On Friday, November 17, 2023 at 12:00:02 PM UTC-8, bfh wrote:
Technobarbarian wrote:
On Friday, November 17, 2023 at 10:46:42 AM UTC-8, George.Anthony wrote:
Just when you think liberals have hit the peak of stupidity... No
wonder they aren't capable of pumping their own gas.
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/seattle-voters-hike-taxes-leftist-policies-wonder-things-worse
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Joe Biden could screw up a one float parade.
The last time I checked Seattle wasn't in Oregon. Traditionally it
has been located in Washington. BUT! I have a consolation prize for
you. Actual insanity in Oregon.
"Jury awards Oregon man $1.4M after claiming landlord stole pet cat following mysterious disappearance"
https://nypost.com/2023/11/04/news/jury-awards-oregon-man-joshua-smith-1-4m-after-claiming-landlord-stole-pet-cat-following-mysterious-disappearance/
damn. $1.4M. That must be one hell of a cat. I've never met a cat that
I'd pay more than 78 cents for.
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bill
Theory don't mean squat if it don't work.
I don't think he got anything for the cat. It wasn't his cat in the first place. Even though the original owner eventually got his cat back, he should be suing Josh for at least a million, for pain and suffering, or whatever is worth that kind of
money. I hope he has children who could testify about their suffering for another million or two.
In the meantime we have an insane person who fired off a couple of shots at the Portland airport. Her baby-face lawyer looks like the ink on his license to practice law isn't dry yet and he obviously is not used to speaking in public.
"Woman charged in PDX shooting admitted to opening fire inside airport, had desire to kill family: Court documents"
https://www.kgw.com/article/news/crime/woman-pleads-not-guilty-shots-fired-portland-airport/283-8f4bed6b-693f-4497-aef1-edf1cd3b4a17
This really isn't a good state to be insane in. You have to be seriously dangerous to make it into the big hospital in Salem. You might remember them from a recent story about one of the inmates escaping in one of their vans because someone left
the keys in the ignition. They have limited space and the longest they can keep anyone is one year. After that, if someone is really *really* still really _seriously_ dangerous, they have a smaller, more secure facility. As a general rule most people
are sent back to the communities they came from, where they often cycle between the county jails and less secure facilities.
One of the interesting things about mental health is that the population of our insane asylums kept going up every year--until tranquilizers were introduced.
"Citation
Tone, A. (2009). The age of anxiety: A history of America's turbulent affair with tranquilizers. Basic Books/Hachette Book Group.
Abstract
An estimated 40 million adult Americans suffer from an anxiety disorder. Today, anti-anxiety drugs are a billion-dollar business as we search for serenity through prescription drugs. Our reliance on anti-anxiety medication is a creation of the last half-
century. When the first tranquilizer—Miltown—went on the market in 1955, pharmaceutical executives worried that there wouldn't be interest in stress relief in the form of a pill. At mid-century, talk therapy remained the treatment of choice. But
Miltown quickly became a sensation—the first psychotropic blockbuster in American history. Patients seeking made-to-order tranquility emptied drugstores of the medication, forcing pharmacists to post signs reading "more Miltown tomorrow." By 1957,
Americans had filled 36 million prescriptions. The drug's success revolutionized perceptions of anxiety and its treatment, inspiring the development of other lifestyle drugs including Valium and Prozac. In this book, historian Andrea Tone draws on a
broad array of original sources—manufacturers' files, PDA reports, letters, government investigations, and interviews with inventors, physicians, patients, and activists—to provide the first comprehensive account of the rise of America's tranquilizer
culture. She transports readers from the bomb shelters of the Cold War to the scientific optimism of the Baby Boom generation, to the "just-say-no" pharmaceutical Puritanism of the late 1970s and 1980s to contemporary debates about anxiety and the newest
drugs to treat it. A vibrant history of America's long and turbulent affair with tranquilizers, this book new light on how America became hooked on synthetic solutions to the problem of personal angst. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights
reserved)"
https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2008-08039-000
TB
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