Name:   Buteye - Subject:   A Thought To Ponder Date:   1/20/2019 12:05:54 AM (updated 1/20/2019 12:12:46 AM)

While sitting here having just finished watching Judge Jeannine, I am trying to find a way to try and describe some thoughts that keep surfacing as this issue on immigration and border security drag on. I consider myself to be a fairly rational person with a college education who doesn't jump to quick conclusions in one way or the other. In other words, I think I try to look at both sides of a situation and try to use my education, experiences resulting from seventy eight years of living, and with a little "common sense" I can usually offer a fairly sensible input to occurences that we all must deal with over a period of time. However, I feel that what I have witnessed over the last two years, and more specifically over the last few months to be among the most perplexing of my lifetime. And I must say, much of what I am saying can be attributed to associations that have been brought about from time spent on the forum.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           It is difficult for me to wrap my hands around exactly what it is that I am trying to say so please bear with me while I try and give an example of where I am coming from. If you are already bored then don't read any further and then come and say what a "silly" concoction I have formulated.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       To set the stage, I have tried to view myself as someone who has not been involved in any of the many different subjects that we have been able to discuss and offer our thoughts and opinions. Therefore, I would have had very little infomation on the many subjects that we cussed and discussed, in some cases, on an almost "daily" basis. That being the situation, as an individual, most of the information I would have been subjected to would have come from TV and the "news" media. From my point of view I doubt that most people today are in a position to have had much interaction with other people about the "current" happenings in the world today. Accordingly, that means that about 90% of everything they "see or hear" would have been "fake news". As such, I think it is scary to think that people are seeing and reacting based on about 10% of "true" news. It's almost like we are living in a "third world country" where the "government "controls the news

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       I think my own 50 year old son is a good example of the "rat race" that we see today. In trying to talk to him about some of the troubling things we are witnessing toay, he says, "Dad, I have all I can do 'managing' my sales business, and trying to afford two kids in college and one in private school". He doesn't have the leisure I have had in my retirement,