Month: November 2014

William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 11-7-14

William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 11-7-14

 

Nicholas Tavelic, Deodat of Rodez, Peter of Narbonne and Stephen of Cuneo decided to take a direct approach to converting Muslims. On Nov. 11, 1391, they went to the huge Mosque of Omar in Jerusalem and asked to see the Qadi. Reading from a prepared statement, they said that all people must accept the gospel of Jesus. When they were ordered to retract their statement, they refused. After beatings and imprisonment, they were beheaded before a large crowd.

 

Hat tip Tom Coniglia

Nicholas Tavelic

Fox News Success Secret

Fox News Success Secret

Maybe Fox News success secret is that happy people make other people happy. Considering the election results most people were happy Tuesday.

Fox News Success Secret

Sunoco Mariner East 2 Pipeline Helps Delco

Sunoco Logistics, announced Sept. 6 that it will build a new, larger pipeline to carry natural gas liquids from Marcellus and Utica shales to the company’s Marcus Hook industrial complex where it will be refined.

Meanwhile, the existing Mariner East 1 line will be expanded from Delmont, Pa. to Houston, Pa.

The new line will have a capacity of 275,000 barrels per day and will run from Ohio, through the West Virginia panhandle to Houston where it will then parallel Mariner East 1 to Marcus Hook.

Mariner East 1 has a capacity of 70,000 barrels per day.

Sunoco Mariner East 2 Pipeline Helps Delco

Sunoco Mariner East 2 Pipeline Helps Delco

Best Scotch Is Japanese

Best Scotch Is Japanese

Whisky expert Jim Murray has declared the Yamazaki Single Malt Sherry Cask 2013  to be the world’s best single malt Scotch in his 2015 World Whisky Bible.

It’s the first time in the book’s 12-year history that a Scottish-made Scotch didn’t make the top five.

Murray personally tasted 1,000 whiskies in compiling his data.

No information is available as to how many times Murray annoyed neighbors with bad renditions of I’m Gonna Be a.k.a. I Would Walk 500 Miles.

 

 

Best Scotch Is Japanese

GOP Senate President Scarnati Union Owned

GOP Senate President Scarnati Union Owned

Joseph B. “Joe” Scarnati, the president pro tempore of the Pennsylvania Senate, appears to be pretty much in the pocket of those who make the lives of the state’s citizens more difficult.

Scarnati, it should be noted, represents the 25th District which is  top of the state’s fabled “T” and arguably the most rural and conservative part of the Pennsylvania.

He likes to portray himself as a friend of conservatives.

Well here are his real friends:

CARPENTERS PAC OF PHILA & VICINITY gave $50,000 and CARPENTERS LEGISLATIVE PROGRAM OF GREATER PENNSYLVANIA threw in another $25,000 for this election.

COMMITTEE FOR A BETTER TOMORROW, which is what the Philadelphia trial lawyers political action committee calls itself, gave $50,000. Why are the Philadelphia trial lawyers so interested in the goings on in Elk County? They are not of course but it is nice to have an in the rest of us can’t with the number two guy in the State Senate.

LOCAL 66 PAC CLUB (IUOE) of Pittsburgh contributed $25,000.

INTERNATIONAL BROTHERHOOD OF ELECTRICAL WORKERS PAC of Pittsburgh gave $25,000.

PSEA PACE which represents the teachers union and opposes all commonsense educational reform — really, why is it so hard to fire a bad teacher — gave Scarnati $20,000 for this election.

AFSCME Council 13 PAC, which represents government workers, gave $5,000

1776 PAC (UFCW)  which represents the state stores and the Pennsylvania SEIU, which also represents government workers, were pikers just giving $1,000 apiece. Of course, that is still more than you or I can likely afford to have the ear of a powerful political figure.

One can do one’s own campaign finance search here. It’s not the most intuitive site but it works.

GOP Senate President Scarnati Union Owned

Helicopter War Commemoration

Carris Kocher informs us that The Vietnam War: A 50th Year Commemoration of “The Helicopter War” will take place Nov. 12 at West Chester University and American Helicopter Museum and Education Center in West Chester.

The event is to honor “Vietnam War veterans and their families, underlying the unique contributions to the war effort made by helicopters, and highlighting the Delaware Valley’s ongoing contributions to rotary craft aviation” according to the event organizers. It will   feature “a series of prominent speakers, both scholars and practitioners, who will situate the use of rotary wing craft within the American Way of War.”

