ECONOMICS: Big deffered contract takes a big risk?

Thursday, December 14, 2023

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/mlb/article-12853145/baseball-fans-slam-shohei-ohtani-deferred-contract.html

Baseball fans SLAM Shohei Ohtani’s ‘league-killing deal’ after it was revealed he will defer $680m of his eye-watering $700m contract… as rival supporters blast MLB’s ‘downright laughable’ decision to give green light | Daily Mail Online
By Jake Fenner For Dailymail.Com
Published: 23:39 EST, 11 December 2023 | Updated: 00:11 EST, 13 December 2023 

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  •     Ohtani’s deal will see the bulk of the contract paid out after it ends in 10 years 
  •     Baseball fans were irate at the structure and that it was allowed to happen 

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The Dodgers must have channeled their inner Bill Belichick.  This will get everyone’s shorts in a knot.  Especially the politicians and bureaucrats in the Pepuls Republik of Kaliforkneeah.  That’s a lot of money they can’t steal.  And it’s a big risk to take on the financial stability of the Dodgers and the future value of the USD.  Wonder what kind of Futures Contract he’s buying to protect it.

While I understand the motivations behind “stretching the rules”, it’s NOT without some significant risks IMHO.

It violates my favorite heuristic (rule of thumb; “common sense”; pov) that one should always “take the money and run”.  

It’s not beyond the imagination to conceive of the politicians and bureaucrats of the Pepuls Republik of Kaliforkneeah creating a special income tax rule for “deferred compensation”.  Watch for it!

AND, inflation AKA dollar depreciation is for SURE to erode that deferred wealth.

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NEWJERSEY: No digital only coupons

Wednesday, December 13, 2023
https://nj1015.com/digital-coupon-new-jersey-supermarkets/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=NEWS%2C%20Tue%20Dec%2012:%20Possible%20changes%20to%20digital%20coupons&utm_term=All%20Valid%20Users

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Under the bill, coupons that can only be accessed by shoppers through their computers, tablets or smartphones would also have to be made available in-store, offering the same price or discount as what’s being offered online.

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Read More: NJ bill could cost shoppers discounts | https://nj1015.com/digital-coupon-new-jersey-supermarkets/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=NEWS%2C%20Tue%20Dec%2012:%20Possible%20changes%20to%20digital%20coupons&utm_term=All%20Valid%20Users&utm_source=tsmclip&utm_medium=referral

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POLITICAL: Just leave it vacant until the next regular election!

Wednesday, December 13, 2023

https://nypost.com/2023/12/05/metro/date-set-for-vote-to-replace-disgraced-george-santos/

Metro
Hochul sets Feb. 13 House special election to replace NY’s George Santos
By Social Links for Vaughn Golden and Carl Campanile
Published Dec. 5, 2023, 6:14 p.m. ET

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A special election to fill the congressional seat vacated by expelled former Rep. George Santos will take place on Feb. 13, 2024, Gov. Kathy Hochul announced Tuesday.

Hochul set the date for the vote in New York’s Third Congressional District one day after calling her former challenger, ex-Rep. Tom Suozzi, to the governor’s mansion in Albany to bend the knee following his ill-fated primary bid last year.

“We had a good meeting and cleared the air, and I appreciate her making the time,” Suozzi said. “At a time of strong political division, I offered to be another moderate voice as the Governor works to solve problems and make progress.”

Suozzi repped the Queens and Nassau County district for six years before leaving to run against Hochul in the gubernatorial race, opening the way for Santos to upset Democrat Robert Zimmerman as part of a midterm red wave in the Empire State.

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Why have the expense of a “special election”?  Just leave it vacant until the next regular election!

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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: Get il;legal immigration under control?

Tuesday, December 12, 2023

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/europeans-will-succumb-islam-former-top-german-spy-issues-new-warning-muslim-majority

“Europeans Will Succumb To Islam” – Former Top German Spy Issues New Warning
by Tyler Durden
Tuesday, Dec 05, 2023 – 02:00 AM
Authored by John Cody via Remix,

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“It should also be possible to persuade third countries to take back their own nationals after deportation orders. If they don’t do it, you could ‘freeze their assets,’ prevent (their citizens) from traveling to Europe and other things. You have to persuade these states to behave in accordance with international law,” he said.

