Camas City Council Chooses UnSafe Camas

The increase in traffic deaths  accross America, over the last ten years, coincides with the anti-law enforcement movement.

The New York Times Matthew Shaer rhetorically asks: "Why Are American Drivers So Deadly? After decades of declining fatality rates, dangerous driving has surged again... 
In 2021, 42,939 Americans died in car crashes, the highest toll in a decade and a half. Of those deaths, a sizable portion involved intoxicated or unrestrained drivers or vehicles traveling well in excess of local speed limits"

The increase in traffic deaths in the Pacific Northwest and accross America, over the last ten years, coincides with the anti-law enforcement movement.

 Elections have consequences If you live in Washington state, you voted for a Target 25, not Target Zero. And if in the City of Camas, WA you voted for an UnSafe Camas, instead of Camas Safe.

What will it be the next election cycle?


In 2019, California reported a motor vehicle fatality rate of 5.3 deaths per 100,000 people, slightly higher than the national average of 4.4. Injury collisions reported in California increased by an estimated 16% from 2018 to 2019 alone.

In Oregon, from 2013 to 2021, the number of traffic fatalities increased dramatically and has remained high.From 2013 to 2023 Oregon's number of traffic fatalities increased 88 percent and its fatality rate increased 70 percent.

Camas, WA

The City of Camas, unlike the City of Vancouver, it's next door neighbor has decided to follow Washington state's lead in the Inequity of the pursuit of equity over public safety. Instead of CamasSafe, it has chosen UnSafe Camas.

If it was not a serious matter, it would be comical: a simple parking jurisdictional question, turned into public safety issue and uncovering government waste:

My homeowners association decided to indiscriminately enforce public street 'no parking' regulations. A cursory look around the neighborhood showed a total disregard for public safety, including shoddy workmanship, bureaucratic red tape and widespread incompetence. While the dog catcher is often seen around the neighborhood, Camas PD is not.

I contacted Police Chief Tina Jones, who confirmed the HOA's no parking enforcement was a civil issue and because of lack of resources, no law enforcement patrol around the Woodburn Elementary School community was possible.

The next stop was the City's Code Enforcement. Officer Kraig Ainspach was gracious enough to confirm traffic sign obstruction and shoddy workmanship, which he said would be sent to the engineering department. Ainspach also incorrectly identified an overflow parking space as city-owned property.


Then it gets interesting: I tried to reach the City's Engineering Manager Steve Wall via email - he quickly blocked me. So, I figured I'd try the mayor's office: Steve Hogan & City Administrator Doug Quinn.

I then get a call from the greenest member of the city's engineering department who assures me there's nothing wrong with the roads or traffic signage around the Woodburn Elementary School community and cites a 'recent inspection around the community' but fails to describe what the inspection found, what was corrected and what remains to be done. He acknowledges the crash data around the area and that four of the last six are DUI-related but says "there's nothing we can do about it."

Another attempt at reaching City Hall produces a call back from Steve Wall - he was not aware of Washington state's Target Zero, Portland's Vision Zero or the concept of new product Introduction: in other words, he can't relate to the issues I have raised.

Vision Zero is a strategy to eliminate all traffic fatalities and severe injuries, while increasing safe, healthy, equitable mobility for all, whereas Washington state’s Target Zero patterned after Vision Zero, is a plan with the goal to reduce the number of traffic deaths and serious injuries on Washington’s roadways to zero by the year 2030 - a goal that will be sorely missed.

I next get a call back from an exasperated Doug Quinn who wants to know in seconds what the engineering manager has been unable to understand. Due to time constraints, we mutually agree to meet im person, July 18th. His office confirms the meeting for 9:00 am. Prior to the meeting, I email an proposed agenda, including recommendations;

Recomnendations

JA

tTo:

To: Doug Quinn; Carrie Davis

Mon 7/29/2024 9:02 AM

Subject: Meeting Agenda Backgrounder 

 Greetings:  the suggestions I've sent fall into two categories:  Public safety and Government waste:  I sent the suggestions prior to the scheduled meeting, reproduced below for convenience:

In preparation for our scheduled meeting, I have written an essay 
 just published by CDN- on Washington's Public Safety Program called Target Zero. Target Zero is a plan with the goal to reduce the number of traffic deaths and serious injuries on Washington’s roadways to zero by the year 2030, to add transparency and to  hold officials accountable

It's not working.  Portland's Zero Vision is not working either.


As you may know, I had a nice phone conversation with Steve Wall.  I trust that he now better understands the issues I raised, as he was not familiar with  Target Zero nor the Concept of New Product Introduction in systems engineering.

Based on the essay, I have specific, requests/ suggestions, that I can elaborate on during our meeting:


PUBLIC SAFETY


[  ] DUI/Distracted driving accounts for four of the six traffic crashes in the Woodburn Elementary School community, consistent with state and nationwide statistics.  Need  aggressive awareness campaigns at the City and HOAs levels. Portland's PBOT makes yard signs available for pick up free, for example.

