Posts Tagged ‘CBS Sunday Morning’
Unanswered Questions
Most U.S. political opinions in 2024 are locked in two opposing camps with very different views of reality. On Sunday morning, CBS presented a segment with Ted Koppel that was recorded at a rally in Pennsylvania back in April. Koppel and crew provided a handful of supporters of the Republican candidate for President an opportunity to express themselves without challenge.
It left me with questions. These are not new questions for me, but each time I re-hear the heartfelt lamentations of people who sound so aggrieved, I become more curious about what is causing their suffering.
Bless CBS’s media heart for not asking for explanations. I can only imagine how quickly they would have lost willing interviewees among the crowd if they had displayed any judgment about the group’s logic.
When asked why they would endure cold and windy weather all day long to support their candidate, one person expressed, “We want our freedoms.”
My question: What freedoms are being denied them? They freely gather at a rally where they freely speak their minds. What rights have they lost in the years since their candidate lost the 2020 election?
“Nobody cares about the working class. …You want your ratings on CBS and you want to lift up that idiot in the White House. …You have been lying to the American people long enough.”
My question: Nobody cares? What is their candidate doing to help the working class? Does this interviewee know anything about The American Families Plan announced by Biden in 2021? What is the media lying to the American people about?
The rally interviews were recorded long before the 34 New York guilty verdicts were announced but Mr. Koppel asked about opinions regarding the trial.
“He’s not guilty. If anybody is guilty, it’s Biden.”
My question: Out of anybody, what is it they believe Biden to be guilty of?
Not being able to ask for a logical explanation of the emotional gripes held by people who seem to approve of the violent January 6, 2021 insurrection leaves the same bad taste as listening to the inflamed untrue rhetoric spewed at the rallies that become media sound bites with little in the way of verifications for accuracy.
Luckily, I don’t lose too much mental energy to these types of questions because I’ve got more pressing immediate issues that remain unanswered. Case in point: When will the ground around here dry up enough to stop my riding mower from leaving behind muddy tire tracks?
One of these days, I hope. So many questions that might never be answered.
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Another Solstice
Winter 2020 arrived at our location at 4:02 a.m. CST this morning. For all the action going on in the universe beyond our planet, this solstice phenomenon is just between the Earth and our sun. In the northern hemisphere, we are at the shortest day of the year. The hours of daylight will increase from now and grow for the next six months.
We are more than ready to be headed in this direction again. 2021 is not far off now.
During our midday walk around the property yesterday, it was very noticeable that the angle of sunlight was very low. Shadows were long. The amount of melting power on a clear day in December is greatly reduced as a result of that low angle.
Plenty of white remains over our land, albeit only a fraction of what would be considered worthy any winter sports endeavors.
This time of year brings the earliest in the evening that we venture down to close the chicken coop for the night. It’s a swing of between four and five hours from how late the process occurs in June.
Ahhh, June. I guess it’s a slip up from living in the moment if I am focusing on six months in the future but there is the added incentive of longing for a time when pandemic isolation isn’t the prime order of the day.
The highlight of our day yesterday came early, during our viewing of the CBS “Sunday Morning” broadcast. There were multiple segments of heartwarming value, not the least of which was the cover story, “Promoting the Power of Kindness.”
“Kindness is a power we all have. We just need to decide to use it.”
I couldn’t have said it any better than that. (You can click the image or the link above to view the 7:44 minute story.)
Be kind to someone today on this winter soltice.
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