Dozens of Department of Corrections workers braved the cold conditions to air their grievances on Route 52 by the One Nature nursery today Tues 18 February 2025. Unwilling to pay market wages for corrections officers, NYS Corrections has turned to pushing on current workers double or even triple their single shifts. Workers reported performing duties for up to 35 hours in a row of late, with 24 hour in a row demands becoming commonplace due to worker shortages.
As Democrats in NYS prioritize services for illegal aliens over services for the state’s own own citizenry, state funds continue to be siphoned away from voters.
Contact our State Assemblymember Jacobson and our State Senator Rolison and relay that our corrections officers must receive market pay and respectful shifts.
So the city has mandated since at least 2018 the replacement of sidewalks with frankensidewalks. By frankensidewalks, I mean sidewalks constructed with frankenconcrete. By frankenconcrete, I mean concrete mixed with frankencement aka “Portland” cement.
This ultra high fired atrocity is the second most common material on Earth after water these days. Hideous, inhuman, and chemically jagged, frankencement is not natural cement; to wit, natural cement works with water events instead of against them.
Frankencement was created about the same time the novel Frankenstein was created. The parallels are manifold. I urge everyone to read Mary Shelley’s masterpiece. It’s a potent parable for our time as well as hers. Frankencement is Frankenstein’s building material doppelgänger.
Bluestone is locally sourced and beautiful. Frankencement comprises limestone fired to insanely high temperatures in special kilns to forge “clinkers” along with a helping of gypsum. Of course, such a process can be achieved only via consumption of unfathomable amounts of petroleum.
We’re a bluestone and brick town. The globally oriented barbarians are barging in. Beacon is about to keep them at bay: Time to Make Beacon Brick & Bluestone Again.
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The city currently mandates all new curbs and sidewalks are to be constructed of “Portland” cement concrete. As such, the city (and others, as it’s mandated unless special permission is granted) systematically rips up our bluestone, curbstone, and red brick heritage and history and replaces it with soulless poured crap on a daily basis. Production alone of this “Portland” cement crap is currently the largest single industrial emitter of CO2, accounting for ∼8% (2.8 Gtons/y) of global CO2 emissions.
My street is about to receive another layering of toxic waste aka asphalt paid for by taxpayers. Asphalt production? Let’s not even go down the fractional distillation of petroleum rabbit hole (unless you wish!). But I won’t stand for anyone covering the local bluestone sidewalks with it or ripping them out on my block and replacing it with global catastrophes sponsored by taxpayers, so global re-insurers can pad their paper profits and maintain their massive margins.
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The City of Beacon’s sidewalk law as of 1 October 2024: § 192-22Sidewalks and curbs.A. On major, suburban and local streets, six-inch reveal Portland cement concrete curbs (detail in Appendix A[1] of this chapter) shall be constructed on both (reveal) sides of the street, prior to laying street pavement to the dimensions and specifications required. A compacted base course of six inches in thickness, free of stone over two inches in thickness, shall be laid under all curbing and sidewalks. A concrete mix of 3,500 psi after 28 days shall be used and shall be finished, cured and sealed to the satisfaction of the City Superintendent of Streets and the City Engineer. The developer at his own expense shall replace any curbing that has settled, cracked, scaled or has become damaged in any way by the developer before and within the one-year maintenance period after dedication. Curb shall be depressed five inches at all driveways. Stone curbs may be substituted on approval of the City Superintendent of Streets and the City Engineer. [Amended 9-4-2018 by L.L. No. 16-2018] Editor’s Note: Appendix A is included as an attachment to this chapter.
B. On all streets, unless otherwise approved by the City Council, Portland cement concrete sidewalks, and monolithic curb and sidewalks (details located in Appendix A of this chapter[2]), shall be constructed on one side of the street (or both, if so required by the City). Concrete shall be 3,500 psi after 28 days and shall be finished and cured to the satisfaction of the City Superintendent of Streets and the City Engineer. The developer at his own expense shall replace any sidewalk that has settled, cracked, scaled or has become damaged in any way by the developer before and within the one-year maintenance period after dedication. Curb shall be depressed five inches at all driveways.
Anyone attempting to participate on the Beacon FB group is subject to the group’s Bolshevik managers and their freewheeling suspension and banning program for group members.
The group has turned into a Bolshevik progaganda channel, with our very own Lenin and Trotsky aka Will and James ensuring anybody off message is booted; and if you don’t lick their boots (or dick their coots), they’ll bar you just cuz.
Here we see Will posting his experience of a local business protecting themselves from Bolshevik activists such as himself:
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I write a one-word comment: Karma.
Next thing I know, I’m tossed in the virtual gulag once again by Bolshevik Will for another 30 days.
At least dozens if not hundreds or even thousands of actual Beacon residents are banned by these communist agitators ensuring only the party line is visible in thread after thread.
What’s a citizen to do about these communist agitators?
Approximately 5000 citizens of Beacon are registered Democrats. Approximately 1400 are registered Republican. The rest of us conspiring 3000 or so basically are unaffiliated.
Just over half the citizens are registered Democrat and just under half are not… and the citizenry can’t muster a second candidate for city council in any race, let alone a healthy five to ten candidates.
Representative government? Certainly not democracy.
I’ve been re-reading Friedrich Nietzsche’s masterpiece Beyond Good and Evil lately, including parts I skipped last time. Turns out his work was even more prescient than I ever understood.
His take on “climate change” can be found in section 242. Here’s an excerpt:
“a great physiological process is taking place… the process of the assimilation of all [peoples, leading to] their growing detachment from the conditions under which races dependent on climate… originate, their increasing independence of any definite milieu which, through making the same demand for centuries, would like to inscribe itself on soul and body…”
The more people move about land restlessly, unmoored and “supra-national”, the more detached from concerns of a climate heretofore inscribed in soul and body peoples become.
