Voting

 I've voted in-person a total of three times in my life....with the other 30-odd times by absentee.  

Of the three in-person voting occasions?

I actually went back to Alabama on one occasion and was there for the primary.  I walked into the local townhall hall....presented my state license, and finished voting within 3 minutes of signing in.

The other two occasions?  I voted in Arlington, VA.  On both occasions....I got  up at 4:30 AM....walked about 2 miles  to the neighborhood station, and got into line at 6AM (there were approximately 350 people in front of  me).  The door opening?  7AM.  In both cases, I didn't get out until around 9:15.  I should add...on both of those....it was a computerized system.  

Yeah, everyone was grumbling about the amount of time required.  Helpers making it easier?  Between the 20-odd people, I thought they were useless.

The 30-plus other occasions I've voted?  Absentee.    Early on (1978)....the Air Force made it blunt.....they had extra people at the post office to stamp the ballots and a cargo plane set for each day during the week prior....to fly ballots back to the states, but if it didn't arrive by Tuesday.....it was not their fault.

Having watched voting overseas?  Well....yeah, I've observe close-up in Germany and Panama. Both required legit state form of ID....which is something you find a lot of...in Europe itself today.

The Carfentanil Story

I wrote this originally back in the summer of 2016.....I edited it and re-published this week, I read up on a piece that summer about a new drug, which had a fair number of people dead after using it.  The mixture?  You basically take an elephant sedative (you know....the type that a vet would use on an elephant) and you blend it into heroin.

Carfentanil was already something that was one of the strongest opioids in the world.

So when this hits your blood stream.....you kinda just lay there, and the heroin then settles in and there's not much happening except some false sense of reality.

Ten thousand more times more powerful than morphine?  Well....yeah.....that's the story from the medical side of the house.

The thing I could see out of this is that some idiots will be experimental and take Carfentanil with meth, cocaine, or a dozen other possibilities....maybe even LSD.

Who came up with this idea of blending an elephant sedative with Heroin?  That's a question that no one seems to ask.  It had to be some lab deal deal where they were just fooling around one day and shot some Carfentanil into an elephant with the Heroin-mixture.  Probably freaked out "Jumbo", and encouraged the lab idiots to go onto the next step of injecting themselves.

This kind of behavior just makes one scratch their head.  We are living in a period of time where you can just dream up some kind of 'high' and toss several crazy things into one single pot, and then you wake up four days later from daze and realize that you've been on an extended high for more than 72 hours and completely dehydrated to the point where your life is in danger.  Then you get crazy enough to repeat this again and again.

The Toilet Paper Story

I noted this story off Breitbart back in the summer of 2017....which featured the picture taken from a Twitter note of Henrique Capriles.

As the story goes....in Venezuela....they were having a military awards situation with the commander giving out some citations, and as part of the 'rewards' with the certificates....you got two rolls of toilet paper.

If you haven't followed Venezuela news over the past year....things have gone into the crapper....literally.  If you walked into a store and had a hundred bucks on you....desperately wanting toilet paper....it's a very questionable situation if the store would even have toilet paper to sell you.

I sat and pondered upon this.

In the three decades that I was associated with the US military....there were a couple of occasions that you got some kind of 'reward'.  Usually, it was a three-day pass, a day off, or some $10-coupon at the local NCO club.  It was something that you generally didn't laugh about, although in value....other than three days off....it had limited appreciation.

The toilet paper?  I'm guessing each single GI went home and treasured the two rolls of toilet paper.  As bad as things are in Venezuela, I'm guessing that folks have learned to do their morning business in the toilet with two or three sheets....maybe four for a really bad situation.  These are young GI's and looking over the toilet paper as a pretty uplifting 'gift' from the colonel.  

My UFO-Related Story

 First, on my part, I've never seen evidence of any UFOs.

For about three years, I worked with this guy in the mid-1980s....who had come into the Air Force around 1975.  His original field?  Security police. 

Toward the end of three years, we sat alone in the vault and he told me this story related to the three brief years that he was in the security police (later cross-training out of the field).  

On his first assignment, he ended up in the NW of the US at a ICBM missile silo base.  His job was to go out for a 24-hour shift and be one of the three guys at the entry point, or in the truck patrolling the grounds around the silo.

For the first six months of this period....nothing much happened and he found the work to be fairly dull.

Then one night....around 1 AM....there's this bright light hovering UFO around the silo area.  He and the second guy....were in the truck and just parked to a point to observe this.  The third guy was asking over the radio (seeing the light)....what the hell was going on.  

About five minutes passed, and then the UFO rises and eases away.

As morning shift ended....the three went back to the base and reported the incident.

OSI agents came to debrief (interrogate) them.  Probably three hours were wasted, and the OSI guys kept trying to rebuild the story (as if nothing happened).  Eventually, the three compared notes and decided it's better to end this (nothing happened).

A couple of days passed.

Another shift occurs.  This time....around midnight....the UFO comes down again, and this time.....all hell breaks loose in the missile silo center (deep down in the ground) with blinking lights and it's obvious that the UFO is uploading data or checking out the system.  The two officers are on the phone and trying to get some come-back from the three Security Police.

Morning comes, and the five return to base, where the OSI guys are called in again.  The three Security Police just say in a direct voice.....they didn't see anything much.  The two silo officers?  They jabbered away all morning....trying to describe the incident.  The three enlisted?  They leave within an hour....nothing to say about the incident.

Around six months pass, and my associate gets a one-year tour of duty to Turkey.  Later, he leaves the police job, and retrains.  

I asked him....so what do you think it really was?  There's a pause here, and he said....they obviously know the process of control, and that the silo has strategic importance, and that the nuke missile is something that they are concerned over.  Beyond that....if they wanted to make a big hostile threat....they would have already done so.  In his mind, they just wanted to watch and observe.

For over thirty years, the one-hour talk we had....has been on my mind. 

From the Air Force management prospective.....they considered any report like this....to be fraud and made up.  They did everything possible to make you think that.  So after a while.....you just accepted that and played the game of not seeing anything or reporting anything.  

It's kinda funny in today's atmosphere to think about the 'forget-it-strategy'.  

This Kiseki Concept

 I travel a lot around the world....always coming up with things that don't readily fit into American culture, language or landscape.  

This past week, I came to a Japanese phrase...which was being explained by a Japanese guy.

The term was  "Kiseki".

It's not a common phrase that Japanese folks utter much.  Once spoken in a group....there's to be some silence while they let the guy uttering it explain his feelings.

Trying to translate Kiseki?  Well...you put yourself into a very bad situation, and normally....say 99 times out of a hundred....God's will falls into play, and you've got no options, no chances, and your 'end' is near.

Then in some 'puff-of-smoke'....Jesus, Joan of Arc, Rambo, Captain America, and the Angel Gabriel step in....changing the dynamics of things, and your life continues on.

For Japanese people....Kiseki-folks are 'holy'.  Nothing can touch them after this moment.

The way this guy was explaining it....after that round passed by Trump's ear....Kiseki had occurred.  

I paused and pondered over this.  

We Americans have feelings about miracles, and destiny.  But the reverence-level that Japanese folks attach to Kiseki is way higher.  

What Happens To Cuba in 2025?

 There's a ton of things coming to the American landscape in 2025 (after this election is settled)....but one of ten things that 'matters'.....is a US team arriving and working up a deal to bring Cuba back into the world of recovery.

I anticipate that in the first week.....Senator Marco Rubio will be flown down on a US mission.  

