Hard to respond to tit wit when true out of balance and out of touch with reality behavior shows up as it did today to result in the death of innocents.
I know nothing about the shooter in Connecticut. And, yet, having worked for these 20 years as an adolescent, adult and forensic psychiatrist, I will tell you there is every probability that he expressed very concerning thoughts or feelings to more than one person before Friday—and those thoughts or feelings should have been acted upon much more completely than they were.
How does Dr. Keith Ablow know one damn thing about the kid who shot those children?
I will tell you there is every probability..... Nonsense. He just made a diagnosis about someone he knows nothing about, has never met, and whose medical history he has never read. That sort of quackery borders on malpractice.
...... that he expressed very concerning thoughts or feelings to more than one person before Friday... Again, nonsense. Ablow has utterly no idea what Lanza said or did. He is hypothecating; making a diagnosis without proof or evidence. If Ablow was a surgeon, for example, and made a surgical diagnosis without ever meeting the patient, he'd be called out as the quack he obviously is.
Ablow's schtick here is to blame everyone but the guy who did the shooting. It is the fault of anyone to whom Lanza may have cried out in the days before he committed his horrible crimes.
As with all these cases, early information is usually wrong.
But if it turns out that his mother bought him the pistols then 20 little children paid the ultimate price for her idiocy.
Don't give guns to crazy fucks. I thought we knew that. Or used to know that. And there is no doubt, in my mind, with no knowledge of whether or not Lanza took psychotropic meds, he was one insane motherfucker. He should have been institutionalized.
Now the clamor for "gun control" rises across the land. No crisis going to waste and so on. Turns out, that if his mother provided firearms (and, apparently the sick fuck learned how to use them somewhere) then several CT laws were already broken.
Also, Ablow might be right just based on statistics - the number of young men, not just ones as fucking nuts as Lanza, have been dosed with powerful meds in their early years.
But what can one say to the other parents - words cannot convey the sorrow I feel for their loss.
Neither can I adequately express my anger at Lanza's parents - yesterday was not the first time that child behaved badly.
He just made a diagnosis about someone he knows nothing about, has never met, and whose medical history he has never read.
I've never heard of Keith Ablow before, and have no idea who he is beyond his self-description at the link.
But I do think that you are neglecting the import of the first sentence of the quote cited by MamaM: I know nothing about the shooter in Connecticut. This tells me that what follows is a statistical profile, and not a purported diagnosis.
If the killer was undergoing treatment, then perhaps we'll get a diagnosis at some point. And if we do, presumably we'll get the details--and maybe the causes--of his descent into madness. But what will that tell us about what we might do better in general? In the aftermath of this and the AZ and CO massacres, is it so unwise to examine their common features in search of a way to prevent this type of horror thru changes in the mental-health system?
You may think that this is not the time for analysis, but rather for grief. And I would agree w/ you. And Keith Ablow probably is self-aggrandizing, as I suppose are most professionals who seek out the spotlight of news commentary. But that doesn't necessarily invalidate the idea that there might be a better way to deal w/ people like this guy and the other mass killers who apparently live among us like human time bombs. And some people--not you or I, but many--are already diving into the mire of policy twaddle, so people w/something useful to say might as well say it now.
I apologize in advance for dragging crap from TOP here, but it's kind of on-topic and it's something that's really bothering me. Plus, this is a forum where I think I'd get a straight answer. So, w/ apologies, I'd like to know if I'm way off base in finding rhhardin's series of comments over there on the posts about this massacre deeply disturbing. I think that sometimes I overreact to stuff online, and wonder if this is one of those times. But at the moment I think the guy is at least a mild sociopath.
Obviously there are lots of candidates for that sort of bullshit long-range diagnosis, but people like "Alex" aren't taken seriously AFAIK.
How does Dr. Keith Ablow know one damn thing about the kid who shot those children?
I'm not sure what this comment is about, but will try to answer the question as sincerely as I can.
How does anyone anywhere know one damn thing about anything?
