John Fisher Did Not go to Cal

Each community must decide whether spending public dollars on pro sports facilities is the right choice. My latest column for @ForbesSports. @mlb @RaysBaseball @Padres @Grampskie bit.ly/4e9Uw1O

@ramcdk @FICMBondTrader My experience is that state school kids were generally hungrier.

@FICMBondTrader Why would the state school kid outperform the ivy kids? I mean, it’s possible, but I find your anecdote a little dubious as a generalization

Standard NYC finance internship class: -60% girls (applications were 90% dudes) -75% minorities (applications were 95% white) -25% white slots are reserved slots for nepos and/or jews -99% ivys / 1% state school -the 1% state school kid outperforms the whole class

@KatMartinez0001 @realEstateTrent 😂

lol. I asked Claude to guess my gender and net worth. It gave a huge range on nw and undershot. But the gender was the funniest. Claude: Gender: Almost certainly male. The business topics — sprinkler systems, baseball academy, Meta ad campaigns — combined with the no-frills, direct communication style all point that way. Since I left my mfg tech division cfo role, I have been helping in our businesses. I guess that plus my directness makes me a dude. Maybe I should tell it that I chose flower stamps stamps for our latest sprinkler mailers? 😂 🤣 😂

Dare you to ask ChatGPT to guess your net worth

@realEstateTrent @LeapWiz 💯 true.

@LeapWiz wild right? people dont believe things that are 100% true

Some of the richest folks on the flight happily walk by your business class seat on their way to 21A.

@bkoo In investment banking it was common before cell phones took off.

Where my “had a pager before having a cell phone” people at? I think this is somewhat of a regional thing? Was super common for my year in high school, where most of us got cell phones early in college. Been told it’s an extreme oddity by many others who grew up elsewhere.

@WCCSG_ @CalHopBlogs Me

Who remembers watching Jason Kidd play at Cal? 🐻🏀

@LadyOaklandFan I'm not sure what numbers you are referring to. If you mean inflation then yes. But California has many other economic problems and most of the politicians are pushing policies that will make it far worse.

@boofero Ca has problems absolutely but the numbers don’t lie, it’s a national issue

Lots of small business owners are folding or selling right now due to rising costs, interest rates and the Silver Tsunami. Before you blame this on CA, it’s happening nationwide. This will not end well 💔

Israel doesn't train dogs to rape Palestinian inmates. That's a vicious, stupid lie pushed by a slimy little propagandist. But this newest blood libel is meant to distract you from the latest released evidence- including video recordings that *no credible person says are fake* of Palestinians doing the most sadistic, grotesque things imaginable on Oct 7- raping corpses while they are mutilating and murdering them, lighting genitals on fire, shooting out the eyes and genitals of helpless victims, forcing husbands to watch as their wives and children are raped and murdered- And Palestinians did this on the *orders of their elected government* with months of planning to do exactly what they did. It wasn't spontaneous. The monstrous cruelty, the sexual degradation was the point. They knew Oct 7 wasn't going to win a war, or gain any territory. It was just an orgy of Jew hate and violence. The Palestinians were mass murdering, child rapist terrorists who did all this and were gleeful about it. They made phone calls boasting to their family members. Did anyone in the Hamas government express remorse or regret about any of this? Or anywhere in Gaza? Of course not. They ordered it. They delighted in the extreme pain and cruelty of the Oct 7 operation against Jews. So now some Americans, including ones who claim to be conservative, are taking the side of Hamas and claiming this was a genocide? What do these people really think Israel was supposed to do in response to Oct 7? Fight an imaginary "gentle" war? No response at all? Give up? Childish thinking. Absurd moral preening. War is hell, but Hamas brought that hell upon Gaza.

@Win4Cal @As_Fan_Radio Thanks! He worked really hard and it's his dream (big cal football fan who stayed up all night to be front row for college game day). Long odds to get off waitlist but as your friend proved-never give up on your dreams!

@boofero @As_Fan_Radio Fingers crossed for your son!! I'll be rooting for him!

THIS is one of the most heartwarming texts I've received in a long, long time. From a dear friend of the family who was just admitted into Cal - at 76 years of age. It's such a GREAT day to be a Bear! Fiat Lux and GO BEARS!!!