Forty-eight hours later, he'll fly into DC, with a draft text of what the US will do.  Primary solution?  Fix the electrical power grid on Cuba....bring in several mini-nuke power stations.  Arrange for a National Guard engineering team to be the principal authority.  Arrange for a free and open vote on the island within 2025.  Finally, Rubio will be given a 'title' equivalent to a cabinet officer while staying a Senator, and be the primary person arranging for Cuba to resolve all differences.  

Nazi-Chatter

 I grew up in the rural part of Alabama in the 1960s/1970s.  

At best, you might have heard the word 'Nazi' uttered five to eight times a year.....mostly when some WW II war movie came on, or with one or two teachers would get into war era chatter.

I didn't think much about it.

Throughout the 1980s/1990s?  I had one or two college professors who'd done a year or two in the war....but they were in the Pacific.

It is just odd to me....2024....this much chatter about Adolph Hitler, and Nazis.

What If Donald Trump Had Been There On Monday After Black Thursday (24 Oct 1929)?

 In the coming weeks, a rather unusual bank collapse will occur....mostly because of the results of commercial real estate situations, with the banks stuck with property that won't re-sell, and loans gone bad....mostly because of Covid-results .  

It resembles 1929 to some degree....because you end up adding this problem, housing mortgages, colossal debt with credit cards, companies downsizing, and gov't debt (growing by the billions per week).

We didn't have Donald Trump in 1929.  

What we mostly had was zero experts on the economy, President Hoover (who didn't really understand the issues at hand), a bunch failed banks lingering (maybe for the whole of the 1920s) and a Fed that was unwilling to take any action.

So, enter stage left....President Donald Trump in January.  

I expect over 2025....one out of every four federal employees to be let go.

I expect the US military footprint in Europe to basically cease, and most re-based back into the US by the end of 2026.

I expect the  continuing resolution 'gimmick' on budgets...to end.  It'll be a dramatic 3-month period where Trump refuses to cooperate unless a different way of gov't operations is written into law.

I expect the biggest tax reform effort in 100 years to occur in 2024.

Finally, I expect a bunch of banks to be read the 'riot-act' and given notice of audits to be a regular affair from this point on.

The Lost Damsel Story

(I wrote this piece back in the summer of 2017.....it's a story that was being discussed around Alabama at the time.  I edited it a bit, and re-posted)

For several days, I've been following this story out of central Alabama....near the Highway 82 area between Union Springs and Eufaula.  On the map, this is just east of Montgomery....by 30-odd minutes of driving.

The story goes....about a month ago, this young damsel (Lisa Theris) had accompanied two young gentlemen on a burglary adventure.  Their target was a hunting cabin out in the rural aspects of the region.

What we are told is that Lisa gets all nervous at the cabin area....worried about the 'law' or maybe the two guys (they were both arrested later), and she runs off into the woods.

For a month....yes, four weeks, she is out in the woods.

A couple of days ago....some driver is driving down Highway 82 and notices something that looks not right.  Normally, you'd see cows, fence posts, pines, and farms.  Here on the side of the road is a naked gal....Lisa.  The driver took her to the hospital.

So, Lisa's story.   She says she ran off into the woods....got lost, and then survived off creek water, her own urine, mushrooms, and berries.  She has lost roughly 50 pounds, or so the hospital does claim. She is insect-bit (heavily), and appears awful brown (as in suntanned).

I questioned this part of the story....if she'd lost that much weight....she must have been pretty 'big-boned' (as we say in Bama), or chunky.  

Folks are amazed at her survival and admire the whole story.  It does sound pretty nifty.

I paused over this, and frankly....it's fairly fake.

First, if you gaze at a map of the region.....if you pick even the more rural of the territory, you'd only have to walk two miles in one single direction to reach a dirt or paved road.  It'd take roughly an hour, and you'd hit civilization.  Folks would like to think it's really all forested and rough territory, but the map shows otherwise.

Second, naked? Generally, folks that get naked these days....do it because they are on flakka (the drug).  Otherwise, you really don't have any reason to rip your clothing off.

Third, snakes.  Generally, if you told me you were out in some woods for four weeks....just rambling around....especially in Alabama....it means you would come across a snake about every thirty minutes.  The odds of surviving?  Zero chance.

My impression?  She was at the robbery site, and at some point had access to a fair amount of flakka.  Maybe it belonged to the two guys....maybe it was from the cabin itself....who knows.  But she spent most of the four weeks doing the drug situation and simply lucked out to have walked to Highway 82 and been found.

But here's the thing.....in Alabama, we need stories like this to be entertained by.  Folks will sit for weeks talking about the lost damsel, and how they would have handled this if they were lost.

My Theory On Crashed UFOs

I've come to the point of looking over the stories of crashed UFOs and it occurs to me....travel through space for long periods of time would be hard on any species.

So I think the bulk of all craft crashed....had AI non-human life-forms flying them, and they ran into problem X-Y-Z, which they weren't geared to handle.  

Yeah, I'm suggesting the bulk  of UFO crashes....are just Artificial Intelligence running amok.   This is probably a crew of five AI guys sent out 5,000 years ago and just hit the wrong thunderstorm to descend down into the atmosphere.  

Ten Humble Thoughts

 1.  If you asked 100 people to define a 'fascist'.....fewer than 10 could give some kind of decent text....with five people just uttering 'Mussolini' over and over.

2.  Is there actually any Hollywood, or Broadway 'player' who could talk you into voting for so-and-so?

3.  If you were HR for your company and some guy came up for an interview....acting like President Joe Biden....showing some signs of dementia....would you hire him for anything?

4. This just feels odd on politics in 2024....where Kamala Harris is mostly going with a strategy....'I-know-something-that-you-don't-know'.  You keep waiting for this detail stuff to develop and weeks later....you are still waiting.

5.  I just get this odd feeling....about half of Z-gen people probably have no idea who this Hitler-guy is.

6.  I think if you approached 10,000 Americans to have a 3-hour Joe Rogan type conversation (no breaks)....more than 50-percent would turn down the 'talk'.

7.  About half the jokes you were told before 1979....cannot be told in public today.  Think about that.

8.  This Trump-era approaching?  I hate to suggest it....but it feels like you live in some town with a 5-star tornado approach.....six circus elephants have escaped upon the town....someone dug up a dead UFO-alien.....Elvis suddenly reappearing and saying his death was a hoax....and someone found a hundred-foot long snake. 

To be honest, you'd just like to see how things shake out for the first year.

9.  There's probably half-a-million Americans who believe in 'dark-magic', demons, and witchcraft (zombie-stuff).  

10.  Trump-version-2024 seems to be smarter/wiser than Trump-version-2016.  Also, this Trump seems to have some mythical creature named 'Elon' standing in his corner....and some angel-protection (which the FBI is not capable of apprehending or countering)..

As The Sun Rises On 6 November (Wednesday)

 Five predictions of mine:

1.  At least forty-five state elections will be called, with Trump  near 260 Electoral Votes....by 9 AM on that Wednesday.  Of the five remaining states...by Thursday....two will be called for Trump....passing the 290 point.  Shock to some as Trump wins California by margin of 10,000 votes, but not being reported until almost Thanksgiving.  

2.  Most networks will do their best not to cover President's Biden various negative comments  on that Wednesday morning.  

3.  Various CNN analysts will comment....Kamala Harris was simply NOT the best 'pick' by President Biden in the first place for VP, and should not have been pushed  forward without a primary.

