Patient Dumping - Cruel and Ugly

It has been in the news recently that a Nevada mental hospital has taken patients and put them on a bus with a one way ticket to a distant city to fend for themselves with no support structure. The report states that they have done this to one thousand five hundred patients. They have sent them to virtually every state. When these victims arrive, many times they have no money and have lost their medication. This is cruel, immoral, and I hope illegal. The people involved should serve jail time and lose all licenses for medical practice.

When I was very young, in the early fifties, we lived only a few miles from the state mental hospital. In those less sophisticated days it was more like a zoo filled with people that had varying degrees of medical problems. Inside the conditions were unsanitary. The staff was poorly trained. Care was haphazard at best. In the warm weather there were caged in areas where the patients could go outside and put their behavior problems on display for the general public. It was not unheard of for people to pack their families into the car and go park along the road where they could watch the "crazies" as an afternoons entertainment. Yes it was indeed sickening.

Starting in the sixties many felt long term institutional care deprived these people of their civil liberties. Lawyers went to court. Judges ruled. Patients were turned loose. They didn't consider it patient dumping then, but that is exactly what it was. They justified their actions by setting up out-patient care facilities to make sure those that needed them could get the drugs that kept them functional. Over time many of these ex-patients just disappeared into the cities and swelled the ranks of the homeless population. I suppose that living on the street was better to most of them than living in the terrible conditions in many of the old hospitals.

It might be time to re-examine those policies that put these people on the street. We have better drugs now. I like to think that patient care has become better and more sophisticated. The streets are a dangerous place to live. Personal care is non-existent.  Food is a sometimes thing. Winter nights can freeze them to death. Hot summer days can dehydrate them to death. We are a smarter and more caring population than we were back then. Maybe it is time to start over.

Chaos

There has always been turmoil in the world. Country A invades country B. Droughts, floods, hurricanes. But it seems lately that the United States is being hit with an increasing amount of turmoil to the point where barely a week goes by without some kind of major news story that attracts the full attention of the news for days on end.

On the other hand there are a bunch of news worthy stories that languish virtually unseen in most major news organizations. The abortion doctor trial was one such story. The liberal media ignored this gruesome story as if it were of no interest. People had to know the inhumanity that was being perpetrated in that so called clinic. Finally the story got so big that the media were forced to give it the attention that it deserved.

Even as far back as “Fast and Furious” the media was picking and choosing what they felt the country should hear and see. They are perfectly willing to print stories that support anti-gun legislation but are less willing to talk about the administration trafficking in arm even to those that hate us. I don’t think that most Americans agree with giving tanks and F-16s to Egypt at this point in history. How many times in recent years have American heavy weapons been used against American troops. They didn't come from gun shows. To continue, go to http://patriotupdate.com/articles/chaos/

The Zero Sum World Of The Liberal

The liberal brain just works different from real people. For one thing they tend to migrate to crowded dirty cities where real people are perfectly willing to let them live. For the most part, they seem to shun the center of the country, preferring the edges. I don't understand why, unless they feel the need for a quick escape, just in case the people in flyover country get unruly. They all seem to have great educations but few problem solving skills. Their most endearing quality is that they all agree.

About what, you ask. About almost everything, I answer. I mentioned the great education thing. Well if you get one of those fine educations, and start out with an empty mind seeking to be filled with knowledge, you will, very likely, come out with it filled with the homogenized gruel that passes for an education today. Finally, they all watch the same news on TV and read the same newspapers. The newspapers have different names but there is little difference in the big liberal broadsheets.

One thing that seems to have become ingrained in their mindset is that we live in a zero sum world. If I succeed, someone someplace must have failed. It had to be because both sides of life's ledger must balance.  The reason Bangladesh starves is because the United States lives well. If this country just weren't so darn rich and comfortable, Kim Jung Un and the Ayatollahs would like us a lot more and "the lion would lie down with the lamb. And a little child shall lead them".

There is a couple of things wrong with that theory. First, it is wrong. Second is that it is really really wrong. Success is a great thing. One of the best things about it is that it is contagious. I like to spend money. I'm a guy. I like stuff. If I have the loot to buy a lot of stuff, people that I do business with will also prosper. OK, so I'm only one person. Not much effect on the economy as a whole created there. But if a few big companies enjoy success the whole economy benefits. Not a loser in the bunch.

The difference between North Korea and South Korea is a perfect example. South Korea invests in success while North Korea seals it's borders and steals from it's people to support the political elite and the military. South Korea is booming with prosperity while North Korea falls deeper into the pit, ranting and screaming, as their failure deepens.

In spite of the efforts to bring the United State down to a level that will make us a more humble member of the international community, which I believe is a deeply founded wish of our President, it isn't going to happen. Americans won't allow it. Even the people that don't pay much attention are starting to catch on. The bombing in Boston was a huge wake up call. The new information that is coming out about Benghazi and being into our fifth year without jobs is beginning to prove the incompetence of our present administration. There will be more. There has to be more. Because the arrogance of our politicians knows no limit.

STOP Mr. President! An open letter.

Stop, Mr. President. Stop. You are out of control. You have no compass. You have lost your map. You know not where you are heading. First of all, that map you had led nowhere but into perdition. As has been said, “The road to hell is paved with good intentions.”. I will admit I am not sure that your intentions were always good.

