HB 91 Expands School Choice In Pa

HB 91, which expands Pennsylvania’s Educational Improvement Tax Credit (EITC) and Opportunity Scholarship Tax Credit (OSTC) programs, has overwhelmingly passed the General Assembly and awaits Gov. Corbett’s signature, reports State Rep. Jim Cox (R-129).

The bill also allows the credits for the programs to be shared based on need.

The EITC and OSTC provide businesses a tax credit of up to 90 percent for up to $750,000 if they contribute to a scholarship organization, an educational improvement organization, and/or a pre-kindergarten scholarship organization.

The tax credit does not apply to property taxes.

The money is used to fund innovations in public schools and provide tuition assistance in the form of scholarships to eligible students residing within the boundaries of a low-achieving school to attend another public school outside of their district or nonpublic school.

The initial passage of the bill in the House on June 24, 2013 was 198-0.  The passage in the Senate on Oct. 15, 2014 was 48-0. The concurrence in the House on Oct. 20 was 193-4 with the dissenters being Mike Carroll of the 118th District, Pamela DeLissio of the 194th District, Phyllis Mundy of the 120th District and Eddie Day Pashinski  of the 121st District.

HB 91 Expands School Choice In Pa

 

HB 91 Expands School Choice In Pa

Word Scrabble, An Off The Internet

Courtesy of Cathy Craddock

 

This is one of the most clever E-mails I’ve received in a while.  Someone out there  Must be “deadly” at Scrabble. Wait till you see the last one! It’s going to be  hard to top because It fits to a “T”

PRESBYTERIAN:
When you rearrange the letters:
BEST IN PRAYER

ASTRONOMER:
When you rearrange the letters:
MOON STARER

DESPERATION:

When you rearrange the letters:
A ROPE ENDS IT

THE EYES:
When you rearrange the letters:
THEY SEE

GEORGE BUSH:
When you rearrange the letters:
HE BUGS GORE

THE MORSE CODE:
When you rearrange the letters:
HERE COME DOTS

DORMITORY:
When you rearrange the letters:
DIRTY ROOM

SLOT MACHINES:
When you rearrange the letters:
CASH LOST IN ME

ANIMOSITY:
When you rearrange the letters:
IS NO AMITY

ELECTION RESULTS:
When you rearrange the letters:
LIES – LET’S RECOUNT

SNOOZE ALARMS:
When you rearrange the letters:
ALAS! NO MORE Z ‘S

A DECIMAL POINT:
When you rearrange the letters:
I’M A DOT IN PLACE

ELEVEN PLUS TWO:
When you rearrange the letters:
TWELVE PLUS ONE

AND FINALLY….

FOR THE GRAND FINALE:

*PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA

When you rearrange the letters:

“An Arab Backed Imposter”

Bet your friends haven’t seen this one!

 

Word Scrabble, An Off The Internet

20 Thousand Calorie Diet

You want to keep your shape (sorta) on a 20 thousand calorie diet?

That would be 20 thousand calories per day, by the way.

You turn over truck tires!

Really big truck tires.

Here, strongman Robert Oberst of Hartford, California shows how it’s done.

Oberst is 6-8 and weighs 300 pounds.

He eats a carton-plus of eggs a day and two steaks for lunch.

Oberst cleans out the meat department with each trip to the supermarket.

Remember, though, a 20 thousand calorie diet means $400 a week in grocery bills.

Check out the video below.

 

 

20 Thousand Calorie Diet

20 Thousand Calorie Diet

 

William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 10-24-14

William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 10-24-14

Until 1849, silk and beaver hats were the style in America. Then a Hungarian patriot named Kossuth arrived wearing a felt hat. The soft hat caught on and remains in style even today.

 

Kossuth arrived wearing a felt hat

Roger Simon Skewers Obama Ebola Incompetence

Author and Academy Award nominated screenwriter Roger Simon has a great column at PJmedia.com skewering the Obama administration’s handling of  Ebola and other ongoing crises  in way that makes you want to cry — or hide under the covers.

