Three Things After Watching Vance-Walz Debate

 1.  Loser?  CBS news and moderators.  Walz?  He's just not into debates and whatever he prepared for.....he just wasn't in the league of Vance.

2.  At this point,  I'd say the election belongs to Trump/Vance.  I'm starting to think even NY state will go to Trump, with the 5-key states of 2020 that Biden won....will go all for Trump.

3.  So the real question arises....what happens in the week after the Inauguration?  I think it's a fairly dramatic week.  I suspect that Trump will order a review of all documents that Biden takes and if classification rules were obeyed.  If not....there's to be legal trouble brewing.  

Grasping The Religion of Voodoo

 After this talk of Springfield, Ohio, the Haitians, the dogs and cats chatter....I sat down to understand Voodoo (the religion).

So, after about a dozen hours of reading up....I've come to nine observations:

1.  Originally,  VooDoo started with the Fon tribe of the Benin, Togo, and Nigeria (Africa)....NOT Haiti.  It probably did not start until approximately 50 to 70 years after the Portuguese started trading there (1655).  Note, as much as some might suggest the Brits were helpful in this creation....they didn't arrive until the late 1890s.

2.  Catholic priests came in....dealt with the tribal customs, and introduced 'God' to the Fon people.  This probably took a good twenty years to convert folks....explain the Bible stories, and get a whole generation indoctrinated.

3.  What I believed occurred here....the priests brought up the stories of raising people from the dead (namely....the daughter of Jairus, a young man in the midst of his funeral, and of course....Lazarus of Bethany.  The Fon people...not really understanding the whole feat of miracles.....attached itself to the 'art' of bring Zombies to life again.

Saying Lazarus was a Zombie is laughable, but with the Fon imagination....yeah, it was possible.

4.  I also believe that when the old Testament talked of animal sacrifices....mostly all of sheep.....the Fon people went to animals of their region (birds, etc).  I think as the religion moved to Haiti (1700 to 1750).....they kept to some form of sacrifice...using what they had on the island (dogs, cats).

5.  The fact that both the Catholic religion and Voodoo...believe in evil spirits/demons, and both have some form of exorcism?  Well....yeah....there is that relationship.

6.  Both male (Ougan) and female (Manbo) priests in Voodoo?  Yes.  How they reach a level of 'status'?  They go into a dream-like state (meeting Iwa.....a spirit) and announcing they have 'status'.  Yeah, it might be bogus, but people accept the idea.

7.  Finally, I have this belief....as much as Haitians and western folks claim that 50-percent of Haitian society is Voodoo and the other 50-percent is Christian.....I think this is bogus.  You can observe the Christian religion on Sunday, and be a practicing Voo-Doo member the other six days a week.  

8.  This Springfield dog/cat story?  I've come to the frame of mind.....no one much is eating the animal sacrifice...it's probably just a ceremony thing, and they bury the crispy leftover at the end.  

9.  Voo-Doo being satanic?  Well...it's modeled mostly after the Catholic religion....so it's hard to make the satanic statement.....without saying part of the Catholic religion might be satanic.  

Final thought?  It wouldn't surprise me if a dozen Springfield folks (of a lesser mindset) might be discussing Voo-Doo, and accepting it in some way.  Maybe around 2035....we discover 30,000 Ohio folks (non-Haitian) are converted to Voo-Doo, and offering animal sacrifices every week.  

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.