Life expectancy dropped 12 years in the United States during the flu pandemic of 1918.
Life expectancy dropped William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 1-26-18
Month: January 2018
Mean Conservative Joke Of The Day
Here is our Mean Conservative Joke Of The Day:
Mean Conservative: Hey Chelsea, you think Joe should go to prison?
Chelsea C: Joe who?
Mean Conservative: Joe Mamma.
HAHAHHAHA
There’s More Than Enough Evidence, Especially on Classified Info Abuse to Arrest Hillary Clinton Now
Meehan Won’t Seek Re-election
Meehan Won’t Seek Re-election — The allegation that he made puppy-love eyes at an aide was enough. Congressman Pat Meehan (R-Pa7) announced last night (Jan. 25) that he will not seek re-election.
Console yourself, Pat. Have a dish of ice cream. We still see a Hallmark movie here somewhere.
And we do appreciate the irony.
Who will replace him? Democrats Drew McGinty, an IT professional; Elizabeth Moro, a Realtor; attorney Dan Muroff; and Molly Sheehan are actively seeking the job, as is Republican Joe Billie, a former Navy petty officer who has long planned a primary campaign.
We suppose we have to see what the 7th District’s boundaries are before a clearer picture emerges. Way to screw up the election process, Pennsylvania Supreme Court.
Daylin Leach, the Democrat 17th District state senator, has put his candidacy on hold due to sexual harassment issues of his own.
Meehan Won’t Seek Re-election
Archie Roosevelt William Lawrence Sr. Omnibit 1-25-18
Franklin Roosevelt’s son, James, ended up being kind of conservative. He supported Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan for president. Of course, he was still more liberal than Teddy R’s son Archie. Archie Roosevelt was a full-blown member of the John Birch Society.
Archie Roosevelt William Lawrence Sr. Omnibit 1-25-18
Pat Meehan Tells Side, Does Hallmark Movie Loom?
Pat Meehan Tells Side, Does Hallmark Movie Loom? — Congressman Pat Meehan (R-Pa7) has told his side of the story to the Delaware County Daily Times, which was published Jan. 23 and is now accessible on the web.
Meehan was accused of sexually harassing an aide in a story reported by The New York Times, Jan. 20, and that he used tax money to make her go away.
Meehan, according to the Delco Times, said that that he had worked with the aide for years and that she had become his gatekeeper in Washington. When she failed to come to a 2016 Christmas party at his home, he was disappointed, then asked himself why he was disappointed and discovered that he had developed feelings for the aide.
Meehan said he took her out for some ice cream on April 28 and told her that he developed “affection” for her that he was struggling with.
“This was a significant thing to me, that she would be leaving, and also that I was also struggling with the fact that during our close personal relationship, I had grown admittedly some affection and that affection was something that I was struggling with, so that I would not allow it to get into the middle of our working relationship,” Meehan told the Times. “I go to Mass first thing in the morning and I kind of laughed and said, ‘A lot of times I’m praying to make sense of what’s going on down here in Washington, D.C., but from time to time making sure I am able to keep myself straight and focused on what I am doing.’ But I also wanted to communicate that that struggle was going on and it was sort of impacting some of the regular activity that we had before, that I had stepped back a little bit, because I thought that was important for me to not allow this emotion to get into our normal working relationship.”
Meehan said that a few days later the aide asked for a lot of money, then invoked the Congressional Accountability Act, then left getting the money.
Ice cream, Mass, confessing feelings, maybe Pat will get away with this.
We had to reach for our hanky.
Actually, we threw up a little in our mouths.
Hey Pat, has the Hallmark Channel called yet? Make sure you get a nice cut for the rights to the story. You certainly don’t want to have to move back to Drexel Hill.
On a serious note, adults should be able to handle this sort of thing without major media or outside advocates getting involved and money exchanging hands. Meehan did not — according to any report –touch her, nor expose himself, nor verbally abuse her nor do any of the twisted things that now appears SOP by our political/journalistic/academic/entertainment leaders.
Pat actually should get away with this.
Meehan says he is not resigning and is planning on seeking re-election.
Pat Meehan Tells Side, Does Hallmark Movie Loom?
