Areas that Might Benefit from Strengthening: In the Wake of Fort Hood and Mud Slide Disasters

Many commendations must be given for the amount of success and progress for the levels of safety and peace, that we here in the U.S. currently have. Generally speaking, national headlines have not spelled out disaster at a high frequency within recent months, a very good sign.

Albeit, the U.S. every now and a then has been struck with events of tragedy, both under the will of man, and acts of nature which are harder, however, not necessarily impossible, to control.

Steps that can be taken to mitigate the amount of the tragic outcome is surely in process. Briefly, here are a few comments:

• Mud slide rescue technology
Emergency rescue vehicles especially designed for mud slide disasters

With global climate changes, and ozone layer depletion, glaciers may be melting, pushing warmer waters to correlating areas, slowly, as is the nature of large bodies of water movement as it appears, however, the force of these waters is extremely powerful, weighing in the tons per units of areas, and hundreds of them. Mud slides and other events, such as sudden dropping of land masses, floods, large animal invasions, precipitation causing increase in intensity of storms, might be in the realm of possibility.


• Are structures like mud dams and levees, like the ones that were to protect from Hurricane Katrina, going to be necessary?
  
  
• More elaborate and comprehensive warning systems for imminent mudslides. Emergency exit strategies and drills, just like for fires.

Historically and generally speaking, coasts are a line of defense, from just about anything that could head inland, including natural disasters.

The west coast has vulnerabilities as demonstrated, in the areas that include but not limited to:

• wildfires
• floods
• mudslides
• earthquakes

On the Atlantic coast, proportionate types of natural disasters have occurred, and might change over time.

Looking at the outlying border areas further still, are Texas, reference at least 2 serious shootings at Fort Hood, one of which occurred within past few days.

Are there ethical dilemmas that not need be, that have raised tension in a state known for history such as cowboy legends, and events among them 'Juneteenth', commemorating Civil War soldiers, many of whom are credited as the ancestral fathers of thousands of Americans through honorable marriages?

There Are Things That People Have Said About the Presidency That Do Not Sit Well

Dear Yahoo:
No. Checking laws and legislation generally speaking, that is like slander and libel, in addition to casting negative views which in turn can possibly cause harm to reputation stability, on anyone, moreover the Presidency.

'Doesn't get', 'still doesn't get', has a colloquial nuance, that has to do with setting someone in a standoffish way sharply outside of a construct or belonging which that person may already be in, or interfacing with. All of the Presidents constitute legacy of the Presidency.

Careful when you insult. Affecting the esteem of the Presidency, is not tolerated by everyone.

Was it Matt Bai acting alone? Did the combination of news caption, to story, turn out to be what was originally intended? These might not get you off the hook; media professionals know about these ripples.

How old is Matt Bai? Does he know through first hand experience, how many dimensions of advisors, that for sure are older than Matt Bai, that the Presidency interacts with?

In regard to respect of higher governmnt offices, whether a total fan of the President and Presidency or otherwise, really does not matter.

And, in a second term, it is not a situation that there is a prospect that will be running against him, being a raison d'etre for 'comparitive politicking'.

The other comment in the Matt Bai article, '...about his job', is also impolite and condescending in tone. Unless you know for sure you can do his job better than he, which if you could you would, it might be better to hold off on those comments.

Revision. Not all the details are put here. There are media professional that know what to do.

There really is not anything he can say or Yahoo can say, to rebut and tilt the scales in their favor on this one. We are talking about the disrespect, not he say she say of what the opinion polls are.

If you have an objective of improving an aspect of the political system, the ethical approach is to do the due diligence and pursue it with the appropriate tools, such as an approved letter to your the Senator.

Recapping, here is what happened, Matt Bai wrote an article it appears earlier today, that juts out on the Yahoo.com landing page, referencing 'doesn't get'. The Yahoo caption is, 'What Obama still doesn’t get about his job', and the article title is, 'What Obama still hasn't figured out about being president', at the URL http://news.yahoo.com/what-obama-still-hasn-t-figured-out-about-being-president-221911009.html with the bulk content.

Matt Bai and Yahoo, are not the first ones that have said 'stuff', and made comments, that were awkward in tone, concerning higher offices of government. Negative attitudes do not help anyone, going all the way back to the first few days after sitting in office for the first term. A referent concern, is about laying all the weight for all the woes, on one man, then before, after, and, or during, dereliction, exacerbating, abandonment, when you know a team effort is needed to get certain things on par.

Helicopter Safety Improvements Within Reality

Helicopters in this day and age, is taken to be a technology that is not intended to have crashes and accidents at levels of regularity. The frequency of reported helicopter crashes in recent months does not befit what we are accustomed to having as the conception of helicopters.

One out of three cars crashing every 3 minutes in ordinary weather, would be an absurdity. If every time a spaceship was sent to outerspace, there was a mishap, it would be a conflict of interest in establishing the technology.

It is known that building a helicopter can be expansive. Safety features sacrificed for cost of construction minimization, is up for question. How much is really being saved, when lives are being lost at the rate they have been lately? Markedly of reference is the recent crash this week in an area about 150 miles west of Denver, Colorado.

Notions of sequences of causes and events, as it stands now, does not have to be, in terms of improvements in helicopter safety that can be made for the better.

There are a few basic technologies that are already in existence, that if applied to helicopters, might have an effect to increase the safety of passengers of helicopters and the air vehicle itself.

One unfortunate notion that might commonly be held currently, is that if and when a helicopter crashes, the results are disastrous; what was up in the sky came down, and the force of the crash caused bodily damage, almost always assumed to be fatal, with rare exceptions of a miracle. This picture in held in mind, does not have to be, and the sequence of events of flight crash and fatality, does not have to be reality.

