News, Entertainment, Enlightenment
I was just informed that Dottie Reynolds has died.
Dottie was a wonderful writer who worked for the Delaware County Daily Times and the Press Newspapers of Delaware County.
She was one of the founders of the Delaware County Press Club.
She had been living in Florida.
R.I.P. Dottie.
Pa. Election 2011, Congrats Tea Partyers — The Democrats broke a bit of a losing streak in state judicial races, yesterday, Nov. 8, when David Wecht handily beat Republican Vic Stabile to win a seat on State Superior Court, which is the 15-member body that is the intermediate appellate court for civil and criminal cases from county Common Pleas Courts.
There was a lot of ticket splitting, however. Republican Ann Covey appears to have beaten Kathryn Boockvar in the race for Commonwealth Court, which is the nine-member body
that is the intermediate appellate court for issues involving taxation,
banking, insurance, utility regulation, eminent domain, election, labor
practices, elections, Department of Transportation matters, and liquor
licenses.
The unofficial tally in the Wecht race as of this morning was 1,012, 324 votes to 842,366.
Stabile, the party choice, had a chilly relation with the Tea Party who pushed his opponent Philadelphia Common Pleas Court Judge Paula Patrick in the primary election.
The unofficial tally in the Covey race is 959,869 to 875,294.
Ms. Covey also had a Tea Party opponent in the primary, Philadelphia Common pleas Court Judge Paul P. Panepinto. Ms. Covey, however, reached out to conservatives, especially pro-lifers, and Ms. Boockvar is an extreme liberal activist.
All state judges were retained with at least 70 percent of the vote. Republican campaign literature requested yes votes on retention.
One very ill omen for the Democrats in next year’s presidential races was the loss their bastion of Westmoreland County, with Republicans taking control of it for the first time since the 1950s.
Closer to home, Tea Partyers Lisa Esler and John Dougherty 3rd easily won seats on the Penn Delco School Board.
Democrats took control of Chester City with John Linder beating incumbent Republican Wendell Butler in the mayor’s race and Elizabeth Williams and Nafis Nichols winning council seats, giving the Dems control of the city for just the second time since the Civil War.
It is not as though the Republicans have done such a great job in that city.
Linder, a professor of social sciences at Delaware County Community College, took on Dominic Pileggi in 2008 in an unsuccessful bid for a state senate seat. He has expressed support for school choice and scorn for the teachers union, which is one of the pollutants that has ruined the Democrat Party.
And in Springfield, Republican Bob Layden was easily elected to complete the last two years of Jim Devenney‘s unexpired term as the township’s 6th Ward commissioner.
Free What?
If questions still linger about our free press, they have all been answered through this slanderous media lynching of Herman Cain. Whether one is Democrat or Republican, liberal or conservative, America must finally recognize that along with education, our news and informational sources are now in the governmental tank!
War used to be truth’s most feared adversary. Senator Hiram Johnson, way back in 1917 said, “The first casualty when war comes is truth.” This became the subject for Phillip Knightley’s extensive essay entitled The First Casualty. I mention this solely for the need to prioritize the need for truth’s essential worth in reporting the news.
During the days since my last presentation, where I tried to make light of an anonymous question of “gesturing,” news reports have upped the ante for Presidential campaigning. Now, we have a face and a name, along with unpleasant charges from supposedly a quid pro quo offering by candidate Cain. While reports center upon this unsubstantiated charge, many questions remain ignored by our army of investigative reporters.
As a curious bystander intent upon maintaining election integrity, bells and whistles chimed for me with the accuser’s hometown of Chi-town. What a coincidence! Also, it seems that Ms. Bialek imitates our federal government’s spending habits as she seems to live at a level not commensurate with her income. This, along with her fickle work record and her 1991 personal bankruptcy action, should arouse curiosity as to her current living quarters being in the same building as Mr. Axelrod, of the Obama Administration.
After failing to ignite a public condemnation from charges of improper or harassing “gesturing,” our media sleuths have now located Ms. Bialek, after fourteen years, who now feels the need to set the record straight and be desirous of a confessing Mr. Cain. Ms. Bailek’s ability to quell her nagging conscience for those fourteen years is remarkable in itself. I remain curious as to just what caused her sudden reformation?
Ms. Bialek asks America to believe that based upon some previous and inconsequential meeting, she flew to Washington and reserved accommodations in the hopes of contacting Mr. Cain for possible employment? This, on the surface, seems to be an expensive long shot.
Her description of what took place combines fantasy and romanticism into a well rehearsed presentation which just doesn’t quite jive with reality. Her version relates that Mr. Cain “upgraded” her room to that of a suite and that they enjoyed drinks prior to going to another location for dinner. Excuse me but if all this were true, and given that Ms. Bialek is not some naive school girl, either she is a fabricator or she is an extreme fabricator. Who in their right mind would go to dinner with the expectation that the evening would end after desert?
Given Ms. Bialek’s background, from both a financial and personal perspective, possibilities abound that notoriety and some future payday may play heavily into her sudden need for Mr. Cain’s accounting. Despite all these circumstances and inconsistencies, how is it that not one media pundit hesitated with their anti-Cain venom? It now seems that the pedestal reserved for Ms. Bialek is all for the ruination of America’s first black conservative presidential candidate, pure and simple.
