Mental health advocates applaud Brownback initiative, want more details

Sorry, but recovery from severe and persistent mental illness most certainly *IS* possible. And it happens all the time!

Does that mean someone is "cured"? No. But does it mean that they have learned to control their symptoms, rather than vice versa...and can lead full and productive lives? You bet your butt it means that!!!

So please stop posting misinformation that only causes problems and stress for people working on recovery. And encourages people to *not* support mental health funding...no matter how effective it is in the treatment of serious mental illness...because you'happen to be ignorant.

January 12, 2013 at 8:59 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Mental health advocates applaud Brownback initiative, want more details

Except that, based on what I've been reading, he isn't planning on "restoring" $10 million but, rather, "shifting" funds. I'll look forward to reading his budget on Tuesday so as to see what he *really* plans on doing.

But please don't get mad at mental health supporters for at least being glad that Brownback is *talking* about mental health in terms other than *cutting* another $10 million from it.

Frankly, though, I think that setting up 5-7 "centers" just means more bureaucratic nonsense. I fully expect to hear him start talking about more privatization. But we'll see.

January 12, 2013 at 8:45 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Opinion: ATM culture grips federal government

Exactly what "lies" are you talking about?

I mean, everyone *I* know realized that the payroll tax was going back up from 4.2% to 6.2% this year...and that the "fiscal cliff" had nothing to do with it.

Did you not know that??? You poor dear.

January 5, 2013 at 6:27 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Simons' Saturday Column: Lawmakers should focus on nation, not re-election

Was it really necessary to be personally insulting to Michelle Obama because you don't like her husband's politics? How disgusting on your part.

And what's this nonsense about Bush "just" going to his home to clear brush. Do you seriously think the Secret Service and Air Force One and his staff weren't all expenses for the 32% of his time in office that *he* was on vacation? I mean, Bush has *still* spent *FAR* more money on non-official travel than any president in history.

But, you know what? I never resented Bush for that. I mean, it's not like the POTUS *ever* really gets to take a vacation from the job...or shouldn't be allowed to even sleep or use the bathroom. (And, heaven forfend he plays a round of golf every 3 weeks or a pickup basketball game in the backyard.)

So instead of you whining that two wrongs should make a right, why don't you just stop whining...period???

January 5, 2013 at 3:36 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Simons' Saturday Column: Lawmakers should focus on nation, not re-election

Maybe it would help if you knew what you were talking about first?

Or have you never bothered to actually read the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974...which is what actually governs the role of the Congress in the United States budget process?

Or how about claims like your nonsense about congressional pensions and healthcare? (Your myths have been debunked by Snopes, for crying out loud. That's how bogus your beliefs are about *this* one.)

And please...oh please...point us to the "constitutional requirements of the congress [that] have been allowed to languish unaddressed"???

January 5, 2013 at 3:09 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Simons' Saturday Column: Lawmakers should focus on nation, not re-election

Because we're not talking about membership dues. You seem to have confused the difference between a country club...and a country.

January 5, 2013 at 3:02 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Simons' Saturday Column: Lawmakers should focus on nation, not re-election

They did the same thing four years ago, too. I'm sure the folks selling guns, ammo and survival supplies are just as happy now as they were then. Capitalism working the way it should :-)

January 5, 2013 at 2:54 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Simons' Saturday Column: Lawmakers should focus on nation, not re-election

Amazing how many people now believe that the whole list of pork that someone posted a couple of weeks ago actually applies to the Sandy disaster relief bill.

January 5, 2013 at 2:48 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Editorial: New year hopes

The deaths of those 20 young children (and let's not forget the adults...although the editorial writer seems to have forgotten them already) was tragic.

But did it affect our holiday celebrations? Subdue them across the nation? {Put a patina of guilt on our own celebrations? Give us a frickin' break!!!

The list of hopes for the new year were actually quite reasonable...until the last one. Like it or not, a rejection of someone else's melodramatic pronouncements doesn't mean we don't have a heart...just that someone else might need a brain (or at least a diploma bestowed on them by the Universita Committeeatum E Pluribus Unum :-)

January 1, 2013 at 9:51 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Kansas revenues beat December forecast

Don't you think you ought to wait for at least another 3 months to see what happens as a result of the new state income tax laws (including for pass-through corporations) and their effect on revenues before getting all excited?

January 1, 2013 at 9:04 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )