Joy Reed is a talk show reporter on MSNBC. She comes from a wealthy family and went to Harvard majoring in “film studies.” Over the last 8-10 years, while working in the media, she has had to apologize for her nasty remarks many times, especially to Jews, Gays, and other minority groups
Joy Reed is a very angry black woman that see racism in every current event. Additionally, she is a liar. You cannot believe her. Her reporting is not balanced, accurate and often loaded with completely slanted personal opinions.
Because she works for one of the national news agencies, she has an audience. This makes her very dangerous. She makes inaccurate assessments of the facts, and deliberately twists the truth to keep racism in the story. She clearly hates white Americans, especially white men.
I don’t watch MSNBC because that network employs Joy Reed and many others just like her.
My subscription to this magazine is ending. The magazine has changed for the worse. Gone are the articles about exotic places, animals, fossils, historic tribes, and earth’s wonders. Those articles have been replaced, in part, with “social justice” articles, often written by “guest authors” from the academic circles. Too bad!!
I looked forward to the magazine arriving because it was an excellent source of information about the areas above. But not now. The most recent issue contains a five page article about “Pay Inequity” in the US, written by an English professor. The author claims that women are “systemically discriminated” against regarding pay. The article provides much data, comparing women’s pay, by race, to men’s pay, alleging that women are paid less than men. Thus, according to the author, the reason must be “systemic discrimination.”
This may be true, and easily explained. Salaries and wages are determined by many factors including industry, function, experience, skills, performance, location, job content, and financial strength of company.
Men work in many fields that are higher paying industries like mining, gas and oil exploration, logging, heavy construction, steel works, crafts like plumbing, electrical, and HV/AC, trucking, petrochemical, and many others.
Women dominate work industries like administrative, clerical, retail, child care, education, medical assistants, customer service, housekeeping, hospitality, and the food industry. These industries are lower paying than those industries dominated by men. These are the facts, and this explains the difference in pay levels between men and woman. It is not “systemic discrimination.”
Any credible publication should report a balanced view and not just print articles slanted to fit their own pollical view. Shame on National Geographic. I think that magazine should stick with geographic articles. Anyway, I am not renewing my subscription.
We have all made bad decisions in our lives. Decisions that we regret. Many bad decisions can be overcome with time, course changes, and personal reflection. But sadly, some bad decisions are life changing. These decisions can not be reversed or overcome. Often, there is a major penalty to the decision, like divorce, jail time, bankruptcy, injury and even death.
Judgment is a personal quality that helps us make good decisions. Relevant experience and knowledge, plus the process of taking in information helps each of us to make good decisions. We also must know who we can trust and when we are in “over our head.” Sadly, many people always assume everything is fine. They simply don’t listen or lack self awareness. Bad listeners filter information to their own likening, and are not discerning enough of what they hear or read. People’s lives can be ruined by making bad decisions. Here are some examples:
Buying stuff on credit cards.
Driving while drunk
Committing a crime of any kind
Having a baby without having a job to support
Participating in dangerous activities, like street racing
Ignoring health problems
Smoking
Choosing a college major without employment or career prospects.
Doing drugs
Hanging with a bad crowd 😆
People with good judgment tend to have a breath of experience and relationships that enables them to draw the right conclusions and thus make good decisions. If you don’t have experience, ask someone you trust for advice. Often that is role of parents and teachers. But, unfortunately, some parents are not around or unwise. Too bad!!!
I guess as I get older, some little things bother me more. Like a stone in my shoe, or a ketchup pack that you have to open with your teeth, I get mildly irritated. I do not get bothered by the big things in life, but little things just irritate me. Things like 7″ of paper towels in the bathroom, auto faucets that don’t work, neighbors that don’t pick up after their dogs, loud talkers in restaurants, long lines at the checkout, and people that mumble.
Recently, I got a new irritation. One that really tweaked me!
I saw an advertisement on TV for a “Tax Relief Company!!” According to the ad, the company will help you get relief from paying your taxes to the IRS. I pay my taxes and have done so for 40+ years, why do people need “relief?” I don’t want to listen to IRS tax relief!! Pay your taxes.
I researched a few of the “tax relief companies.” To “qualify” for their help, you have to owe over $10,000 to the IRS and pay about $500 up front. The companies total fees are about $2000 to $5000 to help you setup a payment schedule to pay down your tax bill. I am not familiar with any “debt forgiveness.” The IRS always gets their money.
