Scott_H

Avid Astros and Texans fan, student of the markets.

[Jake @EconomPic]

Buckle up...

It is reported by @PabloTorre today that the huge $8.35B Dodgers TV deal was negotiated directly by Walter (owner of the regional media company, American Media Productions)… to Walter (owner of the Dodgers), reportedly before he acquired the Dodgers and seemingly contingent on him doing so. This let Walter bid ~$700M above the next-highest offer, despite it being reported at the time that he had no secured media deal in hand.

Time Warner Cable was the counterparty that agreed to pay AMP $8.35B over 25 years for the rights to distribute SportsNet LA, a deal that backed the whole structure. It was brokered by David Rone, then President of Time Warner Cable Networks. Industry experts questioned the logic of that inflated price for years, it drove the local blackouts, and it became a real risk on Time Warner's books ahead of its eventual sale to Charter Communications. Rone was later hired by... Walter into Guggenheim as a managing partner, a role he still holds today.

The deal required such high fees to be charged to local cable that roughly 70% of Dodgers fans were blacked out for years because providers wouldn't pay it. Then in 2015, Walter sold Magic Johnson a controlling stake in an insurance company (EquiTrust), reportedly as repayment for Johnson's help winning the 2012 Dodgers bid... an insurance company that then helped fund the payments to the Dodgers through a loan under the deal Walter negotiated with himself.

[Mark Lambert @sitsio]

Does anyone remember this amazing story? On July 2, 1982, a truck driver from California flew 16,000 feet into the sky in a lawn chair. Larry Walters, 33, from San Pedro, had dreamed of flying his whole life. He bought 42 eight-foot helium weather balloons, tied them to a regular Sears lawn chair, strapped on a parachute, packed a BB gun to pop balloons to descend, a CB radio, sandwiches, and a six-pack of beer.
He expected to float a few hundred feet above his backyard. He cut the rope and shot up like a rocket — to 16,000 feet. He drifted directly into the main approach path for LAX. Two airline pilots radioed the tower: they had just passed a man in a lawn chair holding a gun at 16,000 feet. For 45 minutes, he floated over Los Angeles, freezing cold, too scared to shoot balloons because he might fall. Finally, he started popping balloons one by one and slowly descended.
He landed tangled in power lines in Long Beach, California, causing a blackout. When police arrested him, they asked why he did it. He said, "A man can't just sit around." The FAA fined him $4,000. He became a national folk hero — Lawnchair Larry — and inspired the movie Up.

[Mossad Commentary @MOSSADil]

📁MOSSADIL DECLASSIFIED:
OPERATION MANY WAYS

Deep inside a mountain in Syria, Iran built a hidden facility designed to produce precision missiles for Hezbollah and other proxies.
Israel watched it for years.

Then, on September 8, 2024, more than 100 Shaldag commandos flew deep into Syria, entered the underground complex, seized intelligence, planted explosives, and destroyed the facility from the inside.

No airstrike from above.
Israeli soldiers went into the mountain.

[Peter St Onge, Ph.D. @profstonge]

The welfare state is eating America -- now 6 times bigger than the defense budget.

In Rome the political promises outran production. Inflation bought time, at the expense of collapsed production that accelerated the fall.

[George Jarjour @GeorgeOnTap]

CJ Stroud before the draft came out of Ohio State and scored 18 out of 100 on the S2 cognition test which is basically an exam that NFL teams use to measure how fast a quarterback processes information. Bryce Young who was picked 1 pick ahead of him scored a 98 out of 100. Stroud’s score was the lowest score of any QB coming out of that draft class. And yesterday he got mocked for a warmup that went viral with his eyes. He got mocked for his cognition test and now the internet is trolling him for working on one of the most important parts of being a QB… the brain. But what is he actually doing?

The drill is called “saccades” and there is real sports science and data behind it. After looking this up and trying to keep it concise and easy to understand here is what I found. A saccade is the fast, involuntary jump your eyes make when they snap from one target to another, which is exactly what a quarterback's eyes do on every dropback as he moves from his first read to his second to his checkdown in under three seconds. Stroud holds his thumbs out and flicks his eyes between them, horizontally and then vertically, training those jumps to be faster and more controlled. It’s part of the same screening doctors use to check for a concussion, and there are vision training companies that now sell a version of this to QBs to speed up how fast they can process a defense pre snap.

