William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 10-30-15
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.
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. 
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
Who is Carlos Imperio Hamburger? He is a famous Brazilian movie director better known as Cao Hamburger. He is the son of physicists Ernst Wolfgang and Amelia Iperio Hamburger.
D-Day Again
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
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
Philadelphia 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
William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 10-28-15
William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 10-27-15
Daredevil Evel Knievel had a semi-pro ice hockey team. In 1960, he convinced the Czechoslovakian Olympic team to play it.
Knievel was ejected in the third period. When the Czechs went to collect their share of the receipts they found the money had been stolen.
Just a coincidence we are sure.
It did cause an international scandal.
Evel Knievel ice hockey
Union Bully Bill Goes To Wolf
By Leo Knepper
Pennsylvania law currently exempts union members and management from prosecution under the laws governing stalking, harassment and threatening to use weapons of mass destruction. The legislation closing these loopholes, HB 874, was approved by the House and Senate. It now heads to the Governor’s desk for a signature.
It is absurd for anyone to be exempt from prosecution for these types of serious crimes. As noted by the PA Independent, this exemption impacts real people:
Sarina Rose, vice president of development for Post Brothers Apartments, said union-affiliated contractors also photographed her children at the bus stop and taped them at their sporting events. The legal loophole gave them a pass, she said.
“‘If there was a pedophile photographing my children or if I had an ex-husband who threatened to shoot me with a gun, I could certainly implore law enforcement to do something about it,’ Rose told the House Judiciary Committee. ‘But because there are certain trades in this self-proclaimed active labor dispute with my company, the DA’s Office self-admittedly treats these cases differently.'”
Union Bully Bill Goes To Wolf
Montco GOP Opposing Own Nominee?
Is the Montgomery County GOP opposing its own endorsed candidate for county commissioner?
The Montco commissioners are a three-person board with the minority party being guaranteed one seat. On the ballot are Democrat incumbents Josh Shapiro and Val Arkoosh, and Republicans Steve Tolbert, Jr. and Joe Gale. The GOP incumbent, Bruce Castor, has stepped down to run for District Attorney.
Gale beat party-endorsed Scott Zelov in the May primary to the expressed displeasure of the party bosses. Apparently, the party bosses are holding a grudge.
Gale has sent out a press release saying the Republican establishment is actively opposing his race. If true, shame on them and it explains why the party brand is really starting to be an anchor among the voters upon whom they depend.
Here is Gale’s statement.
The Montgomery County Republican Committee (MCRC) has been working against Joe Gale, their own party’s nominee for Montgomery County Commissioner, since he won the May Republican Primary without the GOP establishment’s endorsement.
The Republican Committee has not contributed financial support to Gale’s campaign. However, the other Republican Commissioner candidate, Steve Tolbert, received an in-kind contribution of over $2 thousand from the Montgomery County Republican Committee.[1]
In June, MCRC’s political director, Catie Scott, contacted one of Joe Gale’s campaign vendors under false identity to covertly and secretly extract information about Gale’s campaign.[2]
In a meeting with Republican candidates and area leaders on September 30th at the County Republican’s Headquarters, Joe Gale’s campaign chairman, Sean Gale, raised the issue of campaign supporters and potential donors being contacted with instructions not to support Gale’s candidacy. MCRC Chairman, Mike Vereb, admitted to contacting supporters yet still wanted Gale’s campaign to contribute $7,500 in exchange for Gale’s name to appear on the Republican Party’s green colored sample ballots (“Green Ballots”).
At the Montgomery County Republican Committee’s Fall Dinner held on October 1st, in the presence of party leaders at the VIP reception, Gale was verbally assaulted by the Whitemarsh Republican Committee Secretary, who shouted: “I’d like to slice your throat open and rip your esophagus out.” A subsequent email sent by the same insider to committeepeople and a party municipal leader references and confirms the confrontation: “THEN it got personal and I ripped into him. I must admit, it REALLY felt good.”(sic)[3] The same email, ends with instructions to solicit “every voter you know to ‘cut’ Joe Gale on Election Day and ‘bullet vote’…Steve Tolbert.[4]
Traditionally, the “green ballot” issued by the Montgomery County Republican Committee lists all the party’s candidates, is mailed to voters prior to the November election, and is handed out by committeepeople at the polls. However, green colored Republican sample ballots were recently mailed out to Republican voters listing every GOP candidate except for Gale in an obvious effort to stop Joe Gale from winning a position on the Montgomery County Board of Commissioners.[5]
Although Tolbert has his own campaign account, the Republican Party of Pennsylvania pays for and distributes his campaign mailers. Gale has received no support, financial or otherwise from the State GOP.[6]
For follow up questions, contact Joe Gale: josephgale@comcast.net
Montco GOP Opposing Own Nominee?
Zoltan Istvan Transhumanist Candidate
Among those seeking the presidency of whom most Americans may not be aware is Zoltan Istvan. He is running on the Transhumanist platform, which is to increase life expectancy to 10,000 years.
Zoltan is a former reporter for National Geographic. For more about him go here.
Hat tip Bob Small