4.  More than 1,000 police reports will have been generated with members of the public engaged in assault-type actions against relative/neighbors....angry over the Trump win.

5.  More than 3,000 people under some medical attention for melt-downs....related to the outcome of the election.  Some doctors attempting to refuse to provide 'help' because it's all mental-related.  Pharmacy operations reporting by the 12th...an all-time record of sedative's being issued.  Some cannabis-dealers reporting shortages of the drug because of high-use since the election.  

If Trump Opens The JFK, RFK, And MLK Files?

 Based off the Rogan  'talk'....I'd say within a month or two of getting into office....ALL of the records will be opened.  What's in them?

JFK: I think you will get four essential things:

1.  Oswald was a paid-CIA operative....probably from the day he enlisted in the Marines.  

2.  I think records will show essentially two Oswalds existing....the real one and a carbon-copy guy.

3.  Information will lay out the Jack Ruby story....that he was ordered by the mafia to cover up a mess.

4.  Members of the CIA organized the 'hit'.  

RFK?  I'll suggest two things:

1.  The same CIA members who organized the JFK 'hit'....arranged this 'hit'.

2.  The President was shot by one of his guards....not Sirhan-Sirhan.

MLK?  I'll suggest one thing:

1.  The same CIA folks who organized the JFK and RFK 'hit'....arranged this 'hit'.

So what happens?  A bunch of folks face up to the Senate and start asking questions about the CIA.  As much as they'd like to center on Trump....the whole year of 2025 will be about this stupid secret history laid out.

Trump Talking To Putin The Day After The Win?

 It came out that Trump says.....upon 'winning' (I'd  assume a day or two after election-day)....he's calling up various parties in the Ukraine war, and pushing for a 'deal' to end the war.

So....what is the threat?

I think he'll tell Putin....I'm going to China, India and various parties (even North Korea) and making things miserable for them....if they support you. I'd say from now until late January....you have an opportunity to ponder over my threat.

Angering Joe Biden's crew?  Absolutely.  

But contained in this talk....Trump will also say that the US is conceding that the NATO expansion in the past 30 years....might not have been 'smart'.  So  Trump will offer a 90-percent 'exit' of US forces stationed in Europe (returning them to the US)....within 18 months of Russia exiting Ukraine.  

I think some EUCOM headquarters will remain (greatly downsized). I think the naval port in Italy will remain.  And I suspect one Air Force wing will remain....although it'll end up in Poland (not Germany).  

This offer will be the icing on the cake.  The 'deal' will be done.

Gut Feelings For The Month After The Election

 1.  Forty states at midnight on election-day....will show Trump in the lead, with at least eight states showing some miracle reversal (for Harris) by the 5th day after the election.

2.  Most journalists will agree....Kamala Harris was a marginal candidate, without the magic to handle the job.  

3.  Joe Biden will say a minimum of 100 stupid things in the week after the election....with various news outlets trying to avoid commenting upon the text.

4.  Democratic leadership will be freaked-out about the number of black men who voted for Trump.

5.  Some cooked-up statistics will appear.....suggesting that more than 100,000 non-Americans voted in the election....but that 10-percent of them voted for Trump.

Disability Chatter

 I've tried to make sense out of this story from yesterday....Kamala Harris apparently got into a big-name law school program by using their special 'entry' program for kids with “educational disadvantage, economic hardship, or disability.”

So....I know that both parents were professors....so there can't be a economic  hardship, and she ended up in a highly advantaged educational situation (unless she wants to admit both parents were lacking intellectually).   Now I'm left with 'disability' and kinda wondering....was she in some sense....as a kid....disabled?

Was she mentally disabled, or physically disabled?

It's a wide thing to imagine.....you'd get to some fancy-pants university, with a 'free-pass'.....then graduate four years later.

Do I buy into this disability BS?  No.

I think the whole program (as devised)....was built to get pretty average kids (the 'B' or 'C' crowd into a school that had already lowered its standards.  Fake-disabled?  I hate to utter that phrase, but coming out of rural Alabama in the 1970s....I can generally say 10-percent of kids were intellectually-lacking.  In those days....you didn't go off to college.  You simply got a Piggly Wiggly job, or got on as a deputy for the sheriff.  

Maybe some day, it'll all be explained....rationally, and without a lot of jumbled-up words.  

Finally, it just makes me wonder....did Joe Biden end up entering college in the  same manner?

Six Humble Truths

 1.  If Joe Biden had indicated in October of 2023....he wouldn't have run this year....the primary would have occurred, and all of these 'problems' with Kamala Harris would have played out, and she would NOT have been the candidate running at this point.

I know...it should have run this way, because she's just a lousy person to run a campaign around.

2.  I suspect that one out of every four 'juveniles' (meaning 14-to-25 years old)....have no name recognition with 'Hitler'. 

3.  Going back 50 years....I kinda remember Reagan, Bush I and Bush II....being referred to as 'Hitler'.

4.  Even if they started tomorrow in the Gaza Strip....it'd take 50-plus years to rebuild from scratch.

5.  NY Post says the fed folks spent around $150-billion on migrants in the past year.

Triggering a bigger mess with the budget in 2025?  Yeah.

6.  There's a discussion within DoD (Pentagon) channels.....about weight reduction 'shots', if chubby would be mandated to take them, and how they'd pay for them.

Just in the Air Force alone, I'd take a guess more than 300-million dollars might be required...yearly. 

Two Things

 1.  I watched a TV show in the past week, where the chief character (a lady in her 30s) had gone to some psychic course, graduated after a 'test', and was now a crystal-ball 'reader'.

In the 1970s....99-percent of people being told this....would have laughed and been amused. Today? I'd say 20-percent would be willing to buy into this and whatever she saw in the crystal ball.

We are as a society.....dragging ourselves to a new state of mind, where we believe BS.

2.  Trump saying he wanted more generals like Hitler had?

I laughed over the story.  First, it  comes ONLY from one single source....his EXEC....who happens to  remember this now, not 4 years  ago.

What I suspect happened?  Trump often tests the confidentiality of his people....telling one or two people a comment....to see if they leak the comment later, and this sounds like such an episode.

Harris running around for the final two weeks.....uttering Hitler-chatter?  If this is the strategy......it's a one-star plan.

Ten Humble Opinions

 1.  Without any doubt...picking Governor Tim Walz as a VP candidate....was one of the top three most stupid political things done in 2024.  On my personal 'goofy-index'.....1-to-10.....he maxes out at '10'.

2.  As many stupid decisions made by the new Labour gov't (UK) on helping Harris campaign and general comments (anti-Trump).....I think PM Starmer will have to offer Trump a knighthood.  

I'm not saying Trump wants a knighthood....but he'd treasure the sword, and hand it off to Baron.  

3.  I expect one-million age 65 and above Americans to be homeless by 2030.  Half of them will be former Florida residents 'chased-out' by the condo crisis.

4.  I expect President Joe Biden to quietly exit the White House, and not be 'seen' by the news media for the remainder of 2025.

5.  Just odd.....so far in the Philly vote count....over 1,200 mail-in ballots have been identified as 'rejected' because they lacked dates....or were misdated....lacked a signature.....or were missing an inner secrecy envelope.

Just interesting....you get the ballot, and it takes merely 3 minutes to fill it out, and there's 3 key instructions...which YOU must complete....to make it official and counted.

