This Caitlan Clark WNBA Epic Saga

 The hint was dropped by Clark, by early elimination in the playoffs....that she is likely going to 'quit' the WNBA....and leave for Europe to play in one of the women's leagues there.  

What happens to the Indiana Heat?  The team goes back to a last-place team  in the WNBA.

What happens to Clark's new team (whoever  it is)?  They will move from a small arena operation....to a sports arena able to handle 15,000-plus fans.  Suddenly TV interest matters.

What happens to the WNBA? I'd say that they slip back to old viewership numbers and arenas mostly half-full.  

What happens to the TV contract that the WNBA and Disney/ABC/Amazon signed?  Well....it's supposed to pay $200-million per season (3 times the former profit).  I'm guessing here that the TV folks will ask for a meeting with WNBA officials by the end of 2025 season (without Clark) and ask for new deal....gutting the $200-million a year by half.  

This will infuriate the WNBA and there's likely to be a crew sent to Europe....to entice Clark to come 'home'. 

But let's play this out....by the end of the European season and massive interest gearing up for women's basketball....there's likely to be live TV coverage of the league, and some hyped-up offers.  Somewhere in this mix....I see a US sports TV company showing up and offering the European league some TV deal....then suddenly you have the Euro league having better nightly coverage, than the WNBA games.

The WNBA....in chaos by the end of the 2026 season?  Yeah, that's my prediction. I  also think Disney/ABC/Amazon's deal will be crippled by this point.  

Three Humble Thoughts

 1.  About a year ago....Iran got all worried about Mossad (the Israeli Secret Service) operating in Iran.

So the Army ordered a special unit created and run by one Iranian (who seemed at the time to be the most Jew-hating guy around).

Well....recently, he walked away (disappeared)...they finally came to realize this guy in charge of hunting Jewish infiltration into Iran....was working for Mossad.

Kinda funny....if you think about it.

2.  Haiti is now demanding repatriations.....mostly from the world.

Not sure how they would receive the money, or if they know how to really rebuild.  I guess they could ask the Clinton Foundation to come back in...receive the funds, and help fix problems.

3.  On this Vance/Walz debate.....I'm getting this bad feeling that Walz will stumble around for an hour, and we come to realize he's not that bright.  Maybe the moderators can take down Vance.  

Ten Things I Do Now....That I Didn't Do In 2023

 1.  I assess people on IQ level....3 stages: superior intelligence, average, dimwit.  I'll just admit it....about 40-percent of the experts I see on CNN these days....rise to dimwit level.

2.  Getting off a train or bus....I use alcohol 'wipe' to sanitize.

3.  I mute at least 30 minutes out of the day....when watching TV news.

4.  I try hard to listen to Joe Biden....assessing his loss of cognitive ability.  The 2024 level of dementia is probably twice the 2023 level.

5.  When Kamala Harris does speak on economics....I continually now assess what she's really saying.  It starts to sound like a 9-year old kid.....talking off a cue-card.

6.  When I do stop in a ice-cream shop....I gravitate toward the menu-card and cost level.  I admit....I eat smaller portions of ice cream...because of pricing.

7.  I actively pay attention to UFO/UAP stories now....while marginally doing so in 2023.

8.  I continually assess people on how chatty they are on politics, and they want to propagandize me.

9.  I analyze acts of respect, and loss of respect in society.

10.  I seem to notice 'stage-shows' more with politicians showing up in grocery stores, bars, hospitals, and schools.....and it's not a positive feeling that I have.

Two-Tier Chatter

 Yesterday, I sat and watched a interview of a police-chief....from a small town outside of Springfield, Ohio (yeah, that Haitian topic).   

So he got into this odd observation....if you drive through his town and violate the driving code....he issues a ticket for a misdemeanor.   He notes that in Springfield (from his talks wih police there)...a normal Springfield resident would get a driving code tick (misdemeanor), but if you were Haitian....just a warning.  Yeah, it's called two-tier policing.  Reason?  Normally, with two convictions on misdemeanors....your application for residency or citizenship....is suspended.

If you were in serious trouble, for a felony?  Well...under the two-tier system, if you were Haitian....I would imagine that  the DA/Prosecutor....would drop the case for lack of evidence.

So you imagine x-state existing....having a hundred felony actions per day called in, and a quarter of them done by non-Americans.  The crimes would just disappear and never be a collected statistic....if the DA folks did their duty to overlook the non-Americans.

What does this say about the legal system?  It's failed....in more ways than one.

