As IF Times

link Death penalty: Exhaustive study finds death penalty costs California $184 million a year – latimes.com.

Really?  It costs an estimated $308 million dollars to carry out a single death penalty in the state of California?  In essence, the cost of dying is thousands of times more than  the cost of living there.  This is certainly a business that can be performed more cheaply by off shore labor.  In fact, an offshore company can charge half of what it ‘costs’ in that state, and still make a pretty good profit.  They would only need about one contract every few years or so to stay in business.  Heck, just across the border in Mexico, there are those practising the craft all the time for free.  Come to think of it, why bother to execute them when for only the cost of a bus ticket, we can send them to Mexico wearing cartel gang colors.

Unable to convince the public on any given policy that they don’t agree with, the progressive left defaults to appealing to economic arguments to support their positions.   In this particular case, that strategy backfires on them.   As they break down the costs involved, it highlights the ridiculous maze of bureaucracy that must be navigated in order to carry out the state laws.  The logic thread then goes, ‘why not abolish it altogether’ since it is so cost inefficient.  If this sounds familiar, it’s because it’s the same argument for abandoning the war on drugs.  Which is the same argument for not enforcing illegal immigration laws.  Using the same logic, it must be an astronomical number for police to enforce any kind of laws.  Then why have police?  In fact, why have laws?

I wonder if that same argument could be used on the cost of medical care?  Recently, a friend of mine had a small accident in the US where he was visiting.  This required a trip to the hospital.  The cost for fixing up a dented finger was over $4000.  No rational person would then conclude that the cost of  this procedure means that medical care should therefore be abandoned because of cost.  It only makes sense to fix the root causes of why the system is the way it is.   I wonder if lawyers are involved.

Clearly the cancer of bureacracy has infected  all areas of public life.  This cancer is hiding as a “cost of implementation” when progressives want to rationalize their agenda and when other arguments fail the sniff test of logic and morality.   Soon, it will be too expensive to feed the kids…..

link When race is mentioned in the Chicago Tribune – chicagotribune.com.

More idiocy masking as objectivity.  The ill advised policies of political correctness actively pursued by liberal sensibilities are fast becoming caricatures of stupidity.  In the animal world, only the highly advanced humans would ignore the most basic tenets of survival.  The natural equivalent of all of this politically correct nonsense would be if Wildebeest were to blithely frolic about while all around them lions began to gather. This is fantasy, we would never see this because Wildebeest are not that stupid.

In the human world, thanks to moronic notions of fairness, people are asked to literally turn a blind eye to the nefarious elements of society.  Apparently, the label of racist is the most heinous of all things one can be accused of, more to be avoided than other sundry labels such as, oh let’s say, murderer, child molester, or Internet creep.  We know this thanks to the exploits of Fidel Castro, Roman Polanski and of course recently, Anthony Weiner.  Because of this mentality, we have an entire expensive and cumbersome bureaucracy dedicated to making life miserable for the travelling public at airports including the prototypical Swedish grandmothers and nursing infants.  Rather than scrutinize the segment of society that has historically been most at risk to cause grief and mayhem to innocents, why not be inclusive and give the Mexican prisoner treatment to everyone? This despite the fact that troublemakers tend to have distinct characteristics of appearance and background.

The non-reporting of all the facts that pertain to the rash of mob attacks in many US cities, but in particular as depicted by this Chicago paper is fomenting the same type of willful stupidity.  If the ‘kids’ involved in the mob attacks are not only generally, but almost exclusively black, wouldn’t that be germane to the story?  When the Tribune reports that packs of ‘kids’ were attacking innocent civilians, are the readers supposed to imagine a gaggle of Richie Cunninghams mobbing them?  What if you had to fill out a police report?

“Well, let’s see, there were 7 or 8 of them…they were young… all had arms…some had hair….”

“Any other distinguishing characteristics? Hair color, race perhaps?”

“Oh no, we didn’t notice whether they were all black kids wearing baseball caps askew,  baggy pants  and speaking Ebonics or not, no sir, none of that occurred to us because we’re not racists at all, no sirree…”

The whole charade is farcical.  For some to pretend that racial issues don’t exist and that those dynamics don’t come into normal social interaction is ostrich behaviour at its best.  When the current President of the United States is elected into office coming out of nowhere, with no executive experience, no history of legislative achievements and with a closet full of sketchy collaborators, there is no explanation for it other than the naked truth.  He was elected because he was black.  Given similar qualifications, no other person would have been elected if they didn’t have the racial advantage.  If fact, much has been made of this milestone in American history.  This achievement has been endlessly trumpeted by the liberal left as proof of society’s evolution.  The only thing this has really proved however is that a black president can be just as incompetent as a white president.  But hey,  at least they were inclusive.  The policies and results derived from Obama’s time in office would never be tolerated by the public and media if he were not black.  In fact, any criticism of his agenda is construed as a racist attack.

Nevertheless, Obama proves that people of color can achieve high office and indeed THE highest office, so the on going arguments for politically correct sensibilities are outdated.  The old chestnut of the disadvantaged inner city black youth has less validity.  The  achievements of Obama, of Oprah, of Condaleeza Rice, of Colin Powell, although exceptions, prove that the possibility for great success exists for black people and that resorting to anti social, criminal lifestyles is an option, not a destiny.

The delusion of the left over the foibles of people of any color perpetuates the segmentation of people and prevents true equality in society.  It’s unclear to me why people should be regarded as one big homogeneous glop.   It is an affront to rational thinking.  Stupidity and brilliance are present in all peoples and as such, instances of both should be pointed out, especially by an ‘objective’ media.  Those that ignore this are the true racists.