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Judge Allen To Speak At Villanovans For Life — Villanovans for Life will host Susan B. Anthony List and the Pennsylvania Family Institute for a town hall, 6:30 p.m., Nov. 17 at Driscoll Auditorium in Driscoll Hall at the university at 800 E. Lancaster Ave., Villanova, Pa. 19085.
Speakers will include Retired Pennsylvania Superior Court Judge Cheryl Allen and Marlene Downing.
Parking will be available at the garage a South Ithan and Lancaster avenues.
DHS Gives Low-Wage Workers Short Shrift
By Joe Guzzardi
Today’s headlines are about the Israel-Gaza War, pro-Palestine rallies, Democrats’ success in the Nov. 7 elections and President Donald Trump’s legal travails. But away from the bold print, permanent Washington continues its nonstop assault on American workers.
As is the Department of Homeland Security’s cowardly practice when the agency anticipates voters will wince from its announcement, it chose a late Friday afternoon to make public its decision to increase by 65,000 yearly the H-2B nonagricultural, low-skilled workers’ visa. The hike is staggering because the existing annual total is 66,000. With a stroke of the pen, DHS doubled the number of foreign nationals who will arriving to do a wide number of jobs that Americans would otherwise perform.
Every year, congressional immigration expansionists and the Chamber of Commerce along with its corporate allies repeat the same tedious stories: No workers! Bankruptcy alert! Neither side of the aisle mounts much of a challenge to the false narrative. Over the decades, the mainstream media has done little if any investigative journalism to uncover and then reveal the H-2B program’s widespread fraud and abuse.
From time-to-time, however, insightful reports, surprisingly from left-leaning sources, have dug deeply enough to disclose the distasteful truth lurking within:
EPI’s researcher and the damning report’s author, Daniel Costa, turned out to be prescient. Costa wrote that, despite its shameless exploitation of workers, and its consistent failure to add worker protections to the program, the H-2B program is “growing.” Lo and behold, at 4:08pm, Friday, Nov. 3, DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas’ DHS doubled the H-2B program. David North, a long-time H-2B observer and critic, broke down the new 65,000 as follows: a 20,000 set-aside for aliens from Haiti, Colombia and Central America’s Northern Triangle – El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras. DHS bureaucrats slipped this outrage through even though previous work permission expansions to Haiti, for example, yielded almost no applicants. The remaining 45,000 in DHS’ harmful giveaway are retreads from recent H-2B workers who have, over the last three years, toiled for a pittance.
DHS’ unwarranted labor market expansion action is a direct slap in the face to American workers. President Joe Biden’s open borders has led to more than 5 million mostly unskilled, undereducated individuals who are perfect fits for H-2B labor in construction, landscaping, hospitality and the seafood industry. For employers, the border surge represents Christmas everyday – thousands of workers to choose from and without having to fill out the tedious paperwork that the government requires to secure an H-2B visa.
Moreover, in yet continued good news for employers, through the first eight months of 2023, nearly a quarter million migrants received parole at the Southwest border. Customs and Border Protection paroled another 221,456 foreign-born nationals who flew, compliments of U.S. taxpayers, into their preferred port of entry using Biden’s illegally concocted CBP One App. In all, nearly 475,000 parolees received work permission, further diminishing down to zero the need for more H-2B visas.
As subversive as DHS’ disregard for U.S. workers and American sovereignty is, the story just begins when illegal aliens get their employment authorization. Overwhelmingly unvetted, most quasi-legalized migrants will never return home, will add to already-unsustainable population growth and collapsing social services, and will contribute mightily to school and hospital overcrowding. Doubters who view this interpretation as overstatement should ask themselves if they think Haitian, Salvadorans, Guatemalans or Hondurans, once settled in the U.S., will return home. Such a possibility is unlikely, at best. Barring a new 2025 administration’s heroic intervention, complete with a vigorous removal plan of those who arrived through Biden’s unconstitutional and illegal scheming, the migrants are here to stay.
Here is a final thought on the long-standing, unproven claim that the nation has a worker shortage. The traditional solution to labor scarcities, when and if they exist, is offering workers higher wages.
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.
DHS Gives Low-Wage Workers Short Shrift
Best patch is of the same cloth William Lawrence Sr Cryptowit 11-14-23
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Answer to yesterday’s William Lawrence Sr Cryptowit quote puzzle: The best patch is of the same cloth.
John Quigg
Judge Landis Winked at 1926 Baseball Gambling Scandal
By Joe Guzzardi
World Series 2023 had the lowest television ratings in history. No need to belabor the whys and wherefores. Instead of listening to the ceaseless chatter of announcer John Smoltz, fans would be better off acquainting themselves with the game’s rich history. A good start: read Dan Taylor’s “Baseball at the Abyss,” which takes a deep dive into the forgotten 1926 scandal that involved Hall of Fame greats Ty Cobb and Tris Speaker, as the principal scoundrels.
