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Thousands of students will have an extra long holiday break after school administrators in at least three Michigan counties decided to cancel classes because of talk surrounding the shootings in Newtown, Connecticut and rumors connected to the Mayan calendar predicting the end of the world.1-in-10 people believe that the Mayans have prophesied the end of the world (and see this). A Google search for "Maya 2012″ currently brings up hundreds of millions of hits (and see this and this).
Five districts in Lapeer County and 20 districts in Genesee County posted announcements Wednesday evening cancelling classes Thursday and Friday.
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Rumors connected to the Mayan calendar predicted end of the world on Friday have also surfaced," a letter from Matt Wandrie, Superintendent of Lapeer Community Schools said.
"Adam Lanza, a clumsy 20 year old autistic kid dressed in camo and full body armor, who never shot a gun before, drives to another state, gets let into a locked school looking like Rambo, kills 26 people with dead on accuracy at a school his mother, (a retired teacher who no one ever heard of before), used to work in years before, after allegedly killing her with the gun that belonged to her in the first place, then takes his own life... Thats the news, and people blindly believe it."I have hyperlinked the claims in the meme to news articles which remained on the web, even after the media has attempted to scrub conflicting/false reports in the last few days.
Comment: According to Dr. Robert Hare, hundreds of thousands of psychopaths live and work and prey among us. Your boss, your boyfriend, your mother could be a "subclinical" psychopath, someone who leaves a path of destruction and pain without a single pang of conscience.
Characteristics of Psychopaths: Watch Out For These Red Flags
What "Psychopath" Means; It is not quite what you may think
Psychopaths Among Us