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Holy Myrrh-Bearers Eastern Catholic Church, 900 Fairview Road, Swarthmore, PA, 19081 is having its first kielbasi sale. Fully cooked, ready-to-eat rings will be available 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., today, Sept. 19 at the church. Pre-ordering is not necessary.
The church was consecrated April 18 and held its first Mass the next day.
This email came from State Sen. Scott Wagner. At his request we are promoting the article below concerning the Republican stopgap budget:
Yesterday I had the opportunity to sit down with ABC27’s Dennis Owens to share my position on Governor Wolf’s refusal to support a stopgap budget that would continue to fund various agencies throughout the state that many people depend on.
Our tax dollars continue to be collected and those dollars are just sitting in the State bank account in Harrisburg.
In the private sector business world, cash flow is the oxygen that every business needs, and the state of Pennsylvania is enjoying our tax dollars flowing into the state bank account – Harrisburg is getting a continuous flow of oxygen.
There is plenty of money that could be released to these agencies that are in need but Governor Wolf is refusing to help them.
Below is the full article.
Please forward this to your friends.
Thank you,
Scott Wagner
HARRISBURG, Pa. (WHTM) – Mount Wagner has been quiet for several weeks.
On Thursday, it erupted as brash and outspoken Senator Scott Wagner (R-York) ripped Governor Tom Wolf (D) over the 79-day budget impasse.
Wagner supports the stopgap budget that the GOP Senate is in the process of passing. It would free up money for schools and social service agencies while the broader negotiations continue.
To make his point, Wagner showed a pay stub from one of his employees and highlighted the line where state taxes were deducted. He also showed the receipt from a truck purchase, this time highlighting the line where state sales taxes were collected.
“That money is going into the bank account of the state of Pennsylvania and its sitting there,” Wagner said. “There is plenty of money sitting in a bank account right now that we could release to the agencies that need money.”
The collection of tax dollars continues, Wagner reasons, so why shouldn’t the state’s disbursement of tax dollars?
On Wednesday, the normally even-tempered Governor Wolf blasted the Republican stopgap tactic, calling it a gimmick.
“I’m against the stopgap,” Wolf said in perhaps his most emotional tone since becoming governor. “They’re poking me in the eye again. They want to see how hard they can push me. They can’t.”
But that won’t stop Wagner from trying. He has adorned his Capitol office with several anti-Wolf poster-sized signs that are critical of the governor’s leadership.
“I want the message to be loud and clear to the people out there who depend on the money from the state, those agencies. You need to get Governor Wolf’s cell phone number and his address and start picking on him. Stop picking on me. Stop picking on my fellow senators. Governor Wolf deserves all the blame for this, what’s going on, pure and simple. Don’t blame me.”
Wolf and Democrats call the Republican stopgap a gimmick that gives some money, but not nearly enough money to schools and social services
“This is the most cynical response I have yet to see in politics,” Wolf said. “This is ridiculous. This is what the people of Pennsylvania hate about Pennsylvania politics.”
But York County apparently can’t get enough of Wagner, the self-funded outsider unafraid to speak his mind. He could be Pennsylvania’s version of GOP presidential front-runner Donald Trump, though Wagner quickly notes the differences.
“He (Trump) talks a lot about himself. I don’t think he has really any class,” Wagner said.
“Donald’s obviously stirring things up, but I think I have better hair.”
(To View on ABC’S website: http://abc27.com/2015/09/17/yorks-wagner-blasts-yorks-wolf-over-budget-impasse/)
William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 9-18-15
Who were Jonas Grumby and Roy Hinkley? They were the Skipper and The Professor on Gilligan’s Island. Those were their official names.
By Leo Knepper
The school year is less than a month old, but there are already two districts where teachers are on strike. There also are at least two more districts were teachers have indicated they’d walk out by mid-October. Teachers from Shamokin and Line Mountain Areas are out of the classroom. In both cases, the teachers’ unions are demanding more.
The PSEA negotiator at both school districts is Mark McDade, who makes over $100,000 per year. The situation was neatly summed up in a letter from the Line Mountain School Board:
“It is apparent, by the Association’s last proposal, that the Association has no desire to settle these negotiations . . . Based on McDade’s leadership of 5 other local Teachers’ Unions toward strikes, regardless of how much they are being offered, it is obvious they just want more!”
