The media, including this one, way too often see the glass as half empty.
Bad news sells. Gossip is in and always has been. People say, ‘I don’t want to hear about it,? all the while cupping their ear.
The unemployment rate in Michigan topped 15 percent, and nationally it’s over 10 percent.
When is the last time you heard or read, ‘Now over 85 percent of our workforce is employed?? That’s pretty darn good.
The reporter who told us this unemployment figure said, ‘That’s the highest it’s ever been.? C’mon. Even the very youngest reporter has to know unemployment has reached over 30 percent.
But the media amplifies the bad, hoping to hold its audience.
And, always, the bad economic things are blamed on a previous administration. And the good things, ‘Oh, that was my idea.?
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It’s in this ‘bad news? setting that I’m reporting that Apolinario Chile Pixtun, leader of the Mayans, says the world will not end in 2012.
He says the doomsday theories spring from Western, not Mayan, ideas.
His assertion has not stopped Hollywood from bringing to the screens ?2012? next month.
We can expect the theaters to be jammed with people wanting to see the end of the world, then hoping it will have a sequel, ‘The Next New World.?
We can hope for good news, but get excited about the bad.
Last January, you’ll remember, I wrote, ‘Mayans created Hell, we may witness it 12/12.?
This was prompted by archaeologists studying testimony from the Spanish Inquisition, and a History Channel Nostradamus prediction that asked: ‘Is 2012 the year the cosmic clock finally winds down to zero days, zero hope??
Turns out some of the conclusions of the scientists were based on an inscripted stone tablet found in Mexico in the 1960s. However, the tablet had a crack, thus some of the inscription was missing.
That didn’t stop the doomsdayers. The wording said something was going to happen in 2012, and the imaginative archaeologists took it from there.
Just like Al Gore has done with information he gleaned from an outhouse wall.
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Believe their actions, not their words!
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Granddaughter Haley, 10, announced to her family she was going to wear her sombrero to observe Halloween. Her twin brother, Trevor, spoke up, ‘You better get a Green Card!?
Where’d that come from?
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With the first snow in the air I decided to start a snowmobile. The ignition wouldn’t turn the engine over, so I charged the battery.
That didn’t work, so I scraped the connections. Nothing. I was told it could be the wiring, the starter, the muffler, the skies, the handlebars, the operator and an omen.
Why couldn’t it just be that I didn’t have the charger plugged into an electrical outlet?
Because that isn’t the way it is in my (our) negative thinking and expecting world. (See the first two sections of this Jottings.)
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I’m closing with these cautions:
? A black widow’s poison is 15 times more powerful than rattlesnake venom.
? Black widows like warm, dark places, and during pre-indoor plumbing days, were ‘fond of hiding in outhouses, where they often spin webs across toilet seats.?