He notes that after millions knew of the hatchet attack by a “quasi-Islamo-lunatic” on a New York City cop, yesterday, Oct. 23, an administration representative queried about it was unaware it happened.

Regarding the matter of  Dr. Craig Spencer,  Simon writes was that part of the latest CDC protocol or the pilot for a television series — “Bowling for Ebola”?  In this new reality show/game you have to guess which ball doesn’t have infected fluids from the previous contestant inside its little holes.   The winner gets to go on but the loser, well… you know…

Spencer 33, returned to New York on Oct. 17  from the West African nation of Guinea where he had treated Ebola patients.  He spent the next six days riding subways, bowling, using the Uber taxi service, and spending time with his girlfriend before reporting a fever on Oct. 23 and being admitted to Bellevue Hospital Center for diagnosis and treatment.

So what did Obama do on Oct. 23? He hung out at Sen. Jay Rockefeller’s (D-W Va) mansion where he was the guest of honor at a $32,400 a plate fundraiser for the Democrat (Little Guy LOL) Party.

The mansion, by the way, is an $18 million palace in Washington D.C., a long way from coal fields and mountain music of the people, Rockefeller — who is retiring this term — allegedly represents.

When our little ride ends Obama supporters are going to look at their votes for the man about the same way the Germans who voted for Hitler did in June 1945.

Anyway, kudos to Roger Simon.

 

Roger Simon Skewers Obama Ebola Incompetence

Roger Simon Skewers Obama Ebola Incompetence

Keystone Exam Forum Is Online

Joanne Yurchak has informed us that a recording of Keystone Exam forum held Oct. 7 in Radnor is now online.

“If you didn’t attend it, it is definitely worth viewing, but it IS long,” Joanne says.  “The League of Women Voters did an outstanding job in organizing it.  Kudos to them!”

Here it is:

 

Keystone Exam Forum Is Online

Keystone Exam Forum Is Online

 

William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 10-23-14

William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 10-23-14

 

Alaska is the westernmost — and easternmost state. Its Aluetian Island chain extends past the Antimeridian i.e the 180th Meridian which is considered to be the dividing line between the east and west hemispheres.

Purdon Ebola Hoax Spreads Facebook Panic

If it’s on the internet it must be true, is the punchline to a joke that is taken to heart much too rarely.

This story about an Ebola-caused quarantine of Purdon, Texas  got 340,000 Facebook shares, reports TheVerge.com.

It is entirely made up.

NationalReport.net, the perpetrator of the hoax, calls itself a satirical site — when caught anyway. There is nothing to indicate it as such on the pages it publishes.

And there is nothing funny about its content i.e. Those who had immediate contact with the infected parties, including several children who shared classes at a local elementary school, have all reportedly been transported to the Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital, where they are being closely monitored for signs of illness.

Ho ho ho.

It’s no different than the town jackass phoning in a false fire report to get himself some attention.

It is no different than a Delaware State professor blaming Ebola on the CIA.

NationalReport deserves attention and publicity. The entire world should know that it is the town jackass of the internet. Those affiliated with it should know that it is best to leave off of their resumes any connection to it when seeking new employment.

Hat tip Digg.com.

 

 

Purdon Ebola Hoax Spreads Facebook Panic

 

Purdon Ebola Hoax Spreads Facebook Panic

 

Purdon Ebola Hoax Spreads Facebook Panic

Gaming Nation Is America

eMarketer.com estimates that 101.1 million US consumers of all ages will play games via web browser on a desktop or laptop at least once per month this year
This represents 31.7 percent of the population and 40.2 percent of internet users.
Gaming Nation Is America
Gaming Nation Is America

Ebola Discovery Displayed In ’76 Film

Tom Coniglia has submitted this fascinating link containing contemporary footage of the discovery of Ebola by Belgian microbiologist  Peter Piot in 1976.

Thank you, Tom.

Ebola Discovery Displayed In ’76 Film