6. Its just funny....how you bump into a stranger today and try to converse for 20 minutes, and try hard to avoid talking about politics or anything political-related.

7.  It's just interesting what the Apostle Paul wrote and how it fits into today's world:

"But realize this, that in the last days difficult times will come. For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, revilers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy, unloving, irreconcilable, malicious gossips, without self-control, brutal, haters of good, treacherous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, holding to a form of godliness, although they have denied its power; Avoid such men as these."

Yeah....Paul did say....just avoid such people (even if they were former friends, relatives, or neighbors).   

8.  As many dangerous stunts as I did on a farm in the 1960s/1970s....surviving....in today's same world, folks are doubling and tripling the dangerous stunt routine. Some are not surviving.

9.  Depending political affiliation....if you asked a hundred 'friends' what is a woman....I'd say it's a 80-percent chance if your friend is democrat....they won't answer the question.

10.  If  I were walking around the US today....I might go and suspect at least four people per day....are not mentally stable. 

Syndromes

 TDS: Trump Derangement Syndrome

VDS: Vance Derangement Syndrome

DDS: DeSantos Derangement Syndrome

RDS: Rogan Derangement Syndrome

RDS-Plus: Ramaswamy-Plus Derangement Syndrome

EDS: Elon Derangement Syndrome

There's about forty additional syndromes I could make a case for....oddly, ODS (Obama Derangement Syndrome doesn't exist).

Also, just odd.....you could have five or six of these, but not require a visit in some mental facility in Kentucky.

Quote of the Week

 “I don't understand how we got so toxic and just so divided and so bitter.”

-- Former President Barak Obama

Yesterday at a campaign stop for Kamala Harris....Obama uttered this quote.

I sat and pondered upon it. To be truthful....you could see the toxic nature of things developing in the 1990s to a small degree.  But as you got to the 2005 to 2015 era....between the print-media (NY Times, Newsweek, Nat'l Geographic, WaPo) and the TV news-media....things simply accelerated. Adding Facebook and Twitter to the mess....just made things worse.

The comical four years of Joe Biden?  Having a dementia-person as President makes things a joke.

As for people being 'bitter'?  I would make the observation that more than half-a-million people have reached a stage where they have no emotional control of themselves.  

Wade

 It came out yesterday....in talk around Nathan Wade (the Atlanta prosecutor against Trump)....that he'd been to 'several' White House meetings prior to the prosecution stage.  

Who he met with?  Unknown....in this testimony....Wade just says in a funny way....he doesn't remember much.

What I believe?  I think ALL of the meetings revolved around Joe Biden and Nathan Wade, and that the 30-plus hours were just chats between the two guys.  They probably connected on NCAA football, WNBA games, and slutty women that both knew in their lives.

Staging

 I kinda quit reading Time and Newsweek around 2012.  I considered both to have marginal news and mostly designed to function as a propaganda unit.

I stared at a story from yesterday....Newsweek's journalist want me to believe the Trump French-Fry thing was 'STAGED'. (actual word used)

Hell yes, it was staged.

But here's the thing....I can go back to the Clinton era and readily identify at least thirty staged events a week....that were arranged around either Bill Clinton or Al Gore. Bush?   Yeah, he had staging but it was probably six to ten a week.  Barak Obama?  Somewhere between ten and twenty stagings a week.

Trump stagings?  I'd readily agree....the last six months....he's been staging stuff at least twenty to thirty times a week.  

My argument with Newsweek? Mostly that they are thirty years behind the era and the team is mostly juvenile in terms of skill and journalistic behavior.

Bank Chatter

 I sat and reviewed yesterday a FDIC story related to banks.  Current data....from FDIC....says that US banks are holding $515-billion in unrealized losses.

The question being laid down....with dozens of banks in potential failure status...when will the chaos officially start?  Before the election, shortly after the election (before Thanksgiving), or going into January?

I'm of the mind it's a zero chance that the chaos will start before the election.  

If this were to occur after the election or until Christmas....it'd crap-out the US Christmas buying season, and make the situation ten times more worse than believed.

So I'm of the mind this fantastic melt-down  of the banking sector (dozens of bank failures) will occur shortly after 1 January 2025.  Reasoning?  I think the fixes being discussed behind  closed doors....require the Biden-crew to support, and they'd rather have them issuing  orders....than the Trump-crew.

So does any of this affect the little-guy? As long as what you  have in the bank is $250,000 or less....you are covered by FDIC.  If you have more than $250,000 in this billions of losses mess...then you might only get 25-to-50 percent of your lost money covered.  

The scenario to discuss?  Lets say your retired parents had $750,000 in a CD account...paying 5-percent, with a bank failing.....with $100,000 in savings and $10,000 in checking....then FDIC probably will only cover about $350,000 to $400,000.  The rest?  Lost. 

Another scenario?  You bought bonds via a bank....say $1-million worth.  The majority of that will be lost.

My advice....ensure you have $250,000 or less with each individual bank or credit union.  Even if you have to open a dozen bank accounts across three states....it's the only way to be 'safe'.

To the final issue....does FDIC have enough funds to cover ALL losses?  Well....no one is really suggesting that idea any more.  The fed could print more money.  But this would trigger more inflation (going into 2025).  The fed could suggest a 'fee' situation.....if you had more than $250,000 in a bank....maybe you ought to be paying $1,200 a year  for the privilege of hefty accounts (yeah, it'd be crazy stupid to make such a fee). 

Just another thing to worry about.

Funny

 

I saw this today.  Humor-piece.  

If you asked me  over the idea that some fed-prosecutor would bring Trump into court over  the nugget problem? 

I'd say at least five to ten fed lawyers are examining the idea.

Political Chatter

I briefly yesterday watched around 30 minutes of NFL football (streaming) and these odd Kamala Harris ads were on.  One suggested Trump was going to make grocery prices to higher, and another was that your Social  Security was going to be taken by Trump. 

Both were low-IQ type advertising (my humble belief).

After thinking about it, I had five suggestions for the Harris team....for future  advertising:

1.  Trump will take away birthdays, and force you to drink ONLY premium high-cost beer.

2.   Trump intends to tax dog and cat owners.

3.   Trump intends to shut down Harvard University.

4.  Trump  intends to halt Trans-dog operations.

5.  Trump intends to do little to resolve the pothole chaos and crisis in America.

'Trump-Faking'?

 About four years ago, I was reading a piece and the writer made a comment....that he'd gone to 'quiet-mode' at work around election time of 2016 at work.  In simple terms, he avoided most conversations. Other than sports, car chatter, or crime stuff...he just didn't talk much at work.  He found that it felt like he was in a cult-situation after a couple of months....that he was there to work and avoid saying anything to disturb the cult-members of his 'group'.

I noticed this social media survey....where 21-percent of people were now quiet at work or 'Trump-faking'.

The fact that people could do this for months and years?  Yeah, that's an accomplishment.

I would imagine it's also at work in colleges, high-schools, churches and even sports organizations.

Mentally, after you've got used to this behavior....it's like being in a forced cult-group, and wanting to fit within it....but not really trusting anyone in the group.

I'm even of the mind that marriages are now working in this manner.  

The funny thing?  All of the cult-members are of the mind that virtually everyone they associate with....the 30-odd people in their circle...are of the same mind-set, when at least ten of the people (maybe even twenty)....are 'Trump-faking'.  At some point among the 'group'.....they will each figure out the secret handshake/signs/key-words....so during the day, they will utter the one key phrase of inspiration, and get the return key phrase....'UNITED'.

