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Brave soldiers William Lawrence Sr Cryptowit 11-24-19
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Answer to yesterday’s puzzle: God has given such brave soldiers to this Crown that, if they do not frighten our neighbours, at least they prevent us from being frightened by them.
Elizabeth I
The common swift may fly 10 months without landing.
Biden Says Vote Trump — In what may be the most bizarre occurrence in the upcoming presidential race Grandfather Joe Biden, the leading Democrat, just told his supporters to vote for Donald Trump.
Made to happen William Lawrence Sr Cryptowit 11-23-19
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Answer to yesterday’s puzzle: Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
John F. Kennedy
Obama Caged Children — A reader sent us this link to a New York Post story describing how the United Nations condemned the USA for its caging of children at the border. Over 100,000 were trapped in detention centers the UN raged.
It was in 2015.
Barack Obama was president.
Thank you, Matthew.
By the way, the Post story notes that most of establishment media scrubbed the 2015 stories critical of our last president.
Hope is like William Lawrence Sr Cryptowit 11-22-19
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Answer to yesterday’s puzzle: Hope is like a road in the country; there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence.
Lin Yutang
No Miranda, Europe’s highest mountain is not in the Alps but in Russia. It’s Mount Elbrus in the Caucasus Range with a height of 18,510 feet.
Gift Ban Introduced In Pa House
By Leo Knepper
In late 2014 and early 2015, five current and former members of the General Assembly were charged with bribery and other charges related to their acceptance of cash “gifts” from a lobbyist. The House and Senate changed their chambers’ rules to prohibit the acceptance of cash gifts from lobbyists, but the law hasn’t changed. One of the reasons the law wasn’t changed was because banning only cash gifts could raise questions for lawmakers about the kinds of gifts they can still accept.
What kinds of gifts can they accept? Virtually anything as long as they follow the disclosure rules. Lawmakers are required to disclose gifts of more than $250 per year from any source and transportation, lodging, and hospitality worth more than $650. Over the years, those gifts have included everything from Super Bowl tickets to Turkish rugs. As long as they follow the rules, pretty much anything is fair game.
That might finally be changing. On Nov. 18, the House State Government Committee advanced House Bill 1945. Per the co-sponsorship memo:
“The legislation will prohibit public officers, public employees and candidates for public office from accepting a gift of cash in any amount. The same individuals will be prohibited from accepting any gift that has either a fair market value or an aggregate actual cost of more than $50 from any one person in a calendar year. In addition, public officers, public employees and candidates for public office will be prohibited from accepting hospitality, transportation or lodging that has either a fair market value of an aggregate actual cost of more than $500 from any one person in a calendar year…Gifts and hospitality, transportation and lodging received that attain these thresholds will be reported on the individuals’ Statement of Financial Interests along with the circumstances surrounding the receipt of the same.”
At CAP, we generally aren’t a fan of banning things or unnecessary regulations. However, given the sheer number of public officials from Pennsylvania who end up in prison, we think that enacting these changes makes a lot of sense. There is room for improvement in HB 1945, but it is undoubtedly a step in the right direction.
We will be keeping our eye on the legislation and will keep you informed about its progress.
Mr. Knepper is executive director of Citizens Alliance of Pennsylvania.
Heart has its reasons William Lawrence Sr Cryptowit 11-21-19
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Answer to yesterday’s puzzle: The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
Blaise Pascal