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Good Government Of Springfield SEPTA Tree Removal

Bad government has to be condemned but that means good government has to be praised.

Dead tree the unit block of North Rolling Road in Springfield, Pa. became an eyesore and a bit of danger. The trees were on government property — a township-owned traffic island and land belong to SEPTA.

Township officials were notified on Aug. 19.

The spruce on the traffic island came down on Aug. 22.

The SEPTA oaks came down today, Oct. 1.

Kudos to Jim Merkin, Mike Puppio and especially commissioner Bob Layden.

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Goddard Hipsters Tap Capital Punisher As Commencement Speaker

Danny and Maureen Faulkner Goddard Hipsters Tap Capital Punisher As Commencement Speaker

Danny and Maureen Faulkner at their wedding in 1979

The hipster undergrads at the Vermont campus of Goddard College have tapped murderer Mumia Abu-Jamal to be a “commencement” speaker this Sunday, Oct. 5, showing they are just fine with capital punishment providing the subject of such is one whose existence violates their sense of aesthetics.

Danny Faulkner, the Philadelphia policeman who Jamal murdered on Dec. 9, 1981 solely because he was a Philadelphia policeman doing his job, is one such whose life the hipsters hold cheap.

Jamal, of course, will not be able to appear in person so he will subject the hipster undergrads to his hipster, progressive, transgressive wisdom via a recording which we suspect will justly bore them silly.

May it last at least two hours.

Goddard is a private liberal arts college with campuses in Plainfield, Vt, Port Townsend, Wa. and Seattle, Wa.  that is designed to be an experimental and non-traditional educational institution.

It holds 20 commencement ceremonies annually to provide personalized graduation ceremonies in each degree program, according Interim President Bob Kenny.

The choice of the murderer Jamal was made by the students but is strongly supported by the administration showing that the school’s support for selective capital punishment goes all the way to the top.

“Choosing Mumia as their commencement speaker, to me, shows how this newest group of Goddard graduates expresses their freedom to engage and think radically and critically in a world that often sets up barriers to do just that,” Kenny said.

Daniel J. Faulkner was murdered two weeks before his 26th birthday. He was the youngest of seven children in an Irish Catholic family from Southwest Philadelphia.  His father, who drove a trolley car, died of a heart attack when Faulkner was five. Faulkner’s mother went to work and relied on her older children to help raise him. Faulkner dropped out of high school, but earned his diploma and an associate’s degree in criminal justice while serving in the United States Army.

After leaving the army In 1975, he  worked briefly as a corrections officer, and then joined the Philadelphia Police Department. Aspiring to be a city prosecutor, Faulkner enrolled in college to earn his bachelor’s degree in criminal justice.

He married in 1979.

His wife, Maureen, has been an outspoken defender of the truth about what happened that night and the guilt of Jamal and the cruelty of his act.

May Goddard and the soulless bastards who support it rot.

Goddard Hipsters Tap Capital Punisher As Commencement Speaker

 

 

Professor Cyril Broderick Claims Ebola Conspiracy

With the first American Ebola case now confirmed in Dallas, we should note some things not to do for those in a position to have a forum and we will start with Delaware State Professor Cyril E. Broderick, Sr., a Liberian native who had a screed published in the Monrovia Daily Observer blaming the disease on the CIA.

The Daily Observer is Liberia’s largest newspaper.

Broderick cited the 1989 novel The Hot Zone as his source.

Really.

Delaware State is defending Broderick declaring that  it is his First Amendment right to spout this garbage.

Of course, that’s a straw man. Nobody is advocating jail for this twit. We are suggesting it be appropriate to condemn what he wrote — The First Amendment applies to Delaware State administrators as well, after all — and takes step to disassociate the school from him.

It is a sad day when the NFL takes idiotic statements by its employees more seriously than academia.

Hat tip Rick Moran at PJMedia

Professor Cyril Broderick Claims Ebola Conspiracy

 

Professor Cyril Broderick Claims Ebola Conspiracy

Education Bills Pending In Pa

Continuing our commitment to ensuring a quality education for Pennsylvania students, the House last week took up four school-related bills, reports state Rep. Jim Cox (R-129)

Senate Bill 1281 would reform the cumbersome and outdated reimbursement process for school renovation and construction projects, Cox said. It would also establish a publicly accessible Internet database (SchoolWATCH) that shows exactly how taxpayer money is being spent by schools as a way to increase transparency; and give school districts flexibility for obtaining the necessary 180 school days in a school year in the case of weather emergencies. The bill awaits further consideration by the Senate.

In addition, House Bill 1207 seeks to expand access to the popular Educational Improvement Tax Credit (EITC) or the Educational Opportunity Scholarship Tax Credit (OSTC) programs, which help provide opportunities for students to participate in innovated educational programs. The legislation is awaiting further consideration by the full House.

Finally, House Bill 2076 would make sure high school students get the college credits they earn through Advanced Placement and other educational programs by requiring the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education to adopt uniform standards to ensure that all credits transfer between the State System universities seamlessly. The bill awaits action in the Senate.

“The House continues to look for ways to improve educational opportunities for all students across the Commonwealth, with more efficient oversight, streamlining the bureaucratic process, and putting students first,” Cox said.

Education Bills Pending In Pa

Education Bills Pending In Pa

Charles Mitchell, Dawn Meling Receive Honors

Kudos to  Charles Mitchell, the executive vice president of Commonwealth Foundation, for winning the Overton Award for his tenacity in fighting for freedom.

This award has only been given to one other person since its inception more than ten years ago, according to Commonwealth Foundation President and CEO Matthew J. Brouillette.

Also kudos to Dawn Meling, the Foundation’s director of marketing and outreach, who finished second in the national Great Communicators contest.