But what makes this all funny is three years ago the sports world decided Stroud’s processing was a weakness. Now he’s putting in the work and has turned into a meme. Now, I do understand the video is pretty funny but got to give Stroud some credit here because when he came out of Ohio State he dismissed his test score as well.
Stroud is coming off a rough season that ended with four interceptions in a playoff loss to New England, and he has plenty to prove in 2026. But a QB quietly drilling the one skill that decides games, the speed of what happens in his brain, is the last thing anyone should be clowning, plus the one thing that cost Stroud in the playoffs was processing and decision making. Glad to see him putting in the work.

[Sarah Abv @Sarahsa09309757]

🇺🇲 Robert F. Kennedy Jr. sur Fox News :

« En 1948, il y avait environ 1 million de Juifs dans les pays arabes du Moyen-Orient. Aujourd’hui, il n’en reste qu’environ 15 000.
Les chrétiens représentaient 20 % de la population du Moyen-Orient. Aujourd’hui, ils ne représentent plus que 5 %.
En Israël, en revanche, il y avait environ 150 000 Palestiniens en 1948. Aujourd’hui, ils sont près de 2 millions, soit environ 20 % de la population.
Si Israël voulait commettre un génocide contre les Palestiniens, il pourrait le faire en une minute. Il fait l’inverse : la population palestinienne autour d’Israël augmente considérablement.

Il n’y a plus de Juifs en Jordanie.
Il n’y a plus de Juifs à Gaza.
Et le nombre de chrétiens à Gaza a chuté d’environ 80 % en dix ans.
Si vous voulez voir où se déroule un véritable génocide, ce n’est pas en Israël.
Ça se passe dans toutes les nations qui l’entourent. »

Une question simple : pourquoi ce sujet est-il si rarement évoqué ?

[Joseph Brown @heresyfinancial]

How to fix the US and watch prosperity explode for everyone more than anyone can imagine:

1. Force a balanced budget constitutional amendment through a convention of the states (don’t need Congress). Spending gets cut to equal tax revenue, no more deficit.

2. Refinance the national debt with the Fed to lower the interest rate and reduce the net interest cost (Fed sends profits back to treasury). This frees up $1 Trillion in spending so Step 1 isn’t as painful

3. Dissolve the Fed, allowing the free market to regulate banks and set interest rates again. If banks take too much risk they fail. The price of money will be set by supply and demand so no more long term inflation.

4. Replace the entire tax code with a flat 15% sales tax (collected and paid by businesses). This frees up brain drain of tax industry, is revenue neutral, stops punishing income/earning/investing/saving and taxes the top more than the bottom (top 1% does 50% of spending).

Results: Inflation disappears. Jobs and earnings explode. Housing, education, food, cars, all become affordable again. The financial situation of the government gets better over time, not worse. Our children have a brighter future ahead than we do, instead of a worse one. Wealth flows in, gets multiplied, and the unbearable tumor of the government on our economy’s shoulders shrinks into obscurity.

[Mazelit Airaksinen 🎗🇺🇸 🇮🇱 @Mazelit_]

My name is Sarah Milgrim, and I was murdered by a pro-Palestine terrorist last year outside of the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington DC, USA.

My killer's mugshot has never been released.

Prosecutors are trying to enact the death penalty on him, while Elias Rodriguez, my killer, has pleaded not guilty.

When he entered the museum after shooting me and my boyfriend to death, Elias wore a keffiyeh and shouted, "I did it for Palestine. I did it for Gaza," and "shame on Zio-nazi terror" at the people inside before being arrested.

He now faces life in prison.

I was the first American Jewish woman killed in a terror attack inspired by Israeli Derangement Syndrome after October 7th.

My killer must face justice.

Please don't forget me.

[Ron DeSantis @RonDeSantis]

In the mid-1990s the national debt was roughly $5 trillion and there was a push for a federal balanced budget amendment. In fact, the vote in the US Senate on the BBA fell just one vote shy of passage.

Imagine how different the fiscal trajectory of the country would have been had that requirement been adopted?

Would anyone have predicted at that time that 30 years later the debt would reach $40 trillion?

