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Guzzardi Submits Petitions — Conservative gubernatorial candidate Bob Guzzardi reports that he has turned in 2,400 signatures with at least 100 from 11 different counties which would qualify him for the Republican ballot against incumbent Tom Corbett.
The election is May 20.
“Gas Tax” Corbett is arguably setting records for incumbent unpopularity according to polling.
UPDATE: The Guzzardi team is now reporting they have filed 2,900 signatures and expect to be able to withstand any challenge.
William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 3-11-14
This Off the Internet is Courtesy of Cathy Martin
I was walking down the street when I was accosted by a particularly dirty and shabby-looking homeless man who asked me for a couple of dollars for dinner.
I took out my wallet, extracted ten dollars and asked,”If I give you this money, “Will you use it to go fishing instead of buying food?” I asked.
“No, I don’t waste time fishing,” the homeless man said..”I need to spend all my time trying to stay alive.”
“Will you spend this on hunting equipment?” I asked.
“Are you NUTS!” replied the homeless man. “I haven’t gone hunting in 20 years!”
“Well,” I said, “I’m not going to give you money. Instead, I’m going to take you home for a shower and a terrific dinner cooked by my wife.”
The homeless man was astounded. “Won’t your wife be furious with you for doing that?
I replied, “Don’t worry about that. It’s important for her to see what a man looks like after he has given up fishing and hunting !
William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 3-10-14
Courtesy of Cathy Craddock
They’re Back! Those wonderful Church Bulletins!
Thank Goodness for the church ladies with typewriters.
These sentences actually appeared in church bulletins
or were announced at church services:
The Fasting & Prayer Conference includes meals.
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Scouts are saving aluminiumcans, bottles and other items to be recycled. Proceeds will be used to cripple children.
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The sermon this morning:’Jesus Walks on the Water.’
The sermon tonight:’Searching for Jesus.’
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Ladies, don’t forget the rummage sale. It’s a chance to get rid of those things not worth keeping around the house.
Bring your husbands.
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Don’t let worry kill you off – let the Church help.
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Miss Charlene Mason sang ‘I will not pass this way again’ giving obvious pleasure to the congregation.
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For those of you who have children , and don’t know it, we have a nursery downstairs.
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Next Thursday there will be try-outs for the choir.
They need all the help they can get.
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Irving Benson and Jessie Carter were married on October 24 in the church. So ends a friendship that began in their school days.
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A bean supper will be held on Tuesday evening in the church hall. Music will follow.
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At the evening service tonight, the sermon topic will be ‘What Is Hell?’ Come early and listen to our choir practice.
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Eight new choir robes are currently needed due to the addition of several new members and to the deterioration of some older ones.
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Please place your donation in the envelope along with the deceased person you want remembered..
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The church will host an evening of fine dining, super entertainment and gracious hostility.
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Pot-luck supper Sunday at 5:00 PM – prayer and medication to follow.
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The ladies of the Church have cast off clothing of every kind. They may be seen in the basement on Friday afternoon.
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This evening at 7 PM there will be a hymn singing in the park across from the Church. Bring a blanket and come prepared to sin.
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The pastor would appreciate it if the ladies of the Congregation would lend him their electric girdles for the pancake breakfast next Sunday.
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Low Self Esteem Support Group will meet Thursday at 7 PM . Please use the back door.
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The eighth-graders will be presenting Shakespeare’s Hamlet in the Church basement Friday at 7 PM .. The congregation is invited to attend this tragedy.
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Weight Watchers will meet at 7 PM at the First Presbyterian Church. Please use large double door at the side entrance.
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And this one just about sums them all up
The Associate Minister unveiled the church’s new campaign slogan last Sunday:
‘I Upped My Pledge – Up Yours.’
Due to the continued hard economic conditions, Saints Peter & Paul Catholic Church, 100 S. Penn St., Clifton Height, Pa. 19018 hold a “Special Spring Food Collection” for the needy through Sunday, April 13.
Anyone wishing to donate any canned or boxed, non-perishable food items should bring them to the church on any Sunday before or after the 11 a.m.. Divine Liturgy.
Given the harsh economic conditions currently being experienced, everyone’s help is appreciated. The Church aims to match or exceed its last collection. Please help.
P.S. All are welcome at the Liturgy. It’s Byzantine Rite but it’s Catholic.
