Month: August 2015

Valley Forge Prayer Event

Faith and Freedom Coalition and the Valley Forge Patriots are  sponsoring a pray for America event, 10 a.m. to noon, Sept. 12 at Valley Forge Park. Valley Forge Prayer Event

“We as a nation are in trouble, and believers from all faiths need to come together and humble ourselves before God,” say event organizers. ” Please, can’t you set set hours aside for the good of America? Invite all your church friends and leaders for this most important morning.”

The event will be held in the Artillery Park section on Inner Line Drive.

The organizers note there will be plenty of parking near the area and restrooms along with picnic space. They suggest one brings a lunch and make a day of it with family and friends, and to  bring chairs.

Hat tips Jamie Cox and Bob Guzzardi

Valley Forge Prayer Event

Failing Schools Enabled By Gov. Wolf

By Leo Knepper Failing Schools Enabled By Gov. Wolf

“…I’m in this spot where I have to call the school that failed my kids and re-enroll them…I’m heartbroken over this.”

That quote comes from Amy Millar via a Philadelphia Inquirer story on the State Education Department’s recent action to “clarify” what services cyber-charter schools can offer. According to the article, two of Ms. Millar’s children have special education needs. However, her children have flourished at the Education Plus Academy Cyber Charter School (Ed Plus).

What did Ed Plus do to bring the wrath of the state education bureaucracy down on their heads? They offered their students services like art, gym, and “face-to-face” learning opportunities at their learning centers. In other words, they looked at the needs of their students and provided for them. The State Department of Education evidently frowns on the hybrid model used by Ed Plus. As a result parents like Ms. Millard will be forced to send their children back to schools that were failing to meet their needs in the first place.

Although the Governor purports to want “quality” education for all. His administration’s actions in this and other cases clearly illustrate that is not entirely accurate. The Governor’s interest is in making sure that his patrons at the teachers’ union are happy and that there is as little competition as possible in the public education sphere.

If the Wolf administration was interested in ensuring every child received a quality education, they would be applauding Ed Plus. Furthermore, they would be examining what that school is doing differently and seeing how it might be replicated in other schools. The Department of Education should be looking at how they could make it easier for others schools to provide the same education experience. Instead, they seem more interested in erecting barriers to a quality education.

Mr. Knepper is with Citizens Alliance of Pennsylvania

Failing Schools Enabled By Gov. Wolf

Sweet Smoked Pork

Sweet Smoked Pork
Sweet smoked pork before the cooking. You can the save leftover rub for months.

Chief Bill Sr recently oversaw a summer smoke-out featuring pork and chicken.

The chicken was an experiment and, while delightfully cooked, the seasoning will be discarded for this particular meat the next time it is placed in the Brinkmann.

The pork, a picnic acquired for 99 cents a pound at PriceRite in Primos,  was delicious.

The same rub was used for both. As noted magic for pork, not so much for chicken.

The rub is called Memphis Dust and Chef Bill will not take credit for it. He says it all belongs to Meathead. Here is Meathead’s Memphis Dust Rub:
3/4 cup firmly packed dark brown sugar
3/4 cup white sugar
1/2 cup paprika
1/4 cup Morton’s kosher salt
1/4 cup garlic powder
2 tablespoons ground black pepper
2 tablespoons ground ginger powder
2 tablespoons onion powder
2 teaspoons rosemary powder

Sweet Smoked Pork
Sweet Smoked Pork final product

Regarding the smoking itself, make sure you have a son who can keep the reservoir dish filled with hot water and the charcoal dish filled with charcoal. It is an all day affair.

Sweet Smoked Pork

Teacher Sues PSEA

Teacher Sues PSEALinda Misja is suing the Pennsylvania State Education Association (PSEA) one of the most powerful and cynical political organizations in the state.

Ms. Misja is a highly regarded French teacher at Bellefonte Area High School who has opted out of the school’s bargaining unit but is still required by state law to pay a “fair share” fee which is automatically deducted from her paycheck. The union is only allowed to use this money for collective bargaining and representational activities of the union. They are not allowed to use fair share fees for  non-union matters.

Ms. Misja, however, points out that the PSEA has taken stands on matters unrelated to collective bargaining and representation — especially with regard to its support for unrestricted abortion. SShe doesn’t want to contribute anything to it because of that.

State law allows for religious objectors to donate money equivalent to the fair share fee to a non-religious charity.

Ms. Misja tried that. She sought to use her fee — about $2,000 — to help fund  a charity that cares for teenage mothers in a pro-life environment. No can do, says the union. That would be “too religious.” She could only give to a group that provides the option for abortion.

