The disconnect of the pointy-heads

Two stories - both out of Europe, although I could include one from post-America, that being the Most Equal Comrade's tear-stained performance during yesterday's rant against "the gun lobby" - that show our self-appointed leadership class has the prioritization skills of an infant at best.

The mayor of Cologne says this about the sexual assaults of unprecedented scale being inflicted - by young men of Arab  / northern African origin - on the female citizens of her city:

The Mayor of Cologne has spoken out about the attacks, but her carefully chosen words are unlikely to delight many. Rather than addressing the root causes of the violence — unlimited mass migration and a totally failed system of integration — the newly elected pro-migrant mayor instead blamed the victims of the sexual abuse for having failed to defend themselves against the immigrant attackers.

Speaking on live television this afternoon mayor Henriette Reker, who was near-fatally stabbed in the run up to October elections by an anti mass migration campaigner, said in future women would have to be better prepared in her city to deal with migrants. She remarked: “The women and young girls have to be more protected in the future so these things don’t happen again.

“This means, they should go out and have fun, but they need to be better prepared, especially with the Cologne carnival coming up. For this, we will publish online guidelines that these young women can read through to prepare themselves”.

Then there is the tone of this year's annual pow-wow of the biggest poo-bahs among our administrative / managerial betters:

The Davos conference for masters of the universe appears to be taking a decidely new age-y tack this year — highlighting the gender pay gap and LGBT rights.

The World Economic Forum website currently features a series exploring LGBT issues, with one article written by Microsoft’s Senior Director of Corporate Citizenship Dan Bross.

The official program includes sessions on climate change and the “Future of Forests.” Other sessions include “A Day in the Life of a Refugee,” and “Preparing for the Future of Gender Parity.”

Organizers are preparing to woo bank bosses, politicians and business executives with daily “Mindfulness Meditation” sessions — being offered for the first time.

Cellist Yo Yo Ma will serenade corporate titans over cocktail hour.

 These developments are occurring against a backdrop of a new North Korean nuclear - probably hydrogen-bomb - test, a looming Sunni-Shiite conflagration, Afghanistan once again falling to the Taliban, stock markets throughout the world roller-coastering, an FBI increasingly at odds with its parent DoJ, primarily over the magnitude of Hillionaire's e-mail transgressions.

We're on our own as never before.