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Morton Homestead Filthy Information Station — Here’s one of the information stations at the Morton Homestead off Route 420 in Prospect Park. The structure is traceable to 1698 and may be the oldest building in Pennsylvania. But really, you think someone can do something about the filthy information stations? They are all like this by the way. The photo was taken, Aug. 4.
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Answer to yesterday’s William Lawrence Sr Cryptowit quote puzzle: Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
The Delco Juvenile Offender Mystery — Our story about last night’s United4Delco’s candidate’s forum caused a brouhaha after we reported that Delaware County’s juvenile offenders are being being incarcerated at the county’s Intermediate Unit educational facility in Aston.
Delco’s juvenile detention facility has been shuttered, after all, and the mischievous tykes have to be kept somewhere.
We have since heard that they were only been kept at the school during the day. Where do they go at night? They didn’t say.
We heard that they were being sent to juvenile facilities in Montco and Chesco. Then we heard that wasn’t true, and that Montco and Chesco weren’t taking them because, well, they were just too unruly.
Then we heard they are being shipped to Ohio.
So what does District Attorney Jack Stollsteimer say about it? He is the guy responsible, after all, and dreams of being president despite an objective lack of competence in the job he now holds.
We await his answer.
We did hear that Aston Police were being sent to the I.U. almost daily to deal with the younguns.
The Delco Juvenile Offender Mystery
Trafficked Minors Reach Queens And Sex Crimes Escalate
By Joe Guzzardi
As the sex trafficking crisis via the Southwest border worsens, and the related crimes overwhelm even the largest communities, women’s rights groups like the National Organization for Women remain inexplicably silent.
NOW’s website describes the organization as a grassroots activist group focused on promoting feminist ideals. Vocal on a woman’s right to choose and affirmative action, NOW stands passively by and mum as females of all ages and ethnicities are trafficked across the Southwest border and put to work as prostitutes.
The normally outspoken Nancy Grace apparently has no opinion either on the connection between the open border and the abuse of young women who are illegal aliens without valid work authorization. For many, other than minimum wage jobs that are barely life sustaining, prostitution may be the only option. The link between the Biden administration’s refusal to enforce immigration laws at the border and in the interior to soaring crime rates is inarguable.
In Queens, New York, the combination of open borders and the hands-off policy that’s been imposed on New York’s police officers has turned the borough into what New York Post reporters labeled as “the city’s boldest open-air market for sex.”
Dressed in provocative clothing, prostitutes are seen in front of pool halls, dentist offices and massage parlors day and night. They recruit neighborhood children to distribute their X-rated business cards. The prostitutes’ brazen behavior is evident in broad daylight, in front of innocent minors, aghast residents and legitimate commercial enterprises. Dozens of houses of ill repute have set up shop along Roosevelt Avenue, a major Queens throughway. One observer noted that vans reportedly driven by cartel human traffickers have been seen unloading underage girls on Roosevelt Avenue.
The sex workers that troll the area’s red-light district are so confident they won’t be prosecuted that they advertise their services on a YouTube channel for Spanish speakers. Ten-minute long footage displays women working in the “Market of Sweethearts” as two men instruct viewers how to negotiate the best deal with the prostitutes. The channel has 19,000 subscribers.
In April, a whistleblower told Congress’ House Judiciary Committee that the “United States’ federal government has become the ‘middleman’ in a multibillion-dollar human trafficking operation targeting unaccompanied minors at the southern border.” Tara Lee Rodas told the committee that the Office of Refugee Resettlement frequently delivers children to criminal-infested homes who then treat them like commodities to be abused in underage sex or labor exploitations.
In May, U.S. Customs and Border Protection encountered an average of 435 unaccompanied minors per day. A Heritage Foundation study found that drug cartels and traffickers will exploit 60 percent of these children in prostitution, forced labor and child pornography.
In June alone, the Biden administration released 344 kids to nonrelated adults, some of whom are illegal aliens. Most of the families that assumed responsibility for the minors already had multiple children in their care. Such children are prime targets for abuse. About half of Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s “most wanted” child trafficking criminals are from Mexico, the nation that cartels control.