Star studded section of my BGE.
Section 242 offers a critique of forces already evident in the 1880s, when Nietzsche was writing. These forces have metastasized in the intervening years, to be sure.
How to retrench? Embrace the climate of a bioregion for a lifetime… and do what you can to empower your clan to do so, as well.
The final day of the election marathon of A.D. 2020 is unfolding as I write. Or is it?
I headed to the poll for my ward around 11:15. The local VFW (Post 666!) hosted this particular rendition of the process of voting for my *representatives* and judges administering various jurisdictions. (Now that President Trump systematically is ending foreign wars, may be the time to repurpose this fine building has arrived.)
Soon after I fell into the relatively short line to vote, the folks in front of me mentioned multiple attempts to vote prior to “election day” at the one nearby polling place handling “early voting” – all of which failed for various reasons for them.
Next thing I knew, a poll worker was checking whether anyone in the line resided in ED-2 part of Ward 4. We reviewed a map illustrating demarcations; however, the map seemed unreliable due to at least one misnaming of a road on it – my street!
This map is correct as of today – I think.
I gambled it was worth the trouble to check whether I was in ED-2, as such residents could pass the entire line! As I made my way inside the building, my neighbors across the streets – who have lived in Beacon forever – stood in line. “We’re in ED-1”, she said. “I’ll take a chance and see”, I offered as I made my way inside with the poll worker.
Low and behold – both myself and my neighbor live in Ward 4, ED-2.
After skipping the line and landing my ballot, I perused it. Quickie thoughts on the ballot experience in context of the current system of governance in place across the jurisdiction of the U.S.A., in which “representative” governments are seated through a system in which the citizen with the most votes in any given race is seated as a “representative” of the people residing in a particular jurisdiction:
So local watering hole Dogwood held a “Fight Nite” in honor of the first presidential candidate “debate” here in the states. Unfortunately, the theme almost erupted inside – and for important reasons.
Credit: Dogwood
After Sleepy Joe gave a surprisingly strong performance in the tightly controlled show, I walked over to the bar from a booth at which I’d been marooned to control for COVID risk. I offered up the fact that Joe’s show was rather inspired all things considered to a couple of fine-looking fellows. Then, I disclosed I was a Trump voter who planned once again to vote for him. Of course, the snowflakes got really cold really fast.
Long story short, one poser proffered that the reason he supports no borders is to punish citizens for expecting a good clip more Feral Reserve Notes than minimum wage for construction work. Alien “day workers” clear $250/day for their work (cash sans tax, of course); therefore, citizens expecting/demanding more compensation for such work are greedy bastards. As an operator of a construction company in the city according to himself, unions are the problem; as such, “no borders” are imperative to practice – ostensibly so aliens can execute labor critical to his enterprise for his profit not to mention the, er, greater good?
One thing that can be said for this loser? He’s got his bottom line in mind when voting for the presidency if nothing else.
And who among us can afford to vote otherwise—besides the well-positioned and paper wealthy?
Sadly, he quickly dropped any pretense of honorable exchange once he understood I planned to vote for Trump; in fact, he threatened violence within minutes of that moment. (Did I take offense to his insults? I reckon I did. So sue me.)
I’ve noticed the quick tack to threats of violence from many young men when their shallow beliefs are exposed for the nihilism at their base. And it’s no wonder: Who left to suffer such indignities by forces far greater than he or she may ever comprehend wouldn’t resort to it?
The presidential-election circus is passing through the states and territories (and district) located above and below the 42nd parallel on and around Turtle Island once again this year. The ringmasters are having another laugh at the expense of Mother Earth and Father Sun – and they couldn’t care less since they believe, or at least behave as if, their salvation lay exclusively elsewhere.
As for men, women, and children who honor the land, soil, water, air, plants, and animals that constitute the ecosystem enabling our lives to play out – not to mention themselves and their peoples? Consider, if you will, that this monotheist-driven approach, which currently dominates the lives of so many people across the globe, may not be working out so well – for not only *us* but the entire planet; then, it becomes clear that very specific people among us behave in ways that lead to destruction for us all. So there’s that…
Back to the point of the post: Only a week ago, the walking cadaver otherwise known as Joe Biden was down and out in his pursuit of the Democratic nomination for president of THE UNITED STATES. Then, South Carolina happened with Super Tuesday hot on its heels—and instead of Weekend at Bernie’s we got Weekend at Biden’s.
Today, the remaining Democratic candidates for loser to Donald Trump in the election for president of THE UNITED STATES this November seem to be the following ones:
The citizens (and undocumented immigrants) of Beacon are ready to get medieval, mister mayor. We’ve had enough of unchecked development of our faire city. The time has come to revisit a practice of our forefathers of yore.
Walls have ensured the safety and sovereignty of cities since time immemorial. When invaders (such as developers) arrive at the gates, the citizens (and undocumented immigrants) are able to decide whether to allow them in.
Today, our faire city sports no walls. Developers are developing. It seems these developers have no intention of stopping, either.
The City of Beacon comprises 4.8 square miles. A wall built approximately 10 feet tall and 2 feet thick would take approximately 2 years to build with adequate funding, commitment, and management.
In fact, the citizens (and undocumented immigrants) fully expect the developers themselves to pay for this wall. What with the increased real estate valuations to be realized by their current assets within the city, developers will be more than able to fund the design and build of the edifice.
By 2020, our faire city will be safe and secure again for citizens (and undocumented immigrants) to enjoy at our leisure. The future looks bright (and walled), indeed!
The Beaconer 