tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post5185664306757611727..comments2024-03-26T06:17:49.527-07:00Comments on Had Enough Therapy?: America's Declining Big CitiesStuart Schneidermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12784043736879991769noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-59746980085961580462019-08-06T09:48:50.884-07:002019-08-06T09:48:50.884-07:00All these cities need a Fiorello La Guardia.All these cities need a Fiorello La Guardia.Sam L.https://www.blogger.com/profile/00996809377798862214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-75858385955577348772019-08-06T04:26:04.554-07:002019-08-06T04:26:04.554-07:00The decline is expected and is following a well-tr...The decline is expected and is following a well-traced path.Dan Pattersonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18306436521768077821noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-49637135261233434542019-08-05T14:04:25.255-07:002019-08-05T14:04:25.255-07:0038 homicides in Baltimore in July 2019. How much ...38 homicides in Baltimore in July 2019. How much have you heard about that?<br /><br />I’ll bet there weren’t many scary “assault rifles” used in those killings. I’d wager that they were almost all unregistered pistols, and that the perps were forbidden to have firearms. <br /><br />That’s the problem with gun control — only law-abiding citizens are prohibited from having guns. Few people in the Big Media seem to understand that. Ignatius Acton Chesterton OCDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18222603717128565302noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-33777156237486563412019-08-05T11:08:48.569-07:002019-08-05T11:08:48.569-07:00"The reason, Kotkin explains, has much to do ..."The reason, Kotkin explains, has much to do with virtue signalling leftist politicians who care more about fighting climate change and leading the Resistance against President Trump than about fixing what’s broken in their cities." Not to mention, that's way, Way, WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY easier. Not to mention, cheaper.<br /><br />"We should all get over the habit of calling these politicians progressive." Oh, NO!! Call them "progressives", and always say that that word always reminds you of cancer, which it certainly does for me, as it killed my wife.<br /><br />Sam L.https://www.blogger.com/profile/00996809377798862214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-50149049114335772832019-08-05T10:26:21.064-07:002019-08-05T10:26:21.064-07:00Something that’s gone unnoticed in the aftermath o...Something that’s gone unnoticed in the aftermath of Trump’s notorious tweets is his accurate portrayal of the situation he describes. <br /><br />Predictably, we get the tantrums that the tantrums of the hate-filled Ctrl-Left, the moaning/wailing of the liberals, and the hyperbolic chattering and epithets the Big Media after one of Trump’s razor tweets. He seems to do them on Saturday or Sunday, and they catch the full mainsail of the news cycle. <br /><br />We universally hear about how loathsome, despicable and awful Trump is. What a racist he and his deplorable supporters are (always irrefutable guilt-by-association). This goes on, and on and on.<br /><br />And then, about 24 hours later, someone begins to unpack what’s in the tweet. And then we find out that Elijah Cummings is using the humanitarian migrant crisis on the border to score points while his district suffers. We find out that Baltimore is crime-ravaged. And that it is actually rat-infested. And despite all the hyperventilating interpretations that Trump equated rats with black people, we find out that Baltimore Mayor Pugh used the same language to describe neighborhoods in Cummings’ district. And that there actually has been a lot of federal aid going to Baltimore for some time — though where’s it’s been spent is uncertain.<br /><br />For all the accusations that Trump is an idiot, it’s striking that he paints his opponents as idiots (or worse) and the paint seems to stick. Just ask The Squad... they’ve been quiet lately, haven’t that? Nancy saw to it that they got in line.<br /><br />But being on the Left means never having to say you’re sorry.Ignatius Acton Chesterton OCDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18222603717128565302noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-88106641834146344962019-08-05T06:23:15.848-07:002019-08-05T06:23:15.848-07:00America's once-great cities are declining beca...America's once-great cities are declining because city governments have been, in Vox Day's analysis, "fully converged"; i.e., elected and appointed officials "devote significant resources to social causes" that have nothing to do with good governance, governmental communications focus on "social justice platitudes" like "diversity" and "climate change", and city officialdom displays open contempt for the needs and concerns of residents (cf., Baltimore). <br /><br />Full convergence means that precise racial and gender balances (as currently evolved) of the city's workforce must be adjusted and readjusted as needs be with the precision of an analytical laboratory balance, evil political totems like plastic straws and Big Gulps must be legislatively exorcised, and drug abuse, public defecation, and filth must be tolerated in urban areas picturesquely described by <i>The Guardian</i> as "homegrown neighborhoods" and "informal settlements". It's why every proposed tax cut is met with dire projections of cuts in fire and public safety budgets, but never with warnings about budget cuts for the Annual Mogadishu Dumpsterfire Diversity Festival, needle-sharing programs, or kindergarten transgender equality sessions.<br /><br />But yawning potholes can go unrepaired and streets unplowed in snowstorms, public transportation schedules can become mathematically indistinguishable from random processes (as Boston's Green Line was outside a former colleague's window at Northeastern University), and billions of taxpayer dollars disappear beyond the event horizon into fiscal gravity wells.trigger warninghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06310637474428322994noreply@blogger.com