Pelosi's Husband Attacked in Home? Hope Full Recovery

An assailant broke into the Pelosi home and attacked Paul Pelosi with a hammer. I'm happy to hear that he is expected to make a full recovery. Like many in our nation we are wondering what actually happened and what might be some of the motivations. More importantly, how do we stop these things from happening again?

It appears the perpetrator had posted all types of conspiracy theories online and had some radical political leanings "Where is Nancy?". The nature of politics is thus that rationality is sometimes thrown out the window. We could minimize these conspiracy theories if our leaders stay focus on factual evidence based conclusions and solutions (Most do but a large percentage bank off of misinformation and chaos creation as avenues to power). 

Interesting questions arise that would help determine the nature of the attack. For example, the time the person broke in could be an issue, did they steal anything, were they looking at other things, what comments they made, why a hammer versus other weapon, age could be a factor, etc.

On the surface I don't think they were a professional unless they intentionally wanted to look unprofessional (Likewise, I would assume this person had no real exit strategy.). A hammer seems sort of a tool of convenience more then something someone might plan out in advance. Its just a brute tool (...weapon choice likely indicates state of mind and capacity)! 

Either way, we need to get a handle on crime and domestic extremism. I think we should learn to tackle this issue (I'm not sure we are doing as much as we should on a local level where we might first experience these types of behaviors among people who are familiar with the person. In some cases the precursor behaviors to these incidents are given wink and nod if serving a particular agenda or against a particular group. The risks to our democracy are on the local hate based level that often make their way onto a national level. i.e. Capital Riots. We are a social species so when leaders hype up the rhetoric to the point that we are looking at others as "less than" we begin to have increases in similar behaviors and that eats at the safety and security of society. If we believe in "...one Nation under God, indivisible...." then we must talk and act like it.) before we start looking like we have to spending significant resources protecting and defending ourselves from random lone wolves spurred by destructive political rhetoric of coming from some members of both sides. Once we start needed security everywhere go, we start looking different as a nation; things become more fatalistic like they do in declining nations. Let us not drag our feet on bi-partisan solutions. Its a current hurdle our nation faces and must be overcome to move into its next state of development where we are all rowing in the same direction (Using our unique backgrounds and political perspective to solve problems.).

(I'm a light R Republican and no matter the politics or the party we have responsibilities to maintain our sense of moral direction and national community and concern. I find the behavior of breaking into homes, this or any other, highly inappropriate and hope the Mr. Pelosi has a speedy recovery. There are certain basic things we all should agree upon and that is peace and safety are the seams that keep this country together. Whether terrorism, extremism, theft or mental health we all have the right within our local communities, homes, and across the nation to feel a sense of safety. There is no place for hate even if we don't like someone's politics, policies. race, religion, etc. Unfortunately, we are still dealing with trying to understand the mental health aspects of how these things come about on a local level and when track and solve policies might be helpful when someone is prone to the projection of hate based violence. Whether powerful or powerless, rich or poor, connected or unconnected, religious or not religious, etc. people have the right to live without fear that someone is going to "get rid of the problem" {Problem being subjective to the perpetrators misunderstands. )

October 20th 2022 Escanaba City Council Meeting: Things Moving on Development

It looks like things are slowly moving forward. I'm not going to comment very much about specifics of the video because I just look for overall trends and signs that certain adaptive adjustments are being made that will put the City in the best possible place. That requires understanding what is going on in the market and what is going on to meet those changes (i.e. changes with COVID and commerce and how that relates to my economic theory.). 

Escanaba has great unutilized potential as a development hotspot based on its ecological, economic, and strategic location as the U.S. seeks to bring back manufacturing, mining/metals, and innovation. Could Esky be an important place some day (Its already important but just making a point)?

