Brittney
Griner is back! Hallelujah!
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The Schloss-Blog sees Tik Tok
in your future, unless you live in South Dakota, Nebraska and now Maryland, and
coming soon, South Carolina and Wisconsin. Plus homelessness, taxes, transfer
portals and steroids are all in the news.
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Nobody wants people to be
homeless but nobody wants to pay more in taxes to provide shelter for them and
especially to have them located nearby.
But it may come to that in LA,
New York, San Francisco and even Phoenix, where it's on the rise.
Get those homeless off the
street. Provide shelter for them, even tiny houses (which are all the rage of
the housing industry) and give them a place to call home.
Just don't put them near my
home, right? Nobody wants homelessness but nobody seems to want homeless people
living nearby.
This ain't gonna' get solved
for a while.
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Speaking of civil services,
nobody wants to defund the police but nobody wants to pay a raise in taxes for
them either, do they?
We all expect the best in civil
services but nobody wants a tax increase - that is the bane of politicians, who
know that raising taxes means waving good-bye to your career in politics.
But if you want service - pay
for it or stop complaining about it, right?
We definitely need more
security at power company facilities, as we just found out in North Carolina,
where the power company was geared up for cyber attacks but not for bullet
holes that shut down a pair of generators and left people cold and hungry.
Somebody is going to have to
pay for the increased security that it going to call for.
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The transfer portal is open and
college football players have rushed in, some seeking a fourth team (J.T.
Daniels) in six years.
The transfer portal has now
become the holy grail of recruiting and coaches flock to it to the point that
key players will pass on participating in bowl games to protect their status at
their next stop.
Yes, I have always believed the
players should have transfer accessibility, just like coaches break contracts
and go to new schools. But the transfer portal has become the be-all, end-all
for college players and needs to have the same restrictions I had when I
transferred to SUNY-Albany after my freshman year at Baruch College of CUNY. I
had to apply and await word.
If football players are
STUDENT-athletes, they should too.
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In China, they are relaxing
COVID restrictions at last as riots and protests have reached critical levels
in response, as have the outlandish responses of the Chinese police and
government authorities tracking the protesters.
Oddly enough, these rule relaxations
come as Tik Tok is being banned in Maryland on state communication devices, by
governor's order. It's already that way in Nebraska and South Dakota and is
leaning that way in South Carolina and Wisconsin.
The reason? Those state
governments believe that Tik Tok is nothing more than a database-gathering
machine for the Chinese government.
What about you? How do you feel
about being a prospective information beacon for the Chinese?
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Fred McGriff (493 career home
runs) was elected into the Hall of Fame by baseball's Contemporary Era
Committee.
Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens
were not and won't have another chance for three years with that committee.
So, the career home run leader
and one of baseball's winning-est strikeout kings are not even close to sniffing
the Hall. The all-time hits leader (Pete Rose) isn't either and isn't even on
the ballot, by decree.
Should these guys be in the
Hall? Wasn't everyone using steroids in the "contemporary era?"
Didn't steroids just work better for some guys than they did for others?
I'd ask Sammy Sosa, but he's
not responding in English.
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Putin thought he had us over a
barrel, but gas
prices are actually lower now than a year ago. Over a barrel, hah! Over a
barrel. Sometimes I outdo myself.
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Finally, Elon Musk truly does
want to put brain implants into people that would link them to computers.
He's already tested it on
animals, through his Neuralink company.
And you thought Tik Tok and
supposed COVID-injection implants were invasions of privacy.
Hah!
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Good night, Mrs. Calabash.
Here's to you, Mrs. Robinson.
More Sunday night on my Radio
Free Phoenix rock 'n' roll show.
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