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  1. If I were a betting man, in 2026 if a merger is being worked out, CW will be in the mix as well as a streamer (Apple or Amazon). Similar to the possible road the PAC-12 was going. Each team can play 6 out of 12 games on national tv and 6 on streaming. This is similar to what Hawaii does with its PPV deal except with now a conference (so it will get some hot teams’ games any given season).
  2. Their exposure is our National tv exposure, am I right? Since we play them.
  3. Wow. Trump employee who’s been working for Trump for 20 Years claims to be ordered to move boxes (classified documents) onto a plane around the time the FBI was supposed to retrieve all files. He and another employee did it. The other employee engaged a Trump provided and paid attorney. The employee spilling the beans got his own attorney, said no thanks to a Trump-aligned attorney. The other employee is being charged for perjury. Court is unlikely to hear case before election and the employee wants the nation to know what he knows before the election. “This is not a witch hunt” https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/11/politics/takeaways-cnn-exclusive-interview-trump-employee-5-mar-a-lago/index.html
  4. It’s been discussed here, but I went down the rabbit hole on Saturday night reading history as I was awake when Daylight Savings changed. I was reading and article about Taiwan, then Chang Kai-Shek’s hometown just south of Shanghai, then the Long March (6,000 mile journey from southern China to northwest China with a detour near Sichuan Province), then the 1933 Tanggu Truce which pretty much ceded Manchuria to Japan so the Nationalists could finish off the Communists, then Chang was kidnapped and then made to form an alliance with the Communists to fight Japan after the Marco Polo Bridge Incident just south of Beijing (a Japanese solder had the runs and went off into the woods to take a shit, but his military group went to look for him in a Chinese controlled village and shots were fired and a war started), then I wondered why the Japanese were even occupying territory in and around Beijing (called Beiping in the 1930’s because “jing” means “capital” and the capital was moved to Nanjing) and so I had to learn about the Boxer Rebellion of 1900 and in Beijing and Tianjin (Beijing’s port city) there were Christian Missionaries and Legations of various Western nations and Japan. The Boxers with their spears and imperial soldiers attacked the foreigners. I remember watching the movie “55 Days in Peking.” got me thinking folks were fighting with spears in 1900. And holy cow, in 1776 we had colonists. And in 2000, or say 2024 we have what we are today. Then I wondered has there ever been this much change in 200 years (1800-2000) ever before? I picked a random 200 years, 1300 - 1500. Doesn’t even compare (something like a clock was invented). Within our lifetimes, we will see unbelievable change. In our kids’ life, if so luck to live pass 2100, the change will be even more. Unbelievable. I also thought about China and there was so much turmoil and humiliation (Opium War, Boxers, etc). Here we are today.
  5. If you’re bored. This was an interesting cartoon play by play of a China-Taiwan-US war. The comments were very enlightening. The short version is: China does a first strike against US military and Taiwan mainly with missiles, and then starts their invasion. By Day 3, allies attack back and establishes air superiority. Things don’t look good for China. Beach landings are hampered by artillery, drones, sea mines, underwater pipes spewing out oil and causing surface fires on the water. One Child Policy enshrines that family bloodlines end with each battle field death. An economic collapse occurs as food and oil imports are cut off. Hope this war never happens. Commenters seem very bullish about US chances if attacked. Less so if the conflict is limited to Taiwan and the West has to choose to get involved.
  6. @sactowndog The stakes are very high. ”The November race will be a rematch of the pair’s 2022 runoff, when Salas lost to Valadao by several thousand votes. And Salas and Valadao won’t be the only rematch on the November ticket. In a heavily agricultural San Joaquin Valley district that includes all of Merced County and parts of Fresno, Madera, San Joaquin and Stanislaus counties, incumbent GOP Rep. John Duarte will once again face off against Democratic challenger Adam Gray. Duarte won the 13th Congressional District in the midterm election by fewer than 600 votes, one of the closest races in the nation.”
  7. One reason why propagating “indifference” even in California, a blue state, could have consequences even if just on the top of the ticket. The House is up for grabs, and the road to control could run through states like California. If you are against Trump, you are supporting on all facets (democrat, independent, Republican, House, Senate, donating money and time and dissuading others from inadvertently hurting the cause) and making sure there are checks on power if there is a Trump presidency. Sactown’s and others indifference and influence could cost votes in crucial races, including attempts to use the top of the ticket to influence House races. I agree the “referendum” for the current political crisis comes from getting beat badly and needing a bigger tent. Don’t fall for the trap. Your vote matters. It’s to send a message. It’s to make sure there’s checks on power. If you support Ukraine, the House races are important. https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-03-10/california-house-races-partisan-control-congress ”California is home to 10 races rated as competitive by the nonpartisan Cook Political Report — five of them in districts that are represented by Republicans but that President Biden won in 2020. In the months to come, both parties will be investing significant resources in those races, as national attention inevitably turns west. With an expected Biden-Trump rematch, voter turnout in 2024 is also likely to be supercharged compared with the 2022 midterm election. That could give an edge to Democrats, given the registration advantage that they hold in many of the competitive districts. Republicans gained one California House seat in the 2022 midterms, a nonpresidential election when turnout was substantially lower than when Biden and Trump topped the ballot two years prior.”
  8. Just like Biden’s off the cuff “an illegal” (referring to the guy who murdered the girl in Georgia) might score points with independents and moderate R’s who speak like that. The Biden tent is big.
  9. I recently learned this at a Japan conference: The word anime is a shortened form of the Japanese word animēshon, which means "animation." While anime has its roots in Japan, it has since spread to other countries, and today, anime can be found in many different languages, including English.
  10. I’m fired up. Made a donation to ActBlue tonight. This was funny and telling. https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2024/03/08/james-lankford-border-bill-biden-state-of-the-union-vpx.cnn Hire more judges to reduce the backlog of cases from 2 million and 6 years down to 6 months. I guess that’s the problem, the 6 year wait for a trial makes paying several grand to traffickers worth it. Lankford mouthed “it’s true.” Wow
  11. Boyd don’t forget your friends at Hawaii. We’ve kept Downtown Vegas alive : )
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