[  ] Need to reduce speeding in Woodburn and Tanoak.  Request two or three speed bumps.

[  ] Harmonize parking enforcement in public streets: Current process is wasteful, inefficient, inconsistent and incoherent and has potential for litigation.  I recommend the City takes over exclusive parking enforcement of  all city-owned streets: too many cooks spoil the broth.


[  ] Current overflow parking provides the opportunity for crime (old security professionals' MOM - Motive, Opportunity, Means - any crime is possible.) Overflow parking is often used as a personal  garage. Defeats the purpose of temporary parking spaces in the community.  Need to add tow away signage & have city enforcement


[  ] Sign Obstruction: While signage is not a factor in traffic crashes, it perpetuates the "don't care about safety" culture. The city can work with the various HOA's to keep up the maintenance

[  ] Visibility: the dog catcher is seen in the community regularly.  Not law enforcement.  The message: "the city cares more about unleashed dogs than speeding cars." Even a randomly staged patrol car can help.

[  ] The city should demonstrate public safety leadership by adopting a Vision Zero program, say a Camas Safe program, but unlike the state of Washington, really mean it.


[  ] EFFICIENCY/RED TAPE
The City offloads a lot of its work on HOAs. Every year, HOA laws change. The City- HOA interface hasn't changed. The City can demonstrate leadership by adopting a "New Product Introduction" Process:  The hand-off from the builder to the HOA, should be done like a New Product Introduction, including check-list & Q& A

Need an HOA Liason at the City to expedite problem resolution.

Regards

Doug shows up at 8:00 am. I show up at 9:00 as confirmed by his office. - the meeting never took place.

I followed up with Doug, July 29 to see if he has any questions: his response? "I have not seen anything new but have read your original email. Have you sent another note in regarding your concerns?"

Camas 24/7 a complete waste: issues are 'closed' when nothing is done: no explanation offered.

City of Camas Has No Comment

Haven't heard from the city since.

Not unexpected but predictable. We predicted as much three years ago:
2021 Camas City Council Voters Guide


Once informed, failure to act makes city officials liable for depraved indifference.

Conclusions?

Normalize Increase in traffic deaths like normalized high crime rate?

A Comedy?

A Comedy of errors?

Arrogant Incompetence?

The injustice of the pursuit of equity over public safety?

In an age of artificial intelligence, we are surrounded by bureaucratic Arrogant Incompetence - AI

What is clear, is that the City of Camas has the opportunity to lead, and it squandered it.

Saint Peter Chrysologus delivers short sermon in Paris 2024

Saint Peter Chrysologus, known as the Doctor of Homilies for the concise but theologically rich reflections he delivered during his time as the Bishop of Ravenna, could have delivered it to the Paris 2024 Olympics organizers on his Feast Day July 30.


St. Peter Chrysologus, Bishop and Doctor of the Church, whose feast we celebrate today, July 30, was nicknamed “Peter of the Golden Words” and “Doctor of Homilies,” was designated a Doctor of the Church by Pope Benedict XIII in 1729.

As historian Mike Aquilina writes "Peter Chrysologus is known as the “Doctor of Homilies,” and he always preached with brevity. Every word was golden. He was archbishop of Ravenna during that city’s brief term as capital of the Western empire. His sermons rang like poems, rich with biblical insight and glimpses of ordinary life in a fifth-century urban center."

 Olympics organizers deeply apologized for a colossal mistake at the opening ceremony: introducing South Korea’s athletes as North Korea. "As the South Korean athletes waved their nation’s flag on a boat floating down the Seine River on Friday evening, they were announced in both French and English as the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea."

Using Hoyle, Einstein or even the Wittgenstein Ruler, such 'colossal mistake' pales in comparison with the organizers and Legacy Media like CBS Newsmocking Christianity. As CBS 'reports:" The organizers behind the Paris Olympics apologized to anyone who was offended by a tableau that evoked Leonardo da Vinci's "The Last Supper" during Friday's opening ceremony and provoked outrage by religious conservatives around the world. The organizers, however, defended the concept behind it. 'Religious conservatives' - Get it? Today Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Khamenei said the opening ceremony of the 2024 Olympics insulted Jesus Christ and directed insults at ‘holy figures of divine religions’.

Some even blame Christianity for cultural appropriation. USA Today 'reports' opening ceremony’s artistic director, Thomas Jolly, has insisted that the scene is not a reference at all to the Last Supper. "Rather, the performance is a nod to a pagan celebration featuring Dionysus, the Greek god of fertility, wine and revelry."

