BOY WANTS TO LIVE AS GIRL & OTHER YOUTH ADVENTURES

http://www.denverpost.com/commented/ci_8201821
The link above takes the reader to a story in the Denver Post about an 8 year-old boy who wants to live as a girl. His parents are 'supporting' him in his transitition. There is a story in the ADN about the Sierra Club's new initiative, LEAVE NO CHILD INSIDE. The SC wants to tax video games. From the ADN article:
"The proposal, which was developed by the Rio Grande Chapter of the Sierra Club and is being lobbied for by a coalition called "Leave No Child Inside," is to levy a new 1 percent tax on TVs, video games and game equipment sold in the state.

Money from the tax an expected $4 million annually, according to proponents will go into a fund administered by the Public Education Department and will be used (unless a future legislature diverts it) to fund outdoor programs and other programs in an effort to fight obesity and poor school performance which may result from "excessive" TV, movie and video game exposure."

I believe video games skew the reality of those who spend hours playing them. The gratuitious violence, dehumanization of opponents and social messages of video games replace religion in the home, outdoor activity, family time spent together and glamorized death and destruction. I sound like I should be for this 1 percent tax on video game stuff. I'm not. This SC tax is another attempt to protect ourselves from ourselves. I wonder how many parents know what the content of the games are their children are playing. In the 80's I bought my kids a Nintendo game. They played Super Mario Brothers and Tetras, among other games. When the head bashing blood bath games emerged on the market, the Nintendo remained, but the new more expensive, elaborate game boxes did not make it in to our home.

My kids seemed to have survived without becoming addicted to blood and gore and fantasy mutilation and ghoul wars. We ran a post on this earlier in the month. The alternativs to video gaming the SC suggests are 'green' activities. Get the kids outside and show them the benefits of wolf reintroduction, bio-sphere designation, the horrors of global warming, the self-indulgent lifestyles children live that are killing the planet and embrace environmentalism as a religion. There is one simple solution to the video game and the SC agenda. Parents. Parents spend time with your children.