Seven Things

 1.  Where this Florida condo crisis will lead onto?

Well...if you were the HOA of a 300-unit building and found problems which need 'fixing'....you'd naturally hand out assessments....giving each unit-owner a $100k bill.  

I'd take a guess...at least seventy of the occupants would be unable to  pay the $100k and quickly jump into selling the property....then finding out that you can't get 100-percent of the value.....or even 70-percent of the value.  You (as the owner) wake up two months later....no buyer, and the HOA doing court activity to seize your property....meaning a total loss of investment.

So the HOA at this point thinks the property can still be sold and they get their money.  Well....two months later, the HOA now realizes fifty of the condos can't be sold, and they hand out a fresh new assessment to the remaining occupants....to pay more....to  make up for the losses. This fresh new  2nd bill....adds up to $55k each.  

Another round of people trying to sell quickly and exit starts up.  This second group amounts to 75 of the remaining condos....meaning one out of three of the total are now HOA-owned and empty.  

By 2027, around 500,000 condos in Florida are HOA-deadends.....with some HOAs repackaging the sales price  to 10-percent of what it  was in 2023.....triggering a state-wide crisis.

3.  Packaging VP Harris as a nice-moderate-Communist with good intentions....probably won't sell to working-class Americans.

4.  Just a gut feeling, but around forty-odd countries in the world who generally get US 'free-money' (grants)....will be told your grants are ended unless you agree to take failed refugees back.  

5.  At some point in 2025, I expect at least one US bank to make up a rule....no car loan for a gas-powered car.  

6.  Elon quote: "If evil people hate you, well, you might be doing something right."

I might extend it....if stupid people hate you....you might be doing something else right.

7.  If you were browsing for quotes from major news sources over the past year....suggesting that Biden's mental competency was top-notch....I would suggest 99-percent over the past week have been removed.  

Just odd how they came to this decision not to continue the hoax.  

Six Things

 1.  I noticed last week.....'childless-cat-ladies' came up a fair bit.  VP candidate Vance made the reference...."We are effectively run in this country...by a bunch of childless cat ladies who are miserable at their own lives and the choices that they've made, and so they wanna make the rest of the country miserable, too."

I pondered over the comment.

First, it is generally regarded as a female mental issue...OCD-related....where women are into a compulsive thing....to hoard up cats.  Guys don't do it....as far as I know. 

Vance meant it as a slam where a woman has heard some 'position' or 'message' and bought into it, without much thought or discussion....as one might accomplish the hoarding of cats....without much thought or discussion.

What I did find amusing.....a fair number of women came to the defense of childless-cat-ladies'.  But as you looked who said what....it was mostly childless-cat-ladies who had done remarkably well in life....without collecting/hoarding cats (yet).

2.  It took the FBI about 13 days to determine that Trump got shot near the ear.  One day, the FBI may come to talk about JFK's killing.

3.  Indiana went and passed a law that says if any law-enforcement individual (not just local and state)....uses deadly force to enter your house.....you (the citizen) may use deadly force in response to the act.

It's a sign of what will likely come to 49 other states over the next decade.

4.  There's a trend started up in the business world.....where the company has created what I'd call 'adult-safe-spaces'....where you the employee can go and 'chill'.

So this guy took a picture of the 'room' on his floor....what appears to be a old broom closet.  They put a lamp, small table, and a nice cushioned-up chair there.  There's a artsy painting on the wall.  I'd assume they spent about $350 to paint and decorate the room.

In my 'day'....you usually exited the shop/office and stood/sat in the smoker's corner behind the building.  I usually went there with the smokers (I never smoked) to chill out and get the latest gossip.  I never did think of it as a safe-space....just where you heard a lot of weird stories over stupid or drunk co-workers.

5.  I'm of the opinion that if a big UFO came down in California and the aliens offered sanctuary to some socialized planet with free drugs....half the population of the state would crowd on within 24 hours and ask for relocation....with no questions further asked.

Once into space....the aliens would hit the air-lock button and fix the state problem real quick. 

6.  Just an odd feeling.  The selling point in the past week for VP-to-President candidate Harris?  Tough prosecutor!

So...would she go and enforce migration law, or criminal law?  

She's going to have a problem in selling this 'brand/message'.  

All fake chatter in nature?  Well.....it might have worked in 1988, but most people are skeptical of this BS today.