An Alabama Advertisement

 I sat and pondered over the announcement from California...starting in 2035....you would not be able to buy new gas/diesel cars in the state.  It was a long pause, and then I came to this idea for a advertisement....probably to be done by Mayor Battle of Huntsville, or perhaps soon-to-be Senator 'Tubby'. 

It would open with a guy on a mule, and talking up the virtues of mule-riding and a Alabama-bred mule.  You'd talk about the 'power', the bridle....the saddle....and the walking pace of a mule. 

Then you hype up that this is a Alabama Mule, and starting in 2035, Alabama will be proud and ready to sell the Alabama-brand Mule (version 1.0, probably three years old) to California folks.  

Naturally, we'd indicate that he/she was not involved in any pollution stuff, or carbon business.  

Then we'd bring up that he/she was fully trained, and usually capable of 4.8 mph, or the lesser/more gentle pace of 3.2 mph.

Then we'd have clean and non-modern names for our mules....'Honest-Hank', 'Slow-Sam', or 'Buttermilk'.  

These Mules would be delivered to the state border of California, and you could pick them up at the station and ride the final 500 miles home to your house in Malibu.

For those wanting a two-mule deal....we'd offer a 10-percent off discount for the second mule. 

Then finally, we'd hand you a certificate that this was an American-bred Mule....having nothing to do with China.

With that, Governor Ivey would come on the last ten seconds, shedding a tear or two....that we do all we could help those poor California folks out, in this hour of need....hauling mule after mule across the US....to those poor people there in San Francisco or LA....giving them some element of transportation.  Yes, even from Alabama, we have compassion for idiots.  

Observations

 1.  A couple of days until the first Presidential debate.  I'm shocked we've reached this stage and Joe Biden hasn't declared a health situation and handed the position to Harris to run.  I just don't the Joe of 2020....is capable of a debate.

2.  Maybe it's crazy, but I think you lined up 20,000 of the Antifa members and actually checked voter listings....probably over 30-percent are not registered to vote.

3.  Vote for replacement justice?  Just the way it looks....McConnell has locked down 50-plus votes.  This whole election, is now about the Justice seat, and literally nothing else.   

If it is the Cuban gal, and the Democrats go off to insult her?  They destroyed the Florida vote for the party....maybe for an entire generation.  

4.  My own feeling over Mueller?  Various people have talked about the Mueller they knew from a decade ago, and shocked over his loss of aggressiveness in the past two years.  Age-wise, I think he hit some peak back around 2012 and has been in decline for the past eight years.  Calling him up for some Senate hearing at this point....will only prove that point and that he's way beyond his capabilities of the past.

5. Someone asked the question....what if Joe Biden wins the election but refuses to enter the Presidency in January?  I know....a sarcastic comment about his wit.  But its a legit question at this point.

6.  This talk in California of forbidding the sale of gas/diesel new cars in 2035?  Well...I'm kinda curious if you'd include school buses in this group, and if they will all be electrical buses.  

Can you imagine getting picked up around 6:55 AM with the electric school bus, and around 7:45....still 3 miles from the school....the bus simply runs out of power, and you have to walk the last three miles to school?

7.  On Antifa, isn't it odd....they actually have logos, uniforms (all black), symbols, and flags?

8.  Someone brought this up about the Baltimore Freddie Gray riots in 2015.....did you know that three of the six cops involved in his death....were black?  Also, the mayor and most members of the city council....were black?  Also, the judge involved in the police case was black?  The police chief?  Yep, he was black.  The DA?  Yes, black.  The President and AG at the time?  Black.

9.  This one odd fact in the Breonna Taylor episode in Kentucky?  While folks still keep chatting she was shot in bed....the fact is obvious that she was shot in the hallway of the apartment.  The bed commentary?  Completely faked.

10.  Bloomberg in trouble in Florida for offering to pay felon's fines....to enable them to vote this November?  

Well....yeah, the AG of the state is surveying this matter, and there's a state law that prevents this type of payment situation....involving vote situations.  I'm pretty sure Bloomberg won't go to jail, but he might end up with a couple hundred thousand in fines, and be dragged into court to admit some stupidity.  

If Black Voters Show Up For Trump

 The ten states with the highest black population and the likely plus-up (figure 30-to-35 percent) for Trump?

1.  DC (50-percent)

2. Mississippi (37-percent)

3. Louisiana (32-percent)

4. Georgia (31-percent)

5. Maryland (30-percent)

6. South Carolina (28-percent)

7. Alabama (26-percent)

8. North Carolina (21-percent)

9. Delaware (21-percent)

10. Virginia (20-percent)

In these ten cases, if the black voting holds up....I'd forecast all ten going to Trump. For Maryland and Delaware, it'll be a shocker.

