Hawaii got what it voted for..Part 1

And not a Republican in sight, Democrats / August 22, 2023
Via ace of spades hq
By CBD

 

The traditional trade-off for robust job protections and generous pension packages for government workers has been the gap between private-sector salaries and public-sector salaries.
That has disappeared, as government salaries have increased to ridiculous levels…cops making $400k/year, lifeguards on Los Angeles beaches making $500k, teachers with Ed. Ds (a doctorate for making dioramas?) making $250k, and bureaucrats in bloated state governments, doing work that just a generation ago was done by clerks, making similar salaries.
But…or so the argument goes…we need to pay these people well otherwise we would lose their skills to the private sector! You know, like the functionary in Hawaii whose chaotic personal politics may have been responsible for the deaths of many people.

 

What we have in Hawaii is the perfect storm of generations of Democrat hiring practices, which are nothing more than political payoffs, coupled with the stark and obvious inability of these politicized civil servants to…you know…DO THEIR JOBS! They are far more interested in pushing the latest Woke nonsense, and of course, protecting the precious environment that they themselves devastated with their awful and short-sighted policies controlling fire mitigation and water use.
And then they lie about it! Here is the Maui Times editor on the media blackout concerning the Maui “wildfires“ and the government’s total clampdown on information.
Hell, the last time I checked there were a few military bases in the Hawaiian Islands, and my guess is that the United States Marine Corps could help out a little bit…if they were asked by the governor. But he hasn’t. All he has done is asked the Coast Guard to monitor environmental impacts because that is obviously more important than the lives of the Hawaiian people.

 

What is that…a little political theater? Although it is up to the governor to ask for federal help, so the responsibility is the state’s.
There are 850 people still missing, and while some of those people are undoubtedly safe, the death toll will climb…probably by a lot. And it is the fault of the state and local civil servants who simply did not do their jobs.
The utter and complete failure of government is on full display, and it is a culmination of years of effort on the part of the progressive movement in America. They have converted the civil service into a money-making, hyper-politicized arm of the Democrat party. Get a cushy gig, contribute to the party, then hire more like-minded people to keep the horrid cycle going.
The function of government is no longer to support society in times of need…it is to fund the progressive rot.
I guess that is one thing they do quite well.

Vermont’s Big Urban Areas

And not a Republican in sight, Random thoughts / August 4, 2023

The one by the pond, the west/left coast of blue, blue New England comes to mind. 

Vermont has always been held up as one of the safest States in the country.

If you happened to live on a quiet country back road I can certainly attest to that.  If you happen to live in certain urban areas of the State it can be a little problematic. 

Burlington Vt, after de-funding its police in response to the George Floyd protest riots and the ascension of the”Black Lives Matter” scam is getting a little dangerous.

Of course, depending on your political leanings you view things through rose-colored glasses.

 

The big west coast cities, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Portland, and Seattle, have become progressive dystopias filled with lawlessness and crime. It’s what the residents voted for, and they’re getting what they deserve. The video below deals with Seattle, will the Burlington area get as bad? only time will tell.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Storm of the century part duex

Ramblings and rants / July 24, 2023

While I was on vacation in Alaska, Vermont was hit with a rainstorm of nearly biblical proportions that many say was worse than “Irene”.

I suffered only minimal damage to my home, mostly water in the basement. Fortunately, most things were in plastic totes. My partner fared worse with up to six inches of water in her basement and the loss of some irreplaceable items. But in the grand scheme of things we know others fared much worse.

I do not believe the floods are any kind of divine retribution as per some Facebook comments I was made aware of. It was just an unusual weather pattern that created monsoon conditions. Climatologists attribute this to (of course) “Climate Change”.  

 

“To stop our temperatures rising on the planet, the answer is pretty simple, it’s reducing our emissions of greenhouse gases that come from our burning of fossil fuels to zero as quickly as possible,”  Climate scientist  Tom Deliberto said.

 

Does it seem Mr. Deliberto wants an authoritarian government to make this happen?  

 

As we are all aware, Vermont is very blue, liberal, and secular. Anything smacking of religion in general and Christianity in particular is looked upon with distain if not borderline hostility.  Heck, if you believe in God you have a mental illness. Wokness is their religion.

The supermajority Democrats have codified abortion on demand into our constitution. And if you’re a Christian school that objects to biological males competing against their girl’s teams will be thrown under the bus.

So it might be understandable that some Christian folk would want to believe that the recent deluge and floods were a sign that God was not pleased with Vermont. This is misguided and not according to scripture.

Liberals claim to be the “party of science” (except biology, trans ideology trumps that). And while they may laugh at soapbox prophets predicting the second coming of Christ, they truly believe that climate armageddon is imminent unless we dismantle modern civilization, and give total control of your life over to them, the ruling class, the new world order.

 I’ve often regarded San Francisco and Los Angeles as America’s version of Sodom and Gomorrah. Someday they will be destroyed, and God will have nothing to do with it, it will all be San Andreas’s fault. Plate tectonics baby, SCIENCE!

 

Alaska was a lot of fun, but it’s good to be home.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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