The WNBA Sucks

 This is one more rare WNBA post from me.  

As the season is winding down we've seen multiple players and coaches blast the league leadership and officials for failing to do their jobs.   Obviously the league is fining the outspoken people, but it seems clear that the league leadership sucks right now.  

It obviously makes no sense to trash talk your most marketable player, and when the talk about bad officiating is coaches complaining about calls made on the other team or how other players get screwed, maybe it's time to take things seriously.  

I 100% believe that a women's professional basketball league should exist, but I think that the current nightmare is probably not the correct format.   If I was one of the top 10 players in the league right now, I'd be actively looking for backers for an alternative to the WNBA (that's not a 3 on 3 league).    I canot believe that there aren't investors who'd love to invest in a league with Collier, Buekers, Clark, and the rest.  As they are negotiating a new CBA, the players and coaches do have a degree of power and having an alternative gives them more.  Yes, the talk about how the WNBA players should get paid as much as the NBA is stupid.   Yet, they probably should be getting more money as the league gets better TV deals. 

In general I don't watch NBA/WNBA unless there's nothing else on or if the Wolves/Lynx are deep in the playoffs, but I do find the off season drama in the two leagues to be more interesting than the actual season. 

Finally, not giving the KC ownership group an expansion team was incredibly stupid.   This is the same group that owns the women's soccer team, and have done a phenomenal job with that.   

Succinct

 https://x.com/realdonkeith/status/1973296829497483313?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

 This looks like it's older, but Maher hits the nail on the head.   

 

 

Land Of Way More Than 10,000 Frauds

https://x.com/wallstreetapes/status/1973239265434935416?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

So, we now find out that almost 50% of immigrants interviewed in MN have committed some sort of immigration fraud.   Which means that we allowed these people to fraudulently immigrate to MN, and then allowed them to  engage in various additional fraudulent activities to the tune of tens of billions of dollars.  

Thanks DFL, great job of protecting the state.   

And We Thought Little Mogadishu Was Bad

 https://www.cbsnews.com/detroit/news/complaint-dearborn-mosque-noise-call-to-prayer/

So, after over 10 years in construction I learned that virtually every municipality has  restrictions on loud noises during certain hours of the day.   Likewise, when my mom used to play the bells at our church, we decided to be good neighbors by limiting the hours that they were played.  At some point, these things boil down to common courtesy.  Something that Muslims in power (or those trying to get into power) seem to have very little of.   There doesn't seem to be any argument that the broadcasts violate the local noise ordinances, yet they continue and non Muslims are essentially told to "F Off".    One obvious solution for this problem is a reasonably accurate scoped rifle.   It seems like it'd be pretty easy to take the speakers out and solve this problem.    What's crazy is that there would be more outcry against someone who solved a problem that the government refuses to solve, that at the problem that was solved.  

That the ASPL silently watches and encourages these little outposts of Sharia, and oppression, tell the rest of us so much about them.    The leaders of Dearborne, Hamtramck, and other places have been quite clear.   They believe themselves to be the vanguard of Islam replacing US civil and crimnial law with Sharia.  

Full Faith and Credit

 https://ocpathink.org/post/independent-journalism/no-name-given-oklahoma-nabs-125-illegal-immigrant-drivers

Nahhhhhhhhhhhhh.   If someone can't provide their actual name on an official government issued ID, they should not qualify for that ID.   As someone who got my Real ID, because it was required, there is no way to have met the requirements without providing proof of identity.  How can the notion of Full Faith and Credit be taken seriously?  

More

 https://x.com/vigilantfox/status/1972715926848983262?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

Definitely more right wing extremism.   

 

Reality Bites

 https://x.com/scottjenningsky/status/1972778381948379551?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

Illegal aliens can't and don't vote, yet reality begs do differ.  We were also assured that illegal aliens can't and don't get programs like Medicaid.   Yet the reality that the DFL is ready to shut down the government over taxpayer funded health insurance for illegal aliens, would seem to make that claim false as well.