ROBINS and Red Wing Black Birds have arrived.

If you listen to the talking heads on the news - ANY network, even the pure propaganda networks they will tell you we are in a bull or a bear market and people will get all excited or depressed.

BUT - in reality we have been in a holding pattern since the beginning of 2018, 14 months.  It seems to me that many people seem to believe that "long term" is a year.

Now the fed is hinting that they might lower interest rates which SOUNDS good and will give an instant boost but typically when the fed has been raising rates and then all of a sudden lowers the rates - it's not sustainable, sort of like fools gold.  Be careful.

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ROBINS - we saw three robins in the yard this morning and a couple of red wing blackbird and a crap load of grackles. 

Kestrel Ridge is sort of pond/river-like and last nights weather was LOUD at our house as the wind was messing with all the STUFF leaning on and surrounding our house.

The yard is turning into mud.

Of course the main issue is hoping robbers will not climb the ladders and drill a hole in the ceiling to secretly drop onto us as we sleep to steal Gus the Weather Dog. 

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The LA Lakers last year on this day were 31-35.  They added LeBron James and were expecting to be in the finals of the NBA . . . . .today, one year later, 31-35 and will not make the playoffs.

Last night I saw that the Brewers were playing a night game in Scottsdale.  Yea - it's an exhibition game but going to sleep to baseball is ALWAYS wonderful.  5th inning -rain out!  sigh.

Nobody is talking about Jimmy Nelsons first appearance pitching in an actual game in 18 months. It was . . . OK

First batter  BAM  HOMERUN, and then two singles and a double.  OK that was the bad part.  The good part was all three outs in the one inning were strikeouts, His fastball reached 94mph. His off speed pitches were very good.  The VERY good news was there was no tenderness or any PHYSICAL issues AFTER the inning.

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Did you know they still do not know who murdered Bob Crane from Hogans Heros.  Bludgeoned to death with a wire around his neck.  No charges were ever filed. Most of the evidence from the crime scene have been lost.   In 2016 the case was opened again but no real results.

MEANWHILE - Micheal Jackson . . . . what a total scum he was.  OMG - think of the very worst thing you can do to children and then add another layer.  What a freakish pedophile.  Indescribable what he talked children into doing.  Well, you COULD describe it but I think I would go to jail for even mentioning it.  There is a video from the early 1990s where his sister said she would NOT defend him IF there were ever legal issues with him and children.

I mean you have a 10 year old in your bedroom for 2 weeks? AND you have fake weddings while there?   

He SHOULD have been locked up FOREVER - the doctor that killed him should be a national hero.

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Our draft is over and I can now go back to normal life.

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US Customs is at war with Ford.  It seems Ford is cheating to work around the huge tariffs.  Ford pays 2.5% tariffs on passenger cars but 25% on light trucks which includes cargo vans.

Customs argue that Ford imported passenger vans,  removed a row of seats, and flipped them as cargo vans, in doing so saving a bunch of money at the border.    

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Right now ELO ratings have the Milwaukee Bucks as a 45% chance to be in the NBA finals and a 19% chance to be NBA Champs.

I remember ESPN had an article maybe 8 or 9 years ago that took EVERY professional sports team and their chance of winning a title in the next 30 years.  The Bucks were the bottom of ALL professional teams.   HA!   Right now Golden State and the Bucks in the finals.

Of course there are some games to play yet but the Bucks picked up Pau Gasol which looks weird but it's all about match-ups against Philadelphia and Boston and their BIG front.  The Bucks needed someone BIG to take up space in the middle. 

Elweed had never been an NBA fan but now can tell me the record of San Antonio.  He said he was on the bus last week and there were random people talking about the Bucks.  That NEVER happens in Madison.  He even called me (he's on my family plan and I got him a flip phone LOL) and told me about that.

OH - balderdahs fly's to Las Vegas today - I better get him some picks. Still doing OK.  56% which is not setting the world on fire but with so many picks . . . quantity over quality.  212 picks so far.

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Trump is seriously considering making Mexican drug cartels as foreign terrorists organizations so that our military can go after them. At the same time slashing funding for the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy by more than 95%.

Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ), tweeted, "As president I will continue to fight to legalize marijuana, but we should go further—we need to expunge records and reinvest in communities most hurt by the failed drug war. Let's focus on restorative justice, not just ending the prohibition on marijuana."

Minnesota has zero plans for legalizing cannabis.

Opiate deaths in Colorado have been drastically reduced since the legalization of cannabis.

Nuff said