Posted on 08/05/2009 10:53:41 AM PDT by pinkpanther111
His parents hoped their teenage son would be home in a month, cured of his addiction to the internet. They never thought that within 10 hours of taking him to an addiction clinic they would receive a telephone call notifying them that he was dead.
Deng Senshan, 16, was addicted to playing on the internet, like tens of millions of other young Chinese. He was just the latest teenager to be sent by his parents to one of the clinics being set up across China to cure youngsters of their obsession with online gaming
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I was jonesing myself this morning when I couldn’t get FR to load.
Should have stayed on his computer!
Speaking of addictions, a former secret service agent who has a new book out says that Obama is smoking several packs of cigarettes a day.
Chinese Teenager? Likely addiction to World of Warcraft
DUDE! You live in CHINA! DUH!
I always found that the ON/OFF switch worked well
What is the name of the agent and the book? This is kinda of icky!
“clinics” -— If that isn’t BS, nothing is.
Another fine example of socialized medicine....
Maybe when FR went down, he flung himself repeatedly against the keyboard.
He’s cured now.
I thought the same thing but didn’t say it!
What was it that ol’ witch said about Clarence Thomas?
I hope his wife feeds him plenty of fatty foods so he has a heart attack...
something like that.
Given the pressure from citizens and voters to put the brakes on his march to the left, and the pressure from his taskmaskers to Marxify the USA, I'd presume he's on various drugs too - to calm the nerves and sleep. Probably lots of antidepressants, etc.
Bet he doesn’t stand outside to smoke!
Obama wouldn’t be our first President to dope inside the oval office. JFK used a variety of prescription and some “recreational” drugs.
Sounds like they cured his addiction exactly the way the governement wanted.
Al Gore’s fault.
That’s what I’m thinking.
Free Republic now takes a moment of silence to mourn one of our Chinese FReeper friends.
(silence)
Now back to the moose, cheese and stuned beebers....
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