just getting started

Hello World, welcome to Another Corner Heard From. It seems as though everyone is a pundit these days, so I'm adding my opinion to the cacophany. It's time to stop talking back to the TV and the radio. Hopefully I'll be as eloquent here as I am in my car. I'm interested in anyone's thoughts regarding these posts. But keep in mind, I'm expressing opinions & random thoughts. I'm not out to "get" anyone. Primarily I'm bewildered by the statements & actions of many people today. The news rarely sounds like the reporting of facts. It has become a series of announcements of other people's opinions & predictions, and reactions to the aforementioned announcement of opinions. It used to be a standard joke that being a weatherman (because at that time there were no weather-women) was the only job you could have where you could be wrong every day and still get paid. Now, Economists have taken their place. The weather reports are accurate 95% of the time. When was the last time you heard an announcement that included the phrase "just as the Economists predicted....."? No. It's "contrary to economic predictions.." "The blah-blah earnings or indicators or rates are higher (or lower) than Economic Analysts' expectations." Why do we listen? The average person knew we were into a recession months before the Econs scientifically proved it. I have predictions of my own. C'mon, CNN or MSNBC or Fox. Just ask me. I can't be much more wrong than your experts.