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June 23, 2008

EMAIL Hell - 2012, the End of the World, and Ethical Spam

by Ferdinand T Cat

Today we received an entirely new type of spam EMAIL.The gist of the message revolved around a doomsday predicted at the end of 2012. After several paragraphs about voodoo, magic spells, black holes, and ancient prophecies, there was the following paragraph.

Marketing Systems supports ethical email marketing. To remove yourself from future mailings, please click here to use our automated removal system, or simply reply to this email with "No Email" in the subject line. You will be removed from our mailing database within seven (7) days.

It just seemed to me that there was something marvelously symbolic about a combination of voodoo and ethical spamming.

Anyway, the 2012 doomsday theory has a long history, so I thought I should spend a little time debunking this particular myth. Apparently, the ancient Mayans had multiple calendars-- some religious and some secular-- and by combining these using a technique called the calendar round they could pinpoint dates anywhere within a 5000-year period.

Every 52 years there was a five-day gap required to synchronize with the sun. The Mayans believed these intercalary days were unlucky. The end of the full-blown 5000-year calendar round was considered to be super-unlucky, and many people believe that this will be the end of the world.

This is, of course, a huge exaggeration. It is true that in 2012 we will be wrapping up four years with either John McCain or Barack Obama in the White House, and to many of you this may seem like an open invitation for the world to end, but there's something important you have to understand: the United States Constitution was specifically designed to protect us from the government. The whole conservative movement is about insuring that the United States, and the people who live in it, can endure and even thrive with incompetents at the helm. As long as we hold to that principle, as long as we fight to defend and protect that Constitution, the world will not end.

Trust me on this. We cats have been around a lot longer than the Mayans.

Respectfully submitted,

Ferdinand T. Cat

Trackposted to Outside the Beltway, The Virtuous Republic, Rosemary's Thoughts, Right Truth, The World According to Carl, Mac's Opinion, The Pink Flamingo, Cao's Blog, Gulf Coast Hurricane Tracker, Democrat=Socialist, A Newt One, and Stageleft, thanks to Linkfest Haven Deluxe.

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That is cute. I never click on those things, because that only lets them know they have 'live' hit. Oivay! That's one smart kitty! ;)


Posted by: Rosemary at June 23, 2008 4:21 PM

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