$400-Million Debt (Florida State University)?

I noted some comment today over MASSIVE debt that FSU has.  Suggesting $400 million?

Well....the comment went on to suggest it was all due to paying past 'fired' football coaches/staff.

I paused over this...pondering.

I asked Grok (AI) to help.  About two minutes pass and Grok noted the debt was really $437 million.....but it came mostly from the stadium renovations package, and the addition of a new football 'operations center)....with only a very small amount due to fired coaches.

Accurate debt details: FSU's ~$437M athletics-related debt stems mainly from revenue bonds for Doak Campbell Stadium renovations and a new football operations center, not direct obligations to coaches.

Still a problem?  I paused over this idea.  

Stadium holds around 67,000 fans.....per-game income from tickets?  Around $3.4-to-$3.9 million.  Toss in beer/food profits from concessions....probably another $3-million.  So they could generate $6-million plus from each game.  

It'd still take around 8 to 10 years to pay off the current debt....I admit that.

My suggestion.....all of the NCAA football clubs ought to go to a 18-game season....starting in August....doubling profit.

My Thoughts On Audi (Since The Georgia Plant Is Planned Now)

 I've had three Audis in my life (A4, TT, A5).  Roughly 28 years that either I or my wife....have had Audis.

So....five observations:

1.  For two of the three...we actually went to the Audi factory....did the tour....had lunch at the Audi cafeteria, and got the 30 minute intro by a Audi technician about the features.  As we drove out....we felt like it was a unique experience.

2.  Each of the three....burn oil....from day one on.  I'd say it runs from 2 cans to 3 cans of oil per year.  No leaks.  Just odd.  I keep a spare can in the trunk.  When the oil-light comes on...you are precisely one-quart low.  

3.  For the TT....from day one to year ten....nothing ever got replaced except headlights, tires, and brake-pads.  For a 10-year period....it was the lowest maintenance car I've ever seen.  Summer of 2027....the TT will hit 20 years.  Oddly enough, the original battery of the TT lasted through to the 15th year.

4.  The A4 and TT were limited on 'buttons' and gadgets.  The 2019 A5?  Loaded down with excessive features and menu-items.  If you were a hundred-mile per day traveler....the features are worth the money, and it would be my selection for daily travel.

5.  If you were asking me on a comparison with VW....I'd call the Audi cars....VW-Plus-Plus.  

Four Observations

1.  Knoxville area.  City agreed on having 'some' Halloween decorations.  Not a lot of explanations over this....I assume that they felt it was a community 'hype' and no one would have issues.

So the picked decorations....it was a Halloween ghost figure (multiple).

Shortly after going up....some social worker in the city....started pressuring the city council to take down its Halloween ghost decorations.  Reason?  Figure looks to her like a white supremacist lynching (her words, not mine).

I paused over this....looking for images of the 'ghost'.  I have to admit....after viewing it....yeah, it does in some odd way resemble Klan-sheeted-guy.  

Now....if you'd asked real locals (not the moved-in or new residents)....they probably would have grinned and said 'yes, it's Klan-stuff'.  

2.  Guys seem to pick up on tampon dispensers in the men's bathroom....identifying the 'machine', hallway, and area.....noting this to other guys in water-cooler-chat.  Women, eyeballing this odd chat, seem to want to know why it's noticeable to guys and their reaction.

3.  This Cleveland-prophet-guy with the 2nd wife issue?  It's perfectly legal as long as he doesn't do a legit marriage-license with the 2nd wife.

Now, if you asked me about this 2nd wife deal lasting long....I'd take a humble guess that either wife #1 or wife #2....by the end of 2027...probably up and leaves....saying it was too complicated.

The path ahead?  Well....there's going to be some group to emerge...saying it's religiously 'OK' to have multiple wives, and we go through a cycle of 5 to 10 years....where 3some marriages are openly discussed.