Like some science-fiction movie....with cult stuff injected?  Yeah.

So as you stop for gas today and greet 'Marge' (the station clerk)....she's Trump-faking and gives you the key phrase.  Stop for a second and return the key phrase.  The counter-cult is evolving. 

If I Were A Betting Man

 1.  Hunter Biden will be convicted and given a sentence of one year or more, with President Biden issuing a pardon 24 hours prior to the start of jail.

2.  100-plus banks will start to go into massive failure around the middle of January, with FDIC admitting they lack the $700-billion to cover the mess.

3.  At some point in February, the rest of the story over who killed JFK will become public knowledge, and it leads back to private citizens who were 'friends' with CIA members.  At least ten names will be issued....all dead.  Hint: Oswald was part of the conspiracy, but he didn't shoot JFK.

4.  The US will lay out its plans to remove the majority of US forces in Europe by the end of 2026....while still participating in NATO exercises in the future. One 3-star Army general will remain with a headquarters element for EUCOM.

5.  One-hundred FBI managers will be given their termination papers by early 2025.  

6.  The Secret Service will be divided into two elements by spring of 2025....one to protect the President/VP and families.....one to protect past Presidents/families.  

7.  A tax review of retired President Biden will result in a $500,000 additional tax from federal and state taxes.

8.  VP  Harris will be divorcing her husband by the middle of 2025.

9.  More than 5,000 individuals will be identified in the Diddy-tapes.  Some will disappear from public attention for the remainder of their lives.

10.  NPR will be given  notice....half of their fed-funding will end at the conclusion of 2025.  

Fries Story

I read this story from the week, and pondered upon it.

I worked in the early 80s with a Air Force guy who sought out a part-time job and ended up at a McDonalds.  

We got into a talk one day....he'd been at the McDonalds for six weeks so far, and had mastered all of the 'skills' (burgers, shakes, fries, cash register, etc).  

At the six week point....the crew-chief one night was fired, and this guy (having six weeks on his belt)....was elevated to crew-leader status.  I'll admit this guy was 25....a Staff Sergeant, and born to be a multi-task guy.

On this published story....I honestly believe that you could take a 12-year old kid....spend 20 minutes training him, and make a decent fry-guy out of him.

People trying to claim some special skill?  BS.
 

Hyped-Up Chatter Story

 This week....a Pentagon story started up.....they apparently want to create fake AI-generated social media profiles....where people would 'friend' and give bits/pieces of data....which the Pentagon would go and ‘gather information.’

To be honest, I think the Chinese and Russians already do this to some extent.

Are the 'boys' talking about US social media types?  I don't think so.  This is aimed at Chinese, Russian,  European, Middle Eastern and Asian groups.  

The fact that the CIA itself probably already started doing this a decade ago?  Well.....yeah, there is that problem as well.   

Somewhere down the line.....there's some Air Force Major likely to write up a medal for Lt Jones....having created 300-odd social media 'fakes' and has 950,000 followers.  

What Happens To The Venezuelan Street Gangs?

 Well....from now until inauguration day....nothing.

What I anticipate after inauguration day.....approximately 10,000 National Guardsmen (from various states) are going to be activated for 90 days.  They will be given 'powers', and with the help of a thousand US Marshalls....a massive US-wide hunt will start up.....with those captured...brought to some detention 'camp'.  

The hunt will go on....probably for the entire year, and a second crew of National Guardsmen are likely to be called out.  

Venezuela unlikely to take them back?  I would vouch for that.  

So I think some island will be chosen in the Pacific and eventually.....all of these prisoners will just end up on the island....with a pallet of food delivered daily.  

Chatter

 I sat and watched a clip off a Kamala Harris interview...a talk over ID cards being required to vote.

So at some point.....Harris says 'rural-folks' don't have the ability to copy their ID....to present to some county office.  The wording....in my view?  'Them folks out in the sticks ain't got the capability to register and vote with them ID cards'.

I paused....mostly laughing.  

I grew up in rural Alabama.....mostly a farming community.  

If you asked today....out of a thousand adults in the county...how many have cellphones....it's pretty near 98-percent.

If you asked today....how many of a thousand have a computer/laptop and a scanner/copier/printer?  It's near 98-percent (those over 70 might not have the 'toys').

If you asked today....how many of a thousand in the county have a legit ID (showing over age 18)?  I'd say it's near 99-percent....with mostly those with low IQ or mentally deranged....lacking an ID.

If you asked today....how many of a thousand can at least read at the 8th-grade  level....it's near 98-percent.

If you asked today....how many out of a thousand homes in the county....have a weapon of some type?  Well....it's probably near 99-percent.  

In this Kamala Harris world....where people believe the nation is made up of 50-percent slow-people and dimwits....it's evident that these advisers to Harris haven't been out in society much.  

Eight Humble Thoughts

 1.  At this point....having Kamala Harris do Joe Rogan's conversation...makes NO sense.  

On Trump doing Joe Rogan's podcast?  If Trump sits there for 3 hours (typical Rogan show), and makes Rogan 'laugh' at least twenty times....Trump is locked-in and likely takes 320-plus Electoral Votes (wouldn't shock me if NY state even went to Trump).

2.  Over the next four years....there's to be a lot of analysis/speculation....that Bill Clinton's help was near zero (no one remembers him)....Barak Obama's help with black male votes is near zero, and that the news networks are no longer able to bring votes to the table.

3.  2025/2026....I see nightly news via MSNBC, ABC, NBC, CBS, NPR and Fox.....to do less numbers...compared to the podcast world.  

4.  Lets be honest....by Elon buying Twitter....the entire 'game' that was arranged in 2022 to prevent Trump getting ahead....was dismantled.

5.  Who suffers the most in 2025?  There's a prioritized list of one-hundred-odd groups, but I would suggest the pronoun-people are in the number one-position at present.  The Venezuelan gangs....running a 2nd place.  And at third....the transgender dynamics and doctors.

6.  Of the 100,000 Americans who do carry out the threat to exit America in 2025....at least half will return by the end of 2026....saying they didn't find what they were expecting.

7.  If you felt that the college debt stuff was settled and forgiven.....prepare yourself for a shock in 2025, as the debt letter comes to your mail-box and says it's undone.

8.  Prepare for a real estate shock in mid-December....as 30k homes/condos in Arlington, Fairfax....come up suddenly on sale, as gov't employees now worry about being let-go under the Trump period.  This will trigger a 1929-like event.  Properties priced at $800k....will drop by a third by April 2025....as people get scared.  

Five Special Groups Who Have 'Skin' In The Election

 1.  There's sixty-odd million Americans who were screwed on NAFTA. They are consumed on payback, and Trump is the only 'savior' possible.

2. Blackrock and 'friends'.  They really can't afford to have Trump running the business sector and leaving them out of 'deals'.

3.  Black men.  Bluntly....they aren't buying any more BS from the Democratic Party.

4.  Print-Media (Newsweek, Time, WaPo, NY Times) and News media (CNN, ABC, CBS, MSNBC, NPR, and NBC).  They've pumped themselves up so far....that they can't imagine a world with Trump in it.

5.  Gen Z.  Brainwashed to such an extent....they can't survive in a Trump world.

Q-and-A

 1.  With the normal conversation between Joe Rogan and guests being 2.5 hours....how long should  you expect Kamala Harris to last?