Collected experience, observations, knowledge and wisdom passed on from others, repeated patterns revealed through testing and time; these are some of the ways awareness is received.
From my point of view, Ablow's 20 years of experience as an adolescent, adult and forensic psychiatrist, qualifies him to offer the observation he did regarding probability.
I don't consider what he wrote to be "shtick", bull shit or self-aggrandizement. For me, it affirmed what I've lived with, listened to, learned through study, and become aware of through personal experience.
I appreciate the sorrow and anger SixtyGrit expresses in the last two sentences of his comment above, as he clearly and cleanly puts voice to the mix of feelings I'm experiencing with regard to yesterday's massacre.
Well, maybe I spent too much time on ladders and cleaning gutters and whatnot, but I don't see anything odd in any rhhardin wrote.
Maybe I need to lie down. All this will pass, and eventually the FHA will understand that their poor pathetic subjects are capable of changing a freakin' light bulb.
Who am I kidding - they are the FHA! OBEY THEM NOW!!! One day of their mealy mouthed punch list and I am already burned out.
Chip S. said... I can't tell if you're agreeing w/me or telling me to chill.
I wasn't telling you to chill--I was just repeating what TY used to say to rhhardin over at TOP.
I don't give him much thought to be honest. Commenting on the Althouse blog appears to be his main human interest in life--sort of like edutcher. I see them as part of a coterie. In the olden days they would have lived in the castle with her. I can only afford to be a part time jester over there these days.
On a lighter note, I learned about "cat's paw" over there tonight. A phrase I was not previously familiar with, derived from La Fontaine's fable, "The Monkey and the Cat", referring to a person used unwittingly by another to accomplish his/her own purposes.
How'd the Giants do? Anyone know? I was away from television all day doing family things so I didn't see it. A really high score, I'll bet. If you find out the score, let me know, okay?
The Packers are NFC north champions again, by the way.
Hey, WTF? Visited TOP and that dumb twat lists two teams out of a possible 32 NFL franchises. Okay, I must be having a bad day if I allow her mental-midgetry to get to me.
My cook and his girlfriend went to the Giants-Falcons rout this afternoon with the tickets I got him for Christmas. As much as I do like the Giants, I told him that the Falcons were going to kick their asses all the way back the NY. Sometimes, I hate being right. Maybe I'll take tomorrow off so I don't have to hear it.
I hate Sarah Jessica Parker, Robin Williams, Tim Robbins, Susan Saradon, the BJ Hunnicut guy, brussel sprouts, the Boston Red Sox, commies and well, lawyers.
42 comments:
i just splew, this pic is incred.
I JUST REALIZED IT WAS GLISTENING TITS NOT TINSEL TITS. HOW EMBAR.
BUT HOW DO YOU FIND A PIC OF GLISTENING TITS?
Your shtick slipped, too. It's a shame when your dementia overruns your ability to keep your lies straight.
HUGS SIX!
Bad news, Titus. I think the chick in the pic is also wearing mistletoe on her garter belt.
60, maybe Titus has a door-to-door commute that takes less than 59 minutes.
Of course, he's already had 48 minutes in which to think of that himself.
Busted!
Busted!
Schlipstick on the collar!
Glistening Tits in Literature for $1000, Alex.
The moon on the breast
of the new fallen snow
Gives the luster
of mid-day
To objects below.
Um, "What is the first stanza of A Visit from St. Tinsel Tits?"
NYET...No...Sorry.
The correct answer:
What to my wondering eyes did appear?
$1000 categories are tough!
Schlipstick on the collar!
Four on the floor!
Hard to respond to tit wit when true out of balance and out of touch with reality behavior shows up as it did today to result in the death of innocents.
I affirm this awareness by Dr Keith Ablow:
I know nothing about the shooter in Connecticut. And, yet, having worked for these 20 years as an adolescent, adult and forensic psychiatrist, I will tell you there is every probability that he expressed very concerning thoughts or feelings to more than one person before Friday—and those thoughts or feelings should have been acted upon much more completely than they were.
