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Wives in ads, kids on the bus as GOP voting nears
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Mentally ill flood ER as states cut services -Wives in ads, kids on the bus as GOP voting nears
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A West Georgia Sheriff is defending his deputy’s decision to arrest, handcuff and jail a mentally challenged student who acted up in the classroom.
Tessie Collins, 17, was booked into the Haralson County Jail on Tuesday on charges of simple battery and obstruction of a law enforcement after a school resource officer witnessed her pinch a student and a teacher at Haralson County High School.
“The officer had to do something,” Sheriff Eddie Mixon told Channel 2’s Mike Petchenik. “In my opinion, it was handled with kid gloves. You got to stop it. That’s our job, it’s to stop the violence.”
Mixon said Collins was released from jail on her own recognizance several hours after her arrest.
“I’m furious,” said Tessie’s mother, Ann Collins.
Collins told Petchenik that her daughter has developmental delays that give her the mental capacity of an 8-year-old child. She said the school system is well aware of her daughter’s tendency to pinch people when they “invade her space.”
“She should be secluded by herself or a parent is called to come pick her up,” she said. “It’s just a misunderstanding. She doesn’t know what she’s doing and that should have been taken into consideration.”
Haralson County School Superintendent Brett Stanton wouldn’t discuss the particulars of the incident but told Petchenik he would be investigating what happened.
“I feel I have a responsibility to look into that concern and make sure that, from my standpoint, it’s been reviewed and examined,” said Stanton.
Stanton said there were 150 special education students at the high school. He said the district has procedures in place to deal with each one’s behavior. But, he said, if a student broke the law, it would be up to the school resource officer to handle the situation.
“Just because the student falls into that category of being special education or a student with disabilities, doesn’t mean they are given carte-blanche to break school rules or anything like that,” he said.
http://www.wsbtv.com/news/26808869/detail.html?cxntlid=cmg_cntnt_rssA West Georgia Sheriff is defending his deputy’s decision to arrest, handcuff... more
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Police have arrested an elderly couple on suspicion of the manslaughter of their daughter – who had been left housebound by obsessive compulsive disorder.
Samantha Hancox, 40, was found dead in an armchair by frail parents Ken and Marion at their home in Tipton, in the Black Country.
A post-mortem revealed that the one-time law student – who had a crippling phobia of germs – died from dehydration and a skin infection.
Paramedics had been called to the house by her disabled mother Marion, 77, and father Ken, 76, who thought she was in a coma – but were told that she had died.
West Midlands officers later arrested the couple on suspicion of manslaughter. They are currently on bail while detectives continue an investigation into the death.
Former factory worker Marion said: 'How could they arrest us? We didn’t kill her, it was the OCD. She was our daughter and we loved her.
'She just gave up her fight against it, she was so terrified of germs.
'She would scrub her hands all the time and wouldn’t let anybody into the house except me and Ken.
'Ken would make all her food and drinks for her because I can hardly walk.
'It’s heartbreaking to lose a daughter like that, we loved her.'
Mr Hancox, who has bone cancer, has told of the heartbreaking moment when he realised he had lost his daughter, who had been eating less before her death.
'The night before I had given her a drink of pop and thought she was fine,' he said.
'I went in the next morning and thought she was sleeping.
'Later Marion checked on her and said she thought she was in a coma.
'We called the ambulance who looked at her, then the police came and there were about 30 of them here.
'Later we were taken to the police station and kept for seven hours while they questioned us.'
Samantha suffered from acute obsessive compulsive disorder, which gave her a crippling phobia of germs. She constantly scrubbed her hands and needed around-the-clock care from her elderly parents because she was too scared to cook.
The troubled woman would also shower for 20 hours a day and spent all her time cocooned in the front room watching TV.
She was Mr and Mrs Hancox's only child and enjoyed a normal early childhood growing up in Tipton.
But at the age of 10 she was badly affected by the death of her grandmother, Molly.
