Ten Things I Tend To Believe

 1.  I quizzed AI....from the Butler-shooting attempt on Trump....is there any evidence that Thomas Crooks (the dead shooter) ever met Maxwell Yearik (the missing guy)?  They lived within a 25-odd mile range of each other....but NO....AI could not find a single example of the two meeting face-to-face.

Where Yearik is today?  Unknown....but I'm guessing he's probably not alive.  This attempt to 'partner-up' between the two?  I tend to believe it's BS. 

2.  I'm pretty convinced that 30-percent of people in college today and getting a bachelor's degree shortly....will be unemployable by 2035 with this stupid degree.  How they will pay off the college loan deal?  Unknown, and probably the federal gov't will be stuck with tens of billions in useless degree BS.

Somewhere between 2035 and 2040....college will terminate around 50-percent of the instructors/professors....admitting the business plan no longer works.

3.  I tend to believe that 50-percent of all US activists...without USAID functioning....will be unable to sustain their lifestyles, and end up in dad's garage within three years....for the remainder of their lives.

4.  I believe by the end of 2027....at least a thousand men in the US...facing jury-duty....will let the judge/lawyers know that they are rogue-capable, and this will scare the crap out of the lawyers and judges involved.....disqualifying the rogue fellows.

5.  After watching this clip of Governor Gavin Newsom fishing....I'm of the mind that he's never fished in his life, and probably spent two weeks in the backyard....learning the basic steps.

6.  I tend to believe that if you questioned a hundred people.....asking about hoaxes....at least thirty folks can cite ten-plus events which they believe are hoax-type.

7.  My firm belief....MLB (major league baseball)....has at least 200 players who are way-over-paid, and simply boat-anchors for their team.

8.  I believe if you did a legit audit.....you'd find that 500,000 'foreign-agents' exist on US soil, and have influence not only over Congress, the President, and the Supreme Court, but reaches down into states, cities, and even school boards.

9.  I tend to believe....unless Saudi Arabia gets some 'help'....the Houthis crowd will actually take down the Middle East oil market, and leave the US, Russia and Venezuela as the 'winners'.

10.  I'm convinced that you could lay-off 50-percent of CNN's staff, and no one would really notice.  

All This Hype To Slow Down AI Development?

 I spent an hour or two yesterday reviewing the political hype to slow down AI development.  After a while....I realized it was mostly BS.

First, for the most part....I suspect it's already too late.  AI is in turbo-mode and the tech-crowd can marginally control what's going on.  

Second, within a year, I suspect that bank AI will develop tools that bank boards can use....identifying weak candidates for home, business or car loans....disqualifying them way ahead of schedule.  Wouldn't shock me if 40-percent of Americans find themselves 'cut-off' from loans.

Third, within a year or two....medical AI will be able to analyze cost factors/bills, and start to state 'crappy' deals or hospitals to avoid.  It'll also start to cite safety issues with hospitals and doctors.

Fourth, by the end of the 2027 baseball season....I see home-plate umpires replaced on balls/strike count....leaving AI to manage things.  

Fifth, daily audits by finance AI....will start to reveal fraud on massive levels.  

Sixth, educational AI will start to identify crappy teachers/professors...way ahead of schedule.  

Seventh, political AI will start to review/audit 'promises' within minutes of announcing them.  

Eighth, all these super-secret military programs will be audited by AI and various programs will be unable to remain secret.

Ninth, entertainment AI will identify crappy scripts/plot ideas.

Stalling or slowing AI down?  Too late.

Six Observations

 1.  The Babylon Bee (fake news) reports: Climate Activists Blame Global Warming For Zero Hurricanes Forming In Atlantic This Year.

Yeah....it's an odd year.  I asked Grok....only 3 years since 1900 with no hurricanes (1907, 1914, and 2026).  Oddly....both winters (1907/1914) were extreme/harsh.  

2.    The Trump Administration has invoked the long-unenforced Immigration Act of 1882....to prohibit entry into the United States of “any convict, lunatic, idiot, or any person unable to take care of himself or herself without becoming a public charge.”

Basically, if you enter....you need to have wits or cash to cover your lifestyle.

My question this Act of 1882...who wrote this?  I asked Grok for help....ends up with Representative John Van Voorhis (R-NY).

Odd feature?  Well....if you walked into the US and had a IQ of 75....you would probably denied entry.

3.  I expect by spring of 2027....some baseball team will use AI to assemble a free-agent situation....with the tactic of being 'bang-for-the-buck', and end up in the 2027 World Series.

I will also predict the home-plate umpire will be 'removed' from calling balls/strikes by the opening day of 2028.

4.  I noted:

US Smoking, alcohol and marijuana use by teenagers.

1976: Alcohol - 92 percent, Smoking - 76 percent, and Marijuana - 64 percent.

2022: Alcohol - 53 percent, Smoking - 17 percent, and Marijuana - 38 percent

Source: Monitoring the Future

For some reason, I don't believe the 1976 data...course, I grew up in a southern/rural (and dry county) region.

5.  All this 'chatter' from the Lindsay Clancy jury folks....just odd.  Seems like almost daily....at least one being a guest on some talk-show/news-program.

6.  Apparently.....the Department of War has cleared current and former personnel to disclose UAP/UFO-related information to officials, despite prior NDA restrictions.  How many folks in this category?  Unknown.  Personal guess....more than 3,000.

Senator Sanders Idea: 32 Hour Work-Week?

 Draft came up in the Senate....making the standard work-week....32 hours instead of 40 hours.

I paused over this.

He wanted the pay and benefits to remain the same (a gift, I assume).

To make this work....you'd have to mandate limits on restaurants, bars, stores. 