How does Dr. Keith Ablow know one damn thing about the kid who shot those children?
I will tell you there is every probability..... Nonsense. He just made a diagnosis about someone he knows nothing about, has never met, and whose medical history he has never read. That sort of quackery borders on malpractice.
...... that he expressed very concerning thoughts or feelings to more than one person before Friday... Again, nonsense. Ablow has utterly no idea what Lanza said or did. He is hypothecating; making a diagnosis without proof or evidence. If Ablow was a surgeon, for example, and made a surgical diagnosis without ever meeting the patient, he'd be called out as the quack he obviously is.
Ablow's schtick here is to blame everyone but the guy who did the shooting. It is the fault of anyone to whom Lanza may have cried out in the days before he committed his horrible crimes.
A call bullshit. Self-aggrandizing bullshit.
As with all these cases, early information is usually wrong.
But if it turns out that his mother bought him the pistols then 20 little children paid the ultimate price for her idiocy.
Don't give guns to crazy fucks. I thought we knew that. Or used to know that. And there is no doubt, in my mind, with no knowledge of whether or not Lanza took psychotropic meds, he was one insane motherfucker. He should have been institutionalized.
Now the clamor for "gun control" rises across the land. No crisis going to waste and so on. Turns out, that if his mother provided firearms (and, apparently the sick fuck learned how to use them somewhere) then several CT laws were already broken.
Also, Ablow might be right just based on statistics - the number of young men, not just ones as fucking nuts as Lanza, have been dosed with powerful meds in their early years.
But what can one say to the other parents - words cannot convey the sorrow I feel for their loss.
Neither can I adequately express my anger at Lanza's parents - yesterday was not the first time that child behaved badly.
I AGREE WITH HAZ, THAT QUACK IS FAMOUS FOR DIAGNOSING PEOPLE FROM A LONG DISTANCE.
ALSO, I AM TERRIBLY SAD OVER THIS ENTIRE THING. SO TRAGIC AND SENSELESS.
He just made a diagnosis about someone he knows nothing about, has never met, and whose medical history he has never read.
I've never heard of Keith Ablow before, and have no idea who he is beyond his self-description at the link.
But I do think that you are neglecting the import of the first sentence of the quote cited by MamaM: I know nothing about the shooter in Connecticut. This tells me that what follows is a statistical profile, and not a purported diagnosis.
If the killer was undergoing treatment, then perhaps we'll get a diagnosis at some point. And if we do, presumably we'll get the details--and maybe the causes--of his descent into madness. But what will that tell us about what we might do better in general? In the aftermath of this and the AZ and CO massacres, is it so unwise to examine their common features in search of a way to prevent this type of horror thru changes in the mental-health system?
You may think that this is not the time for analysis, but rather for grief. And I would agree w/ you. And Keith Ablow probably is self-aggrandizing, as I suppose are most professionals who seek out the spotlight of news commentary. But that doesn't necessarily invalidate the idea that there might be a better way to deal w/ people like this guy and the other mass killers who apparently live among us like human time bombs. And some people--not you or I, but many--are already diving into the mire of policy twaddle, so people w/something useful to say might as well say it now.
I apologize in advance for dragging crap from TOP here, but it's kind of on-topic and it's something that's really bothering me. Plus, this is a forum where I think I'd get a straight answer. So, w/ apologies, I'd like to know if I'm way off base in finding rhhardin's series of comments over there on the posts about this massacre deeply disturbing. I think that sometimes I overreact to stuff online, and wonder if this is one of those times. But at the moment I think the guy is at least a mild sociopath.
Obviously there are lots of candidates for that sort of bullshit long-range diagnosis, but people like "Alex" aren't taken seriously AFAIK.
"rhhardin, he freaks me out, man"
I can't tell if you're agreeing w/me or telling me to chill.
I SAW SOME OF HIS SAME COMMENTS CHIP AND I FOUND THEM DISTURBING-AND THIS IS COMING FROM ME.