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Clearly, the USA needs to deport ALL illegals.  Convicted Felons and illegally reentering aliens should be priority one.  And FAST!

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GUNS: Why was the homeowner put in handcuffs?

Monday, December 11, 2023

https://nypost.com/2023/12/04/news/la-homeowner-fatally-shoots-suspect-during-attempted-burglary/

 LA homeowner fatally shoots suspect during attempted burglary as horrified child, grandma watch
By Social Links for Isabel Keane
Published Dec. 4, 2023, 8:33 a.m. ET

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A Los Angeles homeowner shot and killed a suspected burglar over the weekend after a group of men wearing dark hoodies and masks broke into his home — where a child and grandmother were left rattled by the brazen attempted burglary.

Police responded to the Granada Hills home around 5 a.m. Saturday morning after receiving radio calls of shots fired inside the residence.

The homeowner told police he was inside his home when three or four unknown men wearing “dark clothing, hoodies and masks” broke in, the Los Angeles Police Department wrote on X.

“A suspect pointed a weapon at the victim and while the suspects were inside the residence, the victim produced a firearm and a shooting occurred,” the department wrote. 

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The homeowner, who was photographed outside the residence seemingly in handcuffs, was taken to the Devonshire Community Police Station to be interviewed, though they were later released. 

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Give you some insight into the Pepuls Republik of Kaliforkneeah’s attitude towards guns?

“No law ever written has stopped any robber, rapist or killer, like cold blue steel in the hands of their last intended victim.” —W. Emerson Wright

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SECESSION: TEXIT still alive

Sunday, December 10, 2023

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/texit-progress-secession-question-expected-appear-2024-texas-primary-ballot

TEXIT Progress: Secession Question Expected To Appear on 2024 Texas Primary Ballot
by Tyler Durden
Saturday, Dec 02, 2023 – 10:45 PM

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As the US government hurtles toward insolvency while political and cultural divisions intensify across the country, Texans are poised to take their long-simmering flirtation with secession to the next level, as a non-binding proposition is expected to appear on the statewide GOP primary ballot in March 2024.  

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Interesting that of all the States only North Dakota has a State bank and could leave.

Other candidates for an _EXIT are: California, New Hampshire, Alaska, and Hawaii.

It happened to the USSR, so why not the USA?

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GOVERNACIDE: Analyziz of a school shooting and no one cares

Saturday, December 9, 2023

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2023/12/shouldnt_have_happened_the_oxford_high_shooting.html

American Thinker
Shouldn’t Have Happened: The Oxford High Shooting
By Rebecca Behrends
Dec 2, 2023 at 01:00

  • There were so many red flags, warnings, gaps, and deficiencies that school boards and parents need to come to terms with.

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Meanwhile, the boy’s backpack was brought to the office. None of the school officials asked for consent to search his backpack. Later, the shooter testified to a defense psychologist that he was relieved for the first time in his life when he was in the counselor’s office because he just knew that sheriffs would burst into the office and arrest him. After all they had witnessed, he felt there would be no way that they wouldn’t search his backpack.

Well, they didn’t search his backpack. Had they done so, they would have found a gun and bullets. This was the weapon the shooter used later in the day to kill four students and injure five other students and a teacher.

The school counselor and the dean of students never asked the parents if their son had access to a firearm. It was concluded that it would be okay to send the boy back to his classroom, as it would be a “controlled, supervised” setting, and “we know that students are happier when they’re with their peers.” Four individuals had knowledge of threatening behavior of the shooter, but this info was not shared through their computerized database. Had the principal been notified, he would have had the authority to trigger a Threat Assessment and a Suicide Assessment Intervention. The shooter’s social media posts would have been checked, which would have revealed that he did have access to a firearm.

