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).