Thanks, Titus.
I'm gonna get away from the internet and try to put all this shit out of my mind for a while.
How does Dr. Keith Ablow know one damn thing about the kid who shot those children?
I'm not sure what this comment is about, but will try to answer the question as sincerely as I can.
How does anyone anywhere know one damn thing about anything?
Collected experience, observations, knowledge and wisdom passed on from others, repeated patterns revealed through testing and time; these are some of the ways awareness is received.
From my point of view, Ablow's 20 years of experience as an adolescent, adult and forensic psychiatrist, qualifies him to offer the observation he did regarding probability.
I don't consider what he wrote to be "shtick", bull shit or self-aggrandizement. For me, it affirmed what I've lived with, listened to, learned through study, and become aware of through personal experience.
I appreciate the sorrow and anger SixtyGrit expresses in the last two sentences of his comment above, as he clearly and cleanly puts voice to the mix of feelings I'm experiencing with regard to yesterday's massacre.
Thanks MamaM - that is kind of you.
Well, maybe I spent too much time on ladders and cleaning gutters and whatnot, but I don't see anything odd in any rhhardin wrote.
Maybe I need to lie down. All this will pass, and eventually the FHA will understand that their poor pathetic subjects are capable of changing a freakin' light bulb.
Who am I kidding - they are the FHA! OBEY THEM NOW!!! One day of their mealy mouthed punch list and I am already burned out.
How does anyone anywhere know one damn thing about anything?
Worth saying again.
Chip S. said...
I can't tell if you're agreeing w/me or telling me to chill.
I wasn't telling you to chill--I was just repeating what TY used to say to rhhardin over at TOP.
I don't give him much thought to be honest. Commenting on the Althouse blog appears to be his main human interest in life--sort of like edutcher. I see them as part of a coterie. In the olden days they would have lived in the castle with her. I can only afford to be a part time jester over there these days.
On a lighter note, I learned about "cat's paw" over there tonight. A phrase I was not previously familiar with, derived from La Fontaine's fable, "The Monkey and the Cat", referring to a person used unwittingly by another to accomplish his/her own purposes.
Sorry to be such a tool but this is what I think of when I hear "cat's paw"
So much pulling and prying - you need to repair to a Corvus drinking establishment.
How'd the Giants do? Anyone know? I was away from television all day doing family things so I didn't see it. A really high score, I'll bet. If you find out the score, let me know, okay?
The Packers are NFC north champions again, by the way.
Giants? More like the "m-words".
Hey, WTF? Visited TOP and that dumb twat lists two teams out of a possible 32 NFL franchises. Okay, I must be having a bad day if I allow her mental-midgetry to get to me.
My cook and his girlfriend went to the Giants-Falcons rout this afternoon with the tickets I got him for Christmas. As much as I do like the Giants, I told him that the Falcons were going to kick their asses all the way back the NY. Sometimes, I hate being right. Maybe I'll take tomorrow off so I don't have to hear it.
I really hate this time of year. Is that surprising?
The awful news has just made it worse. I can't watch the news.
Windbag reveals: My cook and his girlfriend went to the Giants-Falcons rout this afternoon with the tickets I got him for Christmas.
What did the footman and butler do on their day off today?
I haven't watched the news since the election, Darcy.
Hi, chick. Missed ya.
I Am Constant
Darce, good to hear from you. I learned years ago that if one does not like what one sees on the news then one should not watch it.
Have I written much lately about the pawn shop show? I have watched the hell out of that one.
We are getting rain and after a few days of that I get a bit down. Must see my sunshine this time of year.
Reading Darcy's comments will more than suffice, however, to brighten up my day and my mood.
What did the footman and butler do on their day off today?
Laundry?
*hugs Sixty* :)
And back atcha!
I got caught up in a crazy show. I mean crazy. "Big Texas Rich".
These women are just nuts, and as usual, I like the one everyone seems to be at odds with. I'm so not normal.
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