Day: December 4, 2015

Loves Humanity Hates Humans

Loves humanity hates humans is the punchline to an old joke about a fill-in-the-blank liberal i.e. progressive. Loves Humanity Hates Humans

It concerns how those with that particular set of politics shriek for justice for the fashionably oppressed group of the moment but when it comes time to help a needy individual they are either not around or exhibit an unexpected cruelty.

Dr. Marsha Levine shows that tale is less of a joke and more an anthropological observation.

Dr. Levin is a retired Cambridge academic who lives in England and is considered an expert on horses. Shachar Rabinovich is a 13-year-old Israeli who had a question about horses so she e-mailed her.

Dr. Levin, who is Jewish but of the self-loathing kind,  told her she would only answer her questions about horses “when there is peace and justice for Palestinians in Palestine . . .You might be a child, but if you are old enough to write to me, you are old enough to learn about Israeli history and how it has impacted on the lives of Palestinian people,”

Well, that’s sure telling her Dr. Levin. But we do kind of wonder why you haven’t left your nice comfortable retired-academic environs and move to the West Bank or Gaza to assist this “oppressed” peaceful (LOL) people.

If it’s a language thing maybe you can just move to San Bernardino.

Hat tip Bob Small.

Loves Humanity Hates Humans

 

William Lawrence Sr Bonus Omnibit 12-4-15

William Lawrence Sr Bonus Omnibit 12-4-15

Ever hear of Franz Mesmer? He was the Austrian physician who in the 1700s became a pioneer in the practice of hypnotism. H “mesmerized” a number of his patients, which was frowned upon by his medical colleagues who considered him a fraud. He probably was.

Wolf Spends Sans Budget

Wolf Spends Sans Budget
While schools beg for funds, Wolf’s favorites continue to roll in the dough.

Wolf spends. A study by Pennsylvania legislators released yesterday, Dec. 3, has revealed that Gov. Tom Wolf’s administration spent $30.4 billion in state and federal money from July 1 through Oct. 31, despite the last budget authorization ending on June 30.

About $2.7 billion came from waivers, which is unspent money from prior budgets that a governor can request to use by notifying the House and Senate appropriations committees and then obtaining the funds from the Department of Treasury.

More than 77 percent of the administration requests did not disclose the actual dollar amount sought and is characterized as the “governor’s private surplus funds.”

Money that was disclosed included:

• $1,275 paid by the Department of Health to a catering company;

• $600,000 for subscriptions to publications for state agencies;

• $500,000 in membership dues for Wolf administration employees;

“During a budget impasse, spending should be kept to a bare minimum,” said State Rep. Russ Diamond (R-102).  “We’ve done so in the legislature, out of respect to the people of this Commonwealth.”

Diamond noted that domestic violence shelters, rape crisis centers, other social service agencies, and schools were grasping at straws to make cutbacks, obtain expensive loans, and even contemplating closing their doors..

The Pennsylvania Legislature passed a $30.179 billion budget on June 30 which was vetoed by Wolf. The budget  was a 3.6 increase over the previous year.

Wolf also has vetoed a stopgap budget that would have funded these schools and service agencies until other matters get resolved.

Wolf is insisting on a massive tax increase and is unwilling to compromise on issues which would slow the massive growth in the the state’s public spending such as pension reform and ending the prevailing wage mandate.

He is a selfish and short-sighted man.

Wolf Spends Sans Budget