Pet chimp named Scatter William Lawrence Sr. Omnibit 1-24-18
Pet chimp named Scatter William Lawrence Sr. Omnibit 1-24-18
Elvis Presley had a pet chimp named Scatter. It was notorious for lifting up women’s skits.
Pet chimp named Scatter
(For what it’s worth this Omnibit was first found in the new edition of the Saturday Evening Post.)
Gerrymandering Bad, Court Decision Worse
Gerrymandering Bad, Court Decision Worse
By Leo Knepper
On Jan. 22, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court issued an opinion striking down the Congressional districts adopted in 2011. The decision requires that new districts be adopted by the General Assembly and approved by the Governor by Feb. 15. If new Congressional districts are not adopted by that time, the Supreme Court will establish new districts. (Why the plaintiffs waited six years to bring the lawsuit is open for discussion. However, a cynic would note that it coincided nicely with Democrats obtaining a majority on the Supreme Court.)
The timeline of the case or even the timeline required for the adoption of new districts is not the biggest problem. What is most concerning is the Court’s threat to adopt districts it devises should its timeline not be met by the legislature. Nowhere in the Pennsylvania Constitution is the Judiciary delegated the responsibility of creating legislative districts. The power to create Congressional districts is reserved for the General Assembly. The Judiciary may invalidate the General Assembly’s districts and require new maps to be drawn. The Supreme Court’s threat to create and adopt its own maps represents a dangerous departure from the separation of powers.
Make no mistake, some of Pennsylvania’s Congressional districts were among the most outrageous examples of gerrymandering in the country. The Court has the ability and authority to invalidate the districts, but it does not have the authority to impose its own districts. This would represent a dangerous precedent and makes the judiciary a super-legislature. If the Supreme Court is successful in seizing the power it has just granted itself out of thin air, we have more significant problems than poorly drawn districts. From redistricting, it is only a short distance to the Courts writing and adopting a state budget if the General Assembly doesn’t get it done in time.
The General Assembly adopted awful Congressional districts six years ago. The problem should have been addressed then via the Constitutionally provided remedy. In the long term, significant redistricting reform is necessary, and that can be accomplished via legislation or changing the state constitution. The Supreme Court’s decision represents a threat to the separation of powers, and that shouldn’t be taken lightly by anyone.
Mr. Knepper is executive director of Citizens Alliance of Pennsylvania.
Gerrymandering Bad, Court Decision Worse
Redistricting Ruling Blind Partisanship Not Blind Justice
Redistricting Ruling Blind Partisanship Not Blind Justice — The Democrat-controlled Pennsylvania Supreme Court two days ago (Jan. 22) ruled that Pennsylvania’s 18 congressional districts must be re-mapped by the legislature by Feb. 9 else it will do it itself.
The vote was on party lines with Democrats Todd, Donohue, Dougherty, and Wecht concurring and Republicans Saylor and Mundy dissenting.
Democrat Max Baer concurred and dissented noting that it would be better if the order occurred without a primary being just months away, and a special election in the 18th District scheduled for March 13.
While the order specifically exempts the special election, Baer noted that voters in this district would be electing a representative in March in one district while nomination petitions would be circulating for a newly-drawn district, which may or may not include the current candidates for the special election. Again and respectfully, I find the likelihood for confusion, if not chaos, militates strongly against my colleagues’ admittedly admirable effort to correct the current map prior to the May 15, 2018 primary election.
And he is right. While we grant that there is egregious gerrymandering — and have been consistently critical as to how the 7th District was drawn — this was not the time to fix it.
What the court did was not blind justice but blind partisanship. While you can expect partisanship in a legislative body, you cannot have it in on a court.
Redistricting Ruling Blind Partisanship Not Blind Justice
Enigma Machine William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 1-23-18
Enigma Machine William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 1-23-18
It was the Poles, not the Brits, that got the top-secret Enigma code machine from the Nazis. The Poles passed it on to the U.K. just before the war broke out.
Enigma Machine
Andrew Jackson Parrot William Lawrence Sr. Omnibit 1-22-18
Andrew Jackson Parrot — President Andrew Jackson’s friends brought his beloved pet parrot to his funeral. They had to remove the bird, however, when it would not stop squawking obscenities during the service.
Andrew Jackson Parrot William Lawrence Sr. Omnibit 1-22-18