Who should be considered a journalist? This is a question I’m being forced to consider right now, so after a quick look online, I found an article from The Hill examining this question. From the link (emphasis mine):
The First Amendment protects the freedom of the press. But who qualifies as “the press”? Darnella Frazier was not an employee of any credentialed news media corporation when she pulled out her cell phone and recorded one of the most consequential stories of 2020. Neither was George Holliday when he used his camcorder to similarly record history in 1991. Without citizen journalism, Rodney King and George Floyd might not be household names today.
As these examples show, anyone can make and break the news. Citizen journalists are a crucial part of “the press.” And the Supreme Court now has an opportunity to affirm that independent journalists have the same constitutional rights as the corporate media.
Whether or not my work should be considered journalism is now a part of a legal matter I’m involved in, and since this legal matter recently went from civil to criminal, I will finally get some legal representation. Yeah for me!
While my status as a journalist appears to be an open question right now, I don’t think anyone would disagree with my assertion that I’m a POET, considering how frequently I demonstrate my rhyming abilities. For an example of my college-trained abilities, here’s my latest poem/song accompanied, as usual, by my ukulele. Enjoy!
I read this “exclusive” interview Dennis Bragg brags about snagging with our outgoing Mayor and it’s mostly what you would expect, like blaming our State Legislature AND things done during the 1980’s. This is considered by some as great leadership.
Hess believes the core of homeless issues began when federal mental health funds were reduced in the 1980s, and when the Montana Legislature cut back case management.
“Those seeds that were sown in the 2017 Legislature bearing fruit now. And we have people in homelessness because of the actions of the legislature.”
Are you as tired as I am of hearing excuses like these? But wait! Near the end of the article, I may have found some acknowledgement of reality (emphasis mine):
Hess believes Missoula will continue to fight the problem, although he’s hopeful a new ordinance in ’24 will help the city re-assert its ability to enforce rules over urban camping.
“The structure we need to take is relatively simple, which is that you have services that are evidence-based that help people get a hand up and then the other piece is that you have to have some accountability for problematic behavior. And we need to have a very compassionate approach to getting people into services.”
If Jordan Hess wants to examine how another western state is dealing with this issue, I found a sign in Spokane that may give our outgoing Mayor something to look into:
If you zoom in to the sign, you will see that it cites Public Lands Ordinance SMC 12.02.1010 (A)(3)(a). Is our Mayor aware of this? Does it matter?
It probably doesn’t, but I’ll keep pretending for a little while longer.
Missoula’s NEW ERA is upon us! Look at all those appreciative people putting their hands together! How nice, I’m sure they will all help deliver the NEWNESS to Missoula it so richly deserves.
This new era will feature a lot of women who will be doing the difficult work of scapegoating the State and panhandling the Feds.
No, it isn’t ME singling out the ladies–that’s Martin Kidston’s job! From the link:
Davis will serve as Missoula’s second female mayor, and the majority of City Council is also comprised of women. Former City Council member and member of the Montana House of Representatives Marilyn Marler swore Davis into office.
She also happens to be Davis’ neighbor and friend. Before swearing Davis in, Marler praised the civic engagement that played out in the recent election. She also described Monday as a big moment.
“It didn’t happen from just one or two people. It happened from the whole community,” Marler said. “Thousands of people who participated in the civic engagement that goes into an election, everyone who worked on a campaign or a ran for election, this moment is a collective moment.”
I’m sure Marler really thinks the WHOLE COMMUNITY was civically engaged and is now feeling the unity, but that’s just not true. I suspect many are girding their loins for the new MARKETING of the same old schemes and ideas, because that’s what throwing TIF money at “workforce housing” amounts to, in my arrogant opinion.
Don’t worry, my opinion can be closely associated with my manhood, and therefore dismissed with prejudice, kind of like those poor Dads trying to oppose the gender-affirming zealotry of MOTHER.
Yes, I’m going to be THAT asshole who pairs the celebratory exuberance of Missoula’s bubble dwellers with the growing suspicion that something is VERY WRONG with some (I said SOME) of the mothers “supporting” their child’s “decision” to transition from one thing to something else. From the link:
“Transhausen by proxy,” a term coined for narcissistic parents who push so-called “gender transitioning” on their children, may be playing a role in the sudden rise of transgender children, some experts say.
Celebrities are increasingly in the limelight with announcements about their children who come out as transgender or nonbinary. Nonbinary individuals identify as neither male nor female.
“Transhausen by proxy” isn’t an officially recognized psychological condition; it’s a play on an official condition known as Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy (MSBP). MSBP is a mental illness that’s also sometimes called medical child abuse or factitious disorder imposed on others. It’s exhibited mostly by women seeking attention by exaggerating or making up an illness of children or others in their care.
This article has all kinds of interesting things to consider, but most people probably wouldn’t zero in on things like Spokane coming up, and then the Tavistock Institute referenced.
