way.

I use my defense weapon when someone is using their assault weapon. Looks like this

What an idiotic thing to say. Her Daddy will have words with her, I "hope" it will "change" her

attitude.

Universal Health Care System Immediately. Fund Mental Health. De-stigmatize depression.

Get our Drug Addicts help and get our Schizophrenics diagnosed and treated. NOW!!!!!!

seems to me that we jumped off the cliff a long time ago and are down in a hole looking up

at the rock they are fixing to push over on top of us.

ok. got it ...

violent media is just another sign or symptom of a larger problem at work here.

The decline of human interaction is feeding on itself.

We are alienating ourselves from ourselves.

The worsening economy. The bleak future for the future generations. The ongoing reliance on machinery and technology allowing for less and less societal norms. Manners and decency are losing in the fight for survival of our most basic human needs: food and shelter.
Who can afford to have morals and ethics in this day and age?

It is manifesting in the seemingly random outbursts of violence as One Individual breaks down depending on their own particular genetic code having been nurtured or the lack thereof.


And, I refuse to blame a tool for the actions taken by whomever happens to be using it at the time - unless there is some actual, mechanical malfunction.

I really wish I could give a shit about the RRHoF but, I just can't muster up the energy.

I never did care. Whole thing seems so UN-rock and rollish to me.

Philosophical Discussions are frowned upon.