rural community – Page 6 – Rural Tompkins County

“The World According to Doctrine” — “Tompkins County: everybody at the top. . .” Bumper sticker

Everyone praises those in authority in Tompkins County – if they want to keep their job. It’s a networking, quid pro quo hotbed; where the elite skim their lifestyle off the top. BMWs speed through our rural communities; looking around with the attitude of sightseers at an Animal Park — if we don’t wither away soon; they’ll have to use a stronger poison.

“The World According to Doctrine” — “Truck Run!” Screenshot

“In rural NY no one can hear you scream.”

When we tried to stop the invasion of large gravel trucks and industrial tractor trailers racing through our rural backroads; by requesting a 4-ton weight limit for through-truck traffic – the County Highway Director claimed they didn’t even exist. And when we documented it with photographic proof – he suddenly put up 20-ton weight limit signs.

But that’s only the beginning of the conduct of officials and their legislative oversight: read “Tompkins County and Tammany Hall” – free eBook download on Smashwords.com and paperback on Amazon.

As they say: “You can’t make this shit up” — and in Tompkins County, NY; you don’t have to.

“The World According to Doctrine” — “Who’s Janet Fitchen?” Bumper sticker

Caring about people because they’re poor, disadvantaged, and underserved is no longer an acceptable reason – they must pass a demographic hurdle as well.

Rural people are too “white,” too different, and too . . . well, rural – to be the objects of anything but urban ridicule, bigotry, and racist profiling.

Rural communities across the country are being destroyed to fulfill the expansionist dreams of the New Urbanism: Urban Colonialism.

Who’s Janet Fitchen? The answer to that; is the answer to many questions.

“New Book” – “Flow Chart Poetry 2”

It may be pointless bureaucratic chatter to you, but for them; it’s money in the bank – and traditional “Quid Pro Quo” politics. It may be wasting your time – but they’re being paid to waste your time: and the tip they’ll receive is to insure their career longevity.

The real power of public meetings is in the ability of those in charge to delay and deflect important matters with unimportant questions, quibbles, and investigations – and postpone the vital issues that you came to hear and comment on for a month, or two, or six . . . until they can be short-circuited, reimagined, or reformulated.

Unimportant matters are the grit in the wheels of public participation — a grit that’s never allowed in the smooth running machine of power.

“New Book” – “It’s the wind that prevails” Bumper sticker

In our authoritarian society; it’s all about force – whether it’s doctrinaire or regulatory, social or emotional: everything and everyone must be made to conform — or be destroyed.

“New Book” – “Releasing predators” Bumper sticker

Whether it’s wolves and sharks; or drug dealers and murders – the elite are ensuring right of predators to roam the communities of poor and undefended prey.

Protected by privilege and law; they see human lives and suffering as only one part of a bigger picture — their bigger picture.

“New Book” – “There are only two categories of people” Bumper sticker

Which category are you? Since that decision is made at a higher level – we’re all disposable; aren’t we?

“New Book” – “Voluntary Guidelines” Bumper sticker

Like the receding rumble of a thunderstorm before the bolt that strikes your house; or the coffee that spills all over you because you tried to stop it from spilling — bumper stickers are back!

Although the White House Office of Domestic Climate Policy [November 2021] report states; “one ton of methane in the atmosphere has about 80 times the warming impact of a ton of CO₂” it removes Agriculture [the biggest contributor of methane] from its pie chart of “2019 U.S. Methane Emissions, By Source” – and breaks its contribution down into non-attributed pie sections — naming all the other sources; and leaving “Natural Gas and Petroleum Systems” as the largest and graphically enhanced culprit.

Agriculture is moved down to Section D, after Coal Mining; even though it releases 5 ½ times the methane – and while stating: “methane is a super-pollutant that disproportionately impacts climate change in the near term” – agricultural regulations are replaced with a request for “Voluntary Partnership” and with “Incentive-based” government funding that is on the same level as stopping your automobile pollution by buying you a new electric car.

Biden’s Global Warming remediation is business as usual with a smokescreen of race and ethnicity: When statistics and corruption come together — it’s a match made in Hell.

“All Roads Lead to Cornithaca” Published

This book creates bumper stickers, road signs, advertisements, billboards, posters and re-imagined console and old school videogame screenshots that deconstruct the impenetrable façade of government and government policy making.

Card and board games help promote thinking through interactive play.

A unique activity book for hungry minds.

240 pages – Color

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