I think a lot of people genuinely do not understand what days like yesterday feel like inside Jewish neighborhoods in New York City, so I want to try to walk you through it. You wake up in the morning and see a message in the community WhatsApp chat. Maybe it’s from the local Jewish council. Maybe it’s from your congresswoman. It’s a warning that there’s going to be a protest in your neighborhood that night. You open the flyer and see men in keffiyehs holding rifles, militant imagery plastered across something the media will later describe as a “demonstration.” The address is around the corner from your house. The flyer never explicitly calls for violence, but you’ve seen the videos from the last one and the one before that, and you already know there is a very real chance this is going to turn ugly. Your first thought is your family. A few months ago, you bought a firearm and locked it in a safe in your bedroom, away from the children. You know that if the day ever comes where you actually need to use it to defend your family, then something has already gone catastrophically wrong, and even if you survive that encounter, there is a very good chance the legal system in a city like New York will spend years trying to destroy your life afterward. There is not much you can do, so you put your phone away and go to work, spending the entire day trying to keep your mind off what is waiting for you back home. On the drive home, traffic suddenly stops. Streets are blocked off and police cars are everywhere. Sirens are flashing on every corner. And you remember that your neighborhood is about to be flooded with hundreds of people screaming about intifada and resistance while politicians and reporters insist this is all perfectly normal political expression. You get home before the kids. One by one they walk through the door while you keep checking the window to make sure they made it back safely. Your oldest tells you the principal made an announcement warning students not to walk or bike through a certain area after school, but refused to explain why, probably because nobody wants to be to explain to a group of Jewish children that there will be a mob outside their neighborhood later that night chanting slogans that openly glorify violence against Jews. Then the videos start coming in through WhatsApp, Instagram, X, local status groups, people forwarding clips from every angle as the crowd grows larger and louder. Suddenly you can hear it outside too. Drums, screaming and chanting echoing through the streets. You tell yourself they are supposed to stay near the synagogue and that they probably will not come near your block, but before long the shouting is right outside your house and the first thing you see when you step outside is a Hezbollah flag waving down the street while a man with a megaphone walks past screaming “globalize the intifada” and “death to the IDF.” Your father’s cousin was murdered during the Second Intifada. Twenty five years ago, he stepped onto a bus in Jerusalem and a Palestinian suicide bomber blew it apart, killing innocent people packed into their seats on an ordinary commute. Your nephew is serving in the IDF right now. He is young, decent, and brave, and you know personally that he would never intentionally harm innocent people, but the crowd outside your house does not care who he is as a person because to them he is simply another Jew they have been taught to hate. Your three year old wakes up crying because of the screaming outside and asks what’s happening, and you suddenly realize there is no normal or sane way to explain any of this to a child. Then your mother calls. She lives a few blocks away and hears the noise from inside her apartment. She asks whether it is safe outside. She is a Holocaust survivor. She does not remember every detail from her childhood, but she remembers enough... 1/2

@JJaber @skiplegday26 @badpatch @TheJewishIdea No Accountability = the "2 billion people (supposedly) harmed" by one tiny state. None stepped in to stop Hamas and none allowed Gazan refugees to flee. Why not? Poland took more Ukrainian refugees than every human In Gaza. Inexcusable. Lebanon? Again no accountability.

@skiplegday26 @badpatch @TheJewishIdea I don’t have “friends in Hamas.” If you’re actually talking about accountability, it has to apply across the board not just as a talking point used to dodge responsibility or justify everything that follows.

Let's keep pretending that the 2 billion Muslims in the world are being oppressed by the 13 million Jews. F'ing stupidity

Sane Californians: Mahan is the guy

After coming to America with nothing, I managed to get my degree, got married, had babies, bought a house, all happened in the 90s. Then I was laid off in 2000 as a manager, I started my own business and never worked for another company again. America is worth fighting for!

Beautiful interview of the @hardknocksedu and a millionaire holocaust survivor

@floppy_ear_club @KayeSteinsapir @XavierBecerra @Israel Has he seen what Russia is doing? What an idiot.

Elizabeth was paraphrasing. Here is Becerra’s full quote: “I think what the Netanyahu government has done in Israel cannot be classified as within international norms. I think the number of people who died in Gaza during the Israeli action was extreme. I think Netanyahu should answer for what he has done before the international community because this is not how you conduct affairs, I believe, if you are going to be part of the community of nations. I believe if you take a close look at the international laws that we have in place, that should be respected by all countries, the way Israel handled the Gaza war went beyond what is internationally allowed.”

If @XavierBecerra actually said @Israel “shouldn’t be part of the community of nations,” my vote is going to someone else.

@thevegasbrad @AlexCorrino @KatanaBets People made same argument in 1998 1999 and 2000. The early ones looked smart, they late ones looked stupid.

The other things that everyone is missing, $7T still sitting on sidelines. Tons of money chasing these gains. Trading, options and the gambling mindset of our country is 10000x more accessible than 2000. At the end of the day, people watched $SNDK go from $30 to $1500 don’t want to miss out.

Look at this insane bubble in memory stocks. Surely it has to pop at any moment?

@AlexCorrino @KatanaBets I remember thinking I was smart buying micron in 1997 at 5x earnings, it had negative earnings in both 1998 and 1999 before profits boomed again in 2000. They also had negative earnings in 2001,2002, and 2003.