As bad as Paris 2024 is, there was paganism and theological controversies in the 3rd -5th centuries. In the 2nd century Hadrian constructed a temple to Venus on the site of the crucifixion of Jesus on Golgotha hill in order to suppress Christian veneration there. Eusebius wrote in 325 AD: "How Constantine Commanded the Materials of the Idol Temple, and the Soil Itself, to Be Removed at a Distance: He ordered that the materials of what was thus destroyed, both stone and timber, should be removed and thrown as far from the spot as possible; and this command also was speedily executed. The emperor, however, was not satisfied with having proceeded thus far: once more, fired with holy ardor, he directed that the ground itself should be dug up to a considerable depth, and the soil which had been polluted by the foul impurities of demon worship transported to a far distant place." (Eusebius , The Life of the Blessed Emperor Constantine, book 3, ch 27)

The main Latin theology came primarily from such figures as Tertullian and Cyprian, bishop of Carthage, rather than from any figure in Rome. Tertullian wrote Against Praxeas, in which he discussed the doctrines of the Trinity and the person of Christ. But in 251 Novatian’s schism at Rome diverted interest away from speculative theology to juridical questions about the membership of the church and the validity of sacraments. Differences of opinion over similar issues in the 4th century led to a schism between Rome and the churches of North Africa.

Yet Peter Chrysologus was a pivotal bishop who preserved the faith in his region of Italy in the fifth century. He was an adult convert to Christianity, then was ordained a deacon and priest before being raised to bishop of Ravenna in 433.

Many people were still practicing paganism in Ravenna when he began his work there, and this caused other Christians to fall away from the faith. He reformed and solidified the Church there with his preaching, actions and by encouraging frequent reception of Communion.

The triumph of Christianity over the pagan religions of ancient Rome led to the greatest historical transformation the West has ever seen: a transformation that was not only religious, but also social, political and cultural. The Paris Olympics organizers remind us of Saint Paul's warning 2000 years ago, about complacency, good and evil: “Finally, draw your strength from the Lord and from his mighty power.
Put on the armor of God so that you may be able to stand firm against the tactics of the devil. For our struggle is not with flesh and blood but with the principalities, with the powers, with the world rulers of this present darkness, with the evil spirits in the heavens."

The Homeowners Associations' 'Preserve Property Values' Myth. It's the HOA Industrial Complex

The Homeowners Associations' 'Preserve Property Values' Myth. It's the HOA Industrial Complex!

If the cities benefit so much from homeowners associations, why are these viewed by city bureaucrats as orphaned children?  Because in the age of artificial intelligence (AI) we are surrounded by bureaucratic Arrogant Incompetence (AI.)

In the early 20th century, with the rise of planned communities and suburban development, as cities expanded and urban sprawl became more prevalent, developers began creating residential subdivisions with shared amenities and common spaces.


A Home Owners Association (HOA) is set up by the developer of a subdivision to provide maintenance of common grounds, amenities and, sometimes, a storm water/drainage facility. Being a member of the HOA is not optional for homeowners. When people buy a home in a HOA, they understand they are subject to association fees and codes, covenants and restrictions (also referred to as CC&Rs). The CC&Rs are a civil contract that is attached to the deed of trust of their property.

To manage these communities effectively, developers established homeowner associations, as a means of governing the community, collecting fees for maintenance and upkeep, and establishing rules to maintain a certain standard of living.

At its core, the primary purpose of an HOA according to the industry is to manage and maintain the common areas of a community and enforce rules to keep the neighborhood appealing and property values high. These rules can cover everything from exterior paint colors to lawn upkeep.

How cities benefit HOAs - The HOA Industrial Complex Spiel

• They offer services the city cannot: HOAs frequently pay for exclusive services that go far and beyond what one gets from the city. From basic repairs to infrastructure development, a properly managed HOA should keep the community beautiful and safe.

• They stabilize home values: HOA communities usually have directions for a motive, and amongst the biggest purposes of those rules is that they preserve property values from diminishing. During the tough economic times, financially sound HOAs keep their neighborhoods going strong.

• The advantages delivered by HOAs even increase property values in adjoining, non-HOA communities.

• They offer leisure amenities like

swimming pools, tennis courts, parks, and greenways that numerous HOAs construct and maintain for their residents.

• Amenities are properly-maintained: When city financial plans are tight, amongst the initial things to get ignored are community centers, parks, public pools, and other facilities.

• They can aid entire cities: Owing to their aptitude to deliver some services conventionally offered by local governments such as street sweeping, HOAs can assuage some of the economic encumbrances from city governments. This makes available city funds and consequently, they can be utilized in a different place, whereas the HOA maintains its neighborhood. The advantages delivered by HOAs even increase property values in adjoining, non-HOA communities.

• Reduced Maintenance Costs: HOAs often take care of landscaping and other maintenance tasks which can save homeowners time and money.

• Improved Property Values: The rules that HOAs put in place can help keep property values high in the surrounding area.

