My Gut Feeling On Seven Things

 1.  This WNBA player, Brittney Griner, held in a Russian jail situation over arriving in the country with cannabis vape.

Years ago, I watched the 1978 movie.....Midnight Express.  Stupid American, trying to fly out of Turkey, drugs on him.  The movie impressed upon me.....once you visit a foreign country....you keep your act straight, and avoid drugs at all cost.  Evidentially, Griner never saw the movie.

2.  Busing illegals to NYC or Washington DC.

No one is forced onto the buses, and the ride cost nothing (food seems to be provided).  So, what's the big deal?  Lot of chatter about jobs in NYC being empty.

3.  The Russian spiral in the Ukraine.

At some point in the next two months....I expect a major part of the Russian front to collapse, and 10,000 Conscripts retreat in mass....getting clobbered every step of the way for 48 hours.  Those who survive?  They will never take orders from the Russian commanders again.  This war goes into maximum turbo decline at this point.

4.  DC schools say kids must be vaxed-up for the entry into school here in August, or be denied entry.

Just guessing here, but I might assume more than 2,000 kids and their parents don't comply.  At that point, schools might as well go and dismiss more 100 teachers.

5.  Just how much of a lame-duck is President Biden after the mid-term?

On a scale of one to ten.....probably a '8'.  For the party....he's of no value for 2023, and it'd be better if he just didn't appear that often in public.  

Politically-speaking....2023 looks pretty crappy for the Democratic Party, unless you get AOC or Newsom out in front daily....making speeches.

6.  San Bernardino County (what is everything between Riverside and Bullhead City, AZ.....is having a vote this November to succeed from California?

Yeah.  Not that it's really legal or resolved via the Constitution....but they say that they want their fair share of 'funds' from the state, and they aren't getting them.

How big is the county?  Roughly half the size of the state of Alabama.  But I should state this....25-percent of the county is Fort Irwin (the Army post), and another 35-odd percent is fed desert land.  Five-percent is national forest land. 

Who would they flip to?  In their fantasy....either Arizona or Nevada.

From the state leadership....no one takes this serious.  It would be an interesting thing to entertain.

7.  Iowa not being first for the 2024 primary?

Rumor started up....the head of the Democratic Party wants either Nevada or New Hampshire to be first.....or to have all four on the same day.

Why?  I don't think Newsom can win in Iowa, and they need some kind of 'protection' to get him to the convention.  Newsom in Nevada, SC or NH?  Well....he might have 60-percent odds in Nevada, but less than 30-percent in Iowa, SC or NH.  

What Happened To The Batgirl Movie?

 The studio says.....can it.  It will never be shown in theaters, or via DVDs, or via cable TV.  What's said now....around $70-million was spent, and will be considered just a tax-write-off.

What I suspect?  Three things:

1.  I think they went with a two-star concept, and just thinking anything DC....would sell.  Somewhere near the end of production, the big-boys of the studio then realized there was no real focus.....no hero status....nothing to get people into the theater.

2.  The script?  Maybe it was a marginal script.  No one talks much about it.

3.  It was a no-name actress (Leslie Grace) who got the nod to play the part.  There's always a risk when you do this....people thinking it'll pan out, and sometimes....it does work.  

If they take the tax loss?  Then the whole thing will be shredded and never viewed.  Hard to believe they'd go to the length.  

Things Are So Bad....

 It's reached a point here in the past year, where the US government more or less....admitted that UFOs do actually exist, and frankly....no one cares.

I sat and thought about this statement here this morning.

I would offer three reasons for the 'do-not-care' business:

1.  No one really believes anything that comes from the government today.  It's been that way for twenty-odd years.  

2.  People have seen enough UFO movies, to readily believe in aliens already.

3.  Between wokeness, Covid, gender-crap, pronoun-BS, the Trump era, the Biden era, the murder rate in Baltimore, the Russians in the Ukraine, the recession, and social media crapping all over the place.....no one has any appreciation of the UFO business.

I'll even go this far...to say this.  If aliens did arrive and offered any chance to leave the Earth....for any remote oddball planet....probably more than half would accept the chance to pack up and move. 

This Idea Of Pumping Mississippi River Water To the Colorado River And Arizona?

