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I keep up on the news via the internet, and use my DVR to watch the local news, skipping the weather, sports, and a great deal of the fluff. I can watch a 30 minute newscast in less than 10 minutes. Whatever you do, never trust the news. When it isn't flat out designed to promote a (usually but not always left wing) view, the reporters are almost ALWAYS lazy and uninformed if not outright stupid. Every news story I've ever seen that I've had first hand knowledge of has been about 80% wrong. Every news story out there that has anything to do with a subject I some expertese in is generally about 80% wrong about the underlying subject. Now if they're wrong this often about things I do know about, I can generally extrapolate to the news being about 80% wrong across the board. I can't remember what the story was, but I remember that I saw it on CNN and Fox and several other news sites after it made the rounds on the internet. They were all too lazy to check the original source which was The Onion.

Even the ones claiming to only state facts get rather selective about which facts they're presenting, leaving the viewer with a view rather skewed the way the "news" agency wants it to go.

I don't know about same state, but in Pocatello we had an Elder from Layton, < 2 hours down I 15.

As someone trying to start a small business, it isn't competition from larger businesses that are causing me problems. It's not running afoul of government regulations that keeps me from breaking out. As an aside, the people that benefit most from the government regulation are the large corporations, as they have the resources to comply with the byzantine regulations imposed, and such regulations have a strangling effect on smaller businesses, thus helping to get rid of the smaller competition. Making sure I don't commit a felony by forgetting to file some obscure piece of paperwork costs too much to ever go beyond a sole proprietorship business.

The wealthy socialist backers own the media outlets.

The big problem with a lot of mental disorders, whether they are neurological, chemical, hormonal, or simply behavioral is that we simply take the behaviors and responses people make and call it a disorder. Unless there is a big tumor or other rather obvious physical defect, there's still not much we understand about the brain. What we call Autism COULD be a single disorder, or it could be 50 or 100 different disorders each with a different cause and treatment. Remember when formal medicine was as old as psychology/psychiatry is now, people were still talking about humors. Our modern mental health knowledge is almost certainly almost as wrong. That's not to say it's bunk, only that we're sill learning, and have a long way to go. Even back in the days of humors, what medicine did was generally a little better than nothing, and the knowledge that was learned has led to our current medical advances.

I spent part of my mission in Maryland, and spend pretty much my entire workday talking on the phone to people all over the country. I'd say 80-90% of the people I talk to from the east don't realize there's a difference between Idaho, Iowa and Ohio. As far as they're concerned all three are the same "flyover" state.

John Moses Browning