Month: March 2020

Americans spend William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 3-5-20

Americans spend about $7,900 a year on groceries.

Americans spend William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 3-5-20
Americans spend William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 3-5-20

Brawndo Brian Williams Heralds Idiocracy With Report On Bloomberg Spending

Brawndo Brian Williams Heralds Idiocracy With Report On Bloomberg Spending –Highly paid MSNBC news professional Brian Williams discussed Michael Bloomberg’s failed presidential bid with highly paid New York Times news professional Mara Gay.

Brawndo Brian Williams Heralds Idiocracy With Report On Bloomberg Spending
The idiocracy has arrived.

It may have been the scariest thing ever to appear on the internet.

“Somebody tweeted recently, that with the money he spent he could have given every American a million dollars,” Ms. Gay opined.

“I got it, let’s put it on the screen,” said Williams. “When I read it, tonight, on social media, it all became clear. Bloomberg spent $500 million on ads. The US population is 327 million — don’t tell us if you are ahead of us on the math — he could have given each American $1 million and have had lunch money left over. It’s an incredible way of putting it.”

A more incredible way of putting it is that some still trust NBC and the New York Times as sources of information.

What Bloomie spent equals about $1.53 per American. It’s about enough for a can of Brawndo for each of us. We would have been charitable and given ours to our Democrat friends who still read the New York Times or watch an NBC product. It’s what plants crave.

Brawndo Brian Williams Heralds Idiocracy With Reporting On Bloomberg Spending

Enrollment Plummets At Pennsylvania State Universities

Enrollment Plummets At Pennsylvania State Universities

By Lowman S. Henry 

Governor Tom Wolf’s address to a joint session of the General Assembly in early February marked the official beginning of the annual state budget process. Higher education, specifically the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education (PASSHE), became a dominant issue.

Enrollment Plummets At Pennsylvania State Universities

Unfettered by economic reality, the costs of higher education have skyrocketed. The result is massive student debt and never-ending calls for more taxpayer dollars to subsidize our education institutions. This despite declining enrollment and an economy more in need of individuals trained for technical jobs or skilled in the trades.

Adding fuel to the fire, the governor proposed diverting more than $200 million from subsidies to the state’s horse racing industry to pay for scholarships or to help reduce the debt burden for students attending state-run colleges. Most of the money to pay for the scholarship program would be diverted from the Horse Racing Development Fund.

Revenue to supply that fund is generated by taxes from the slot machines that now dot the commonwealth’s landscape. That is ironic because casino gambling in the state began as a plan to place slots at race tracks in an effort to save the then floundering horse racing industry. What gaming has become is a subject for another day, but taking away that revenue stream resulted in predictable howls of protest from those in the equine community.

Governor Wolf’s solution to every problem is to spend more taxpayer money. He is especially fond of throwing more dollars at education, without ever demanding those dollars be spent prudently and with no means of measuring quality. Likewise, as predictable as Punxsutawney Phil emerging from his burrow, the reigning chancellor of PASSHE every February petitions the legislature for more money.

In so doing they have turned a blind eye to market forces. This is because most in the higher education community don’t view education as a product. While there is merit to valuing education for the sake of adding to the societal pool of knowledge or even for personal edification, the main reason for obtaining a higher education is to equip oneself to earn money – presumably at a higher level than one would have earned without a degree.

To that end, state system schools have become the retail equivalent of shopping malls – overbuilt behemoths with a rapidly declining customer base. According to the Allegheny Institute for Public Policy in Pittsburgh, enrollment at the 14-university system peaked in 2010 at 119,513 students. By the fall of 2019 enrollment had dropped by 20 percent to 95,494 students. Mansfield University saw an enrollment decline of 51 percent, while Cheney’s enrollment fell by 61 percent.

With a declining customer base, the schools have not only failed to contain costs but have actually increased both annual spending and debt. The schools’ combined financial liability has increased from $2.07 billion in 2010 to $5.46 billion in 2019. Pension liabilities are up 53 percent.

The decline in enrollment can be attributed to several factors. First, Pennsylvania’s high schools are graduating fewer students, thus the “customer base” is shrinking. Second, state-related universities such as Penn State and the nation’s private universities are doing a better job of attracting students.

And while all of the above have made adaptations to accommodate non-traditional students, adult continuing education, and on-line learning, they have failed to adequately respond to the fact the nation’s workforce has less and less need for classically educated individuals and a greater need for those with a technical education or ability to work in the building trades.

Yes, there will always be a need for those equipped with four-year college degrees and higher. But, the failure of the higher education community to contain costs and adapt to market forces has made such an education unaffordable for many potential students. This is especially true when high paying, family-sustaining jobs in manufacturing and the trades are readily available, and for significantly less cost for training.