In Shamokin Area, the School Board offered teachers $9,000 in salary increases over the next three three school years. The Line Mountain School Board was even more generous. Some teachers there would have seen their salaries increase by over $17,000 by 2020. Higher salaries also mean higher pensions. A multi-billion dollar funding shortfall in the pension system means taxpayers all over the state will be picking up those costs.
Pennsylvania is one of only 13 states where teachers may hold students’ education hostage to extract a higher salary and better benefits than the taxpayers who are covering the tab. We also lead the nation in teachers’ strikes. It would appear we are on track to keep that title.
Mr. Knepper is executive director of Citizens Alliance of Pennsylvania.
William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 9-17-15
The board game Senet comes from ancient Egypt.
A woman brought a very limp duck into a veterinary surgeon. As she laid her pet on the table, the vet pulled out his stethoscope and listened to the bird’s chest.
After a moment or two, the vet shook his head and sadly said, “I’m sorry, your duck, Cuddles, has passed away.”
The distressed woman wailed, “Are you sure?”
“Yes, I am sure. Your duck is dead,” replied the vet..
“How can you be so sure?” she protested. “I mean you haven’t done any testing on him or anything. He might just be in a coma or something.”
The vet rolled his eyes, turned around and left the room. He returned a few minutes later with a black Labrador Retriever. As the duck’s owner looked on in amazement, the dog stood on his hind legs, put his front paws on the examination table and sniffed the duck from top to bottom. He then looked up at the vet with sad eyes and shook his head.
The vet patted the dog on the head and took it out of the room. A few minutes later he returned with a cat. The cat jumped on the table and also delicately sniffed the bird from head to foot. The cat sat back on its haunches, shook its head, meowed softly and strolled out of the room.
The vet looked at the woman and said, “I’m sorry, but as I said, this is most definitely, 100% certifiably, a dead duck.”
The vet turned to his computer terminal, hit a few keys and produced a bill, which he handed to the woman.
The duck’s owner, still in shock, took the bill. “$150!” she cried, “$150 just to tell me my duck is dead!”
The vet shrugged, “I’m sorry. If you had just taken my word for it, the bill would have been $20, but with the Lab Report and the Cat Scan, it’s now $150.
State Rep. Bill Adolph (R-165), Sept. 16, told the Springfield Republican Party that Gov. Tom Wolf has not budged on the state budget since March and he won’t either.
The Pennsylvania Legislature passed a $30.179 billion budget on June 30 which was a 3.6 increase over the previous year. Wolf vetoed it as it did not include the income and sales taxes that he was demanding.
Adolph said the leadership of the GOP-controlled legislature recently offered to increase education spending by $400 million — the increase in the passed budget was $100 million — if the Gov. Wolf agreed to pension reform and the privatization of our state-owned liquor stores.
Wolf turned it down flat.
Adolph said that this was the first budget in his memory that a governor rejected in toto. Gov. Rendell merely crossed out the items with which he disagreed while signing what he wanted.
Adolph said that while 93 of the 500 school districts in Pennsylvania would receive total property taxes eliminated, Springfield and Morton residents will find themselves with a cost increase of $60 million.
William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 9-16 -15
Lloyds of London would not insure Evel Knievel.
A bronze statue of Philadelphia-native Sgt. Wild Bill Guanrere, whose heroism was depicted in the Band of Brothers, will be unveiled Saturday, Sept. 19, at the Delaware County Veterans Memorial in Newtown Square, Pa. 19073.
The ceremony will run from noon to 2:30 p.m. according to spokeswoman Barbara Ann Zippi. The memorial is at 4599 West Chester Pike which is a few blocks east of Providence Road. The public is invited.
Guanrere, who died at the age of 90 in March 2014, was awarded the Silver Star, the Bronze Star with an Oak Leaf Cluster and a Purple Heart with an Oak Leaf Cluster while serving with the Easy Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, of the 101st Airborne Division.
William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 9-15-15
Apollo 16 was the next to last moon landing. Little, however, has been spoken of the crisis it faced and the horrific conditions which the crew had to endure. Astronauts John W. Young, Thomas K. Mattingly II and Charles M. Duke, Jr. were given potassium fortified citrus fruit drinks to avoid irregular heartbeats due to potassium deficiency. Unfortunately, this had an unconsidered side effect and there was no air flow to dissipate the aroma.
This was what was overheard by ground control: I have the farts again. I got ‘em again, Charlie. I mean, I haven’t eaten this much citrus fruit in twenty years! And I tell you one thing. In another twelve gosh darn* days, I ain’t never eating any more.