The Poop Rule

 I noticed this today....the MTA (the subway authority of NY City) finally came out and said that if you poop or crap or pee within the system (on the trains, subways or the stairways).....it's officially a bad thing, and you could be charged.

Mind you....up until this point, they'd never had a rule like this.

Think about that for a minute.  The subway has been around for over 100 years, and never had to make a rule like that before.  

Bring Back Roller Derby

 I have this idea for a sports function to put on opposite of NFL football....since we've all gotten to a point of hating it.

Bring back roller derby.

My suggestion would be....take the old dimensions......25 ft across and 60 ft long, in a oval shape.....double that somewhat....60 ft across and 150 ft long.

I'd add one-rope (ten-foot long) as a part of the derby.  I'd add a mini-bike with 10-Hp to sling-shot folks on the first two rounds around the derby. I'd add rubber matting for the derby gals/guys.  And I'd mandatory nicknames for all players (Wicked-Wanda, Fancy-Dancy, Hocus-Pocus, Cowboy Bob) 

In a matter of weeks, I think my style of roller derby would take off and consume a third of the NFL audience members.    

270 Isn't An Absolute Thing

 Is the 270 Electoral Vote number really the magic number, and is the 538 total Electoral College number a magic number?

Well....no.

Lets say you run an election, and two states (just random select Michigan (16 EC votes) and NY state (29 EC votes) screw up and can't confirm or certify their votes by 14 December.

Together, that amounts to 45 votes which officially don't exist.  If they don't exist, the total magic number is no longer 538....it's 493, and the winning number is now....246.5 (really 247).....instead of 270.

At this point, you might ask the silly question....just how many states might screw this entirely up?  Well....there's no way to forecast this.  It might be zero....one, or perhaps even a dozen states.  

Having three Trump-win states from 2016 fail?  Under this scenario, it brings it awful close to a Biden-win scenario.  

Having the Supreme Court get into the middle of this and order states or their Governors to comply or sign-off?  In the case of Michigan, I think their Governor would just say 'no' and refuse to comply.  Could the Supreme Court get into the middle of this to correct it?  More than likely....but you start to drag up questions over how this ever got so screwed up, and who ordered what to occur.

In some ways, you'd be inviting all of 2021 to be a huge discussion over election failure, and assign blame to individuals.

A method that the court might just say....Electoral College results be totally thrown out because of the reckless behavior, and just run the back-up method.  Well....that would go and trigger a massive anger by pro-Biden folks as being unfair.  

Could the court go and suggest the 14 December Electoral College end-point be thrown out and conducted on 3 January instead (just a random day)?  They probably could say they have this power.....although most would question it.

Wondering how this would play out after the election?  Speaker Pelosi, by 14 December, would be calling for a massive hearing, and attempting this before early January.  After early January, if the Republicans win in bulk, their new House Speaker would restart the entire process, and go into an entirely different direction. 

The FBI in the middle of this?  With no doubt.  

All of this leading to a massive f**ked-up situation where millions of Americans feel the system is built in a manner worse than what they have in Bolivia?  Probably so.  Some would even admit that things ran better in 1912's election than it did in 2020.  

The Second Race

 So you pick up the likely schedule of the Justice selection process, and look over the landscape.

The name announcement ought to occur by next Friday, and my humble guess is that McConnell will write down 12 October (Monday, three weeks prior to the election) to start this hearing business.  

This means that the debates (Joe and Donald)....will be looking less and less important. 15 and 22 October are the 2nd and 3rd debates.  I should note as well....the 15th will be held in Miami (if the Cuban gal is selected....this debate in Florida will center entirely on her abilities and Joe will be walking into a serious mess if he insults her in Florida).

Added to this....various Senators ought to be back in their home-states....fighting to be re-elected, and now?  They will have to split their time, and openly discuss their feelings in DC.  

The end-vote in the Senate?  I would humbly suggest that it'd happen around the last Thursday/Friday of October, before the election.

Odds of the person passing?  Fifty-fifty.  Three Republican Senators (Mitt is in this group) have said they won't support this selection until January.  The pressure on the Alabama Senator (Senator Jones, Democrat)?  It's enormous and would probably cancel-out all of his efforts against 'Tubby'.  There's probably four additional Senate races which will go fairly negative for Democratic Senators.

If they fail?  All of the drama in November and December, with a 8-member court....will be laid back on the three Republicans and their approach to chaos.

So here's the landscape....it ought to be an election about Biden versus Trump, and Trump has inserted an entirely different discussion....which will eat up tons of TV journalist time.  Thanks to RBG's frustration over controlling her replacement....she actually invented another angle to lessening Joe Biden's odds in the election.