[Texas Game Wardens @TexasGameWarden]

Earlier this month, Texas Game Wardens in Galveston County responded to a concerned citizen’s report of suspicious fishing activity at the Texas City Dike during the early morning hours. (1/6)

[Ron Rule @ronrule]

In 2001 George W Bush proposed a partial privatization plan for Social Security so you could put 10% of your SS contribution into the markets.

People rejected this.

We can now see that if it had passed, the 10% that went into the markets would have outperformed the 90% the government managed, the program would be solvent, and the average SS recipient would be receiving 2X what they currently receive.

The worst bet you’ll ever make is betting on government.

[Scott_H @scotth101]

@AaronWilson_NFL You left off Right Tackle.

[Mossad Commentary @MOSSADil]

🎥 WATCH:
And, feel free to pass on to anyone insisting that this is a war of choice.

It’s not, unless nuclear war is what one prefers.

[John Spencer @SpencerGuard]

At this point if you still claim Israel is committing genocide in Gaza you are either stupid and ignorant or antisemitic.

The antisemitic version usually means applying a double standard on the definition of genocide and the laws of war just to delegitimize Israel’s existence or right to pursue legitimate goals in a war it did not start or/and dehumanize every IDF soldier as a monster.

I have tried to argue basic definitions. Genocide requires intent to destroy a national, ethnical, racial or religious group as such, in whole or in part. The evidence does not show that intent toward the people in Gaza. What it shows is the opposite. Israel has taken extraordinary steps, often at real cost and risk, to prevent civilian harm while fighting an enemy that hides among them, uses hospitals and schools as bases, and treats its own people as props in an evil grand political strategy of martyrdom to eliminate all jews on the planet.

In the middle of the fighting Israel has let in huge amounts of food, hundreds of thousands of tons, sometimes more than the world food specialists said was needed. Water lines from Israel have stayed open, three of them supplying tens of thousands of cubic meters a day. They have coordinated repairs, kept desalination plants running by sending fuel and even electricity to key ones, and allowed generators so water systems, hospitals and bakeries can keep working. Medical supplies and equipment have poured in by the tens of thousands of tons. Field hospitals coordinated. Patients have been evacuated for treatment outside. When polio showed up for the first time in decades Israel halted fighting every day and worked with WHO and UNICEF on a mass vaccination campaigns. Over a million doses given. That is not how you try to wipe out a people.

Then look at the misinformation machine. Almost every big claim about Israel deliberately targeting journalists or medical staff or children falls apart, and a lot of the time it falls apart because of what Hamas itself admits, sometimes before anyone even finishes basic fact checking. The “journalists” killed for example. Plenty of the names on those lists later show up in Hamas or Islamic Jihad martyr posts as actual operatives or commanders. Dual roles are common in Gaza’s information space. Same with medical workers. People mourned as nurses or doctors get claimed later by the terror groups as fighters. Hospitals have been used as command centers and weapons storage over and over. Hamas officials have even said it out loud at times. Manuals found on how to use the hospitals as Hamas military sites.

The casualty numbers and the “they are targeting children” stories. The Hamas health ministry figures get treated like gospel, yet their own underlying data and later admissions undercut every trending statistic. Combatants get left out or reclassified. Claims of IDF snipers or drones hunting kids usually fail basic reality of sci-fi sniper drones that don’t exist or injury patterns coming out of the same hospitals.

These stories do not need years of investigation to collapse. Often Hamas’s own words or the available evidence do the job within days or weeks. But the first maximalist version is what spreads and sticks and then gets used to accuse the whole country of Israel and its army of genocidal intent.

It is not illegal or wrong to target and destroy your enemy in a war, especially one that started with a massacre, held hostages, and fights from inside the civilian population it claims to protect. Gaza is an awful war with awful conditions, conditions shaped heavily by Hamas’s tactics. That does not make it genocide. The aid that kept flowing, the vaccination campaigns, the water and power facilitation, and the way the propaganda claims kept falling apart all point the other direction. If you ignore all of that and still yell genocide the explanations left are ignorance or a double standard aimed only at Israel. But this entire stupid campaign every war in history is a genocide.

