Just a really nice guy
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This whole thead is getting crazy...I need coffee....
Coffee would be nice, have one on me. What we all need is a really good run. I just woke up so I can sleep during the day. Have to get ready for a long run over the weekend. As to the election, I am still praying that there is a major earthquake the night before. One that only wipes out the polling places, or better yet, the voting machines. Along with the earthquake we wake up to find that both McCain and Obama have been arrested for money laundering. Then maybe we could start over. It would be really interesting to have 2 honest candidates running. That has never happened in my lifetime. Layoutshooter
greg334
Veteran Expediter
Well I was going to post last night but…
This is not about issues with Gays or blacks or Catholics or Irish (the list that was complied by reading all the articles on this guy). Tallcal with his knee jerk reaction made it out to be gay bashing again, assuming that the south is behind the times with every issued under the sun, with exception of that horrid money pit chocolate city where everyone lives in complete harmony.
The guy is (was) an unemployed trucker who just lost it – I think Cheri hit it right on the nose, there is a problem with the mental health care in this country. I do not think that McCain will address it but I also know that Obama will never address in the manner it deserves. In order for us to prevent these crimes, we must return to a time when society’s protection was over individual rights – no choice, there is no in between. If we can’t lock him up to force him to get help, then we can’t stop him. I am not saying we need to go to the extremes of Minority Report or back to the absolute “lock them up and forget about them” but something that would have prevented the VT shootings or this. The signs were there for the VT shootings, the court was involved but because the guy had rights, the cost was too high.
This is not about issues with Gays or blacks or Catholics or Irish (the list that was complied by reading all the articles on this guy). Tallcal with his knee jerk reaction made it out to be gay bashing again, assuming that the south is behind the times with every issued under the sun, with exception of that horrid money pit chocolate city where everyone lives in complete harmony.
The guy is (was) an unemployed trucker who just lost it – I think Cheri hit it right on the nose, there is a problem with the mental health care in this country. I do not think that McCain will address it but I also know that Obama will never address in the manner it deserves. In order for us to prevent these crimes, we must return to a time when society’s protection was over individual rights – no choice, there is no in between. If we can’t lock him up to force him to get help, then we can’t stop him. I am not saying we need to go to the extremes of Minority Report or back to the absolute “lock them up and forget about them” but something that would have prevented the VT shootings or this. The signs were there for the VT shootings, the court was involved but because the guy had rights, the cost was too high.
and the costs of denying those rights is also high....no win situation...
case in point..what would you do with a 17 year old druggie and boozer with emotional issues who had bouts of violent outbursts? This kid was thrown into an adult ward in 1967 the dark age before enlightenment...diagnosis..maniac depressive with homicidal/suicidal tendencies....
greg334
Veteran Expediter
I would say give him some help, take the money from the Medicaid system where it all went, and get the guy help. But we won't. A lot of the homeless are mentally ill, some were thrown out of the closing mental institutions where funding was shifted from mental health to medicaid, and welfare.
The dark ages were not the late 60's, that was actually the time where the system was actually making a lot of gains, the dark ages were the 30's. The 70's the need to cut back and than the shift started from mental health to the 'war' on poverty.
Greg....up till the 70's in some regions it was still dark snake pits out there...men attendants built like bulls...dry pacs wetpacs....electro therapy while awake still happened....more as a punishment then a therapy.....
Then I guess my work here is done.
These "common occurences" would be a lot less common if the criminially insane and the common criminals were locked up the way they are supposed to be. Instead, the liberal judges we have presiding over our courts let these crazies roam among the general public because their rights are more important than those of their potential victims. If this guy or the creepy kid that shot up Va. Tech had been institutionalized, the first ones to come to their rescue would have been the ACLU or some other liberal group whining about the violations of their human rights. At this very moment these same liberals are trying to free the terrorists in GITMO, who once freed could certainly create as much havoc as these homocidal maniacs that shoot up our schools and churches. These unstable types need to be locked up when they display their violent tendencies and a psychological evaluation should be mandatory. If they're found to be mental cases they should be housed in a safe place with high fences and rubber rooms.
Now you've returned the favor, and left me in stitches - or will have, the next time my delicate nature is crawling under the truck to wire up a muffler, or hotwiring it with a screwdriver in the middleofnowhere, at 4 am, or climbing on the tire to clean baked bugs off the windshield!
Amen to that Dave, I think I will go back to work, pick up a load in the morning. Ah the smell of freshly burned diesel again. Sleeping in a bouncy truck, lousy food. Looking forward to it. Layoutshooter
Yeah, sure, Dave - blame it on us.....
Besides, he started it!
PS If you're thinking of calling my dispatcher, and begging them to find me a load - I already have, 12 times today, sigh.
Oh my