Why do I listen to the news?

Snowflake · 11-28-2007, 08:09 AM

Not that I can think of a better place, but maybe it's time to leave Phoenix? Of course, SF and the Bay Area have their own horror stories.

I rarely listen to the news, I don't watch it on TV much and I parted ways with CNN a long time ago. I look at it more like garbage in garbage out and I don't want it on my head.

PirateMunkee · 11-28-2007, 08:55 AM

Wow, and people wonder why I keep praying for an asteroid the size of Texas to slam into the Earth.

sleepyjeff · 11-28-2007, 09:26 AM

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Originally Posted by PirateMunkee

Wow, and people wonder why I keep praying for an asteroid the size of Texas to slam into the Earth.

I thought you wanted an asteriod to hit Texas...not the size of Texas

MouseWife · 11-28-2007, 09:45 AM

I watch the news, I read the stories. It is sickening. It hurts my heart and it puts ugly images into my head, don't like them.

My niece always stops me from reading her things {I'll be talking with her on the phone while reading the news on the internet} and says she just can't hear it. I tell her, I don't enjoy it but I think I do need to know, it does happen.

Maybe it makes me paranoid and I hound my kids to keep their cell phones charged, to make sure eveyone has AAA, ask when they'll be home and to please call {I am not so much trying to know what they are doing just when to expect them home}. I've been ribbed about not going in to 'bad neighborhoods' but hello, I grew up in one and it is still on the news, a lot.

I think, while I don't read every single thing, that it is good to know that things happen. Helps keeps us aware and what to look out for so that as concerned people we can do something, if need be. That we learn when to help and when to run, ourselves.

Like all of the stories about people meeting people over the internet...oh, wait...

11-28-2007, 08:09 AM	#1
Snowflake lost in the fog Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: San Francisco Posts: 7,831	Not that I can think of a better place, but maybe it's time to leave Phoenix? Of course, SF and the Bay Area have their own horror stories. I rarely listen to the news, I don't watch it on TV much and I parted ways with CNN a long time ago. I look at it more like garbage in garbage out and I don't want it on my head. __________________ Be yourself; everyone else is already taken. - Oscar Wilde
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PirateMunkee Mansion Butler Extraordinaire Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Riverside CA Posts: 41	Wow, and people wonder why I keep praying for an asteroid the size of Texas to slam into the Earth. __________________ PirateMunkee Keep an eye out, We are in bat country!!
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11-28-2007, 09:45 AM	#4
MouseWife Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Da' Beach Posts: 2,957	I watch the news, I read the stories. It is sickening. It hurts my heart and it puts ugly images into my head, don't like them. My niece always stops me from reading her things {I'll be talking with her on the phone while reading the news on the internet} and says she just can't hear it. I tell her, I don't enjoy it but I think I do need to know, it does happen. Maybe it makes me paranoid and I hound my kids to keep their cell phones charged, to make sure eveyone has AAA, ask when they'll be home and to please call {I am not so much trying to know what they are doing just when to expect them home}. I've been ribbed about not going in to 'bad neighborhoods' but hello, I grew up in one and it is still on the news, a lot. I think, while I don't read every single thing, that it is good to know that things happen. Helps keeps us aware and what to look out for so that as concerned people we can do something, if need be. That we learn when to help and when to run, ourselves. Like all of the stories about people meeting people over the internet...oh, wait... __________________ Summa' time....when the livins' easy.........
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