Mrs Hancox said: 'That really shook Sam up. Molly went into hospital but she never came out, she would have died anyway but Sam thought the hospital killed her.
'We lost a lot of relatives in a very short time and that is when it began.'
By the age of 14 Samantha’s condition was so serious that she had to leave school and was cared for at home by her parents.
Three years later she took her O-levels before she started studying law at Dudley College – but left before finishing her course when her phobia worsened.
'From the age of about 25 she got really bad,' added Mrs Hancox.
'She just stayed here in the house because she was too scared to go out.
'There was a fog in the house from her showering, she would be in there 20 hours a day sometimes, trying to get herself clean.'
Samantha died in May last year. She began to go downhill fast when her father went into hospital for four days in April to have an operation on his prostate.
Mr Hancox said: 'That was what made her really struggle because she thought I would bring germs home with me.
'When I went into the hospital she told me not use the lift, as she said I would get germs on my hands from the buttons. It killed me going up the stairs but I did it for her.
When I came out she had gone off her food, she used to eat lots and lots but she hardly ate anything, just a bit of pizza or quiche.'
Mr Hancox says he should have been given more help to care for his daughter by Sandwell Social Services.
'When I came out of hospital I should have been resting, I had a disabled wife and a sick daughter and no-one gave us any help,' he added.
'We couldn’t cope but no-one came to help us.'
Sandwell Council was unavailable for comment last night.
A West Midlands Police spokesman said: 'We can confirm that a 76-year-old man and a 77-year-old woman were arrested on suspicion of manslaughter and are currently on police bail, pending further inquiries.'
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1354184/Police-arrest-parents-death-OCD-woman-severe-germ-phobia.html#ixzz1DCsI6vFCPolice have arrested an elderly couple on suspicion of the manslaughter of their... more
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Australian police are using Taser guns against people with mental illness in a disproportionately high number of cases, a five-year study says.
Specialist forces in Victoria used Tasers in 83 incidents - 85% of cases involved a person with a mental illness and 28% of those targeted were unarmed.
The Federation of Community Legal Centres, which commissioned the study, said it showed "systemic problems".
The use of Tasers by police in Australia provoked public anger earlier this month when a video was released of a man being receiving 13 Taser shocks from police in Western Australia.
more at link...
Welcome to the globalization of police.Australian police are using Taser guns against people with mental illness in a... more
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as several mental handicap patients are fighting for equal rights. and we extend them those rights should they not face the same court punishments as some one with out the handicap?
or are we still a 2 faced society that grant special treatment to people who find ways to justify their actions even though they were criminal?as several mental handicap patients are fighting for equal rights. and we extend them... more
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Jack Dykinga was the first Chicago Sun-Times photographer ever to win the Pulitzer Prize, honored for a somber series of stark photographs taken in 1970 at state schools for the mentally retarded in Illinois. After the photographs were published, there was a large public outcry of outrage. In response, Illinois government officials canceled their plans to reduce funding supporting the State Department of Mental Health.
This piece includes a number of black&white photographs from Dykinga's striking Pulitzer Prize Portfolio.
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2007/03/03/photo-portfolio-of-the-day-the-mentally-ill-in-illinois-1971/Jack Dykinga was the first Chicago Sun-Times photographer ever to win the Pulitzer... more
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the homogenization of mental illness can't all be a bad thing can it? it might give rise to methods and modes of increased success with the illnesses we already have instead of lending themselves to future untreatable dis-eases.
Maybe, but, perhaps not, perhaps such mental illnesses play a role in our perspective and understanding of the natural world surrounding us. it may be that these afflictions can shed light on another side of humanity. Does everything happen for a reason? you decide.the homogenization of mental illness can't all be a bad thing can it? it might... more
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Pennhurst, a school for the mentally ill and disabled, was closed in 1986 due to overcrowding and abuse of patients. The ruins have stood mostly untouched to this day, tucked away in Spring City, PA, a suburb of Philadelphia.
