Posted on 06/03/2013 7:40:57 AM PDT by mandaladon
President Barack Obama and members of his administration are holding a day-long mental health conference Monday at the White House--and they have asked Hollywood to help lend some star power.
Actors Bradley Cooper and Glenn Close are among those invited to participate in the meeting, which features a panel on negative attitudes toward mental illness moderated by Health and Human Services Secretary Sebelius, a panel on mental health outreach moderated by Education Secretary Arne Duncan, and opening remarks from the president and closing remarks from Vice President Joe Biden, Cooper and Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki.
Close in 2009 co-founded a non-profit organization dedicated to ending stigmas associated with mental illness after observing how it affected her sister and son.
The president is set to announce that the Department of Veterans Affairs will direct 151 of its health care centers to conduct mental health summits July 1 through Sept. 15. The summits, which will include local organizations, will focus on support for veterans and their families and increase awareness about available mental health programs.
Representatives from mental health organizations and mental health advocates, psychologists and messaging experts also will attend the White House conference.
The conference builds on the president's plan to hold a national conversation about gun violence following the deadly Dec. 14 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn.
His effort to pressure Congress to pass gun reform measures stalled in mid-April when the Democratic-controlled Senate failed to support an expansion of background checks on gun purchases.
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You can’t fix stupid.
He uses celebrities because he knows the whackos idol worship these fools and will do anything their stars tell them to do. Look how they worship Odingo. He will use anyone and anything to get what he wants.
And Glen Close played that crazed stalker in Fatal Attraction.
The jokes just write themselves.
Regards,
Yahoo is a sewer-pipe delivering leftist news feeds on its home-page. It is getting worse too.
Look at the origin of articles on today’s home-page
Guardian UK
Huffington Post
A link direct to Whitehouse.gov on LGBT.
NBC
It might be a good idea to invite Michael Douglas. His cancer, which he claims was caused by oral sex, has affected his brain.
We mustn’t talk about this too much on FR or our censors will pull the comments like they have the three articles.
Hollywood is certainly representative of those needing mental help and medication. Lobotomize the whole lot of them please!
“Conference of mentally ill Hollywood celebrities and politicians”
Now you’ve GOT IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Glenn Close played a crazy person so I’m sure she is an expert. /sar
“White House hosts Hollywood actors, experts for mental health conference.”.......
that should read, “....experts for mental health observation and treatment.”
Interesting:
Hoe Glenn Close's Dad Stopped the Ebola Virus [in Zaire under dictator Mobutu Seko]
http://mentalfloss.com/article/28269/how-glenn-close%E2%80%99s-dad-stopped-ebola-virus
Glenn Close’s dad was William Taliaferro Close and he was the personal physician of Zaire’s dictator Mobutu Sese Seko.
http://mentalfloss.com/article/28269/how-glenn-close%E2%80%99s-dad-stopped-ebola-virus
Seko was a client of Russian arms smuggler /merchant of death Viktor Bout.
Celebrity Glenn Close’s dad Dr. William Taliaferro, personal physician of Mubuto Seso Seko and also the army’s military doctor died of a heart attack at his home on January 15, 2009 ....a few days before the inauguration of Obama. Some sites credit him with ending Zaire’s ebola outbreak of 1976.
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