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Chef Bill Sr.’ s Easter dinner included ham, kielbasa, bread (by Chef Chris) and delicious hrutka, which some think is an acquired taste. 
Dessert included homemade candy, nut and poppy seed bread, and lemon squares by Mrs. Chef Bill, Anthony and Miranda.
The wine was a homemade Cabernet Sauvingon.
Christos voskrese, which means Christ has Risen, is the Easter greeting in Church Slavonic which brings the response Voistinu voskrese or Indeed, He has risen. 
Easter, of course, celebrates the Resurrection of the Lord Jesus and the salvation of Man. The date for Easter is the Sunday following the first full moon after the spring equinox, which is always reckoned, regardless of astronomical observations, to be March 21 as per the Western churches that use the Gregorian calendar, so Easter always falls between March 22 and April 25.
The dating for Easter correlates with the means the Jews once used to set the date for Passover, which correlates with Scripture since Scripture indicates that the Crucifixion of the Lord occurred as the lambs were being slaughtered for the celebration of that holiday. In fact, in most Western languages the name for the day is a cognate of the Pesach which is the Hebrew name for Passover. In Latin it would be Pascha so Paschal lamb would be Passover lamb.
In English and German, the word comes from Eostre month, which was basically April, and which the pagans who spoke Germanic languages had named for the goddess Eostre much as our own March and April are named for the Greek god and goddess Mars and Aphrodite, respectively. In Slavic, the holiday is called “Great Night” (Velikonoce in Slovak) or “Great Day” (Velikden in Ukrainian). There are some caveats regarding the date. The Eastern churches that use the Julian calendar set the equinox at April 3, and, of course, the spring equinox is based on that of the Northern Hemisphere.
So, Christos Voskrese 2015.
William Lawrence Sr. Omnibit 4-4-15
Tsutomu Yamaguchi was visiting Hiroshima on business on Aug. 6, 1945 when the first atomic bomb was dropped.
He survived and went home.
His home, however, was in Nagasaki and that’s where he was three days later when the second bomb was dropped.
He survived that too.
He may have been the unluckiest man who ever lived.
Or the luckiest.
Comedian Steven Crowder went to Muslim bakeries and asked for a gay wedding cake.
Watch what happens:
Crowder also gives a very good explanation about what the issue is about as to how it is being described in the old media and other Democrat sites.
Rush Limbaugh, last week, had a fascinating observation regarding the social pressure techniques mastered by the progressives that have many of us wondering why so often nonsensical ideas become policy and law at the expense of our freedom and lifestyles. 
“There is on Twitter this thing called StopRush, and it’s people attacking me and this program much the way Indiana is being attacked today, and whatever conservative institution was attacked yesterday,” he said. ” . . .It’s 10 people. We researched it. We know who the people are. We know where they live. Virtually 85 percent of all the so-called outrage e-mails and tweets are generated by 10 people, made to look as though they are thousands and thousands and thousands. It’s all fake. It’s all phony.”
But it gets worse.
“Let’s say there’s a mom-and-pop operation that wants to advertise on our station in Illinois, Chicago, WLS, and that local sponsor’s commercial is heard, and the next thing that proprietor knows, he’s got thousands and thousands of tweets threatening him, telling him defamatory things about me, lies and things totally made up about things I’ve supposedly said on the radio,” Rush noted.. “And the guy gets scared. We found out that not only are only 10 people behind this, but in the vast, I mean vast majority of cases, 90 percent of the tweets are coming from out of state.”
The people who do these things are wannabee tyrants. They won’t be swayed by truth or reasoned debated because they accept neither truth or reason. They don’t value decency, and compassion as we do. They are bullies. When we learn to stand up to them we will be much happier, freer, richer and stronger.
State Rep. Joe Hackett announced yesterday, April 2, that he is vacating his 161st Pennsylvania House seat, April 30, to return to law enforcement.
