Six Crazy Things

 1.  Looking over five states and their taxation plans (Cal, OR, WA, IL, and NY)....it's obvious that sports teams in these states are about to 'dumped' upon....with four-star players mostly saying no to future contracts.

Teams like the Angels, Padres, Giants and Dodgers?   Screwed.  

2.  The topic rarely came up in the 1970s/1980s/1990s....but if you ask folks if there are states which they WON'T move to....more than 50-percent of folks will list five to ten states of which they can't possibly move to.

3.  Someone brought up a growing German issue....that schools used to openly offer free music lessons, and today....don't.

Chief reason?  Well...if you openly offer music....Muslims get offended because they consider it a 'grave' sin.

4.  After viewing the TSA mess (no pay)....I have the solution.

Charge me as I enter the airport for security....$10.  Hand me a voucher for the $10....which I can flip to the bank after Congress resolves the mess, and  pay me the $10 back later.

5.  It just seems odd....bunch of news folks freely admit that Joe Biden was goofy and 'suffering' for four years, and now admit they noticed this.

Someone ought to invent a mental condition....for seeing reality but can't admit it until five years later.

6.  This past month....I've seen various folks freely admit they can't find or resolve their birth certificate situation.  It's like they are mentally handicapped, or freely admitting a IQ level of 65.

Voting Chatter

 I noticed a Supreme Court episode yesterday....arguing over 'counting' votes past election day.  

Roughly 19 states (Ala  is one)....allow for mail-in votes to be counted after election day.  Some allow a day or two....some allow almost 3 weeks.

1978....I was stationed in West Germany, and we were all told....to vote....do it as early/quickly as possible, and  mail in the ballot at least  seven days prior. The Air Force was flying at least twice a day from Frankfurt....to get ballots to the East Coast.  The warning given....if your ballot didn't get to the state by election  day...it would NOT count.

The key problem in this whole 'count-business' for mail-in-voting?  Well....the postal system.   

While stationed at Bitburg (1993)....this topic came up and someone had run a 'test' mail-in.....finding that  a letter mailed on day ZERO....took around 12 days to reach some rural location of Idaho. Course, what they didn't test....if you mailed from  north Idaho...to southern Idaho....it probably took 6 days to reach the end-point.

In Alabama....if you were to mail from your house....to the guy six houses down....the letter gets picked up. Then  it gets dumped into a bag at the local post office, and sent to Birmingham (3 hours away)....then gets checked....to come back to the local area, and then delivered to the neighbor. Amount of time involved?  You can figure a minimum of three days....probably five days if mailed on a Thursday.

My general advice....if you were living overseas....hand the ballot to FEDEX, and feel pretty sure of its arrival in 72 hours. 

The court action?  Most folks think the 19 states will be directed to count only up to election day.