Thanksgiving is a time to enjoy and spend with family and friends. Let us not forget the Native Americans that helped the new comers to shore and fed them. Do something good with your time. You can read about the history of Thanks giving HERE.
Escanaba Community Thanksgiving Dinner had 300 people. They don't have an official website other then Facebook HERE.
If you want to donate do so at .....
Community Thanksgiving Dinner
912 7th Avenue South
Escanaba, MI. 49829
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DOD Announces the establishes the Airborne Object Identification and Management Synchronization Group. You can read the official memorandum HERE. Cool stuff! Nano Nano! Congress Electro Propulsion
Just for fun you can see our half joking UFO video in Escanaba. Its probably a drone or balloon but fun to think about. 👽👾 Someone said maybe Chinese lantern. 🤔 Only one problem the wind at 9:30 pm was 4.6 mph NNW. These "UFOs" were heading easterly. However someone from our Xfile Community Team (just kidding) said that they let off some Chinese lanterns at that time so likely that is the leading theory. Its just good fun.
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Removing "bad apples" is important to ensure integrity in any system; that isn't unique to law enforcement. I think most reasonable people sort of agree that when people violate the law and constitution they should be held to account. Likewise, I would suspect most people would similarly agree that we also have a responsibility to hold criminals accountable no matter their race, creed. I suspect you can add friend networks and wealth to keep it fair. Sometimes that might mean a lighter punishment if they can be reformed without jail and other times it might mean jail time if they present a real risk to others.
Politics gets involved and there a level of acceptance of bad behavior and in turn further encourages such bad behaviors to continue by giving troublemakers "cover". If you notice in my writings I talk about national unity, wisdom in the judicial system, universal rights, and holding criminals accountable (Way way before our current national blow out.). You also see me write about opportunities and economic growth for all Americans. You may even see me give a few thoughts on building the strongest nation we can by encouraging motivation, business, and positive engagement with society.
Of course I'm a single voice and that is drowned out by those screaming at the top of their lungs. Despite the whisper, I have experienced a fairly full array of life because I have met lots of people, know lots of great officers, spend time with Black people, have Arab Muslims friends, Jewish friends Christian friends, and spend time with White Americans, Africans, Europeans and lots of other people. I'm experienced in understanding culture and "open minded" enough not to judge too quickly small differences (I focus on character). Yet my voice is drowned out by those who already have the answers; sometimes without thinking about alternate explanations.
That doesn't mean I'm always right and it certainly doesn't mean everyone will agree with me. I've also been on the receiving end where someone makes up a story based in their bigotry and desire for financial gain and utilizes their close corrupted friend(s) (indicating a wider departmental problem) to put pressure my family to leave our home town. At the end of the day....no accountability is seen as dangerous as the disease of hate can easily spread and starts circumventing the law (sometimes with nodding approvals and sometimes covertly to avoid detection.)
Where do we go from here? I can only say what I'm going to do. I'm going to stand tall against the power of hate and encourage people to "do the right thing". I'm going to support our law enforcement and support the removal of rogue or corrupted officers (for integrity and trust issues). I will be visible and not allow the power of hate to terrorize our population (meaning this probably wasn't the first time this happened.). I will also encourage people to come together and be fair, reasonable, and just with their thought processes....no matter what their political agenda (There is no better political agenda than national health...maybe some of our politicians should think about that.).
If we do not stick close to our essential American principles we will have a hard time keeping the ship together. Look around and look at the hyper politics and the radicalism growing on both sides of the issues (mirroring our politics and politicians) and ask, "Who are we as individuals and who are we as a nation?" It looks like time and choice will answer that question for us. I think I know what we could be and perhaps I will play a small part in getting us there someday. No one knows the future...but certainly we can look into history to see what happens to countries that don't take these concerns seriously or when factions develop that can no longer compromise or be held to account.
