More than half of the plastic in “The Great Pacific Garbage Patch” comes from fishing boats, much of it discarded nets.
Great Pacific Garbage Patch William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 2-24-20
Month: February 2020
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Oyster farming William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 2-22-20
Oyster farming was practiced by the ancient Romans as early as the 1st century B.C.
Oyster farming William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 2-22-20
Wyndmoor Going Upscale
Wyndmoor Going Upscale
By Dr. John W. Gilmore
My little town of Wyndmoor, Pa. nuzzled against Mount Airy and Chestnut Hill is changing at Traymore and Willowgrove avenues. New shops and buildings are popping up while others, old stores, small business, and gas stations that served the neighborhood well, are disappearing under the shovel and hammer of progress. The most recent change is a large condo unit replacing our gas station, our small but convenient hardware store, and a few houses and small businesses. Some of the condos cost as much as $400,000. Rumor has it they have already been sold.
On the bottom floor there are new businesses. Captain Andy’s Market where a Tanning Salon used to be; Enza wine and Pizza where a house once stood; Toni’s Pizza (the only neighborhood shop left standing) surrounded by and having to compete with it’s new Pizza selling neighbor; Lash Lounge; Pure Barre (an upscale clothing store); and across the street Skin Smart Dermatology are just a few new shops, and at the very corner of the building Locals Coffee shop.
Locals is a coffee shop with a large open space and polished concrete floors. The ceiling is painted black with a large fan and silver ducts and pipes running along it giving it a polished, industrial look. Blond wood tables–some large and long with a raw rustic look, but well polished and varnished, others small and square with padded benches provide comfortable seating. There are four leather chairs seated in front of a small fireplace embedded in the wall below a large screen TV. The music is pleasing.
There are various items placed artfully around the room that attract the eye: old wooden baskets of fruit, potato chips, various types of food. A dark metal case with sodas, orange juices, water, and various drinks for those who may want something other than coffee sits close to the counter. Pastries, sandwiches, and many variations of the main ingredient–coffee and even tea are sold.
I always thought that one could tell the quality of the town by its coffee shop or lack thereof. Now we have one we can compare. I sit in a large leather chair next to the fire place. Is it real fire? It looks as though it is a fire sealed behind glass and plastic, yet I don’t feel the heat. The atmosphere is relaxed. Soft jazz is playing. It can be crowded sometimes, but due to the openness of the space the voices seem muffled and absorbed. It is good to have a coffee shop so close to my home that I can walk.
Wyndmoor is changing. It is the closest town to Chestnut Hill and Mount Airy. Upscale houses, mansions and estates line the streets directly behind it. Real estate prices are high in Mt. Airy and Chestnut Hill. Perhaps this is the next hot spot for gentrification and housing prices will rise. I really don’t know if that is a good thing. What has the world come to when even middle class neighborhoods are unsafe from the shovel and hammer?
Wyndmoor Going Upscale
Mental hospital beds William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 2-21-20
The United States had 450,000 more mental hospital beds in the 1950s that it does today.
Mental hospital beds William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 2-21-20
Bad Bernie Bro Example Cited By Scalise
Bad Bernie Bro Example Cited By Scalise — Keith Ellison, Minnesota’s woman-beating attorney general and former deputy chair of the Democrat National Committee, took it upon himself to defend Sen. Bernie Sanders (D-Vt) supporters against accusations of thuggery with this tweet:
I have never seen @BernieSanders supporters being unusually mean or rude. Can someone send me an example of a “Bernie Bro” being bad. Also, are we holding all candidates responsible for the behavior of some of their supporters? Waiting to hear.
House Minority Whip Steve Scalise (R-La1) replied that he could think of an example.
Whatever could he have meant?
Bad Bernie Bro Cited By Scalise
WWG1WGA 17 Alla Viene la Tormenta
WWG1WGA 17 Alla Viene la Tormenta — Ervin Julian, a 100-year-old World War II Navy vet, was carried by two men to a seat of honor at the Trump rally in Phoenix, Feb. 19.
Donald Jr. retweeted the below video that clearly shows one of the men wearing a shirt with WWG1WGA printed on the back, over a large number 17.
WWG1WGA stands for “where we go one, we go all,” which comes from the 1996 Jeff Bridges movie White Squall.
It’s the motto of the Qanon movement. The 17 for anons stands for the 17th letter of the alphabet which is Q.
Guess Q is not a LARP i.e. live action role player i.e. internet attention seeker after all.
Mira Mira alla viene la tormenta.
What did he say? asks Sarah. There’s a storm coming, says the guy at the gas station.
WWG1WGA 17 Alla Viene la Tormenta
Casu marzu William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 2-20-20
Sardinians make a cheese called casu marzu by heating sheep’s milk then letting it sit for three weeks to curdle. They cut off the crust so flies can enter then leave it in a hut for a few months so the eggs can hatch into maggots which eat the rotting cheese and then excrete what they have eaten back into the cheese giving it a soft texture and rich flavor. Oh, before consuming, make sure the maggots are alive, else the cheese has gone bad. You can only get this delicacy on the black market as the European Union has banned it.
Casu marzu William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 2-20-20
Yunanistan William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 2-19-20
The Turks don’t call Greece, Greece. They call it Yunanistan. It comes from the Sanskrit yavana which comes from Ionia which was an ancient land in what is now Turkey that was ruled by Greeks.
Of course, Greece doesn’t call itself Greece either. The official name of the country is the Hellenic Republic.
Those who call Greece, Greece get the word from the Romans who called the land Graecia.
Yunanistan William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 2-19-20
Chester Murder Rate May Top World With Soros D.A.
Chester Murder Rate May Top World With Soros D.A. — Sunday’s shooting of 56-year-old Enrie Wilson, gives Chester, Pa. six murders for the year and the year is only 50 days old. If the pace stands, Chester, with a population of 34,000, will end 2020 with 44 murders.
That would be a murder rate of 131 per 100,000, which would be second in the world behind Tijuana (138 per 100,000) and by far tops in the US more than doubling that of St. Louis which had 61 per 100,000 in 2018.
Is Delaware County’s new district attorney Jack Stollsteimer going to do anything about this? Is George Soros going to let him?