Do any of the statically-collected numbers in the 50 states make sense?  No. You can throw all of them out.

After a while, if the non-Americans grasped the situation....why bother obeying any law....two-tier living protects you.

Something That You Notice

 

So, what the Justice Department fails to mention in this press release....what Alabama did....was to remove around 3,000 names from the state voting list...of people that they confirmed (using the fed's own listing)....people who are NOT American citizens.

Alabama could have made a effort to remove dead people from the voting list, and that would have gotten fed-court action as well....but it seems that there weren't any dead folks listed.

Why all this effort to get non-Americans accidentally on voting lists?  This ought to be the chief question to be asked.

In theory, if the numbers are correct....there's around 20-odd million non-Americans in the US now, and one might speculate that you might be able to get them all listed and add 20-million votes.  

All of this getting people disturbed?  That's the funny angle to the whole discussion. I would imagine one out of every three Democrats are discussing the matter at the table, in the church, or at work.  

This game only working if you provide 'shelter' to the non-Americans?  Well...yeah, that is the single most odd part of the story.  If you stopped food and shelter money....the system would collapse in a matter of a hundred days.

This Soros Purchase of 200-Plus Radio Stations

 I sat last night to review this hyped-up story of Soros buying 200-plus radio stations and the rapid approval to allow this to occur.  So some things:

1.  It is near 235 stations total....owned presenty by Audacy (the company).

2.  Over the past decade...Audacy had some profitable years, then some lean years (meaning marginal income).  Last year, they pieced together a recovery year....oddly getting Soro's team interested.  Whether the profit can continue....unknown.

3.  These stations are NOT in all 50 states....they are mostly bunched up in 45 media markets (urbanized zones) across the US.

4.  In the whole state of Arizona.....ONLY three stations belong to Audacy....all in the Phoenix area.  The three?  Adult contemporary music, C&W, and classic hits.

5.  Any in Alabama or Mississippi?  No.

6.  Talk radio or news format in the 45 markets?  I counted a total of around 30 stations....however, some of these were multi situations....where you had a talk-radio station in one town, with a news-format station in the same town.

7.  Spanish stations?  Fewer than ten in the deal.  One is a conservative-talk radio station in Miami.

8.  Problem in the future?  Spotify has taken over a lot of younger listeners, along with podcasts....meaning the internet is delivering their product....NOT the radio network.

9.  If Soros were to delete conservative talk-radio?  Some competitor would wise-up....see a chance to take market-share, and bring some downfall to the Soros strategy.

10.  On being a wise-investment choice?  I don't see the Soros team having a understanding of what they bought, and how it's connected to the general public.

11. General business wisdom?  You generally buy something that provides an income.  Competing against Spotify and podcasts?  You have to be aggressive....I don't see these guys in a 'win-win' scenario.  I'm predicting in two years....a 'chunk' of the 200-plus stations will be sold off (probably the music and news stations). 

12.  The speed of approval over the deal?  I have doubts that the profit for 2024 looks that great, and Audacy didn't want Soro's team figuring out it was a short-lived profit period.  

So I end this analysis with this thought.....Soros had money to waste, and some bright sales people convinced them the deal was worth the effort.  In six months....I suspect the profit situation will be listed as marginal and the heavy-handed way of dragging talk-radio to some center-point or left-point....will have failed....triggering even lesser profit.  As they piece together deals to sell off stations....what will remain?  Strictly talk-radio and Spanish-language stations.  

Added note....it's just odd, no one seems to have analyzed the make-up of the stations.....all public information, and the profit discussion has been going on for two years.  

Things I Now Identify As

 1.  Even though I'm about to be 66 years old....I now identify as a permanent 34-year old guy.

2.  I've decided to identify as Cherokee, Danish, Roman, and Celtic.

3.  I'm going to identify as a New York Yankees 3rd baseman. 

4.  I'm going to identify as a Baywatch TV show life-guard....even though I can't swim.

5.  On Thursdays, I'm going to identify as being 'invisible'....you won't be able to see me.

6.  At  least two days a year, I will identify as maximum paranoid shizophrenic....at the 5-star crazy-crazy level.  

7.  On Sundays, I will be identifying as Moses....complete with sandals.

8.  On the third Monday of each month, I will identify as Joe-Biden-fog-brained....mostly to see if anyone notices.

9.  I will identify as an 'CNN-expert' in hopes of getting hired-up and make some 'real' money.

10.  I will reassess myself weekly, and identify as needed.   So I might have 600 identities per year.