tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post223428854708474529..comments2023-06-15T09:13:45.467-04:00Comments on Liberty's Torch: The Most Urgent Connectedness ProblemFrancis W. Porrettohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05862584203772592282noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post-83208504975102343952020-06-16T03:42:26.456-04:002020-06-16T03:42:26.456-04:00why would anyone in this day and age allow a cop t...why would anyone in this day and age allow a cop to enter your home voluntarily? If I had any neighbors who were cops I wouldn't let them in my house without a warrantontoiranhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04683062201958177783noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post-13810185739239688242020-06-15T18:22:19.442-04:002020-06-15T18:22:19.442-04:00On a smaller scale, a local city slowly fell into ...On a smaller scale, a local city slowly fell into the quagmire of Progressive influence. Incompetence, corruption, flight of citizens, and the lack of tax revenue placed it into an undesirable place to live. Businesses left, and a substantial part of the city has no grocery stores, or pharmacies. <br /><br />Those that still live in this city are low income, with many living on government funds. They have no desire for anything better, broken families abound, and the culture can be described as nearly anarchic. Crimes are reported, but their are no willing witnesses. <br /><br />The port is expanding in leaps and bounds. The petrochemical industry is buying property and expanding. The meat of the city revenue is from the business that doesn't require locals to live there. The workers live in surrounding cities, or in rural areas. <br /><br />This is not an isolated situation. The big difference is there is no real estate for the wealthy to hide from the chaff of society. There is no wealth to build, or help. There is no carrot to coerce others to take part in keeping the city alive, so it will eventually die; only to be annexed by a larger nearby city, which is well on the way to a similar fate.Jesshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15969361446367636746noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post-18560426493777108362020-06-15T18:15:05.722-04:002020-06-15T18:15:05.722-04:00So true, I worked night shifts in London (England)...So true, I worked night shifts in London (England) during the 19080s. Paid handsomely in cash, at first I walked the two miles to my train station without a care. By the 1990s I took an expensive cab. By the 2000s I was taking a cab all the way home even though I was paid by bank transfer.<br /><br />I do like your snooker reference. I'm available to explain cricket, should you wish to use it as a metaphor for a future article.🙂Andy5759https://www.blogger.com/profile/01487726425463841347noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post-68297271433166705272020-06-15T08:38:04.859-04:002020-06-15T08:38:04.859-04:00RE: The BB gun case. Cops will more often than no...RE: The BB gun case. Cops will more often than not take the easy target rather than the challenging one. Hence the visit to a placid white suburban home to search for a BB gun.<br /><br />Plus the opportunity to extort fines from a productive family is great.<br /><br />Try that with the career criminals in the city and they end up sore and sorry, without any income to show for it.<br /><br />Blame can place both on the leadership of the PD and the pols that direct them.HoundOfDoomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16556737215893357679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post-52328932493352779212020-06-15T07:30:36.778-04:002020-06-15T07:30:36.778-04:00No argument, but notice: as a city grows larger, s...No argument, but notice: as a city grows larger, so does the probability that it will fall under Democrat control! Is there a city of population 2,000,000 or more that's <i>not</i> currently under Democrat control?Francis W. Porrettohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05862584203772592282noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post-50717455149443562952020-06-15T07:28:17.421-04:002020-06-15T07:28:17.421-04:00Name a Democrat control city where this is not a p...Name a Democrat control city where this is not a problem. And of course most large cities are Democrat controlled. Here's a good article.<br /><br />https://www.forbes.com/sites/jackkelly/2020/06/02/cities-will-see-citizens-flee-fearing-continued-riots-and-the-reemergence-of-covid-19/#cbbb745d30d5<br />Bigus Macushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05072682364225560745noreply@blogger.com