If you actually want to engage in the debate of "intent" or actions in Gaza, see earlier writings:

"I’m a War Scholar. There Is No Genocide in Gaza," https://t.co/G7Iy9Ki3g5

"Israel Is Not Committing Genocide: Exposing the Distortion of Law and Truth," with @Ostrov_A
https://t.co/0RWFtOUd8H

"Israel's Aid to Gaza Is Historically Unprecedented," https://t.co/QMLuWDGDDs

[Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib @afalkhatib]

The Great Gaza Scam; Just Listen to Hamas: What you’re seeing in this video is the plain truth, even though it’s coming from slain Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh. I was directly involved in one of the efforts he’s indirectly referring to. This is a confession from a jihadist organization responsible for immense harm, acknowledging that Gaza’s blockade & conditions were not because Israel was hell‑bent on blocking development. Israel became the lazy, convenient explanation & excuse for people unwilling to look beneath the surface and understand what actually happened in Gaza over the last twenty years.

Here, the head of Hamas admits there were real offers on the table: an airport, a seaport, new industries, major cash infusions – opportunities dating back to 2014. Former Israeli officials like Shaul Mofaz floated plans to raise tens of billions for Gaza’s development, and large parts of Israel’s security establishment were open to letting Gaza grow and prosper. Qatar, the UAE, Saudi Arabia, and Western governments were prepared to invest serious money, far beyond just humanitarian aid.

In 2015, I launched a multi‑year effort to build an internationally run, Israeli‑approved airport in al‑Mawasi, southern Gaza Strip. The proposal drew intrigue from senior Israeli officials, including Herzi Halevi and Avigdor Lieberman. In 2017, through intermediaries, I even appealed directly to Yahya Sinwar, Hamas’s former chief and architect of October 7, urging him to consider the airport proposal and think strategically about Gaza’s future.

So, what was the price that Israel and the world wanted in exchange for all of this?

As Haniyeh states in this video, the price was Gaza’s disarmament and demilitarization so that it wouldn’t be dragged into endless, self‑destructive wars. Hamas was offered a dignified off‑ramp: integrating its employees and former fighters into civilian police, receiving salaries, and shifting toward nation‑building instead of terrorism. That offer was real, with a political pathway for the group.

After October 7, and Gaza’s vast destruction, tens of thousands killed, and $ billions wasted, Hamas is forcibly entertaining disarmament and demilitarization. This video exposes the “resistance” cheerleaders who celebrated October 7 and the Westerners who insist Gaza could never have developed because of Israel. Listen to Hamas; whether you support them or think they are useful idiots, Gaza’s development was blocked because the terror Islamist group turned the territory into a fortress of violence, tunnels, rockets, smuggling, and radicalization. And no, Gaza and the West Bank are not comparable cases. Gaza had a genuine chance to become the crown jewel of the Palestinian people, a truly compelling model of prosperity and self‑rule.

The pathway forward requires introspection, accountability, responsibility, and Palestinian agency.

[Scott_H @scotth101]

@BoringBiz_ He’s probably trying to to deduct the cost of the wedding or using the hedge to to pay for it

[Michelle Maxwell ™ @MichelleMaxwell]

For those that still don’t understand what Benghazi was all about:

🚨So here's the REAL story:

Ambassador Stevens was sent to Benghazi to secretly retrieve US made Stinger Missiles that the State Dept had supplied to Ansar al Sharia in Libya WITHOUT Congressional oversight or permission.

Sec State Hillary Clinton had brokered the Libya deal through Ambassador Stevens and a Private Arms Dealer named Marc Turi, but some of the shoulder fired Stinger Missiles ended up in Afghanistan where they were used against our own military. On July 25th, 2012, a US Chinook helicopter was downed by one of them. Not destroyed only because the idiot Taliban didn't arm the missile. The helicopter didn't explode, but it had to land and an ordnance team recovered the missile’s serial number which led back to a cache of Stinger Missiles kept in
Qatar by the CIA.

Obama and Hillary were in full panic mode, so Ambassador Stevens was sent to Benghazi to retrieve the rest of the Stinger Missiles. This was a "do-or-die" mission, which explains the Stand Down Orders given to multiple rescue teams during the siege of the US Embassy.

