Day: June 25, 2014

Rats Boom During Dem Reign

Rats Boom During Dem Reign

With the Democrats running things for the first time in a generation, the pre-Giuliani  problems of New York City have returned.

The New York Post is reporting that the Big Apple’s rat population is now twice that of the 8.4 million humans.

Mostly on the West Side it seems.

So are there bedbugs Uptown? Um, yes.

For those feeling nostalgic and for the young unaware of what life was like when progressives ran everything, we bring you this snippet of New York City life circa 1978 courtesy of The Rolling Stones

 

If the Rolling Stones are not your taste, here is Michael Jackson’s first solo hit which was a #1 in 1972.

Welcome again to the 1970s.

Rats Boom During Dem Reign

 

Psychologists Can Treat Vets Outside Clinics

 HB 43, an amendment to the Pennsylvania Volunteer Health Services Act, was “signed in House” June 18 after unanimously passing the state House and Senate.

The amendment allows Pennsylvania psychologists, psychiatrists and counselors to volunteer to provide free mental health services to military personnel and their families outside a clinic through approved programs such as “Give an Hour”,  says State Rep. Jim Cox (R-129)

Programs like Give an Hour provide free services, such as family counseling and substance abuse counseling, at a site that is likely outside a clinical setting such as a library, community center or church.

Psychologists Can Treat Vets Outside Clinics

Psychologists Can Treat Vets Outside Clinics

Disenfranchisement Push Continues

The push by the wannabee lords and ladies to disenfranchise the citizens of Pennsylvania continues.

Jack Nagel, a professor emeritus of political science at Penn, has a guest view in today’s (June 25) Philadelphia Inquirer about how the unicorns will play and the rainbows will shine if the size of our legislature is shrunk as per the proposed constitutional amendment passed by the State House that is pending before the State Senate, or –better yet in his view — have the entire legislature turned into a unicameral body with proportional representation like a European parliament

The Amendment on the table while not turning our legislature into a total highway to central government control as per Nagel’s wish will cut the size of Pennsylvania’s House from 203 to 153 and the size of the Senate from 50 to 45 (the Senate’s preference) or 38 (the House’s preference).

The argument being made is that it will save money as our legislators draw a base salary of $84,012, which is second highest in the nation behind corrupt California.

OK, help me out here. If we were trying to save money wouldn’t it be better to cut the salary by 25 percent rather than the number of representatives by 25 percent?

Even better yet, how about we cut the salaries to $7,500 — which is what Texas legislators get — and leave the size as is? That would be a 91 percent savings.  Texas by all accounts is doing pretty well.

Or how about this: we cut the salaries of the legislators to $7,500 — and end all benefits — and expand the number of senators to 67 with each county getting its own senator.

That way Anthony Williams won’t have to represent Philadelphia and Delaware counties.

 

Disenfranchisement Push Continues

Disenfranchisement Push Continues

 

 

 

Supreme Court Ends Aereo Broadcasts

The Supreme Court ruled, today, June 25, that Aereo Inc. was violating the copyrights of broadcasters in providing its service.

Aereo had developed a technology to allow persons to watch over-the-air television broadcasts on their computers.

The broadcasters led by ABC said no fair.

The ruling, written by Stephen Breyer, was 6-3 with Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Anthony Kennedy, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan joining him.

The dissent, written by Justice Antonin Scalia and joined by Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito, was not so much in sympathy with Aereo but noted that the technical claim made by the networks in the lower courts —  namely that Aereo was the primary abuser of copyright which means actually using copyrighted work — was incorrect.

They recommended that the case be returned to the lower courts and appeared to have an expectation that Aereo would be found in violation of  “secondary liability” which means that they would be responsible for infringement by third parties.

The danger of ignoring the reasoning in the dissent means that it creates the possibility of new claims against internet service providers and such that previously had an expectation of immunity.

 

Supreme Court Ends Aereo Broadcasts

Supreme Court Ends Aereo Broadcasts

 

American Stupidity Top 10

This rather accurate off-the-internet Canadian itemization of American stupidity is attributed to Arnold H. Pelofsky, PhD.

Number 10 — Only in America …could politicians talk about the greed of the rich at a $35,000.00 per plate campaign fund-raising event.

Number 9 — Only in America ..could people claim that the government still discriminates against black Americans when they have a black President, a black Attorney General and roughly 20% of the federal workforce is black while only 14% of the population is black. And 40+% of all federal entitlements goes to black Americans – 3X the rate that go to whites, 5X the rate that go to Hispanics!

Number 8 — Only in America…could they have had the two people most responsible for our tax code, Timothy Geithner (the head of the Treasury Department) and Charles Rangel (who once ran the Ways and Means Committee), BOTH turn out to be tax cheats who are in favor of higher taxes.

Number 7 — Only in America..can they have terrorists kill people in the name of Allah and have the media primarily react by fretting that Muslims might be harmed by the backlash.

Number 6 — Only in America..would they make people who want to legally become American citizens wait for years in their home countries and pay tens of thousands of dollars for the privilege, while they discuss letting anyone who sneaks into the country illegally just ‘magically’ become American citizens (probably should be number one).

Number 5 — Only in America ….could the people who believe in balancing the budget and sticking by the country’s Constitution be thought of as “extremist”.

Number 4 — Only in America ..could you need to present a driver’s license to cash a check or buy alcohol, but not to vote. THIS one is a real joke!

Number 3 — Only in America ..could people demand the government investigate whether oil companies are gouging the public because the price of gas went up when the return on equity invested in a major U.S. Oil company (Marathon Oil) is less than half of a company making tennis shoes (Nike).

Number 2 — Only in America could a country collect more tax dollars from the people than any nation in recorded history, still spend a Trillion dollars more than it has per year (for total spending of $7-Million PER MINUTE), and complain that it doesn’t have nearly enough money.

And Number 1 — Only in America could the rich people (who pay 86% of all income taxes) be accused of not paying their “fair share” by people who don’t pay any income taxes at all.

Hat tip Rights-right.com

American Stupidity Top 10

American Stupidity Top 10