My irritation is people not paying their taxes, and having the funds to hire companies to avoid paying their fair share. Ugh!🤣
I watched a few NFL games over the last 2 weeks. Glad to see that “social justice” is not so obvious to the viewers. I watch the NFL for entertainment and to see great plays by the players. However, I did notice political messages displayed on some of the players’ helmets, like “Stop Hate”, Black Lives Matter”, End Racism” , etc. Hmmmm!! Here are my suggestions for messages:
San Francisco is a mid-sized city ( pop: 875,000) in northern California. For four decades the city has been run by liberal Democrats, including ex-mayor Gavin Newsom. The city has many problems, all created and fostered by the liberal left. Let’s list the big ones:
Schools-the only big city in the US not to open schools for middle and high school students for the entire academic year 20-21. But the School Board did eliminate merit for admissions to certain high schools. The Board also spent time and money to rename schools with offensive names like Abraham Lincoln and George Washington. The School board fights constantly with parents over everything.
Cost of Living-San Francisco has a cost of living at 2.5 times higher than the national average and, also 50% higher than NYC. Ugh!! People are leaving the city in record numbers, almost 50,000 people in 2020. This leaves the city with severe shortages of workers. Businesses are closing. Double Ugh!
Crime-the DA of San Francisco is Chesa Boudin, the son of two convicted murderers. His parents were charged with the death of two police officers and a security guard. Imagine that! San Francisco led the nation in car break-ins in 2019; shootings have doubled in the last year, and drug overdoes killed more people than Covid. Lax enforcement of crime has enabled shoplifting, looting, and robberies. The city has a incarceration rate of 20% the national average. Criminals are not going to jail.
City corruption– London Breed is the current mayor. She is a career politician, and the first black women to serve as mayor. She was elected in a special election in 2018.At a salary of $351,000, she is the highest paid mayor in the US. Can you imagine that? The city also has over 150 other employees with salaries over $300,000. Three city hall department heads have been charged by the FBI with bribery and corruption. Mayor Breed was fined $23,000 for ethics violations. Incompetence and corruption in city management has led to the demise of the City.
” If everyone stands on tiptoes, no one sees better”
The democrats have a single strategy. Never to lose a national election again, using all means necessary. They want the power to push their agenda to transform the US. Here are a few pages, in random order, from their playbook:
Keep the Blacks stirred up. Blacks historically vote for democrats by overwhelming numbers. Democrats create unrest in the black communities by pushing radical and untrue narratives like systemic racism, police murders, racism in schools, housing, criminal justice, employment, mortgages lending, and college admissions. Allow democratic cities to be burned during “mostly peaceful” riots. Make no arrests during these riots. Allow high levels of crime in our cities, mostly and tragically in democratic cites run by Blacks. Reduce the police forces. And call Republicans “white supremacists.”
Promote open borders. Allow uneducated and unskilled people from 100+ countries to enter the US through our southern border. No vetting backgrounds, no medical checks, no assurances of being able to support themselves. Use our military to transport these illegal immigrants across the US, especially to “swing states” like Texas, Arizona, Pennsylvania, etc. Provide free education, housing, food and medical to these immigrants, and about 30-50 other social benefits. The result, imported voters loyal to the democrats.
Push damn hard for the elimination of voter restrictions. Taking advantage of the Covid pandemic, democratic states relaxed voter ID requirements, the states also allowed for ballot harvesting, no election day observers, no signature verification, absentee ballots mailed to everyone, massive expansion of voting days, and a ballot counting system which took weeks to complete. Eighty percent of Americans favor voter ID laws. Yet the leaders of the democratic party want Federal control so election laws can be totally relaxed. The democrats want all their imported illegal immigrants to vote. I am certain the recent influx of unvetted migrants from Afghanistan will be included in the democrat’s strategy.
Give “free stuff” to everyone. The proposed $3.5 trillion budget is disgraceful. It is the largest expansion of the Federal government over in 60 years. Here is a partial list of some of the “free stuff”–universal Pre-K, child care for working families, Child tax credits, free community college, vast $$$$ amounts to historically black colleges, $107 Billion for lawful permanent status for immigrant (more voters), $332 Billion for public housing and community land trusts, expansion of Medicare, and Medicaid. Free dental and vision care. Can you imagine the Federal government running the programs to administer $3.5 Trillion? The post office (USPS) had a net operating loss of $3.0 Billion for the quarter that ended 6/30/21. Now-We want to hand the democrats $3.5 Trillion to spend. Lastly and most importantly, that $3.5 Trillion will siphon off investment $$$$ that could be used by innovative companies, start-ups, and biotech companies. Inflation will continue to rise and our economy will shrink (reduced investment).
Control the Media. The democrats provide daily talking points to all major news outlets, including the TV networks, major newspapers, and the major social platforms. The democrats are excellent at spinning the story, pivoting away from negatives, inventing words and phrases like “re-imagine” the police, dropping the race and/or gender card, deflecting the facts, and worse-telling us what words are no longer acceptable to use.
