NATO

President Trump wants to discuss sanctions due to Russia’s aggression toward Poland. I hope common ground can be found as an alternative to continued tensions. 

More retribution politics

It is quite surprising to hear a widow move beyond the expectations of justice to attempt to intimidate and scare the public. I am very surprised. Those are not words to heal a nation. 

Oh, well. 

It’s MAGA. 

More of the same that cost her spouse his life. If we are to understand the assassin, according to his family, he was moved because of the hate speech within the politics. These folks have no intention to bring the country together. Hate. It feeds their power. 

While Trump was assaulting universities from the Oval Office, Kirk planned his assault on university culture (click here). It is a very valid point of view as MAGA continues to assault America.

(Click here)

Memphis

I hope I am getting this right. I should recheck stats, but, Memphis has a crime rate of nearly double that if the rest of the country. The president is deploying the National Guard to reduce the crime rate. There are many reasons why that will work, but, off the cuff Memphis probably has a higher tourist rate because of the Elvis culture. If I can simply focus on the relationship between tourism and crime. It is my best guess, and police chiefs can probably validate this if research was conducted, but there is a direct ratio between crime and levels of tourism. It is tourism as defined by governance purpose as in DC or cultural purpose as in Memphis. But, the president has hit on something, albeit by accident, that the country can support an effort to stem crime while cities are experiencing higher levels of tourism that their normal population does not require. 

I don’t have time right now to drive into this as I have promised volunteer time on this Saturday. But, anyone who wants to run statistics on this may come up with a really important phenomenon which can be addressed through legislature and funding. I think before spending money the research needs to be in place to address the efficiency that spending and not simply tossed into a general fund of police work.

Have a better day.

Later.