Our nation’s media sources and individual talking heads have shown their intentions and exhibited a vendetta styled assault upon what many view as Obama’s most serious threat. Obviously, this comes from Mr. Cain’s equal racial footing and subsequent appeal to the black voter.
While this type of journalism may well define the demise of what was a “free press,” it is the typical American reader and audience viewer who needs to recognize this for what it is. If not, then we have truly lost our desire and need for seeking truth. All without having a war to fight.
Jim Bowman, Author of
This Roar of Ours
I’d like to give a warm welcome to latest author on this blogsite, Tom C. See his posts below.
Well,let’s step back from the media frenzy surrounding the growing list of women accusing Herman Cain of….?? “GU”:Generating Uncomfortableness,”GG”(Groping Genitals),
“ACC”(attempted confidentiality coitus), whatever ,AND calmly think this through.
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-250_162-57321187/cain-accuser-filed-complaint-at-next-job/
1)Do I personally think Herman Cain is guilty of ,at minimum,of occassionally trying to hit on attractive women ??Yes
2)Do I think he is lying on at least some of this story? Yes
DO I CARE.??NO!
But ,IMO the larger question iso I believe HC would make a good president??ABSOLUTLY ,YES!
To those readers who think my conclusion is ridiculous or demented,let me briefly explain.
1)All politcians lie IMO.Start at the top with Bill Clinton,Hilliary Clinton(“those records just appeared out of no where on a table in the White House”,FDR, and go all the way down to the local state politican.Start with major “heroes”..Mac Arthur( read”The Coldest Winter” by David Halberstam),Much Decorated :John Kerry.
We would need many hours just to type in the names of just the politicians.
2)We need a president who has “cajones”.The way HC has faced all the allegations and has not backed down ,surely means he has some big-time…er,ER….courage.To want to become president of the USA,when your father was a chaffeur take unbelievable courage !!Remember the new president will make some tough calls on Iran,North Korea,China’s trade policies.I like a president with a potential excess of testosteron.
3)We need a president who is really smart!!!HC is VERY SMART.
A degree in mathematics;an advanced degree in Computer Science from a real school(Purdue University).Need I say more?
4)We need a president who knows how to run a business!!HC has met a weekly payroll more times than all the other candidates combined.He has actually run several businesses(GodFathers Pizza e.g.).The presidency is too important a job for OJT,as we have learned:a union organizer does not run “a business” enterprise.
5)We need a president who knows the limits of his knowledge.HC has publically admitted that he is no expert on foreign affairs.This is refreshing when we see so many politicians”bluffing” their way through answers to difficult questions(e.g.certain recorded “town hall” meeting held last year)
6)We need a president who has “seen the ghost”.To survive a major cancer scare means that HC has faced the real possibility of dying.This is a great advantage to a Commander in Chief who realizes his actions will likely result in the death of US soldiers.Plus:having to over- come a major illness provides remarkable insight when discussing Health Care Reform issues.
7)The Republican Party needs a major elected black offical to help under score the failure of the Democrat Party’s “welfare statism”.HC represents acheivment through hard work (prior to “quotas”).While he may not cause a major switch in the monolithic black vote for Democrats,he surely will cause some switching.Along with several other rising Black and Hispanic stars in the Republican party, a brake on the strong hold the Democrat Party has on the Black and Hispanic vote is a must for the future of the Republican Party
I don’t even want to go ,in detail,through the obvious “evidence” about some (or perhaps all of the accusers):financial difficulties,pior records of trying to game the system(e.g. the latest accuser),trying to have an easy “score”( a years salary for “feeling uncomfortable”.,etc).
OH….I forgot ,having Gloria Alred as an attorney(remember the Big Surprise?? Alred and the weeping illegal she represented that killed Meg Whitman’s candidaacy in California?)
I say the issues before the country or too huge to get the DEBATE side tracked with this Media Frenzy
Dover Mortuary Chaos Disgusting — I was disgusted when I read this article this morning about the gross chaos and mismanagement at the Dover ,Delaware mortuary. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/08/air-force-morgue-lost-bod_0_n_1082161.html?1320777661&icid=maing-grid10%7Chtmlws-main-bb%7Cdl1%7Csec1_lnk3%7C111016
Quick Comments
1)those military supervisory personnel at the mortuary were only”reprimanded” and kept their jobs.My solution:repost them to remote posts in Afganistan so they can learn first-hand the sacrifices our military men and women make OR let them RESIGN
2)I am highly suspicious when I read that there is a slit in a plastic bag containing missing “ankle fragments”.Are these ghouls selling body parts to the medical black market?
3)One of the whistle blowers at the morgue was pressured and
attempts were made to force themout of their job!!
I would check this out carefully as this is the first sign of a cover-up.
4)Have Delaware Senator Tom Carper head the investigation since he is a former military man(Annapolis graduate) and one of the frew Democratic senators I highly respect
Banker Tom