Giving up the News

I gave up reading newspapers years ago when they printed lies about me! Seriously I helped a troubled business out to save jobs & they said I had bought the business & quoted me in several places when I had refused to talk to them because of client confidentiality!

I stopped watching the news when Joe was about 5. He was taking the world's problems to heart. He was worrying about it all & I decided he was too young to carry the world on his little shoulders. Now all I do is scan down teletext to see if there is anything I need to know.

I also stopped watching soap operas as they depressed me too! Besides enough goes on in my life to write my own!

Ok, you "dirty rat"..give up your newspaper...and you won't get hurt...you heard me, lay it down on the table....over there.....an walk away....now...put your hands over your eyes and lay on the floor...and don't look up...you hear me, DON'T LOOK UP!...(.noises)... in comes some reindeer, it's "Santa"... he picks up the paper and puts it in his sack to take to the North Pole for more paper mache Christmas presents....times are "tough" these days! .....To to do to do..Dragnet (detective) opening music theme. Where;s the little green onions at?...you know some people call them "Scallions"...no "Scallions" no work this case, right boss?....right "Friday". What about the Holloween case...we handed that one to special ops forces, remember..Oh yeah...didn't it invove some pink helicopters or something? Yeah, they had been orange and someone painted them, put an cancer banner on the side, what crimnals won't do these days..it's all in file number 6673499....Pink Helcopters....Let's go check out today's newspaper. "To to do to do".... (to be continued )

You got it Ron!....zip..pow..yipee!   If it were not for th newspaper I'd never known where that Davis Graveyard Holloween display is at, we went by it the other day on the way back to take an look. I think the newspapers are getting more comical everyday with the news they print. As people over here are wondering how Obama got the peace prize, I'm wondering how Portland got to be the 9th smartest city...because I see they tend to be judging it on the how many books they have sold at Powel'l's book store possibly. Things seem so wacko any more in society...you just kind of want to tap your fingers and say ...humm.

Now that both my boys are in the Army, I said that I would not be watching or reading the news. So I know how you feel, Diana.

Still, I can't resist. I have a need to know what is going on in the world, and it can't be ignored.

We just lost another boy in Afghan from Reno.  

I'm like you, Sue.  Still, I can't resist. I have a need to know what is going on in the world, and it can't be ignored.

But I definitely get your point, Diana.  I think there's just an underlying uneasiness nowadays due to all the bad stuff going on - the wars, the bad ecomomy, diseases, etc.  I feel so blessed because I'm fairly insulated from it, while for others, it's their everyday experience.  I wonder if the world is really any worse than it ever was, but the constant bombardment 24-7 just gets to be overwhelming sometimes.  And as Peter said, people don't want to hear the good stuff, we seem to love murder and mayhem.