State Story

WV Senator Chris Rose has proposed a resolution for certain counties in Virginia to leave & become part of West Virginia.

I pondered over this.

Virginia is trying build districts (for House members) which are pure Dem-voters.

Gazing over the red counties....if  you add up the population...if's around  1-to-1.4 million....probably 80-percent Republican.

Would Virginia allow an 'exit'?  I doubt it.

The problem with this....if you gaze across the US....there's 30 states which would like to re-arrange borders.  
 

Wildest Thing I've Seen From The Epstein Files?

Hillary Clinton email discussing resurrection chamber of the buried Nephilim, and document request related to Gilgamesh’s resurrection chamber (in Iraq).

This BS starts up originally....from a 2003 BBC report suggesting that German archaeologists might have found the tomb of Gilgamesh within the Euphrates riverbed.

After this come out.....no science or discovery reports ever get documented.

However, there are these various idiots connected to Epstein who keep believing that Gilgamesh's 'chamber' is held by the CIA folks.

Part of me wants to believe that the CIA intentionally built this into a fake story....just to pull someone's leg.

So at some point....Hillary is asked to find report and report back.  Did she just make up BS....or pay someone to document fake secret stuff?

The 2027 NFL Super Bowl Half-Time Shows (Plural)

 I'm of the mindset....there will be five options  for the half-time show for 2027.

1.  The NFL 'original'.

2.   The TP-USA 'invention'.

3.  A Nashville country-music show (with five to eight musicians).  On-line and streaming.

4.  A Vegas 1990s/2000s-theme show....built to attract 71,000 fans at their Allegiant Stadium.  Downloadable.

5.  Louisville KFC arena show....22,000 seats.  Downloadable.

My thoughts....the NFL from this point on...will not  be able to attract folks to their show.

Six Thoughts

 1.  The dead gal in Minnesota....just curious....just over 30 days since the shooting, and no one much today remembers her name.  I would imagine fewer than 10-percent.  Interesting how quick folks forget.

2.  I watched about 12 minutes of 'clips' of the Bad Bunny NFL Super Bowl  show, and maybe 8 minutes of the Kid Rock alternate show.

To be honest....it would have been better to turn the TV  off....catch 45 minutes of Fleetwood Mac tunes.

3.  My gut feeling for the NFL and planning the 2027 half-time show....get some demonic people or zombies lined up....if you want to even fewer people watching.

4. Perpetual psychodrama for the past ten years.  Just about all Americans need a rehab of some sort.

5.  Since 1945 and the surrender...Japan has been forced to having a coalition-party gov't.  Well...this past week....one single party (right-wing) won enough to avoid  coalition-building, and will have a re-writing of the Constitution.

6.   Something I started wondering about....people need an ID to obtain SNAP benefits but these same people are too stupid to use voter ID?

'Not Infinitely Accessible' Story

 I watched a podcast piece this AM....a CEO of something called the Institute for Sustainability Leadership.....this gal...Lindsey Hooper, says that water, soil, and oxygen should not be infinitely accessible. 

She wants them all classified as 'limited'. It'd be like a pallet of beer, with it being like a global balance sheet.

I paused over this....stuff you'd expect a 5th-grade kid to utter.

I just can't find the logic where there is ONLY X-amount of dirt, or air....unless you were space-traveling, or locked-up in a cave somewhere.

I would agree....there is limited amount of toilet-paper, whiskey,  aspirin, Snickers, or Ford 150s.

In her mind....only x-number of people could get certain thing, while some fellow managed the spreadsheet. It don't make much sense.

The "Other" Debt

You would think there would be alot more turmoil and protests over the debt games being played out in Washington.  There ought to be protesters....angry mobs hating Republicans....upset conservative folks....etc.  But there aren't.  So why?

Well....because Joe, your neighbor (age 30), owes $80k in college loans and he admits he won't be finished paying this off for another 20-odd years.

Aunt Maude, your beloved aunt, owes near $60k on seven VISA cards that she uses regularly to shop QVC....and will likely never pay off the cards before she passes on.

Charley, your favorite barber, owes $70k on a brand-new car that he bought.  He admits that he has never cleared more than $32k a year on salary but he's willing to take out a eight-year loan to get this sports car of his dreams.

Claude, your cousin?  He bought the $350k house back in 2007, with only $35k in the down-payment.  The house has gone down in value to $200k now and Claude is contemplating just handing the keys to the house over to the bank and declaring bankruptcy.

Karl, who lives down the street....wrapping up divorce number three?  He works sixty hours a week and barely takes home $1400 after paying alimony and child-support to the three ex-wives.  He's 42 and says he might find the right woman next time....if not....he'll be bankrupt by that point.

Sid, who bought property in Vegas as an investment in 2020?  The value just dumped by fifty percent and he's still paying $450 a month for this "investment opportunity".  It may take twenty years for the property to get back up to its original value....and maybe sell.

Tim, your buddy from high school?  He finally found a job after three years of unemployment....but had to move to Fargo, North Dakota to achieve this honor.  He lives out of a RV because his wife won't move to Fargo....and most all his check goes to the wife and kids at the old house.  

Frankly, we have become a huge debt crowd....in a debt nation, with no real grasp of what it was like in the 1970s.  Before the credit cards, QVC, massive college costs, alimony-on-top-of-alimony, and stupid property prices.....we were living a simple life, without much debt.  The same could be said for the nation itself.  We didn't build museum after museum.  We didn't build bridges on a whim.  We didn't hand out cash to research teams to figure out why bears like honey.

So, as you sit back tonight.....counting the few dollars left in your billfold....and watching a bunch of news folks get excited about the evil Republicans, the dimwitted Democrats, or the President's five-star speeches....you kinda wonder why anyone should get excited.  Until you've charged $80k on a couple of VISA cards....you really don't grasp debt or the depth of problems.  Course, the reverse is true too....if you as a nation owed a trillion dollars.....you really don't know debt.

Only in America.

Unemployment Rate for Huntsville, Alabama?

 My German wife....eager to hype the negative nature of unemployment in America....was utterly shocked....December  2025 numbers for Huntsville, Ala...1.9-percent.

What this generally means?

If you run a BK or McDonalds operation...you probably have a full-time HR guy constantly recruiting, and a french-fry guy/burger flipper is probably paid $10/12 an hour starting out, and making $15 an hour within 3 months (to keep them there).

Across the board....you could marginally pass out of high school, and within three years...probably make $17 an hour easily.