MICHIGAN TRAVEL TIPS
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(The 225th Edition)
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For a few years, I was associated with the 40 Mile Point Lighthouse Society (a museum-type entity) that does the day-to-day overseeing of parts of 40 Mile Point Lighthouse Park of Presque Isle County of the Lower Peninsula, and it was associted with it till I was kicked out of the society in 2015 and having my membership revoked--becoming the first person in history (since 1996) to be kicked out of society--and it was not done because I was a thief or a liar or a person who destroyed property at the park. In essence, I was pushed out of the entity for opposing socialistic practices--for example, some people at the society wanted the entity set up so that only the board could change the by-laws of the entity, and I say that that idea is rottenness, but now only the board members can change the by-laws, and that can be done at will, and the regular members of the historical society have no say in what goes on. Keep that in mind when you visit 40 Mile Point Lighthouse Park. While I was at 40 Mile Point Lighthouse Park, I made history documents--several documents--that I tried to get tour guides to use, but some managers of the society disliked that. For one, one document gave a person acting as guide in the pilot house for The Calcite (a former Great Lakes freighter) something to learn and then something be able to talk about to visitors, which would reduce the chances that guides would pass along crap history. By the way, one member of the society--a gal--said in public that she cared not if the guides gave good history as along as the guides were saying something. Another document was a document that gave an overview of everything of the park, going beyond (in length and knowledge) the document for people who would be in the pilot house. Oh, I tracked down what were probably the first coal-based furnaces in 40 Mile Point Lighthouse, and I have a small document about the coal-based furnaces. In addition, I did research about The Calcite (which was a freighter on the Great Lakes from 1912 to 1960) and a feighter-like craft known as The Joseph S. Fay (which was on the Great Lakes from 1871 to 1905, when weather broke it apart and sank it near 40 Mile Point Lighthouse). If you were to go to 40 Mile Point Lighthouse today, you would probably receive little history information from the guides or receive bad information, which you would not understand to be bad information. That is fact! Welcome to "The Pseudo Information Age and the Age of Ignorance." That brings me now to the main point of this introduction. On December 6, 2022, I was exposed to the newspaper edition for the day from the Cheboygan Daily Tribune (of Cheboygan, Michigan), which is a newspaper owned by the company that owns the Detroit Free Press (which is a crappy newspaper). The headline story of the edition of the Cheboygan Daily Tribune was "Could cargo ships switch to sails?" [Richardson, Audrey. "Could cargo ships switch to sails?." Cheboygan Daily Tribune, 6, December 2022, pp. 1A and 6A.]. Based on the headline, it came to me as if the article is more idiocy from the rotten people who are pushing the idea that man's using carbon is killing the planet. Here is the opening part of the article--"LANSING -- A startup company recently got design approved to build a ship that moves cargo with sails rather than fuel. And will cargo vessels on the Great Lake be able to 'veer' into alternative power? The 330-foot-long, hydrogen cell-powered sailing vessel is proposed by the Veer Group, a Bahamas-based company committed to zero carbon emissions. The American Bureau of Shipping approved the design.". Hold it! I have to stop offering material from the article for a moment. The Joseph S. Fay was about 216-feet long, and it was like a freighter of today in that it move cargo, but it was considered a "steam barge"--it was a steam vessel (with an engine), but it had sails, too. Over the history of the vessel, it move iron ore, coal, grain, and even ice (for a while). Oh, it was commonplace for The Joseph S. Fay to pull by line another vessel (a ship with sails) on trips on the Great Lakes. In 1871, the population of Michigan was about one-million persons, and the population of the country was about 39-million persons. As the years went on, the population of the country grew and grew, and more materials had to be moved on the Great Lakes, so more ships ended up on the Great Lakes, or ships had to get bigger or longer. In 1912, The Calcite, which had no sails but had an engine-system (based on coal), was put in operation on the Great Lakes, and it--one of the first self-unloaders on the Great Lakes--was about 436-feet long, and Michigan had a population of about three-million persons, and the population of the country was about 99-million persons. Today, the population of Michigan is about 10-million persons, and the population of the country is about 332-million persons. So, a person can make some deductions based on the article in the Cheboygan Daily Tribune. The proposal is to have smaller ships on