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Recognizing Media Bias
How can you tell when media is showing a bias? Besides just that fact that it is coming from news or social media. Two of the major ways in which media creates bias is by using words that are designed to elicit emotion and by stating opinions as facts, without trying to prove those opinions.…
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Covid Prediction
Recap and Analysis Well, I have to say that I missed the mark on my predictions for the last two months of the year. I stated that the death numbers would climb to about 1000. The numbers as reported climbed to an daily average the last 3 weeks November of about 1450. The last seven…
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My 2020 Christmas Toast
This Christmas, things are different. While every year, some are not getting together with family, suffering from sorrow due to loss, or suffering economic setbacks, this year has more of us falling into one, two or all three of these categories. It is easy to get caught up with self pity, especially at Christmas. We…
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2020 Excess Deaths Analyzed
I have read many things about excess deaths in 2020, and how they relate to COVID. Some people claim there are no excess deaths. Others claim that excess deaths are much higher even than the COVID deaths. Being a numbers guy, I decided to run the numbers myself. But I wanted to look at the…
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The Sky is Falling – Or is it?
To listen to the news this month, you would think that the worst predictions for a Covid-19 tsunami have come to pass and more. Not just a second wave, but a tsunami. But what do the numbers really state? I was not planning on revisiting my predictions and where the cases are running till mid…
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We are tired of COVID Messaging not COVID
Today Trump stated that we are tired of hearing about COVID-19. I don’t think that is exactly what he meant. I think he meant we are actually tired of hearing the COVID-19 messaging that is going on. At least I am. I truly empathize with those who have been affected by the virus. I feel…
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Non Partisan Political Stance
Healthcare Healthcare is another divisive political topic. I am not sure that it really should be. But the problem is much more complex than is presented. Apparently one side wants to keep everything just as it is, and the other side wants to provide free healthcare for all. In my opinion, we need something completely…
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Covid-19 Estimates Update
On September 1st, I made estimates for daily deaths from COVID-19 would be at the end of September. Actually, I updated my estimates based on the numbers at the end of August. At the first of August, I had estimated numbers for August and September. For August, I had estimated total deaths for the month…
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Non-Partisan Political Stance
Part 1 – Introduction We have all seen, and typically joined in on, the political parties stances on what the governments policies should be. These policies are designed to be black and white extremes that rely on government attempts to help certain groups of people, at the expense of other people. There are three big…
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Hello World
Or – What Streetsmart Ideas is about A lot of the ideas I see out there today are politically leaning. They either lean toward the left or the right. In addition, they tend to be divisive in nature, trying to make black or white arguments when most of us fall somewhere in between. This blog…