A city plan – like most government plans – seems to take a good idea and make it an implausible concept or something impossible to implement. 
It’s the nature of government.
The job of a city council, an economic or community development organization, most chambers of commerce, local school boards, county commissioners, a “community” newspaper, and, sadly, even churches or libraries, seems to be to take a great idea and make it almost good. Principles are forgotten; every decision becomes a compromise.
Most of the managers and directors of these organizations are affable, but can be sneaky or even mean little boogers. Operating on Other People’s Money, most are simply bureaucratic snowflakes: They like government. They think government is good, instead of it being a necessary evil that increases your tax bill every year.
They are Government in the same way Dr. Ego Fauci is Science.
The majority of them, like Fauci, hold their jobs by being good at puckering up and selling someday.
We say this, knowing that, once upon a time, one of our directors was one of them, but luckily, for us, he’s full of tender mercy.
He said he had a friend, in his younger days, who, at the age of 15, discovered girls. Sadly, he also says, this caused his friend to discover most of the Kentucky distillers at age 20. Then, he sadly adds, his friend discovered, at 58, there’s no such thing as someday.
As ol’ Ernest Tubb yodeled in 1945, “Tomorrow Never Comes” . . . .
That, of course, is history, which today’s “woke” snowflakes are busy trying to eliminate – something they have no control over – to demonstrate they are nice and wonderful people.
They have an excuse; just not a reason.
Other than censorship.
IF allowed, who censors the censors?
History provides the measure of how far we’ve come over time – it’s how intelligent people measure progress.
Censorship is regressive; bringing back the Inquisition, the burning of books, ruling classes, economic enslavement, denying educational opportunities, etc.
But if YOU don’t let them have their way, you’re a racist – AND a domestic terrorist.
Suddenly, it seems, common sense is being thrown out with history. But that’s another story for another time, another place.
In July, in 1911, temperatures climbed into the high 90s along the Eastern Seaboard. It stayed there for days, killing 211 people in New York alone. News reports claim that the killer heat wave drove some people insane (with New York values it isn’t a long drive . . .)
It was in that year of 1911, that the first workable air conditioner was patented by Willis Carrier (The Rational Psychrometric Formulae). By the late 1930’s, air conditioning was being installed in approximately 2% of American homes.
Paris demands historically-accurate restoration of homes and businesses in the historical district, yet, allows air conditioning in homes constructed over 120-years ago.
That’s funny, if you can’t ignore historical accuracy.
Or wasn’t forced to pay for it.
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