Baseball has a long, unhappy gambling history with wagering playing a prominent role that dates back before the 1919 Chicago Black Sox scandal. In baseball’s early days, bookmakers plied their trade in the open, working the ballpark areas inside and outside, taking wagers. The 1919 World Series may have, in the words of F. Scott Fitzgerald, destroyed the faith of 50 million people, about half the U.S. population then, but throwing baseball games was commonplace. As Emil “Happy” Felsch, a White Sox fixer, said, “Playing rotten ain’t that hard to do.”
Author Taylor explains that the dirty deeds had their inception in 1919, when the Cleveland Indians were in Detroit to face the Tigers. Neither the Indians nor the Tigers were going to win the pennant, but the Tigers were in a tight scrum with the Yankees for third place. In the dead ball era, a third-place finish meant a small share of the post-season loot for every Tigers’ member. The Indians had second place locked up. Cobb and Speaker, the respective managers of the Tigers and Indians, huddled prior to the September 25 game to iron out the details.
Speaker assured Cobb that he “wouldn’t have to worry” about the game’s outcome. The Cleveland team preferred, Speaker insisted, that Detroit finish in third. By virtue of that finish, the Tigers were likely to make about $500 for each player. Cobb, Speaker, Tigers pitcher Dutch Leonard and Indians pitcher Smoky Joe Wood all agreed to conspire in the fix.
Years later, Leonard confessed the four had agreed that since their post-season share would be small, they might as well wager on the game. Cobb was to put up $2,000; Leonard, $1,500, and Speaker and Wood $1,000 each. Cobb suggested park attendant Fred West would be a good man to place the bets. But because Detroit was a 10–7 favorite and because the local bookmakers were unwilling to handle such large sums, West only managed to get down $600 against the bookmakers’ $420.
The Tigers won the September 25 game 9–5, plating four runs in the first two innings. The Indians committed three costly errors, and Cleveland starter Elmer Myers — perhaps tipped off to the fix or maybe acting on his own whimsy — floated pitches to the plate for the Detroit batters. Speaker banged out three hits, all of them well after the Tigers had control of the game and the outcome was clear. No one is certain whether Cobb, Speaker or anyone else actually received money from their bets. The scant remaining evidence indicates that the wrongdoers may not have been able to place all the bets they hoped to.
That winter, Cobb, Speaker, Wood and Leonard went home, but the four men exchanged letters about the incident, sharing their regret that they were unable to get their bets down in time and that their shared proposition fizzled. The letters came back to haunt the four.
Several years later, the stench from the fixing incident wafted out. A vengeful Leonard wanted to settle a score with his former teammate, Cobb, now the Tigers manager. Once, Cobb kept Leonard in a 1925 game in which the southpaw surrendered 20 runs, and the manager mocked the idea that he yank his humiliated starter. Leonard never forgot, and the memory ate at him.
Cobb released Leonard, and insiders said Ty discouraged other American League teams from signing the lefty. Dutch stewed, and in May 1926 he presented the letters he received from Cobb, Speaker and Wood — the evidence — to Tigers owner Frank Navin who turned them over to American League President Ban Johnson. To keep a lid on the percolating scandal, Johnson paid Leonard $20,000 to go back to Fresno where he owned a farm, and focus on his raisin growing. At the season’s end, Johnson forced Cobb and speaker to resign. Eventually, however, the superstars appealed their cases to Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis who, sensing that the public and the baseball writers were solidly behind the diamond, absolved Speaker and Cobb, facts be damned.
Landis read the room correctly. Baseball bugs were fed up with scandal. At least five World Series — 1905, 1912, 1914, 1918 and 1919 — were rumored to have been influenced by game-fixers. And the 1923 Teapot Dome Scandal that implicated President Warren G. Harding — considered the greatest presidential scandal until Watergate — was still reverberating among the citizenry.
Cobb and Speaker played until 1928, Speaker for one year with the Washington Senators and one year with the Philadelphia A’s, and Cobb two years with the A’s.
Better to remember Cobb as one of baseball’s all-time greats, .366 career batting average with nine consecutive titles, and Speaker, the “Gray Eagle” who holds outfielder records for assists, double plays and unassisted double plays. Balls hit to center field where Speaker patrolled were considered the place where triples go to die.
