A MOMENT FOR ME

When i write these columns, they're made up of two things: the truth and my opinion. i don't make stuff up and i don't jockey the numbers and i try to fact check every item that i print and to the best of my knowledge, the facts are the facts and not fiction.

 

But there are some people who will not accept the facts, no matter how obvious and they'll argue until the cows come home that the sky is NOT blue and proclaim to the heavens that water is NOT wet. 

So i have made a personal decision to no longer engage in conversation with people who are too stupid to change their minds when presented with overwhelming evidence to support a fact. For example, recently a reader of this column was aghast when i called the president a racist but i've had that opinion long before he was president and had many examples to back it up so i started citing the verified incidents of racism. His reaction? change the subject. When i asked if he needed more examples, he wouldn't answer. 

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THE INABILITY TO ACCEPT FACTS RATHER THAN RUMOR OR GOSSIP OR FAIRY TALES dooms you to inaccuracy the rest of your life and a lack of respect from those with open minds who try to teach.

PERFECT EXAMPLE IN THE PAST?  ME. for years, i poo-poohed any discussion on global warming. Now i have no idea why i initially took that position but after several television specials, i headed to the video library to do my own research and in a couple of weeks, i totally changed my position. 

But people on my original side offer just one argument: "it's just a cycle and it will pass in time." Watching icebergs break in half when it's never happened before is not a cycle but it is a catastrophe when the water is warming in the Artic. The waters in mexico have also warmed by several degrees and much of the marine life has moved on to cooler waters and commercial fisherman say their catches are down 50% over the last five years.

 On a far simpler note, i used to watch a hundred pelicans every morning and then in the late afternoon day dive bomb the waters catching fish. Two years ago the pelicans disappeared. This is the part where the other side points out that's why the fish left the area in the first place, not the warmer water.

But 'those people' have blinders on just like a plow horse and don't recognize the increase in hurricanes and violent weather and the delay in seasons and the torrid summer temperatures and drought and flooding and on and on and on. Just like the horse, they only see what's right in front of them and they're perfectly satisfied with that. so sad.

ANOTHER EXAMPLE OF STUPID PEOPLE: I had a reader of this column write me and say "what's the big deal about 100,000 people dying? that's less than .00001 percent of our total population." After i picked my jaw up, i asked her, "are you saying it's ok for a hundred thousand people to die from this virus?"  She said it was insignificant and the flu took half that many every year and nobody made a fuss about that. "The virus will eventually die out just like the flu so people should be allowed to work if they want to and those that don't, stay home."  My head hurts from shaking it side to side.

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Now there are subjects like gun control, the death penalty and a women's right to choose where both sides have valid points and eventually you just have to pick a position but when the evidence for global warming is there.............there really is no debate.

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I believe that people have the right to a handgun for personal protection and a three slug shotgun for hunting but all forms of automatic weapons should be forbidden and the death penalty should apply to those violators. automatic weapons are manufactured for the sole purpose of killing people. period. my opinion.

I also strongly believe that the death penalty should be more often and taxpayer money should not be used housing and feeding these psychos for 10 years so they can waste even more money with multiple appeals, all on the taxpayer's dime.

And just as strongly, i believe that all women have every right to determine their futures regarding the birth of a child.

AND NOW SOME POLITICS: When ULTRA-CONSERVATIVE ANN COULTER jumps the fence, you know something is rotten on the other side. This woman actually authored a book titled "In trump we trust" in 2016 and now says trump is a "broken and shallow man" and acts like a "blithering idiot" with his "trash tweets" and "zippy the chimp would bring more decorum to the white house because trump is a moron." ouchie ouchie. mom, can you kiss my boo-boo?

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Illinois governor JB PRITZKER is beginning to look reeeeeeeee-al smart for sticking to his plan to slowly re-open the state. Working in concert with chicago mayor LORI LIGHTFOOT, pritzker has deflected the predictable b.s. legal challenges from downstate republicans and continued with his schedule. And now states who reopened like the wild west with no rules (hello wisconsin) are seeing a huge spike in virus infections. as daddy used to say....'you get what you ask for.'  

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The protests over the disaster in Minneapolis has gotten out of hand. I've never understood why they burn and pillage their own neighborhoods. Some of the protesters have their hearts in the right place but what good does it do to burn stores and vandalize the outside of buildings? That accomplishes nothing.

And there comes a time when violence will be met with violence, you can bet on that. Please go home and let the courts decide the fates of the officers rather than do battle with the military.

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I wrote the other day about how the owners are going to shanghai the minor league players and cut off their $400 a week salary but DAVID PRICE of the LOS ANGELES DODGERS is going to make sure they get a thousand dollars a month thru the season. CLASS ACT.
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FINALLY, I still say that the  NBA and NHL should just call it a day and we'll see you next season. Hockey in July just doesn't work for me and the NBA season normally starts in October anyway so having playoffs in late August  doesn't work for me either.

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Slept with the windows open last night and will repeat it again this evening. nice.

ENJOY!