• Increased Neighborhood Security: Many HOAs offer security services like gated access or neighborhood watch programs, resulting in increased safety.

• They are sometimes better organized than city governments: In numerous ways, an HOA is similar to a small, personal government. Due to HOA’s reduced focus, its occupants are frequently apt to receive many of the services they pay for than town dwellers who depend on taxpayer-backed public services that necessitate having a wide-ranging reach.

The HOA Industrial Complex Spiel - Then Reality Sets In

If the cities benefit so much from homeowners associations, why are these viewed by city bureaucrats as orphaned children?  Because in the age of artificial intelligence (AI) we are surrounded by bureaucratic Arrogant Incompetence (AI.)

The industry- aka The HOA Industrial Complex - will tell you that by establishing and enforcing HOA rules, they create a cohesive and attractive living environment for all residents. This helps preserve property values and fosters a sense of community pride and belonging.

But the reality is completely different: it's a developers hit-and-run that benefits the HOA Industrial Complex (HOAIC,) including city officials, property management companies, lobbysts, realtors, politicians,product and services providers: The old proverb comes to mind: 'show me a concentration of wealth and power, I will show you where to find corruption.'

Most planned communities use a cookie-cutting approach, using boiler plate rules and regulations despite the fact that HOA laws are constantly1 changing. The more confused the homeowner, the better for the HOAIC often, construction needs take

 precedence over public safety.

No parking signs should follow the USPS boxes - here, they are placed where the builder decides. Public streets co-managed by the city & HOA - Meaning, not managed.

 When the developer leaves,there's no official handoff involving residents and city official to clearly delineate roles and responsibilities. You do not move into a new home without a walk through.  Developers should not be allowed to walkway without an audit to make sure the HOA is compliant with city, county and state laws and regulations.

Some overflow parking owned by the city, others by the HOA: Both mismanaged.

The HOA becomes a captive audience for the selected property management company's approved suppliers.

Property Management Companies 

Take for instance John Carona. He leveraged his longtime tenure in the Texas legislature to turn Associa into one of the largest residential community management firms in the nation. He is founder and CEO of Associa, a community association management company for more than 37 years that oversees the day-to-day operations of over 9,000 HOAs and condominiums the property of 7.5 million owners' homes and more than 15.000 employees

Other top property management companies built their empire in less than 20 years, because property management is a very profitable business.


Envera Systems. 185 $50M$100M
Alliance Association Management

FirstService Residential, located in Chicago, IL 9.1K $1B

Accell Property Management. $10M.

Spectrum Association Management. $10M -$50M.

Powerstone Property Management
located in Irvine, CA has been a leader in the Californian property management sector since 1993
The Management Trust, located in Irvine, CA


MSI, LLC, located in Westminster, CO. Since 1983, MSI has been offering full-service management for homeowners associations and metropolitan districts in Colorado.


The Building Group, Inc. located in Chicago, IL. Since 2004, The Building Group manages a diverse portfolio from historic to modern properties in Chicago.


County Management Services (CMS), located on Trumbull, CT

Preferred Community Management Services, AAMC, located in Somerset, NJ

The Property Values Myth

In general, while the better managed the association the higher the property values, the reality is that unless the HOA is isolated, main value drivers are location: city, county, state. In a nutshell, it's location, location, location: identical homes can increase or decrease in value due to location, not the HOA.ocation is repeated three times for emphasis, it is the number one rule in real estate, though it is often the most overlooked.


NeighborhoodScout's® Exclusive Home Appreciation Rates shows both the cumulative appreciation rate, and the average annual appreciation rate for each time period (e.g., last 5-years: 84% total appreciation, Avg. per year: 16.8%). In an isolated, gated community, the homeowners and the local governance have total control. Non-gated communities require cooperation with adjacent HOAs. homeowners and city officials.

For example, the cumulative appreciation rate in Washington state for the last five years is around 80%. Properties in Southeast Washington appreciated roughly 25% whether in HOAs or not.


Thus, in general, HOA local governance at best, can help maintain property values and at worse can take away from a property's value - and often do, thanks the Stanford Prisoner Effect and taking up personal pet peeves over the needs of the community.

Feast Day of Miraculous Saint Charbel

July 24 is the Feast Day of Saint Charbel 

Joseph Zaroun Maklouf was raised by an uncle because his father, a mule driver, died when Joseph was only three. At the age of 23, Joseph joined the Monastery of St. Maron at Annaya, Lebanon, and took the name Sharbel in honor of a second-century martyr. He professed his final vows in 1853, and was ordained six years later

Following the example of the fifth-century Saint Maron, Sharbel lived as a hermit from 1875, until his death. His reputation for holiness prompted people to seek him to receive a blessing and to be remembered in his prayers. He followed a strict fast and was very devoted to the Blessed Sacrament. When his superiors occasionally asked him to administer the sacraments to nearby villages, Sharbel did so gladly.