4.   PEW did a poll...asking Americans if they could afford 'essentials'.  Forty-four percent came back and said NO.

I pondered over this....a list of necessities/essentials....could I today (2026) afford it?  I would ask....what's on the list?  Cable-TV....case of beer per week...Wall Street Journal daily....a McRib at least once a month....tooth-paste....bottled-water (Evian if possible)....TP (toilet-paper)....Netflix.

Bogus poll?  I might ask average IQ of the thousand-odd folks they polled. 

Six Humble Thoughts

 1.  I have a internal 'lecture-alarm'....if I wake up in the middle of a TV show, movie, or conversation and think I'm getting a lecture....I start looking for a exit.  Even if this were Jesus trying to lecture me....I won't sit for it.

2.  This prophet-from-Ohio-with-the-2nd-wife-issue?  I think it'll catch on and there's likely to be 500 guys who go full-power into 2027....intending to have their 2nd wife arrangement.  If you thought LGTBQ got weird and turbo....you haven't seen anything yet.

3.  I watched some alien/UFO discussion this week....where the expert suggested that most alien-abductions....were accomplished by US military/contractor teams...NOT the alien-folks.  Probably 99-percent BS....but it just makes you wonder.

4.  I just keep wondering....this $2-million in cash that was found in Ilhan Omar's house....what idiot would feel safe with that much in cash laying around.  Just having $1,000 in cash in a kitchen-drawer....worries the crap out of me.

5.  On a point-by-point worry index....which is worse....aliens with high tech, or Nazis with high tech?

6.  Somehow, if you cam up to me and said some Somali dictator/war-lord guy...who'd authorized killing 10,000 folks minimum...got his daughter into the US....fixed up with a visa and later citizenship....then planted her to be a Congresswoman, and probably planned for her to be a Presidential candidate by age 50...YEAH, I could believe its possible.

Second-Wife Syndrome?

 I watched a news piece this AM....black minister situation.

So this gal....the wife/co-minister and the husband/co-minister/prophet had a Sunday session and announced that they had 2nd wife situation.

They introduced the gal....she came up and gave a talk.  She noted....people might be confused.

On paper?  No.  This is a church ceremony....some vow-BS, and bang.....3some marriage deal.

I pondered over this.  The problem is that probably 20,000 black guys have watched the news piece and wondered....why can't they have two wives (one on paper, and the other just 'churched-up')?

Then I wondered....there's probably a thousand white guys...wondering why they can't get 'churched-up' and have two or three wives?

My prediction....before the end of 2027...more than 1,000 3some/4-some couples will exist in the US.....mostly with one guy and multiple women.  

After a while....a woman will ask....why can't she have multiple husbands?  Then gay guys will ask....why can't they have a 2nd husband?

By 2050 (if I were still around)....there's probably going to be Joe Biden-type character as president....with a 2nd wife situation.

Explaining What Occurred In Brazil

The rule was....come 5 PM....voting halts, period.

The voting machines?  Once voting has been formally closed at 5 PM, Brazilian electronic voting machines (urnas eletrônicas) are SET NOT to be powered back on to accept more votes.

Security-wise....it's smart.  

The only folks who could extend the 5 PM to 7 PM?  The election commission.  But in this case...a judge (formerly connected to a candidate)...ordered the machines to continue to 7 PM.

Oddly....when the order came at around 5 PM....the machines that had already completed their closing procedures....they were OFF and could not be reset.

Could some central authority have sent a 'reset-order' to the machines that were off?  NO.

So the logical question....was there a pre-5 PM understanding at certain polling stations....to insert a new closure time....before it went off?  No one says much. 

Four Observations

 1.  If you had a substantially low IQ (say 65)....could you control yourself enough....not to marry a brother, or handle being a Congresswoman?

2.  When faced with a blunt question that requires TRUTH....you should always respond..."not to my knowledge."  Just leave it that way, and if cornered later...just act stupid.  Insist that your 65 IQ limited your decision=making ability.

3.  Some advice....if you are running for some state-office, and have reserved a 4,000 seat arena, and you can't fill more than 200 seats....your campaign is crapped-up.

4.  It would not surprise me if the ten-odd-million California residents who've left since 2020....are still listed as registered voters in the state.