INCONVENIENT TRUTHS PREVAIL ON HELMETS, DRUGS, SCHOOLS

Outta' my mind on a Monday moanin':

It is never good to bash your head; however, if you are going to bash
your head, better to have a helmet on it. Football, hockey, lacrosse
and baseball players know it. Race car drivers and bicyclists know
it. Motorcyclists know it.

I don't need to go into all the arguments for and against a law
making cyclists do what's best for them and for the rest of us. (We
went through this already regarding seat belts in cars.)

Now's a good time to point out that I have been a motorcycle owner.
And I have been hit by a car while riding (I was a very careful,
defensive driver. It did not matter.) I had my helmet on. I thank God I did.

The inconvenient truth: Everyone is better off when you wear a
helmet. (It is unfortunate there has to be a law to get people to do it.)

Illicit drug use is never safe. There is no such thing as a pure
illegal drug. Our police (overworked, often understaffed and
under-paid) are not a branch of the Food and Drug Administration. It
is not their job to be sure your illegal drug is pure.

It angered and drove me crazy when some folks somehow blamed the
police for not being more on top of the Fentanyl/heroin story. You, too?

Inconvenient truth: If you use illegal drugs, (or use legal drugs
illegally) you may die.

Detroit, its school district and the state should have found a way to
work with Bob Thompson when he wanted to invest $200 million in our
youth and their education. Enough time has passed since that
opportunity has come and gone (in its original form) to state the
obvious inconvenient truth: Politics, ego and control issues trumped
what was best for the kids. What system of education, city or state
in this country, would not have benefited from an infusion of $200 million?

The latest medical research is now so strong supporting the
importance of breast feeding, some doctors are actually pushing for
warnings/disclaimers on formula packages pointing out the physical
(and psychological) benefits of nursing. They want to dissuade women
from rejecting what medical research shows is best for mother and child.

Various groups are up in arms over this possibility, saying they will
make women who choose not to breast feed feel guilty. Certainly,
women who cannotdo it feel bad enough. Besides the real
medical/physical challenges some women might face, others just don't
want to be bothered. That's their choice. However, that does not
change our next inconvenient truth: Babies (and moms) are better off
when nursing takes place.

Finally, I'm not telling you how to live your life, or if you are
right or wrong in your own actions (even though I have a strong
personal opinion). My (ultimate) inconvenient truth is: Human life
begins at conception.

Join me as I sit in again for Rush Limbaugh on his nationwide show
heard noon till 3 p.m. on WJR.

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