Lastly, keep people divided into groups. Divide to conquer. Create the groups like women, Blacks, Latinx, Minorites, Asians, immigrants and whites. Then make comparisons to show one group is better off. Of course, the next step is show how one group is being mistreated, or oppressed, or discriminated against. The democrats always blame society or the “system”, never the under-performing group. If a black high school in Baltimore is under-performing, it must be systemic racism. I don’t think so!
The democrats are clever. They are also the biggest threat to the US. We must take control of the House and Senate in 2022.
The following commentary is from a newspaper in Prague.
“The danger to America is not Joe Biden, but a citizenry capable of entrusting a man like him with the Presidency. It will be far easier to limit and undo the follies of a Biden presidency than to restore the necessary common sense and good judgment to a depraved electorate willing to have such a man for their president. The problem is much deeper and far more serious than Mr. Biden, who is a mere symptom of what ails America. Blaming the prince of the fools should not blind anyone to the vast confederacy of fools that made him their prince. The Republic can survive a Biden, who is, after all, merely a fool. It is less likely to survive a multitude of fools, such as those who made him their president.”
On August 6, 2021 the Commission voted, by split vote, to require Nasdaq companies to have a least two diverse members on their corporate boards. One Board member must be a women, the other must self-identify under certain rules regarding gender and racial characteristics and LBGTQ+ status. Can you imagine??? There are so many problems with this new requirement I have trouble arranging my thoughts, but here goes:
Government telling companies how to run their businesses. Corporate boards are tasked with governance and oversight. Obviously very important and requiring of vast knowledge and experience, and–connections to industry leaders, policy makers, international business experts and capable of the governance role.
2. Diversity diminishes merit. The two concepts cannot co-exist. If a company wants to be highly successful, then the company must employ top talent regardless of gender or race. Investors sink their money in companies with top talent, regardless of gender or race. There is absolutely no empirical study or logic that proves a diverse team is better. None!!!! The NBA is an excellent example, the best basketball players are in that league. There is not a diverse collection of players, blacks represent almost 76% of the current players.
Forcing quotas is wrong and has been proven wrong for 50+ years. In this instance, it assumes all women will act different than men and that people of color will govern differently than whites. Where is that data?? I think it is insulting to women and minorities. Where is the fairness based on merit?? There may be a Nasdaq listed company with an all minority board or all women. Is that company going to add two white men. That is ridiculous.
The US must have a strong economy. It is imperative for global political reasons. Our economy is driven by the outstanding companies located within our shores. Merit is the fundamental principle for excelling in business and finance. The engine of our economy is the investment world. Investment $$$ must go to the best ideas, products, and teams. Diversity is not part of that equation.
Cori Bush got beat in the Democratic Primary. She is out of a job. Her concession speech was filled with anger and threats. She is a disgrace to Congress, and to the people of St. Louis.
Updated January 31, 2024 (Original post 8/21)
The US. Dept. of Justice is investigating Cori Bush for using campaign funds to hire her boyfriend. The US. House of Representatives Sergeant of Arms confirmed that his office has received a Grand Jury Sopena as part of the investigation. Sources indicate Bush has spent $700,600 on private security since early 2021. Some of that money went to her boyfriend for private security, but he is not licensed to provide security in Missouri or D.C.
Bush is the foremost activist for the de-fund the police movement. In 2023, part of her district had the highest per capita crime rate in the US.
Previously reported:
Cori Bush is a congresswoman from Missouri. She was elected in 2020 and represents the 1st Congressional district which include a portion of St. Louis. She is wildly proposing defunding the police, while St. Louis is one of the most violent cities in the US.
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Bush also went on national TV to claim that she is using campaign funds to hire private security even if it costs $200,000. Her newscast was incredible, filled with hate and anger.
Cori Bush is an excellent example of what is wrong with our government. We continue to elect angry, ignorant, and arrogant people without regard for job qualifications. If you have seen her interviews, can you imagine serving on a committee with her to craft a bill, or debate a proposal?? She is an uncompromising loon that blames white people for all of the societal problems. Trust me-there is nothing worse than an ignorant and arrogant person. That combination is highly toxic and damaging.
Cori Bush is a single mom. She holds a RN certificate from the Lutheran School of Nursing. That school is located in St. Louis and recently was closed by the Missouri State Board of Nursing due to funding issues, mismanagement, and poor exam rates. Bush claims she was awarded “top nurse award” from the International Nurse Association. That group has had over 100 formal complaints filed against it for fraud. That group asks for $500-$600 and if they receive, they issue the donor this bogus award. Check it out!
Cori Bush is a political activist. I guess that is her qualification for Congress. Too bad!! The people from her district deserve better but, they are getting exactly what they voted for. No police for St. Louis but $200,000 of security for Congresswoman Bush. Let’s see what happens to St. Louis.
High Truths and Low Lies 