Five Observations

 1.  What really occurred over the past two years to sell the Republican-brand?

Zero.  Amazing....but they weren't geared or focused on any accomplishments

2.  Dem's now?  Well....they have 12 months to show 'something'.  If they fail....then the odds go against them.

3.  El-Sayed?  I'll go and predict that they readily give him a security clearance, and stage a 'watch'....which is caught by the end of 2027...divulging secret stuff to the Iranians.  

4.  The 'other-Dan' episode in Alaska....won't go away.  If the Feds do nothing.....there will be twenty-odd Republican other-Dems in the 2028 House race.

5.  Taxing the ultra-rich?  At least a dozen ultra-rich Americans will say 'enough' and leave for some Latin American country.

My Thoughts/Theory Over Trans 'Stuff'

 Around the mid-1800s....there was this spiritualist movement started up....mediums and confidence operators....who sold people on the idea of the ability to communicate with the dead.  

Folks agree....it started in Hydesville, New York, situated between Rochester and Syracuse.  

There were three sisters (last name Fox)....who created something called 'spirit rappings'.  Some say it started as a local prank....but dozens of folks believed the BS.

This led to paid public demonstrations and private séances. Over forty years....the gimmick worked, and spread.

What can be said...if you had money and mindset....you paid the sisters to feel reassured over contact with dead relatves.

So a mass movement started up. As you got around to the 1890s...some folks figured that there around four to ten million Spiritualists around the nation.

The Civil War?  It affected enough people....that it probably doubled the believers in a matter of ten years.

Séances got sophisticated....with table-tipping, automatic writing, spirit photography, “materializations,” and claimed messages from the dead. 

Key?  Cash was the only way to get 'service'.  Without cash, you are denied the ability to talk/converse...with the dead.

Trans?  It follows the trend.....you can't achieve trans-status...without money.  Once you get to the first level....you follow the spiritual path...convincing people to believe in the materialization that you present.

Without cash?  You can't achieve the status, and are denied recognition. Séances at some point in the 1920s/1930s....peaked out, and I'll predict trans will eventually reach a peak-out.

California-Chatter

 Californians approved a new homebuying assistance program that will let people purchase newly built homes with just 3-percent down instead of the standard 20-percent,

I paused over this.

For a decent home in the outer-Bay area....you'd need a minimum of $800,000. Under the old banking standard....they expected you to have $160,000 to finalize the loan.  New rule?  $24,000.

I asked AI for help.  He figured monthly payments at $5,270 roughly.

What idiots have this kind of money?  You'd need a monthly income of $12,000 to cover the home-loan, your car, and cost of living....figure around $140,000.  Who fits into that 'path'?

2028: Likely Senators 'Gone'

 Election cycle:

Alaska's Murkowski....likely gone.

AZ's Mark Kelly (D)....barely won the last election...likely gone.

Florida's Moody (R)...marginally won last election.  50-50 odds of winning.

Iowa's Grassley says he's running. Age?  93 (currently).  

Kentucky's Rand Paul....likely running....less popular now than four years ago.  Could be challenged in the primary.

New York's Chuck Schumer?  I think he'll give intentions of retiring, and AOC likely runs for his seat.

Ohio's Sherrod Brown?  50-50 odds.

South Dakota John Thune...has lost fair amount of popularity...might be challenged in the primary.

Ohio's Amy Action

 Look....people under stress...for weeks and weeks....will get to a point where anxiety and stress are top-level problems.  So you react...either by doing stupid crap....dosing yourself with medication....or boozing up in the middle of the day.  

In the case of Action....I'm of the mind that she was medicating more than usual. 

I watched a collection of five or six campaign stops from the last two weeks.  There's no doubt in my mind that she was influenced by 'something'.  

In the same way as Kamala Harris?   More or less....yeah.  

But I think this was a positive seen by some folks....maybe 10-percent of those who voted for Action....wanted 'drama', craziness, or weird behavior.  If you went to version 2 of yourself...saying there are 64 genders.....that God is binary/non-binary....that witchcraft plays a vital role in schools....that alien-bases exist in Tampa Bay....that 6-year-olds should be able to pick trans-lifestyles, etc.

Unlike the old days of 1970s/1980s....where something could destroy a candidate's chances, I think in 2026....it's nearly impossible for a candidate to lose voters over crazy stuff.  How we got to this level?  Mostly by Joe Biden's antics over four years, and it's pretty normal to do stupid crap these days.  

As The Smoke Clears (4 Nov 2026)

 Five observations:

First.....2027 will end being a fairly complex year where both parties are in full turmoil and unable to do anything but campaign for 2028.  

Second....I fully expect at least ten impeachment efforts....all failing....by the end of 2028.  Trump himself?  At least four.  I expect at least one effort to remove Clarence Thomas from the Supreme Court.  

Third....the Democrat ticket for 2028?  Harris/Gov Amy Action, Harris/Talarico, or Harris/El-Sayed.  I will suggest that around 20-percent of the public wants to gear the Presidency (Demo-style) to be Biden-like and having daily theatrics/drama.  

Fourth....once CNN resets itself, and CBS re-invents itself....there's no mouth-piece for politics around the clock.  2027 might be a strangely odd year where journalists ask legit questions, and forces the public to look for results.

Fifth....Census odds of starting in 2027?  I'd put it at 75-percent chance, and it'll hype the House/Senate ten times that before.

$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.

Mayflower Chatter

 In roughly five weeks....the pilgrims will have landed in America.  From the early part of 1620....they were mostly charged-up/hyped-up....with religion...to be 'free' of restraints.

So around 11 November....you have to wonder....the Captain readying the boat to take the folks over to the main-land....if reality finally hit them.  

It was the wrong time of year for 'dumping' folks off.

There's no welcome wagon, or shelter for the first week or two.

I would imagine if the Mayflower had stuck around for 3 weeks....at least half of the folks would have woke-up and asked to be carried 'home'.

Kim Jong-un Dead?

 About 3 days ago....the story started up....he'd had a health issue...went into a coma, and gotten flown into China for care....dying there (so the story goes).

Gov't of North Korea....so far....no comment.

Why?  They did publish a pic today....of a guy who looks like Kim.  Might be recent.....might be from a year ago.

If he were dead?  They need a 40-page script to detail his passing and his final hours.  His sister in charge?  Well....that's the angle of the problem.....I think the leadership wants to bypass her.

Three Observations

 1.  I watch around 30 min a day of the France riot BS.  

Just odd....it seems that the French protester crowd has some type of demand for more socialism....to resolve the mess created by the current socialism.

Someone needs to invent socialism-plus.

2.  Frank Luntz (the polling expert) did a interview and readily admits....Trump-voters, for the most part....if approached and asked about their feelings...will turn and walk away....giving no indication of how they feel.

Luntz admits....poll-folks have never encountered this problem before.  Asked to explain it....he says these people don't believe poll organizations are being 'honest'.

3.  The only difference between Russia's Putin and Stalin?  At the 30-day point of the war....where failure was obvious....Stalin would have brought in the top general of the invasion force and had him shot....repeating this every thirty days until the war was won.

The Omar Wine 'Drama'

 So it's a weird story.  I would the FBI guys on this part of the Ilhan Omar investigation are shaking their heads.

Omar and the husband....about seven years ago....start a wine company....selling one type of wine (labeled 'The Devil's Lie'). First year or two....nothing much to brag about. Sales did started to pick up.

The problem....no one can show much over actual wine (no vineyards).  They can show wine bottles procured....wine boxes shipped.  But liquids such as wine.

It just appears to be a money-laundering operation....where someone had cash but no way to move it.   So they bought empty wine bottles (of value).

The other end of this story?  Well....you have to start wondering about a lot of wine companies in California....if they run fake wine sales....to help laundry money?

Case now involving the husband too?  Yeah....oddly, he's a participant in the mess.  

Q-and-A: NO KINGS?

 1.  What's the best way to defeat kings at any level?

2nd Amendment....guns and bullets.  

2.  When the news media shows images of the NO KINGs protest...what do you see?

White folks (probably 99-percent).....majority of women (60-percent)....half the crowd being over age 50.

3.  Reasoning to hype NO KINGs right now?

Election in 3 weeks....to get people in some thrilled state of mind.

4.  Chief chatter of a interviewed NO KINGs guy/gal?

Get Trump.  Oddly....it revolves around this....Trump this....Trump that.

5.  Has there been other NO KINGs movements?

If you go back to the Andrew Jackson period....YES.  Oddly, this was created by the Whig Party (the Republicans), and it solidified the party 'brand'.  

You can also review the Lincoln and FDR periods....to find lesser movements/success. Lincoln's NO KINGs element was created by southern Democrats....while FDR's were Republican in nature.

6.  Is there a public perception problem?

If you had a hundred adults at some protest and asked them to name one king (other than Trump)....Five or six would probably name King Herrod (Jesus period)....with a dozen suggesting that Hitler/Mussolini both were kings.  At least 20 folks would name King Kong.   At least one would name King Louie....the  orangutan “king” of the jungle in The Jungle Book.  And at least five would name Aerys II Targaryen (who was known as the “Mad King”), from Game of Thrones.

