22 Annual Bill Of Rights Banquet Is Dec. 14

The Bill of Rights Commemorative Banquet is Saturday evening, Dec. 14, at Yoder’s Restaurant in New Holland, PA. This annual event was first organized by a homeschooling family 22 years ago. Join this friendly crowd for an inspiring and informative evening with good food and good fellowship.

You can check out the pictures from last year’s banquet at https://www.facebook.com/pages/Bill-of-Rights-Bicentennial-Committee/380297978714449

For  information or to register, contact Carris Kocher at kochercj@verizon.net . Please feel free to forward this information on to others. The registration deadline is Tuesday, Dec. 10.

For more on the Bill of Rights and on Bill of Rights Day, Dec. 15,  visit http://billofrightsinstitute.org/

22 Annual Bill Of Rights Banquet Is Dec. 14

Omnibit Of The Day 12-4-13

Dietrich Buxtehude, the great Danish composer and organist, must have had an ugly daughter. Johann Sebastian Bach, who at age 23 didn't have a pfennig in his pocket, walked from Arnstadt to Lubeck, Germany to hear him play the organ. Buxtehude, ready to retire tried to make a deal with young Bach. The organist job, if Bach would marry Fraulein Buxtehude. "Nein," said Bach. George Handel, another promising musician, had rejected the offer two years earlier.Omnibit Trivia 12-4-13 by William W. Lawrence Sr.

Dietrich Buxtehude, the great Danish composer and organist, must have had an ugly daughter. Johann Sebastian Bach, who at age 23 didn’t have a pfennig in his pocket, walked from Arnstadt to Lubeck, Germany to hear him play the organ.

Buxtehude, ready to retire tried to make a deal with young Bach. The organist job, if Bach would marry Fraulein Buxtehude. “Nein,” said Bach. George Handel, another promising musician, had rejected the offer two years earlier.

 

Slim Jim, Big Guy Jamming Dec. 7

Looking for a fun way to start a Saturday evening check out Slim Jim and Big Guy Band, 4:30 p.m.,  Dec. 7 at Tom N Jerry’s Sports Pub, 1006 MacDade, Blvd., Folsom, Pa., 19033.

Slim Jim, Big Guy Jamming Dec. 7

Laughable Common Core Assignments

Gary Rubinstein tweeted an image of a page of his daughter’s Common Core-based kindergarten work book. Laughable Common Core Assignments
Twitchy.com has collected the responses including this reply which was an image of  an answer key courtesy of Colette Moran.

Government officials’ commands must be obeyed by all? Really? Tell that to Franklin or Jefferson.

Or Martin Luther King Jr.

Or  suffragette Lucy Burns who was chained to a cell and beaten by minions of progressive president and Democrat Woodrow Wilson.

Hat tip Joanne Yurchak

Ed note: Colette Moran has tweeted us saying “To be fair, assignment preceded Common Core, but both are indicative of what happens when libs are in charge of ed.”

Thank you Colette. Your example still holds as to what awaits if Common Core becomes established.

Laughable Common Core Assignments

 

Fiscal Cliff Made Understandable

Courtesy of Cathy Craddock Fiscal Cliff Made Understandable

“Fiscal Cliff” put in a much more understandable perspective:

*U.S. Tax Revenue: $2,170,000,000,000

*Federal Budget: $3,820,000,000,000

*New Debt $1,650,000,000,000

*National Debt: $14,271,000,000,000

*Recent Budget Cuts:  $38,500,000,000

These numbers are much too big to comprehend.  Remove 8 zeros from each and pretend it is your household budget:

*Annual Family Income: $21,700

*Money The Family Spent: $38,200

*New Debt On The Credit Card: $16,500

*Outstanding Balance On The Credit Card: $142,710

*Total Budget Cuts So Far:  $38.50

Raising the debt ceiling really helps the situation, doesn’t it?!

Fiscal Cliff Made Understandable

Obama Plays Hardball LOLOLOL

President Obama with his signature health plan looking like it’s not merely going to fail but to kill supporters has been smoked out of his hole on the golf course and will now field questions from a journalist. Obama Plays Hardball LOLOLOL

Well, OK, it’s going to Chris Matthews.

On MSNBC, which nobody watches.

At 7 p.m., Thursday night.

If people tune in, it won’t be to hear the President’s explanation but to see if Matthews loses control of the thrill in his leg and begins humping our Commander in Chief as certain dogs do unwary visitors.

Expect the President’s media blitz to next take him to Michael Smerconish’s podcast.

Obama Plays Hardball LOLOLOL

Paul Steiger Rips Obama Regarding Free Speech

Maybe there is an awakening. Journalism, a profession vital to freedom, has been under attack for the last few decades but not for the reasons offered by the pretenders who claim to practice it.  Paul Steiger Rips Obama Regarding Free Speech

Since the Clinton years it has become apparent that big media players don’t follow truth to wherever it leads but rather take the path of least resistance to praise from their masters, security and government jobs. They have bent over backwards to comfort the comfortable and afflict the afflicted.

But now it seems that there is an inkling that those who had been given the seal of approval by the self-proclaimed smart set are not what they appeared to be. Maybe not all journalistic souls have not been sold.

ProPublica founder and executive chairman Paul Steiger received the Burton Benjamin Memorial award from the Committee to Protect Journalists. Nov. 26. In his remarks he said:

And now, more recently, we are facing new barriers to our ability to do our jobs – denial of access and silencing of sources.

For the starkest comparison, I urge any of you who haven’t already done so to read last month’s report, commissioned by CPJ and written by Len Downie, former editor of the Washington Post. It lays out in chilling detail how an administration that took office promising to be the most transparent in history instead has carried out the most intrusive surveillance of reporters ever attempted.

It also has made the most concerted effort at least since the plumbers and the enemies lists of the Nixon Administration to intimidate officials in Washington from ever talking to a reporter.

Consider this:  As we now know from the Snowden documents, investigators seeking to trace the source of a leak can go back and discover anyone in government who has talked by phone or email with the reporter who broke the story. Match that against the list of all who had access to the leaked info and voila!

In my days editing the Wall Street Journal, I used to joke that no one in the Washington Bureau ever had an on-the-record conversation. Now I would have to wonder whether anyone was having any kind of conversation at all that wasn’t a White House-sanctioned briefing.

It isn’t just words. The White House has been barring news photographers from all sorts of opportunities to ply their craft. Routine meetings and activities of the president, of which they used to be able to shoot still and video images under certain constraints, now are often – not always, but often — off limits, according to the American Society of News Editors, which is protesting the action, along with other groups.

The administration has invited news organizations to pick up images handed out by the press office or from the White House website. Sort of like saying, “just print the press release,” as some corporate PR people used to say to me years ago when I asked for an interview with the CEO.

To read his statement in its entirety go here.

 Paul Steiger Rips Obama Regarding Free Speech