Dem Thugs Raze GOP Offices

Dem Thugs Raze GOP Offices — Thugs supporting Philadelphia-area Democrats broke into Republican offices in four communities including Media and Newtown earlier today, Oct. 10.

The thugs trashed desks and took pictures. The female volunteers staffing them were left in tears.

Alfe Goodwin, the retired Philadelphia cop seeking to unseat the incumbent in Pennsylvania’s 5th congressional district, condemned the action as desperate and demonic.

Really, why would someone who trusts the rule of law and will of the people do such a thing?

Answer: They wouldn’t.

The only ones who would are demonic and fearful of losing their position and power.

The 5th District incumbent is Mary Gay Scanlon and she is afraid to endorse Alfe.

Why? She is fearful of losing her position and power.

By the way, the Jen O’Mara, the incumbent in the 165th district state house seat is ducking a debate with challenger.

Why?

See above.

Dem Thugs Raze GOP Offices
Alfe Goodwin with retired teacher Joy Schwartz and journalist Sharon Devaney

Dem Thugs Raze GOP Offices

Hope In Kensington Is Tonight’s Town Hall Topic

Hope In Kensington Is Tonight’s Town Hall Topic — Kensington, Philadelphia is the subject of tonight’s, Oct. 10, Keystone Town Hall.

The panel of John McAuley, Mina Quarles, Rich Bennet and Roc the Barber will describe how community leaders are providing hope in this pit of drug-induced despair.

It’s in the third-floor amphitheater of The Desmond Hotel, 1 Liberty Blvd., Malvern, Pa. 19355 and starts at 7 p.m.

Doors open at 6:30 .m.

Hope In Kensington Is Tonight's Town Hall Topic

President Trump’s Pennsylvania Rallies

President Trump’s Pennsylvania Rallies — We spent the week chasing President Trump around Pennsylvania.

Saturday, Oct. 5, we were in Butler County for his historic return to where he was almost killed, July 13.

Much has already been said about the event but we’d like to note the crowd size was not exaggerated and it took almost two hours to get to our car, albeit much of that was due to local law enforcement stopping traffic until the President left the venue via motorcade.

The Donald did say he wanted to hear opera singerĀ Christopher Macchio’s post-rally performance.

And J.D. Vance and Elon Musk would certainly make interesting conversation companions.

We’ll note that Trump made the event about Corey Comperatore, who was killed by the assassin while shielding his wife and children, and David Dutch and James Copenhaver, who were seriously injured.

Further, he let Elon Musk and his vice presidential pick J.D. Vance have as much, if not more, of the spotlight as himself.

There is meme of Obama captioned “I need a vice president dumber than me” followed by Biden then Harris saying the same, followed by an uncaptioned photo of pathetic Tim Walz.

Trump, unlike the Dems, has the confidence to appoint an smart guy as running mate.

We stayed at the pleasant Fairfield Inn & Suites in Slippery Rock. It was a great and comfortable place with a great breakfast buffet but Slippery Rock is one heck of a hard place to find food after 10 p.m.

We ended up eating at a bowling alley that was a hangout for teenagers. We found the fried food delicious but that was likely because we were starving.

Also, we sampled Sheetz. Wawa beats it, at least as far as coffee goes.

Yesterday, Oct. 9, we were at Reading’s Santander Arena to hear The Donald give a rousing endorsement to Dave McCormick for U.S. Senator. Also speaking was Vivek Ramaswamy. Trump pointed out he was up in most polls. McCormick also said he was expected to win. Trump, who had spoken in Scranton earlier, talked for nearly two hours.

President Trump's Pennsylvania Rallies
Sean Connolly with some Trump supporters. The crowd skewed young and spirits were high
President Trump's Pennsylvania Rallies
Skydivers entertain the crowd in Butler. Trump Force 1 also made a flyby
President Trump's Pennsylvania Rallies
In the crowd in Butler, Pa.

President Trump's Pennsylvania Rallies
Sean Connolly snapped this shot of Elon Musk

And Sean too this photo of The Donald going to the podium.

Looking for Kamala voters among the Living Dead at the Monroeville Mall outside of Pittsburgh. Silly me. You only find Kamala voters among the dead dead.
Waiting to get into Reading’s Santander Arena
Children chalking pro-Trump messages in the street outside the Santander Arena

The crowd outside the Santander Arena. The 7,160 seat venue was filled to capacity.

Vivek at the podium in Reading

U.S. Senate candidate Dave McCormick

The packed house went nuts when The Donald entered

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The New Rules Of Protest At Swarthmore

The New Rules Of Protest At Swarthmore

By Bob Small

Last semester’s Swarthmore College pro-Palestinian tent city made the college revisit its student handbook. Certain activities are now proscribed, including ā€œexcessive noiseā€ including ā€œbullhorns and chantingā€

And they are banning encampments.