A special election will be held on a date to be designated by House Speaker Mike Turzai (R-28) to fill the remainder of Hackett’s term which ends in January 2017.
We hereby endorse Penn Delco School Director Lisa Esler for the post. She understands the critical issues of the pension bomb, prevailing wage and the lack of paycheck protection and is passionate about solving them.
William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 4-3-15
Excruciating comes from the Latin term “cruciare,” or, to crucify. Remember the Sacrifice.
We have a tradition in which we visit three churches on Holy Thursday. The last one is Holy Cross Church in Springfield, Pa. with the visit happening well after 10 p.m. 
The last few years the upper church has been closed at the time so we went to the lower one where a Korean celebration has been taking place and when we arrive it is near the end.
And that is about the time for a choir performance that is among the most beautiful music that we have ever heard.
It is one of Delaware County’s hidden treasures.
More bad news for Admiral Joe Sestak. Joe has had to pull the videos of his recent Pennsylvania walking tour in his “military grade boots” because he used “I’m Gonna Be (500 Miles)” from the Scottish band The Proclaimers without their permission.
And this is a shame because it kind of fits him. He is, afterall, the man who is havering onto us.
Joe, did you try offering them $1.78 per hour to use the song?
We will help him out. As we are not running a political campaign i.e. seeking to spend your money as we see fit, we can show you what Joe wanted you to see.
By Sen. Scott Wagner 
Beginning on Monday, March 16 and concluding yesterday, April 2, the Senate Appropriations committee held 35 hearings at which time each state department acting secretary testified to the committee as to their specific department budget for the 2015-2016 year.
Sen. Pat Browne from Lehigh County is the Chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee.
Sen. Browne is a certified public accountant and attorney. He also was a tax manager for Coopers and Lybrand from 1990 to 1994 and a tax supervisor for Price Waterhouse from 1986 to 1990.
I would like to point out that I am impressed with Sen. Browne’s leadership on the Appropriations Committee, his level of expertise in tax matters, his knowledge of the law as it relates to the budget and his knowledge of the Pennsylvania budget.
I am also honored to be working with other senate members who have spent a great deal of time and effort getting a grasp on Governor Wolf’s breathtaking budget.
The committee hearings were very informative and went into great depth of each department.
The area that I find most troubling is the excessive cost of benefits for state employees.
In the private sector world the percentage of benefits over and above an employee’s annual compensation would rarely ever exceed 50 percent and in most private sector industries the percentage is closer to 40 percent.
The documents show the largest driver of the benefits are health care and pension costs – they are wildly out of control.
For example, the Department of Corrections benefits are in the range of 73.5 percent to 79.3 percent over the annual compensation of each employee.
The average corrections worker makes approximately $55,911 annually – add on 73.5 percent for benefits for a grand total cost per corrections employee of $97,005 annually – the benefit cost is a staggering $41,095 per employee.
Using the private sector benefit factor of 50 percent on a corrections employee’s annual compensation of $55,911 annually the benefit cost would be $27,955 per year instead of $41,095 – a reduction of $13,949 per corrections employee.
The Department of Corrections has 14,770 employees – multiply 14,770 employees times $13,949 per employee and the Department of Corrections is paying at least $206 million dollars more in benefits than the private sector using a 50 percent benefit factor.
If I used a 40 percent benefit factor instead of 50 percent the state is paying $276 million dollars more than the private sector just for the Department of Corrections.
The Department of Corrections is only one department and the silent creeping of benefit costs for PA state employees is why we are financially where we are today.
Include all departments in the state and PA is clearly paying in excess of $1 billion dollars annually more than the private sector and has been creeping up for years – this year just happens to be the year to pay up.
I will continue to send any pertinent budget information to you all as we get closer to the June 30 budget deadline.
My prediction is that we will not meet the June 30 budget deadline and it is going to be a long, hot summer in Harrisburg.
At this link are documents that detail the state departments benefit rates.
Sen. Wagner represents the 28th Pennsylvania Senate District.