Friday, November 27, 2009
J-roc and Tyrone enjoying their log on our coffee table.
They seem to enjoy it, and were comfortable enough to eat a few mealworms in between the video games they were playing. J-roc (the lighter coloured one) seems to be progressing faster in both growth, and human assimilation.
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
An afternoon at Suicide Creek (near Deroche)
Our makeshift day camp/blue tarp.
A view from the ledge of our makeshift day camp.
Monday, November 23, 2009
Cam's buddies J-roc and Tyrone moved in with us a short while ago:
At approximately 5 months old these Leopard Geckos from the corrupt nation of Afghanistan will grow to 8 inches in length and hopefully never vote for President Karzi and his Harper supported and coke financed dictatorship.
Thursday, November 5, 2009
Deep brain stimulation the future of anxiety and depression treatment?
Check out this link: www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/11/091102121624.htm
It really is amazing how far we've come in the last five years in understanding depression and anxiety. Things such as mindfulness, acceptance and commitment therapy, and new medications all aid cognitive therapy in potential success. But in the last few years I've seen a few articles talking about the positive research of deep brain stimulation and the success it's had with people who are are so-called "treatment-resistant", IE: people who don't respond well to medication or conventional talk-therapy. This is encouraging news considering how many of us deal with these types of issues and how few of us actually see life-changing positive results.
It really is amazing how far we've come in the last five years in understanding depression and anxiety. Things such as mindfulness, acceptance and commitment therapy, and new medications all aid cognitive therapy in potential success. But in the last few years I've seen a few articles talking about the positive research of deep brain stimulation and the success it's had with people who are are so-called "treatment-resistant", IE: people who don't respond well to medication or conventional talk-therapy. This is encouraging news considering how many of us deal with these types of issues and how few of us actually see life-changing positive results.
Monday, November 2, 2009
Not ready for the blog to die quite yet.
So I'm gonna keep it goin. Since our PC was attacked and killed I haven't anywhere to upload my images. Currently I'm on Cam's Mac, yet even here I cannot upload images; I have no idea why the photo's turn into numeric garble upon posting, but nonetheless I have other things on my mind to blog... so I will.
Lately Michael Ignatieff has been on my mind. Since his tough election talk my curiosity has been somewhat piqued and I have attempted to follow this cocky intellect for fear of him become Canada's next top Prime Minister. It seems this guy doesn't have much love for Canada other than what he hopes will be a passport ticket to satisfy his personal ambition. While I can of course respect personal ambition, I cannot repect it as an end for which this country will be the means. This man is not a typical Liberal in the sense that his perspective and philosophy are much more to the right than his predecesors.
Ignatieff seems to have a deep affinity with US policy and while teaching at Harvard he surprisingly supported the Bush admin, the war on terror and even the Iraq invasion! He has written "Defeating terror requires violence... indefinite detention of subjects, coercive interrogations, targeted assassinations, even pre-emptive war" ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Ignatieff ) and even spoken of the valuable information torture can provide. But he next natural question "but at what cost?" he has not answered. How can a country like Canada make peace with "the enemy" while at the same time torturing them? As we have seen with the current Harper government, this does not work. Afganasthan is arguably worse off now than before we were there, so why would peace-loving Canadians vote for a new PM who loves America and all that it stands for when clearly we already have one of those? I guess that's why the Iggy tough election talk eventually failed, just like his career in Canada will eventually fail. I guess there's just not enough room in one country for two Stephen Harpers.
For more interesting reading on this subject, check out this article: http://www.hrw.org/en/news/2006/04/26/torture-doesnt-work
*note* pls forgive the spelling and link errors, for either this Mac or Blogger.com is not working correctly at this time (nor is my brain)
Lately Michael Ignatieff has been on my mind. Since his tough election talk my curiosity has been somewhat piqued and I have attempted to follow this cocky intellect for fear of him become Canada's next top Prime Minister. It seems this guy doesn't have much love for Canada other than what he hopes will be a passport ticket to satisfy his personal ambition. While I can of course respect personal ambition, I cannot repect it as an end for which this country will be the means. This man is not a typical Liberal in the sense that his perspective and philosophy are much more to the right than his predecesors.
Ignatieff seems to have a deep affinity with US policy and while teaching at Harvard he surprisingly supported the Bush admin, the war on terror and even the Iraq invasion! He has written "Defeating terror requires violence... indefinite detention of subjects, coercive interrogations, targeted assassinations, even pre-emptive war" ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Ignatieff ) and even spoken of the valuable information torture can provide. But he next natural question "but at what cost?" he has not answered. How can a country like Canada make peace with "the enemy" while at the same time torturing them? As we have seen with the current Harper government, this does not work. Afganasthan is arguably worse off now than before we were there, so why would peace-loving Canadians vote for a new PM who loves America and all that it stands for when clearly we already have one of those? I guess that's why the Iggy tough election talk eventually failed, just like his career in Canada will eventually fail. I guess there's just not enough room in one country for two Stephen Harpers.
For more interesting reading on this subject, check out this article: http://www.hrw.org/en/news/2006/04/26/torture-doesnt-work
*note* pls forgive the spelling and link errors, for either this Mac or Blogger.com is not working correctly at this time (nor is my brain)
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