Johnathan Washington, associate professor of linguistics does not seem to approve.,

“In protest, people are going to feel uncomfortable,” he said. “But thatā€™s not harmful. Thatā€™s challenging peopleā€™s thinking, which is the whole point of protest.ā€

Students for Justice in Palestine members Ragad Ahmad and Kaliab Tale, both members of the Class of ’26, say that Swarthmore “has charged the most students as a percentage of total student body out of 14 comparable institutions,ā€ including Bryn Mawr and Haverford.

ā€œThis is an attempt to silence the people and chill speech,ā€ said Philadelphia ACLU attorney Soloman Furious Worlds.

According to Democracy Now! – students at Cornell, the University of Maryland have returned to the fray.

Columbia has also began again.

The ā€œPoison Ivyā€ league continues a strong record of supporting radical causes. The Nazi chant came from Harvard football cheers ā€œand was imported to Germany by Ernst ā€œPutzyā€ Hanfstaengl, a Harvard man in good standing who befriended Hitler and helped build a more respectable brand for the National Socialists.

Eugenics was also imported to Germany from the ā€œPoison Ivy League, not only against Jews but also against German disabled and others deemed to be ā€œlife unworthy of life.ā€

Margaret Sanger one of the founders of Planned Parenthood, supported eugenics.

For some background on how the election intersects with the Pro-Palestinian protests visit Pro-Palestinian protests return to campuses adding.Ā 

Locally The University of Pennsylvania ā€œhasĀ banned demonstrations Ā in classrooms, offices, residences.”

Other schools taking various actions are the California State system, the Universities of California, South Florida and Yale.

Universities throughout the country are seeking various ways to allow free speech while avoiding chaos and disruption, however.

Vanderbilt University Chancellor Daniel Diermeier said in response to a question about handling protests. ā€œ Another way to say this is the job of a university is to encourage debates, not to settle them. ā€œ

See also A Mass. civil liberties attorney breaks down new campus ā€¦ and FAQ for Student Protests on Campus

The New Rules Of Protest At Swarthmore

The New Rules Of Protest At Swarthmore

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Virtue Signaling MLB Spends $$ In DR But Not In Poor America

Virtue Signaling MLB Spends $$ In DR But Not In Poor America

By Joe Guzzardi

With a single stroke of his pen, Major League Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred rewrote a century of baseball history. Before the ink dried, the Pittsburgh Crawfordsā€™ and the Homestead Graysā€™ Josh Gibson replaced Ty Cobb as baseballā€™s all-time batting champion, took over Babe Ruthā€™s career slugging average record, and is now officially the last player to hit over .400 in a season. Oh, to have been a fly on the wall when baseballā€™s suits, a 17-man, John Thorn-led commission, met six times to evaluate, despite incomplete data, incorporating Negro Leaguesā€™ statistics into the existing record book. Notwithstanding Sabermetriciansā€™ best efforts, they only located about 75% of Negro Leaguesā€™ box scores.

The commission marginalized icons Cobb, Ruth and Ted Williams. Cobb, the former career batting average leader, won 12 titles during his 11,440 at bats compared to Gibsonā€™s 2,164. Displaced also is Ruth, who amassed his .690 slugging title in four-times Gibsonā€™s plate appearances, 10,628 to 2,526. Yet Gibson with his .718 mark, post-Manfredā€™s edict, now holds Ruthā€™s old title. MLBā€™s ill-conceived revisions anointed Gibson as the last player to hit over .400 in a single season, .466 in 1943, which displaced Williamsā€™ .406 in 1941. Gibson did not have enough at bats to qualify for the batting title. As ESPNā€™s black Senior Writer Howard Bryant described Manfredā€™s ahistorical pronouncement: ā€œThe decision was met with great applause, but in addition to being reconciliatory, it was also a spectacular display of historical distortion and institutional arrogance.ā€ An unanswered question that Manfred left hanging: if Gibson established records in 1943, will the April 15th annual Jackie Robinson Day celebration of his 1947 breaking of MLBā€™s color line be canceled? Confused fans should consider the source. Manfred is a labor lawyer, not a baseball historian

More statistical revisions will come soon; the commission is still digging into decades of Negro Leaguesā€™ games that involve hundreds of players. Questions about which games and feats should count will be endless. Satchel Paigeā€™s 50 no-hitters, the total he insists he hurled, might replace Nolan Ryanā€™s seven as the new career record. Anything is possible. The commissioners have their computers and their new-fangled analytical methods. But Monte Irvin, who played for the Newark Eagles and the New York Giants, noted the obvious: unless the players compete in the same league, no meaningful parallels can be drawn. Irvinā€™s on-the-record opinion is that the Negro Leagues, because the teams had shallower pitching staffs, canā€™t compare to the majors.

