April Reign

Speak your mind even if your voice shakes

General

Gaming: A mental disorder?

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Though some would like to make it so, gamers have dodged a virtual bullet.

Doctors backed away on Sunday from a controversial proposal to designate video game addiction as a mental disorder akin to alcoholism, saying psychiatrists should study the issue more.

“Even before debate on the subject began, the committee that made the proposal backed away from its position, and instead recommended that the American Psychiatric Association consider the change when it revises its next diagnostic manual in 5 years. The psychiatrist group has said if the science warrants, it could be considered for inclusion in the next diagnostic manual, which will be published in 2012. While occasional use of video games is harmless and may even help with some disorders like autism, doctors said in extreme cases it can interfere with day-to-day necessities like working, showering or even eating.”

A report, that sadly I can’t find again, cited staying in room, being disrepectful to parents, and general angst as good reasons to consider gaming a disorder. Really??? Sounds like normal youth behaviour to me.

Good background report here

Celebrity Stalking

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Usually you hear of celebrities being stalked, however, AR Media has learned of a shocking case of stalking by a celebrity.

Can you tell us what happened Bob?

Well I was just sitting around watching the Jays minding my own business when I thought I heard something on the porch. I opened the door and there was David Suzuki changing my porch bulb.

I was kinda like WTF? Turns out he had engaged the help of the Neighbourhood Association and everyone was turning on their new light bulbs at the same time. It looked sorta cool. I walked with him down the street because I wasn’t too sure of my families safety. He seemed nice enough, told me I had the power, and left. (here is the Neighbourhood Association video)

I thought that was the end of it. A story to tell down at the pub. [Read more…] about Celebrity Stalking

Wishing on Facebook

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The Great Canadian Wish List on Facebook has been taken over by the So Cons.

It seems to some, a silly thing that pro choicers care about this endeavour.
I would ask those people to consider the situation to the south of us.

Media regularly gives the crazies the floor. Christianity is no longer associated with love and charity, but with hatred, bombs and people who actually deride other christians for caring about the poor.

In a country facing mounting military deaths from an illegal and unneeded war, poverty, domestic terrorism, declining standard of living, the main election platform issue is whether or not you are pro choice. [Read more…] about Wishing on Facebook

Gunning for Lack of Control

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gunhand.jpgThe Toronto Star reports today that the firearms advisory committee, has appointed virtually only gun enthusiasts, and is operating essentially in secret.

Its dozen members include a man who argued that more guns in the hands of students would have helped in the recent Virginia Tech massacre, in which 32 people were killed, and another shooting aficionado who described a weapon used in last September’s Dawson College killings in Montreal as “fun.”

More inspiring words

“If even 1 per cent of the students and staff at Virginia Tech had been allowed to exercise their right to self defence, then this tragedy would have been stopped in its very beginning and dozens of lives would have been saved,” Dr. Mike Ackermann, a Nova Scotia physician, wrote in a letter to the Ottawa Sun in April. “There are never any mass killings at shooting ranges; only at schools and other so-called `gun-free zones.'”

Gary Mauser, a Simon Fraser University professor renowned for his work opposing gun laws, wrote an opinion piece in the Vancouver Sun in February: “Firearm laws divert scarce resources from alternative approaches that might actually improve public safety.”

Never one to accept anything without research I looked up the “safety stats”, surely the more heavily armed Americans must have a society virtually free from violence.

Um…maybe not

Gun violence in our communities

Canada-US Comparaison

Oh well at least we can all rest easier knowing Doris Day is on the case.

Get it done

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“We can get it done,” Brownback told a crowd of about 100 people, according to the Des Moines Register.
“We’re one justice away, and if we lose this we’re going to be two or three judges away from overturning this thing that is wrong,” he said.

This is the second time that Brownback has said he would like to nominate the next Supreme Court justice who could provide the fifth vote to overturn Roe v. Wade.

Canada’s New Government™ (retch) Getting things done for all of us

Nascar Get er done

Coincidence?

Could it be Satan?

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Mark 5:25 And a certain woman, which had an issue of blood twelve years, 26 And had suffered many things of many physicians, and had spent all that she had, and was nothing bettered, but rather grew worse, 27 When she had heard of Jesus, came in the press behind, and touched his garment. 28 For she said, If I may touch but his clothes, I shall be whole. 29 And straightway the fountain of her blood was dried up; and she felt in her body that she was healed of that plague. 30 And Jesus, immediately knowing in himself that virtue had gone out of him, turned him about in the press, and said, Who touched my clothes? 31 And his disciples said unto him, Thou seest the multitude thronging thee, and sayest thou, Who touched me? 32 And he looked round about to see her that had done this thing. 33 But the woman fearing and trembling, knowing what was done in her, came and fell down before him, and told him all the truth. 34 And he said unto her, Daughter, thy faith hath made thee whole; go in peace, and be whole of thy plague.


1 And they came over unto the other side of the sea, into the country of the Gadarenes. 2 And when he was come out of the ship, immediately there met him out of the tombs a man with an unclean spirit, 3 Who had his dwelling among the tombs; and no man could bind him, no, not with chains: 4 Because that he had been often bound with fetters and chains, and the chains had been plucked asunder by him, and the fetters broken in pieces: neither could any man tame him. 5 And always, night and day, he was in the mountains, and in the tombs, crying, and cutting himself with stones.

6 But when he saw Jesus afar off, he ran and worshipped him, 7 And cried with a loud voice, and said, What have I to do with thee, Jesus, thou Son of the most high God? I adjure thee by God, that thou torment me not.
8 For he said unto him, Come out of the man, thou unclean spirit. 9 And he asked him, What is thy name? And he answered, saying, My name is Legion: for we are many.

Jesus, the son of god, was not afraid of the people but walked freely among them tending their maladies, healing their pains, freeing them from their demons.

The pope…ah… well lets just say he does things differently.

A German man tried to jump into Pope Benedict XVI’s uncovered popemobile as the pontiff began his general audience Wednesday and held onto it for a few seconds before being wrestled to the ground by security officers.

The pope was not hurt and didn’t even appear to notice that the man – who was between 20 or 30 years old – had jumped over the protective barrier in the square and had grabbed onto the white popemobile as it drove by. The pontiff kept waving to the crowd and didn’t even look back.

At least eight security officers who were trailing the vehicle as it moved slowly through the square grabbed the man and wrestled him to the ground.

The man was a 27-year-old German who showed signs of “mental imbalance,” said the Rev. Federico Lombardi, the Vatican spokesman.

The Guardian