In the age of Amazon, Governor Wolf and the higher education establishment are stuck in a brick and mortar world. They are over-built, inefficient, and fail to deliver a needed product. Cost containment, consolidation, and a realistic assessment of workforce needs are necessary steps. Simply giving them more taxpayer dollars will only make the problem worse.

Lowman Henry is chairman and CEO of the Lincoln Institute and host of the weekly Lincoln Radio Journal.

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Van Patten in Zachariah William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 3-5-20

What do Dick Van Patten of Eight is Enough fame and Jeff Bridges of White Squall fame have in common? They both played “The Dude”. Van Patten in Zachariah, a hippy musical western from 1971, and Bridges, of course, in The Big Lebowski from 1998.

Van Patten in Zachariah William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 3-5-20
Van Patten in Zachariah William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 3-5-20

Mulvaney Wants More Immigration

Mulvaney Wants More Immigration

By Joe Guzzardi  

One Capitol Hill lead pipe certainty: every year Congress will try to pass legislation to import more overseas workers, and an equally strong push to grant an amnesty for the millions of unlawfully present aliens that will include lifetime valid work permits. Annual congressional attempts to pass immigration legislation that will expand the workforce, and greatly increase the nation’s population, are as certain as rain. The strategy, so far unsuccessful, is for a prominent Republican to endorse the proposed bill. With Republicans on board, the media can then label the legislation bipartisan, a helpful tool in selling the bill to unsuspecting, under-informed readers.

Mulvaney Wants More Immigration


See the roll call of prominent Republicans who have been all-in on the worst of bad immigration bills over the last 15 years: the 2005 McCain-Kennedy bill; the 2013 Gang of Eight bill that included Marco Rubio, Jeff Flake, Lindsey Graham and John McCain; the former Senate Judiciary Chair Orrin Hatch-championed I-Squared Act that would have increased by 110,000 the H-1B visa cap, and the 2019 Fairness for High-Skilled Immigrants Actthat would eliminate the per-country numerical cap for employment-based immigrants which Utah’s Mike Lee heartily backs. The Senate is indifferent to the cruel reality that endless numbers of H-1B visa holders have displaced, and continue to displace, U.S. tech workers since the enactment of the Immigration Act of 1990.

Invariably, the Republicans joined with the most pro-immigration Democrats to support the expansive immigration bills. The Democrats were in 2005, Ted Kennedy; in 2013, Richard Durbin, Chuck Schumer, Robert Menendez and Michael Bennet, and in 2019, Kamala Harris.

This year, the most prominent and loudest cheerleader for more immigration is former South Carolina U.S. representative and current Acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney. Before a private UK audience, Mulvaney said: “We are desperate – desperate – for more people. We are running out of people to fuel the economic growth that we’ve had in our nation over the last four years. We need more immigrants.”

Today’s specific amnesty agenda calls for the Senate, in a push that current Senate Judiciary Chair Graham is spearheading, to adopt an upper chamber version of Zoe Lofgren’s (D-Calif.) agriculture amnesty, the Farm Workforce Modernization Act, a cheap labor, indentured servitude bill that would allow an estimated 1.5 million aliens access to Green Cards in exchange for their labor for a fixed period, between four to ten years.

The federal government has not given the slightest indication that it can properly manage any immigration bills, let alone a farm worker amnesty. In 1986, President Ronald Reagan’s Immigration Reform and Control Act included the Special Agricultural Workers (SAW) provision. SAW was a disaster, so bad that The New York Times wrote that it was “one of the most extensive immigration frauds ever perpetrated against the United States government.”

Mulvaney’s comment that the country is in dire need of more people is a complete lie. Ask commuters driving to work if the nation needs more people. More to the point on employment, despite the rosy reporting on jobs, data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics shows that millions of prime working-age people including minorities continue to be unemployed or under-employed. Nevertheless, every year more than 1 million legal immigrants get work permits, and about 750,000 guest workers receive employment-based visas. Then, there are the tens of thousands of workers who come unlawfully.

The unasked and therefore unanswered question in the Mulvaney mystery is whether President Trump encouraged his chief of staff to promote immigration. President Trump has made several references to his expansive immigration vision including his State of the Union bombshell that he wants the “highest [immigration] numbers ever.” For months, the president’s son-in-law Jared Kushner has been touting an immigration bill that would, among its other anti-American worker features, increase high-skilled labor or so-called “merit-based” immigration – a terrible outcome for U.S. tech workers that would flood the market with cheap labor.

If President Trump wins re-election, in his second term he’d be unencumbered by his campaign pledge to “hire American” that helped put him in the White House. Depending on whether President Trump decides to defend American workers or cave to demands from big business for low-cost labor, the next four years could signal an immigration apocalypse.


