News, Entertainment, Enlightenment
By William W. Lawrence Sr
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Answer to yesterday’s puzzle: For if any man who never saw fire proved by satisfactory arguments that fire burns. His hearer’s mind would never be satisfied, nor would he avoid the fire until he put his hand in it that he might learn by experiment what argument taught.
Roger Bacon
Cryptowit 3-15-13 By William W. Lawrence Sr
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Answer to yesterday’s puzzle: A little philosophy inclineth man’s mind to atheism; but depth in philosophy bringeth men’s minds about to religion.
Francis Bacon
By William W. Lawrence Sr
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Answer to yesterday’s puzzle: There is nothing new except what has been forgotten.
Marie Antoinette
Road From Serfdom — Feudal serfs gave the fruits of their labor and all of their freedom to a small group who lived very well.
Some want 21st Century America to be like that.
Tax money is providing public employees, such as these in Connecticut as noted in this link from PJMedia.Com, with $5 million tax-funded salaries. Pennsylvania might be better with its $300,000 top salaries, as per this 2009 article, but only in the sense that one would prefer to have one’s tires stolen rather than the entire car.
In feudalism, the serfs were told they got protection for their contributions to the lifestyles of the then rich and famous. Similar promises are being made today.
Give up your guns and we will keep you safe, the new feudalists claim. Sure, as in Mexico where a gun battle on Sunday in Reynosa just across the border from McAllen, Texas reportedly left dozens of gangsters dead. Mexico has very strict gun control, of course.
Give up your doctor and we will keep you healthy, they claim. Just as in Great Britain where it has been revealed that its National Health Service is responsible for 40,000 preventable deaths over the last few years.
Expect to be soon told that you can trust the doctor that you are assigned because there is no such thing as a bad doctor. It’s what they’ve been telling us about teachers after all to keep us from worrying our little heads about crazy ideas like school choice and cyber-charter schools.
We have to stop listening to these people.
We don’t need those who travel in luxury SUVs, and chartered jets and live in 20-room mansions with $30,000 utility bills to “protect” us from global warming.
We don’t need defenders of quotas and affirmative action to defend us from racism. Government is the cause of racism. It’s a way of dividing and conquering. Rosa Parks was not protesting the policy of a private bus company but a city law. Out of one side of its mouth, government tells some they need them to give them things to rectify “injustice” while out of the other it tells some they need it to build more prisons and put more people in them so they can keep their streets safe.
They want those who would otherwise be united against them at each others’ throats.
So what is the road away from serfdom?
— Start with demanding massive cuts in legislative salaries. Why should the chairman of Pennsylvania’s House Appropriations Committee make $90,000 not including benefits? In fact, let’s max all governmental compensation packages — including those at state universities — to $99,000. Yes, that would include benefits.
Replace most pensions with 401K type plans and for those where pensions make sense such as police limit them to the starting salary of the job description. Why should the taxpayer be on the hook for a pension that is two or three times that of Social Security? It should be noted that the starting salary of just about all job descriptions is significantly higher than what those on Social Security get, and it is kind of nice to able to retire at 45.
If an institution wants to pay its people more than $99,000 — that’s you Penn State — don’t give them any tax subsidy.
— Fight all gun control aimed at sane people who are not actively under a criminal sentence.
— Recognize that the power to choose (and fire) one’s health care provider is paramount in health care and fight to end Obamacare.
— Recognize that the power to choose (and fire) one’s child’s teacher is paramount in education. Demand that the money that now goes to public schools be given directly to parents in the form of vouchers.
— End automatic payroll deductions for union dues for all workers, government and private. Give the power of the purse to the union rank and file over the lifestyles of labor leaders.
— Let employers hire who they want to hire. So what if some are sexist/racist/homophobic. Most aren’t. It will soon be be evident to those now unaware that it is bad business to reject people for stupid, arbitrary reasons. It will also become evident that being a “protected category” was not beneficial for getting a job or being promoted as those now “protected” start finding themselves with better prospects. Ask this: why would anybody want to hire someone who they have to jump through hoops to get rid of?
And remember these are just starting points.
By William W. Lawrence Sr
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Answer to yesterday’s puzzle: The contest for ages has been to rescue liberty from the grasp of executive power.
Daniel Webster
Men Happier People Courtesy of Cathy Craddock
What do you expect from such simple creatures?
Your last name stays put.
The garage is all yours.
