Tombstone, Arizona had strict gun control laws in 1881. The gunfight at the O.K. Corral still happened.
John Ashe R.I.P.
John Ashe, a diplomat from Antigua and Barbuda who served as president of the United Nations General Assembly from September 2013 to September 2014, died, June 22, while working out at his home in Dobbs Ferry, N.Y.
He was 61. It’s kind of an under-reported story considering his international prominence and his obvious concern for physical fitness.
Well, officials say he was working out. What other possible explanation could there be, though, for having one’s larynx crushed by a barbell, which is how he died?
Ashe had a recent career setback when he was charged with crimes related to taking bribes from Chinese businessman Ng Lap Seng, who has long been active in American politics especially in Arkansas.
Ashe was scheduled to meet with prosecutors regarding his upcoming trial. Think he might have been willing to testify about this or that to avoid prison?
John Ashe R.I.P.
William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 7-4-16
Benjamin Franklin seriously suggested that the Continental Army use bows and arrows during The Revolution.
William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 7-4-16
Independence Day 2016
Independence Day 2016 being celebrated (left) in Springfield, Pa. This part of the parade has just turned onto Springfield Road from Saxer Ave.
For those who don’t take seriously what the Fourth of July is about enlighten yourself.
It is unpleasant to be a serf. It is unpleasant to be a peasant. It is unpleasant to be a slave.
Granted slavery existed when the Declaration was signed but as someone famously noted it was basically gone four score and seven years later and its end came only because the foundation of our nation baldly stated that We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
Understand that there are those who want to return us to serfdom where all economic decisions require permission from self-appointed elites, one’s speech most be constantly self-monitored least it offend them and one’s vote is meaningless.
Fight these people. We are actually obliged to do so.
For those wishing to get technical slavery’s official demise in the U.S.A. didn’t happen until four score and nine years after the Delcaration.
Independence Day 2016
William Lawrence Omnibit 7-2-16
Police are trained to touch taillights of cars they stop. It leaves the officer’s fingerprint so the car can be positively identified if the driver should kill the officer and escape.
William Lawrence Omnibit 7-2-16
William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 7-1-16
Fish ‘n chips came to England in 1860 when Joseph Malin, a Jewish immigrant, opened a restaurant serving such.
William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 7-1-16
Liquor Freedom For Pennsylvania Looms
Liquor Freedom For Pennsylvania Looms — Soon Pennsylvanians won’t have to sneak through the back roads on the way home from Delaware to avoid traps by minions of the Liquor Control Board.
HB 1196, which continues the reforms to the Keystone State’s booze laws, has overwhelmingly passed the state House and Senate is ready for Gov. Wolf’s expected signature.
The most significant section of the law decriminalizes buying liquor out of state. Our reading of the bill indicates that the fines of $10 per bottle or can of beer and $25 per container of wine or liquor for bringing booze across the border remain in effect but the alcohol is returned to the buyer if he pays the appropriate taxes.
Further the bill states Nothing in this section shall be construed to prohibit any resident of this commonwealth not licensed under this act to purchase liquor outside of this commonwealth so long as the resident pays all state taxes on the liquor to the department of revenue and the liquor is not shipped into this commonwealth.
Take that for what you will.
Wallace McKelvey has a good, comprehensive story about the law at PennLive.com.
Oh, and under the law mead is now defined and regulated. Tough break Beowulf.
Liquor Freedom For Pennsylvania Looms
William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 6-30-16
What’s the LD50 test? It stands for “lethel dose 50 percent.” It was how toxicity was ranked until people came to believe that it was cruel to animals.
It’s based on how much venom is needed to kill 50 percent of a test population of animals.
LD50 –William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 6-30-16
Trump Recycling Speech Exposes Progressive Hypocrisy
Trump Recycling Speech Exposes Progressive Hypocrisy
By Joseph B Dychala
One of the most seemingly mundane, yet simultaneously fascinating experiences of my academic career involved recycling aluminum cans in a General Chemistry class I took at Delaware County Community College. My family has always been “green”, even before it was fashionable. Turn off the spigot while brushing your teeth, compost table scraps, grow backyard vegetables, use only what you need, waste not want not – all valuable lessons taught to me by my parents and their siblings, the Greatest Generation. Perhaps this stems from their strong Faith as we are all us called to be good stewards of our resources, quite possibly because they lived through the Depression and truly knew what it was to want.
This week Donald Trump gave a speech at a recycling plant in Pennsylvania and that region of the Internet known as Twitter couldn’t contain itself. Garbage speech in front of garbage pile stated one user, countless Oscar the Grouch references, cheap shots at the folks running the campaign, at Trump himself, the list goes on.
Those bales of crushed cans represented many things to me: jobs at factories producing the nations beverages; the countless hours of enjoyment at picnics, parties, gatherings at pubs and Legion halls, quick refreshment on street corners and in office building alike and of course the refuse collectors who gather this material from our curbs and the men and women who work in these recycling plants to make the most of our natural resources. Those cans also represented human ingenuity, the will to produce something convenient and affordable, something many of us take for granted today yet didn’t exist at the country’s founding.
To read the negative comments from Twitter users was bothersome. I have to wonder how many of these people are the ones that don’t want the jobs supposedly Americans don’t want to do, to justify unfettered immigration and open borders. Are these the hypocrites that drone on and on about saving the planet yet don’t bother to throw their own trash in a receptacle let alone separate material for recycling while demanding more intrusive regulations from the EPA. Are we as a people so out of touch that we forget convenience comes with a price.
To read these comments stating this material was “garbage” and not useful material destined for re-purposing reinforces the sad notion we live in a throwaway society. Here were images of an business, providing a service not only for consumers but quite possibly to the health of the planet and a sizable number of comments were so crass the only garbage I witnessed were the comments of a spoiled bunch of elitist brats from their safe spaces.
The phrase one man’s trash is another man’s treasure comes to mind…
Trump Recycling Speech Exposes Progressive Hypocrisy
William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 6-29-16
Over 1 million accountants are hired each year in America to help with taxes