Any member of commerce/industry/banking....to support this?  I doubt it.

Personally, I would support this....if Congress/Senate would limit their hours to 28 per week, and force them weekly to adjourn by Thursday morning.

Two Observations

 1.  I spent a fair amount of time this weekend...over the Lindsey Clancy case.  I came to this odd list of drugs prescribed for her....prior to the killing of the kids....by different doctors:

Sertraline (Zoloft)

Lorazepam (Ativan)

Hydroxyzine

Buspirone (Buspar)

Trazodone

Fluoxetine (Prozac)

Zolpidem (Ambien)

Mirtazapine (Remeron)

Clonazepam (Klonopin)

Quetiapine (Seroquel)

Diazepam (Valium)

Lamotrigine (Lamictal)

Amitriptyline

So....I asked AI....don't some of these conflict with others listed, and make matters worse?  Yeah....responds AI.

It begs the question....aren't the prosecution folks and judge....simply wasting time....she was not in state of mind...while on this drug-combo deal....to be rational.

2.  The second thing I spent time on....for research....this Ilhan Omar-marrying-her-brother story.  True or false.

About an hour into this reading....I was finished.  

Unless the ID of the guy was totally false to start with (I'm willing to consider that irrational idea)....yeah, she married her brother.  Enough to get citizenship papers yanked, and kicked out?  Probably.

The question is....if she leaves for Somalia....what happens then?  I'm of the mind that she'll enter into the EU in some fashion, and stage a arrival....rebuilding a political career somewhere else.

Five Observations

 1.  The way things are going in Saudi Arabia (past five days)....this Houthi 'war' is developing and requiring a lot of attention.  Saudis were expecting the Americans would 'help', and this has not been the case.  So they are looking around....expecting Egypt, Turkey and Pakistan to help.  

All of this puts pressure on oil/gas prices.  Then the natural gas sales of the region....are at risk.  

Quietly, the US/Venezuela situation really comes across right now as a brilliant development. 

2.  Mid-terms chatter.  We are about 8 weeks away from election day.  

Senate shocks?  Georgia: Ossoff appears to be on shaky ground....Republican might win.  Michigan: Republican win more than likely.  New Hampshire likely flips over to a Republican.  

House?  Based on various polls....Republicans end up with a ten-plus situation (minimum).

3.  This whole discussion about Chinese-car-makers assembling their cars in the US.....will turn a China-made car from $8k to $12k (made/assembled in China, before tariff action)......into a $25k deal (with tariffs).  If made/produced/assembled in the US by Americans?  I would likely push the price up to $35k....with zero tariff action.

The China disgruntlement?  Less employed Chinese....some public frustration about being forced into a deal.

Would I buy such a car (either Chinese-made, or China-design-but-assembled-by-Americans)?  I'm not sure about this.  

It was this way in the 1990s....where South Korean cars were imported into the US, and were marginally up-to-par.  Eventually, they were great designs and quality cars.  Maybe Chinese car go the same way.

4.  About every week, I see a discussion over truck prices and guys admitting there's WAY too much crap being put onto a truck...pushing the price from $40k....on up to $75,000.  Some folks are now admitting....they'd be willing to buy a bare-bones 1980-type F-150....with nothing special other than AM/FM radio and AC. If some Venezuelan 'Elon' was smart....he'd work up a Ford/Trump deal....build the old Ford F-150 design and ship it into the US for $18,000.

5.  Ric Flair....age 77.....says he's on a return path to the WWE wrestling events.

To be honest....I'd probably pay up to $75 for a ringside seat for such event.

Half-Wit Female?

 I sat this morning (early) and watched a 45-second piece....some close-up of a mid-20s gal....explaining her position on the Lindsay Clancy court case, and dwelling on her personal feelings....as a "non-practicing white".

Yeah....obviously she is 'pure-white' and she's discussing the bitter part of this court 'saga' triggered by a black-guy (probably a practicing black guy....if you ask me).

But my question is....what exactly is practicing in this context to mean?  

Could I be a practicing PhD guy?  Or perhaps....practicing British royal?  Or maybe....a practicing NFL player?  Is there a limit to this practicing business?

I asked AI (Grok) about this. It suggested that....."some white people analogize distancing from "whiteness" (viewed as a system of privilege and supremacy) to being non-practicing in a religion, aiming to signal allyship."   Yeah...more or less telling you with a 'wink' that they only pretend to be white....while practicing to be some 'other thing'.

Blacks watching this?  I would imagine they are mostly laughing over the 'talk'/suggestion, and letting the poor person play this out (seeing how far it'd go).

Like a cult?  It took me about 15 minutes of analyzing this....to grasp that it's fairly close to being cult-like thinking.

I then asked Grok (AI)....if it could go the other way....being a non-practicing-black?  Well yeah....says Grok.

Grok said:  "The same logic that produced “non-practicing white.” That term treats race less as ancestry or appearance and more as a set of cultural habits, political attitudes, and “rituals” a person can opt out of. Apply that consistently and a person of African descent could reject the expected scripts of American Black identity—particular speech patterns, political solidarity, church culture, or the idea that race should be central to every opinion—and call themselves “non-practicing Black".”

But then Grok said: "In practice the label is almost never used that way. Current identity frameworks treat “whiteness” as something one should distance from and “Blackness” as something one cannot or should not distance from."

Rational thought.....but crazy-talk.

My perception?  If you were a guy in his 18-to-30 age range....you need to pay attention to who you meet up with....asking a few questions before the date, and get to the end-point....is she a practicing-half-wit, or just a regular non-practicing half-wit, or almost normal 'wit'? Stuff like this now matters.