Undeniably Right

It should be!

I have been in the insurance industry since 1988 when I went to work for the most well-known auto and home insurance company in the U.S. I held a number of positions with that company over the years, all in the claims department. I saw what happens when people don't have the right amount of insurance coverage. They have to find another way to pay for damages. This is especially problematic when they caused an accident and had to pay someone for their damages.

Two quick examples: A man was stopped at a red light and was lightly tapped by another vehicle. The bumper absorbers barely moved. Yet, he had a pre-existing condition, a bulging disc; that had been asymptomatic. Yet, that small tap paralyzed him from the waist down. The person who was driving was 30 years old and had just purchased her first house. It impacted her in ways you can't imagine.

Second example: A doctor was coming home one night at about 10 p.m. After working a long shift at the ER. He rubbed his eyes and didn't see the light turn from green to yellow to red. He ran the light and killed 2 people in the ensuing accident. In an instant, his life changed.

I don't know. Was there a meeting? I'm about to find out and so are you.

The climate change industry is well known for being wrong and having to change their message in order to keep the cash flowing to their organizations and subsequently to the politicians. Originally the message was an Ice Age is coming; then it was ,oh wait it's getting hotter. That's right, global warming is going to kill us all. Then when the data didn't fit those arguments, they changed it to climate change, which could be different in different parts of the world. When you change your position so many times, eventually you're going to start sounding really dumb.

I think it may depend on who says it, but I'll listen to find out.

Today was one of those days that I just couldn't make a quick decision regarding the topic of the column. There are so many ways to go but you know what every one of them have in common? The fact that politicians, bureaucrats, lobbyists, and the corporate propaganda media all believe the average American citizen is a moron. And to a large extent they are right.

New York City mayor Zoran Mamdani has made the trademark of his campaign and administration to attack the rich. Raise taxes on the wealthy. Freeze the rent because landlords are making too much money. No one deserves to make tens of millions of dollars. Yet he proposed, and the City Council passed an 18% pay raise for members of the City Council, the mayor, and members of his administration. Members of the council will make almost $200,000 a year while the mayor will make over $300,000 a year. Political positions are supposed to be motivated by a desire to make your community better not to make that much money. Once again, the lemmings don't see the hypocrisy. The politicians and bureaucrats rail against people who have made money by earning it in a free market yet vote themselves huge pay raises.

We will have to listen to find out who is not hiding what.

The three major broadcast networks did not do their job last night. ABC, NBC, and CBS either put the president's speech on their streaming websites or limited the airtime of his speech. All three however, gave full airtime on the broadcast stations to their so-called "fact checkers." ABC and NBC were the two that aired the stage on their streaming websites, which have far fewer viewers than the broadcast channels. CBS aired the speech but joined it late and then left early to air their version of a fact checking program.

One of the undeniable truths of life in my world is that every news report you read, here, or watch is biased. Sometimes that bias is understandable because of things like time or space constraints. A reporter has to decide what facts or information is most important to their audience. But this is the worst kind of bias. This is the bias in which the broadcasters have decided to take actions that are designed to mislead the audience.