the Great Lakes. But if ships are going to be smaller on the Great Lakes, there will have to be more ships on the Great Lakes. That means more ships will have to be built and maintained, and that means more energy will have to be used to make the ships, and more people will have to be used to run ships on the Great Lakes. Look at the next main part of the article--"'If there was a desire for this in the Great Lakes, it would just make me super-happy to be able to fulfill that,' said Veer CEO Danielle Doggett.". Hold it! I have to note that the material quoted in the previous sentence sounds that like from a girl--thinking like a little girl. The next part of the article is--"Whether such vessels will someday play the Great Lakes is uncertain. But interest is high in decarbonizing shipping. University of Michigan naval architecture and marine engineering professor Matthew Collette said clean shipping comes at a crucial time for action. Globally, shipping's 100,000 vessels are responsible for 3% of carbon emissions, according to Maersk Mc-Kinney Miller Center, a nonprofit research company committed to decarbonizing the maritime industry.". Okay, we have a figure of "100,000" in the article. Since the population of the world is not going to go down, there will have to be 200,000 ships (smaller ships) or more to just replace the 100,000, and then a big additional number of ships will be needed to cover growth of the world. A problem comes in here. For decades and decades, ships from other countries have ended up traveling the Great Lakes after having been on the oceans, and it takes power to move ships on the oceans--to take on the waves and such. It takes time of move ships. Using sails will mean it will take longer to move a given amount of materials! Winds can be unstable or nearly nonexistent at times. There are so many things in the article that could be addressed here, and I will not cover all. Look at a bullshit section of the article--"Combustion engines have dominated the shipping industry since the 1930s. Veer is looking to bring sailing cargo back, Doggett said. 'The company seeks funding to begin an 18-month build and have two vessels sailing by 2024 and six by 2026. Greenhouse gas emissions contribute significantly to climate change. They increase global temperatures, weather variability and air pollution. The Great Lakes have seen the adverse effects of emissions from increased flooding, algai blooms and soil erosion, researchers say.". Bullshit! Are you going to tell me that sailing vessels were a big deal in the 1930s on the Great Lakes? Are you going to tell me that the combustion-engine vessels--pissy-ass little things compared with the size of the Earth--have been causing and are causing "weather variability"? Where is the proof that the ships traveling the planet are causing increased flooding? Only an idiot would invest in the Veer Group. Hold it! I am probably the most knowledgeable person about The Mackinaw WAGB-83, which was on the Great Lakes as a U.S. Coast Guard icebreaker from 1944 to 2006, which is a museum at Mackinaw City, Michigan, and where I was a tour guide for four seasons. I have a document that is 660-pages long (in single-space form as rated by WordPerfect) about the retired (decommissioned) icebreaker, and while I put that document together over a bunch of years, I came across information about ice conditions from year to year and water levels of the Great Lakes form year to year. The levels went up and down, and ice conditions varied from very hard and thick to easy and thin over the Great Lakes, et cetera. For the last 15 years, I have lived part of each year along Lake Huron (being at the place in all the seasons), and I have seen the water levels go up and down, as they have for decades and decades. Look at this part of the article--"Great Lakes vessels see the impact of climate change primarily through variability in lake levels, extreme cold weather and major weather events, said Jim Weakly, the president of the Lake Carriers' Association, a group participating in the Maritime Administration study. 'If the levels are low, or lower than normal, for each inch of water [,] we lose as much as 270 tons of cargo per vessel load, said Weakly. Members of his organization move over 90 million tons of cargo throughout the Great Lakes each year.". Hold it! Hold it! Hold it! The previous quote material talked about lower water levels. The climate-change nuts are pushing the idea that climate change is causing water levels to rise and rise! Which way is it? Okay, if the water levels are going down, then ships will have to make more trips or there will have to be more ships built! I could go on to beat down the idiocy of the article and the idiocy of the people mentioned in the article, but I think I have made the point--the climate-change theme leading to the killing of the planet is driving thought into crap. The article should have been published in the back of the newspaper as a shortened item or it should not have been published, given it was and is crap, and it especially should not have been a headline story! Keep that in in mind while you travel in Michigan.
