Category: Rural Tompkins Blogs

“Rise of the Evil Ones” – “Cuomo Kong”

“Rise of the Evil Ones” – “Cuomo Kong”

“How many legs does a dog have if you call his tail a leg? Four. Saying that a tail is a leg doesn’t make it a leg.” — Abraham Lincoln

Have you ever noticed how the more dictatorial the government; the more beneficent the terms they use to describe their self-serving policies?

Today’s autocrats use the pretense of a “greater goodness” to cover the undeniable evil of their actions. And an insistence that they are leading us to a better place; to calm our uneasiness that their path leads in the opposite direction.

You don’t need anyone to tell you the right thing to do; but you need a government to tell you that it’s wrong to do it.

How many legs does an inequitable and unfair government policy have to stand on?

Two. Yours.

“Rise of the Evil Ones” – “BLOG BOG”

“Rise of the Evil Ones” – “BLOG BOG”

The vaccine is being distributed by New York State authorities with the same dismissive attitude that is a hallmark of their policy making toward the elderly and the unborn.

Age may be the demographic that defined the state’s COVID-19 fatalities; but it’s politics that defines who gets the vaccine.

A teacher who has already received the vaccine told me that he had been networked with the time vaccine appointments would be available, and on the dot used his smart phone and laptop together to grab a slot before they were gone in minutes. How can the county’s rural elderly; without prior notification, many without computers, good vision, and even the ability to move their fingers without pain, compete with that?

I have been unable to schedule a vaccine appointment for my mother, and called the County hot-line: I told them she was 97 years old, with heart disease, high blood-pressure and a pacemaker — they replied: “Everyone thinks they’re at risk.”

The sum-total of their help was to say: “Just keep trying.”

Now you know what happened with the Nursing Homes.

“All Roads Lead to Cornithaca” – “Rise of the Evil Ones” – “Social Distance Boxing”

“Rise of the Evil Ones” – “Social Distance Boxing 1”
“Rise of the Evil Ones” – “Social Distance Boxing 2”
“Rise of the Evil Ones” – “Social Distance Boxing 3”
“Rise of the Evil Ones” – “Social Distance Boxing 4”
“Rise of the Evil Ones” – “Social Distance Boxing 5”
“Rise of the Evil Ones” – “Social Distance Boxing 6”

“Social Distancing,” like any other of today’s social programs, is a formalization that does nothing to change people’s attitudes. Millennia after “The Sun and the Wind”: governments still rely on force and form as the builders of society. Even in the face of victory-defeating restrictions; these two boxers still only think of defeating each other.

“I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.” ~ Abraham Lincoln

It’s ironic that such a forward looking social outlook is the product of “old school” thinking.

“Rise of the Evil Ones” – “So Long”

“So Long” “Rise of the Evil Ones” – “So Long”

Public Health officials announced that COVID-19 vaccinations for those over the age of 75 in rural New York “will move into an undetermined time.”

Even while the Attorney General’s office is investigating misconduct in the State’s treatment of nursing homes during the pandemic; the State keeps shuffling its most-at-risk population to the back of the vaccination line.

While New York’s power groups bat COVID causes and cures back and forth — its rural elderly are merely in the way.

“Rise of the Evil Ones” – “BurglerTime”

“Rise of the Evil Ones” – “BurglerTime”

In an old Monty Python sketch; a man was told that unfortunately he had chosen the “no-pay” insurance policy, which was a great deal if he never had to use it, but . . .

Our Criminal Justice System best fits the people that never have to rely on it — it works just great in no-crime areas.