 I noticed this story posted this week....because of lessening river waters to Nevada, Arizona and California....there's talk of some 'pipe' to bring Mississippi River water to the west.  Matter of how it'd work?  Unknown.

For reference....the Colorado River officially starts at Lake La Poudre Pass....about 30 miles west of Fort Collins.  

So the idea is...you'd build some canal or 'pipe' to bring Mississippi water to the 'foot' of the Rocky Mountains.

How I would imagine this working?  I'd go to two states....Iowa and Nebraska and offer up some deal for the purchase of five or six areas where huge reservoirs would be built (probably in the 2,000 acre-range each and thirty feet deep), which I would allow some locals to get irrigation off of.

Then I'd pump the Mississippi water through each reservoir, and reach the point at Fort Collins where you'd require a fair amount of pumping to reach the Long Draw Reservoir (which leads into the Colorado River).  

Inch by inch....I'd start to raise the water flow into the Colorado....probably reach two to three feet  above where it is today.  

Cost factor?  Oh, its to be into the 100-billion range, and easily take a decade to accomplish.  

Selling this idea?  It helps to have Nebraska and Iowa attached....then you bring up the topic of flood control for those who've suffered from sprig floods on the Mississippi.  

Observations

 1.  I noticed some video off social media....woke-teacher who was trying to get some 6th grade set up for pronoun games.  So she came to this one kid....who responded that his pronouns were Banana and Rock.  This was not the expectation of the dimwit teacher, and she was apparently troubled over this.

I studied the situation for a minute, and then it kinda hit me.....Banana and Rock can't be pronouns....they are nouns.  Depending on use....they could be regular nouns or possibly proper nouns.

Yeah, those noun-trouble-maker kids....you got to watch them.

2.  It's just odd....the WH came up and admitted this whole 'inflation-money-act' deal.....will do nothing much to curb inflation.

Observations

 1.  There are two things I've gotten out of the House 6-Jan hearings.  First, it tended to make the House members appear useless and marginal.  Maybe that was some intended goal, or just the way I perceived the 'show' going.  Second, to this point....no one has explained who opened the doors to the capital building...which seems odd.  

2.  This Paul Pelosi 'pull-over' by the California police for a DWI....now indicates he had drugs in his system, but they aren't saying what.

In most states?  As a minimum....you'd be losing your car insurance, and likely not getting your license back for at least a year.

Ten Things Likely To Come By The End Of 2022

 1.  As classes start back up this month (August)....at least 250,000 kids are likely missing and on home-schooling.  Primary reason?  Pronouns, marginal instructors, and propagandized schools.  Roughly 10,500 teachers (mostly in grade-schools) will be let go.  The only places recruiting for the 10,500?  Mostly urbanized areas with rough neighborhoods....where the pronoun teachers won't last long.

2.  Liz Cheney ends up at CNN as a round-table 'guest' similar to Fox's Five.  No one takes her serious.

3.  Latino vote in the mid-term shifting to Republican candidates, and shocking the leadership of the Democratic Party.

4.  Brittney Griner, WNBA player held in Russia.....will be traded and arrive back in the US....to be interviewed countless times about her appreciation of President Biden's efforts.  

5.  Someone will invent something called the Biden-Index....to reflect the true economy and true recession. It'll be considered the least reliable index to project current conditions of the nation.  

6.  Twitter court action reaches a stage where the judge suggests to Twitter that Elon holds a 'ace' or two, and either you lessen the purchase price (probably going from $44-billion down to $34-billion), or drop the case entirely.  A massive court case starts up by stock-holders...against the board/CEO.  

7.  Joe Biden will be diagnosed with Covid-Brain-Fog by the end of 2022.  A discussion ensues....whether he's fogged-up too much to be President, or just marginally fogged-up (he can't do math problems for example).

8.  3,000 Russian conscripts arrive after five days of boot-camp at the 'front' in the Ukraine.....with 90-percent of them dead by the end of 2022.  

9.  At least ten gentlemen from CNN (journalists) will have Monkey-pox before the end of 2022.

10.  At least two European governments will 'collapse' by the end of 2022....requiring new elections (besides Italy).