Best of all gifts William Lawrence Sr Cryptowit 12-26-19

Best of all gifts William Lawrence Sr Cryptowit 12-26-19

Eua igt’z sgqk iuuqoky cnkt eua ngbkt’z muz znk juamn.
Gskxoigt Lurq Ygeotm

Answer to yesterday’s puzzle: The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree is the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other.
Burton Hillis

Best of all gifts William Lawrence Sr Cryptowit 12-26-19
Best of all gifts William Lawrence Sr Cryptowit 12-26-19

Snowiest City William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 12-25-19

You want a white Christmas? Move to Syracuse, N.Y. It’s the snowiest city in the nation with an average fall of 123.8 inches.

Maybe you’d guess that but we betcha you would guess that Flagstaff, Az. is in second place with an average fall of 101.7 inches.

Snowiest city William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 12-25-19

Snowiest city William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 12-25-19

Gates of heaven open William Lawrence Sr Cryptowit 12-25-19

Gates of heaven open William Lawrence Sr Cryptowit 12-25-19

Ymj gjxy tk fqq lnkyx fwtzsi fsd Hmwnxyrfx ywjj nx ymj uwjxjshj tk f mfuud kfrnqd fqq bwfuuji zu ns jfhm tymjw.
Gzwyts Mnqqnx

Answer to yesterday’s puzzle:
The gates of heaven open Christmas Eve
Irish Legend

Gates of heaven open William Lawrence Sr Cryptowit 12-25-19
Gates of heaven open William Lawrence Sr Cryptowit 12-25-19

Philly Burbs Dems Show They Represent The Rich

Philly Burbs Dems Show They Represent The Rich — President Trump taxed the rich big time with the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act that became law Dec. 22, 2017.

Philly Burbs Dems Show They Represent The Rich
Mary Gay Scanlon represents the rich

It limits federal deductions of state and local taxes at $10,000. This includes property taxes. Most of us think that is peachy as we don’t pay that much more, if that much, in these taxes.

The rich, though, with their wasteful mansions with big carbon footprints in exclusive communities, are feeling a lot of pain.

Especially, if they live in a high-tax state like New Jersey or California.

So the pseudo-socialist, crony capitalists who fill the Democratic Party are trying to help them. They want to return the state and local tax deduction. They neato beltway acronym they use to refer to this deduction is SALT.

On Dec. 19, the House passed H.R. 5377 which would have raised the deduction to $20,000.

The called it the Restoring Tax Fairness for States and Localities Act (LOL). OK, the LOL is what we added.

Anyway, the vote was 218 to 206.

Sixteen Democrats voted against the measure but they did not include any from the Philadelphia region. Yes, Brendan Boyle (Pa2), Dwight Evans (Pa3), Madeleine Dean (Pa4), Mary Gay Scanlon (Pa5) and Chrissy Houlahan (Pa6) voted to help the very rich.

Five Republicans voted for the measure. Yes, they included Brian Fitzpatrick (Pa1).

Brian, what good are you anyway?

A bill ending these deductions made it to the floor of the Senate, Oct. 23. It was sponsored by big-time lib Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY). It failed 52-43. Republican Rand Paul of Kentucky was the only R vote in favor — gotta love the libertarians — and Sen Michael Bennet of Colorado was the only D vote against.

Five senators did not vote including Democrats Kamala Harris of California, Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts and Bernie Sanders of Vermont who in a strange coincidence had announced presidential campaigns.

Call it official. The GOP is the party of the little guy and the Ds are the bald hypocrites who represent the country clubs.

Philly Burbs Dems Show They Represent The Rich

Henry Cole William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 12-24-19

Henry Cole William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 12-24-19

Henry Cole, a popular London museum director in the mid-19th century used to send short notes to his friends every Christmas. In 1843, he became extremely busy, so he asked John C. Horsely, an artist friend, to design a card saying “A Merry Christmas and A Happy New Year to You.” And so, Cole invented the Christmas Card.

Henry Cole invented Christmas Card

Henry Cole William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 12-24-19

Love in action William Lawrence Sr Cryptowit 12-24-19

Love in action William Lawrence Sr Cryptowit 12-24-19

Xli kexiw sj liezir stir Glvmwxqew Izi
Mvmwl Pikirh

Answer to yesterday’s puzzle: Christmas, my child, is love in action. Every time we love, every time we give, it’s Christmas.
Dale Evans Rogers

Love in action William Lawrence Sr Cryptowit 12-24-19
Love in action William Lawrence Sr Cryptowit 12-14-19

Beyond The Pale William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 12-23-19

Beyond The Pale? A palus was what the Romans called a sharpened piece of wood. They’d stick them around their camps to form a barrier against the bad guys.

Palus evolved to things like pole and pale. English troops called their protective barriers in unfriendly lands like Ireland and France and such pales.

When one went beyond the pale one went to places where order was not maintained and the unexpected was expected.

And now you know from whence comes the phrase.