The huge, decaying campus hides in a forest just out of sight from the daily life of Spring City. Come with us on a tour of this fascinating modern ruin. Don't stay after dark!
For more information on Pennhurst, visit http://www.PreservePennhurst.com/
For more information specific to this video, email Pennhurst@LarryNocella.comPennhurst, a school for the mentally ill and disabled, was closed in 1986 due to... more
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Chip Ward is a Library Director in Utah who is seeing first hand where the homeless and mentally ills are finding shelter. Chip explores a few of the individuals that come by often. How the system is set up not to help but to hurt these poor individuals.
""here is hope, however. After decades of studies by various task forces, followed by experiments by local governments, a consensus has emerged that the most effective way to help chronically homeless people is to stabilize them in housing first and then offer treatment. Social scientists and policy-makers have concluded, logically enough, that it is hard to "get better" while living in a stressful, demeaning, and unstable environment and easier to recover when one feels safe and secure.
This "housing first" strategy isn't cheap, but it is far more realistic and effective than requiring people to get better as a prerequisite for housing - and it costs much less than failing the way we do now. Salt Lake County, like many local governments, has created a ten-year plan to end homelessness based on housing-first principles. The wheel of reform is moving slowly, however, and many people who need help now will suffer and die on the street before things can turn their way (if they ever actually do). And the librarians at the City Library and the good citizens of Salt Lake will watch them struggle daily, while waiting for saner policies to take hold.""Chip Ward is a Library Director in Utah who is seeing first hand where the homeless... more
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Companies that have run ads on the Glen Beck show are pulling them. (It's about time)Companies that have run ads on the Glen Beck show are pulling them. (It's about... more
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GOP politics are being reduced to a terrifying absurdity. Obama tags, right wing terrorists and a great white hope fill the Republican imagination. Republicans are praising right wing terrorists. Republicans are joking about Obama Tags and political assassination while longing for a great white hope. The sky is turning grey and Republicans are losing their collective mind.
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Are the Republicans really going crazy, or is this just politics as usual?GOP politics are being reduced to a terrifying absurdity. Obama tags, right wing... more
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One Marine said, "I see the way propaganda and information war is waged on America's sons and daughters, and how patients are treated when they have a vaccine reactions," adding, "That should trouble all Americans." (emphasis added)
One soldier that Wagner interviewed said that the military flu vaccine issue "is the worse cover-up in the history of the military. When the issue, I believe, of the use of the vaccine comes out, I believe it will make the Walter Reed scandal pale in comparison."
CDC targeting pregnant women for an H1N1 vaccine contradicts its own advice.
In New ACIP Guidelines: Guidance for Vaccine Recommendations in Pregnant and Breastfeeding Women updated version (May 5, 2008), CDC refers to the live attenuated influenza vaccine LAIV), commonly called “live vaccine,” reporting:
1. “If a live-virus vaccine is inadvertently given to a pregnant woman, or if a woman becomes pregnant within 4 weeks after vaccination, she should be counseled about the potential effects on the fetus.”
2. “Live vaccines pose a theoretical risk to the fetus.”
3. A chart in this CDC report specifically designates "pregnant women" as persons who “should not be vaccinated with LAIV.”One Marine said, "I see the way propaganda and information war is waged on... more
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As the title notes more advertisers are pulling their ads from the Glenn Beck program. Earlier this week, it was reported that 36 advertisers were pulling their spots, but now, that number has increased to 46. Some of the more notable companies that dropped their support are
Applebee’s, Bank of America, Bell & Howell, DirecTV, General Mills,Kraft, Regions Financial Corporation, Vonage, Geico, LexisNexis', Lawyers.com, Progressive Insurance and SC Johnson.As the title notes more advertisers are pulling their ads from the Glenn Beck program.... more
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Conservative media figures are blasting Democrats for trying to draw political gain from the death of Senator Ted Kennedy. But on Thursday, it was one of their own -- former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee -- who went there.