You, Mr. President, have had over four years to set the economy on the right track. Sir, you have failed. You spend more and more, billing your spending as an investment. It is not an investment. You are wasting the financial strength of a great country because you do not have the knowledge, experience, or training to lead. 

Frankly sir, you are clueless. Mr. Bernanke is either clueless or incompetent. Both of you ignore anyone that has even the most basic understanding of economics and money policy. You have lost the war and are destroying the country. To continue go to http://patriotupdate.com/articles/stop-mr-president-an-open-letter/

Do You Believe In Evil?

I have lived most of my life not believing in evil. I knew that people did evil things, but I could not accept the concept of evil as an entity. The idea of Satan as  a fallen angel seemed so allegorical to me that it had no credence. I am beginning to think that I was wrong. I'm still not ready to accept a physical demon, more evil than all others. I am beginning to believe in evil as a force.

As I look at photographs of people like the Kims of North Korea, the two brothers that bombed the Boston marathon, the Fort Hood shooter, Hasan, there is an abnormal coldness in their. A lack of humanity. They seem to not care for anyone or any thing. Even their own lives have no value or joy. Hedonism seems to be their accepted method of justifying their existence.

I am reminded of the Shia concept of the hidden Imam. The world must devolve into chaos before the Imam will show himself to lead the way to truth and Sharia law where no woman will ever be safe again. There is no love or sense of peace there. There is not even a sense of human fulfillment. There is just a hollow feeling of apostasy.

Dante's Inferno and the paintings of Hieronymus Bosch tried to give the world a look at evil. But that was evil as conceived by man. It seems to me that the only way to understand true evil is in the deep dark recesses of the mind. All that can be shown by poet or artist is the physicality of evil. But true evil has no physicality, it has only force. 

I almost used the word power rather than force. But when someone is under the sway of power there has to be a certain acceptance and agreement. When under control of the force of evil, there is no acceptance, only compulsion without thought or remorse. 

It seems that the power of evil has grown in these past years. Is evil getting stronger or is man getting weaker. I know one thing. Man has gotten more careless in thought and deed in recent years. Morals, scruples, and standards are not as important to many as they once were. It just might be time to crawl back from the edge. I don't think we want to fall into that pit. 

Adding Something New

I am adding something new to my blog. I also write a twice weekly column for Patriot Update under my own name, Robert Owen. On days that my column appears I am going post the first paragraph or two on my blog along with a link to the balance of my article.

Anyone wishing to look at my past columns can click on Columns at the top of the page, then Authors, then on my name. I hope you enjoy this additional material.

The Inevitable Has Happened

All of America spent last week in front of TV set rapt in the terrible story coming out of Boston. Never has a news story had this amount of power. Full time coverage live and second by second, from Monday morning when the Boston Marathon started until Friday night when we heard the victorious shout “we got him”, nothing was missed. The cameras got it all. If the professionals missed a shot there were a dozen smart phones that didn’t.

There were faults in the coverage, certainly. That is to be expected. “Experts” with a point of view were interviewed. They tried Their very best to sell that point of view. Most were wrong. Many tried to deny the obvious conclusion that was reached by the average citizen that it was terrorism brought about by jihad. Those pundits were, as they so often are, wrong. Real Americans got it. To continue go to  http://patriotupdate.com/articles/the-inevitable-has-happened/

We Are Not Who You Think We Are

You little fools. You think that you know us. You think that you understand us. I will tell you right now, that your warped little minds are incapable of understanding us. Do you really think that your puny little bombs terrify us? Do you think that your feeble attacks drive us to our beds to hide under the covers? Do you really think that we are shallow little people who will never strike back? You are wrong. I tell you that you are wrong and history will tell you, if you ever deigned to read any, that you are wrong. Read the words of Admiral Yamamoto after the attack on Pearl Harbor.

We are a friendly, caring, and forgiving people. We are not a weak people. We do not go insane and parade in the streets screaming like little children because of some perceived insult. We do not shred the flesh of innocent women and children under any circumstances.

We are a great country both in size and in presence. We are the giant that tolerates the gnat. So take your peace in that. Be assured that our tolerance has it’s limits. You are fortunate. Right now this country is run by those who haven’t the stomach to right wrongs as they should be. We are in the thrall of people that live by political correctness and fear strong action. This will not be forever.

On Patriots Day, Boston was subject to a cowardly attack. Some died, many  were harmed. Go to Boston today and talk to the people on the street. Ask them about their fear. They will laugh in your face. Boston is not a city that fears. Boston is a city that never forgets. Boston is a city that seeks retribution.

We know your name. We know where you were born. We will know where you are now. We will know the name of the person or government, that financed your operation. So start looking over your shoulder. Start now. Maybe you will know that retribution has arrived. Or maybe retribution will arrive in the form of an explosion larger than you can conceive of. You may hear it coming or it may arrive silently in the night. Is that a hawk over head or a drone? You never know.

You go to your training camps, a few hundred at a time, at most. You run around for a few months waiving pitiful excuses for weapons and describe yourselves as warriors. You are not warriors. You are pale shadows of fighting men and will never understand the mind of a true warrior. You are thugs, gangsters, and miscreants. You are a sorry pitiful lot with little pride and no honorable standards.

So, you have been warned. I know that you do not take this warning seriously. Your type never does. But be aware, soon we will have serious people in place to correct these wrongs. For your comfort, you probably will not suffer. You will just no longer be.