She delivered a speech on the vital need for public pension reform, using a Pennsylvania teacher as a practical example, and answered judges’ questions with great poise before an audience of more than 500 people, Brouillette said.

Charles Mitchell, Dawn Meling Receive Honors

Charles Mitchell, Dawn Meling Receive Honors

HB 1243 Stops Local Gungrabbing

A bill is before the full Pennsylvania House that would keep local governments from implementing their own ordinances, rules or laws regarding ownership, possession or transportation of firearms, says State Rep. Jim Cox (R-129).

The bill is HB 1243.

“Such local ordinances are already prohibited by state law; however, some municipalities have enacted local laws anyway,” Cox said. “To help deter that practice, the measure also would give legal standing to any person who has been adversely affected by any regulation put forth or enforced in violation of this premise, to seek injunctive and declarative relief, as well as damages.”

HB 1243 would also  require the Pennsylvania State Police to provide existing mental health records already incorporated in the Pennsylvania Instant Check System (PICS) to the National Instant Check System (NICS) and require ongoing submissions of this data to NICS within 72 hours of State Police receiving it. The goal is to keep guns out of the hands of people who should not have them, not only in Pennsylvania but across the country.

An additional amendment to require universal background checks on all firearms sales in Pennsylvania was considered but failed, Cox said. Under current Pennsylvania law, all firearms purchases are subject to background checks, with the exception of the private sales of long guns (hunting rifles).

HB 1243 Stops Local Gungrabbing
HB 1243 Stops Local Gungrabbing

Priests HHS Mandate Case Advances

By Father Frank Pavone

The lawsuit of Priests for Life against the Obama Administration’s HHS mandate continues to move forward in the nation’s second highest court. We filed earlier this month a supplemental brief with the District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals addressing two key developments that have occurred since oral arguments were heard by that court in May. The brief declares that the religious freedom violations inflicted by the HHS mandate are not eliminated by the government’s new regulations, but rather perpetuated. It also states that rather than help the government’s case, the Supreme Court’s Hobby Lobby decision strengthens the arguments contained in Priests for Life’s lawsuit.

The filing in Priests for Life v. HHS argues that the latest government “accommodation” to Obamacare’s HHS mandate offers no actual change in policy and, therefore, does nothing to alleviate the mandate’s harm to Priests for Life and other religious groups.

At issue in Priests for Life’s lawsuit is whether the federal government can compel a religious non-profit organization to violate the faith upon which it exists and operates. Even more to the point is the question of whether the government can force such a violation of faith when its purported policy goal can be achieved easily in other ways.

Before its latest regulations were issued, the Department of Health and Human Services had required religious non-profit groups to file a form with their insurance companies authorizing that their employees be provided with coverage for sterilization and birth control drugs and devices, including those which can cause abortions. The authorization of such drugs and devices would directly violate the teaching of the Catholic Church.

After two recent Supreme Court actions related to the HHS mandate went against the government, the Obama administration apparently realized that its so-called “accommodation” for non-profit religious groups would not withstand legal scrutiny. It issued yet another version of this accommodation. As stated in Priests for Life’s latest brief, though, “The new regulations… continue the Government’s pattern of attempting to create the illusion of accommodation while coercing religious organizations to act contrary to their beliefs.”

Call it a smokescreen, call it a ruse, the government’s latest scheme still would require Priests for Life and other religious organizations to violate their faith. Under the new regulations, Priests for Life would be mandated to send authorization for abortifacient, contraceptive, and sterilization coverage for its employees to the government instead of to an insurance carrier. In the words of Priests for Life’s latest brief, “the new regulations do nothing more than provide Plaintiffs with another avenue for violating their religion.”

Referring to the Hobby Lobby decision, the brief also pointed out that the Supreme Court, in effect, reaffirms the arguments that Priests for Life is making. Hobby Lobby made it clear that the government cannot force a believer to act against his or her faith, and that when a believer identifies an action as contrary to his or her faith, it is not up to the government to judge whether that is unreasonable. Mr. David Green, CEO of Hobby Lobby, has stated, “The religious freedom of believers of all denominations is under attack. Our family therefore joins in prayerful support of the Priests for Life case against the HHS mandate. As our Hobby Lobby case represents the concerns of businesses, so the Priests for Life case represents the concerns of the religious non-profit groups. Together, we stand against this injustice, and for the law of God.”

Father Frank Pavone is national director of Priests for Life

Priests HHS Mandate Case Advances

Alaska Favorite Football Team Is Rams

Alaska Favorite Football Team Is Rams

Dick’s Sporting Goods ranks each state’s favorite football team by the jerseys it sells. According to this,  as if week 3 in the season, the most popular team in Pennsylvania is The Steelers, who are also most beloved in Arkansas.  Eagle fans can take solace in that their team is the most popular in Delaware.

In New York State, believe it or not, it is the Buffalo Bills. The Giants, though, win in New Jersey. Home field advantage there it seems.

There are strange incongruities. The favorite team in the District of Columbia is not The Redskins but the Atlanta Falcons. The Skins, however, rule in Virginia. And Nebraska.

The Rams are shut out of their home state of Missouri by The Chiefs, who also dominate neighboring Kansas.

However, they can take very cold comfort in that their jerseys sell the best in Alaska.

Alaska Favorite Football Team Is Rams

William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 9-27-14

Researchers at the Aegean University in Ismir Turkey have discovered that disco music causes homosexuality in mice. They also found the music caused pigs to go deaf.

disco music causes homosexuality Wade McCree

This guy is Wade McCree who is  a defrocked Michigan judge (Democrat) from a prominent political (Democrat) family, and his scandals are certainly not gay. OTOH the selfie does kind of make you wonder if maybe doesn’t mind a little disco now and then.