Beyond The Pale

9 Million Overstay Visas

9 Million Overstay Visas

By Joe Guzzardi

9 Million Overstay Visas

The Migration Policy Institute, which describes itself as a nonpartisan think tank that seeks “to improve immigration” through its research and analysis, recently published a report stating that in FY 2018 the State Department issued 9 million temporary visas to nonimmigrants. Although the 2018 total represents a 7 percent decline from FY 2017, 9 million is still a staggering number, the rough equivalent of New Jersey’s population.
 
MPI blames the visa issuance’s decline on President Trump’s more restrictive immigration policies and his “harsh rhetoric” that conveys the impression that the U.S. has become a “less welcoming place.” Be that as it may, the huge 9 million number indicates that the U.S. is generous, not restrictive, in its approach to foreign workers and visitors. Moreover, MPI didn’t outline the benefits to American citizens of fewer temporary workers and students on visas.
 
Employment visas – which give foreign nationals the right to legally work in the U.S. – include the H-1B for skilled employees, the H-2A for seasonal agricultural workers, the H-2B and the H-2R  for seasonal nonagricultural workers, the O-1 and O-2 for workers with allegedly extraordinary ability or achievements, the P-1 for athletes and artists, the L-1 for intracompany transferrers, the E visa for investors and, finally, the TN visa for Canadian and Mexican professionals, as well as their spouses and minor children. Critics have long insisted that many of the visas are unnecessary, and hurt Americans.
 
For example, H-2B visas, limited to 66,000 annually, are granted to overseas workers who, among other positions, take landscaping, lifeguard and hospitality jobs – jobs Americans would eagerly do.
 
Temporary worker visa issuance has been on a dramatically upward trend since 2014. The number increased from 732,000 in FY 2014 to 911,000 in 2017 and to 925,000 in 2018. Basically, the presence of employment-based visa holders means that for Americans job competition is more intense, and citizens who hold jobs may find their employment status at risk from foreign, often cheaper workers.
 
For U.S. citizen students, especially those who hope to matriculate at their local state universities, the 27 percent decline from an estimated 1 million student visas in FY 2015 to 781,000 in FY 2018 means less international competition. Since overseas students pay higher tuition, college admissions offices prefer them to U.S. students who pay lower instate fees. The top international student sending nations are China, India, South Korea, Brazil and Germany which represent 39 percent of all student visas issued in FY 2018.
 
But the most troubling aspect of the huge inflow of foreign temporary visitors is that an estimated 40 percent of illegal aliens entered the U.S. legally on visas, but overstayed and thus became illegally present. Temporary eventually becomes permanent. Most overstays find white-collar jobs. In 2017, the Department of Homeland Security reported that during a recent 12-month period, nearly 740,000 foreign nationals didn’t return home in accordance with their visas’ terms. Their illegal presence is one of the major contributors to illegal immigration. Analysts have found that in each of the last seven years, visa overstays have exceeded illegal crossings.
 
The sad truth is that the federal government isn’t looking for overstays, and if it did look would have no idea where to start its search. But if Costco can immediately locate every brick of cheese in its 762 worldwide stores, then the federal government should be able to track down foreign visa overstays. A program exists that would help reach that goal – a biometric entry/exit system – but Congress has been indifferent to implementing it.
 
Fewer visas is good news for prospective U.S. college students and American workers. The fewer visas that are issued also means that the illegal alien population as well as the population in general will not continue to swell with overstayers.
 
Immigration advocates always push for more visas, so fewer is a refreshing change of pace that results in tangible advantages for many American workers and students.
 
 
Joe Guzzardi is a Progressives for Immigration Reform analyst who has written about immigration for more than 30 years. Contact him at jguzzardi@pfirdc.org

9 Million Overstay Visas

Caesar Augustus William Lawrence Sr Cryptowit 12-23-19

Caesar Augustus William Lawrence Sr Cryptowit 12-23-19

Mrbscdwkc, wi mrsvn, sc vyfo sx kmdsyx. Ofobi dswo go vyfo, ofobi dswo go qsfo, sd’c Mrbscdwkc.
Nkvo Ofkxc Byqobc

Answer to yesterday’s puzzle: In those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be enrolled. And Joseph also went up from Galilee, from the city of Nazareth, to Judea, to the city of David, which is called Bethlehem, because he was of the house and lineage of David, to be enrolled with Mary, his betrothed, who was with child.
Luke 2

William Lawrence Sr Cryptowit 12-23-19
Caesar Augustus  William Lawrence Sr Cryptowit 12-23-19

Chewing tobacco William Lawrence Sr Cryptowit 12-22-19

Chewing tobacco William Lawrence Sr Cryptowit 12-22-19

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Udtn

Answer to yesterday’s puzzle: Never slap a man while he’s chewing tobacco
Frank Underwood

Chewing tobacco William Lawrence Sr Cryptowit 12-22-19
Chewing tobacco William Lawrence Sr Cryptowit 12-22-19