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photo by Joe

Catching up on the last couple weeks… I attended a talk by a local TV meteorologist. While describing a plethora of weather phenomenon, and such, he said that, while he wasn’t sure to what degree, he believes climate change is real and affecting current weather patterns. Our administration would concur. What’s more, our administration would try to inspire a significant conservation mindset in regard to energy use. And our strategy is laid out in our Energy position paper, *see… I also interviewed a retired local highway patrolman. He said that every time that he approached a vehicle he’d stopped, there was always that concern that “…this could be the time.” The ‘time’ his life would be in danger. And while he had several perilous situations, in between high-speed chases, etc., he said that as he approached one car, he could see a gun on the lap of the driver over the man’s shoulder. As the man reached for it, this patrolman drew his gun and punched the driver in the side of the head with the gun handle. He then got the gun away from the man, who, it turns out, was wanted for attempted murder in another state. These officers, whether out on the highways, or in our cities, or in our small towns, put their life at risk every day. And our administration would support law enforcement at virtually every turn. For more on how we would do that, as well as how we would creatively approach crime in our society, *see… During this time, I also did an office painting job, in order to keep up my populace image, lol, and to continue to put food on the table. For a better look at some of my work in this area, *see… And in the evenings, I read a series of National Geographic articles in regard to healthy forest management, and so on. I’m continually trying to learn more for each of our positions. And, as mentioned earlier, I believe global warming is a real issue, and trees are a tremendously critical “carbon sink.” For more about our position on the Environment, *see…

National Geographic photo

Just finished reading about combat at the highest elevation in the world. According to a National Geographic article, after World War II, when the British relinquished control of the Indian subcontinent, they hastily decided to divide the region into two states, based on the dominant religions, Inda for Hindus and Pakistan for Muslims. A cease fire line was drawn through the middle of Kashmir to delineate this. Since then, there has been disputes over the line, including 40 miles that was left out of the drawing of the line by mistake. India and Pakistan have set up outposts and bases along the line, and over the years, a number of soldiers have been killed during these high-altitude skirmishes. What seems senseless about this, at least in part, is these battles are around mountainous land with seemingly no productive value. Note: Ron Garan, a NASA astronaut who spent 178 days at the International Space Station, said, looking down, he saw the earth as “…a single, borderless, and fragile entity. He argued that humanity’s focus on national divisions is a “lie” that vanishes from space.

National Geographic page excerpt

In doing some research in regard to our ecology stance, I read an article about conservation in America in a National Geographic Magazine. A portion of the article was about “…reviving Indigenous management techniques.” Our administration would be all for that. Something we should have done from the beginning. That is, we would have done well to coexist with the Native Americans and learned their eco-friendly ways. The article noted these management techniques would include such practices as: prescribed fire; clam gardens; traditional fishing practices… “Like conservation in timberlands, farms, and cities, tribal management is about simultaneously meeting the needs of people and of other species.” My position paper on the environment embodies this paradigm. Another article excerpt: “It is about improving our relationships with the nonhuman world, not severing them.”

Lincoln Highway presentation… photo by Joe

I recently attended a presentation on the Old Lincoln Highway. It was the first trans-continental road for motor vehicles in America. The highway stretched some 3,333 miles, from New York City to San Francisco. The highway was dedicated in 1913. As the motor vehicle phenomenon evolved, rapidly, in the U.S., this road was built at relatively breakneck speed. And over time, and incrementally, highway systems in America kept growing, and growing… With people being able to go farther, and faster, families started to break apart, with adult kids moving further, and further away from their families, away from their hometowns, with this markedly increased mobility. Motor vehicle accidents started increasing exponentially (we’re now at 33,000 traffic deaths a year in America — which would be like a half an airliner going down every day in our country). And air pollution levels have skyrocketed. Point being, there was no prayerful discernment at the start of this all, like, say, the Amish have done around motor vehicles. No, we just blindly rushed ahead down the highway. And now we’re hopelessly addicted to mobility, to oil, to motor vehicle mania…

Joe ‘Almost Presidential Library’ scene

It’s the evening of Dec. 31, and I’m in Joe Campaign Headquarters & Almost Presidential Library, as 2025 winds down. I’ve run in seven successive election cycles for U.S. President, primarily as an independent candidate. I have logged some 150,000 campaign miles during that time. What’s more, accumulatively, I’ve logged some 250,000 cross country miles doing research for my position papers. And I have, concurrently, spent many nights, late, doing a significant amount of reading to supplement the research. The positions, in all their dimensions (and there are many) are tremendously solid — and where the country needs to go at this time. This last year, 2025, I have spent numerous hours enhancing these positions even more, while tying them into how they would influence contemporary affairs. (*See the 2025 blog entries, etc.) The path the country is currently on, is simply not sustainable. This isn’t political rhetoric, it’s just the truth. The path is not sustainable spiritually. It’s not sustainable environmentally. It’s not sustainable… well, in virtually every way. What’s in those position papers is the answer. Period. My hope for 2026 is that people wake up to see that, before it is too late.