The Schloss-Blog is keeping an eye on the prospective deportation of a man who is scheduled to be a kidney donor (hear about that?) and the end of the Lakers on defense.
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A Venezualan man, scheduled to donate a kidney to his ailing brother, has been detained by ICE for prospective deportation.
He says he'll leave voluntarily after the surgery, but so far ... no d-ICE. We're watching.
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Did you watch the Lakers-Bulls game on Thursday night, or at least the wild-and-crazy ending?
The Lakers blew a 15-point fourth-quarter lead and a 5-point lead with 15 seconds left. The Bulls got whatever 3-point looks they wanted, even one after a carelessly thrown inbounds pass by LeBron himself was stolen by Josh Giddy.
In those last 15 seconds, the Bulls went up 116-115, the Lakers went back ahead 117-116 on an Austin Reaves layin and the Bulls won on .. well -- observe the final minute.
The Lakers, once invincible when Luka first arrived, are now a defensive sieve and J.J. Redick better figure it out before the playoffs.
Luka looks slow and out of shape - on defense, which he clearly does not want to play.
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The ad (Samsung AI) where the young woman walks away from an office common table where she's working in concert with colleagues so she can search for a pet-friendly Italian restaurant with outdoor seating makes me sick. She then returns to the table and sits down and smiles like nothing happened.
If I had done that -walked away from a common meeting of the minds - when I worked in the offices of Restaurant & Institutions magazine, the American Marketing Association Publishing Group or Technomic Consultants, I'd have been torched by my colleagues.
Torched.
Today's workplace values put the individual first, ahead of the company.
Thank God I'm retired.
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According to a Signal chat I'm on, the United States is planning a nuclear attack on North Korea because the president doesn't like that Kim Jong Il guy.
J.D. Vance disagreed.
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Anyone been watching the new "SUITS LA?" Interesting that they keep teasing the Harvey Foster character from the original but never bring him on in anything more than a flashback and a brief one at that.
Plus, the show has too many sub-plots going on. I can't tell who's working on what case and why and who's sleeping with who. And all the female partners appear to be 29-years old.
And hot.
But the show ain't.
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That 25% auto tariff Trump is planning, I'll bet he doesn't do it. He's bluffing to negotiate something better. He knows he loses votes if he goes through with it.
He's already ruining the economy enough, keeping prices high and taking them higher.
And insists it's how to win.
Not elections though. If Trump is trying to ostracize his base voters, he's doing a good job.
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According to a Signal chat I'm on, J.D. Vance is going to be named dictator of Greenland.
Good luck with that, J.D.
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Vladimir Putin is promising to release all Americans he's illicitly holding prisoner if the United States releases all sanctions against Russia.
One of the prisoners is Donald Trump.
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Need a new car? Can't afford it? Where's Joe Isuzu when we need him?
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Good night, Mrs. Calabash. Here's to you, JuJu Watkins.
More Sunday night on my Radio Free Phoenix rock 'n' roll show.