William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 3-8-14
Saints Peter and Paul Byzaninte Rite Catholic Church will again be selling traditional Slavic foods for Easter.
Kielbasa will be sold for $11 per ring or four links for $8.
Homemade, mouth-watering, flavorful, potato-cheese pierogies will be sold for $8 per dozen.
Traditonal Paska bread (homemade) will be sold for $10 per loaf.
Orders can be placed via email at SSPeterandPaul@verizon.net or by calling Kathy at 610-328-4731.
Pickups will be noon Saturday, April 12 and Sunday, April 13 at the church at 100 S. Penn St., Clifton Heights, PA.
It’s time to spring forward.
At 2 a.m., tomorrow, March 9, Daylight Saving Time starts so move the timepieces ahead an hour if they are not already programmed to do so.
It ends Nov. 2.
Of course, as spring does not start until 12:57 p.m., March 20, the nights remain longer than days regardless of what government dictates.
Should you be forced to subsidize government union politics? That’s the question asked by a reform gaining steam in Harrisburg called paycheck protection. But you wouldn’t know it by listening to government union bosses, who are deliberately misrepresenting paycheck protection legislation and engaging in personal attacks on its supporters in an effort to preserve their exclusive political privilege.
Pennsylvania law allows government union bosses—and only government union bosses—to negotiate the use of public resources to bundle union dues and political money and send it to union headquarters. In many cases, this dubious deal is made with politicians who receive contributionsand campaign support funded by the same political money.
Paycheck protection would end this flagrant conflict of interest and level the political playing field for all.
Given their lucrative arrangement, it’s no surprise that government union leaders don’t want to play by the same rules as everyone else. They’ve launched a misinformation campaign to confuse the public and their own members about the details of paycheck protection.
For starters, they claim that only a few outside interest groups support paycheck protection. In reality, nearly 80 percent of Pennsylvanians—including 75 percent of union members—believe taxpayer resources should not be used to collect union dues and campaign contributions, according to a recent poll of likely voters.
Government union leaders also claim that paycheck protection is actually “Right to Work” in disguise. The truth is paycheck protection doesn’t affect government unions’ ability to collectively bargain. Even if paycheck protection were to pass, government workers—like most public school teachers in the state—would still have to pay union dues or fees or lose their jobs.
So, what would change? Government union leaders would simply have to collect their dues and campaign contributions directly from workers, rather than forcing taxpayers to do it for them. Either union bosses don’t understand the legislation, or they’re intentionally misleading their members and the public.
Another pernicious claim about paycheck protection is that it constitutes an attack on union members’ free speech. Nothing could be further from the truth. Paycheck protection does not stop government unions from spending money on politics; it merely removes taxpayers from the process of collecting their political money.
The U.S. Supreme Court agrees that paycheck protection supports, rather than violates, freedom of speech. In 2009, the court ruled in Ysursa v. Pocatello that Idaho’s paycheck protection law, which ended taxpayer collection of political money, “does not restrict political speech, but rather declines to promote that speech by allowing public employee check-offs for political activities.”
Indeed, requiring union leaders to collect their own political money would actually make them more responsive to members’ free speech rights.
Perhaps government union bosses’ greatest trick is claiming that dues cannot be used for politics. In reality, union dues fund a variety of political activities including lobbying, candidate endorsements, get-out-the-vote efforts, candidate and issue advocacy, contributions to “independent” political and partisan organizations, and fundraising for campaign contributions.
Pennsylvania’s major government unions spent nearly $5 million of members’ dues on lobbying and political activities in 2012—that’s according to their own reports to the U.S. Department of Labor.
Moreover, union Political Action Committee (PAC) contributions are also collected via public payroll systems. Government union PACs contributed an additional $4 million directly to candidates during the 2011-12 elections.
This perverse power cycle allows elected officials to sign checks giving money to union PACs and later accept campaign contributions from those same PACs!
Former State Senator Jane Orie was recently released from prison after being convicted of using public resources for campaigning. Why do we allow government union leaders to engage in the same behavior without batting an eye?
The debate over paycheck protection must be informed by facts, not half-truths or conspiracy theories from those clinging to their government-granted political privilege. Here’s the bottom line: Public resources should never be used for partisan politics.
This article was provided by Commonwealth Foundation