Maskless Parents Cause Panicked Board To Call Police

Maskless Parents Cause Panicked Board To Call Police — A passel of protesting parents entered the Garnet Valley School Board meeting sans masks, Aug. 24, resulting in a call to police and the board members panically prancing from the room.

The Pennsylvania school district in suburban Philly passed a policy, Aug. 16, requiring all entering district buildings to wear masks.

The parents were pointing out that the policy wasn’t science-based. They were prepared to present evidence showing such, but, as noted, the board members panicked and pattered away.

Leah Hoopes, who was one of the parents and is one of our favs, says the policy is not just stupid but is counter-productive to health and education.

She notes that The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) describes significant contamination issues concerning masks and indicates they are ineffective if used improperly as they would invariably be.

“If this is about safety is Garnet Valley replacing the masks every time they are touched?” Leah said. “No because it’s the illusion of safety.”

Leah also points outs that hearing impaired children can’t read the lips of teachers wearing masks, a problem the district is pointedly ignoring.

“Garnet Valley spent $40,000 on resurfacing tennis courts ,tennis courts that were locked up in 2020, while they simultaneously told a mother of a hearing impaired child they wouldn’t pay for clear masks for the teachers so she could read lips,” she said.

A Daily Times story describes the number of protestors as between 30 and 40. Leah says it was 50.

One of the few bright sides about the pandemic is that our public schools are revealing themselves to be nowhere near as effective, or caring, as those who run them pretend they are. The possibility of reform progresses. Money should follow students not systems whose primary purpose seems to be providing six-figure pensions for the privileged. Vouchers would automatically shift the power balance to the parents from the bureaucracy.

Maskless Parents Cause Panicked Board To Call Police
Maskless Parents Cause Panicked Board To Call Police

Judicial Elections Hugely Important In Pennsylvania

Judicial Elections Hugely Important In Pennsylvania, forwarded from Leo Knepper of Citizens Alliance of Pennsylvania

By Gina Diorio

While next year’s U.S. Senate race and, to a lesser extent, gubernatorial race are capturing much of the political media’s attention, Pennsylvania has another statewide election in just a few months. On Nov. 2, voters will elect four judges to open seats on our three statewide appellate courts. 

Before moving to Pennsylvania, I lived almost all my life in Jersey, where the governor appoints judges. So when I realized some states elect their judges, I was befuddled. Then, when I learned Pennsylvania elects judges in partisan elections, I was dumbfounded. 

You might be thinking, who cares? Why do these races matter? I’m glad you asked. 

Pennsylvania has three statewide appellate courts: Supreme Court, Superior Court, and Commonwealth Court. Superior Court and Commonwealth Court are equal in ‘rank’, so to speak, but hear different types of cases. 

The 15-member Superior Court hears appeals in criminal and most civil cases. And the court’s rulings can have a major impact on individuals, local businesses, and more. 

For example, the Superior Court has ruled on “venue shopping,” the practice of allowing trial lawyers to cherry pick where they bring personal injury cases—regardless of where the alleged injury occurred—based on which court has a history of ordering big payouts. (Hello, Philadelphia.)

The Superior Court has also chimed in on whether workers can sue former employers for illnesses that appear long after they’ve left their jobs (another potential trial lawyers’ dream). 

The 9-member Commonwealth Court, meanwhile, hears cases relating to state and local government.

Last year, when businesses challenged Gov. Wolf COVID orders, some of these cases went to Commonwealth Court. When the League of Women Voters challenged our congressional map back in 2017, that lawsuit began in Commonwealth Court. And when my organization, Commonwealth Partners, challenged our state’s unbalanced budget, we filed the case in Commonwealth Court. 

Of course, our 7-member Supreme Court can overturn or sustain any ruling from the Superior or Commonwealth courts on appeal. However, it  can also take any case directly, regardless of its status in the lower courts. 

We saw this last year when the Supreme Court assumed jurisdiction over whether the General Assembly could terminate Wolf’s emergency disaster declaration without Wolf’s approval. As you’ll recall, the court ruled against the General Assembly—paving the way for the recently passed constitutional amendments reining in a governor’s emergency powers.

The Supreme Court assumed jurisdiction over whether the General Assembly could terminate Wolf’s emergency disaster declaration without Wolf’s approval.

Given that each judge in all three appellate courts is elected, the stakes and costs of judicial elections can quickly mount. 

In 2015, Pennsylvania set a record for the most expensive state judicial races in history to date, at more than $15 million. 

Spending was so high because three seats on our Supreme Court were up for election, and Democrats saw the chance to flip that court and have the final say over all the types of cases mentioned above—plus many more. 

Democrats succeeded, and as a result we’ve seen the court toss our congressional maps, change the voting rules just before last year’s election, and uphold Gov. Wolf’s business shutdown orders, to name just a few things. (For more on harmful Supreme Court rulings since 2015, check out Commonwealth Partners President and CEO Matt Brouillette’s recent op-ed.)