Warning announcement! Because of incidents at schools for children and incidents at other places for people in general tied to "Sharia" or "Islamic Law" or even the religion/political system known as "Islam," I now regularly have this paragraph as a part of each edition of Michigan Travel Tips. The governmental system of the United States of America based on The U.S. Constitution and "Sharia" or, informally, Islamic law, are not compatible and cannot co-exist, and one reason is "Sharia" (et cetera) is a political system, in which there is one-party rule, and that one party is basically made up or controlled by religious leaders who base all the ways of their culture or society on "Sharia" or "Islamic Law." Those who uphold and practice "Sharia" have no tolerance for the existence of Christianity or Buddhism or Hinduism or non-religion, and that is a fact, and "Sharia" is a political system in which women are second-rate human bodies and in which clergy can be involved in determining business transactions, and there is no "freedom of speech" tied to politics in a society related to "Sharia." When you travel around Michigan and in other states of the country, watch for signs that rotten people are trying to teach you or family members, especially children, that "Sharia" is good and "Allah" is good and teach you or family members that the United States of America is bad and that, for instance, Christianity and Buddhism and Hinduism are bad, which I have evidence is happening and which is being brought about by people who are clearly working to make "Sharia" a dominant political system in the world (it is a political system as rotten as socialism and fascism and communism are, since it promotes violence and thuggery and coercion, and it promotes killing of non-followers behind the face of religion and a god, Allah). By the way, a society based on "Sharia" really creates nothing in the long run and does not advance the human society as a whole since it is too busy suppressing the ideas of people and keeping the ideas of the society based on ways of only a few minds up front (the political leaders), whose main purpose is to keep themselves enriched through the work of others, the many--it is a gang-run society really. Yes, if you run across people pushing the idea that Muslim stuff--particularly the true The Quran and not the translations of The Quran that are faked to hide the true nature of Islam--is better than the U.S. is, especially to little children, go public and make it known to other good people and fight back against it.
Recently, I went looking to see if some tourist attractions that I list in the fabulous files of places to see in Michigan still exist, and I was doing that to see what I might talk about in future editions of Michigan Travel Tips, and I was aware some places got shut down for good because of the COVID-19 crap, which had been started by the communists of China (with help from some funding from the U.S. government). I discovered that "Jake's Museum" or the Jake Menghini Historical Museum managed to make it through the COVID-19 period of history; it had been forced to close down during the peak of the COVID-19 time. I discovered there have been some changes at the places since I first put the place my files several decades ago. Years ago, it was located on Eighth Street--between Chestnut Street and Maple Street and one block north of US-2--at Norway. Norway is located a little east of Iron Mountain and Kingsford of Dickinson County of the Upper Peninsula. The museum was, in essence, a house that was considered the William A. Holmes log cabin, and it was a place that was set up as a place to put collected things over the years and later as a place to be a formal museum by a man named August "Jake" Menghini, who died in 1996. Today, the museum is located in a bigger building at 105 O'Dill Drive of the Norway area. Besides that, the log cabin was moved (in 2018), so there are two buildings tied to the museum at 105 O'Dill Drive. The museum still focuses mostly on what "Jake"--who should be considered a good amateur historian--collected over the years, and the Norway area is the focus, such as in relation to lumbering, the history of which can be seen in some old photographs. Generally speaking, the museum has been open from June to October for decades, so, yes, the museum is closed now (with winter). But it seemed to me that I should talk about now so that you can plan ahead to see it later this year if you are in the Norway area of the Upper Peninsula. By the way, the museum salutes a former teacher of the Norway area called Ms. Clara Dierickx, a woman known for teaching cursive writing, which I learned but have not used much in decades, given I do so much writing on typewriters and computers. I bet the museum does not note what I have been saying for years--It was the ability to take the English language and tie it to typewriters with only a few dozen keys that helped the American knowledge culture take off even more, which could not be done with the dead Chinese language with bunches and bunches and bunches of jackass characters that could not be put to typewriters easily. And I say--Look for the Jake Menghini Historical Museum this summer, and, maybe, tell others about it by sending a letter typed out on a typewriter or a computer, or do the elegant cursive thing.
Enjoy your traveling in Michigan!
And keep aware of the rotten people in Michigan.
Stay well!
Victor
Your travel tip in this edition of Michigan Travel Tips is:
The Jake Menghini Historical Museum, Norway, Dickinson County, the Lower Peninsula.
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