Turn off the TV.

FEAR STRIKES


2000 - Y2K is going to destroy everything.


2001 - Anthrax is going to kill us all!


2002 - West Nile Virus is going to kill us all!


2003 - Sars is going to kill us all!


2005 - Bird Flu is going to kill us all!


2006 - Ecoli is going to kill us all!


2008 - Financial Collapse is going to kill us all!


2009 - Swine Flu is going to kill us all!


2012 - The Mayan Calender predicts the world ending!


2013 - North Korea is going to cause WWIII!


2014 - Ebola Virus is going to Kill us all.


2015 - ISIS is going to kill us all!


2016 - Zika Virus is going to kill us all!


2020 - Corona Virus is going to kill us all!


The truth is FEAR is going to kill you...


Turn off the TV

TV is going to kill us all ??
Well not tv, but the idiot news writers. We'd all be dead according to them.

Habits to remain alive:
Get up every morn.
Go to work every day.
Pay bills, raise kids.
Vote idiots out of office.
Get some practice from time to time at the gun range.
Ignore azzhats.

add get off social media to the list, as well as limit online time.

I would rather go play disc golf.

Couch potatoes be scared shitless...

You forgot global warming, global cooling, acid rain and the ozone hole.

Couch potatoes be scared shitless... Originally Posted by Yssup Rider

Quite accurate

If one has lived as long as I have, you saw the change happen in journalism from 30 minutes of straight news of the day with no commentary at all, to every single person in the news business having an opinion about everything they report and that opinion is based on their political beliefs.


If you know this and understand this, it becomes easier to live with but understanding why some of these news people do what they do, isn't always apparent. Just know that they all have a motive and just might not be telling you the whole truth and nothing but the truth.


Once one understands this, life is so much simpler.

You forgot global warming, global cooling, acid rain and the ozone hole. Originally Posted by Jacuzzme

Who's telling us all this? It's not God, it's the idiots in office and I don't worship them. So fuck'em.

FEAR STRIKES


2000 - Y2K is going to destroy everything.


2001 - Anthrax is going to kill us all!


2002 - West Nile Virus is going to kill us all!





Turn off the TV Originally Posted by bambino

I don't have a TV in my house people give me TV all the time I cut coard, yoke and and scrap take the to scrap yard. I refuse TV in my house. TV is like drug to some and feel addicted to it and like to share if have exter.

If one has lived as long as I have, you saw the change happen in journalism from 30 minutes of straight news of the day with no commentary at all, to every single person in the news business having an opinion about everything they report and that opinion is based on their political beliefs.


If you know this and understand this, it becomes easier to live with but understanding why some of these news people do what they do, isn't always apparent. Just know that they all have a motive and just might not be telling you the whole truth and nothing but the truth.


Once one understands this, life is so much simpler. Originally Posted by HedonistForever

It's always been about "getting eyeballs."

The 60s to mid 70s it was about the space program and Vietnam.

During the 90s and 00s it was about how "unfair" the right wing news radio network was.

During the last 15 years it been about the Demomedia and the coordinated onslaught of news stories fed by the Socialist Democrats and the lack of pushback by any outfit other than Fox news.

There was a very interesting conversation, I wish I could produce it, about how the Democrat party, only recently has moved away from concern about the average working American and is now fixated on wokeness and wokeness only. Even the economy comes second to wokesness and identity politics and if you few sane people on the Left can't see this and aren't worried about this, heaven help us.


For the last 3 weeks, Bill Maher has asked every guest the very same question, "will wokeness destroy the Democrat Party"? Let me answer that for you Bill, yes, it will.

"If one has lived as long as I have, you saw the change happen in journalism from 30 minutes of straight news of the day with no commentary at all, to every single person in the news business having an opinion about everything they report and that opinion is based on their political beliefs."

I agree completely with you here Hedonist. IMO, TV journalism died when Cronkite retired.

I also at least semi-agree that women's will harm the Democratic party, but I also think that Trumpism will destroy the Republican party to a far larger degree. The country desperately needs a new "shining star" from either party, or independent from either to get US of A back on track. We are currently derailed and there is enough fault to go around.

Cronkite was a good man.

With that said He was left of center. He had a belief that reporters report the news not make or be the news.
But even Cronkite lost his way when he came out against the war.

Cronkite was a good man.

With that said He was left of center. He had a belief that reporters report the news not make or be the news.
But even Cronkite lost his way when he came out against the war. Originally Posted by winn dixie

Yeah, but he was at the beginning of Operation Mockingbird. Seems like they got to him before he retired.