Cobb, Speaker, Wood and Leonard got off the hook, and played into their 40s. Pete Rose, however, who holds MLB career records for 4,256 career hits, 3,215 career singles, 3,562 career games played, 14,053 career at-bats and 15,890 career plate appearances, was permanently banned for his gambling infractions. In life, good timing is invaluable.
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Taylor’s other books include
Walking Alone: the Untold Journey of Football Pioneer Kenny Jackson and Lights, Camera, Fastball: How the Hollywood Stars Changed Baseball.
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Joe Guzzardi is an Internet Baseball Writers Association and Society for American Baseball Research historian. Contact him at guzzjoe@yahoo.com.
On X @JoeGuzzardi19.
God’s voice thunders in marvelous ways William Lawrence Sr Cryptowit 11-13-23
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Answer to yesterday’s William Lawrence Sr Cryptowit quote puzzle: God’s voice thunders in marvelous ways; he does great things beyond our understanding. He says to the snow, ‘Fall on the earth,’ and to the rain shower, ‘Be a mighty downpour.’
Job 37:5-6
Reflection On The Good Samaritan — First, we must pity the ill fortune of the man who fell unarmed and helpless among robbers, and who was so rash and unwise as to choose the road in which he could not escape the attack. For the unarmed can never escape the armed, the heedless the villain, the unwary the malicious.
Malice is ever armed with guile, fenced around with cruelty, fortified with deceit, and ready for fierce attack.
He poured in wine, that is the blood of His passion, and oil that is the anointing of the chrism, that pardon might be granted by His blood, sanctification be conferred by the chrism . . .
The wounded parts are bound up the heavenly Physician, and contain a slave within themselves. By the working of the remedy they are restored to their former soundness.
Having poured in wine and oil, he placed him upon His beast . . .
For the Inn is the Church which receives travelers, who are tired with their journey through the world, and oppressed with the load of their sins. It’s here the wearied traveler casting down the burden of his sins is relieved, and after being refreshed is restored with wholesome food. For outside is everything that is conflicting, hurtful, and evil while within the Inn is contained all rest and health.
If you see anyone oppressed, say not surely he is wicked, but be he Gentile or Jew and needs help, dispute not, he has a claim to your assistance, into whatever evil he as fallen.
Reflection On The Good Samaritan
Every citizen should be a soldier William Lawrence Sr Cryptowit 11-12-23
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Answer to yesterday’s William Lawrence Sr Cryptowit quote puzzle: Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state.
Thomas Jefferson
Marxist Billionaires Or How Marxism Is Just Cover For Feudal Oppression –Raymond Ibrahim of American Thinker had a great piece, Nov. 8, describing how the world’s richest people use Marxist tropes of fighting inequality to acquire even more wealth and power.
Ibrahim’s source is The Billionaire World: How Marxism Serves the Elite by Hanne Nabintu Herland. This points out that since the 1960s Marxism — which is literally godless materialism — has been used by the corporate rich to attack the core of our culture destroying social stability, the family, stifling free speech and creating a passive majority following group think.
The corporate world and godless materialism go hand-in-glove.
Marxism was always about the 1 percent getting richer.
Stalin and Mao were likely the richest people in the world when they died.
Fidel Castro, the ruler of tiny Cuba, was worth at least $900 million when he died.
Venezuelan tyrant Hugo Chavez was worth a billion when he met his maker.
“We must be ready to employ trickery, deceit, law-breaking, withholding and concealing truth… We can and must write in a language which sows among the masses hate, revulsion and scorn towards those who disagree with us,” said Vladimir Lenin.
American corporations pledged $7.854 billion to Black Lives Matter albeit they appeared to have actually shelled out just — lol — $188 million to the scammers.
BLM is an openly Marxist, anti-American group. Why would our corporations give that much money to them instead of, well, bonuses to their rank-and-file, many of whom are minorities?
Was it because BLM was burning down their mom and pop competitors?
Makes sense to us.
By the way, six corporations control 90-percent of all U.S. media. Seek out independent voices and, especially, make your kids do the same.
Did you see where the Iceland volcano is being blamed on — wait for it — climate change?
These people laugh at you daily.
Marxist Billionaires Or How Marxism Is Just Cover For Feudal Oppression
Mournful mutter of the battlefield William Lawrence Sr Cryptowit 11-11-23
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Answer to yesterday’s William Lawrence Sr Cryptowit quote puzzle: In my dreams I hear again the crash of guns, the rattle of musketry, the strange, mournful mutter of the battlefield.
Douglas MacArthur
State Races Got Higher Totals Than Local Ones
By Loranne Mazzulo
I live in Edgmont, Delaware County, Pa. and I was a school board candidate for for the Rose Tree Media School District on Nov. 7.
I would like to say I am making NO accusations or asserting that I am 100 percent correct on some of the things I am going to explain.