A couple of articles worth reading Philosophy Politics Governance, Standing for Ethics, Playing it Cool, Memorial Day, Conflict Modeling, Cost of Embedded Groups, Cost of HyperPolitics, Evolutionary Arms Race, Vervet Monkeys, Road to Ultra Nationalism, Democracy Backslide, Why I Write? and Dissertation Questions (Disclaimer...don't judge too quickly yet. This is a good opportunity for people to learn...not saying I'm teaching here or know anything. Its just observations for self understanding. Just take a moment to check in with your personal values and envision the future of your country. What can you do to ensure its long-term health? How are your actions part of the solution or part of the problem? 🤔💗)
We are not in Sci Fi as the space race continues. New radical technologies are being tested to ensure we have the tools ready in case Earth is threatened by asteroids. Very cool stuff!
Einstein was one of the worlds leading scientists and as we move into space exploration more we find many of his theories to still be correct. Manuscripts are often preliminary work and ideas that lead to a bigger breakthrough. Some write them on pieces of paper (back when that is all they had), some put them into scientific pieces, journals, blogs, etc... to ensure there is a record of how these ideas were created and developed. An excellent article in the Guardian.... Einstein’s notes on theory of relativity fetch record €11.6m at auction.
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| Manufacturing, Tourism and Start-Ups as a Michigan growth Strategy |
The Mackinac Center for Public Policy has a few comments on the disconnect between job growth and job announcements HERE. Different metrics reveal different insights and we can learn from them. Having a battery of metrics in the Digital Era will likely lead to greater understanding of how our economic engines work and thus lead to better decisions.
U-M forecasts furthermore indicates that Michigan should have a full recovery by the end 2021 with as much as a 2% growth in manufacturing jobs.. You can read about that HERE.
The type of jobs Michigan attracts will be dependent on the industries we draw to our state. Adding manufacturing and tourism type jobs would seemingly have an impact opportunities for minorities; and others. Manufacturing brings back middle class jobs in a way that have real impact on families of nearly all backgrounds.
I think the one thing that we all can agree upon is that making Michigan a place to invest, invent and build will increase positive opportunities. I might add that encouraging strong tourism (in addition to manufacturing and start ups) influences the creation of a more diverse economy and one in which attracts and retains top talent of different backgrounds. See Pure Michigan, SME, Start-Ups as a few ideas (I'm not saying they are the best ideas....I'm just saying they are ideas 😶.)
The articles and projects are considered market research and market forecast. You can read how each piece of the puzzle can be found by looking at both sides of an argument (Don't ever get stuck into a single way of looking at everything. That is called blindness.). Each piece of information fills in a gap of knowledge. HERE. If you are an executive you will need to weigh these arguments to look at the provided evidence of different authors, scientists and intellectuals to make better strategic decisions. You can read about executive evidence based management HERE.
Strategy is built from assessing the environment, understanding the data, looking at our SWOT, and in turn making a strategic decision that appears to match certain economic, scientific and technology trends.
It appears that this person has hurt a lot of people over their lives and there is a balance between not prosecuting mistakes and ensuring we prosecute violent criminals. From what we have seen here this was not someone who was in the wrong place at the wrong time and a mistake happened. From what has been released this was a person with a history of callous behaviors and wanton disrespect for life. Their behavior appeared to be intentionally destructive and goal oriented (UN Investigation of Homicide).
I have met people who are unable and unwilling to own their behavior, and all too willing to take the next step in harming others. Some people don't need to be in jail but people who have a history of violence and violating the rights of others should not be walking around in the general public. If we use jails wisely and when its helpful/necessary it works out best for everyone....but knowing when and when not to lock someone away can be difficult for judges to determine.
The wisdom judges must bring to the bench is to know when they can help a someone who made a "mistake" and when to lock the steel bars! In this case...I would guess the sound of the door closing will echo down the prison hallways; yet we have to wait and see. I would still think authorities should explore the motives and what set them off for grater clarity. A trial will determine the details....and we must wait to understand the full scope of contributing factors before making concise judgements....but I have to admit....it looks bad!
We pray for those victims. 😰
