Ten Things I Tend To Believe

 1.  I think since mid-2019....Joe Biden has been in type of vegetable-status (1-to-10 index)......with most folks voting for him....not wanting to believe it.

2.  Eventually, the Mullah-guys from Iran....will get a 'team' into the US to do 'hit-jobs', and it'll freak out Homeland Security.

3. Mamdani's grocery sales operation....will last about 90 days....then collapse as theft becomes a big idea.  It might limp on, for another 90 days....before the cost factor is made public.

4.  Delta and United will likely merge by the end of 2026.  I'm not saying it's a positive thing....just that the market is presently 'crappy'.

5.  I suspect around 10-percent of Americans today....would be OK with a Nazi-party and a Nazi-platform.

6.  For those into major league baseball....I'd start to prepare for a 2027-season-long strike, and no games.  What fills the air-time?  I'm predicting roller-derby and demolition-derby to pick up the slack.

7.   People will eventually wake up and realize....for several decades....we had forest management, and then around 2000....just quit....to pretend we didn't need it.

8. Alberta, in 2027, will start state-talks with the US....with Guam quietly stepping forward (wanting the fast-track and 51st status).

9.  A AI-system will start to test/gauge/assign-scores.....to cult status.  HR organizations will start to discover that 10-to-20 percent  of their employees have a '5' score (1-to-10), and worry about cult-mentality.

10.  In 2028's national-across-the-landscape elections...at least 300 bartenders will be running for some office.  

The Obligation People

 'Freddy' the German World Cup visitor to the US....famous for his pictures and experiences....wrote a piece yesterday....relating to the question...where was the best place to visit?

Answer?  Texas, Tennessee and Alabama.

If you browse through the days that Freddy was in Alabama.....'FRIENDLINESS' seems pop up in a major way.  

So, being from Alabama....I will relate why we Alabamians score high on this 'index'.

You see....we tend to be under some pressure....when out-and-about...traveling around.  We  each see ourselves as a state-ambassador, and under some obligation.

We might take a turn in the road and here lays Elvis in the ditch, or 'Coach-Bear' with a flat-tire, or Miss Parton out of gas, or some Apostle (of the 12) dehydrated, or Kenny Rogers broke down on the side of the road.

It is our obligation to act friendly....offer help.....give advice....and be a kind person.

To be honest.....it's probably a points thing, and we reckon that upon arrival at the gates of heaven....these 'acts' make up for our problems in the past.

So we see some German 'Freddy' and maybe he's shaking his head a bit, and we interrupt things....to help the guy out.

Maybe we guided him to a bar-b-q shack.....or pulled out a beer for him....or offered a New Testament verse for adverse conditions.  

As for the competition thing with Tennessee and Texas?  Well....simply put....they aren't in our league.