The agenda is:

An Exhibit of Vietnam era artifacts curated by West Chester University Special Collections Director
10 a.m. – Opening Ceremony
11 a.m. – Rotary Wing Pioneers, Design and Engineering
1 p.m. – Opening Keynote Address Professor John Bonin, US Army War College
2 p.m. – Helicopters in Vietnam
3 p.m. – Post-Vietnam:  Legacy of the “Helicopter War”
4 p.m. – Veterans’ Round Table discussion
6 p.m. – Evening Reception at AHM&EC

The museum is at 1220 American Blvd., West Chester, Pa., 19380.

For prices and other information, contact info@americanhelicopter.museum or rkodosky@wcupa.edu

Helicopter War Commemoration

Helicopter War Commemoration

William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 11-6-14

William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 11-6-14

 

Happy day-late 79th birthday to the game of Monopoly. On Nov. 5, 1935, Parker Brothers brought it into  the world

Airline Obligations Concerning Bad Flights

Airlines are required to compensate customers when they’re bumped from an oversold flight, generally, giving 200 percent of one-way fare up to $650 for those who are two hours and 400 percent up to $1,300 for those four hours late.

Most customers don’t know this hence fail to get what they are owed according to OutsideOnline.com

What the airlines offer generally fall far short of what they are required to give.

For what it’s worth, airlines are not obligated to make up for other bad flight experiences such as weather delays.

Airline Obligations Concerning Bad Flights

Airline Obligations Concerning Bad Flights

Operation Homefront Freedom Walk Is Saturday

Operation Homefront, the national non-profit that provides emergency financial and other assistance to the families of service members and wounded warriors will have its annual Freedom Walk for 2014 in Pennsylvania, starting 9 a.m., Nov. 8 at Deep Meadow Park, 1020 Horsham Road, Horsham.

Day-of registration opens at 7:30 a.m., with opening ceremonies at 8:30 a.m.

“We are honored to continue the tradition of the Freedom Walk here in Pennsylvania,” said PA/DE/NJ Executive Director Peter Stinson. “This is a great way to reflect on the lives lost in the attacks on 9/11 and to remember the sacrifices that our military has made to keep us free.”

Opening ceremonies will include local State Representative Tom Murt. State Rep. Murt, who is a retired Staff Sergeant in the Army, will conclude the ceremony with a few words of reflection before kicking off the run.

For those avid runners, there will be a professional timing service on hand to record runners’ times for the 5k component with awards given out to those who place in the top 3 of each age group with the fastest times. For those who chose to walk, there will path that will take walkers on a 1 mile long stroll through beautiful Deep Meadow Park.

Runners and walkers are encouraged to register for the event ahead of time. Registration can be done online at https://www.pretzelcitysports.com/onlineform1.php?id=270. Only those who register early will be guaranteed a t-shirt in their size.

 

Operation Homefront Freedom Walk Is Saturday

Operation Homefront Freedom Walk Is Saturday

Wolf, Saylor Same Donors

The victory last night means the fight has just started. It’s not the beginning of the end, as Churchill said, but the end of the beginning.

Stan Saylor, the Pennsylvania House Republican Whip, who represents the 94th District, has much in common with Democrat Gov-Elect Tom Wolf,  namely the same big donors.

Louis J. Appell Jr., chairman of Susquehanna Real Estate LP, gave Citizens for Stan Saylor $126,000 between Sept. 24 and Nov. 3 with $100,000 coming on Oct. 3.

M. Thomas Grumbacher, chairman of The Bon-Ton Stores, gave $225,000 to Citizens for Stan Saylor with $200,000, interestingly, coming on Oct. 3 and the rest on Nov. 3.

Grumbacher has given Wolf $1,450,100 while Appell has given our governor-to-be $475,000.

Saylor is campaigning to be Majority Leader of the House Republicans which has a commanding majority of 119 to 84.

Guys like Grumbacher and Appell are not you and don’t have your interest at heart. Guys like Wolf and Saylor are far more likely to listen to them than you.

Hat tip Bob Guzzardi

Wolf, Saylor Same Donors

Wolf, Saylor Same Donors