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Rebecca Behrends, M.D. is a retired E.D. physician and is vice president for research for Michigan Citizens for Election Integrity at MC4EI.com.

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Schools are like prisons.  They train the “students” to be “inmates”.  Gooferment Skrules are the worst.

That being said, why don’t we treat them like they were prisons.  Armed guards and locks on everything.

Let’s not kid ourselves that “gun free zones” are really “target rich environments”!

Argh!

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DISCOURAGING: A “demographic transformation” is occuring in the USA too thanks to Democrats welcoming illegal immigration

Friday, December 8, 2023

https://www.amren.com/features/2023/12/the-struggle-for-ireland/

The Struggle for Ireland
Gregory Hood, American Renaissance, December 1, 2023

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Polls show that most Irish are opposed to the demographic transformation, but this is utterly unrepresented in government. What kind of government muzzles its people, ignores their policy preferences, and replaces them? An illegitimate government of occupation. Getting rid of it was the purpose of the Irish struggle for independence. Will the Irish have to do it all over again?

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Let’s not forget that Obama resettled Muslims into Michigan and the Mid-West.  Now the D”s are losing those State because of their support for Israel.  Their hubris is now paying them back.

Crime and drugs are pouring over the southern border.  And, to a lesser extent the northern one too.

Sounds like we are losing the nation over this “transformation”.

Will anyone wake up and stop it?

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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: AccuVote operating system is still running on Windows XP

Thursday, December 7, 2023

FROM FREE REPUBLIC

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Arizona Election Lies Exposed

12/1/2023, 2:54:49 PM · by cuz1961 · 3 replies

Frank Speech Email | 12/1/2023 | Frank Speech Email

Arizona Election Lies Exposed Frank Speech Email The tide is shifting. This week we heard blockbuster oral arguments before the New Hampshire Supreme Court from Patriot Daniel Richard. Richard uncovered the dirty secrets behind Dominion Voting Systems and AccuVote tabulating systems being run by LHS Associates. In fact the election machines are so bad that even the president of LHS Associates admitted the AccuVote operating system is still running on Windows XP–a system not supported in decades! And the media continues to tell me that election machines cannot be hacked???!!! Windows XP, seriously? This case may end up BLOWING UP…

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That sounds real secure!

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INSPIRATIONAL: Search for Mexico’s Ancient Civilizations

Wednesday, December 6, 2023

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/zelia-nuttall-globe-trotting-scholar-unlocked-secrets-aztecs-180983049/

History | November 2023

The Globe-Trotting Scholar Who Unlocked the Secrets of the Aztecs

  • Anthropologist Zelia Nuttall transformed the way we think of ancient Mesoamerica
  • An illustration of the Aztec calendar stone surrounds a young portrait of anthropologist Zelia Nuttall. “Mrs. Nuttall’s investigations of the Mexican calendar appear to furnish for the first time a satisfactory key,” wrote one leading scholar.
  • Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University

By Merilee Grindle
Author, In the Shadow of Quetzalcoatl: Zelia Nuttall and the Search for Mexico’s Ancient Civilizations

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On a bright day early in 1885, Zelia Nuttall was strolling around the ancient ruins of Teotihuacán, the enormous ceremonial site north of Mexico City. Not yet 30, Zelia had a deep interest in the history of Mexico, and now, with her marriage in ruins and her future uncertain, she was on a trip with her mother, Magdalena; her brother George; and her 3-year-old daughter, Nadine, to distract her from her worries.

The site, which covered eight square miles, had once been home to the predecessors of the Aztecs. It included about 2,000 dwellings along with temples, plazas and pyramids where they charted the stars and made offerings to the sun and moon. As Zelia admired the impressive buildings, some shrouded in dirt and vegetation, she reached down and collected a few pieces of pottery from the dusty soil. They were plentiful and easy to find with a few brushes of her hand.

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Amazing what this woman was able to accomplish.

I was most impressed by her language abilities.

And, I wonder what else we have lost or overlooked.

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