The New Normal

Let everything happen to you
Beauty and Terror
Just keep going
No feeling is final

-Rilke

"I used to think it was awful that life was so unfair, then I thought 'wouldn't it be much worse if life were fair, and all the terrible things that happened to us come because we actually deserve them'. So now I take great comfort in the general hostility and unfairness of the universe."

Marcus - Babylon 5.

The Folly of War

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities. It is two electric power plants, each serving a town of 60,000 population. It is two fine, fully equipped hospitals. It is some fifty miles of concrete pavement. We pay for a single fighter with a half-million bushels of wheat. We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8,000 people. This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron."

 -General Dwight D. Eisenhower

Trumps Travel Ban vs Actual Attacks/Attempts

So just how misplaced is Trumps travel ban?

Purpose:  I recognize extremist cells exist in all Middle East countries.  However, I also recognize from a travel ban perspective the fact that radicalization, whether foreign or domestic, can happen anywhere.  We may as well fence off some of our own states, given historical attacks on our soil.

A highlight when creating this map, are the Islamic domestic perpetrators were not from immigrants, but rather the immigrants children whom have become disenfranchised with the hate toward them in US culture.  Trump promise to only bring in those that love our country, does not account for those born in this country, where lies the threat.

In the Yemen case, the perpetrators were born in the US.  Somali & Kuwait; was a Naturalized Americans.

Source Data: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrorism_in_the_United_States.  Excluding Cyber Attacks as the ban would not apply to traveling.

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Lansing Mid-Michigan Trails

An update to all the trails in the Lansing Mid-Michigan area.  Includes: Paved,  unpaved, and water trails in Mid Michigan area.

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