So Ms. Misja offered to give the money to a non-profit group that teaches gun safety, which certainly put the PSEA on the spot. Oppose it, and it reveals to the world that they are naked hypocrites and that its agenda has nothing to do with fairness but everything to do with advancing leftism.

They opposed it. They said it was too political as the group had a connection to the National Rifle Association.

So Ms. Misja is taking them to court and we hope and pray that she wins big.

And we hope and pray that people wake up an realize how wrong automatic deductions of all workers dues are as they are invariable used to increase the wealth of leaders and support political agendas not in the workers’ best interest.

Teacher sues PSEA hat tip Matt Brouillette of Commonwealth Foundation.

Teacher Sues PSEA

 

AAADD Medical Advisory

This Off the Internet about AAADD is courtesy of Bill Sr. AAADD Medical Advisory

This will make you laugh does this remind you of your friends.

I was diagnosed with A. A. A. D. D. – Age-Activated Attention Deficit Disorder. This is how it Manifests: I decide to water my garden. As I turn on the hose in the driveway, I look over at my car and decide my car needs washing.

As I start toward the garage, I notice that there is mail on the porch table that I brought up from the mailbox earlier. I decide to go through the mail before I wash the car. I lay my car keys down on the table, put the junk mail in the garbage can under the table, and notice that the can is full. So, I decide to put the bills back on the table and take out the garbage first. B

ut then I think, since I’m going to be near the mailbox, when I take out the garbage anyway, I may as well pay the bills first. I take my checkbook off the table, and see that there is only 1 check left. My extra checks are in my desk in the study, so I go inside the house to my desk where I find the can of Coke that I had been drinking.

I’m going to look for my checks, but first I need to push the Coke aside so that I don’t accidentally knock it over. I see that the Coke is getting warm, and I decide I should put it in the refrigerator to keep it cold.

As I head toward the kitchen with the Coke, a vase of flowers on the counter catches my eye–they need to be watered. I set the Coke down on the counter, and I discover my reading glasses that I’ve been searching for all morning.

I decide I better put them back on my desk,but first I’m going to water the flowers. I set the glasses back down on the counter, fill a container with water and suddenly I spot the TV remote. Someone left it on the kitchen table.

I realize that tonight when we go to watch TV, I will be looking for the remote, but I won’t remember that it’s on the kitchen table, so I decide to put it back in the den where it belongs, but first I’ll water the flowers.

I pour some water in the flowers, but quite a bit of it spills on the floor. So, I set the remote back down on the table, get some towels and wipe up the spill. Then, I head down the hall trying to remember what I was planning to do. At the end of the day:

—-the car isn’t washed,
—-the bills aren’t paid,
—-there is a warm can of Coke sitting on the counter,
—-the flowers don’t have enough water,
—-there is still only 1 check in my check book,
—-I can’t find the remote,
—-I can’t find my glasses,
—-and I don’t remember what I did with the car keys.

Then, when I try to figure out why nothing got done today, I’m really baffled because I know I was busy all day long, and I’m really tired. Don’t laugh — If this isn’t you yet, Your day is coming!

GROWING OLDER IS MANDATORY. GROWING UP IS OPTIONAL.

LAUGHING AT YOURSELF IS THERAPEUTIC.

P.S. I just remembered.
I LEFT THE WATER RUNNING IN THE DRIVEWAY

AAADD Medical Advisory

Ted Cruz Town Hall

Ted Cruz Town Hall -- Senator and Republican presidential contender Ted Cruz will host a telephone town hall, 4 p.m., today, Aug. 25 in which he will unveil a plan to end tax subsidies for the monstrous, racist Planned Parenthood organization. The public is invited. The dial-in number is 877-229-8493 and the pin number is 114559.Senator and Republican presidential contender Ted Cruz will host a telephone town hall, 4 p.m., today, Aug. 25 in which he will unveil a plan to end tax subsidies for the monstrous, racist Planned Parenthood organization.

The public is invited. The dial-in number is 877-229-8493 and the pin number is 114559.

Hat tip Bob Guzzardi

Ted Cruz Town Hall

Pennsylvania Alligator Shot

Some might cite it as proof positive that global warming is now. Others might simply say a Luzerne County resident got tired of feeding rats to a growing pet. Pennsylvania Alligator Shot -- Some might cite it as proof positive that global warming is now. Others might simply say a Luzerne County resident got tired of feeding rats to a growing pet.

Anyway, a 3-foot long alligator was shot and killed by a Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission officer after two fisherman found it in Harris Pond in Sweet Valley.

As we know Luzerne County, our bet is that a resident got tired of feeding rats to a growing pet.

Pennsylvania Alligator Shot