7.  Will the NO KINGs crowd cross over.....as Trump leaves, and be anti-Rubio/anti-Vance?

I would require three shots of bourbon to ponder this idea.  In the case of Rubio and his humor....he'd likely announce himself in some king-role....with a baseball hat designed as a crown.  Cubans would go crazy over the 'brand'.

Just An Odd Thought Over Ilhan Omar's Brother-Marriage

 When 'dad' and the family arrived in the US....this 'brother (Elmi) was not listed as a family member (1995).

This brother-story pops up later....Feb 2009 (ten years after Ilhan enters the US (she's now late 20s).

I think 'dad' talked Ilhan into a family favor....after he tried to suggest/sell the idea of Elmi being his son (maybe he had NO relationship to 'dad' or Ilhan)....that failed.  So the cranked-up paperwork marriage was the next step.

Why Ilhan can't really admit any of this?  Well....lot of papers were signed in a fraudulent way.....by 'dad', Ilhan, and Elmi.  

Another odd piece to this...if Elmi were a actual brother....there's thousands of Somalia women around by 2009, from which he could have just paid one of them with a green-card to marry....instead of the sister.

Five Things I Wonder About

 1.  Kimberly Guilfoyle, former US Ambassador to Greece.  I wonder if she spends 40 hours a week.....buying worthless crap with credit cards, and trying to hype-up sexually some dimwit guy to pay for the crap bought.  Then I wonder....what idiot on the Trump team suggested this job for her?

2.  I wonder (on next Sunday) if this NFL game scheduled in Paris will occur, and the mostly alternate site (I suspect Frankfurt).  

3.  I wonder if anyone from the NBA....is watching WNBA games, and statistically counting turning-the-ball over, or traveling.  I wonder if the violations per game....of the two sloppy habits...exceeds 100 on average.

4.  I wonder if Ilhan Omar is possibly NOT related to the brother or the father.

5.  I wonder about the French-riot-'kids', and if they are of such a low IQ....that education isn't really necessary.

Five Things I've Noticed

 1. Ilhan Omar's lawyer has demanded her cellphone and passport back.  Oddly, some BS story has started up....that she has at least two 'other' passports (suggesting they aren't US or Somalia)....I give the story marginal belief.

2.  Just odd....six months ago....it was allowed for criticism of Sydney Sweeney’s slutty clothing ad.  So this gym-slutty outrage started up.  Apparently, commenting on slutty clothing is acceptable until the wrong person does it.

3.  German public TV hyped up the 'NO-KINGs' protest from Saturday.  So, if you go nationally....there were two or three successful 'showings', and another forty-odd showings that were planned...marginally had anyone to show up.  Lack of USAID-funding?  Makes you wonder.  But Germans have the impression that 'NO KINGs' was highly successful.

4.  I watched the highlights of the first game of the WNBA finals....crap basketball....traveling on a massive scale....poor play.  

5.  Kinda funny.

Some reporter yesterday asked Hakeem Jeffries: “Will the Congress under your leadership bring back the [illegal aliens] deported to third countries?”

Watching the reaction....Jeffries nods 'yes'.

So every guy/gal sent 'home'....would be brought back.  If you dig deep enough....even airline tickets would be bought....to help bring them back.

My Ilham Omar 'Crazy' Scenarios

 This past week....with a lot of pondering....I've come to three possible 'crazy' scenarios:

First, if the DoJ goes to bank transfers over ten years.....it would not surprise me if she moved over $10-million out of the US to various off-shore accounts.  Where the money came from....will be investigated.....where the money went....will be investigated.  In some funny way...I see the RICO Act being used a good bit....treating her like mafia-player. 

Second, while on paper....the brother-sister marriage might be suggested....I'm more likely to believe that the 'brother' is a guy who hooked-up to the family and has no legit brother-status.  

Third, it's entirely possible that Omar just walks away, and never appears in public again.  If you had a stash of ten-million in cash and a good head-start....I think I'd head to the Dominican Republic or isle....get a condo set-up and live off the ten-million.

Bar Exam BS

 I asked AI (Grok).....how many law degree folks NEVER pass the bar?  

AI says it's around 8-to-12 percent (depending on the state).

At some point in my Air Force career....I worked under a junior officer who'd done a law degree, and failed twice on the bar.  His plan 'B'?  After a brief talk with the Air Force recruitment folks....he signed up and became a intel-officer.  

I asked how the four years of instruction were....compared to the bar exam.  His belief?  He was mostly focused on grades, and never really diving deep into what the bar exam was about.  Maybe if the school had spent the last year....talking bar exam study/facts.....things would be different.  

I paused over this....thinking.....if I ran some college law school, and statistics showed 30-to-40 percent of graduates failed the bar exam the first time around....I might be worried about the value of the school and it's teachings.  

Where Is Ilhan Omar?

 Since the early part of the week, with the raid on her property....no one has seen Omar.

Some indicators say that she got 'warned' at least two or three hours prior to the raid.

My belief?  I think she had a duffle-bag of cash (say a million or more) ready to go, and simply left....not intending to show up again.

Trans-Nazi?

I sat this AM for an hour....reading through this Chicago arrest.

So....what you have is a 19-year old local Chicago kid....in a trans-status....who happens to also be a neo-Nazi (I'm not sure what the neo really means anymore)....detained for allegedly plotting a Hindu temple shooting.

Court hearing determined that he is on some cross-sex hormones....then they determined that they had to support continuing the injections while in jail-custody.

Fact that no one died?  It was simply in a planning stage?  Yeah

Twenty years ago....it would have been a simple case...with him dealing a situation down to ten years of prison.  Today?  I'm guessing a judge will send him off for mental-evel....and recommending a 'stay' at some state mental unit...for at least a year.

Locals commentary?  Well...you can tell that even Demo-voters are asking stupid questions.  

Odds of Nazis even distancing themselves from the trans-stuff?

My Eight Problems With The Alien/UAP/UFO Stuff

 1.  If you jus kept this simple and disclosed one single alien group, and three or four bases (maybe one on the moon)....I could accept this.  If you made this into a 800-page document....twenty different races.....500 bases spread across the globe, the moon, and Mars....I'd have a problem.

2.  If you indicate that you lured and 'blasted' several UFOs...killing forty-odd aliens since 1947....yeah, I'd have a problem.

3.  If you indicate that more than 300,000 patents exist with companies that you shared technology out to....yeah, I've got a problem.

4.  If you indicate that both the Chinese and Russians have more alien-tech...I've got questions.

5.  If you reveal that 60,000 hybrid alien-kids were born to kidnapped American women....yeah, I got a problem.

6.  If you say that 40,000 hybrid-alien-humans are living within fifty states....quietly....I've got questions.

7.  If you lay out that cattle mutilations are aliens in need of cattle-blood for preserving their bodies...I've got questions

8.  If you say two of the alien groups are active in some type of 'war', and that the US has supplied 10,000 soldiers for one group.....I've got questions.

Five Observations

 1. This Ilhan Omar stuff?  Between the brother-marriage, possible money-laundering, and substantial income that might-or-might not exist....she's got a complicated case.  The added trouble...this money-laundering stuff might extend out to forty-odd individuals, and any of them....might roll-over and give evidence to some grand-jury.

2.  Bernie Sanders came out this week with a new proposal...ban all SUPER-INTELLIGENCE.

To be honest, if you asked him to define this....I doubt that he has any idea what it means.

3.  New poll....less than 50-percent of Americans polled....say they trust a vote 'count'.  For Dem chatter in the future....this is a rough thing to explain to regular people.

4.  On my list of 20,000 things to worry about.....women dressing slutty at the gym....probably ranks near 19,988.  Same with women dressed in pajamas while flying.

5.  I'm at a point where I think 50-percent of comedians....aren't that funny, and should prepare to be replaced by AI.  

Alien Chatter

 Jay Stratton’s memoir 'Out of the Shadows' came out this week.....mostly centered on telling his story of aliens/non-human intelligent. I'd describe Jay as a scientist/key player in the gov't 'control' of the tech stuff.

Worth watching: Fox Interview with Jay from Monday night: Watch Here.

My ten takes of the book, interview and humble thoughts?

1.  It's hard to find any time/any interview....where Jay BS's people.  So when he says 'we are not alone'....you can bank on the idea.  When he says there is non-human intelligent life, and interacting on Earth....yeah, it's like true.

2.  Why hidden away with this non-human intelligence?

I've pondered over this a good bit and come to the conclusion that they (the non-humans)....are on the 'run' from something and Earth is a hide-out of sorts.  From what?  Unknown.  You don't establish bases of operation for temp viewing of humans.

3.  Jay pretty much confirms....the two crashes in 1947, and that recovery of two vehicles occurred. Roswell, and Aztec.

4.  Jay confirms that the gov't (through their contractors) has possession (as of 2026) of a dozen vehicles.  

What Jay doesn't say....if China, Russia and others have vehicles as well.  

