Wired Brain to treat Depression in people!

Researchers from Butler Hospital/Brown Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School have been busy with a new study! They have been working on a pace maker for your brain.

Researchers say that it can treat depression and obsessive-compulsive disorder. It is a device planted in the chest and send impulses to the brain. Talk about a real life wired!

I have a big suggestion on how to change what we teach in school and society. I got an even better idea, lower gas prices and we will all lose a great amount of the depression that we have! I swear sometimes I read stories like this one and get sad that researchers are so dumb to to think they are going to make a good change in society. We already tried feeding everyone pills and have addicted the whole world to (street Drugs), why not hook them up to machines?

Sure the wire will be good for severe movement disorders, such as Parkinson’s disease, essential tremor and dystonia! I really think it is great, but to use it for Depression and and obsessive-compulsive disorder! I don’t buy it and think we should re-look at the way we look at things!

Another issue that bothers me here is what next? If they approve for these solutions why not hook it up to anything in the body? See we are almost about to be a robot society, let’s just hope we don’t have any short circuits!


(Original story I found at Reuters)

Birmingham Mayor is calling for Old Testament Show

Birmingham, Al—Just when you think it safe for you and your kids go out, past all the bullets flying and crooked politics there may lye a larger danger, your Mayor!

This story is not an anti God story it is a true story about Deep South religion and a town in time of peril. Mayor Larry Langford has called for “sackcloth and ashes” rally at Birmingham, Alabama famous Boutwell Auditorium. The event is inspired by the book of Jonah and involves wearing burlap bags like they did in the ancient city of Ninevah in The Old Testament. Sounds like Langford might be missed that day in class talking about separation of church and state!

That part is up to the government, I am worried about the fact that someone thinks that prayer and a reenactment will solve the cities growing crime rate. Prayers is always good and add a little a drama, sounds good too. But there is a church for religion and Federal law say it should not be mixed with Official government event!
There have been 27 people killed in Birmingham already this year and last year 93 Homicides. The FBI indicates that Birmingham ranked 8th nationally in 2007 homicide rate among cities with over 100,ooo in the population.
Here is how you can help change Birmingham’s crime rate!

1. Sell those 2,000 Burlap bags and get that money back!
2. Take that money and put into more police officers on the street in the run down neighborhoods and in the busy areas of town! A presence always helps a town out!
3. Instead of wearing the bags use that time to discus solutions to the problem at hand. Hand out flyers that will tell how you can help where you live. You can pray till the cows turn blue, and trust there are a lot of cows in Alabama!
4. What about taking the money that it cost to host the event and use it for a city program that helps solve the crime rate.
5. Pay organizers that have had earlier experience in other similar high crime towns to lead the program.
6. At least you could have bought shirts that would last longer and enabled your message to be spread longer. The kids might look at you strange about this one, it is not them I would worry about, and the American Civil Liberties Union is on your trail.
7. Bring "The First 48" and clean out the high crime areas! Last year Former Mayor Bernard Kincaid pulled the plug on plans to highlight city murder investigations on the national cable television program. What such a great this show could have done for Birmingham!
More coming on this soon I promise!