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Biden Pardons his son. After saying a long time that he will not pardon his son, Biden pardoned. Hunter Biden was found guilty of having illegal gun and income tax evasion. Instead of pardoning for these 2 crimes. Biden gave a blanket pardon to his son Hunter. Pardon for any and all crimes he may have committed from 2014 to 2024. Even his own party is not happy with this. 

Trump’s several court cases. Once he won the Presidential election in November the cases against him were withdrawn except the one in New York. The New York Attorney General filed a case for deceiving banks and insurers by massively overvaluing assets. I think this is a ridiculous case. He said the value of his property is this much and the banks agreed to that value. The banks never complained to anyone. He repaid the loan. Where is the case then? For Example, If I want to pledge my house and get a loan from my bank and I say my house is worth $2 million and the bank agrees to my valuation and gives me the loan and finally I repaid the loan. Bank never complained. Why the Attorney General is worried about it. 

New York Subway Chokehold case. There was a US Marine veteran Daniel Penny riding in the New York Subway. A man was making noise and threatening other passengers. This US Marine wrestled with that guy, put a chokehold on him, and the man died. Penny was arrested and put in jail. He was found not guilty by the jurors. 

United Health Care CEO shot dead in New York. United Health Care is the largest health care insurance company in USA. The CEO of that company was shot dead in close range in front of the hotel he was staying in New York. After a massive manhunt the shooter was arrested in Pennsylvania. It looks like he had a problem with his medical claim with that insurance company. It came to the attention that UHC has the highest rate of claims denial (32%) among all other insurance companies. The shooter will be tried in a court of law and 9 jurors will decide his fate. Of the 9 jurors, even if one juror thinks he is not guilty, he will be acquitted.

Police Help

Milly is 82 years old. She lives with her husband Tom. He is 84 years old. They have been married for 60 years. Kids are grown up and this old couple live alone. They are healthy and have enough money so having a happy life. 

One night after dinner, they went to bed. They fell asleep quickly. At midnight Milly heard some noise in their garage. She woke her husband Tom and asked him to go and find out. 

Tom woke up from bed and turned on the lights. He went near the garage and heard some thieves were trying to get into the garage. They were struggling to broke the garage door open. 

Tom immediately called the 911 and asked the police to come immediately to stop these intruders. The police took Tom’s address and said there was no one available and will send some police officers when they become available. 

Tom hung up the phone and waited for 5 minutes. The thieves were still struggling to break open his garage door. 

Tom then called the 911 again and said there is no need to send the police any way since he shot dead all the 4 intruders. 

Within 3 minutes there were 4 patrol cars with officers, 2 ambulances, an emergency medical team and a police helicopter showed up. 

The officers arrested the thieves. 

Milly was proud of her husband Tom’s clever idea.

Kids in Professional League

Just read a 13-year-old kid Vaibhav Suryavanshi was bought by Rajasthan Royals for $130,500 in the mega IPL auction.

Let us take NFL. National Football League of USA. There used to be a rule that anyone who wants to play in NFL must have gone through 4 years of college. Then the players union protested and they came to an agreement that a player must be at least 20 years of age to become a pro. 

Another one is NBA. National Basketball Association of USA. Per agreement between the players union and NBA, the minimum age limit was set at 19. (LeBron James became a nationally known basketball player at the age of 14. But he has to wait until he is 19 years old to become a pro.) 

I am totally against selecting under age kids in professional sports. Why? 

Just stripped the childhood away from this kid. 

The kid’s self esteem is tied to sports performance. 

The kid cannot handle unhealthy performance pressure. 

The kid will not perform for his own sake but to please his parents and not to upset the coach. 

He will make more money than his friends who are not in colleges yet. So he will lose his childhood friends,

Other players in the team will have occasional alcohol parties and late-night entertainment. What will this kid do at that time? Some unscrupulous team mate will introduce the kid to all of these. 

Do the clubs think there are no adult players better equipped physically and mentally than a child? 

PS: I can hear someone mentioning the name of Sachin Tendulkar. He was 16 when he played for the country. He joined the IPL professional league when it started in 2008 at the age of 35. Playing for a country is different from playing in a professional league. You win a lottery (Sachin Tendulkar) once in a billion years.