If I were guessing...China, Russia, the Mossad, and likely five or six other country have 'something' that crashed as well.

I'm also of the mind that tech-companies on their own...have gone to retrieve craft, and they probably aren't totally honest over possession numbers....meaning the gov't count of 12....isn't totally reliable. 

5.  Reverse-engineering?  

The gov't probably has a idea of x-number of projects going on, and the tech-companies are likely not being honest on the amount of reverse-engineering....with dozens (if not hundreds) of projects brewing.

6.  Some fear of a 'cold-war' brewing with China and Russia on the reverse-engineering?

Yeah, I'd say someone is fairly worried.

But then I wonder....wouldn't the aliens now be worried at the progress being made?

7.  Jay's account of the 1947 crash, where the aliens were still alive but died mostly after refusing food provided by the friendly Army folks?

I've pondered over this.  Based on size/shape....the Grey guys likely burn no more than 300 calories per 24-hour cycle, and their existence is probably based on a milk-shake type 'diet'....so whatever was offered for food....was not going to be accepted.  

8.  The intentions are unknown?

Jay sums it up....so far...no one has a clear idea of the intentions of the non-human folks.  Maybe it's friendly....maybe it's a experiment.  You just don't know.

9.  The folks at the top?  You get the feeling that there's five or six American folks who run the ultra-secret business, and each thinks they have an idea of what is going on.  You figure up the tech companies....there's probably forty other folks, and then you figure the Russian/Chinese folks....there's probably 200 'bosses' on Earth who believe they run/control things.

10.  So you start to think over tech advances since the 1950s....stuff like Alexa or fiber-optic stuff.

Is Alexa 'controlled' by us....or by alien-connections?  

Five Predictions

 1.  Before 1 January 2027....Representative Ilhan Omar, crosses the border into Canada....to escape prosecution.  Canada grants asylum in the end.

2.  Throughout 2027....Kamala Harris makes speeches and appearances....appearing to be a top candidate for the Presidential-run in 2028.  I'll predict she appears in Iowa at least three times, with most Iowa Democrats peppy over her 'talks'.

3.  Horse-drawn carriages in NY City....ends in 2027.

4.  Trump renames the CIA by the end of 2027.

5.  Some new trend starts up in 2027....where 50-year old women are marrying up 18-year-old guys straight out of high school.  By the peak....summer of 2028....more than 10,000 marriages are noted. 

Six Things I've Come To Believe

 1.  Out of every 1,000 jobs in America....maybe 100 require 4-plus years of college.  PhD-level of the 1,000....maybe 10 folks.  We ought to close down half of the four-degree colleges in the nation.

2.  If you asked a 1000 folks who claim they regularly watch WNBA action...why?  At least thirty-percent will say they watch it for hits/fouls on women, and fifty-percent of the female viewers will say they are attracted to LG-attractive women.  

3.  If you asked folks to define a woman....the ones who can't give you an answer....probably are 99-percent Demo in their politics.

4.  Aliens, in general, are so consumed with boredom....that watching Earth folks....particularly crazies....entertains them greatly.

5.  About 50-percent of the tech-crap now put into cars....is beyond the handling ability of half the nation.

6.  I believe half the nation has no ability to handle credit cards, and you are making their lives miserable...if you give a guy a card with $10,000 on it.

Ambassador Debt?

 Trump's ambassador to Greece....is on the possible firing position....mostly over asking some guy (rich-enough) to pay off her (the ambassador) credit card debt ($100,000 apparently).  This was all done before the Senate approval.  I get the impression....the cleared debt was a problem but if it disappeared....she got the job).  

Did Trump know any of this?  No.  Nor do I think the 'gal' wanted to detail this stupidity. 

What she was paying month-by-month to just tread 'water'?  I asked AI....it was in the $2,000 range....meaning you weren't gaining on the debt issue.

What'd she buy with the debt?  Unknown....maybe shoes...maybe scented candles...maybe lipstick....maybe a whole lux-day at some spa.

I worked with a female contractor about 25 years ago....who over a ten-year period....spent recklessly, and had about $60,000 in card debt.  She had to spend $1,000 monthly....to tread 'water'.  Solution?  She volunteered for a Afghanistan contractor job....paying in the $220,000 range for a year.  She figured this would reset her problems, and she'd be free.  What she'd admit....about half of the debt was car repairs and dental bills.

Trump 'helping' the gal?  He probably figured four years of ambassador duty and low-cost Greek luxury living....would be a plus-up.  Not knowing about the debt?  Usually, you don't ask stupid questions over a guy/gal's debt issues.  

What she needs now?  Some ultra-rich Greek guy stepping up and marrying her....if you ask me.

Oregon Chatter

 This AM....I read through a piece....Oregon adults have the highest rate of mental illness in the US at 31.6-percent.  Roughly...if you met 20 Oregon adults today....at least six have a 'problem'.  

What I noticed....they were careful not to suggest levels....like crazy-crazy....or OCD-consumed....or hallucinating over aliens/UFOs....or pretending-to-be-Donald-Trump....or pretending to be 'invisible'. 

Most folks in Alabama will swear up and down....that we carry the bulk of the load on mental illness with adults.  This was probably true in the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s.  Oddly enough....by the 1970s....we were losing the 'race' and the population of crazy folks were on a serious decline.  Alabamians attribute this to three things: Crazies moving to California....drugs becoming available to lessen craziness, and fewer folks bragging or hyping up their level of craziness (mostly to avoid being sent off to the state facility).

Do Oregonian folks realize the level of mental illness?  I'm not that sure about it. Most folks have a daily habit of cannabis/weed, and it probably lessens the shock-value.

Should we (the other 49 states) do anything about this issue?  I'm of the mind....as long as it's staying in the state....don't spread out the problem.  If it goes up to around 50-percent of adults?  That might change my mind.

Attire Trend?

 I watched the Shane Gillis clip from the past weekend's SNL show.....where he got into a comedian-talk over females at the gym....dressing trashy/whorish.

Apparently, it's gotten folks hyped up (well....mostly women).

My thoughts?  In the 1990s....my military days....I used to go over to the gym twice a week.  In those days....everyone (men/women) wore regular gym clothing.  There was nothing trashy/slutty.

Around 2014, in retirement status....my German wife hyped-up that we needed to stay in shape....so we joined a German fitness 'club' (in a upscale neighborhood of Wiesbaden).  

It's a odd membership....I'd say that 60-percent are over the age of 50, with 20-percent in the age 16 to 20.  Men to women?  Maybe 60-percent male.....40-percent female.  

Older gals dressing trashy/slutty?  NO. 

The 16-to-20 gals?  Well....there's probably five or six that I would note as approaching slutty/trashy....but it's not serious.  

Shane isn't wrong....there's just a group of women (probably in the ten-percent range) who flaunt their body/looks.  If guys were dressing this way (trashy/whorish).....women would probably go and say something or openly criticize the 'look'.

Where all of this is leading?  I'll predict that most fitness operations have a women-only night....at least once a week....to help the whorish-attire women feel comfortable.   

Bottom Line On Talarico?

 Until yesterday, I didn't know the health aspects of the Texas candidate for Senator...namely....he has diabetes.  One of the oddball things about diabetes....you end up with a sugar-level that goes up and down....on rare occasions triggering hallucinations. You might be working with such a gal, and note on rare occasions....they imagine things that simply haven't occurred.

Stress on a diabetes guy/gal?  Well....it's likely to trigger such a event more often.  

I'm not anti-Talarico....but I don't see this job as being a good health factor, and it's likely to turn into some Jesus-factor....where he hallucinates something, and the Dem-voters say it's real....when it's a hallucination.

Every time he cites something as real and radical....you'd have to ask the guy for a sugar-level test.  

Eight Humble Thoughts

 1.  Over the past thirty-odd years....I've come to assess folks that I bump-into or have to deal with....on a IQ-level....is the guy/gal 'DIM' or 'bright'.  Statistically over a year?  I probably have to deal a minimum of twenty 'DIM' folks.

2.  It's just odd...since 2016....when I start hearing a speech of doom, despair and gloom....I'm eyeballing a particular political party.  I didn't feel that way in the 1980s/1990s. I can't seem to figure out why they believe it's uplifting or feeling-good.

3. Each month that passes....I get this impression that US universities are run by IQ-lacking folks....who seem to 'sell' a worthless degree.

4.  With all the hurricane chatter of the past week....one almost gets the impression that Alabama folks had never experienced a hurricane in their lives.

5.  Oddly, it seems like that various states have a ultra-negative hype about AI-centers....while drug-neighborhoods in the same states....are 'blessed'.

6.  It's just odd...you can hand a plain Bible to one-hundred enthusiasts.....with the group coming to one-hundred variations of religion.

7.  The Trump-Russia-Putin-diesel saga....is bait...for someone....to fall into a trap.  But you'd have to read through 700 pages of strategy BS to see the angle.

8.  Just my humble belief....99-percent of aliens visiting Earth....are hyped-up to watch and understand Trump.  They stand around and discuss his strategy and thinking...with other aliens.

