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Hi Arnie:
Thanks a lot for keeping this website going for so long. I had to sell my little wilderness ranch near Glacier National Park and auction off my vast art and antiques collections and put myself into an old folks home in the ski resort town of Whitefish, Montana. My status as an independent, progressive, environmentalist now limits my Op-Eds getting widely published anymore. Type 2 Diabetes and lower back aging slows me down a lot. I hope you are surviving well the ravages of time and that aging process. Be safe, take care, stay well in this new world of climate change and pandemics. Not my choice for an end-of-life scenario. Best to you and yours.
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Op-Ed
‘I want my country back’
Daily Inter Lake
September 3, 2017
BILL BAUM
I am very saddened by the current state of affairs in America. I feel bewildered and betrayed. How can this be happening?
Prior to retiring to Glacier National Park and the Great Bear Wilderness Area to study grizzly bears and global warming impacting the glaciation, I was an aerospace engineer and computer sciences consultant working on Top Secret Programs with access to Dept. of Defense and Dept. of Energy Nuclear Weapons Labs in order to provide optimized computer solutions for mathematical algorithms in the defense of our nation and the free world.. I was following a patriotic career path and felt good about myself for doing so.
Today I am tormented by the evilness of the President of the United States, Donald Trump, and his cast of hard core voting supporters: KKK; Neo-Nazis; skinheads; white supremacists; non-college educated; et al. I watch as the lunatics run the asylum. What am I to do to help recover our value system?
People that I know and can readily communicate with are stunned and equally dumbfounded as to why this happened. How can America have turned into such a mess, now run by outlaws? Can we recover our country before it is too late? (I worry that we cannot.)
The evil Republican Party is responsible for this atrocity, but the weak Democratic Party is guilty of allowing it to happen by not properly mobilizing and adequately fighting back. One third of our national society is non-partisan independents and must helplessly, hopelessly stand by with no party to represent us and put a stop to the madness. Can this outlaw POTUS not be declared mentally incompetent and removed from office for the good of our nation and the free world? I want my country back. —Bill Baum, Martin City
Bill Baum
Retired Aerospace Engineer & Computer Scientist
Post-graduate studies in Law & MBA
Substitute high school teacher
Editorial columnist and technical writer
Wildlife advocate & research ecology assistant
Realtor in the wildlands-urban-interface
Advisor in growth policy planning & subdivision regulations
http://www.linkedin.com/pub/bill-baum/37/757/578
Letter to the Michigan Engineer magazine
Thanks for the memories
30 May 2017
Bill Baum
Michigan Class of 1965
I am aging rapidly now but my pride of attending the U. of Michigan will last for my forever. I, controversially, earned two bachelor degrees at the same time in Mathematics and Engineering back in 1965 when it was not allowed. Nevertheless, it provided me with self-assuredness in life that served me well: A sterling career in aerospace engineering and computer sciences consulting with a DOD Top Secret security clearance. Along the way, at night school, I did graduate studies in law and MBA at other universities. I knew presidents, congressmen, and generals.
Michigan was ranked top four in the nation in engineering back then. They offered college degrees in all of the many other disciplines as well, unlike any other college in America, and most ranked in the top ten. Michigan, Harvard, and Yale provided a reciprocal professor exchange program and I was rewarded by taking classes from visiting Harvard professors. Also very rewarding were the many famous visiting guest speakers of note that I had the chance to meet and talk to. In sports, Michigan competed in every sport and finished in the top ten in each, unlike any other college in America. Football was most popular and Michigan has won more games than any other college, ever, with Notre Dame a distant second. Twenty percent of seats in classrooms were reserved for foreign students giving Michigan an international intellectual flavor. Go Blue! “Hail to the victors valiant…”
The famous Cazzie Russell ended my hopes to play varsity basketball, since we played the same position, my 6’0” and 175 lbs. to his 6’6” and 235 lbs. with his ultimate status as college player of the year. To get even and pay him back, I tutored him in English to keep him eligible to play, while I played intramural basketball and football for Gomberg House and won championships in both. They were challenging times for me as I missed a National Merit Scholarship by one percentile point and had to work numerous part-time jobs to survive.
Today, I am long retired and living on a little wilderness ranch near Glacier National Park and the Great Bear Wilderness Area in Montana studying grizzly bears for their survival and doing global warming research, as I am also appointed to many national forest management planning committees by the governor. I constantly write hundreds of newspaper Op-Eds about my research. And, once again, I work numerous little part-time jobs to survive….coming full circle.
Thanks Michigan, for the memories.
Bill Baum
www.Facebook.com/GrizzlyBillBaum
http://www.linkedin.com/pub/bill-baum/37/757/578
Bill Baum
Retired Aerospace Engineer & Computer Scientist
Post-graduate studies in Law & MBA
Substitute high school teacher
Editorial columnist and technical writer
Wildlife advocate & research ecology assistant
Realtor in the wildlands-urban-interface
Advisor in growth policy planning & subdivision regulations
http://www.linkedin.com/pub/bill-baum/37/757/578
Bill Baum
BearKat Ranch
Badrock Canyon
P.O. Box 5414
Kalispell, MT 59903
P.O. Box 260234
Martin City, MT 59926
406-212-0280 (Cell - 1st)
406-387-5011 (Home - 2nd)
GrizzlyBill@centurytel.net
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