NOW, Nancy Grace and other women’s advocates aren’t the only missing voices that would have the influence to bring the brazen lawlessness at the border and subsequently in Queens to light, and help to bring it under control. While no longer House Speaker, U.S. Representative Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) has often spoken about the importance of protecting and nurturing immigrant children. Angelina Jolie, Hollywood superstar, is another child advocate whose input on the abuse that the open border fosters is, like NOW, Grace and Pelosi, missing from the dialogue.
At this stage of his administration, Biden won’t impose border and interior enforcement. But, without a policy change, sex and other crimes involving children will mushroom. ICE and the New York Police Department have been neutered. Tragically, no one else is around to prevent the crimes from continuing.
Joe Guzzardi is a Project for Immigration Reform analyst who has written about immigration for more than 30 years. Contact him at jguzzardi@ifspp.org.
Trafficked Minors Reach Queens And Sex Crimes Escalate
Chesco GOP Tribunal Fizzles — A Chester County Republican tribunal scheduled for last night, Aug. 3, fizzled when none of the committeewomen accused of being bad girls in the May 16 primary election showed.
Veronica Pidge of 405 precinct in East Nottingham simply wrote them and said she wasn’t going.
Nancy Gifford of 356 precinct in East Marlborough South told them she would be out of town and was given a continuance.
Donna Ellingsen of 215 precinct in Elk Township asked for a continuance to gather witness statements but was refused.
So she declined to attend.
She suspected the matter had already been decided.
The issue appears to concern a sample ballot the women distributed that didn’t included a couple of candidates endorsed by the county party.
Donna said any sample ballot would have been paid for by each individual and the candidates who may have been left off were people they did not feel comfortable endorsing.
In some cases, some names may have fallen through the cracks and some mistakes were caught in time, she said.
She notes that it isn’t definitively stated in the Chesco bylaws that committeepeople have to back a particular candidate in a primary election — what are primaries for after all? — as long as they back the winning candidate in the general.
That this is allowed is spelled out in the state GOP bylaws.
She further points out that the county GOP neglected to provide their own official sample ballots in time leaving the committeepeople to have to pay for their own.
The women are some of the most popular and successful committeepeople Chesco has, and their areas are among the tops in turnout for the GOP.
Candidates Describe Democrats Law Enforcement Disaster In Delco — Maybe the most troubling thing revealed at last night’s, Aug. 3, United4Delco Candidates Forum was the unmitigated disaster Jack Stollsteimer has caused in Delaware County regarding law enforcment.
The incumbent district attorney, a Democrat, fired most of the long-time stable of county prosecutors including the fellow who handled the Arthur Bomar appeals said Beth Stefanide-Miscichowski, who is seeking to replace him.
Decades of institutional wisdom were lost.
Ms. Miscichowski has had a long career in law including time in the Delaware County D.A.’s office where she handled juvenile prosecutions, which was another thing about which she hammered Stollsteimer.
She noted Delco’s juvenile detention facility is closed so the juveniles are being incarcerated — at least during the daytime — at the county’s Intermediate Unit educational facility in Aston.
Aston Police are called there just about every day.
In response to a question, she described how crime is rocketing in once safe and sound Haverford, now a strongly Democrat town.
Ms. Miscichowski said Stollsteimer is indifferent to the needs of the community and merely sees the office as a stepping stone.
County Council candidate Jeff Jones warned of a looming 35-percent property tax hike courtesy of the present all-D council.
He said the county budget is now 421 pages. When the Republicans ran things just four years ago, it was 40 pages.
He said Republicans have to heal and come together to stop this stuff.
He gave a shout out to Dawn Getty Sutphin, the Common Pleas Court judicial candidate who was unable to attend. He described her long and respected career in law and noted that her opponent has held a law license for just seven years and never set foot in a courtroom.
He talked about the sad decline of his hometown of Upper Darby.
He said the County’s Veterans Affair’s Office has been the subject of complaints from veterans groups since the county took over. He said it’s only now gotten more responsive due to it being an election year.