Wedding plans take care of themselves.
Chocolate is just another snack…
You can be President.
You can never be pregnant.
You can wear a white T-shirt to a water park.
You can wear NO shirt to a water park.
Car mechanics tell you the truth.
The world is your urinal.
You never have to drive to another gas station restroom because this one is just too icky.
You don’t have to stop and think of which way to turn a nut on a bolt.
Same work, more pay.
Wrinkles add character.
Wedding dress $5000. Tux rental-$100.
People never stare at your chest when you’re talking to them.
New shoes don’t cut, blister, or mangle your feet.
One mood all the time.
Phone conversations are over in 30 seconds flat.
You know stuff about tanks.
A five-day vacation requires only one suitcase.
You can open all your own jars.
You get extra credit for the slightest act of thoughtfulness.
If someone forgets to invite you, he or she can still be your friend.
Your underwear is $8.95 for a three-pack.
Three pairs of shoes are more than enough.
You almost never have strap problems in public.
You are unable to see wrinkles in your clothes.
Everything on your face stays its original color.
The same hairstyle lasts for years, even decades.
You only have to shave your face and neck.
You can play with toys all your life.
One wallet and one pair of shoes — one color for all seasons.
You can wear shorts no matter how your legs look.
You can ‘do’ your nails with a pocket knife.
You have freedom of choice concerning growing a mustache.
You can do Christmas shopping for 25 relatives on December 24 in 25 minutes.
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Men Are Just Happier People
NICKNAMES
If Laura, Kate and Sarah go out for lunch, they will call each other Laura, Kate and Sarah.
If Mike, Dave and John go out, they will affectionately refer to each other as Fat Boy, Bubba and Wildman.
EATING OUT
When the bill arrives, Mike, Dave and John will each throw in $20, even though it’s only for $32.50. None of them will have anything smaller and none will actually admit they want change back.
When the girls get their bill, out come the pocket calculators.
MONEY
A man will pay $2 for a $1 item he needs.
A woman will pay $1 for a $2 item that she doesn’t need but it’s on sale.
BATHROOMS
A man has six items in his bathroom: toothbrush and toothpaste, shaving cream, razor, a bar of soap, and a towel.
The average number of items in the typical woman’s bathroom is 337. A man would not be able to identify more than 20 of these items.
ARGUMENTS
A woman has the last word in any argument.
Anything a man says after that is the beginning of a new argument.
FUTURE
A woman worries about the future until she gets a husband.
A man never worries about the future until he gets a wife.
MARRIAGE
A woman marries a man expecting he will change, but he doesn’t.
A man marries a woman expecting that she won’t change, but she does.
DRESSING UP
A woman will dress up to go shopping, water the plants, empty the trash, answer the phone, read a book, and get the mail.
A man will dress up for weddings and funerals.
NATURAL
Men wake up as good-looking as they went to bed.
Women somehow deteriorate during the night.
OFFSPRING
Ah, children. A woman knows all about her children. She knows about dentist appointments and romances, best friends, favorite foods, secret fears and hopes and dreams.
A man is vaguely aware of some short people living in the house.
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY
A married man should forget his mistakes. There’s no use in two people remembering the same thing!
Monopoly Money And The Obama Administration — The below rule of banking come from the game of Monopoly and can be found on Hasbro.com:
The Bank never goes broke.
And this leads us to ponder what exactly are the rules that the Obama Administration and the Democrat-controlled Senate that refuses to allow votes on House-passed budgets are using in setting fiscal policy.
BTW, taxpayers do go broke and run out of money.
By William W. Lawrence Sr
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Answer to yesterday’s puzzle: Superman never made any money, saving the world from Solomon Grundy
Crash Test Dummies
216 Million Email Users In 2013 — There are 216.6 million email users in the United States, which is 68.4 percent of the population.
What’s weird is that the nation has only 204. 1 million users of internet search engines.
A bipartisan group of state lawmakers will unveil the new and improved Property Tax Independence Act on noon, tomorrow, March 12, in Harrisburg, reports State Rep. Jim Cox (R-129) who is one of the bill’s sponsors.
Watch the news conference live on Tuesday at noon by visiting www.RepJimCox.com.
Cox introduced a similar bill last year that would have replaced the property tax as a means of funding schools with something less endangering to the shelters of those who have lost income such as the unemployed or those on fixed income such as the disabled and senior citizens.
