Day: June 21, 2014

Honor Flight June 2014 Trip Returns

Honor Flight June 2014 Trip Returns

Honor Flight Philadelphia’s June 2014 trip returned to Saint Kevin’s Church on Sproul Road in Springfield, Pa. this evening, June 21, with a crowd of flag waving well-wishers greeting the 160 veterans who participated.

Honor Flight Philadelphia gives veterans an all-expense paid trip to the memorials in Washington followed by a banquet.

Honor Flight June 2014 Trip Returns Greater Overbrook String Band

Veteran Helen Collins dances with Greater Overbrook String Band Captain Bill Razzano. The band provided the background music as the veterans marched down the red carpet.

Also, on hand were the Knights of Columbus; honor guards from the Marines, Army and Air Force; Congressman Pat Meehan; Philadelphia Eagles cheerleaders and the Eagle’s Swoop mascot; and the Chick-fil-A cow.

Trucks from several volunteer fire companies provided a ladder arch with a hanging flag over Sproul Road and over the entrance to Saint Kevin’s.

Warrior’s Watch provided a motorcycle escort.

Honor Flight June 2014 Trip Returns

 

 

All VA Executives Rated High Under Obama

The Department of Veterans Affairs has 470 senior executives. The New York Times reports that every single of them got a “fully successful” or better rating over the last four years.

And this is while data was being manipulated, whistleblowers were being hounded and veterans were dying.

The Obama administration was aware of the problem since at least 2012. It didn’t matter. The bureaucrats happily got their kudos and bonuses.

Last month, Senate Democrats led by Harry Reid with a wink and a nod from the President killed a bill to give the Veterans Affairs secretary the power to fire or demote VA executives for poor performance.

The bureaucrats must be protected as they are the backbone of the new feudal system, one supposes.

 

All VA Executives Rated High Under Obama

All VA Executives Rated High Under Obama

TISA Draft Sparks WikiLeaks Paranoia

The leaking of a draft of an international Trade in Service Agreement (TISA) by WikiLeaks is getting press.

The agreement would allow service-based companies — which include insurance, audiovisual, financial, information technology, express deliver and telecommunication firms — greater access to customers in other nations.

This would  be especially helpful to American firms.

WikiLeaks, the site founded by America-hating-whackjob  Julian Paul Assange, is quite angry about the agreement and is crying conspiracy.

A couple of questions to ponder:

When are drafts of agreements ever released to the public?

Why if it is such a big secret was the U.S. Chamber of Commerce praising the plan in a press release four months ago?

WikiLeaks can be described as a site dedicated to the selective leaking of documents designed to make the United States look bad. It has but 225 pages related to the People’s Republic of China, that bastion of sweetness and light, versus 9,720 pages to items the United States would have preferred to  have been kept under wraps.

By the way, most of the PRC stuff was leaked from the U.S.

For the conspiracy minded, WikiLeak’s TISA leak was done on June 19 and can be found here.

TISA Draft Sparks WikiLeaks Paranoia

 TISA Draft Sparks WikiLeaks Paranoia

 

Summer 2014 Starts Now

Summer 2014 Starts Now

Summer 2014 starts at 6:51 a.m. EDT, June 21, which is right now if our internet service provider’s clock is accurate.

This means that tilt of Earth’s semi-axis is most inclined to the sun in the Northern Hemisphere which is a solstice.

The axis will in a few moments slowly start reversing itself until it is the Southern Hemisphere that is most inclined to the sun.

The would be the start of our winter (and Australia’s summer).

Today is the longest day of the year. Don’t expect the real heat to start happening for several more weeks, however. It takes a while for the ground to absorb all that solar energy and it is the ground that really makes things hot.

In Europe summer was traditionally considered to start May 1 which is why today is often referred to as “Midsummer.”

This reckoning is still used in Ireland.

Some music to start the season:

Summer 2014 Starts Now