Youssef Antoun Makhlou was born on May 8, 1828, one of five children, in the mountain village of Bekaa Kafra, the highest by elevation in Lebanon. Makhlou was a hermit who died in 1898 canonized in 1977 as Saint Charbel, revered for his healing miracles among Lebanon's Christians. Some have turned to taking soil from Saint Charbel's grave, boiling it, then drinking it as an alternative to medical treatment

Alice Fordham, in the piece titled In Lebanon, Some Turn To Beloved Local Saint For Solace And Protection From COVID-19, writes that
"In a country where a financial crisis has left health care threadbare and unreliable, many have begun turning to the saint to ward off the coronavirus."

Saint Charbel died in the late afternoon on Christmas Eve. Christians and non-Christians soon made his tomb a place of pilgrimage and of cures. Pope Paul VI beatified Sharbel in 1965, and canonized him 12 years later.

Prayer to Saint Charbel:

O Lord infinitely glorified by His Saints, You who fascinated the heart of Saint Charbel who chose the hermit life, granting him the grace and the power of being away from world keeping firm to his monastic virtues of chastity, obedience and poverty, we ask You to give us the grace of loving You and serving You as he did.

O mighty God, You who spread the power of Saint Charbel’s intercession through the multiple miracles and marvels, provide us, through his intercession, with the grace to which we aim. Amen.

Feast of Saint Bridget of Sweden, Mystic, Reformer, Mom to a Saint.

July 23rd is the Feast of Saint Bridget of Sweden, Mystic, Reformer, Mom to a Saint. St. Bridget of Sweden was a Mystic and Saint, and founder of the Bridgettine Nuns and Monks after the death of her husband of twenty years. She is the patron saint of Sweden and Europe and an early Church reformer.

At the same time that Martin Luther was attacking abuses in the Church, a reformation within the Church was already being attempted. Among the early movers of the Counter-Reformation was Anthony Zaccaria and a couple of hundred years earlier was Bridget of Sweden

From age 7 on, Bridget had visions of Christ crucified. Her visions formed the basis for her activity—always with the emphasis on charity rather than spiritual favors.

She lived her married life in the court of the Swedish king Magnus II. Mother of eight children—the second eldest was Saint Catherine of Sweden—Bridget lived the strict life of a penitent after her husband’s death.

Bridget constantly strove to exert her good influence over Magnus; while never fully reforming, he did give her land and buildings to found a monastery for men and women. This group eventually expanded into an Order known as the Bridgetines.

In 1350, a year of jubilee, Bridget braved a plague-stricken Europe to make a pilgrimage to Rome. Although she never returned to Sweden, her years in Rome were far from happy, being hounded by debts and by opposition to her work against Church abuses

Bridget’s visions, rather than isolating her from the affairs of the world, involved her in many contemporary issues, whether they be royal policy or the years that the legitimate Bishop of Rome lived in Avignon, France. She saw no contradiction between mystical experience and secular activity, and her life is a testimony to the possibility of a holy life in the marketplace.

Did the Pentagon Accidentally Paid Zelensky an Extra $6.2 billion? - The Spin Cycle

Did the Pentagon Accidentally Paid Zelensky an Extra $6.2 billion? - It all depends on who controls the chart of accounts. He who controls the chart of accounts controls the narrative. He who controls the narrative and the legacy media controls the people. He who controls the people can cancel the past.

Chay Bowes post on X, formerly known as Twitter claiming Pentagon Accidentally Paid lo Zelensky an Extra $6.2 billion earned him a cool 5.8 M views by 12:09 pm, July 22, 2024. The is so provocative, it took Google's Gemini by surprise:  When asked  'Did the Pentagon Accidentally Paid  Zelensky an Extra $6.2 billion,' Gemini answered: "The story is changing fast, check back in a few minutes."

The assertion is that the Pentagon miscalculated what it sent over 2 years, and now i'll send more than 6 billion to make up for its mistake.

Microsoft's Edge was more assertive and when asked if indeed the Pentagon had ccidentally paid  Zelensky an extra $6.2 billion, it immediately served results featuring 'fact-checkers' like AP News Melissa Goldin who declared 

the claim as  false because
"the claim misinterprets an a detailed review of the accounting error found that the military services used replacement costs rather than the book value of equipment that was pulled from Pentagon stocks and sent to Ukraine. She said final calculations show there was an error of $3.6 billion in the current fiscal year and $2.6 billion in the 2022 fiscal year, which ended last Sept. 30. 

