Dozens of Michigan schools close after Conn. massacre, amid Mayan calendar doomsday scenarios

WaPo ^ | 12/20/12 | AP

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DETROIT — Dozens of Michigan schools canceled classes for thousands of students to cool off rumored threats of violence and problems related to doomsday scenarios based on the Mayan calendar, officials said Thursday.

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Full title: Dozens of Michigan schools close after Conn. massacre, amid Mayan calendar doomsday scenarios

Words fail me.

[bgill]

Woo hoo! Extra holidays and no finals!!!

When I was in school, we only had Billy Bubba to pull the fire alarm to get out of class for a few minutes.

[SkyDancer]

Why yes. New Zealand has disappeared soon to followed by Australia. Oh, wait. They’re still there????

[cripplecreek]

Funny, Snyder vetos the bill that would allow some guns in Schools and they all close out of a fear for violence. I personally think its because of the loss of their right to enslave workers.



Weekly/biweekly Michigan legislative action thread

[FlingWingFlyer]

We’ve gone from being a nation of immigrants to a nation of retards.

[hinckley buzzard]

They are closing for the holidays tomorrow anyway. I don't think too many are worried about the Mayan calender.

[Las Vegas Ron]

We still have 10+ hours left here in Vegas:

http://www.timeanddate.com/countdown/maya

[Wisconsinlady]

Extra days off for teachers. Imagine that.

[cripplecreek]

This is nothing but continuing retaliation for RTW.

[traditional1]

I’m sure the Teachers’ Union Members won’t be docked a day’s pay for the un-productive day off.....probably several thousands of dollars paid for not showing up at all!

[HiTech RedNeck]

I don’t know what they are famous for teaching, but wisdom isn’t it.

[COBOL2Java]

I’d go with that’s their “cover story”. More likely they’re doing it to stave off some dumbasses trying a Connecticut redux.

[wideawake]

Or the lazy union drones wanted to string tomorrow along with Christmas Eve to make a 5 day weekend.

[ronnie raygun]

I would have more repect for them if they closed to celebrate FESTIVUS

[SkyDancer]

Party still going on????

[nothingnew]

It's all true. I'm dead already...I think...I don't really know.

:Merry almost Christmas!

FMCDH(BITS)

[Las Vegas Ron]

LOL...so far so good!

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Nothing new with the New Agers. Many many years ago there was an alignment of the planets. The N Agers said the world would be racked by earthquakes destroying everything except a few places.

Nothing happened.

I remember Paul Harvey saying that it would have really set them off IF there had been just a minor trembler somewhere.

Then there were all those N agers in the 1980s who gathered at various historic ruins, joined hands and said A-h-h-h to get the world back in balance.

Yes, it is time to reopen the closed mental institutions for psychos and new agers.

[VanDeKoik]

We Michigan folk are just wacky like that. I think it’s something in the lake water.

[Hot Tabasco]

They’re still there????

Just talked to my good friend in NZ and he thought they were going first until I convinced him that the Mayans were in a different time zone. He's got plenty of time to run out and get a bottle of wine for he and his wife and then ......um, you get the picture.

With that being said, I'm signing off now so good bye to everyone...It's a been fun ride.