My best guess?  Forty-five to sixty minutes.   The more she talks....the less sense the conversation will be.  If she brings up 'I was brought up in a middle-class home'....Joe is likely to say 'no, your parents were both well-to-do college professors'. 

I don't see this interview being a plus-up.

2.  What about Donald Trump being on Rogan's podcast?

Trump can talk for three hours plus.  Remember as well...Trump is 50-percent comedian, and this conversation might be pretty amusing.

3.  Are there more conspiracies today....than in  1994 (thirty years ago)?

Yeah....I'd agree on that idea completely.

4.  Is there any Hollywood figure who could persuade me to vote for or against something?

NO.  ZERO.  If you asked me of a hundred voters....how many could be persuaded?  I'd say fewer than 20 could be this 'stupid'.

5.  Is it possible that Kamala Harris has a IQ-level lower than 90 (less than intelligent)?

I've start to think about this idea.  She either has a IQ problem, medication problem, or a drinking problem.

Three Things I Kinda Noticed

 1.  It does start to seem obvious that Joe Biden is doing little things to sabotage Kamala Harris's campaign.  Maybe there is a fair amount of dementia at play here, and Harris's mistake was not removing Biden from office back in the spring of 2024.

2.  Bill Clinton is out to help the Harris campaign.  Among 18 to 25 year old  voters....he's a total unknown.  

3.  The Obama-factor....speaking to young black males?  Appears to have zero effect.  

My House Story

 Back around 2010....as I lived in Arlington....I knew this guy who had a unique house story.

'Bob' was married to a very determined woman who felt you could always get a 'deal'.  So she went out and found this dilapidated property in Arlington that needed to be torn down.  She offered cash, to get the person to a quick deal.  I'm not saying that she put money under the table  (avoiding taxes), but I would speculate she went that far.

She then hired a 'supervisor' to run this plan of hers.  He brought in a Hispanic no-papers crew and in seven days....they'd removed the old house.  

The supervisor then hired an American company to build the 'shell' of the house....the roof, the base, and basic structure.  

Then the supervisor....week by week....would bring in a no-papers Hispanic crew to do different portions of the house.  Never once....did any county inspector come by.

Adding around 18 months onto the normal schedule?  Yeah.

So when the final detail was done.....the house, which should have cost in the $400,000 range....had a total expense of around $300,000.  

When the wife decided to add the 3-car garage?  That came a year later, and all of this was no-papers Hispanic work.   

When the wife decided to convert one space of the 3-car garage into a guest bedroom....that was no-papers Hispanic work.

Did she cheat American workers out of jobs?  Yeah....without any doubt.  She poured her savings from  the work back into her own pocket.  Illegal?  Yeah, without any doubt.  

The house of poor quality?  I went over one day and observed the place.  In every single room, you can find some detail which is not 'perfect'.  It's not badly done....just that when you ever go to sell the place...people might notice the problems.

Ten Humble Thoughts

 1.  I seem to 'cringe' an awful lot.  Meaning? I'll be watching some news program, and some idiot will say something that makes me think they are mentally ill, or dosing up on some nifty drugs.  I won't even hit mute....because I'd  like to see what else they might say in crazy-talk.

2.  It's just odd....when you have someone doing BOLD talk over misinformation...if you just halt the talk or a minute and ask 'what is a woman'....the misinformation chatter will halt the conversation.  

3.  If you asked Kamala Harris why clouds move....she'd likely respond: 'I grew up in a middle-class household'.  

4.  Eventually....some American guy who speaks Spanish well...will walk into Mexico legally....re-enter the US illegally, get caught, and be integrated into Homeland Security's database as 'Juan Sanchez'.  He'll get a $10k credit card....get a bus ride to New York City, and sit in a $200 a night hotel for a month.   The story will be made into a HBO series, and shock people how easy it was.  He'll eventually go through a English-language school....get hired at minimum wage....live in a house with sixteen other migrants, and vote illegally under the name of Juan Sanchez.  

5.  With each week that passes since Joe Biden dropped out of the race....he seems more sane and competent.  Was he drugged-up for the past four years?

6.  It seems like half the sixteen year old kids in America....are hyped up about 'rights'.  

7.  I read this week....the vacation trend for 2025....appears to be 'sense of adventure'.  Meaning?  Trekking off into the jungles of Peru.....spending two weeks in a Vienna ballroom dancing school....or spending a week  on the streets of San Francisco. 

8.  Selling Twitter off to Elon, was the biggest mistake ever for the Democratic Party.  

10.  Seventy-two-percent of Gen Z females were polled and said  "mental illness is an important part of my identity."

I paused over this for several minutes.  They are in some form....happy over their mental illness and admit it without any hesitation.

Could you....as a boss go out and hire such a person....even if to sell pet supplies?

'Lost' Revisited

 About two weeks ago, I started re-watching 'Lost' (the TV series).  I'm about half-way through season one at present.   Ten comments:

1.  I finished off 'Lost' in 2010, and haven't watched it since.   To be honest, I was rather disgruntled by season five  and six. Seasons one through four?  It was probably the best written series that TV ever produced.   

2.  My heroes of the series?  Mostly Hurley, Mister Ecko, and Desmond. 

3.  This whole time-travel gimmick, flash-forward, flash-sideways and hell-versus-heaven  concept?  It failed in the end.

4.  How Hurley survived on the island....never losing weight?  I kept coming back to this key point.

5.  'Little Smokey'?  It made no sense.

6.  Doctor Artz...the high school science teacher?  The guy who got blown up after showing up in one single episode?  I kept thinking....what if he'd survived and been around at the end.

7.  Selling me on polar bears on the island?  It didn't work.

8.  Too many characters with speaking parts?  This was a big negative to me.  Through the six seasons....there must be at least a thousand characters.

9.  Too many 'hints'?  Per each episode....I'd say you got at least 15 serious 'hints', and at least half of them....in the end....meant nothing (just added to make the show 'juicy').

10.  Finally....in the end to counter the evil 'John Locke'.....I would have preferred Mister Ecko to pick up the task (instead of Jack). 

Three Things

 1.  When some idiot says their friend flipped 360 degrees.....it literally means they are back  to where they started.  You need to utter 180 degrees, or else just keep your mouth shut.

2.  I sat and watched some video clip of Harris doing a Mexican forum talk.....with people asking questions, and she'd respond.

At some point....I noted as the camera moved around the room....Harris was getting verbal comments from the monitor in front of her....so it wasn't really her responding....it was a 2nd person talking via  Harris.  

3.  Presently, I'm counting 6 accents by Harris.  Amazing....all these years and just one single accent, then suddenly she bumps her head and gets 5 more.

Argentine Story

 I read a 20-line piece from Argentina this AM.  Odd order given by the government there.

They've identified 40,000 government official jobs....which require a aptitude-test.  If you pass...you are offered a contract for your current job.  If you fail?  No  contract  for your current job.  'Up-or-out'...would be my description.

If you count all gov't employees in the country....local, state, federal....they have around 2.7-million people....so I imagine that the 40,000 are mostly 'bosses' or supervisors/chiefs.

Any guesses to pass/fail rate?   Not really.  I would imagine  that if you were 30 years out of school or university....the odds might be against you passing....meaning that your score will be less than 60-percent. 

If 10,000 fail?  Well....they get sent to the civilian sector and probably a pay-cut.  Then you go and offer a temp promotion to some folks into the chief's positions.....then you test them.  Eventually, you might weed-out 100,000 employees out of the gov't sector.

