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Q – How many posed pictured did Michelangelo paint?
A – Just one as far as we know. He much preferred working in marble.
Rob McCord Democrat — And Corporate Connected
This morning’s (Jan. 31) The Philadelphia Inquirer has a huge front-page headline about the looming guilty plea of Pennsylvania Treasurer Rob McCord.
McCord attempted to extort money during his failed gubernatorial run last year by warning potential donors that they should not make an enemy of the state treasurer. He is charged with violation of federal campaign finance law as it is illegal to solicit campaign funds in exchange for official acts.
No where on the front page does it mention McCord’s party affiliation.
In fact, it’s not until the very last paragraph on the jump page that it is noted that McCord’s gambit happened in the Democrat Primary.
Compare that to how The Washington Post covered it.
McCord is from Montgomery County and like fellow Democrat Gov. Tom Wolf is a rich, white guy who made a fortune in the private sector, in McCord’s case as a venture capitalist with Safeguard Scientifics.
McCord founded the Eastern Technology Council in 1998 and ran it through 2007. We think its safe to say that another spelling for the Eastern Technology Council would be “cronyism”.
What this illustrates is that not all capitalists believe in free markets.
McCord, who on Thursday (Jan. 29) announced that he would resign on Feb. 12, said he will now resign immediately. His successor will be appointed by Wolf.
Rob McCord Democrat — And Corporate Connected
Rob McCord Democrat although you’d have trouble learning that from The Philadelphia Inquirer story
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William W. Lawrence Sr Omnibit 1-30-15
Did you know the letter R is the sixth most frequently used letter in English? It is.
Chink In Armor Is Political Correctness
The United States Army tweeted, yesterday, Jan. 30, “Chinks in special ops’ digital and physical armor poses challenges, experts say” which referred to this news release which, then, had a similar headline.
Notice it has changed.
Why? Because various public-school educated idiots took to Twitter expressing outrage over what they thought was an ethnic slur and even bigger idiots caved in to them.
A nation that fails to defend truth is a nation in trouble and the truth is that only an attention-seeker or an idiot would call “chinks” as was used by the Army in that context an ethnic insult.
Here is an example of “chinks” as used as an ethnic insult: “A Chink is always a Gook, but a Gook isn’t always a Chink”
You know who wrote those words? Sen. Al Franken.
If the grievance mongers want to make themselves useful they should demand that he resigns.
Hat tip Steve Kruiser at PJMedia.com
Chink In Armor Is Political Correctness
Past Six Years Per Biden
Vice President Joe Biden once again demonstrated the inherent honesty in the specially abled and spoke harsh words of truth this morning (Jan. 30) to the House Democrat Caucus at a retreat in Philadelphia at the Society Hill Sheraton.
“To state the obvious, the past six years have been really, really hard for this country,” he told those responsible for making it so. “And they’ve been really tough for our party. . . .They’ve been really tough for our party. And together we made some really, really tough decisions — decisions that weren’t at all popular, hard to explain”
Here it is as it happened on C-Span:
Past Six Years Per Biden
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William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 1-29-15
Rabbits never walk or run. They hop. As fast as 18 mph.
Pileggi Resigns Last Chairmanship
Sen. Dominic Pileggi (R-9) has resigned as chairman of the Pennsylvania Senate Local Government Committee it was announced yesterday, Jan. 28, on the Senate floor according to The PLS Reporter.
Pileggi announcement to the post was made Jan. 9. His resignation leaves the former Senate Majority Leader without any committee chairmanships.
Replacing him is Scott Hutchinson of the 21st District, who had chaired the Senate Communications and Technology Committee. Replacing Hutchinson as chairman of the Communications and Technology Committee is Ryan Aument of 36th District who had chaired the Senate Intergovernmental Operations Committee, which now will be chaired by newcomer Tom McGarrigle of the 26th District, who is so new Wikipedia has not even figured out what year he was born.
Pileggi remains vice chairman of the State Government Committee.
The Pennsylvania Senate is controlled by the Republicans 30-20.
Pileggi Resigns Last Chairmanship
Asshole Brown, Comcast Horror Story
The Browns of Spokane, Wash., were having money problems so the wife, Lisa, called Comcast to cut the cable TV portion of their service. She was passed to one the company’s infamous “retention specialists” who couldn’t convince her to change her mind. So the specialist changed the name on her bill for wha
t she kept. What had been addressed to her husband, Ricardo Brown, was now to “Asshole Brown”.
She told blogger Chris Elliott that she was never rude during the conversation.
But it gets worse. She visited her local Comcast office and they refused to fix it. She then phoned higher-ups and they refused to fix it.
She then went to Elliott who was dubious of her story until he actually saw the bill. He then contacted Comcast’s public relations department who confirmed Mrs. Brown’s story.
Comcast has agreed to give the Browns a two-year refund.
Any legislator looking to get some nice ink could start a crusade to make it illegal for any communication cancellation to last more than seven minutes.
Asshole Brown, Comcast Horror Story
Whittier Alaska Where All Live Together
With the night time temperatures in the teens — single digits come Friday — let us bring you the story of cozy Whittier Alaska where all live together. That’s right, almost all 177 residents live in the same building according to the below PBS report, which also includes the school, gymnasium, municipal offices, post office, and grocery store.
One never has to go out on cold nights.
Whittier Alaska Where All Live Together
Daily Times Loses Subscriber
A particular person I know — hi Mom — has cancelled her subscription to the Delaware County Daily Times that she had for at least 40 years.
Was it because of some editorial or news story she didn’t like?
No. It was because of billing dispute involving new rates and missed deliveries.
Joe Grace would never have let that happen.
Once upon a time newspapers bent over backwards for subscribers.
Daily Times Loses Subscriber