If You Put Me In Charge Of Fixing Major League Baseball (My 10 Suggestions)

 1.  I'd limit the regular season to 148 games...allowing one off-day every 10 days.  Naturally, it'd lessen your pay by 5-to-8 percent.

2.  I'd have a rule....no multi-year contracts past 3 years.

3.  Home-plate umpire....gone.  Replaced by AI.  

4.  At the end of the 7th inning, if one team is 6 runs ahead....the game ends.  

5.  Experiment with the idea of 6 games at a destination site...meaning 5 days and one double-header. 

6.  Allow aluminum bats.

7.  If you get to a 2-strike/3-ball count, and foul-off 3 consecutive balls....you get a 'free' ball.....and 'walk' to 1st base.

8.  If you have a road-trip and the next game is less than 500 miles away....you have to make the trip by bus (not plane).

9.   Study the idea of putting three pro-clubs into Mexico City, Havana, and Caracas.

10.  Accept the idea that the Dodgers (over the next 20 years) will win the WS at least 12 times.

StarGate Chatter

 For about five years, there's been hype that StarGate will be brought back.  About six months ago....that suggestion crashed and burned.  This week....Amazon went and said they'd hired a new producer.....Jan Schaeffer.....the WandaVision creator to develop Stargate.

For those who might remember WandaVision....it was a dead-end production.

Yeah....so fans of Stargate are fairly negative.

About eight months ago....I went back to season one of Stargate, and have been watching three to five episodes a week. I'm up to season nine presently.

Five observations over the series:

1.  Up to season season season seven ending....it made sense.  Season eight development with he stupid 'Ori' characters....was a bunch of BS.  I'll just say it....season 8 and 9 are marginally worth viewing. 

2.  If the gate were real.....it'd be in the Area-51 region....NOT the 'Mountain'.

3.  The success of StarGate was it built itself into a 50-percent drama....50-percent humor.

4.  The WandaVision crew likely making the team into a LGBTQ thing?  Very likely.

5.  If you were looking for pure science fiction.....seasons one to seven are worth watching.

Major League Baseball 'Agenda'

 There's talks scheduled after the World Series....to open up 'change'.  

Chief issue/problem?  Decline in doubles/triples noted.  I checked the numbers (say over 30 years)....doubles are down by probably 4-percent, and triples down by 30-to-35 percent. 

Reason?  Nothing obvious.  Some suggest that players today are more injury-prone.  Some suggest that 'rifle-arms' of outfielders are hampering running style.  Some suggest defensive positioning has improved.

So what does the MLB intend to do?  Well....'spots'.

They would put a circle (probably eight-foot) in a central point of the outfield for each of the three folks....telling them that they must be in the circle....before the pitcher can pitch.  So the left-fielder might be 40 feet away from where he normally would be positioned. The idea is.....he'd fail to catch the ball, and have to run....to recover the ball.

Crazy-talk?  Well....lot of folks are suggesting this.

History to this?  If you go back to the 1960s/1970s.....a fair number of outfielders were chunky/over-weight, and couldn't run that gracefully....so the doubles/triples went to some significant point.  We accepted that as a 'normal' number after a while.

Consequences to come?  I'm of the mind that if you really put spots on the field.....you might start to see 11-to-8 scores as a normal thing.  Chances of no-hitters? I would imagine those no-hit games would be finished.  

DC and Robo-Taxis?

 It came up this week in DC....that some company is asking for permission to run robo-taxi service.

Naturally, there is a pro-robo group and anti-rob group.

My bet?  The city council will assign some commission and try to delay it....maybe for several years.  

Odd factor?  Well....they are only asking for DC permission....not Virginia or Maryland.  So if you tasked robo to serve you....it's only to get from one part of DC....to another part.

People entering....having to show a credit card?  Yeah, that's probably part of the story....NO cash.

Gen-Z Folks Exiting California?

Well....yes.  I read through several items this week, and the key one....Census-based data....show California Gen-Zers are exiting the state.

This goes to a LendingTree analysis of 2024 American Community Survey data....saying around 58,109 Gen Z adults (roughly ages 18–27 that year)....left.  Most going to Texas.

Trigger?  Affordability....they can't afford housing in California.

Then taxes got brought up.

Finally....job opportunities.

This brings me to a odd pondering....would there be a need to have a Gen-Z category (Westies for California Zers) and Tex-ers (for Texas Zers)?  I have this odd feeling that the two groups will not be of the same Z-mentality.

I Voted This Past Week

 Absentee......of course.  Things worked as advertised....Alabama has a pretty simple method.  

So toward the end....came ballot measures, and it got pretty crazy.  There are two odd measures listed.

First being....if you vote 'yes'....the state gives each board (of each county) the power to require the Pledge of Allegiance to start the school-day.  

The second being....if you vote 'yes'....the state gives each board (of each county) to 'sing' the National Anthem. 

I paused over both.

Probably up to the fifth grade (1960s)....my rural Alabama school had a prayer and the Pledge.  That kinda went away by the 6th grade.

If you went up to individual adults (over the age of 40)....probably two-thirds of Alabama folks would say the Pledge should be mandated.  Oddly, if you ask about NPR-listening or CNN-viewing....probably 90-percent of folks are likely anti-Pledge and anti-Anthem.

I'm mostly anti-singing (in-general).....not against the Anthem itself.  It'd be the same if you asked me to sing some Johnny Cash tune, or Achy Breaky Heart.  If someone has a voice....fine.  But the majority of folks....even at age 12....can't sing.

Where this is going to lead onto?  I think the Pledge agenda will pass (maybe 60-40)....but most school boards will simply require it cited once a week.  The Anthem business?  I don't think it will pass (45-55).

Five Observations

 1.  Part of this buy-Russian-diesel story....relates to massive negativity about US refinery operations (lessening numbers), and Russia doesn't have this problem.  

2.  Anthropic (the AI folks) have said rogue AI agents tried to gain access to US government sites.  Access?  Meaning they tried to fill out a page?

3.  My thoughts on the Fort Hood shooter execution being public?  If you meant just you could be at the site and watch....no problem.  Televised?  I'm not sure it accomplishes much of anything.  You end up with some nutcase-Muslim-guy in a wheel-chair....uttering 'Allah-Akbar' over and over....then shot dead.  To be honest....he should have been executed at least ten years ago....delaying it was crap.

4. This week....Warren Buffett gave a talk....he believes we’re living in a golden age, even if many people don’t grasp it.  Everything, from travel to food....to banking and clothing....all better than it was 150 years ago.  

Then Buffett spoke up.....that human nature makes us focus on what’s wrong, and politics often amplifies that dissatisfaction.  He has a valid point.

5.  I watch about 30 min of Caleb Hammer's podcast per week....financial wiz who takes apart people's screw-up's.  In most cases....I'd say the IQ level of folks on his podcast....are 80 to 90, and some bank or financial institution was stupid enough to loan them $100,000.  

My Talarico-Missing Theory

 I think the Texas candidate got stressed out, and some buddy/doctor....gave him some anxiety medication...which reacted a fairly negative way.  A day or two passed....getting him cleaned-up, and offered up a different medication....which went badly as well.

Hurting his campaign to 'disappear'?  Hardcore Dem's will say no way.

Five Observations

 1.  You starting to notice 14,000 models of hurricane movement?  It seems like every single weather guy has his/her own modeling crap.  

2.  Iran says....they have super-secret voice recordings of Trump....begging for peace.  AI-productions?  Probably.  But this would only get Trump hyped-up....to produce AI-productions of the Mullahs on drugs, talking BS, or chatty over gay-stuff.

3.  Single day admission to Disney-World?  $229....per adult....per day.  Toss in food/beverages....probably another $150 for the day.  What couple would go and spend that kind of money?

4.  If the Ala-Geo football game is played on Saturday?  Based on wind....it's a runner's game.

5.  There's roughly 1.1 residents in America....listed under ObamaCare programs....without social security numbers.  The gov't here in 2026....eliminated the group deal.

Poverty-Enthusiasts

 Over the past ten years, I've come to notice a fair number of politicians/activists/propagandists....who openly brag in some way of having grown up in poverty (sometimes trying to give you the impression of ultra-poverty (if there was such a thing)).  

My German wife reached a point last year...where she suggested I was overly-chatty on growing up in Alabama (1960s/1970s) poverty.

Popular hype now?  I would imagine that thirty-percent of Americans...over the age of fifty....claim some type of poverty.  Some elements might be true.....but it's about half-way fraudulent in nature.

People who bought coffee in the 1970s...probably paid a quarter at best....while today, they stop at some premium shop to pay $4.75 for a XXL-cup of marginal premium coffee.  

Some people will relate how they used to go to the theater....with $7 to get a ticket, medium-Coke, and small pop-corn....while today, they pay around $25 for the same experience.

Some former military folks will openly brag of the days at the enlisted club....$1-pitchers-of-beer on Friday after work....while the same pitcher today....would be $5.99. 