A Golden Spin by Goldin

That's a Golden Spin by Goldin. Yes, factually there was a $6.2 billion accounting error, but Zelensky didn't get any axtras.  Why?  Because the Pentagon said so and the rest of the faux checkers towed the line:  PBS 'reported' "Pentagon spokeswoman Sabrina Singh said a detailed review of the accounting error found that the military services used replacement costs rather than the book value of equipment that was pulled from Pentagon stocks and sent to Ukraine. She said final calculations show there was an error of $3.6 billion in the current fiscal year and $2.6 billion in the 2022 fiscal year, which ended last Sept. 30. As a result, the department now has additional money in its coffers to use to support Ukraine as it pursues its counteroffensive against Russia. And it come as the fiscal year is wrapping up and congressional funding was beginning to dwindle." - and like magic, 'as a result, the Pentagon now has additional money in its coffers to use to support Ukraine.' Get it?

As Senator Josh Hawley puts it:
“These so-called ‘valuation errors’ are particularly concerning given the nature and scope of U.S. aid to Ukraine—over $113 billion thus far […] This is a transparent attempt to bypass Congress for additional funds, while continuing to prioritize Ukraine over more vital U.S. interests, including deterring China in the Pacific.”

“By using creative accounting to conceal the actual cost of supporting Ukraine, you appear to be circumventing the American people’s elected representatives. Congress, not DoD, possesses the power of the purse"

What no one seems to dispute is that the Pentagon, consciously or not, made a $6.2 billion accounting error. BILLIONS! How does that even happen?  Who discovered the error?  Apparently, nobody has been held accountable for the error.  This is perhaps even more shocking than the initial claim, because the Pentagon, as PBS might report, 'as a result, the Pentagon has additional money in its coffers and does not need Congress' approval.'


Did the Pentagon Accidentally Paid Zelensky an Extra $6.2 billion? - It all depends on who controls the chart of accounts. He who controls the chart of accounts controls the narrative. He who controls the narrative and the legacy media controls the people. He who controls the people can cancel the past

But, really, did the Pentagon Accidentally Paid Zelensky an Extra $6.2 billion? Who cares? Everybody wins: Chay Bowes gets a cool 5.8 M X views on recycled news, the fact checkers continue to show their limited peripheral vision, and the Pentagon, like the FBI, keep cooking the books. Heard of the Pandora Papers and the Panama Papers? In the case of the Pandora Papers, the leaks expose how some of the most powerful people in the world, including more than 330 politicians from 90 countries, use secret offshore companies to hide their wealth. Guess what happened? Zilch. Nada.  Just like in the Pentagon's $6.2 billion error.

In all cases, the real loser is Joe. Mortgage debt is currently at $12.3 trillion and credit card debt at $1.2 Trillion. High-income earning Joeis living paycheck to paycheck. The Average Joe went from the great resignation to the great lamentation in two years and
Poor Joe can't buy anything, because all discount stores went bankrupt.

Public Health & HOA Efficiency Proposal for the City of Camas, WA

Public Safety  & HOA Efficiency Proposal for the City of Camas, WA

In preparation for our scheduled meeting with the City of Camas' City Administrator, I  have written an essay
just published by CDN on Washington's Public Safety Program called Target Zero. Target Zero is a plan with the goal to reduce the number of traffic deaths and serious injuries on Washington’s roadways to zero by the year 2030, to add transparency and to hold officials accountable

It's not working. Portland's Zero Vision is not working either.



As you may know, I had a nice phone conversation with Steve Wall. I trust that he now better understand the issues I raised, as he was not familiar with Target Zero nor the Concept of New Product Introduction in systems engineering.

Based on the essay, I have specific, requests/ suggestions, that I can elaborate on during our meeting:

PUBLIC SAFETY

[ ] DUI/Distracted driving accounts for four of the six traffic crashes in the Woodburn Elementary School community, consistent with state and nationwide statistics. Need aggressive awareness campaigns at the City and HOAs levels. Portland's PBOT makes yard signs available for pick up free, for example.

[ ] Need to reduce speeding in Woodburn and Tanoak. Request two or three speed bumps.

[ ] Harmonize parking enforcement in public streets: Current process is wasteful, inefficient, inconsistent and incoherent and has potential for litigation. I recommend the City takes over exclusive parking enforcement of all city-owned streets: too many cooks spoil the broth.


[ ] Current overflow parking provides the opportunity for crime (old security professionals' MOM - Motive, Opportunity, Means - any crime is possible.) Overflow parking is often used as a personal garage. Defeats the purpose of temporary parking spaces in the community. Need to add tow away signage & have city enforcement


[ ] Sign Obstruction: While signage is not a factor in traffic crashes, it perpetuates the "don't care about safety" culture. The city can work with the various HOA's to keep up the maintenance

[ ] Visibility: the dog catcher is seen in the community regularly. Not law enforcement. The message: "the city cares more about unleashed dogs than speeding cars." Even a randomly staged patrol car can help.

[ ] The city should demonstrate public safety leadership by adopting a Vision Zero program, say a Camas Safe program, but unlike the state of Washington, really mean it.

