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The Mentally Ill Present a Threat in U.S. Nursing Homes

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This is no surprise to me, considering a violent schizophrenic was out among the public in February 2007 and murdered my therapist with a meat cleaver. All because some Medicaid doctor wouldn't keep him under lock and key - despite him being arrested and put in medical detention numerous times. Next time some elderly or infirmed person refuses the Nursing Home? You'll know why. We have to do something MORE about the mentally ill in this country. Starting with stopping thinking we can change or cure everyone! by Carla K. Johnson Ivory Jackson had Alzheimer's, but that wasn't what killed him. At 77, he was smashed in the face with a clock radio as he lay in his nursing home bed. Jackson's roommate — a mentally ill man nearly 30 years younger — was arrested and charged with the killing. Police found him sitting next to the nurse's station, blood on his hands, clothes and shoes. Inside their room, the ceiling was spattered with blood. "Why didn't they do ...

OOPS! There It IS!!!

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From my friends at PUMA UNLEASHED: Lets Face Facts- Electing Obama was the biggest mistake this country has made second only to Bush’s Iraq War The newly elected president of the United States is so far out of his depth, he doesn’t (even) stand a chance to “FAKE IT UNTIL HE MAKES IT!” At this time in US history, there are no models available for use as comparisons to previously depressed economic times. NONE! As much as pundits feel compelled to make comparisons to FDR-JFK, there are none. We are sailing at the will, in uncharted seas and at the whim of Mother Nature herself, my friends. Obama has never faced grappling with a problem as vast or unquantifiable as this economy even though he has surrounded himself with esteemed advisers like Warren Buffet, Bill Gates , George Soros and others as heavy weights in the Finance sector, even they are overwhelmed plodding slowly, ( Buffett lost a huge bundle in the stock mkt after he said…everything’s fine ) because this depressed economy h...