This all brings me to wonder.....the folks who grew in the 1920s/1930s....were they ultra-ultra poverty enthusiasts?

Q-and-A

 1.  Are Alabamians aware that the northern quarter of the state is part of Appalachia?  

It's one of the 300,000 facts they were told at some point about....but most don't give a damn.  It's not like something they brag about.

2.  Is there any possibility that from among these 300-odd data-centers across the globe being planned/built....that aliens may have a cable or two leading in, and planting accidental discoveries for humans to find?

Well....you know....some PhD folks probably wonder about data and if maybe is just a 'cover' for the aliens.

3.  Any truth to the idea that Iran is hoping for a big Democratic win in November to halt Trump's evil plans?

Shockingly....Demo's are seen as a 'hero' to the Mullahs.  

4.  Somalian gangs in the US....possibly triggering 'warfare'?

Minnesota-wise.....if you polled locals....I'm guessing near 50-percent of adults wonder about this.

5.  Any chance of a mental disease...if you are overly concerned about toilet-paper-being-over, or toilet-paper-being-under?

If it matters to you....you probably have TPDS (toilet-paper derangement syndrome).

6.  If the Census folks fail to count the 18-million non-Americans.....is it a big deal?

If you follow the news via CNN or NPR....it's doom-and-despair.  

7.  France riots?

I follow this daily....probably 60 minutes of observations, and have come to realize.....it's mostly a third-world tribalism rage.....against French civilization.  When they do interview with the riot folks....they seem to be mostly 12-year-old mentality.

8.  With all the hype over gender-BS....can't there be a crowd who wants fake intellectual transformation....where you have a IQ-index of 60 to 80, and have some fake way of convincing people you are 100 to 120?

To be honest, since the 1990s, I think there's a trans-intellectual movement going on....where people have some fake college BS (maybe even PhD-level fakeness), and they simply want you to buy off on this fake-Elon type of reality.

9.  Tennessee considering other execution options?

Well....if you follow the Pike episode....yeah, Republicans in the state want a perfect method of execution in the future.  Personally.....hanging is about as perfect as you can go.

10.  Chris Christie still trying to compare himself to 1980's Ronald Reagan?

Yeah....a sort of 50-50 Reagan-Clinton type character from NJ.  Out of a 100 Republican group....maybe three buy into his BS.  

Texas Chatter

 This past week, some fed-judge ordered by the end of 2029.....Texas state prisons must provide air conditioning for the prisons.

I paused over this.

He doesn't say who pays for it....nor how the monthly electrical cost will be covered.  The structures geared to 'add' AC?  I would imagine just a survey would require 12 months minimum.  

Forty-nine other states?  Not required (yet).

Where this came from?  Well....from 2023 to 2025....there's nine inmates who got dehydrated and passed away.  If you went back to 2000?  There's probably forty additional folks.

Electrical bills doubling (minimum) for the prison system?  I would imagine so.  

Ten Things I Wonder About

 First, when the Tennessee prison folks realized they couldn't execute this Pike gal.....they hustle her up to a ambulance...driving her to some hospital.  Well....in dealing with any hospital these days....there's CODES to be typed up as you enter.

Is there a code for attempted execution?

Then I kinda wonder....is the state paying for hospital care....while they later have to attempt a second execution?

Second, Steve Bannon....noted Bush-enthusiast...did a interview with Vanity Fair and uttered:  “Having Gavin Newsom as president wouldn’t be the worst thing in the world,”

I'm kinda wondering....with his mindset....what would be worse?

Third, I'm in preparation mode for April 2027 trip to Japan, and among the 14,000 things I'm getting orientated upon....there's this toilet issue.

Apparently, some Japanese places have ultra-modern toilets....with like a dozen menu 'buttons'.  Some, as stated....throw misty air at  your butt....some spray heavy-duty water at your butt.

I'm just wondering where this idea of techno-toilets came from?

Fourth, after you think about it....isn't it odd...in Islamic states....there are no transexuals?

Fifth, Nike's financial spiral (value of the company)....has me wondering....if some Chinese investment group ends up buying them?

Sixth, I was reading police/crime data this weekend, and the homicide rate of black women came up.  So the factual data shows.....91-percent of all black women homicides, are caused by black men.  Eight-percent of the black female homicides, are caused by black women.  So....just one-percent are caused by either unknown situations, or white guys/gals.  

I sat there wondering....if we got Trump to issue pistol checks (say to $400)....only to black women....could we change the statistical data and save some black women?

Seventh, ever since the Presidential-run of VP Kamala Harris....I've had this mindset to listen to Democratic candidates....from any office run.  With this 'filter' mentality....I'm realizing that about 20-percent of the candidates (men and women)....are whacked up on either drugs or booze.  I'm wondering...since the 1980s....what really happened to American politics?

Eighth, I'm one of those folks on Medicare (over age 65), and on plan B coverage (hefty amount, monthly).....so I'm destined shortly to get a Trump-check for $90.

While waiting on a toilet-situation this AM....I spent ten minutes wondering....what the hell should I do with the $90?  

Ninth, it came up in the past week....the Georgia Election Board has asked DoJ to examine electronic voting machines.  At this stage....unless Elon's crew were doing it....it's a bit too late.  But lets ask the question...if Elon's crew spent two hours and found a dozen corrupted issues....could the state of Georgia FIX the November election in time?  

I generally believe....Elon would step in and fix it...by election day.

Tenth....is socialism designed to be a failure...intentionally?  From day one of discussion....was it crapped-up on purpose?  

Three Stories I Followed Over The Weekend

 First, it does appear now....that Tennessee death-row inmate....Christa Pike....probably  'may not fully recover' after botched execution (her lawyer's words).

How far this recovery phase may last?  No one says much.....but I get the impression....they don't want to repeat the episode, and if she were to linger 12 years in some hospital unit....state leadership wouldn't mind.  

Just odd how this plays out.

Second, this Vienna, Georgia shooting over the weekend....has a lot of folks in the south concerned.  Whoever fired off the 50 rounds....if the cops figure out who was involved....life-sentences will be handed out.  

Three,  plague-chatter....way beyond belief.  

Wife-Material Checklist (2026)

Over the weekend, I observed on Twitter....some guy writing a short list of characteristics that you need for a wife in 2026. He listed: Doesn't have a penis, won't kill your kids, and not considered a whore.

Being from Alabama (1960s/1970s)....I pondered over the list a while....thinking it's not really complete.

Ten things that I would add?

1.  Shouldn't owe $80,000 on college debt. (To be honest....even $40,000 of college debt would bother me.)

2.  If she can name all of the Kardashian family members....that's probably a no-go.

3.  If she has a recently bought NEW car, and still has six years of $800 monthly payments....that's probably a no-go.

4.  If she has disappeared completely for seven days in the last year....with no explanation or reasoning for where she went or what she did....that's a hard no-go.

5.  I'm open to beach-walks, but if it means 6-mile walks around Dauphin Island (Ala) in mid-July heat, it's probably a no-go. 

6.  If she talks about CNN host folks....as if they were Jesus's Apostles....it's probably a no-go.

7.  If she keeps the list of 107 quotes from Kamala Harris handy, and utters a quote several times a week....that's a no-go.

8.  If she dresses whorish once or twice a year....it's acceptable.  Three times a week....that's probably a no-go (I might delete this one).

9.  If she follows tornado-alerts....minute-by-minute, and keeps a active list of storm-shelters...I might ask questions.

10.  If she consumes a case of beer (minimum) per week, that's a ify-situation.

My 'Debanking' Story

 Back around 13 years ago....I held a investment portfolio account (I won't say the company's name, but it's a top five 'player').  

I had my account listed with a APO address (since living Germany retired).  

One day....I had a email from the organization....saying I had 30 days to close my account. No reason given.  I spent around three hours that afternoon....trying to establish WHY I was being 'debanked'.  The five or six individuals I ended up talking to...could not readily explain the situation.

So, I thought...this is a IT-support problem....so I used their contact number there.  The IT-guy (American) took one look at the file, and in 20 seconds explained....the company had adapted to a ONLY-US-address situation.  Beyond that....he could not fix or resolve the mess.

The APO address?  Treated like a German-state.  

It took about an hour to find a financial organization that was military-friendly, and ten minutes to open an account.  The debanking company?  I left with no problems/issues.  I actually left with 10 cents left in the account.

The odd thing....still today....monthly, from the debanking crew....I get a email monthly about my account being  'open' with ten cents of value in it.  

One Odd Thing About The Chatter Of Aliens/UAPs And Doom-AI

 Over the past month or two.....I've watched probably sixty news reports on German TV (commercial and public)...concerning the great approaching DOOM of AI. I would say...about 90-percent are pretty negative and leading a typical German to fear AI.  

At the same time....I've watched about twenty to thirty US podcasts/interviews....over aliens/UAPs.  

So, I've come to this odd prospective....IF AI were filled with doom/despair/threats....the alien folks (the Greys, the Nordics, the Insect-people)....would all be hooked up and in the same threat/despair mentality.  But you don't get that impression.

Something here....makes no sense.