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. 

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Black cats good luck William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 3-4-20

Black cats good luck –Black cats are good luck in Britain and Japan. Must be an island thing.

Black cats good luck William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 3-4-20
Black cats good luck William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 3-4-20
How about black dogs?

Bernie Beatdown Good But None Dare Call Joe A Traitor

Bernie Beatdown Good But None Dare Call Joe A Traitor — Obama’s vice president won a yuge surprise victory in last night’s (March 3) Super Tuesday primaries and now has a solid inside track for the Democratic Party presidential nomination.

Bernie Beatdown Good But None Dare Call Joe A Traitor
None dare call it treason, what’s the reason?

We frankly think it is a good thing America’s Democrats rejected Bernie Sanders, the senator from Vermont who doesn’t even call himself a Democrat but an “independent” which is merely cover for being a Marxist.

Early voters went strongly for Sanders while those who waited until election day went overwhelmingly for Joe Biden. We suspect that when yesterday rolled around Sanders’ comments about Castro and Cuba and percolated enough to become widespread public knowledge and that’s to what the voters reacted.

So is Sleepy Joe a good fit for the presidency?

Biden supported every trade deal over the last three decades. He voted for NAFTA as senator from Delaware, backed strangely unbalanced deals with China, and was a big defender of Obama’s Trans Pacific Partnership scheme.

The trade deals weakened our nation and moved our supply chains overseas, notably to communist China. This includes medicine, which is not surprising as Big Pharma has Joe comfortably in their pocket and cheap Chinese labor means uber corporate profits for them.

Biden’s position on China is actually scary.

At a May 1, 2019 rally in Iowa City he dismissed any notion that they were a threat.

“China is going to eat our lunch? Come on, man,” he said. “They can’t even figure out how to deal with the fact that they have this great division between the China Sea and the mountains in the . . . west. They can’t figure out how they’re going to deal with the corruption that exists within the system . . . They’re not bad folks, folks, but guess what. They’re not competition for us.”

Dang Joe, you sound like the Manchurian Candidate.

Maybe you are. Your son Hunter sure inked a sweet $1.5 billion trade deal for his firm, Rosemont Seneca Partners, after he flew with you to the PRC in 2013.

You might have heard the Biden was Obama’s “point man” to the Ukraine but did you know he was also that administration’s point man to China?

Not if you get your news from MSNBC or CNN.

The Washington establishment can’t call it treason. What’s the reason? For if it prosper, none dare call it treason.

Bernie Beatdown Good But None Dare Call Joe A Traitor

Raw Baby Octopus William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 3-3-20

Sannakji is a Korean dish made of raw baby octopus. Even after limbs are cut off and covered in sesame oil they still move. Especially the suction cups. They have been known to latch to the mouth and throat of eaters asphyxiating them. Always chew before swallowing.

Raw Baby Octopus William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 3-3-20
Raw Baby Octopus William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 3-3-20

Alex Rahn Tries To Stay Relevant

Alex Rahn Tries To Stay Relevant — Val Voldemort may be in exile but his Death Eaters aren’t sleeping.

Consider this story about what they tried to do to Kevin Runey of Avon Grove.

Alex Rahn Tries To Stay Relevant

Runey threw his hat in the ring against Andy Dinniman, the Democrat who has represented the 19th District in the Pennsylvania Senate since 2006. No one else was willing but Runey is a tenacious guy who thought the seat should not go unchallenged on principle and figured he’d have a chance to win if he worked hard enough.

Runey got the Chesco GOP endorsement.

Then Dinniman announced in early February he would not seek re-election.

Val disciple Alex Rahn saw an opportunity to return to relevance and began circulating petitions for Amber Little-Turner, who failed to win the 74th District State House which covers the Coatesville area in 2018, and who lost a bid last November to become Chester County recorder of deeds.

Amber is black and a female; and Sen. Jay Corman (R-34), who is Majority Leader in the Pennsylvania Senate, thought he could go woke by tapping her. Alex got the job of doing the grunt work.

The best laid plans of mice fail. The petitions were submitted but then withdrawn at the last minute, which is rather unusual.

People are getting sick of identity politics. It is becoming well understood that those who practice it are far more interested in schemes to milk the public cow than to help the community of whatever shade of skin.

And Rob Brooks, were you helping Alex? We heard you were.

Alex Rahn Tries To Stay Relevant

Maurice Barrymore William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 3-2-20

Noted thespian Maurice Barrymore who was the father of noted thespians John, Lionel and Ethel Barrymore and the great-grandfather of noted thespian Drew Barrymore was shot by Wild West gunfighter Jim Currie in Marshall, Texas and almost died.

Maurice Barrymore William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 3-2-20
Maurice Barrymore William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 3-2-20