Believe in yourself, not in what the news tells you!

If we watch "the news", we begin to believe "the news."

I've been on a news sabbatical for over a year now. Sure I hear what terrible things happen by word of mouth and on the radio. The news is so meaningful, to so many these days.

I'm usually struck sad by the number of people, shops, and other public places that have "the news" on all the time. Its no wonder people get a terrible view of the world.

I'm here to tell you, the world is healthy. People are smarter and kinder than we give them credit for. When we see pictures and movies of people rioting, and continue to watch that shit, the media knows it, and they keep it coming, because it sells commercial air time, which is how they get their money. PERIOD!!

Its all about market share, commercial airtime, and pulling in new viewers, not because the news is important to us, its because they sell airtime to commercial vendors, who want to reach our eyeballs at any cost.

Sure killing sucks, racial bigotry sucks, gun control or lack of gun control sucks, religion sucks, politics sucks, negative shit sucks, but negative shit sure sells a bunch of commercial air time.

Good news? It's out there, but people don't want to feel good about being good. Jerry Springer saw to that change in our lives. Good news don't sell air time to no one right now.

If we changed the game, and stopped watching what "the news" executives put in front of us, they'd have to change what they sold. But that requires work on our part, and I don't think we're ready as a society. Which doesn't mean that there aren't more good people, doing good things, for good reasons, than there are butt heads in the world.

I firmly believe that there is much more good in any one of us, than there is evil in the whole world.

Campy Out!

Navy Officer Killed on SR16 Monday Jan 23, 2011

This is pretty sad.

Driving to my hospital appointment on Monday was tricky. Deep black ice had set in through out most of the roads in South Kitsap and Tacoma, due to the snow melt, rain, and sudden drip in temp. I had heard that the highway was backed up because of an accident. I figured it was pretty bad because I've seen long stretches of highway and the Tacoma Narrows Bridge freeze over. In fact Sue and I were involved in a multiple car pile up, on the bridge, two years ago that totaled our car and sent Sue to the hospital. We both walked away from that accident, purely by accident.

I passed the accident around 8am looking down on it from a local side road. Looked like a real mess. I remember thinking, "Shit that's bad!"

My friend got a call later in the day from his wife who told him that someone had died in the accident. I got bummed.

Today in the news, I learned that Navy LCDR Regina Mills died in the accident. She had stopped on the side of the road to help someone who had lost control of their motor cycle.  A police officer, the motor cycle driver, and Mills were talking on the side of the road, unhurt, when another car lost control and slammed into the cars pushing them into the group injuring the police officer and motorcyclist, and killing LCDR Mills.

Here's the article from the Kitsap Sun:   Navy Officer Killed on Washington SR 16

LCDR MIlls as interviewed on the PBS documentary "CARRIER"

It always sucks when someone dies. Somehow it feels a little worse when someone dies was helping someone else. 

Campy Out!

And Now the Good News - Bad News Chronicals!

First the Bad News ....
Sucks to own an online account with Sony Play Station this week!  75 Million possible "hose" ups!

Sony Play Station: HACKED!

Then there's the Good News....
Ran across this video today....

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Thanks to:
1. www.foxnews.com
2. www.rulesdontapply.com


Wicked Beet out!