Looking at a photo of the crash that occurred outside Denver on Monday, the helicopter was still in many ways intact.

Visiting, what if, certain technologies had existed, now presented is a summary of 3 technologies already in use, toward study for application to helicopters:

1- Thermal protection pods
These are the same pods that are used by firemen that contend with high temperature forest and wildfires. When it looks like the fire has become overwhelming, they can inflate the emergency pods, protecting them from thermal injuries.

2- Air bags
Many cars now have air bags. The same or similar concept applied to helicopters, a larger airbag, or sets of them, that accomplish the safety objective, placed in helicopters, might reduce injury caused by sudden impact. With something that resembles a waterbed, in situations where helicopters crash resulting in impact and jolting effects of the body, if the passengers were cushioned, there could possibly be a decrease in the rate of injury.

3- Sprinkler systems
Trinkling water like sprinkler systems in old office buildings, might not be sufficient in a helicopter fire. The idea of having a system that forcefully smothers flames whether water or some other mechanism, that is activated when needed, could help minimize or prevent thermal injuries.

Combinations of these, and further development of a vast set of technologies, is as innate in importance as the vehicle themselves.

Maryland Gravitation Toward Misery Exposed

Aspen Hill area near Silver Spring and Rockville: 25 year old female teacher elopes, probably alone, ensuing lowly elopement, possibly traveling from NY to Hong Kong or thereabout, airflight out, after suspected of abusing 15 year old male autistic student. Incident involved teacher going into the property of the parents of the student, evidently on more than one occassion.
It is unfortunate that this sort of behavior has gone on here and there, in the DC/ Maryland DC suburbs for years, age mismatches sometimes between older male than female, some of which are documented in the form of case studies in text books, with no breach of the law cited. The fact that the suspect was a teacher, might have affected the story.

Aide to Senator commits reportedly suicide after having 'hundreds' of a mass of child porn

Stalemate regarding constitutionality of aspects of pretrial sentencing

Morals in the heights of stratums still not clear

Finally, violence...--

Putting Things Back Together After Funding Lapses: Efficent, Fair

Three areas present themselves in the bustle for regrouping and recouping therein the repair process of funding lapses:
Efficiency:
25 years ago, when the amount of office space needed for a staff of thousands was calculated, the size of the portable computers, PCs, literally the bulky monitors and hard-drives, took 10 times the space per computer.  When in the tens of thousands, that space adds up.  The streamlining of office space efficiency could result in trimming entire office building floors, if not office buildings, from a company's budget, they are simply no longer needed when we now have the flat monitors and portable hard-drives of today.  Alternatively, the buildings could be used for something else.
This analogy refers to everything on the technological advancement cusp, in context of modern technologies respective to the budget and funding crisis, that many people dub 'government shutdown'.
Let's say utopia occurs tomorrow, and the shutdown is over, and everything goes back to what it was a few weeks ago.  In the process of the repair job, is throwing funding at obsolete technologies, like the space for bulky computers, the cutting-edge smartest strategy across the board?  If the analogy described above is upheld, when other dimensions of finance challenges are considered like budget trimming, repayment of debt, and the budget ceiling, to carefully do the repair job from the 'shutdown', it might include precision trimming for effectiveness, and might be part of the common sense post 'government shutdown' repaired phase.

Fairness, and the determining the wheat from the chaff in all directions:
Programs which make it easier for people not as well to do might have seen cutbacks.  There are instances where these cutbacks have adversely affected people that are genuinely in need of funds, such as severely inured veterans, and orphans.
Then the contrast begins to show.  What about people that are taking unfair and disproportionate advantage of funding from the government, for example middle aged men that would ordinarily be healthy, that are not being proactive about staying employed because they are catering their schedules to illicit narcotic and drug habits?  Should they have access to the huge pools of money and programs funded thereof that were up and running before the funding halts?
Systems and processes of selection, qualifications, need, are plausibly on the list of the phase after the pulling up out of the Congress impasse concerning funding.

The United States system of checks and balances:
Democrats and Republicans, as well as independents, are all in the political system together.  No matter what the challenge is for the political system, whether it be a prospective 'government shutdown', waging war on another country, tax raises, you name it, no one political party is the ultimate and one party to make the final decision as to the shape of the entire country.  The system of checks and balances was established long ago, what we all learned in school, for those of us so fortunate, the legislative, executive, and judicial branches of government.
When things come to, not excluding manipulative methods to arrive at, one political party, especially a situation of a few members at the forefront of the party having it appear to be that, getting their hands on the control buttons of something as serious as how the U.S. looks to the rest of the world, it does not sit with everyone as the ideals of the system of checks and balances the Founding Fathers had in mind.  Certainly a distorted sense of the original aims of the Republican Party or Democratic Party pulled out of a manuscript that was used in the 1800s, and attempting to apply them to today's political setting, makes it sound like a suffering from mental sickness, where antiquated beliefs and delusions are inappropriately attempted to be used today.  It is doubtful that in the next meeting of Congress, the representatives are going to arrive in white wigs, in the tradition of whig parties.  Craziness if they were stopped by security and insisted on doing so, right?  In the same vein, claiming it is your and yours only to make the decision as to matters that are the subject of the system of checks and balances, is also ludicrous.

Prayers and Thoughts for Navy Yard Catastrophe

Condolences go out to those that have served our country, victims of the Navy Yard shooting that occurred this morning in Washington DC.

Testifying to the Intensity of Wildfires. Hotshot Crews Lost in Arizona.

19 Hotshot crews were lost in the Prescott area of Arizona.

When the best trained are lost, the message is clear, wildfires of that severity are a serous matter, and we all need to be grateful for what firefighter have done and do for our protection.