Month: January 2013

Obama’s Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta, Jan. 23, lifted the long-standing ban on women in combat to the cheers of a lot of rich and government-connected people who will not have to feel the consequences of the decision.

Does this mean that women will have to register for the draft and be subject to combat involuntarily?

Apparently, yes.

It would have been nice if they let us know their thinking back in November dontcha think?

Anyway, people who believe sexual differences are insignificant, emotions irrelevant and that combat is somehow an experience to desire now rule us.

The only word to fairly describe  them is “fools”.

A few weeks ago, Joe Eastman of Broad Street Ministry, who is a retired naval officer, spoke to the Independence Hall Tea Party Association about his group’s mission for homeless veterans. He said more women are using their service. These veterans have been traumatized by sexual assault. It was not done at the hands of the enemy.

Expect more of this. Conversely expect a percentage of females to start playing up to male superiors to avoid undesirable jobs like combat. Expect resentment among their male peers. Expect less focus on getting the job done. With gays now openly serving expect unworldly 18-year-old males to be subject to sexual harassment and assault.

Expect bad things because that’s we are going to get.

The 40th anniversary of Roe v. Wade—the court case that legalized abortion—brought back to my mind a decision I had made while working on an article for the Cape May County Herald back in the 1990s. Looking back, I think I made the wrong choice.

I had occasion to interview a zoologist who headed up a program that looked after injured turtle eggs. Specifically, it was those eggs that were damaged by passing automobiles that had hit female turtles as they crossed a south Jersey highway to reach their nesting spot.

He described how the interns that participated in this program were literally—literally—in tears as they picked up the injured eggs and brought them back to the facility where they were nursed back to health so they could hatch.

At the time, I was tempted to ask what I thought was a very obvious question, but my journalist’s objectivity prohibited me from taking the interview in a direction that was never intended. In hindsight, I now wish I had taken that path, because it would have made for a far more interesting and illuminating article, albeit one that would have no doubt annoyed my editor.

The question I wanted to ask the zoologist was, “These interns seem very respectful of life in general, would you say they are the type of young adults that one would find tearfully protesting in front of abortion clinics?”

My expected reaction would have been a terse and emphatic, “Oh no!” followed by the obligatory, “They would likely see that as a woman’s decision.”

But it never got to that juncture. I bit my tongue and carried on the interview as though I actually cared about foraged turtle eggs and the valiant attempt to save unborn reptiles.

I recently was shown a poster that stated the fine for destroying an eagle’s egg is a quarter of a million dollars or up to two years in prison. Seems fair. After all, it’s our national bird, whereas the country really doesn’t have a national human.

At any rate, that’s where this culture stands, or so it appears—careful with those bird and reptile eggs; we could be losing hundreds, even thousands every year. The eggs inside a human? In the US alone, there are more than 3,000 abortions a day.

But here’s a curious fact: In most states, if a pregnant woman is murdered, the assailant is charged with two counts of homicide: one for the killing of the mother, and one for killing of the unborn child. Amazing how the crime turns—not on the life of the innocent victim—but on the identity of the person deciding that a life should end. Even an innocent one.

(Excerpted from Good Writer’s Block)

By William W. Lawrence Sr

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Get you’re lucky charms and bids together for InLiquid’s 13th Annual Silent Auction & Benefit 6:30-9:30 p.m.,  Friday, Feb. 15  in the Ice Box Space at the Crane Arts Building, 1400 N. American St., Philadelphia.

This annual festive reception is not one to be missed in the art community of Philadelphia. Over 150 artist submissions from local artisans and galleries have submitted an array of artwork, jewelry and design items to be auctioned off.
 
To celebrate its Bar Mitzvah year, InLiquid is incorporating new organizations and artists to watch into its signature event. On Feb. 14, InLiquid will host in partner with Second Thursday at the Crane, the Young Professional preview night of the Benefit with entertainment provided by RAW Artists and MC’d by The Spruce Foundation’s new co-President, Rudy Flesher. Following the YP night, the Benefit evening will have new curated sections with “Local Artists to Watch” for jewelry. Philadelphia art galleries that will be host curated sections of the Benefit include: Paradigm Gallery + Studio, Larry Becker Contemporary Art and Center for Art in Wood.

Teri Adams of the Independent Hall Tea Party Association points out that WPHT 1210 AM and Dom Giordano are hosting a 2013 Salute Our Troops!
Live Broadcast Luncheon, 11 a.m., Presidents Day, Feb. 18 at the Crowne Plaza Valley Forge, 260 Mall Blvd, King of Prussia, Pa.

Tickets are $25 and can be gotten here:  http://www.eventbrite.com/event/5210859822#

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Answer to yesterday’s puzzle: Most people would rather be seen through than not seen at all.
Ada Levenson

The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) is now accepting applications for 2013 summer employment for students and government services interns, according to State Rep Jim Cox (R-129).

To qualify, candidates must be 18 years of age and enrolled in college for the fall 2013 semester. Applicants must also have a valid Pennsylvania driver’s license.

