Lawful orders

In regards to the person who was tazed a few weeks ago by the Milwaukee, Wisc. Police, some people say if he had complied with the police officer's orders everything would have been fine. Thats crazy talk. Even if the person was parked in a handicapped zone, it was 2 o'clock in the morning and it seems like the police should have better things to do than harass taxpayers.

Seems like unless they are witnessing an active crime, police should leave people alone. Seems like the only time they should shoot at someone is if they have fired a shot at the police. If a suspect is fleeing in a car, they can get the license plate number and pick the person up later. The police are supposed to protect and serve, not harass and write tickets to people so the city has a lucrative revenue stream.

Branding

The NFL owners passed a rule that players can't kneel during the National Anthem purportedly because that would be disrespectful of the flag and military. But this is a ludicrous reason. The players can't disrespect the military or flag because they are all taxpayers and are paying for them.

The only reason for this rule is to protect the NFL's All-American brand. They care nothing about the flag or the military.

If any sports league or team gets any state, federal or city money by playing in a government funded stadium or any other funding such as infrastructure around the stadium or police providing traffic control, they shouldn't be allowed to trademark anything. If any taxpayer wants to print and sell anything with a pro or college logo, they should be able to.

Tesla

Elon Musk has been having trouble building Model 3 electric cars. Also, he can't understand why his employees want to join a union. Seems like he's out of touch. The tech industry is supposed to be progressive and on the cutting edge. But the industry treats minorities and women badly and CEOs like Musk are in their own ivory tower and run their companies on statistics and their own controlling egos. If Musk wants to know how to build cars efficiently, he ought to get down on the factory floor and talk to his workers.

Housing

Cost of housing going through the roof, especially in the Bay Area and Portland and Seattle. Lots of ideas from affordable housing projects, auxiliary dwelling units, tiny houses and rent control. The tech industry is over-heated and thousands of high-paid young professionals are competing for limited housing, driving the price up. And getting new housing built takes awhile because it's a long process to get permits and there is a shortage of people to build the housing which drives up the cost of labor.

Bottom line is, restaurant workers, janitors, plumbers, etc., can't afford to live in the area. But those workers are still needed. So maybe when new companies build their plants, offices, hotels, etc., housing for the service workers will have to be included on site, and the cost of the housing will be picked up by the service companies or the companies contracting with the service companies.

Nazareth

For 33 years, Jesus of Nazareth did good. He helped alot of people and said alot of great things that are still helping people today. He could have hung out in the countryside helping people. But he got into that messianic fervor and got involved with the Temple politics and things got messy.

When people talk about Jesus of Nazareth, they concentrate on Jesus. But it would be neat to do a study on Nazareth, because the environment in Nazareth had to have a big effect on making him who he was.

De-centralized education

The board of directors of Marylhurst College, a small liberal arts college near Portland OR, voted to shut it down. The faculty said wait a minute. Lets explore all options, but board said no. Now's the time before the creditors come calling. The professors should just go it on their own. Just rent and office somewhere and put their shingle out. They could get together with other profs and students once a week at the meeting room of a pizza parlor. These big educational institutions are history. Schools from kindergarten on up. It would take away the targets for these wacko shooters. Everything needs to be de-centralized. Lean and efficient. Most things can be learned on line. The reason it hasn't happened yet is that the institutions want to keep their hand in the pie.