Tuesday, February 4, 2025

News Round-up (02/4/2025)

Love is (Not) in the air........


They say that the only way to make money in a casino is to own the casino.  The current large corporate owners of Las Vegas Casinos are on the verge of proving this wrong. From a myriad of fees to declining resort quality to a race-to-the-bottom customer service culture the current owners of Las Vegas Casino Resorts are sucking the value out of the City and, increasingly, turning people off from visiting.  Amazing.

Two of Lina Hidalgo's buddies are getting their criminal charges dismissed. What this means is open to some debate.  It's certainly good for them, and possibly good for Ms. Hidalgo but who knows really?  Paxton always seems to dance to the beat of his own drummer.

It's probably past time for the increasingly politicized "Doomsday Clock" to go the way of the Dodo. The Media loves them some of this though, like they love several other silly things.

The Return of the "Resistance" *sigh* Time is a flat circle.

Reminder:  Food Halls are just Food Courts with better marketing.  and this one is just a glorified strip mall.

Don't expect DEI to go quietly into that good night. There are a LOT of people who have a LOT of money on the line through kick-backs and consulting fees. They have a lot to lose.

Congrats to Beyoncé for finally grabbing Album of the Year at the Grammys.

The political sniping over the price of eggs ignores the fact that viruses have no party preference. It's neither Biden, nor Trump's fault, despite what the talking heads are saying.

There are several things that you can disagree with Republicans on, but DOGE should not be one of them. Reducing the size of our leviathan governments should be a priority for all. If the rent is too damn high, then the governments are too damn big.

Punxsutawney Phil don't know shit.

Always remember to take these stories from non-profit, "activist" news sites with a grain of salt. If their mission statement is to 'influence policy' then they are not a "news" organization, they are an activist site.  That doesn't mean they are wrong, but they do have an agenda.  From another perspective however, at least they, unlike legacy media, admit said agenda so there's that.

This is a bad idea. While I'm sympathetic to (some) of the arguments against mail-in ballots and other recent schemes to make voting easier (and easier to defraud the system) this is overreach and will do nothing but make it harder for many people to vote.


And finally.....


THE 2025 BIG XII FOOTBALL SHEDULE IS OUT!!!!!  First thoughts: Kansas' schedule is good, for them, as they get a lot of their big games at home. For the entire conference however the out of conference schedule closely resembles a cupcake factory.  Still, it's college football stuff in February. Yay!!!

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