The Summer Employment Program runs from May through August to supplement the permanent workforce.

For  information on PennDOT summer employment opportunities, visit here.

 
It is time to immediately boot all school administrators who had any involvement in suspending a five-year-old kindergartener from the Mount Carmel Area Elementary School in Northumberland County, Pennsylvania. And we should require that their official employment records always disclose the exact reason why they were terminated. Hopefully, such a scarlet letter would prove so weighty that their education careers would sink into oblivion.

Come to think of it, they should be barred from ever working around children again. Judgment, discretion and common decency are—or at least should be—mandatory skills for those working around our young people, but appear to be nonexistent in the Mount Carmel District.

What was the child’s offense? What was so ignominious, so dastardly, so outright diabolical that the Mount Carmel brain trust saw fit to suspend her for 10 days and mandate she undertake a psychological evaluation?
Did she swipe the school computer password to inflate her show-and-tell grade? Boycott naptime? Not share her crayons?

Far worse. She talked about using her pink Hello Kitty Bubble Gun—admittedly, a device that has been known to completely eradicate sad faces with one trigger pull.
 
Honest to God, this makes the Manti Te’o story look tame.

*****

Earlier this month, while waiting for a school bus, the kindergarten mastermind was overheard talking about shooting a classmate with the bubble gun, which, it should be noted, she did not even possess.

For that, she was actually accused of making a “terroristic threat” and branded as a “threat to harm others.” According to reports, the girl was questioned the following day for 30 minutes without a parent present and, her mother stated, was told she could go to jail for making such a threat. Despite being evaluated as “normal” by the district’s psychologist (what a surprise), the student was suspended anyway. Officials have since reduced the suspension to two days, but have refused to expunge the incident from her permanent record.

The family’s lawyer, Robin Ficker, simply wants the incident removed from the child’s record and the school district to apologize, admitting it made a mistake. But no can do.

The district is fighting back, having released a statement that reads “ … we are confident that much of the information supplied to the media may not be consistent with the facts in this matter. The Mount Carmel Area School District has investigated the issue and will continue to do so … When given the opportunity in the appropriate forum, we look forward to presenting information that will portray our school district in a more positive light.”
What are they doing? Bringing in the CSI team?

Assuming there are no national security secrets in this case, this one is simple. School administrators wildly “jumped the gun,” choosing to bow at the altar of political correctness and get their 15 minutes of fame rather than rationally think this situation through to its logical conclusion. And now they are too proud to admit they screwed up. In the process, they have traumatized a little girl, stigmatized her family, and perhaps worst of all, stolen a bit of childhood innocence from every student in that school.

And the more we sit back and allow these situations to occur, the faster America will decline. It is not enough to have the lawyers settle this behind the scenes, even if the girl and her family “win” everything they are seeking. The damage is done, and nothing short of firing Superintendent Bernard Stellar and other administrators complicit in the suspension will make it right.
Is advocating the firing of these officials for their “zero tolerance” itself zero tolerance? Absolutely. And it should be. We all make mistakes, which is why God made erasers, but mistakes like this are unforgivable. We entrust these people with our most precious gift: our children, indeed our future. And when they cannot even handle the most basic, common sense situation, it is time for them to find another profession.

Sadly, America is becoming a nation that doesn’t act with common sense, but one that overreacts to damn near everything without actually solving its problems. That way, faceless bureaucrats can feel good about themselves and justify their existences.

It’s time to fight back. It’s time for the silent American majority to be heard. It’s time to send the message loud and clear that political correctness is the greatest enemy this nation faces, and that we must enact zero tolerance for moronic decisions that so negatively affect the most innocent among us.
Demand that the Mount Carmel School District administrators be fired, and burst their politically correct bubble once and for all.

Scott Richmond, 37, of Newtown, waived a hearing Thursday before Magisterial District Judge Lee Hunter on one count of possession of child pornography. In exchange for the waiver 31 counts of possession of child pornography, possession of cocaine, possession of drug paraphernalia and disruption of service were withdrawn. The charges stem from an April 25 incident at his Rhoads Avenue residence and his place of employment on Campus Boulevard.

According to the affidavit, Delaware County CID Detective David Peifer said Richmond worked in the Information Technology  department of a Newtown Square company when police were alerted he had uploaded suspected child pornography on both his home and work computers. The investigation involved Google, MySpace, Facebook, and Linkedin, and PennDOT records.
A search warrant was obtained for Richmond’s home and work computers.
Richmond admitted that he searched for male pornography on both computers. He identified one of the people in the picture as his ex-boyfriend whom he started dating when the boyfriend was 18.

As a result of the search warrant, police seized 14 glass vials of cocaine along with the computers from Richmond’s residence.

Thirty-two images of children under the age of 18 engaged in sexual acts or poses were also identified.

Richmond was remanded to the George W. Hill Prison when he was unable to post 10 percent of $100,000 bail. He is scheduled for a Feb. 13 arraignment in Common Pleas Court.