Manfred claims that his baseball ideological history makes amends for the terrible biases that kept talented black players out of the major leagues because of their skin color. ā€œCorrecting an injustice,ā€ is how Manfred attempted to explain the inexplicable. Beyond the clear fact that the leagues were separate entities, the inherent suggestion that MLBā€™s stamp of approval validates the Negro Leagues is an insult to Gibson, Paige, Irvin, Robinson and hundreds of others. The Negro Leagues do not need validation.

The commissionerā€™s gesture does little tangible for the black playersā€™ families that suffered through decades of the shameful treatment and does even less for todayā€™s black kids yearning to reach the major leagues. If MLB wants to do something productive for black youths, it should build a network of baseball camps like those it has spent hundreds of millions to develop in the Dominican Republic. Envision this: Manfred summons the thirty MLB owners and demands that, since baseball is an $12 billion industry, part of that revenue should be allocated to developing U.S. black players.

Originally, MLB promoted the camps as an option to a life spent in the Dominican sugar cane fields. For the few Dominicans who made the big leagues, they could send money home to lift their families out of poverty. But MLB was the big winner because teams could sign several prospects for the same cost to ink one American player. MLB originally paid its academy players little, $600 per month, but the cash plus a green card that would give prospects and their families legal status in the U.S. was too inviting to pass up.

TheĀ Pittsburgh PiratesĀ built its first Dominican academy in 2009 and has added to the 52-acre facility every year thereafter. Piratesā€™ camps have multiple playing fields, cafeterias, classrooms and the most complete weight room among the camps. Piratesā€™ director of international development Hector Morales called the facility ā€œunparalleled.ā€ Nothing remotely similar exists in the U.S. And while the Dominican Republic offers the advantage of year-round good weather, determined multi-millionaire owners could work around climate handicaps by training in Florida, Texas or California and making use of indoor facilities during the winter months. Owners lack the will to find raw U.S. talent and develop it. The California Winter League, baseballā€™s first integrated league, played from 1900 to the mid-1940s. The greatest baseball stars competed in the CWL ā€” -Walter Johnson, Cool Papa Bell, Andy Pafko, Bob Elliot, and Jackie Robinson, among others.

Miserly billionaire owners point to the NCAA baseball teams as the best source for future stars. But few blacks can afford college. Consider how Piratesā€™ great Andrew McCutcheon viewed the challenges for increased black playersā€™ participation in MLB In his 2015Ā Post-GazetteĀ op-ed, ā€œI Could Have Been Left Behind.ā€ McCutcheon wrote about growing up in Central Florida, poor and unable to get rides to the big showcase tournaments. He envied Dominican players that MLB could, because of the local camps, sign, develop, and nurture. When Cutch wrote his op-ed, Josh Harrison was his only American black teammate. In the decade since Cutchā€™s op-ed, the only change is that Keā€™Bryan Hayes has replaced Harrison as one of two other Piratesā€™ American blacks. Florida-based The Institute for Diversity and Ethics in SportĀ foundĀ that African American players represented just 6.2% of players on 2023 MLB opening day rosters down from 7.2% in 2022. The totals were the lowest since the study began in 1991, when 18% of MLB players were African American. Dominican players comprise about 30% of MLBā€™s active rosters.

McCutcheon suggested that MLB build camps, scout high schools, Pony League, Nebraskaā€™s cornfields and Chicagoā€™s South Side. If MLB wants to ā€œcorrect an injusticeā€ to African Americans, as Manfred insists, give them an equal opportunity to earn the lucrative contracts that abound in baseball today. Every year, owners wring their hands and shed crocodile tears about its shortage of black players. The penurious owners should put their money where their mouths are. Right now, their money is in the Dominican Republic. The inescapable conclusion: MLB owners use the billions their teams generate from ticket, merchandise, and TV revenue to fund Dominican academies whose players that will eventually displace American kids on the baseball diamond.

Joe Guzzardi is a Society for American Baseball Research member. Contact him at guzzjoe@yahoo.com

Virtue Signaling MLB Spends $$ In DR But Not In Poor America

Virtue Signaling MLB Spends $$ In DR But Not In Poor America

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Fire Engulfing Saint Francis School

Fire Engulfing Saint Francis School — Fire is engulfing the 100-year-old Saint Francis of Assisi School next to its church on Saxer Avenue, Springfield, Delco, Pa.

Crews from Bon Air, Haverford, Manoa, Clifton Heights and Collingdale were seen at the site besides Springfield.

This photo by Sharon Devaney was taken at 5:08 p.m., Oct. 7.

Fire Engulfing Saint Francis School

A photo of the school the morning of Oct. 8

Fire Engulfing Saint Francis School