Month: October 2015

Wolf Delco Rally Dem Fiasco As Budget Becomes Issue

Wolf Delco Rally Dem Fiasco As Budget Becomes IssueGov. Tom Wolf this Halloween afternoon came to Media, Pa. to try to get a Philly union boss’ brother elected to the Pennsylvania Supreme Court but was instead met with a crowd demanding he  “sign the budget” and “give us books.”

The Democrat rally held on Veterans Square was probably more than half Wolf opponents. At least 100 persons attended.

One protester from Saint Dorthy’s School in Drexel Hill noted that the children have no textbooks and teachers are mimeographing lessons.

Penn Delco School Director Lisa Esler expressed anger and disgust with the governor’s political actions.

“I don’t think it’s fair  or even ethical for state law to require a school district to pass a budget on time, collect our money and then hold the money hostage,” she said.

That’s what your ego has wrought Governor.

The state legislature passed $30.179 billion budget on June 30 that was a 3.6 percent increase over the previous year and would have increased education spending by $100 million.

Wolf Delco Rally Dem Fiasco As Budget Becomes Issue
Little children plead for Gov. Tom Wolf to set his ego aside and get them school books.

Wolf vetoed it.

He also rejected a recent proposal to increase education spending by $400 million if he agrees to liquor privatization and pension reform.

He also has refused to use line-item veto power to make changes that he doesn’t want and, most tellingly, arrogantly refused to sign temporary spending measures.

Wherever one stands on the political spectrum one must be ashamed of this governor and his ego-driven agenda.

Attending the rally with Wolf and those seeking local office were the Dem Supreme Court ticket and U.S. Senator Bob Casey Jr. significantly adding to the embarrassment.

It should be noted that Wolf was the only speaker that got significant grief from the crowd.

Wolf Delco Rally Dem Fiasco As Budget Becomes Issue

 

William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 10-31-15

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Wooden stake? No Anthony, Count Dracula was finally dispatched with a Bowie knife wielded by a Texas cowboy. At least in the book.

Count Dracula Cowboy Bowie Knife

 

Cruz Slams GOP Leaders

Cruz Slams GOP LeadersTed Cruz is on a roll.  At the Oct. 28 Republican candidates debate he exposed the establishment mouthpieces masquerading as journalists  and the next day he exposes the GOP leadership as masquerading as people caring about the country.

The senator from Texas coldly and calmly dissected the budget deal as cronyism that benefits all parties in power regardless of the letter after their name while crushing the working people who have to pay for it and especially their children.

“And it is difficult to find a better illustration of the Washington Cartel than the charade we are engaged in this evening,” Crus said. “This deal that we are here to vote on is both shockingly bad on the merits, and it is also a manifestation of the bipartisan corruption that suffuses Washington, D.C.”

He noted the deal adds $85 billion in spending increases.  He pointed out that the previous budget deal — that he had also opposed added just $63 billion over two years and was made when the Democrats were the majority party in the Senate unlike now.

“Republican majorities have just given President Obama is a diamond-encrusted, glow-in-the-dark AmEx card,” Cruz said. “And it has a special feature. The president gets to spend it now, and they don’t even send him the bill. They send the bill to your kids . . .

“This represents the Cartel in all of its glory because this is the combined work product of Rep. John Boehner (R) and Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D) and Mitch McConnell (R) and Harry Reid (D). The entire time Republican leaders have been promising, ‘We’re going to do something on the budget. We’re going to rein in the president,’ they have been in the back room negotiating to fund every single thing Obama did.”

And that my Republican friends is why the Republican Party leadership is in trouble. We cut you slack because we feel you are afraid of the press when you want stand up for common fiscal sense. We are now starting to get this real concern in the pit of our stomachs that it is because you don’t want to.

Here is his hour-and-half speech if you feel like watching:

Cruz Slams GOP Leaders

William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 10-30-15

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Witches were considered a silly superstition in the Middle Ages. It was only when the modern era began that they started being taken seriously and burned at the stake.

Witches Middle Ages Silly Superstition

Pints For North Lights

Stephanie Nolt Photography is co-chairing the 7th Annual Pints for North Light which benefits the North Light Community Center in Manayunk. Pints For North Lights

It runs 7-10 p.m., Nov. 19 at the Manayunk Brewery & Restaurant, 4120 Main St., Philadelphia, Pa. 19127.

The “VIP Brewer” ticket gets you in an hour earlier for special tastings and gifts.

Tickets are $50 and $75 and can be found here.

Use the discount code SNfoto2015 through Saturday to get an extra $5 off.

Pints North Lights

William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 10-29-15

William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 10-29-15

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D-Day Again

D-Day Again
This statue of Wild Bill Guarnere now graces the memorial in Newtown Square.

D-Day Again, a play written by Martin Lentz who served in the 82nd Airborne, will be performed 4 p.m., Sunday, Nov. 1 at the Rotwitt Theater, Rosemont College, 1400 Montgomery Ave., Rosemont Pa. 19010.

It’s free and reservations are not needed but donations to benefit the Delaware County Veterans Memorial and the Wild Bill Guarnere Memorial Fund will be requested.

The play, we have been told, concerns two World War II airborne veterans who meet in a nursing home, rebel against their empty circumstances and regain their dignity.

It is not suitable for children under 18. The unit of the protagonists has been changed to the 101st Airborne for this performance in honor of Wild Bill Guarnere.

Lentz is the father of former State Rep. Bryan Lentz, who also served in the 82nd Airborne and is producing the play.

D-Day Again

Cruz Shames Quintanilla, Old Media

Ted Cruz Shames Quintanilla One questions the wisdom of the Republicans letting a Comcast-affiliated network host a presidential debate then one sees what candidate Ted Cruz does to the sickeningly dishonest moderators tasked to making the GOP look bad and realizes it was an act of genius.
Ted Cruz, today’s hero

One questions the wisdom of the Republicans letting a Comcast-affiliated network host a presidential debate then one sees what candidate Ted Cruz does to the sickeningly dishonest moderators tasked to making the GOP look bad and realizes it was an act of genius.

He actually makes Carl Quintanilla blush with shame.

Here it is if you haven’t seen it:

Ted Cruz Shames Quintanilla, Old Media

 

Philly Independents Equal To GOP

Philly Independents Equal To GOPPhiladelphia has three candidates in Tuesday’s (Nov. 3) mayoral race who are mounting the first significant independent campaigns since 1983.

They are Jim Foster, Osborne Hart and Boris Kindij.

Newsworks.org has a interesting story as to what motivates them and it can be found here.

For Kinij, a immigrant from Croatia, it is injustice. For Foster, a Germantown resident, it is corruption. For Hart, a Socialist, it is workers’ safety and the minimum wage.

In fairness, all three have about as much of a shot as winning as the GOP candidate Melissa Murray Bailey. Democrat Jim Kenney is almost certainly going to be the next mayor.

The Newsworks article reveals that there are as many independents registered to vote in Philly — about 100,000 — as Republicans. There are 800,000 registered Democrat voters.

While we do not advise people to register as independents in a close primary state like Pennsylvania, that fact that so many are insisting to do so is a strong argument to end closed primaries.

Hat tip Bob Small.

Philly Independents Equal To GOP