April 17 2014 Omnibit by William Lawrence Sr
Month: April 2014
Corbett Gang Files Appeal
This is not a caricature of Gov. Tom Corbett but of the late Leslie Nelson in his role as Frank Drebin from the Naked Gun movies. You can be forgiven, however, for thinking otherwise.
It’s official.
Gov. Tom Corbett has, figuratively, taken a 10-guage double-barreled shotgun and blown off both of his feet.
The party hacks, who for some unfathomable reason are desperately trying to keep Corbett on November’s Republican ticket, appealed, yesterday, April 16, the well-grounded decision handed down the day before by Commonwealth Court Judge Mary Hannah Leavitt that lets reformer Bob Guzzardi stay on the May 20 primary ballot.
Guzzardi, it should be noted, is purposely running a shoestring campaign and refusing all campaign donations.
Only two things can happened with the case now officially before the state Supreme Court.
— Corbett wins it. This means the Supremes overturn a decision made after a fair hearing that revealed Guzzardi did not use fraud to get on the ballot and that a significant number of Pennsylvania voters want him there. This would cement in the minds of those voters that the judicial system is corrupt and the Republican establishment cannot be trusted to protect them from government which is after all their reason for voting Republican. This not only kills Corbett but severely damages the party.
— Corbett loses it. This means Guzzardi gets publicity he otherwise would not have, and still causes the GOP base to wonder why the party establishment wants so badly to keep this guy off the ballot.
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Yuengling Rules Where It Perches
Yuengling Rules Where It Perches — TheAtlantic.com carried a story, April 15, that featured a chart showing the products produced by Pottsville-based D. G. Yuengling & Son to be the beer of choice in the states where it has significant distribution, namely Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia, Tennessee, Georgia and Florida.
The funny thing is that except for the chart the brewery was not even mentioned in the story, The State of American Beer.
It is pretty hard to beat Yuengling as a go-to beer.
Yuengling Rules Where It Perches
Victim Charged After Recording Bullies
A Pennsylvania story not covered by the government-protecting media concerns the case of 15-year-old Christian Stanfield, a sophomore at South Fayette High School in Allegheny County who recorded the chronic abuse he had been suffering in his math class only to have school authorities file wiretapping charges against him.
The recording reveals that while the teacher tried to help the boy one student shouts “You should pull his pants down” with another responding “No, man. Imagine how bad that c**t smells. No one wants to smell that t**t.” Then the noise of a book being slammed down next to the boy by a student who pretended hitting him with it.
The boy brought the recording to his mother who then played it before Principal Scott Milburn who then summoned South Fayette Township Police Lt. Robert Kurta who interrogated the boy. Faculty members tried to pressure the boy in deleting the recording until his mother arrived.
At the point, authorities charged him with felony wiretapping and disorderly conduct. The latest report is that, after a nation-wide the county’s D.A. plans on dropping the felony charge.
The thing to remember is that Milburn and the faculty that joined in the boy’s torment are practically guaranteed their well-paying jobs. There is almost nothing they can do to lose them. This is why school choice is so important. Parents need the option to free their children from environments such as South Fayette and people without courage or common sense must be weeded out of the teaching profession.
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April 16 2014 Omnibit by William Lawrence Sr
April 16 2014 Omnibit by William Lawrence Sr
You are right Robert James. The longest word in Webster’s Third International Dictionary is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis, which is the name of a miner’s disease. The dictionary does not list aequeosalinocalcalinoceraceoaluminosocupreovitriolic, a word once used to describe the spa waters in Bristol, England.
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Google Reads All Gmail
Google added a paragraph to its terms of service, April 14, to tell customers that it
does indeed scan Gmail content, reports ArsTechinca.com.
The action is inspired by a lawsuit filed in 2013 by e-mail users who claimed Google was violating wiretapping laws.
The new language reads:
Our automated systems analyze your content (including e-mails) to
provide you personally relevant product features, such as customized
search results, tailored advertising, and spam and malware detection.
This analysis occurs as the content is sent, received, and when it is
stored.
It should be noted that e-mails to Gmail users from non-Gmail accounts were also read.
William Lawrence Sr Cryptowit 4-16-14
William Lawrence Sr Cryptowit 4-16-14
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Answer to yesterday’s puzzle: Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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Frightened Corbett Faction Plans Appeal?
TribLive.com is reporting that the Tom Corbett faction is planning an appeal of Commonwealth Court Judge Mary Hannah Leavitt rejection of their challenge to throw Republican gubernatorial challenger Bob Guzzardi off the May 20 primary ballot.
If accurate, it would not merely indicate that Corbett is scared of Guzzardi — who is running a shoestring campaign and pointedly refusing all donations — but that they are terrified and absolutely desperate.
If they fear Bob Guzzardi in the primary what hope can they possibly have in November?
Of course, what they fear, perhaps, is that Guzzardi is putting the needs of the state ahead of politics.
Maybe they should be afraid and maybe the Democrats should fear as well.
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April 15 2014 Omnibit by William Lawrence Sr
Guzzardi Wins Ballot Challenge
Guzzardi Wins Ballot Challenge — Bob Guzzardi, the reformer seeking to unseat incumbent Tom Corbett and give the Republicans a halfway chance of keeping the governor’s office, is on the ballot in a decision handed down today by Commonwealth Court Judge Mary Hannah Leavitt.
Corbett’s team sought to keep Guzzardi off the ballot claiming he lacked the minimum number of valid signatures, misrepresented his occupation on his nomination petition and did not timely file a Statement of Financial Interests with the State Ethics Commission.
It is thought they spent between $25,000 and $50,000 in the futile endeavor.
Corbett’s team managed to knock the total number of signatures in Cumberland County from 131 to 104; in Delaware County from 182 to 159, from Lebanon County from 142 to 104 and from Northumberland County from 127 to 108.
The rule for ballot access requires 2000 signatures with at least 100 coming from 10 counties.
The objectors then levied challenges against 20 of the remaining names in Cumberland, 14 in Lebanon and 19 in Northumberland.
Corbett’s team picked over clear typographical errors, the use of diminutives rather than full names and even hired forensic document examiner J. Wright Leonard in a futile attempt to impeach the signatures.
Guzzardi’s attorney Gretchen Sterns successfully defeated the challenges citing case law and, at times, getting affidavits from those whose names were allegedly wrongly marked.
The occupation misrepresentation claim was based on Guzzardi describing himself as a “semi-retired businessman and lawyer”.
Corbett’s team said this was false because his state attorney license has been in inactive status since 2011 hence he was falsely calling himself a lawyer.
Judge Leavitt noted that Guzzardi’s description of his occupation was logical and consistent with common usage, and that there is no evidence that the electorate was deceived.
Regarding the Statement of Financial Interests, Guzzardi had filed one with the Department of State. Judge Leavitt found that the procedure changed this year and the directions for submission were confusing. She said the Guzzardi’s campaign was given incorrect information by “a Department of State employee with apparent authority” that he only needed to file with that department rather than submit a separate filing to the Ethics Commission. She noted the Department of State issued a receipt to Guzzardi that it shouldn’t have as he was filing with them the original rather than the required copy.
She noted that Guzzardi promptly correct the omission up learning of the problem.
Bob Guzzardi is on the ballot for May 20 in the Republican gubernatorial primary. As noted Corbett supporters spent at least $25,000 in an attempt to knock him off.