Honor Flight Letter Campaign — Honor Flight Philadelphia is asking that letters and notes of thanks and encouragement be written and sent to Honor Flight which will then pass them on to veterans.
“Your words can offer comfort, encouragement, and motivation to those who have bravely served our country,” says Honor Flight.
Letters must be received by Aug. 25.
Address them to:
Honor Flight Philadelphia
15 Delancy Ct
Phoenixville PA 19460.
Please share this notice with friends and family.
Also Trattoria San Nicolahas a letter-writing station located inside their restaurant at 4 Manor Road, Paoli, Pa 19301. Feel free to stop in to write a Thank You letter to our veterans to be distributed on their upcoming Day of Honor.
School Porn In Oxford — A Chesco committeewoman tells us that angry parents are expected at the Oxford Area School Board’s Aug. 8 work session to protest their children being exposed to graphic depictions of sex in the district’s libraries and curriculum.
It starts 7 p.m. at the Administration Building, 125 Bell Tower Lane, Oxford, PA 19363.
Tabas Zoom Didn’t Satisfy Activists; Suspicions Remain — Josh Prince told Chesco United, last night, July 28, that Lawrence Tabas’ Zoom with county party bosses two days earlier was ineffective and impotent. It gave no resolution to the disunity bubbling among Pennsylvania Republicans.
Prince is a Berks County attorney who was a Commonwealth Court primary candidate. He had written a series of blog posts describing how GOP establishmentarian leaders have been purging Trump supporters and others who put the middle class ahead of corporatism.
Prince said Tabas, the state GOP chairman, declared that he shouldn’t have to deal with county issues. He told the bosses to resolve the matter themselves. He suggested that non-conformists merely be assigned extra door-knocking rather than be expelled.
Those targeted, however, had not violated any bylaws, Prince said. Fights are allowed in direct-election primaries. He noted that in one contentious Chester County issue, party leaders neglected to provide sample ballots leaving the locals to get their own printed in which they omitted the name of an endorsed county judicial candidate whom they did not favor.
Rather than blame the hard-working volunteers, perhaps the ire should be directed at the Chesco bosses.
They really didn’t distribute sample ballots?
Attending the event were some of Chester County’s most active and effective volunteers.
There was much talk of selective boycotts of state candidates. This would be a tragedy considering the importance of November’s election.
It was also claimed that the state party is getting marching orders from Matthew Brouillette’s Commonwealth Partners which promotes issues beloved by the globalist corporate class.
It was speculated that the reasons for the purge were to decrease Trump supporters for the 2024 campaign and increase supporters for Dave McCormick who is expected to try again for a U.S. Senate seat.
McCormick was accused of being affiliated with the World Economic Forum. He had been CEO of Bridgewater Associates, a hedge fund, before he entered politics.
Tabas Zoom Didn’t Satisfy Activists; Suspicions Remain
So when I do yard work, I tend to change the radio stations on my headphone from classical music to sports to KYW to country music, depending on what’s on. I get bored easily.
WXTU 92.5 is in the mix, but my liberal friends don’t know. So on a recent afternoon, the lyrics of Try That In A Small Town grabbed me and made me listen:
“Got a gun that my grandad gave me,
They say one day they’re gonna round up”
This was written by four people other than the singer Jason Aldean.
Then I had to watch the music video, a mash-up of Antifa, BLM, Jan 6th and whatever, along with some actual crimes featuring both Black and Caucasian perpetrators.
So the commentariat has been all over this, few quotes worth repeating:
Lebron Hill from the Nashville Tennessean said: “For a second, if you could, take away the left or right, liberal or conservative and ponder this question: Is the only way to push our values to fearmonger about the other side? (my italics)
At this point, let Jason Aldean speak for himself. (Warning: he’s more eloquent than the song he sings but didn’t write.)
He says, “I was present at Route 91 where so many lost their lives, and our community recently suffered another heartbreaking tragedy. NO ONE, including me, wants to continue to see senseless headlines or families ripped apart”
Route 91 was the site of a mass shooting in 2017, at the Route 91 Harvest Music Festival, where 60 people were killed. Aldean was performing on stage when the shooting started.