It was the State Dept, NOT the CIA, that supplied the Stinger Missiles to our sworn enemies because Gen. Petraeus at CIA would not approve supplying the deadly missiles due to their potential use against commercial aircraft. So then, Obama threw Gen. Petraeus under the bus when he refused to testify in support of Obama’s phony claim of a “spontaneous uprising caused by a YouTube video that insulted Muslims.”
Obama and Hillary committed TREASON!

THIS is what the investigation is all about, WHY she had a Private Server, (in order to delete the digital evidence), and WHY Obama, two weeks after the attack, told the UN that the attack was the result of the YouTube video, even though everyone KNEW it was not.

Furthermore, the Taliban knew that the administration had aided and abetted the enemy WITHOUT Congressional oversight or permission, so they began pressuring (blackmailing) the Obama Administration to release five Taliban generals being held at Guantanamo.

Bowe Bergdahl was just a useful pawn used to cover the release of the Taliban generals. Everyone knew Bergdahl was a traitor but Obama used Bergdahl’s exchange for the five Taliban generals to cover that Obama was being coerced by the Taliban about the unauthorized Stinger Missile deal.

So we have a traitor as POTUS that is not only corrupt, but compromised, as well and a Sec of State that is a serial liar, who perjured herself multiple times at the Congressional Hearings on Benghazi. Perhaps this is why no military aircraft were called upon for help in Benghazi: because the administration knew that our enemies had Stinger Missiles that, if used to down those planes, would likely be traced back to the CIA cache in Qatar and then to the State Dept’s illegitimate arms deal in Libya.

Forward this again and again and again until everyone reads the true story of Benghazi.

[Eli Albrecht @Elialbrecht]

When I was a lawyer at Gibson Dunn in D.C., we took our summer associates to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. A survivor spoke to us and said something that stuck with me:

Lawyers need to know the holocaust did not begin with camps. It began when Jews were removed from institutions - above all, legal institutions. Judges stripped of their robes. Lawyers disbarred. Then, when law-groups were Judenrein, they codified laws that made discrimination systematic and "legal."

First, you remove the Jews from the institutions. Then, Jews can be discriminated against without representation.

On Monday, Mayor Mamdani announced his 18-member Advisory Committee on the Judiciary. The Committee was promised to be "truly reflective of New York City."

Not one of the 18 is Jewish.

Not one Jewish attorney, former judge, or law professor - in a city where one in eight residents is Jewish and even Justice John Leventhal, recommended by the State's Chief Judge, was rejected.

It is estimated that over 50% of the New York bar is Jewish. That means there is a 0.0004% chance of no Jews being selected to the Committee.

Mamdani’s marginalization of Jews has been ongoing, and few voices on the Left have spoken up.

On Day 1, Mamdani revoked the IHRA antisemitism definition (top priority); he changed the NYPD guidance protecting houses of worship, eliminated Jews from the City's immigrant-heritage map, called for the arrest of the prime minister of the only Jewish state, and now created a Judenrein Judiciary Committee.

My grandmother, Leah, survived Nazi Germany. Before the laws, before the violence, she told me how she was pushed out of her high school groups. Then, once excluded from all activities, she was bullied and marginalized.

We are already seeing Step 2 in NYC. Two weeks ago, on a Jewish Holiday, two men were stabbed outside Upper West Side synagogues - one wearing a kippah- and yesterday, Jewish students were attacked. Every 26 hours, there is a hate crime against Jews in NYC.

In NYC, there is a concerted effort to disappear Jews from public life and leadership.

No one on the Left is speaking out. If this discrimination was happening to any other group, the chorus would be deafening.

To be clear, Jews will find a way. Many are already taking their talents elsewhere. When white-shoe firms shut Jewish lawyers out, they built firms that now dominate. Cardozo, Louis Marshall, and Ruth Bader Ginsburg all found a way despite discrimination.

But NYC will be worse off without us. A city government that is judenrein - cleansed of Jews – does not just hurt the Jews, but hurts the city.

The tragedy is not just that Jews were left out of the institutions. It is that the institutions were left without the Jews.

If you see this and have not yet spoken out, I encourage you to do so.

[Vivid.🇮🇱 @VividProwess]

Bill Clinton: "The Palestinians were offered a state. They refused because a state wasn't their goal; killing Jews was."

This must be shared every day...