Fixing Climate Change

 I sat and pondered over this story.  After a while, I felt guilty.  

I've taken a few breaths over the years.  On some occasions while working out or jogging in  my youth....I probably  took an excessive number of breaths.

What we can all do?  I'd  suggest that on every 5th minute....we hold it for 30 seconds, then exhale.  

Five Things I Think

 1.  I think the key to Diddy being in jail....his little-helpers at various times over the past 20 years....sold tapes of the sex-action to bidders (say half-a-million).

The bidders?  They turned the tape around and went to the guilty party on the tape, and blackmailed for a million.  You might have have five-hundred folks....who've lost $20-million each....trying to cover their ass.

So I think this group of guilty folks finally went to the FBI and they added up the amount ($1-billion-plus) of tax-free funds that moved around.

Just a theory.

2.  I don't think Barak Obama coming out this final month to campaign for Kamala Harris....helps.

Maybe some media types or news journalists still feel some Obama-thrill, but that's not true for the black community.

3.  To be honest, saying FEMA is coming to help/save you....might not thrill folks.

4.  Up until recently, Sweden never did have to make a law to prevent you from marrying your cousin.  The Swedes recently decided....'enough', and made a new rule, but it won't  be forced until 2026.  So if you wanted to marry a first-cousin....you'd best do it soon.

5.  Among black guys voting this time.....I think more than 75-percent will vote for Trump, with NY City black guys probably voting near 90-percent.  

IQ Chatter

 I sat and watched an interview yesterday....podcast guy talking to a PhD-gal who specialized in education.

So at some point, PhD-gal notes that US colleges have reached a point where just about anyone can sign up, and get in the front-door.  Reflecting upon this....she then noted that low-IQ folks  now have the greatest opportunity in history....to attend college.

I reviewed a number of sources.  The college crowd generally believes that getting inside the door of a college....requires a IQ of 115 (minimum).  I should note here....100 is considered the 'average' of society (in America).

However, a study done in the 1990s....says that even at a IQ  level of 85....most folks can survive basic college (probably not engineering or the sciences).

Going back to the PhD-gal....she commented at some point, if you had low-IQ folks (say at 85) attending, if they did graduate....there's nothing much to really say they improved their low-IQ situation.  This group would also go  out and impress people as intellectuals....when they were still low-IQ.

At the end....I pondered, if the low-IQ folks graduated college and got jobs teaching at high schools, then all they'd produce were low-IQ high school folks.  Evidence?   Well....you just look around and start to grasp how crappy things have developed into...over the past thirty years.

Buying Electric Chainsaws?

 So, I sat and reviewed the video.....FEMA had gone out and bought in one particular area....around a dozen to twenty electric chainsaws.....for an area that had ZERO power.  

Maybe if you had a portable generator....it'd make sense, but based on chatter out of western North Carolina....I'd take a humble guess that only 10-percent of folks have a electric generator in their possession.

Why buy a electric chainsaw?

I suspect the FEMA person here....young and inexperienced....was told of a 'need' and just walked into a Wal-Mart....using their Government-Purchase-Card, and spent around $4k for these chainsaws.   The person knows little about electrical outages, or chainsaws themselves.

Where will the useless chainsaws end up?  Unknown.

Just another element of useless government funding.

Five Observations

 1.  Someone brought up the ordering of a pizza (XL)....paying $32 for a 3-topping situation.  That's crazy on pricing but another demonstration of the economy.

2.  Someone suggested on social media....renaming the state of Alabama into 'Lebanon' and Tennessee into 'North Lebanon'....to ensure we get a bigger chunk of federal funds.  I hate to say it....but one-third of the population of both states would be agreeable to this idea.

3.  I read a piece where someone offered up the idea....paying people to vote (not saying huge amount.....mostly like $100).  But in their vision, you'd have to show a social security card and ID....to have the money sent to your home address a month after the election.  It'd be a incentive for everyone to have a ID for voting, and make them happy about voting.  If the check could not be delivered?  Have it returned to the gov't.

4. Just a feeling....after Hurricane Milton passes through Florida.....I will bet that within four months....a majority of insurance companies will refuse to offer any deal within the state.

5.  Trump is showing up in central California on Saturday afternoon.  I'm already betting on a crowd of 100,000 showing up....with a quarter of them Hispanic.

Should Joe/Jill Biden Just Kept Running?

 Over the past week, I've contemplated the election scenario....what if  Joe/Jill had just kept running and not exited out.

I've come to the opinion that Joe/Jill would be at least a point or two ahead of Donald Trump, and this would be hard race for Donald trump to win.

Kamala Harris unprepared?  That's the key problem....without the primary 'practice'....she's expected to 'dance' and she can't really do more than show-up....pretend to be prepared, and give you a half-way prepared 'act'.

I suspect people will talk about this for decades....how Joe/Jill could have won.

Harris: Kinda Funny

 Yesterday, VP Kamala Harris attempted a person-to-person 'talk' with Gov DeSantis of Florida to show concern over the approaching hurricane.  

DeSantis turned down the call (refused to take it).

This got Harris bothered and she described DeSantis as 'selfish' and 'utterly irresponsible.'

To be honest here....the VP has NO power....so the call was worthless. If it'd been Joe Biden....it would be different, and I imagine DeSantis would have accepted it.

The problem now for Harris?  Well...once the hurricane passes and the call for help from FEMA fails (which I anticipate).....Harris will get the blame.  

Joe Biden seeing all this unfold?  Oh yeah, he's grinning.....knowing precisely the position that he's put Harris into and that FEMA presently is all crippled-up and worthless.

As one stands back to view the landscape....it's just developed into a comedy show. 

Odd of a third hurricane situation?  You know....with four weeks until election....I'd suggest it's 50-50 on odds....yet another hurricane will occur, and it's  simply going to blacken the situation over FEMA even more. 

FEMA Likely To Dissolve?

 I would speculate at this point....FEMA has made the case where in 2025....they probably will cease to exist.  What replaces them?

I would suggest something that says natural-disasters ONLY.....headquartered in the center of the US, and  likely to have some type of reserve-feature (like the National Guard), which can be activated.  

Leadership of FEMA to be discharged/let-go?  Yeah....I  would imagine the bulk of their current leadership are toxic in nature and unable to function.

Kinda funny.....how they became their own worst enemy.

Ten Things I Now Believe

 1.  All this of FEMA confiscating emergency supplies being brought in....are due to fake FEMA-badged individuals (I believe this now) in North Carolina.  There just aren't that many FEMA people there, and if they were....they wouldn't be this stupid.  

2.  Nike and their contract with Caitlan Clark of the WNBA?  She's going to drop them by Christmas, and sign with Adidas or Puma.  

3.  Over the final 30 days of the Harris campaign....you will end up seeing Barak Obama at least twice a day....in key states.  

4.  If you asked President Biden if he knew that FEMA spent three-quarters of a billion of FEMA funds on migrants and hotels....he'd probably respond 'who-the-f*ck-authorized-that'.

5.  CNN has laid off enough pro-Kamala folks....that the majority left now believe Trump wins...easily.

6.  If you asked 100 high-school seniors where the 'Great Wall of China' is located.....fewer than 20-percent would identify China as the correct answer.

7.  No North Carolina official (Governor on down) will ever detail how many were lost or died in the chaos.  No sheriff will officially detail how many body bags his deputies prepared or delivered.

8.  More than 25,000 Ohio residents will be practicing Voo Doo members by 2030.  I'm not talking about Haitian-Ohioans.....I mean regular Ohioans.

