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“Cornithaca County” Book Preview – “Cornithaca Corner Store – Books”

In the year 2020 of the Mealy-Mouthed Millennium; in a frenzy of using and entitled self-worth; in the silence of the virus: what are the attributes of the perfect survivor? Someone with the compassion of a shark; the character of a talking doll; and the integrity of a sand castle — it’s scary that there are so many of them out there.

Sometimes I’m worried New York may pass Early Harvest laws before I get a chance to publish it as a satire.

These book descriptions speak for themselves. It’s a pity that history’s champions of human worth and freedom can’t return to do the same.

“Cornithaca County” Book Preview – “Cornithaca Corner Store – Games 2”

“Cornithaca County” Book Preview – “Cornithaca Corner Store – Games”

This page contains a few of the hundreds of ideas that never made it into the pages of this book. There will be a few more “Cornithaca County Store” pages to house other ideas that I can’t bear to leave entirely out in the cold.

That the games listed here could be made is satirical — that they would be made; is scary.

“Cornithaca County” Book Preview – Bigotry: The Musical – “End Piece”

Whether you see bullet holes in this image, or not: bigotry feeds on itself and it keeps repeating.

“Cornithaca County” Book Preview – Bigotry: The Musical – “Scenes and Musical Numbers”

This page shows all fifteen musical numbers. I decided not to write a story synopsis; but hope that the readers will create stories of their own with the scenes and characters listed.

“Cornithaca County” Book Preview – “Doctrine Anger WARNING”

“This shit just got real!” I put this page first for that reason: The danger is real.

When you question the statements and beliefs of those who hold that only they are right and have the “right” to question; there is always a risk. Since Doctrine is everything; Doctrine can excuse anything — even violence.

Doctrine holders work in concert to suppress any non-conforming expression or belief: They don’t need to communicate — Their Doctrine Told Them So.

“Cornithaca County” Book Preview – “Cornithaca County – Beginning PART II”

With Part I of Cornithaca County finishing up the last few pages; it’s time to begin “populating” Part II.

Part 1 was setting the table; Part II will carve the turkey: It will include Doctrine Identification Guides, surveys and probing questions, essays, investigative reports, and a Study with conclusions.

I hope this book will be useful in identifying, in questioning, and in exposing today’s emerging Doctrine dictatorship; a theocracy in the worst sense of the word.

It’s time to “out” the Dorian Grays of hate and oppression.

“Cornithaca County” Book Preview – “Cracking the Ag Code”

This reprint from Family Farm Fun shows how even the most blatant environmental transgressions are being hidden and minimized on a “conspiracy” level scale.

When Agriculture’s laughably ineffective “voluntary guidelines” and “nutrient plans” risk exposure; they divert attention with a dog-and-pony show.

The “9 Point Plan” and similar events are Industrial Agriculture’s answer to public outcry; and a way to avoid enacting any restrictions on polluting that would erode their profits.

Using studies and data gathering, committees and comments, updated “voluntary guidelines” and “nutrient plans,” and of course, the help of politicians and bureaucrats; a good 9 Point Plan can provide a 10 year respite in regulatory oversight of agricultural pollution.

Some impaired waterbodies are now undergoing their second “9 Point Plan” cycle. And not only can’t politicians seem to see this new “elephant in the room” — they can’t even smell the carcass of the last one.

“Cornithaca County” Book Preview – “Industrial Agriculture Anthem”

It’s fitting that industrial agriculture has its own anthem; because its perceptions of this country are so very different from those originally expressed by the Katharine Lee Bates lyrics.

Theirs are not the traditional cattle “on the range” or in pasture; but walking bags of genetically modified meat grown in a soup of hormones, antibiotics, and not-to-be-advertised diets: to maximize the per pound profit.

If today’s consumers could see and taste a frozen TV dinner from the 50s; they would cry.

The aerial view in the background looks like an infestation . . . and maybe it is.

“Cornithaca County” Book Preview – “I Can Open My Window”

Rural opinions are not based on perceptions or media slants, but on actual incidents. So when the rural community calls the DEC the Department of Environmental Corruption and ridicules public health officials; there’s more than just resentment behind it. Here is just one incident:

A teacher at a school for disadvantaged children noticed that herbicide being sprayed on a nearby field was drifting across the children’s playground and over the recreational equipment. When she complained to the school administration, they refused to do anything; so she notified OSHA: the only result was that she nearly lost her job.

“None are so deaf as those who would not hear.”