Ok, so some moron got a Ph.D. thesis out of this unimaginably stupid concept. Good for them. The free market rewards fools, too.

Awe :)
Yes...been across the bridge a million times, but now you need a passport to go to Canada. We used to hop over there for dinner at the Warf all the time (best halibut in the universe), but those days are over. :(

Been through Port Huron on my way to Canada many times. Beats going through Windsor any day. The whole state is beautiful really and people still ask me why did you leave Texas to come all the way up here. I tellem' I found one little warm spot and I married her.

Port Huron, but my parents now live up North so that's the only place I visit in the Summer. Beautiful!

What neck are you from?

Ah. Not my neck.

Evart. Just east of Reed City off of I10. 90 miles due north of Grand Rapids.

Jackson, MI, the place where she was from, has a lot of nice qualities about it, but it is a terrific example of what happens when the main industry crumbles. It would be a good place to film as Starnesville.

I'm originally from MI... where 'bouts are you?

When all hell broke loose just down the road from my wife's grandmothers place a piece of land of 40 acres of prime deer hunting land came up for sale. Selling price $92,000. It finally sold for $40,000. The person who bought it then went in and built a home on it. They got a steal.

No doubt Obama will give these "researchers" the Congressional Marx and Lenin award!

As much abuse as Michigan gets for having Detroit (excuse me, Starnesville), the rest of Michigan is quite nice in the summer. There are so many lakes, and housing is unbelievably affordable. After trying to sell my mother-in-law's place after she passed on, we finally sold it for $43000!

That is the not very long term plan by the Obama admin for people like us, too.

You want to know the best part about living in Michigan though is. I left Texas a right to work law state. It took almost 22 years, but Michigan is now a right to work law state. We are still broke and jobs are few and far, but we can now work without union influence.

wow.

The last criminal they brought in before she left came in with handcuffs and shackles. His quote to the staff was " I do not want to be here and the only way out is to kill someone". Working with the mental ill was a breeze because she had worked there as I said for 18 1/2 years, but working with a criminal of that stature was in a different league. This is not the only reason they closed those hospitals, but it did not help. With the mental ill you could ward off things that were about to happen. With the criminal aspect they had the upper hand and knew it. It was not that she could not do her job she felt she never had a man that would affirm the fact that it was okay for her to quit before it got real bad. She has since became a Armed Secured Truck Driver right along side me and it has been almost 20 years for her. Sad fact is Michigan has closed most of those hospitals and the people that resided there were put into halfway homes. That's what happens when unions are left to abuse the system and especially in Michigan.

I am a non-conformist. I disagree with the government. But I will not suffer to be named with such a disorder. And I will never subject myself to treatment (sorcery, read: psychotropic drugs).

I like to think the ODD crowd is vast!

Post! I want that story! that is exactly what we are low on...personal stories and episodes...bring it!

Its was a joke, but yeah maybe I should have been admitted. She left her job because they were admitting hard line criminals instead of people with mental problems. She felt safe because I gave her hope.

ok. so you are saying-you were admitted to the psych ward and your future wife left the joint with you ....and then she felt she could not take care of herself and three children? I need more information

I have a secret to tell you all. My wife worked for the state mental hospital for 18 1/2 years and she tells the story of how when I came along she felt she could leave that place without being able to take care of herself and 3 children. I just tell people now you know where she found, found, found me. All hail!!!!!

ODD.....I must be a really baaaaaahhhhhd boy.

Psychiatrists and psychologists are practicing a non-science. They love conformity in the masses, and have long been used by governments to label and confine those who fail to fall in line.
I once told a psy. professor who had just come out of drug rehab that he would be replacde by a neuroendocrinologist one day - he did not take it well. The Russians said to put as many people as possible under the care of psychologists, but not good ones. Did anyone ever notice most psychologists are in therapy, and usually have messed up home lives?

Either an inferiority complex or -- more likely -- delusions of adequacy. :)