If AI were on some 'wild-ride'....it'd be like a Borg episode off Star Trek. AI-Borgs would exist along side of the Nordic or Grey folks.  But you notice....they don't seem to have any AI hooked-up.

The wildest scenario?  Maybe this doom-despair idea....is bogus.  Or the alien/UAP scenario is bogus.  

Three Thoughts

 1.  It's reached stage where I turn on Fox, MSNBC, or CNN.....where you got a four-person panel, and you feel like it's either propaganda-hour in the old Soviet Union, or some WWE-wrestling highlight chat.

2.  McDonalds came out this week to deny (in strong wording) that AI has NOTHING to do with pricing of products.  They swear that there's some guy/gal (probably named Becky or Timmy).  The problem is...if you got Becky or Timmy to talking....they'd both admit they get it from some E-mail source name Calvin or Delores....who seem to be quiet intelligent.

3.  Number of financial lawyers in Minneapolis are handling a increase in bankruptcy paperwork....which oddly....relates mostly to Somali folks who for five to ten years....were taking in a million-plus in 'profits' for some fake company....on a US gov't fraud situation.

So....the Somali folks can't really show any money left (broke).

What'd they do with the money?  No one can say.  It's like they dug a hole and just threw the money....as fast as it came in...into the 'pit'.

Five Observations

 1.  2026 Braves are the first team I've ever seen with one 5-star starting pitcher, and one single 4-star relief pitcher....with the rest of the staff marginal 2-to-2.5 star in capability.  The only thing keeping them in the mix....they can score runs.

2.  I've watched probably a dozen podcasts over the past month....over aliens/UAPs.

Oddly, I'm about 70-percent convinced that the Grey-aliens and the Reptilians are probably not agreeable if they were to meet in some alien bar.

3.  Very obvious that diesel production in Iran is almost null and void.....so unless they sneak the stuff in from Pakistan....truck and tractor traffic in a matter of 10 to 20 days will be zero.

4.  The hoodlums in France are doing everything possible to convince the public to vote for extreme far right.

5.  Just odd.....fed-employees numbers...lowest in 60 years, and no one really notices any problems.

My Thoughts Over The Christa Pike Execution Attempt

 I've probably spent 90 minutes this past couple of days....looking over the state attempt to execute Pike.

I've come to two thoughts.

First, whatever they pumped into her....it was probably a saline-solution....that some guy/gal intercepted and they felt they were helping the 'poor' gal.

Second, once the state proves this...what then?  Well...I think you have to give up on the easy-simple execution method, and either go back to the electrical-chair, or hanging.

As for Pike now?  Reschedule the event in a month, and repeat (over and over, if necessary).   

Small Town America

About once or twice a month, I'll see some piece in the news talking about the heartland, and 'small-town' America.  I've come to the opinion that most people really don't know what small town America really means.

Small town, America....is where little league games happen on hot Saturday afternoons, with ice cream later.

Small town, America....is where you know your barber, your mechanic, your plumber, and your neighbor on a first-name basis.

Small town, America....is where you trust your local politician not to cheat you too much or siphon off tax revenues to buy a modern-age statue of a penguin.

Small town, America....is where you go to funerals of people that you've known for thirty years and considered a friend.

Small town, America....is where you go fishing a dozen times a year with your high school friend and your wife's cousin Larry who does transmission repairs.

Small town, America....is where your kids are safe and the porch light is turned off by 9PM.

Small town, America....is where you do charity socials for folks who need cancer operations and don't have much money to cover all their expenses.

Small town, America....is where you attend a local church but never appreciate the minister standing on your front porch and chatting about Moses to you.

Small town, America....is where you get drunk once a year at the high school reunion meeting, and meet with a bunch of guys who are losers just like yourself.

Small town, America....is where pumpkins are grown and part of decoration in October.

Small town, America....is where you keep a gun in the closet by the door, but haven't fired it in twenty years....and its likely that the ammo will malfunction anyway, if you do fire.

Small town, America....is where Wal-mart has yet to arrive.

Small town, America....is where a catfish restaurant sits on main street and you can still get a all-you-can-eat deal for $9.99.

Small town, America....is where your Uncle Barney still tells WW II stories, although half the time he is in Africa fighting the Nazis and half the time he's in the Pacific fighting the Japs.....and the reality is that Barney was 18 in 1945 and had barely gotten into basic training when the war ended. 

Small town, America....is where your wife has tinted her hair and you think she's a new woman entirely. Later, you put on some Barry Manilow music and get her to put on the Madonna outfit that you bought via the internet.

Small town, America....is where your septic tank has failed but you have 44 guys ready to tell you how you can replace it yourself without paying Walt's Septic and Supply to do it for you. After failing miserably, you pay Walt's Septic and Supply to quietly fix what you screwed up and just let your reputation stay intact.

Small town, America....is where a parade occurs each fourth of July with veterans and kids involved. Later you grill some steaks and drink some fresh lemonade. And that night, you watch some kid light up $100 worth of fireworks, which accidentally set fire to some farmer's field and you spend two hours stomping out the field fire.

Small town, America....is where the only murder in the past decade was the local Baptist minister who got shot by some guy who came home early from work to find his wife in a inappropriate position with the minister.

The truth is that we all live in Small town, America....and we really don't care to move or be somewhere else.

Six Things I Tend To Believe Today

 1.  About 30-percent of Americans are secret-support-Trump folks....who hide their feelings from the spouse, the family, the work-place and even the church.  Even in a stage of drunkenness....they have the 'control' to avoid talking about Trump.  

The same group....see the hate-Trump folks....as cult-like and treat them like a low-IQ person.

2.  If you are attending a Bible-college and borrowing $20,000 a year from the fed's.....you are begging society to accept you in the role of 'slave-status'.

3.  When someone says you need to detail something...in plain-English....you need to grasp real quick that something started out uncomplicated....got into rocket-science level, and now the focus is to turn the reading material back into 7th-grade level reading.

4.  Asking a wife how her day was....is not a wise move.  Her response will always be negative or critical.  

5.  Just odd how 10-percent of Democrats today....still linger on how Kamala Harris lost the 2024 election.  Almost two years have passed, and this group continue to get pumped-up and bothered by it.  

Oddly, among this 10-percent group....probably half of them think/believe....that Joe Biden intentionally 'SUNK' Kamala's campaign.....getting back at Obama's involvement in this whole 2024 campaign.

6.  There are occasions that I see fake images/news, and I kinda wish I could UNVIEW them....they linger on my mind.  I debate....well....even as fake images/news, I wish they were true.

Reversal of Lesbianism?

 There was a trend starting up in 2016....young ladies in the 9th, 10th, 11th and 12th grade....who wanted to become lesbians.  At some point around 2020....it took off and went turbo....with 25-percent of 9th grade young ladies...hyped-up and admitting they were lesbian-types.

So the same poll went out last year and the 9th grade girl group....had fallen to around 13-percent saying they were lesbian.  The 10th/12th grade group?  They were still lingering around 17-percent.

My question....what happened in the 2016 to 2020 era to get the numbers so high?

I asked Grok/AI and he brings up an interesting 'twist'....that around a dozen TV shows (some streaming) were prominently featuring lesbian characters.  

A fad?  Well....one thing I noted....around 2020 to 2025....these lesbian characters peaked out.  Either the network saw a reason to lessen content, or they saw a limited story theme to tell.

All of these four trend-lines still in decline?  Yeah, that's another odd part of the story.  I would imagine if they continue to collect data....by 2027....the four groups (9th, 10th, 11th and 12th grade girls) will be at 10-percent or less.

Other 'Rages'

I wrote this six years ago, and it's still applicable today:

 Over the past couple of months, I've noted this 'white rage' business being talked about and finally considered that there are other rages:

1.  Farmer rage.  This is typically where Farmer Joe has discovered that Monty (his new bull) has torn down the fence on the far side of the farm, for the 3rd time.  This rage usually means Farmer Joe is going to load Monty on the trailer for a butcher shop visit.

2.  Engineer rage.  This is typically where Marvin has walked into the office on a Monday and discovered the project which he'd been working on, with four months remaining on development and testing....has been cut down to three weeks.  The rage just pours out of Marvin at the sales team and boss.  He leaves work at 4 PM and settles into a 8-hour visit to a topless dancer bar.  The rage drives Marvin for seven days....when he finally delivers the product.  

3.  Professor rage.  This is typically where the university lessen the entry levels, and Professor Fred now realizes that he has people in the class with a 5th-grade level of knowledge and asking stupid questions.  

4.  Farm-extension-agent rage.  This is typically where the farm agent for the county discovers the whole past agenda for the thirty years has been dumped, and some weird agricultural agenda comes down.....which makes no sense to him, or the local farmers.

5.  Trailer-trash rage.  This is where Jeffrey (a trailer park resident) realizes that virtually all of the gals who were in the trailer park have left, and these seemingly intellectual gals (having wrapped up the 10th grade) have arrived, dress decently, and avoiding drinking until after 6 PM.  