No one really knows for sure but development potential has certain characteristics (I might also focus on developing the downtown by drawing new businesses from outside the area, encouraging custom small scale manufacturing, allowing development to enhance each other. i.e. my idea of a mallet manufacturer (and equestrian retailer) downtown with apartments on top and small scale manufacturing in the back. The store front is retained and used directly or as a rental. )

Its all a sequences of choices and activities meeting market need. The biggest questions being related to where to point a ship (market analysis and projection). To me, its always in the place that opens more opportunities and are likely trends to last for 30+ years. 

You can obtain the agenda HERE.

Government Puts Together the X-File Team from NASA! (Sightings of Coneheads)

NASA just released its Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Study Team Members that outlines their impressive list of scientists who like to study UFOs. This is part of commissioned research that seeks to discover what the origins of those weird triangle sightings might be and their implications. They will assess if the UAPs are "Earth Made" or from somewhere else. They will also look at whether they represent a hazard in the skies (Sounds like a future product designation like Made in America but instead in an intergalactic universe. Let it be noted it was said here first! 👾😂. "Made on Earth" stamp. Ok sorry the science is legit and some of the best in the world but it still sort of blows my mind!)

 (The Military would have other concerns and thus has their own UAP Taskforce. Two different perspectives of the problem, different types of research, that will share lots of familiarities but have different purposes. I would expect that some of the information between the civilian and military research results will be shared. That is often why research is an additive process and builds off of others research and in turn others research will build on this study. Different perspectives create slightly different results of research. 

Both teams may come to the conclusion it actually is ET, new tech, surveillance cameras in a triangle, a new species we have never seen, etc. but how they come to that conclusion is different. It might be helpful to consider keeping both the studies blind to each other until a certain point where sharing  info can create new insights. i.e. give them both 9 months to see what they can figure out independently, connect up the results, and decide if you want a third study {or a military and civilian study} that sets a new course based on previous discovery). You can read NASA to Set Up Independent Study on Unidentified Aerial Phenomena. 

The list is varied and its line up also makes sense because of the needed skill sets. The members constitute a knowledgeable team and as you read their bios you will see very smart and can dive very deep into data. One thing to consider is that Aliens may be doing things outside of our existing knowledge and cognitive perspectives. Its not that we can't understand what they are doing (Assuming we can sense similar frequences much like a dog has much better hearing than ours) but would be trying to find unique and unknown patterns in information that we are currently are in process of discovering. 

We have no experience! (Watch the Coke bottle show where someone throws a Coke bottle out of a plane to an isolated village who never experienced such an item and they have all types of new ways to use it. Seems sort of similar right. HERE) When your dealing with things you have no experience with, you may be mentally blind to understanding what you are seeing in front of your face (I see this all the time. Let us say as an example you saw something someone didn't see. That person wouldn't believe you until you point out what you saw by infinite detail and assuming you didn't bore them into glossy eyed mind wandering comatose they might say, "Oh, interesting. Now I see it!"). 

 

I would throw some Level-K thinkers in there that might understand the science but not indoctrinated into any specific scientific rabbit hole. We start digging deeper holes in science but sometimes miss standing back and asking, "Am I asking the right question?  (i.e. There are often better research that doesn't fit modern acceptable institutional thinking and are not developed or explored. You can read an article on science and how other factors impact research and discovery. Its just an example. HERE). If you are dealing with unknowns then add some people (even if just consultants) that are used to finding unknown patterns. 

Proof of Aliens below....

(😂 I had so many questions I wanted to ask when I first saw these aliens. Unfortunately  my old fashion combustible engine, from whatever cheap rental I could find, could not catch up to their electric surface cruisers! 😏 Questions like... Why their heads are pointy? Where is their planet? What is their most advanced technology? Do they watch TV? Do they pay high taxes too?  What does illegal alien mean on their planet? Because I didn't actually talk to them to gain additional evidence I may not understand very much.  If you don't know who the Cone Heads are you may want to watch the video HERE.  