The 2008 Republican presidential candidate suggested during his radio show, "The Huckabee Report," on Thursday that, under President Obama's health care plan, Kennedy would have been told to "go home to take pain pills and die" during his last year of life.
"[I]t was President Obama himself who suggested that seniors who don't have as long to live might want to consider just taking a pain pill instead of getting an expensive operation to cure them," said Huckabee. "Yet when Sen. Kennedy was diagnosed with terminal brain cancer at 77, did he give up on life and go home to take pain pills and die? Of course not. He freely did what most of us would do. He choose an expensive operation and painful follow up treatments. He saw his work as vitally important and so he fought for every minute he could stay on this earth doing it. He would be a very fortunate man if his heroic last few months were what future generations remember him most for."Conservative media figures are blasting Democrats for trying to draw political gain... more
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It's no longer the end of the beginning but the beginning of the end for the haters out there. The thin veil of decency and decorum as come clean off because the lack the intellectual prowess to maintain the facade. Now that they can no longer hide it will be easy to call them out and expose them for what they truly are. The man declaring himself a proud terrorist is well within his rights to do so. The elected official enthusiastically agreeing with him is in serious violation and needs to be removed from office.It's no longer the end of the beginning but the beginning of the end for the... more
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PLAYING THE HEALTH CARE GAME...
We have all watched in amazement as the defaced photos of President Obama as Hitler held by wild eye'd crazy people screaming loudly with no more of a purpose than to disrupt and to stop the Democratic process. These loud mouth antagonists following their seemingly well distrubuted scripts of Anarchy 101. These people who now claim, to be Blue Dog Democrats or, independents etc.. All also claim to be only wanting a different type of health-care reform? When the truth is self evident by any person that would quickly choose a sign of Hitler and swastikas' to taunt as if these evil signs and symbols had something remotely to do with health care. By their own professed actions they show more to be the apostles of the extremist far right locked in "goose-step" with others like them across the country... following the lead of organizations like: NEWSMAX and Christopher Ruddy, Rush Limbaugh's along with the other hate screaming Neocons and Fascists. It seems rather amazing as after eight years at the helm with Bush, leaving the country on it's knees ruined. Now these over-caffeinated and angry losers, who only want democracy- Only if "they win", are at it again!
We need not forget ~ That some of our goose-stepping colleagues have been assigned to be here.
You can hear some of their voices here among us everyday. They are on a mission... Their own mission to instigate hatred, conflict, discord to disrupt the process and ultimately to destroy Democratic process.
You might ask... Why would they do that? Because, A Democracy is not a "Republic".
You hear their voices twisting the honest need by real people for Obama's Health Care Reform as an "Evil Socialist Plot" to take over the country and the government. These people are deliberately trying to push everyones buttons to cause, a riot and revolt between each other. They want that!!! The truth is, they are nothing more than a group of people with their own agenda that has less to do with Health Care.... and more about their own twisted political beliefs. = > To them.... IT IS ONLY ABOUT THEM!
They want to disrupt this political process by yelling "FIRE" in a crowded movie theatre!
SO NOW.... LETS TALK ABOUT THE REAL ISSUES HERE...
"HEALTH CARE and THE MILKING OF THE CASH COW! "
FIRST.... IT IS NOT ABOUT HEALTH CARE: It is all it about MONEY!
The Huge Money that flows into all these MEGA BUSINESSES. Business like; BlueCross, Blue Sheild and all of the other major health care insurance companies. This is all about keeping that money coming into their pockets! This is huge money!!!! BILLIONS!!!! That these industries are making EVERYDAY, EVERY HOUR, EVERY SECOND. All coming from the wallets and the backs of the hard working people across America.
