There is so much going on in our world that is difficult once again to come up with a topic for the column. This is my 4th attempt to write a column that is somewhat coherent and I hope entertaining. Each time I settled on a topic I found myself wandering off to another topic like a toddler at Christmas seeing another toy. So I decided to just embrace it and let's see where it takes us.

The media bias was on display again this past week when Kamala Harris made visits to Guatemala and El Salvador. If you watched the few news agencies that showed the speeches, you would have seen the number of people that were protesting this administration. There were signs in Guatemala and El Salvador held by the citizens of those countries that said, "Trump won, go home." Other signs mentioned stopping the assault of the children and women. But you would never know it watching the American media. As far as they are concerned it was a wonderful visit that is addressing the root cause of illegal migration, which is of course climate change.

Kamala Harris is taking the blatant lying to a new level. During those speeches she said that people should stop coming to the border because the laws of America are being enforced and anyone showing up at our border would be turned away. We know that to be a lie but it also contradicts the statements regarding policy changes made by her boss. Joe Biden has reinstated catch and release and quit sending people back across the border to await asylum hearings. This administration has had to reopen the so-called concentration camps that house the illegal migrants because they are not being turned away. That blatant lying just goes to show how little they think of the American people.

Did you know that if the rest of the world consumed as much food as the average American consumes, we would need the equivalent of four earths to be able to grow enough food to feed the entire population? Maybe it really is time we find another planet or two.

But can we find another planet that's close enough to send humans? I was watching a program that was discussing artificial intelligence and the human brain. Among the things they were discussing is the ability to implant human consciousness into a robot. Right now we can remotely control robots or we can even connect robotic body parts to our nervous system so that we can control our hand with our thoughts. This would take essentially a human brain and put it into a robot. They're thinking that this would allow humans at least their consciousness to make those trips that would take decades to reach another planet. They still haven't gotten around the idea that the human brain will deteriorate but maybe that's the way to go. At least we wouldn't eat as much if we got rid of our physical being.

The progressives have now come up or started pushing the idea that's been around a while of a global minimum tax. It's a way for them to get around the consequences of increasing corporate taxes in America. We already know what happens because so many businesses left the United States due to the confiscatory tax rates as compared to other countries such as Ireland. Now the politicians want every country in the world to charge a minimum of 15% tax. I guess they believe that a company in a state in America where they would have to pay 28% or 35% income tax rates and would not leave to go to a 15% tax. Once again it shows the politicians' ignorance of history and lack of business acumen. Or maybe it's just a willful ignorance.

Can someone please tell me how the sequencing of the stop lights at the intersections of Hwy 180 and 32nd street or the Walmart parking lot are helping to move traffic? I have thought about this for the last few weeks and cannot for the life of me understand how having only one direction of traffic move at a time improves traffic flow through a construction area. Maybe I should go work for the government for a while and I'll understand it.

I for one do have to sit back and refocus myself at times, especially when trying to get away from the political and social issues. When we do that we realize just how wonderful of a time we live in. Think about the technology that has changed our lives. I do not shop online a lot, but I ordered a product on Monday afternoon. It was shipped from Pennsylvania end delivered to my office by 3:00 PM the next day. And the things we can do with these little devices in our hands that are mistakenly called phones. Not only can you call people or look things up on the Internet but you pull up a map application and put in gas station or restaurant and it will find a dozen that are close to you. Some of you won't remember having to drive around with the gas tank on empty hoping that you found a gas station by chance before you ran out of gas. Many of you won't remember having to stop and ask some stranger where a place is. Heck we can even get medical treatment from a doctor half a world away without leaving the comfort of our home. Thinking about these things and so much more really does change one's perspective.

And it's partially because of that change in perspective that I do have hope. I also have a belief in the American people, most of them. I do believe that more people are waking up to the way we are being manipulated by the political elite and their friends in the media. I do believe there might be a driving force behind them that we do not know about. But I still believe that the people can take back control of this country. It's not going to be easy but we can do it. And it's that fundamental difference, the belief in the ability of the American people to overcome obstacles great and small, that differentiates us from the progressives.

And as to the title of today's column, I chose that not only because I was having a tough time focusing on one idea but also because I do believe that today, more than ever, the political elite are creating distractions to keep us from focusing on what is really happening.