All I can say is that just like the surveillance we have on UAPs we can only speculate until we start to collect hard evidence with radar "photo bombing" and other scientific measurement tools/instruments. The video below isn't proof of anything other than people having fun and doing fun things for their community. If we had a little more fun like this in our life we wouldn't be so grumpy. Just remember we don't yet have the book of "All the Answers".  )

Ocean Beach Sunset Pier (Trying Out Digital Photos)

Quality pictures (assuming you think my pictures are quality.) are expensive. Usually they are printed out and then sent in poster packaging. However all that takes work or a hobby. However, I'm thinking digital photos might have more reach. Of course you are not charging the $120 minimum to do all the background work. You must offer a lower price. So I'm putting $40 up for digital photo. If it works well I might turn some of the other pictures in the gallery to digital download. 

Buy Ocean Beach Sunset $40 HERE. 

Russian and Venezuelan Operatives Using Shell Companies to Move Sensitive Military Equipment and Oil

 Russia has been receiving American military equipment through Venezuela. Some of it is highly sensitive and has been found on the battlefield. Read.....Five Russians charged in global scheme to smuggle equipment from US for Russia's military

You can read the full complaint at Justice Department Announces Charges and Arrests in Two Cases Involving Export Violation Schemes to Aid Russian Military

This is not something new and we shouldn't be overall shocked. Catching and disrupting such supply chains leads to less vital resources landing in the wrong hands. 

Shell companies likely have limited scope and clients. There may be lots of things on the books but activities don't match those companies. They are designed with a specific purpose and no matter how much they try and hide it they will be bent toward activities that earn the most amount of money thereby putting less effort into legitimate activities and exposing their activities. 

The Importance of Protecting Democracy on a Local Level

 We often talk about democracy from a high academic and political level but there are practical matters during local application that determine whether or not those Constitutional principles and values reign supreme as the law of the land. This is where local systems must become more educated on the purpose and value of democracy and ensure that cultural, racial, and religious considerations don't derail our national development. What happens on a local and realized level determines the course of democracy and the nation going forward. We can't neglect the building blocks of democracy in lived experience simply so we can hypothesis and theorize about its value on a national level. (64% of Americans believe democracy is in crisis. HERE. How we handle these issues is important. I'm a democracy supporter and that is why I'm just typing away this AM. I am off hiking soon. Waiting for the sun to come up. :))

Let us imaging for a moment that a large group of people were attempting to intimidate and clean out their community from minorities (i.e. lying, aggression, following home, false police complaints, intimidation, self enrichments, etc. knowing full well the laws don't apply to them in that way and they are given immunity based on association.). That doesn't say anything negative about the vast majority of community members who are good people and the majority of officers that have a positive rooted value system. Yet when we slice and break down the behaviors it appears there was intentionality and blatant disregard for others outside of the clan boundaries. 

Before one get too excited the majority of these people that are involved in this sports network are not bad people but there are toxic personalities/elements who hype up issues and continue on when there is no logical reason to do so (This is learned behavior). The vast majority of homogenous members are good mothers, fathers, and community members but that doesn't extend to those they deem as different (racial, religious, ethnic) and to those they define as not local (Defined not by genetic time in the area but by racial, religious, ethnic + cultural standpoint.)

This is where we see democracy either becoming stronger by handling these divergent ant-democratic pressures that bend democracy toward ones group (Similar to what you might see in a third world nation where tribes, clans and other differences determine application of law. Something some members of our society are complaining about.) become the primary consideration between justice and lack of justice. Growing democracies will bring these fiefdoms into the fold of democracy versus letting them carve out their own principality with their own unwritten rules (i.e. Good Old Boy Network, jobs, justice, safety)

The battle for democracy is on the local level and in the very human to human interactions we engage (There is a risk to extremism and a risk to watering down the principles of democracy.). Meaning that we must understand how democracy can break down and hold to account those systems and people who break it. That doesn't always mean someone needs to get in trouble but that there needs to be protections in place. What I have advocated to restore democracy is the following:

1.) Mandatory mental health for those who started the problem. There is concern among even their own members there may be mental health issues involved in conflict and hate. It also puts on notice their blind followers that they can be held to account if they do this again. It also dispels the intentional false rumors designed to target minorities. 