"ALL THEIR DISCUSSION ABOUT HEALTH CARE THIS IS ONLY ABOUT KEEPING THAT MONEY FLOWING INTO THEIR POCKETS!!!! "
The Obama Health Care Reform Plan, when passed will stop that cash flow and their Milking of the "Cash Cow" and that damages their bottom Line! >> THAT IS WHAT THIS IS ALL ABOUT!
(2) IT IS NOT ABOUT THE QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE:
Every one of these Paid Government elected Politicians are lying through their teeth about how bad Government run Healthcare is . Because All of them have "Government Run Healthcare" themselves. (AND THEY ALL LOVE IT !)
(3) WAKEUP!!!
Health Insurance Companies have been bleeding all of us with as much money as they can get from our pockets !
(4) THE HEALTH CARE INDUSTRIES ARE ADDICTED THAT MONEY:
They are addicted to that cash flow like a drug. Like any addict or Junky... they will: LIE, CHEAT and, STEAL in order to continue that cash flow and keep that (MONEY/DRUG) coming in.
What we are all witnessing on all media everyday are these Addicts doing everything and anything to continue to protect their overcharging of population by Billions and Trillions of Dollars !!!
THAT IS WHAT THIS IS ALL ABOUT !PLAYING THE HEALTH CARE GAME...
We have all watched in amazement as the defaced... more
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Rep. Darrell Issa, Republican of California has sent a letter to White House Counsel Gregory B. Craig, asking for more information into their effort to collect information about the opponents of Obama's health care reform by gathering what they were saying or writing.
It brings to mind the image of the "enemies list" that led to the resignation of President Richard Nixon.Rep. Darrell Issa, Republican of California has sent a letter to White House Counsel... more
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Abuse at a Texas school for the mentally disabled is caught on tape.
Sorry you will have to follow the link to see the video since ABC News is the only one with the tape.Abuse at a Texas school for the mentally disabled is caught on tape.
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I have heard it to many times. Jail and prisons are the new mental health hospitals. I spent 9 1/2 months in jail for having a blackout on my medications. I woke in the the night, drove through a stand of trees, took out 8 mailboxes, 2 stop signs and a telephone pole before being stopped by a parked car. When I woke up in a jail cell I FREAKED..... I have my toxicology report. NO alcohol, NO anything, other than 2 of the psych meds I was prescibed in "therapeutic" levels.. The DA told me he needed to go after me harder because I knew I was on drugs and shouldn't have been driving... So there I sat... Riding out an 11-29 (11 mo. 29 days) broke, no license and no way to get to and from probation office or pay fines..I have heard it to many times. Jail and prisons are the new mental health hospitals. I... more
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This is an compelling story similar to my own in a way. I had my first attempt in the 4th grade. I didn't know why I wanted to die, I just did. After writing the note good bye, lacing a piece of cake with strychnine and spraying it with ant killer for extra measure, I laid down. My mother found my note when she got home from work, carried me to the hospital and it was explained away as an accident. I was the "popular kid" in school but always felt the pain of anxiety and depression at my doorstep.
Behind the acts of violence and rage of both the Virginia Tech and Columbine shootings is a larger issue of mental illness in teens that is rarely addressed. For instance:
* The rate of teenage suicide has tripled over the last 60 years –28 teenagers a week now die by suicide.
* Depression and anxiety in adolescents often go unrecognized or untreated for years, and the results can be fatal – over 90 percent of adolescents who die by suicide have a diagnosable mental illness at the time of their death.
While school shootings are rare, signs of mental illness in the perpetrators of these crimes are not. School shooters often have a history of suicide attempts, suicidal thoughts or depression – which makes identifying those conditions through mental health screening critically important.
Cry for Help takes an intimate look at the efforts of two high schools to identify adolescents at risk. Hamilton High School in Ohio and Clarkstown North High School in New York have both been affected by teen suicide and have launched powerful new programs to prevent future tragedies.
Michael Corbin
everyminute.org
everyminute there is an attempted suicideThis is an compelling story similar to my own in a way. I had my first attempt in the... more
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