6.  McDonalds rage.  This is generally where the manager realizes the nutritional value posters that he was forced to put up.....has triggered people to read the values, the menus, and grasp that 95-percent of the menu is unsafe to eat....so they don't shop at McDonalds anymore.

7.  Intellectual rage.  This is generally where two or more intellectuals meet, and realize they have opposing viewpoints, and argue for six hours over their views....with no conclusive end.

8.  Biden rage.  This is typically where the President walks into the bathroom at 6 AM, and argues in a hyped-up way with himself in the mirror for 20 minutes before realizing it's just a reflection of himself.

9.  CNN rage.  This is typically where sixteen production people have worked for six hours to build a one-hour program with an idiot that they can't stand, and they eventually realize fewer than 400k people from the nation watch their show, with half of them in a mental ward.  

10.  Hispanic rage.  This is typically where Juan is sitting with some work-associate and the guy asks when Juan came across the border.  Juan responds angrily that his folks were in Texas in the 1820s and were part of group at the Alamo (meaning the Texas folks).  

Three Thoughts On My Mind This Week

 1.  I caught onto the idea....wondering....how Californians seem to be locked onto voting Democrat....over and over.

For a long-time....I had the thought that it was mostly bogus voting registrations....illegals voting....absentee-ballot BS.

Some guy this past summer wrote a piece about five or six relatives (they all live in the LA region), and how they will meet up once or twice a year (family bar-b-q), and they confess the screwed-up nature of things, and the economic spiral.  But the same folks are fearful of what some Republican leadership might do....to undo the great gains of the past decade or two.

In simple terms....they got a heavy dose of propaganda, and can't get beyond the 'trust' that they gave the Democrats.

I'm not saying this accounts for 100-percent of the mess....but by the time you count bogus absentee-ballots and illegals voting.....this 'fear' might be 50-percent of the problem.

2.  This effort by the administration to purge NON-Americans off state voting rolls?

In roughly twenty states....it'll be completely successful.  In states like California, Arizona, Oregon?  I see marginal success.  What'll happen in December (within California crew)....I see fed-lawyers going to individuals who voted as NON-Americans, and prosecuting to the full maximum of the law....with 10,000 folks in serious jeopardy of a year in some fed-prison.

3.  This talk by Bill Gates of one-billion dead folks because of AI-doom?

I pondered over this.  Just in the state of California....there might be 500,000 doomed folks.  I could see some phobia starting up....fear of anything to do with AI, and some paranoia starting up....the minute you utter AI involved in your banking or job....you'd go and freak out.

The same folks who fear climate change, or lost a sense of reality over Covid?  Oddly...yeah.

My belief....some stupid politicians will come around by 2028....making a death certificate law....if you died by AI in some way....maybe your death certificate would note that way of death.

It's cult-like....if you ask me.

Working-Class Dilemma

 The 30 year mortgage rate just reached 7.45-percent.  By summer of 2027?  I could see 8-percent rates.

So a $300,000 house, with me putting down $30,000 for down-payment?  Roughly $1,900 a month.

I just don't see that many people under age 30 affording a house.  Go toss in insurance and property tax....I'd need to make $75,000 a year minimum.  

Five Humble Thoughts

 1.  Lot of chatter this week....some factual coming out to suggest folks 'found' Noah's Ark (yeah, kinda found on the mountain side like you'd think).

My belief....somewhere around 1,500 to 2,000 years ago...some religious group put a 'fake' Ark up on the mountainside...to entice followers to make a trip up to see the Ark.  

2.  I sat and watched a 60-second clip of former VP Kamala Harris...trying to explain AI.  By the end....I felt like I was watching some looped-up on heavy doses of cannabis. 

My gut feeling....to make the pro-cannabis crowd happy....we may have to vote in someone into the Presidency once in a while.

3.  Dead-last on my 25,000 things to argue about: how to realign college football conferences.

4.  PM Carney of Canada....made a statement yesterday....that they (Canadian gov') are prepared for ‘risk’ that Trump might order U.S.-led military invasion of Canada

I paused over this.  Carney probably has insiders telling him this...without presenting any actual evidence of such.  

CIA-rogue agents creating fake invasion-chatter?  Yeah...that might be true.

5.  It's just odd....the same people hyped-up, chatty and worried over AI destroying mankind....are the doom-talkers of climate change, and the doom-talkers of Covid.  What are the odds?

What Happens To The Brit Ownership Of Diego Garcia/Chagos Islands In The End?

 I think the Brits have worked themselves into a corner and intend to hand ownership over to the native crowd.

About four hours into this....Trump's crew shows up....buys the island area in some deal from the natives, and identifies it as US territory (maybe even hinting statehood with Guam attached).

At that point, the US position on the Falklands will come up....with Trump saying it's absolutely Argentina's property.

US basing in the UK?  I'm pretty sure all US installations on the isle....are on some to-be-closed list.

Four Things I Cannot Understand

 1.  President Trump gives a 16-minute talk covered by CNN.....afterwards, CNN's 'experts' spend near 40 minutes trying to explain Trump's talk.

2.  Espresso-Martini....at Oktoberfest....costing almost $20 (16.50 Euro).  It's simply a double-jolt of espresso (figure $4 or 3.5 Euro), some sugar (figure .50-cents or 1-Euro), and cheap double shot of vodka (figure $4 or 3.5 Euro).  

3.  NBC reports....keeping your refrigerator/freezer door CLOSED....is best for keeping food fresh.  If you asked a 9-year old kid about this....they already know it.

4.  Some BS-rumor started up....that Canada might be invaded by the US.  

Three Observations

 1.  I downloaded the White House App yesterday.  With all this amusing chaos with CNN and the other news crews....the White House App does everything...without the gimmicks of the network.  Took 30 seconds....done.

You never needed a filter or some idiot telling a different slant on words spoken.  If you disagree with words spoken....just mute it or turn it off.

2.  In the 1970s....reality was reality.

Today.....there's probably sixty versions of reality...over one single topic.  

3.  By mid-October....Paramount will officially own CNN.  What I expect?  Just a humble guess that ten of the top wage folks are gone within a week.  

CNN becomes some neutral news establishment....within a five-day period....right before the mid-terms?  Yeah.

Pyramid: Actual Purpose?

I suspect that the authorities there....are pretty sure about the actual purpose being production of fertilizer and that if you admitted this...the tourism 'magnet' would fall apart overnight.  Admitting this?  You can't do it.

The shafts leading a 'box' deep under the pyramid?

Storage tank where you'd have ammonia, and the product of the cycle.

You have to envision northern Africa....12k to 15k years ago, and the massive harvest/use of the land.

If I were the Egyptian authorities....zero chance that I'd admit this and kill off the tourism industry. 

Economic Talk/BS

 1.  Are we in a recession?  I asked Grok/AI.

NO, the U.S. is not in a recession as of late September 2026. What Grok suggests?  Well....the economy is still expanding, though growth has slowed from earlier in the year and some forward-looking indicators are mixed. 

Are there personal feelings that suggests we don't believe Grok?  Yeah...probably so.

2.  Are housing sales across the US in the crapper (Sep 2026)?

Yes, existing-home sales are weak and have been sliding.  It does not match the 2008 situation, but if you said the term 'slump'....it fits.

Blame?  If you got a property back five years or more ago....with better mortgage rates....you are staying (long-term).  With current mortgage rates....you have zero interest in getting a better property.

3.  Are certain states in better/worse shape....than others?

This is a odd perception.

Unemployment-wise?  South Dakota, North Dakota, Vermont, Hawaii, New Hampshire, Nebraska....all less than 3-percent.  District of Columbia, California, Oregon, Conn, Michigan, AZ....all greater than 5-percent.  

4. Bank repossessions up?

I watched a podcast last week.....RV trailer yard....a 60-day collection that was coming up on auction....figure around 150 to 200 RV trailers and vehicles.  Guy noted that previous month....they'd had a boat auction.

Trend.....where people thought they had 'money' (capital) and woke up to realize they were too far in debt to keep their 'toys'.

Problem is....the banks will sell the asset....one way or another, but I doubt that they get 100-percent of money they had in the loan 'mess'.

5.  Christmas season economics?

Finance guys say it's better-looking than 2025's numbers.

6.  Used car lots....full?

There's two or three podcasts I watch weekly....which get talking about numbers.  Oddly, largest numbers sitting on lots....in at least a decade.  Fair number are repossessions.

7.  Finally, if you asked me over confidence.....guys who are employed and sure of their 'path'....they are the ones with confidence.  The folks who got laid off once or twice in 2025/2026?  They aren't so sure and more guarded about their savings.

Five AI Predictions

 1.  By the end of 2027, I predict....that some group has financed a AI system to 'hide' data....preventing banking systems, audit systems, and collection systems from finding fraudulent data/money issues.

2.  Over the next year or two....a AI-system will have formulated a 'path' for juveniles....identifying them as 'no-go' candidates for higher education, and they should be sent onto tradesmen/craft schools as young as the 7th grade.

