Delco Support Police Rally

The Delaware County Patriots report that a Delco support police rally will be held from 3 to 5 p.m., Sunday, Jan. 4 on both sides of Baltimore Pike in Springfield and Clifton Heights.

There will be fundraising from 2 to 3 p.m. in front of Millers Ale House to benefit the families of murdered New York Police officers Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu. T-shirts will be sold and donations collected.

Millers address is 18 Baltimore Pike, Springfield, Pa. 19064 for those who want something to plug into their GPS  navigation system.

Information about parking and other matters can be found here.

Delco Support Police Rally

Delco Support Police Rally

 

 

 

North Korea Not Behind Sony Hack?

Sony Pictures computer network was the subject of a massive security breach on Nov. 24 and reams of embarrassing documents were leaked to the public.

Something calling itself the Guardians of Peace using the ironic acronym GOP took credit on Dec. 9 and demanded  that the studio cancel the Seth Rogan comedy “The Interview” that was scheduled to be released Christmas Day.

The film features the killing of North Korean communist dictator Kim Jong-un. North Korea, while praising the hacking, denied responsibility.

On Dec. 11, the GOP released hacked data describing Sony projects aimed at stifling piracy of its products. On Dec. 13, it released data exposing investigations that Sony was bribing Chinese officials.

On Dec. 16, the GOP sent out a notice implying there will be terrorist attacks at theaters showing the movie.

Sony pulls the film on Dec. 17 and announces that  it has  “no further release plans for the film.” President Obama  makes a televised statement  that night saying that Sony shouldn’t have done it and should have checked with him.

Sony CEO Michael Lynton — a one-percenter and a personal friend and major supporter of Obama — responds to the President on Dec. 19 saying  “I did reach out. We definitely spoke to a senior advisor in the White House to talk about the situation. The White House was certainly aware of the situation.” He also says the studio plans to get the movie to the public.

Also, on Dec. 19, the FBI makes it official that North Korea was behind the hacking. It had been leaked to the media two days earlier that North Korea was suspected.

On Christmas Eve, Sony makes “The Interview” accessible on streaming services and gives it a limited theatrical release the next day.

It gets mediocre reviews.

And that gets us to today. Computer security experts are  saying the evidence as to who is the cause for all the fuss now indicates a disgruntled employee working with hackers for piracy groups. They are wondering why the FBI was so quick to release a statement pinning the actions on North Korea.

“When the FBI made the announcement so soon after the initial hack was unveiled, everyone in the [cyber] intelligence community kind of raised their eyebrows at it, because it’s really hard to pin this on anyone within days of the attack,” said Kurt Stammberger of Norse.

Errata Security‘s Robert Graham goes so far as to call the FBI evidence “nonsense.”

The Taia Global security firm, says a linguistic analysis of the hacker’s messages indicates Russian speakers rather than Korean.

For the record, the FBI is sticking to its North Korea claim. But the quickness of its conclusion and the doubts of non-government experts do make one go hmmmm.

For what it’s worth, our favorite conspiracy theory is that Obama is doing this as payback to Lynton to help him pump up an otherwise forgettable film.

Regardless he should be impeached. Even Biden would do a better job and that’s saying a lot.

North Korea Not Behind Sony Hack?

North Korea Not Behind Sony Hack? 

 

Blaine Amendments Hurt Children

Lindsey Burke of the Heritage Foundation and Breitbart News’ Jarrett Stepman have released a peer-reviewed article in with the Journal of School Choice outlining the impact of how obsolete laws inspired by vehement anti-Catholicism are impacting the school choice movement and leaving millions of children stuck in bad schools or with bad teachers.

The laws were passed in the late 19th century and are generally known as “Blaine Amendments” after Maine Congressman and Speaker of the House James G. Blaine who promoted them.

A type of Blaine Amendment is on the books in 38 states including Pennsylvania.

Hat tip Tom Coniglia

Blaine Amendments Hurt Children

Blaine Amendments Hurt Children

 

William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 12-29-14

William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 12-29-14

About half of all accidental deaths in Tudor England were by drowning. People fell into rivers or down wells as they searched for water. About 10 percent of accidental deaths back then involved horses.

Frozen Doll For Christmas

Well, the Christmas season is still with us and will be as far as we’re concerned until Jan. 6 — they don’t call it the 12 days of Christmas for nothing, you know, even we celebrate it for 13 — so we present this heartwarming father-daughter vignette.

The little girl had asked for a Frozen doll but got a valuable life lesson instead.

 

Frozen Doll For Christmas

Yes, Elsa, she got at frozen doll For Christmas

Congress Cut Spending

USA Today ran a column by Grove City College professor Paul Kengor on Oct. 29 describing how the GOP-congress actually did manage to cut spending — and for two straight years.

Kengor says he was inspired to write it after hearing Congressman Tim Murphy (R-Pa18) make the claim during a stump speech. He was skeptical of it so he checked it and, lo and behold, found it to be true.

Spending dropped from $3.6 trillion in 2011 to $3.54 trillion in 2012 to $3.45 trillion in 2013.

It was the first time spending was cut in consecutive years since 1953-55.

The deficit has been cut to $500 billion which is less than half of what it was when the Democrats controlled everything in 2010, says Kengor.

Congress Cut Spending

Congress Cut Spending

 

 

William Lawrence Sr. Omnibit 12-26-14

William Lawrence Sr. Omnibit 12-26-14

Bandy season starts in Sweden at 1:15 p.m. the day after Christmas. What’s is bandy you ask? It’s like ice hockey except it’s played on a frozen surface the size of a soccer field and they use a small round ball instead of puck.

Maybe you can call it street hockey with ice skates.