County Council candidate Joy Schwartz also noted the looming tax headaches coming due to the present council’s policies. She also described the importance of elections trusted by the voters. She noted that Delco has more ballot dropboxes than any other county including Philadelphia and Allegheny. The boxes are suspect by many; expensive to maintain and unnecessary. Why would a drop box be needed when there is a mailbox just a short distance away?
Mrs. Schwartz was a William Penn history teacher for 20 years and coached the mock trial team which she took to state competitions.
County Council candidate Bill Dennon, who is mayor of Upland, said he expects his ticket to win.
“I don’t start anything to lose,” he said.
Also speaking were school board candidates for Rose Tree Media and Unionville-Chadds Ford.
The event was held at Gatsby’s Bar and Grill 4936 Pennell Road, Aston, Pa. 19014.
Candidates Describe Democrats Law Enforcement Disaster
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Abortion Rights Traceable To Marquis de Sade — The concept of “my body, my choice” is literally traceable to the Marquis de Sade, maybe history’s greatest misogynist. He wrote in his 1797 novel Juliette:
With regard to the father, he is in no wise concerned with whatever issue may occur, if issue there should be. And, with the assumption that women are held in common, which is what they should be and had better be soon, what concern could he conceivably have? He spits a little sperm into a receptacle everyone else relieves himself into, a womb where what can germinate does germinate; how is this gesture to turn into the grave obligation to look after a fertilized egg? No, he has no more duties to observe toward a foetus than he would toward something deposited by an insect and which some shit he dropped at the foot bf a tree caused to hatch several days later; in both cases I have cited, the problem is simply one of some matter of which a man needs to get rid and which subsequently becomes whatever it happens to become. The embryo is to be considered the woman’s exclusive property; as the sole owner of this fruit rather jestingly called precious, she can dispose of it as she likes. She can destroy it in the depths of her womb if it proves a nuisance to her. Or after it ripens and is born, if she is for any reason displeased with it or irked at having produced it, she can destroy it then; whatever the circumstances, infanticide is her sacred right. Her spawn is hers, entirely hers, and no one else can claim this bit of property belonging to no one else, utterly useless to Nature, and hence the mother may feed it or she may strangle it, depending upon her preference.
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Oppenheimer Renews A-Bombing Debate
By Bob Small
The movie Oppenheimer has renewed debate over the United States dropping two atomic bombs on Japan on Aug. 5 and 9, 1945. In discussion of this “weapon to end all wars”, a recent Yahoo News 360 article lists seven other articles that examine the U.S. decision from various viewpoints. All articles are recommended.
“Like many Americans, I was taught growing up that my grandfather was spared the burden of invading Japan and very likely dying because Harry Truman dropped a pair of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki and ended the war. The main function of such stories is to justify a terrible war crime,” states David Klion of The New Republic.
The Washington Examiner makes a strong case that a Japanese surrender was not imminent.
“For starters, the Japanese were not remotely ready to surrender to the Allies, and the alternative to dropping the bombs was a full-scale land invasion of the islands. Conventional attacks, including regular bombing, would have resulted in widespread civilian casualties as well as the long-term destruction of Japanese infrastructure.”
It should be noted that the Japanese deaths and injuries due to radiation should be included in the final calculation of the bombs’ toll.
This LA Times article reflects on other Hollywood films about the bombing.
For some different perspectives, see these websites.
A director tackles the story of Japan’s own nuclear experiment
7 Most Devastating Movies About the Atomic Bomb to Watch Next
For some reason, Godzilla is not included in movies.
One of the incidents mentioned in this article is “the coup attempt”. “There’s a coup attempt—soldiers running to the palace, trying to break the record of the Emperor’s surrender speech so that he can’t surrender in the morning. It’s that close.”
The Brandywine remembrance, which we have attended, will be held on Aug. 9.
For thoughts on the myth that “military power prevents conflict”, see What Does the Anti-Nuclear Movement Think of from Slate Magazine
Also from the Yahoo 360 article;
The Impossible Story of the Bomb – The Ringer
The dark — and often misunderstood — nuclear history behind Oppenheimer …