9.  CNN will kinda drop the 'low-IQ' Republican special guests, and admit that audiences seem to be amused (laughing) over the analysis given by the low-IQ Republicans.

10.  US military services will start admitting in 2025....at least a quarter of their members are in serious debt problems and requiring 'help' of some type. 

Four Observations About This North Carolina-FEMA-Joe Biden-Kamala Harris 'Affair'

First, there's a 'golden-rule' in Presidential election years....the party in power....in the final 100 days before the vote....does everything possible not to screw up.  

As you look at FEMA and President Biden.....they've screwed-up royally.  

In this whole Appalachian region (five states)...for at least an entire generation, this will be remembered.

Second, if any of this is true...that FEMA spent their money on Homeland Security priorities of migrants....you'd have to remove FEMA from Homeland Security control.  

Third, this Trump 'town-hall' meeting today (Friday) in North Carolina?  I would imagine all of the networks will avoid carrying it or talking about it.  Twitter?  It'll be the most heavily viewed topic of the year.  Utter disaster for Kamala Harris.

Fourth, the science guys are still talking about this storm and how oddly it picked up steam,  and still  went on strong through the heartland.  Unnatural is a comment they've made. 

Just odd...I guess

Five Things Likely To Occur By 2030 (Six Years Into The Future)

 1.  The WNBA will not exist.

My speculation?  A European women's league will exist (with Caitlan Clark)....sign up Puma, and get a US media company to provide game coverage into the US.  At the end of two years.....the WNBA  will hint of a merge action....bringing the Euro league into the WNBA.  The Euro league will refuse.

In the end, the WNBA will find a financial collapse that the NBA is unwilling to cover the cost.  

2.  California will reach a financial loss situation where they literally beg the federal government to cover their mountain of debt....only to be 'no'.

Some bank will come to sign up for the California debt situation....with the deal hinging on all state property reverting to bank property, and the state is effectively run by a bank CEO.....not an elected governor.

3.  FEMA being connected to Homeland Security.....will cease by 2030.

I think as you enter 2025, an investigation will detail how Homeland Security continued to 'raid' FEMA for emergency stashes of cash.....year after year.

FEMA will end being disconnected from them and given a cabinet secretary and set to the side....not to be part of Homeland Security.  

4.  Star Wars theme movies will stop by 2030, and go through a five to ten 'silence'....mostly admitting that the storyline is now crap and unsellable to the general public.

5.   Some new car brand will come to exist.....with bare minimum features, and a 50 horse-power engine.  At $20,000....this will be the only affordable car in America for more than 20-percent of society.  Other than heat/cooling an electric windows....the car will feature no radio, no GPS.

Three Things After Watching Vance-Walz Debate

 1.  Loser?  CBS news and moderators.  Walz?  He's just not into debates and whatever he prepared for.....he just wasn't in the league of Vance.

2.  At this point,  I'd say the election belongs to Trump/Vance.  I'm starting to think even NY state will go to Trump, with the 5-key states of 2020 that Biden won....will go all for Trump.

3.  So the real question arises....what happens in the week after the Inauguration?  I think it's a fairly dramatic week.  I suspect that Trump will order a review of all documents that Biden takes and if classification rules were obeyed.  If not....there's to be legal trouble brewing.  

Grasping The Religion of Voodoo

 After this talk of Springfield, Ohio, the Haitians, the dogs and cats chatter....I sat down to understand Voodoo (the religion).

So, after about a dozen hours of reading up....I've come to nine observations:

1.  Originally,  VooDoo started with the Fon tribe of the Benin, Togo, and Nigeria (Africa)....NOT Haiti.  It probably did not start until approximately 50 to 70 years after the Portuguese started trading there (1655).  Note, as much as some might suggest the Brits were helpful in this creation....they didn't arrive until the late 1890s.

2.  Catholic priests came in....dealt with the tribal customs, and introduced 'God' to the Fon people.  This probably took a good twenty years to convert folks....explain the Bible stories, and get a whole generation indoctrinated.

3.  What I believed occurred here....the priests brought up the stories of raising people from the dead (namely....the daughter of Jairus, a young man in the midst of his funeral, and of course....Lazarus of Bethany.  The Fon people...not really understanding the whole feat of miracles.....attached itself to the 'art' of bring Zombies to life again.

Saying Lazarus was a Zombie is laughable, but with the Fon imagination....yeah, it was possible.

4.  I also believe that when the old Testament talked of animal sacrifices....mostly all of sheep.....the Fon people went to animals of their region (birds, etc).  I think as the religion moved to Haiti (1700 to 1750).....they kept to some form of sacrifice...using what they had on the island (dogs, cats).

5.  The fact that both the Catholic religion and Voodoo...believe in evil spirits/demons, and both have some form of exorcism?  Well....yeah....there is that relationship.

6.  Both male (Ougan) and female (Manbo) priests in Voodoo?  Yes.  How they reach a level of 'status'?  They go into a dream-like state (meeting Iwa.....a spirit) and announcing they have 'status'.  Yeah, it might be bogus, but people accept the idea.

7.  Finally, I have this belief....as much as Haitians and western folks claim that 50-percent of Haitian society is Voodoo and the other 50-percent is Christian.....I think this is bogus.  You can observe the Christian religion on Sunday, and be a practicing Voo-Doo member the other six days a week.  

8.  This Springfield dog/cat story?  I've come to the frame of mind.....no one much is eating the animal sacrifice...it's probably just a ceremony thing, and they bury the crispy leftover at the end.  

9.  Voo-Doo being satanic?  Well...it's modeled mostly after the Catholic religion....so it's hard to make the satanic statement.....without saying part of the Catholic religion might be satanic.  

Final thought?  It wouldn't surprise me if a dozen Springfield folks (of a lesser mindset) might be discussing Voo-Doo, and accepting it in some way.  Maybe around 2035....we discover 30,000 Ohio folks (non-Haitian) are converted to Voo-Doo, and offering animal sacrifices every week.  

This Caitlan Clark WNBA Epic Saga

 The hint was dropped by Clark, by early elimination in the playoffs....that she is likely going to 'quit' the WNBA....and leave for Europe to play in one of the women's leagues there.  

What happens to the Indiana Heat?  The team goes back to a last-place team  in the WNBA.

What happens to Clark's new team (whoever  it is)?  They will move from a small arena operation....to a sports arena able to handle 15,000-plus fans.  Suddenly TV interest matters.

What happens to the WNBA? I'd say that they slip back to old viewership numbers and arenas mostly half-full.  

What happens to the TV contract that the WNBA and Disney/ABC/Amazon signed?  Well....it's supposed to pay $200-million per season (3 times the former profit).  I'm guessing here that the TV folks will ask for a meeting with WNBA officials by the end of 2025 season (without Clark) and ask for new deal....gutting the $200-million a year by half.  

This will infuriate the WNBA and there's likely to be a crew sent to Europe....to entice Clark to come 'home'. 

But let's play this out....by the end of the European season and massive interest gearing up for women's basketball....there's likely to be live TV coverage of the league, and some hyped-up offers.  Somewhere in this mix....I see a US sports TV company showing up and offering the European league some TV deal....then suddenly you have the Euro league having better nightly coverage, than the WNBA games.

The WNBA....in chaos by the end of the 2026 season?  Yeah, that's my prediction. I  also think Disney/ABC/Amazon's deal will be crippled by this point.