[ ] EFFICIENCY/RED TAPE

The City offloads a lot of its work on HOAs. Every year, HOA laws change. The City- HOA interface hasn't changed. The City can demonstrate leadership by adopting a "New Product Introduction" Process: The hand-off from the builder to the HOA, should be done like a New Product Introduction, including check-list & Q& A

Need an HOA Liason at the City to expedite problem resolution. The CamasConnect is totally useless 

Camas Connect is totally useless - several issues were reported, "completed," nothing was done and no explanation provided as to why the issue was marked completed.

Crowdstrike One, Crowdstrike Two, Kamala Harris Wins!

Crowdstrike One, Crowdstrike Two. Crowdstrike Three and Kamala Harris wins, just like that.

Composed  In 1908, Take Me Out to the Ball Game, is the one baseball song that nearly everyone knows, but few know the song is about Katie Casey who wanted to root, cheer, eat Cracker Jacks in the grandstands with the crowd and join in, in the spectacle before her. However, the idea of a woman being a knowledgeable and enthusiastic baseball fan, rather than staying safe at home, was unthinkable. In 1927,  women had won the right to vote

Fast forward to the 21st Century, after progressives got MLK Jr out of their way, they turned his dream of an end to racism and racial segregation, into a nightmare: racism has morphed into DEI, the Human Sacrifice Industrial Complex has enabled the Black Genocide, the disintegration of the African-American nuclear family and a fatherlesssness crisis.  Then came the Crowdstrike heard around the world.

The New York Times "reports' widespread outages are rare.

"They are often caused by errors in a centralized source, like a server farm, or damage to physical equipment. But the outage that sent computers crashing around the world on Friday was unique, and meant that resolving the problem has been much harder. Here's what to know.

This is a Gross Misapplication Of the Theory of Allocation:

Creating a widespread outage, like voter fraud, is so easy a caveman, or a doctor Jill can do it - all you need is a MOM: Motive, Means and Opportunity. The recent outage just happen to coincide with Microsoft's firing of its DEI team.

If a routine Crowdstrike software update can bring Microsoft down, guess what can a MOM can do to Ballot Counting Machines on election night?

Have you ever heard about the Inside Threat by so-called security experts? aka The Judas Effect in security circles?

Or what about the Secret 2020 Election Day Meeting With CISA, Dominion, ES&S, ERIC, FBI, Leftist Organizations, State Officials, and Others?

Recently, investigative journalist Yehuda Miller received several FOIA documents that completely reshaped what we were told to believe about the 2020 US presidential election, according to the Gateway Pundit.

"The election was billed by the Democrat Party, Joe Biden, the mainstream media, and former CISA Chief Chris Krebs as the most secure election in US history." CISA's own website calls contrarian views on the election misinformation:
Looking for information on state-specific election security efforts or additional FAQs? Check out the #TrustedInfo2024 page from the National Association of Secretaries of State (NASS) and the Election FAQs page from the National Association of State Election Directors (NASED).

State, local, and territorial election officials work year-round to prepare for and administer elections, implementing a wide range of security measures and serving as authoritative sources of official government information on elections for their voters." Yet, we also know that "He who controls the chart of accounts controls the narrative. He who controls the narrative and the legacy media controls the people. He who controls the people can cancel the past - and the FBI has been cooking the books for a while.

Cybersecurity solutions providers, Cybersecurity Trends Analysts - The Forbes piece Boiling Cauldron: Cybersecurity Trends, Threats, And Predictions For 2023 by Chuck Brooks is an interesting read, but reads more like subliminal propaganda or as CNN might say, an  a cynical strategy, for example -  and Security Professionals ignore discussing the Inside Threat because it does not fit their sales strategy: they do not have a good solution and refuse to adopt a Paradigm Shift:  the higher the trust level, the lower the trust.

Security professionals however acknowledge the inside threat:  insiders  with a Motive have a MOM - Motive, Means and Opportunity to commit a any crime, including widespread outages and voter fraud. In the latter case, when the insider is a government employee, prosecution is practically impossible.

As long as the Inside Threat is not addressed, there won't be election integrity

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Pandora Papers, WhistleBlowers & Voter Fraud: Example Inside Threat

What do the daily FBI press releases, the Pandora Papers, the Facebook whistleblower, the IRS abuse of the Tea Party, the Russia Hoax, The #UkraineHoax, Edward Snowden, Chelsea Manning, Julian Assange, the January 6th Insurrection have in common with voter fraud? – The common denominator is an inside job

The Eerrie Parallels of the Assassination of MLK, Trump.& Saint Apollinaris

Coincidence, Divine Providence, Good and Evil, Feast Day of Saint Apollinaris, the Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr and the attempted assassination of president Donald Trump: what is the common denominator?


