A woman with a son who has Down syndrome had an experience with a cashier who suggested it might have been better if she aborted the boy.
For her response check out IJReview.com.
Day: November 14, 2014
Pa Deer Season Change
Commissioners of the Pennsylvania Game Commission voted to change the length of the firearms deer season in Wildlife Management Unit (WMU) 4C, which contains portions of Berks, Dauphin, Lebanon, Schuylkill, Northumberland, Luzerne, Carbon and Lehigh counties, reports State Rep. Jim Cox (R-129).
Hunters in WMU 4C will have seven days of concurrent hunting for antlered and antlerless deer in the 2014-15 deer firearms season.
With this new format, hunters may take only antlered deer during the first five days of the firearm season, which starts Dec. 1. Both antlered and antlerless deer may be taken from the first Saturday to the close of the season.
This means hunters may not take a doe or other antlerless deer during the first five days of the hunting season. If a hunter has a valid doe tag for WMU 4C, he or she may take either a buck (antlered) or doe (antlerless) deer starting on the first Saturday and ending at the close of the hunting season.
Pa Deer Season Change
Food Drive Runs Through Dec. 14
Saints Peter and Paul’s Byzantine Rite Catholic Church’s “Annual Food Collection for the Needy” is running through Dec. 14.
Over the last seven years, several pickup truckloads of food were collected and provided to the community by the parish during the Christmas season.
Anyone wishing to donate any canned or boxed, non-perishable food items should bring them to the Church, 100 S. Penn St., Clifton Heights, Pa. 19018, on any Sunday before or after the 11 am.. English Divine Liturgy.
“Given the harsh economic conditions currently being experienced, we appreciate anyone’s help in this worthwhile effort,” said Myron Shegda of the church board. “It will be through your efforts that we aim for matching or exceeding our last Christmas season’s collection. Please help us help, if you can.”
Food Drive Runs Through Dec. 14
Union Spending Dwarfs Shale Drillers
Common Cause PA and Conservation Voters of Pennsylvania are waxing outrage that Marcellus Shale drillers spent $8 million on campaign contributions in Pennsylvania since 2007.
Commonwealth Foundation notes that is but a fourth of what the government employee unions spend.
Union Spending Dwarfs Shale Drillers
William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 11-14-14
William Lawrence Sr Omnibi 11-14-14
Fifty-eight percent of cats in the United States are overweight. Just 52 percent of dogs are.
Apollo-M Sells Music Lesson Via Subscription
Noted Australian musician Gary Turner tells us that we can now get music lessons online via a new Netflix-type subscription service called Apollo-M.Com, which is based just down I-95 in Wilmington, Del.
“Roughly 300 million people in the world play, teach or are learning to play a musical instrument,” Turner said.
Turner is the founder of Koala Music Publications which morphed into LearnToPlayMusic.com.
An Apollo-M subscription goes for $4.95 a month.
An excellent idea.
Apollo-M Sells Music Lesson Via Subscription
Truthy Was Fed Funded Speech Suppression
Tom Coniglia submitted this link to an article on FrontpageMag.com that describes a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant to a data-mining project dubbed “Truthy” that cost taxpayers nearly $1 million.
The grant was ICES: Large Meme Diffusion Through Mass Social Media (Aware #1101743) and was intended, as per the grant’s abstract to “. . . create a web service open to the public for monitoring trends, bursts, and suspicious memes. This service could mitigate the diffusion of false and misleading ideas, detect hate speech and subversive propaganda, and assist in the preservation of open debate.”
That those with a vested political position seek the authority to declare what speech is “hate” and “subversive propaganda” in the name of open debate is about as Orwellian as it gets.
The name “Truthy” comes from political satirist and Democrat Party supporter Stephen Colbert. The site itself targeted messages and commentary connected to the words “Tea Party” “GOP” and “conservative,” according to a letter from Congressman Lamar Smith (R-TX21) to the NSF.
And Smith wants answers.
And he — along with the rest of us — deserve them.
Smith notes that some have had social media accounts terminated because of “Truthy”.
If government agencies are seen taking sides by much, if not most, of America, then much, if not most, of America will see the government as the enemy.
This is a consequence that would be readily apparent to a kindergartner, and it is a bad thing.
To have a unified nation, government partisanship must become a big taboo. A good, but small, first step would be in exposing those who approved this grant and removing them from their jobs and banning them from any other government job, forever.