2.) Investigate serious community complaints. They may be important they may be just lots of rumors. Kind of scary stuff some people are saying. In my experience rumors sometimes have a kernel of truth. Not exactly the way it happened but perhaps something similar. I hope not!

3.) Ensure local policing systems (I'm sort of looking at one department because of their association with this group. The other departments corrected when they found out they were misled.) however, the other departments can certainly learn. i.e. turning a difficult situation into a positive win-win situation. 

4.) Ensure that local court system are not 1. afraid to hold this group accountable (A local prosecutor left in a hurry but I can't tell you why. However, I don't think they were happy with this group and some of the protections they may have been offered. We haven't talked about elections either and how that may impact decisions.), 2.) other minorities are not being targeted with impunity and 3.) that there is a healthy respect of peoples lives and our founding principles. 

5.) I would like to add improved tactics. Tactics on how to insulate officers from social pressures, how to investigate facts before acting, how to ask the right questions, how to handle people who are different, etc. and of course avoiding quick judgement. We want our police to be strong, capable and focused on their essential duties of protect and serve within Constitutional and Democratic values (The vast majority are good officers doing the right thing. I'm 100% for police and 110% for Civil rights)

6.) Ensure the local college isn't contributing to the cleansing behavior by accepting and rejecting candidates based on either what this group says through association or through willful attempts to block Muslims, Jews, Blacks and others. Telling my I'm more than qualified for an entry level Labor Law class then ghosting me. (😏 Looks like they really needed me. ). These look like pretty serious federal EEOC violations and misuse of taxpayer money in favor of their ethic clan (Kind of third world and I think we are going to start to round the racial and religious corners to a universal society. However, there are people in the process who circumvent the laws and rules with what at the moment looks like impunity. But I have to admit I don't know everything. I'm just giving opportunities for people to correct. I do think this will be an important issue someday and I'm going encourage the law not to normalize hate behaviors or weave them into unwritten rules.)

7.) Others

Its easy to keep one's mouth shut and not say anything. Maybe this group will start again in a few years when the "coast is clear" or they may have learned a lesson about unbridled hate and dishonesty (I doubt they learned because their behaviors indicate to me they are keeping distance but haven't learned anything other than this is serious. There is a large group of people who ostracized but not one of them really know what happened. They are doing so based on racial and religious preconceptions. Not a single person as far as I know can say me and my kids did anything to them. Sure they have the wrong color or religion but that is hardly a justification.). The other option is to stand up for your community, fix the long term risks to other community members, ensure democracy is firmly planted and of course take all the risks in the process for fulfilling ones oaths. (i.e. following home, pulling over kids, targeting, etc...). 

My plan? To be positive, engaging, help my community where I can, not be intimidated, be open to reconciliation and apologies, forgive but not forget (You really can't because they did it once and that is all it takes to understand capacity. I have responsibilities to my family and not to the inflated egos of mediocre sports players who barely rode their tricycles around the block but seem to know all the answers when it comes to "judging" others. (i.e. calling out "Your father is a bitch!" in front of my kids, starting them down in a parking lot, lying and manipulation, calling them "nigger babies" etc.. etc.. etc..).  What happened here was beyond not normal and a free pass starts looking like another problem that needs to be reviewed (i.e. other records, reviews outcomes, tickets, etc... might shed light on any other issues). 

"A house divided against itself cannot stand." I believe this government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved - I do not expect the house to fall - but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other." Abraham Lincoln. 

I encourage "all one thing" around our shared national purpose. Others might disagree.🤷 We are either moving toward a democracy or its rotting out in some our hometowns. 

Photo of Trains on Track

One of the biggest aspects of business is to be playful and explore. For example, I sometimes take photos and list them in my online gallery just to see if anyone is interested. Some of the profits (I shoot for 50%) go to charity. I was messing around with the photo a little. If you want the picture you can click the "Trains Running on Track" and purchase. Just the picture and not the wording.

It would be interesting to someday submit some of these photos to a few contests. I have done it before and won a few. Mostly not!

"If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done." 

Dale Carnegie