Dr. Erica Li is a pediatrician in Spokane, Washington, who considers herself an old-school liberal. She’s not necessarily against gender transitioning. Early in her career, she considered becoming a pediatrician specializing in gender dysphoria.
However, she began to question why doctors were advocating for medical procedures to transition children without solid scientific evidence that the procedures came with an overwhelming benefit for their young patients, she told The Epoch Times.
If the cause of gender dysphoria is unknown in a patient and the prognosis of treatment is uncertain, then radical treatment with morbid side effects isn’t justified, she said.
What if a Dad is opposed, with good reason, to this kind of treatment in a showdown with Mom?
In this longer excerpt from the article, one clinic got the veil pulled back, and it wasn’t pretty:
In February, Jamie Reed, a former case manager at the Washington University Transgender Center at St. Louis Children’s Hospital, exposed practices at the clinic and described parents who were adamant about transitioning their children.
Her revelations became the catalyst for Missouri lawmakers to draft a law barring hormone therapy for minors.
In a July article appearing in LGBT Courage Coalition, Ms. Reed wrote about how children at the clinic were the victims of “one parent’s own psychological needs.”
“As horrible as this is to say, I did see parents (primarily moms) who showed signs of Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy,” she wrote.
Ms. Reed, a lesbian and mother of five, described how the clinic tore families apart when both parents didn’t agree to putting their children on hormones.
Fathers often attempted to stop the medical transitioning of their children, she wrote, and staff often referred to those fathers as “idiots” or said they had “patriarchal issues.”
When I think of “new eras” I think of social engineering, and when I think of social engineering I think of the Tavistock Institute. These things can seem big, but yesterday I spent a little time above it all, so that was nice.
If you appreciate my work, Travis’ Impact Fund (TIF) is one way to support it, or you can use the donation button at my about page.
About a month ago I came across a very interesting article by James Edward Taylor about artists and their relationship with the future, examining what might be going on with the prescience some artists seem to exhibit about future events.
From the link:
I believe artists have a way of tapping into the collective unconscious that other people are only dimly aware of, or not aware at all.
An artist can portray something the the public is about to realize, or on the verge of realizing, but has not yet fully made conscious. Part of the experience of viewing great art is that moment where we realize someone has made evident a thing of which we were only dimly aware.
When you go to the link, Taylor provides his own anecdotal example, and a handful of others, that lead him to ask the following questions about this seeming prescience some artists have about the future:
Can artists, at least sometimes, peek into the future?
Does the process of creating art open one to a kind of prescience that we don’t experience in our ordinary, non-artistic endeavors?
Or, do artists inadvertently help create the future, including, regrettably, the bad parts?
Or, are artists the unwitting tool of higher forces who hint, nudge, whisper, and use the artistic folks as a mouthpiece to implant ideas in the public mind they want to see actualized?
Some of you, I know, will agree with this last and cry: “Predictive programming! All of it!”
And yes, we all know by now that intelligence agencies engage in propaganda/mind-control/infowar activities. It would be ludicrous to assume that their activities somehow give art, music, TV, and films a pass. If anything, possibly even more so than social media, these would be the best avenues to reach millions of unsuspecting minds, nudging them in the desired direction.
I don’t think it’s a great stretch to say predictive programming exists.
But I think it’s only part of the picture.
A big irony for me with my blogging is how I have consciously kept some of my more esoteric interests at arm’s length in order to not appear too crazy. Yeah, a lot of good that did.
For a look at my prescient take on Missoula, I started writing this story in 2015, and now it seems the future I got a peek of is slowly coming true.
Shifting gears and letting go of things I’ve been holding on to won’t be easy, but it’s absolutely necessary to get to the larger story I’ve been working on.
More to come on that front. In the meantime, I’ll keep plugging the ways to support my work as I figure out what my next phase looks like, and those ways are Travis’ Impact Fund (TIF), and the donation button at my about page.
The image you see below is a piece of tinfoil used to smoke drugs. The building is the Currents Aquatic Center where I took one of my kids swimming on Saturday. We were going to walk around the duck pond after swimming, but the drug paraphernalia and tents were NOT very inviting.
Do people want to know what’s really going on this town? Maybe some do, but not enough to matter, and that’s been a tough lesson to learn, but I think I’m almost there.
The past few weeks have shown me what some people are capable of, and it’s impressive. So impressive that I think this blog will have to be coming to an end very soon.
The positive thing about going from a civil restraining order to criminal charges brought against me for allegedly violating that order is that I finally get to have some lawyers, albeit public defenders. Isn’t that great?
I’m not sure when the end might come, but the clock is clearly ticking, and I’ve got some fun posts to write before wrapping up this phase of my work.
Now, here are the week’s posts. And there will be more to come, so stay tuned.