Sixty One years ago, Martin Luther King Jr., standing in front of the Lincoln Memorial, delivered his historic 'I Have a Dream' speech in which he called for an end to racism and racial segregation. I Have a Dream was inspired by the Bible, the Declaration of Independence, the US Constitution, and Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation and the Gettysburg Address.





Like MLK's I have Dream Speech. President Donald Trump's MAGA - Make America Great Again is inspired by the Bible, the Declaration of Independence, the US Constitution, and Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation and the Gettysburg Address and is quintessentially American:

Chris Ullery and Melissa Brown writing for the Tennessean report; "Speeches peppered with references to biblical verses intertwined with political slogans and the Pledge of Allegiance underscored a mix of God and nation prevalent throughout this year’s GOP nomination ceremony."





While Timothy L. O'Brien. Bloomberg's senior executive editor has a cynical view: "The observations from the former president and some of his ardent followers after his narrow escape from a shooter’s bullet smack of convenient politics." Its not unreasonable for cynics like O'Brian, atheists or skeptics to question Divine Providence intervention. After all, where was Divine Providence when Martin Luther King Jr was assasinated?

Divine Providence was present during the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr and the attempted assassination of president Donald Trump. The Catholic Catechism (CCC 321-322) teaches thatnChrist invites us to filial trust in the providence of our heavenly Father (cf. Mt 6:26-34), and St. Peter the apostle repeats: "Cast all your anxieties on him, for he cares about you" (I Pt 5:7; cf. Ps 55:23


For all religions, whether Christian or pagan, belief in Providence, understood in the wider sense of a superhuman being who governs the universe and directs the course of human affairs with definite purpose and beneficent design, has always been a very real and practical belief. Prayer, divination, blessing and curse, oracle and sacred rite, all testify to a belief in some over-ruling power, divine or quasi-divine in character; and such phenomena are found in every race and tribe, however uncivilized or degraded. We find it, for instance, not only amongst the savages of today, but also among the early Greeks, who, though they do not appear to have clearly distinguished between Providence and Fate, and though their gods were little more than glorified human beings, subject to human frailty and marred by human passion, they none the less watched over the home and the family, took sides in human warfare, and were the protectors and avengers of mankind. The intimate connection of the gods with human affairs was even more marked in the religion of the early Romans, who had a special god to look after each detail of their daily life, their labours in the field, and the business of the state.

MAGA is founded on free speech, religious independence, accountability, rule of law
and the belief that the United States was once a great country but has lost this status owing to foreign influence, both within its borders and globalization.

That there was an attempted assassination of president Donald Trump is not shocking. A simple scan of social media posts show President Donald Trump's political opponents, from the White House, surrogates and influences, display a high level of irrationalhate and fear at the prospects of Donald Trump taking power for a second term.




Such level of hate simply means the assassination attempts will continue.

Five years later, after progressives got MLK Jr out of their way, they turned his dream into a nightmare: racism has morphed into DEI, the Human Sacrifice Industrial Complex has enabled the Black Genocide, the disintegration of the African-American nuclear family and a fatherlesssness crisis:








MLK Jr. death cleared the way for the uber progressive Warren Court's Decision (1963) - the Court found that teaching children about wisdom, understanding, counsel, fortitude, knowledge, piety, fear of the Lord., charity, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, generosity, gentleness, faithfulness, modesty, self-control and chastity was too radical, and all hell broke lose. A decade later Roe v. Wade entered the picture.







Using analysis tools like the Ishikawa Cause-Effect Diagram, the Pareto Rule, Security Professionals' Attack Tree and or Occam's Razor, they all suggest that after the uber progressive Warren SCOTUS (1963) decision, we have had A mental health crisis. Infanticide turned into Black Genocide. African American nuclear family has joined the Sea Turtles in the extinct list. 80% of AA kids are raised in fatherless homes. AIDS epidemic. Opiod crisis, We have a fatherlesssness crisis, A Girlhood Crisis, A Trans Crisis, Obesity crisis.

NYT's Katie Rogers "reports" the Biden Administration continues to sharpens its Abortion Message, which is nothing less than AntiChristian and pure evil and Biden's Administration is being referred to as an Anti-Christ






And a new Documentary exposes how the FBI tried to destroy MLK with wiretaps and blackmail - ultimately he was assassinated. His family believes James Earl Ray was framed


So, what is the common denominator? What is the conclusion? Saint Paul warned us about this 2000 years ago in Ephesians 6
"Finally, draw your strength from the Lord and from his mighty power.

Put on the armor of God so that you may be able to stand firm against the tactics of the devil.

For our struggle is not with flesh and blood but with the principalities, with the powers, with the world rulers of this present darkness, with the evil spirits in the heavens.

Therefore, put on the armor of God, that you may be able to resist on the evil day and, having done everything, to hold your ground.

So stand fast with your loins girded in truth, clothed with righteousness as a breastplate,"