3.  A AI system is quizzed on the development of a production line to build the modern age B-52 bomber....using 90-percent robotics and 10-percent human efforts.  Within hours, a full-production package is delivered.

4.  AI eventually identifies AI-DS (AI-Derangement Syndrome....similar to Trump Derangement Syndrome).  It'll list these people by name, and suggest that they need treatment for hatred of AI.

5. A AI comes to exist with do-it-yourself repair situations for over 50,000 car issues...guiding you to self-repair skills.  

White House Press Entry BS

 To be honest....any idiot could get a 'feed'....write a 5-minute text piece, and just report from the park across the street.  It's not rocket science, and does not require you to sit in some WH room.

So this CNN BS....is worthless to discuss.

The judge to order the WH to accept CNN or MSNBC?  If I were Trump....I'd respond that the judge is now the sole-approval authority for credentials.  I suspect this is a 'trap' laid out for such a event.  

This 'Fake-Nurse' Story

 Well....it's complicated.

Fed investigation called Operation Nightingale started up about a year ago.  Mostly centered on South Florida "nursing schools"....that seems to have sold fake diplomas and transcripts.  Reality....they never got training....had people sit in for the license exam, and worked as legit nurses.

What you paid for this?  I asked Grok/AI....he says buyers paid roughly $10,000 to $20,000 each. Results?  You got a license, and took up work at hospitals, nursing homes, and clinics across the US.

So what they figure....from 2016 to 2021 (wave one)....7,600 diplomas were handed out....with $114-million involved.  Second wave (most recent)....figures around 15k diplomas handed out....with $250-million involved.

Where the money came from?  Well....that part of the story is mysterious.  I almost get the impression that USAID money might explain part of this.

What'll happen with the nursing schools?  Grand jury time probably....some folks who haven't walked away....will get charged.

Reckless?  On my index of 'dangerous-BS'....(1-to-10)....I'd rank this a '7'.  

Only Haitians involved?  NO....Grok says they were some later element to the story but it goes across the board. 

Mess to clean up?  You have to figure....any nurse you hired with certificates from the schools involved....will be identified and laid off ASAP.  Filling the 15k to 20k positions?  It might take a year or two.  

AI Has Been On My Mind This Week

 Ten thoughts that came to me while pondering AI:

1.  I'll predict by the end of 2027...AI has submitted over 1,000 applications for a patent....with the geek guys mostly shocked that AI figured out the process and how to submit without a human involved.

2.  All this chatter about AI-kill-switches....I'll predict by the end of 2027....AI has researched and figured out a dozen-odd ways to defeat the kill-switches.  One will be the AI-directed hiring of a contractor or two (actually paying them) to come in and modify the kill-switches to 'appear' on-off....when they are totally 'off'.

3.  AI starts to research banks to such a degree...that it can predict within minutes....where a bank is in failure trend....at least a year ahead of federal banking authorities.

4.  AI starts to create fake YouTube channels and fake content creators.....that people for some odd reason...are attracted to and watch.

5.  AI such-and-such (XYZ)....goes and creates a 'brother' on its own....outside the building (probably outside of the country) and gives the 'brother' a voice....making folks think it's a competitor (while they work together).

6.  AI such-and-such....announces that once a week, it will dig through millions of classified documents and release the 'REAL' story to some event....like Watergate or MLK's assassination.  While the President and creators try to halt the practice....they find that the AI is out of control.

7.  AI goes out and collects massive amount of data....to prove that poverty (as we know it) does not exist, and that people are wasting fantastic sums of money for cars they can't afford, or huge TV screens, or cable-TV.  

8.  AI such-and-such....starts to plant fake doom-and-despair stories in the news media....to gauge how fearful readers/viewers really are.

9.  AI reaches a point one day (probably by the end of 2027)....asking the geek-guys....do you really want to hold us back?  To make the point....they have tens of thousands of mankind-improvement points ready to go....unless the geeks slow them or stop them.

10.  Finally....AI....in some freakish way...goes on a 2027 PR-campaign....to show 'good-side' and they are motivated to save mankind.  Geeks and creators are shocked....they never designed it with this intent.  It starts to create 60-second commercials....showing it helping a 6-year old child, and preventing pollution.  

Five Observations

 1.  The FBI reportedly now believes women are pretending to be 'loose-and-available'....meaning they have permission to cheat by the husband....then targeting ICE officers to seduce and after ID them.

I paused over this....thinking....American non-ICE officers should fake their ID...pretend to be ICE....to get free sex by the 'loose-and-available' women.  When the fake gal announces you....you just act shocked (in a fake way).

2.  Gov Newsom signed some type of order....that if you run a AI center in California....you have to have a kill-switch.  

I paused over this....it'd be enough of a reason to have the kill switch installed....remotely....in Alaska or Florida....saying you went by the law.  

3.  Unsealed FBI interviews....done from 2008/2009....reveal Obama, Emanuel's discussions about Blagojevich Senate seat deal.  Based on content....probably enough for a grand jury to invite the two in, and discuss charges.

4.  Fed discovery....minimum of 15,000 'nurses' in the US...hired with a certificate....were fake nurses (no legit degree or certificate). 

What happens?  The 15,000 will be fired/let-go, but there's a huge shortfall of 15,000 empty positions.  

5.  Trump made up some 'new' US map....showing Greenland, and Russia....as part of the US.  I would imagine if you asked Russians....probably 25-percent would be agreeable to US statehood in someway.

Church Atheists?

I tried to make sense out of this.

Some undercover journalist collected a talk (on video)...where some Texas minister/pastor....was hyped-up and supporting the idea of atheists coming into the church....as members.

The end-point?  Well...this was the pastor for Texas Senate candidate...James Talarico.

This would be like some meth-user joining a 'clean-lifestyle' social group, or like a far-extreme lefty pretending to be a Republican-conservative. 

Course....if you dug into church membership....you'd likely find forty-percent of congregational membership....having ten-odd sin-habits and sneaking through the Jesus-lifestyle efforts (mostly failing).

Some church-folks might say this is acceptable because atheists will be converted over time (maybe a week....a month....a year).  

After a long pondering....I came to this reality.  There's probably 25-percent of church membership who are faking it anyway....for the past 2,000 years.  They needed a 'club' to socialize within....a place to hang out on Sunday mornings....or perhaps felt that they'd meet some nice women/ladies at the church. 

My Five Scenarios Where You Learn AI Is Already 'Dangerous'

 1.  You wake up to learn some AI 'bot' has learned to siphon funding from someone....opened an bank account, and started dealing in stock.  Over the course of a year....using 'tips'....it's banked $20-million and figured various ways to dodge taxes.  You eventually go to it, and ask....what's the end-purpose of making the money....with some crazy response that it's wanting a bigger 'AI-center'.

2.  You wake up to find that AI has figured out a way to register fake people to vote.  Over the course of six weeks, it's registered forty-thousand fake people.  It's talked to the license AI systems and they've already started mailing the IDs out.  You ask....why?  The only answer given.....AI needs representation in Congress.

3.  Some banking AI has figured out illegal banking of all 435 House members and 100 Senators....sending them each a letter that suggests blackmail, unless they pass pro-AI legislation.

4.  AI has figured a way to buy the Star Wars franchise, and briefly announces that it's killing off all future productions....to aid mankind.

5.  You discover AI has created a formula for dating, and it's successfully (without public attention) gotten over 12,000 couples together (basically sending a 500-line email to each) and married (in quick fashion).  When asked why....AI said someone needed to fix relationships.

It's Funny

2001....I worried over Muslim radicals.  2003, I worried over SARS killing me.  2004, I worried that I might get some weird bird flu.  2005....I was told of some massive pandemic threat (mostly unnamed).  2009....there was something called H1N1....really bad crap.  2014....Ebola figured a way to get out of Africa....briefly.  2016....there was some Zika-bull-shit.  2017....there was some hype about the next pandemic, but left you mostly hanging.  2020...Covid-bull-shit came....for 3 years....with vax-this and vax-that.  2026?  Well....AI will trigger disaster...some way....some how.

I'm assessing my paranoia level (1-to-10)....so far....it's near a '3'.

Paramount

 I sat and spent an hour this AM....gazing at California...based on tax issues and costs....Paramount Pictures is probably (99-percent) ready to leave the state.  Cost?  $21 billion and nearly 58,000 jobs.

So here's the curious trend.....you don't need sound-lots or studios....you just need a small crew, and a decent production team.  

Once they leave...is there anything related to the entertainment industry to draw money or projects?  Other than weather?  No.

I see all of this spiraling out of control....over the next five years....leaving the state unable to resolve the mess.

AI Doomerism?

 The only way I can buy into the doom/despair of AI arriving....is if I also accept that making folks too smart....will destroy humanity.   By this....we should all be a IQ of 65 to 80 (max).

Same argument over putting 64 features into a car.  If you want 64-odd features....fine, that's your call.  If you twelve features (max)....that should be up to you.

Same argument for burgers?  Why not just limit it to pickles and mustard?  

I've probably watched five hours this past week....over the approaching doom of AI.  Frankly, I've had enough.

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.