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The most civilized turkey I've seen so far.

THIS IS JUST HUMOR.

That was in the 20th Century. Now...

Nice day wind was blowing 10-16 mph gonging it @ 200yds

Are your doin' anything different this year.... I know when I worked in the city what it was like during the Holiday Season.....street crimes were way up, no surprise there, they need money. And in the suburbs, malls, supermarkets, parking lots especially at night....stay safe, watch your family members and your 6.

If you have a court order you MUST abied by that order until you RENEW or get a NEW UNRESTRICTED permit

Sorry - too tied up this weekend. Maybe after thanksgiving.

Hey... my mom was a career psych nurse, too! Takes a special kind of person to work with that population.... There were indeed some terrible abuses in the old state psych hospitals. But they should have fixed the abuses, rather than decimating the system without proper replacement. There were other factors, too... such as advancements in psych drugs that experts (wrongly as it turned out) believed would reduce the need for hospitalizations more than they actually did... and the rise of the powerful patient rights movement that, well-intended as it was, has had terrible unintended consequences. Basically, in the effort to fix earlier problems, mental health activists were able to swing the pendulum so far that if went too far in the opposition direction IMO. Now we have a woefully inadequate # of psych beds, and too many seriously mentally ill people bouncing between our jails/prisons, emergency rooms, and homeless encampments. It's hard to argue that what we have today is a more humane or civilized solution, because it's actually not.

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My mom was a psychiatric nurse for 20 years and I'd heard all kinds of fucked up stories. In a nutshell, ha ha, nut shell... anyway, to put it simply, imprisoning people for being crazy had become politically unpopular because of the horror stories of abuse at the "asylums". One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest had a tremendous social impact and put all mental institutions into question.

This is actually what I was getting at. Why where mental health facilities torn down and not replaced? Because it is more lucrative to continually treat with drugs. More the 1/3rd of Americans have been prescribed anti-depressants. Many drugs have suicidal or homicidal thoughts as side effects. Big pharma needs to be held accountable, not gun manufacturers. But big pharma will not be held accountable because they are the largest lobbying industry, spending twice as much on buying politicians as the 2nd biggest industry.

Sunday Smiles – HotAir

Welcome aboard! I grew up in Vernon, where everyone knows it is called Taylor Ham!