Canada UFO Reported in Manitoba

So there's a lake on a reservation where it is said that a disc shaped object smashed down from the sky into the ice. Military is said to have surrounded the event and is keeping tight-lipped. Plane? UFO?

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jsm Tuesday, February 24, 2015  No comment

Psychological Implications of the James Holmes Case

I'm not a former famous baseball player, and I'm not anyone that has anything to gain by taking a stand one way or another in cases such as the James Holmes case.  But I do work in the mental health field.  I'm a professional with a masters degree, and for the most part I live a normal life, with normal interests and a busted up knee.  I'm not particularly mad at our government, and while I hate a being around a heavy police presence, I benefit from the services of our police.  I pay my taxes, I'm paying back my student loan granted to me by my government.  I hate the nightly news because to me it's a well-designed infomercial.  In fact, I have no business writing about the case outside of how it affects my life.
The James Holmes shooting up of a movie theater in Aurora is one crazy story that does impact mental health and thus impacts the way I will be doing business at some point.  But what if this story was assembled by our government as so many folks on the internet believe?  It hasn't panned out taking the devil's advocate in conversation at the local bar, it almost got me knocked out, in fact.  The story is so complex that it is very difficult for me to wrap my brain around the notion it was merely a false flag.  There are the families to consider.  There is an entire city that has publicly mourned their loss.  There is a tidal wave of news to filter through.  And there's a licensed psychologist involved.
And there's my mind, that always looks at the meta data, processing, filtering and digesting all that information and comprising my diagnosis for the offending party...
Imagine if this was a fraud and we're left, as mental health workers, to accept this determination.  We then base further treatment with this offense in mind.  Knowing something else really happened...
Ok.. this is where I start to get into "midnight mode" so I'm just going to leave this topic before I drive myself crazy...

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jsm Tuesday, February 10, 2015  No comment

Property Of Mars

A long time ago, back when I decided that I'd become a blogger...

The time came when it was just simpler to put down a pad and pen and build an online home or two (or 50) where all the topics I am most interested in can be discussed and pondered.  Some could remain in confidence, others could reach out to those who like similar topics.  So one day I thought of Property Of Mars where I could talk about stories that are in most cases unexplained, or weird, or appealing to my senses.

I hope everything posted here is just the warmup - it seems like I have more in the tank and I want to sell t-shirts.  And since blogging is said to be dead, I cannot help but want to share the way lots of my current writer-heroes continue on with it... 

How to present is a continuing difficulty - and twitter complicates matters...

Here's the difficulty  - I don't want to submit stories you can read on 50 other bigger sites.  I want to bring up tidbits you may not discuss enough.  So stay tuned, I'm just trying to reconfigure my sources for info and this eats away minutes, hours, whatever, if you allow it the opportunity.

And yes, I plan to sell some Property of Mars t-shirts soon.

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jsm Thursday, February 05, 2015  No comment