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link Deep Layoffs Take Effect In Camden « CBS Philly – News, Sports, Weather, Traffic and the Best of Philadelphia.

When attending university, one of the main tenets of logic taught is the concept of cause and effect.  While that concept can be very fuzzy in the social sciences field, in the realm of hard sciences, where results do matter, this leads to discovery and knowledge.   In fact, one of the foundations of the scientific method is the ability to replicate a result given a set of variables.  At no time in my undistinguished school career did achieving the same dismal result from the same flawed inputs garner me any academic accolades.  Quite the contrary.  If I was expected to achieve result A on an experiment, it behooved me to find variables X, Y, or Z that would lead to the desired outcome.   Continuing to input variables U, V and W would not lead to desired outcome A.  In fact it would lead to the very undesirable outcome of  D, or F.

In the real world, this logic is apparently discarded as soon as the cap and gowns are returned to the rental company.  When you observe the behaviour of people in their everyday lives for example, it is clear that for most, the logic of cause and effect has been discarded as a quaint educational relic, like cursive writing.  In the real world, people somehow lose their ability to reason with any clarity and are easily swayed by those who offer an impossible logic.  The mesmerizing allure of lottery tickets are but one example of mass delusion.  It is in the area of politics however that we find the most delusional behaviour. 

According to the linked article, the City of Camden, New Jersey is now on the verge of having to lay off police and firemen in their bid to stem their budget deficit.   Naturally, this makes headlines because in the “most crime ridden city in America”, this is incongruous.  I know nothing about Camden, New Jersey, but from all accounts of articles relating to this city, it isn’t exactly Disneyland North.  What we do discover is a pattern that seems to appear among  major cities struggling under enormous budget deficits.  That common denominator is that they are all run by governments controlled by the Democratic party.   Coincidences happen of course, like having the only lighter in a bar when Charlize Theron pulls out a cigarette.  More likely however, there is a cause and effect thing happening in the case of big deficits and Democratic governments.  Exhibit A, a list of some of the largest US cities and their accompanying deficits:

Los Angeles, budget shortfall of $408 million

Chicago, budget deficit of $655 million

Philadelphia, greater than $1 billion dollar deficit

San Francisco $380 million dollar budget deficit

Washington DC $688 million dollar deficit

New York city, $4 billion dollar deficit, not to mention an unfunded pension liability of $59 Billion!

Is it purely a coincidence that all of these cities are controlled by Democratic party governments?  I include New York because for decades, until Giuliani, it was a Democratic stronghold.  Even Bloomberg, who now casts himself as an Independent leans convincingly left.  The question is, why do they keep putting Democrats in office?  There’s ample and glaring evidence that those affiliated with the party are incapable of sound fiscal management.  They run on the same platform of Something For Nothing, or SFN (which could also mean Same Fricking Nonsense ) and people continue to believe them.  The price paid for them getting into office however, always seems to be borne by the weary taxpayer.  The fix seems to be predictable; raise taxes or ‘lay off teachers, police and firemen’.  Somehow, excessive entitlements and waste never get laid off.   As this is being written comes news that the city of Berkeley in California wants to make transgender surgical procedures a perk of employment. 

If people want a different result, they’d better stop pursuing the same input.  Maybe try option B.

link With Gore facing sex accusation, long-lost memories emerge | Washington Examiner.

The story line about how Al allegedly stuck his tongue down the throat of an unwilling woman is easily the creepiest image I have come across in my news scans.  Let’s try to erase that from our minds. 

Having said that, what better way to describe the Global warming hokum that’s been foisted down the throats of unsuspecting people for the past few years?  Also unwanted, also aggressive and also repulsive.  The worst part of if it is that it feels like a gang of Al Gores have been imposing their will down our throats through the industry of Global warming as they foist their opinions upon the masses of naive people.  Millions of zealots were recruited to the Church of Al to spread the panic that was Global Warming.   To not believe was to be irresponsible, bordering on criminal.  Their way was to be imposed upon everyone, like it or not, real or not, for their own good.  Actually, it’s all quite reminiscent of the Crusades without the be-headings and the torture.

That the Global Warming  industry still thrives today and that vapid expressions such as ‘sustainability’ have embedded themselves into publc speech and policy are a testament to just how pervasive and effective the assault has been.  Now, years after the initial assault, some are beginning to see  the charade for what it is, the rantings of a ‘crazed earth poodle’ to borrow an expression.  There were many that told him to stop, but he persisted anyway. 

Unfortunately, even if Al’s credibility suffers on both his personal and professional fronts. the assault that he has wrought continues even without his stewardship. An entire generation of kids and politicians have been brainwashed by his alarmist and unfounded bleatings.  In our city, Vancouver, the largest collection  of granola eating, sandal wearing politically correct eco groupies outside of San Francisco, politicians have enacted policies that pander to the wishes of the more rabid segment of them.  Now, we have main traffic arteries serving the downtown business district constricted by the construction of bicycle lanes.  As if business people will jump on their bikes to go to meetings.  It’ll be amusing for car commuters to see the empty bike lanes when the rainy season starts.  The mayor will be lucky there’s not an election then.  It’ll be amusing as well to see how he explains that gasoline and insurance levies on cars intended for road maintenance will instead be funneled into making the streets better for 38 cyclists, none of whom pay any transportation tax. 

The Church of Al has also caused all kinds of ‘green’ taxes to rain down from all political levels, all meant to shape the behaviour of people not otherwise believing in the message.  It will probably take at least a generation for the trauma of that to wear off.  Meanwhile, another group of learned scientists have offered their opinion of what’s in store.  They think that it’s all going to end anyway, well, within a few million years.  According to this article; http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1294372/Life-Earth-wiped-27-million-years.html the earth goes through a cataclysm every 27 million years or so. 

“…Scientists from the University of Kansas and the Smithsonian Institute in Washington DC are 99 per cent confident that there are extinctions every 27 million years…”

Get that? 99 per cent confident! So why worry about a few trees, spotted amoebas, or rising tides, it’s all going to end anyway.  People should stand up, speak out and refuse to be assaulted anymore.  Take back the world.