Of course there is a response song, “Sundown Town”, a parody by Adeem the Artist, who actually wrote his song!
“I just read the words and say ‘That was good’
As long as it implies a gown and hood”
There’s a lot more on the internet about these two songs, but the unanswered question is how do we get people from all political sides to discuss the problem that everyone agrees is real, of daily violence in our society, without resorting to useless solutions?
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Answer to yesterday’s William Lawrence Sr Cryptowit quote puzzle: Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear – kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor – with the cry of grave national emergency.
Douglas MacArthur
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Answer to yesterday’s William Lawrence Sr Cryptowit quote puzzle: Advertising treats all products with the reverence and the seriousness due to sacraments.
Thomas Merton
Lifestyles Of The Rich And Obamas — Tafari Campbell, 45, the Barack and Michelle Obama’s personal chef, drowned Sunday, July 23, in a paddle board accident outside the former first couple’s home on exclusive Martha’s Vineyard in Massachusetts.
Security consultant Tony Schaffer X’d an interesting question: How can @BarackObama – afford a chef!? And a $12 million Cape Cod home and a $8.7 million Hawaiian home (and no fear of global warming and rising seas)?
The district’s central budget will be $12.9 billion, but separate funds will contribute to the $18.8 billion total that will also be designated for adult education, the student body fund and construction projects. Funding will include the last federal government COVID-19 cash infusion which, in the aggregate, will reach more than $5 billion. State and federal taxpayers have paid into the LAUSD, regardless of where Sacramento officials claim the monies come from – the “separate funds” cited above. In education, the taxpayer is the first, last and only funding source.
For the astronomical, staggering almost $19 billion, parents and the taxpaying community, deserve educated graduates who are ready to meaningfully contribute to society. The goal, taken for granted during California’s golden 1960s era when the states’ public schools were the nation’s envy, will be elusive, and perhaps beyond reach. In truth, there may not be enough billions to reverse LAUSD’s downward spiral and insurmountable problems.
Unfortunately, and only partly of its own doing, LAUSD is barreling in the wrong direction academically. The COVID-19 school shutdown devastated LAUSD’s most vulnerable students. The latest state test scores revealed disappointing decreases in student performance. For poor, vulnerable students, the decline was more dramatic.
The 2022 assessment tests showed just 28 percent of LAUSD students met state standards in math, and only 42 percent met English standards in the 2021-22 school year, declines of two and five percentage points, respectively, from the 2018-19 school year. LAUSD superintendent Alberto Carvalho acknowledged that kids most at risk – blacks, Hispanics and females – lost the most ground. “Five years of gradual academic progress…. have been reversed,” said Carvalho.
Test scores won’t improve unless chronic absenteeism is reversed. Nearly half of all LAUSD students missed classroom time post-pandemic, a two-fold increase from prior years. Carvalho found many students did not have either what he called “adequate care” from an adult at home, “were caring for young siblings” or working multiple low-paying jobs to support their families. LAUSD implemented strategies, such as targeting early absenteeism and going to students’ homes for follow up, but the programs’ specifics are vague, and the end results far from certain.
Carvalho has other plans with noble goals. Highest among them is his commitment to expanding a literacy intervention program called Primary Promise, originally limited to K-3 students, to students at higher grade levels. While parents applaud the more inclusive outreach, veteran educators know that if the basics aren’t mastered during a student’s earliest years, the climb to literacy will be long, hard and too often unsuccessful.
As challenging as the 2023-2024 academic year is, the worst is yet to come. COVID-19 funding goes away next year. Many of the 75,000 full- and part-time workers, including about 25,000 teachers, will have to change jobs or job locations, and unfilled classroom and staff positions will remain vacant, a true crisis for students already behind. If bus drivers are laid off – a strong possibility – then poor children without other transportation options will be unable to get to school.
The important question, however, is what long-term outcome awaits students whose fundamental reading and math skills are substandard? In an era that increasingly relies on automation and artificial intelligence, the undereducated young adults, whether their futures lay in California or elsewhere, will have a rocky road forward. The $18 billion is a high cost to taxpayers for failing Los Angeles’ children.
