Television news, both local and national, doesn't report much anymore. Their editors are not familiar with the historical lineage of traditional American news agencies. Tabloid news is their model, and because streaming has usurped television as the major source of information, television news is a shadow of its former self. They are hanging on, but the industry is a shell. Why? They are controlled by corporations and their owning wealthy families. No longer are they free to report the news as it is. It is propagandist, biased, and manipulative. Television commercials or advertisements are the same. What they are selling is crap, and one needs to tell one's self this truth. I can't watch any of them, because I am not interested in their products. I visited the Good Feet Store and received a demonstration of their advertised insoles. The cost was $1,400.00. That was alot for three sets of plastic insoles, but it was an enlightening experience. I think there is merit to their product. How meteorologists can look us in the eye and tell us the weather without laughing is surprising. They must be paid a lot. Since the onset of climate change or Global Warming, the nightly weather forecast has become a farce. For example, and this is to prove man is responsible for climate change, a few weeks ago we had a cold snap with temperatures in the teens. There was a massive blizzard that swept the Midwest and Northeast, and Buffalo, New York was hard hit. On Christmas day in the South it was the usual seventy degrees. People joke about Fayettenam, and they enjoy the unseasonal warm weather. The reason why Fayetteville, North Carolina is unseasonably warm in winter is not because it is in a depression, the Cape Fear River Basin. This is a common misconception for the excessive heat and humidity. Warm Atlantic Ocean air does travel up the river basin. What causes the unseasonably hot humid weather is military activity. Military trains travel from Fayetteville through Pembroke to Wilmington. The yard in Leland is a sorting place. When massive air breathing machines suck the air out of this river valley burning it for their own power, what is left? The answer is their residual heat and the humidity of the encroaching Atlantic Ocean air. Operation Rolling Thunder often provides summer like temperatures the beginning of February confusing the local flora and fauna. It is a false spring, and the azaleas and hydrangeas don't know when to bloom. Often they are damaged by the later winter cold. 2023 was no different. The week after Christmas after this wonderful cold snap and true winter experience, the military lets loose and wet monsoon conditions appear. It is hot and steamy and green algae begins to grow on our concrete. At the moment the aerial military activity has lessened somewhat, and temperatures are dropping to appropriate levels for winter. The military is responsible for a large part of Global Warming and Climate Change, but it goes unspoken. We are led to believe the precedence of the Pentagon and national security cannot be questioned, and technically we are not at war. (or are we?) Farce has become a way of life for Americans, and we are watching a puppet of a want-to-be communist dictator try to win the Speaker of the House of Representatives. If Kevin McCarthy does win, we are in for more of the same.