This year, voters will choose one Supreme Court justice, one Superior Court judge, and two Commonwealth Court judges. (In full disclosure, Commonwealth Partners, has endorsed candidates in each race.)

All these seats are currently held by Republicans. Democrats hope to expand their 5-2 majority on the Supreme Court, flip the Superior Court (which currently has an 8-7 Republican majority), and make inroads into the 7-2 Republican majority on the Commonwealth Court. 

Of course, seeking partisan gains for partisan ends is a barrier to an objective judiciary. Instead, we should seek judges who uphold the rule of law. 

So as November approaches, Pennsylvanians would do well to recognize that, despite their lack of excitement, judicial elections are critically important—and vote accordingly.

Gina Diorio is the Public Affairs Director at Commonwealth Partners Chamber of Entrepreneurs, an independent, non-partisan, 501(c)(6) membership organization dedicated to improving the economic environment and educational opportunities in Pennsylvania. www.thecommonwealthpartners.com.

Judicial Elections Hugely Important In Pennsylvania
Judicial Elections Hugely Important In Pennsylvania

Effective means of persuasion William Lawrence Sr Cryptowit 8-26-21

Effective means of persuasion William Lawrence Sr Cryptowit 8-26-21

 

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Effective means of persuasion William Lawrence Sr Cryptowit 8-26-21

Recognize Propaganda And Think Freely

Recognize Propaganda And Think Freely — Usually we don’t know but often we do regarding certainties.

The Covid crisis is an example. Consider the vaccines. Officialdom endorses them. Normally, that’s good enough to trust. The problem is there are highly credentialed dissenters. Are their concerns being respectfully considered? Not accepted, just being allowed to be considered? No. They are being dissmissed.

Dr. Robert W Malone, who is considered the inventor of mRNA vaccines, says the endorsed Covid vaxes appear to be backfiring and should be stopped. We obviously can’t say he is right but just as obviously his claim should not be rejected out of hand as Wikipedia does. This influential gatekeeper of information implies he is “promoting misinformation.”

Nobel Prize winning French virologist Luc Montagnier is also a huge critic of the vaccines. Wikipedia says he is a “promoter of the conspiracy theory” that Covid was created in a lab.

Actually, Montagnier is looking pretty good there. Wiki probably should update its “debunking” claim.

Who are you going to believe anyway: Wikipedia or the French Nobel Prize guy?

At this point, the default should be if it’s official it’s a lie.

Recognize Propaganda And Think Freely
Wikipedia claiming that the inventor of mRNA vaccines is spreading misinformation about mRNA vaccines. From Aug. 25, 2021
Recognize Propaganda And Think Freely
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Recognize Propaganda And Think Freely

Social Media Click Farms Manipulate Opinion

Social Media Click Farms Manipulate Opinion — This video showing a click farm being used to get topics trending on social media. The idea is to get average folk to think that the mainstream beliefs they hold are somehow out of step if not out-and-out evil.

Hopefully, knowing this impels you to fight back. Yes, you can wax superior to those who conclude that social media consensus makes right.

And you should.

Social Media Click Farms Manipulate Opinion
Social Media Click Farms Manipulate Opinion

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Triangles are really wrecktangles William Lawrence Sr Cryptowit 8-25-21

 

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Triangles are really wrecktangles William Lawrence Sr Cryptowit 8-25-21

Amazon Prime Accepts SNAP Money

Amazon Prime Accepts SNAP Money — Amazon Prime is giving a discount to those eligible for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP).

This is the program once known as Food Stamps.

We’ve said it before SNAP is not about helping the needy but helping rich corporations get richer. Yes, taxpayers you are subsidizing Jeff Bezos’ predatory entertainment business and via SNAP literally giving money to the richest man in the world.

Amazon Prime Accepts SNAP Money
Amazon Prime Accepts SNAP Money

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A boot stamping on William Lawrence Sr Cryptowit 8-24-21

Pedophilic Antifa Cowardice Revealed In Portland

Pedophilic Antifa Cowardice Revealed In Portland — The weekend’s event in Portland showed Antifa to be the corrupt, misogynistic cowardly thugs that some of us have long understood them to be.

Here they are abusing a female journalist.

Here they are abusing a woman walking her dog.

Why aren’t the authorities in certain places stopping them. Can you say George Soros purchased law enforcement? We knew you could.

Yes Antifa is filled with pedophiles.

Again, nice shooting Kyle Rittenhouse.

For an honest history of Antifa check out front-line journalist Andy Ngo’s bestseller, Unmasked: Inside Antifa’s Radical Plan to Destroy Democracy.

Pedophilic Antifa Cowardice Revealed In Portland
The photos are from mug shots of Antifa members. LOL at the diversity. Besides being filled with pedophiles, Antifa is also racist.
Pedophilic Antifa Cowardice Revealed In Portland

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By day the Lord William Lawrence Sr Cryptowit 8-23-21

 

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By day the Lord William Lawrence Sr Cryptowit 8-23-21