“All Roads Lead to Cornithaca” – “Global Warming: Making Ocean View; Beachfront” Bumper Sticker

“Global Warming: Making Ocean View; Beachfront” Bumper Sticker

Just a reminder: You can make more money by using disasters; than by preventing or remediating them. COVID-19 grabbed the headlines; but smart investors know that there are always profitable opportunities in our downward spiraling world.

Ocean-rise investments in real estate is a “global warming-proof” way to ensure you can comfortably live out your natural life in our unnatural society.

“All Roads Lead to Cornithaca” – “Corruption speaks louder than words” Bumper Sticker

“Corruption speaks louder than words” Bumper Sticker

Corruption: “An act done with an intent to give some advantage inconsistent with official duty and the rights of others.”

This legal definition is entirely consistent the actions and policies of Tompkins County government.

Although they are public servants; it is no longer the people who are served; the growth and profitability of corporations and institutions is now considered more important to the welfare of Tompkins County — the people have been moved to a secondary position.

Oversight committees short-circuit investigations and ethics complaints are regarded as an annoying interference.

200 years of Collegiate bureaucratic inbreeding has gone county-wide; and the results are Machiavellian.

“All Roads Lead to Cornithaca” – “Global Warming: prove it’s happening” Bumper Sticker

“Global Warming: prove it’s happening” Bumper Sticker

The urgency of the action is in large part dependent upon the consequences: if you don’t take precautions against the weather and only get wet; that’s one thing — if you die; that’s another matter.

While many countries believe that efforts should be undertaken to prove an action or process is safe beforehand; in America, we are frequently in the position of having to prove something is unsafe after the fact.

And with powerful, rich, and well-connected interests: that can take a lot of proving.

“All Roads Lead to Cornithaca” – “There’s no Anybody anymore” Bumper Sticker

“There’s no Anybody anymore” Bumper Sticker

“If we could change ourselves, the tendencies in the world would also change.” – Mahatma Gandhi

The concepts of being “owed” something and “those people” is foreign to the beliefs of every respected figure of human worth and equality — so when they all point to the same path; why are you walking in the opposite direction?

Without “anybody”: there can be no “everyone.”

Our government; like all confidence tricksters; plays on fear and greed to convince you that by giving up some; you will receive more.

But when you’re doing something that you’ve been told is “good”; and everybody we consider good denounces it: what are the odds?