I will be clear that I was not looking for what I happened to come across.
This began when I couldn’t believe that Bob Steiner, running for Edgmont Township Supervisor, lost the election. Edgmont is a Republican community, Bob is extremely well liked and respected, hence my shock. So I started flipping through the election results in both precincts in Edgmont. I live in Precinct 1.
As I was reviewing these results it seemed extremely odd that there would be significantly more number of votes cast in the election for the Justice of the Supreme Court, as opposed to a local and very popular township supervisor election. Edgmont has been battling the school district for the past two years and this race between the two supervisors has been highly anticipated. There is no way more people would cast votes for the higher offices than the local ones.
There is not another race that had more votes than the Supreme Court race between MCCaffery and Carluccio on the Edgmont result sheets!
I am not a super political person, I am familiar with races in general but basically I’m just the average citizen. So I thought to myself… “if I were going to go and just vote one race, would it be the BIG statewide race that I knew very little about??? NO WAY!!!
Why would there be more votes in the Supreme Court Race??? If you care that much about politics to vote in the Supreme Court Race, you would also care about your local politics that affect your everyday life.
Ok so here is what I found as I went through reviewing the Edgmont in-person voting for two person races.
Edgmont 1
Justice of Supreme Court (McCaffrey/Carluccio) Cast Votes: 763
Judge of Commonwealth Court (Wolf/Martin) Cast Votes: 744
Judge of Common Pleas (Berry/Sutphin) Cast Votes: 747
DA (Stolsteimer/Miscichowski) Cst Votes: 750
Edgmont Auditor (DiPillo/Besvinick) Cast Votes: 743
Edgmont Supervisor (Thorne/Steiner) Cast Votes: 735
NOTE: 1% more votes cast for Supreme Court than next highest.
Edgmont 2
Supreme Court: 500
Commonwealth: 498
Common Pleas: 500
DA: 492
Auditor: 479
Supervisor: 492
There were 1 percent more votes in Edgmont 2 for Supreme Court (500) than local elections (492).
So you may think ahh 1 percent, that’s so small what’s the big deal?.
Well we are talking about 10 to 20 extra votes for SOMEONE in the Supreme Court race! That’s just one little town in PA. What if we look at the rest of the county????? Guess what pick a precinct in the county… you will see this same pattern. It doesn’t matter if it is 1 extra vote for the Supreme Court race or 20. It adds up! I have included a couple for your viewing. But rest assured this pattern repeats for every precinct I looked at! Think about it 1 percent, who is gonna notice, I only noticed because I was looking for something else. Its such a small amount barely matters, but in the grand scheme of a statewide election. It is HUGE!!!
Delaware County Results: More votes cast for the Supreme Court Race than any of the other county wide races:
Supreme Court: 113,022
CommonWealth Court: 111,352 Common Pleas: 111,319
That’s a difference of approximately 1670 votes, JUST from DELCO!!! There are 67 counties in the state of Pennsylvania!! I also cant rule out that the two other elections above did not benefit from some extra votes as well, if that is the case we are looking at more votes than just 1670.
Next, if this is happening in Delaware County. Could it be happening in other counties? Why yes it is!!!
I will start with Erie County, because I think this is mostly what I would expect in an election::
This seems like it was not “tampered” with to me.
In person voting:
Supreme Court: 41482 Commonwealth Court: 40958 Common Pleas (local): 42031 Controller (local): 41441
Note I suspect other smaller counties, but not all, will look like this but I have not looked at them all.
Another small county is Adams. You have to look at local races that have 4 people and make the assumption that if you divide the total in two, and each voter voted for two people you get the total number of votes cast. (no 2 person races listed on county site) Copy is provided of Adams County.
Supreme court total votes cast: 22,797
Superior Court (Beck, Lane, Battista, Small): 40,843 divided by 2= @20,422 Commonwealth Court: 22654
Commissioner: 20,795
NOTE IF YOU COMPARE THE SECOND HIGHEST NUMBER OF VOTES, YOU ARE LOOKING AT @1% more for Supreme Court. . Remember this is likely 1 to 5 extra votes for Supreme Court at each precinct in Adams County.
I’m going to run through a few more larger counties but the same thing repeats!!! Court race has MORE votes. .
Lancaster County, in person::
Supreme Court: 97472 Commonwealth: 97121 Wills: 95491
Lehigh county:
Supreme Court: 73,554 Commonwealth: 73034 Controller: 72879 Coroner: 72,686
Bucks County:
Supreme Court: 197,631 Commonwealth: 196,778 Wills: 195,911 Treasurer: 196,085
Clerk of Ct: 195,595
Montgomery County In Person:
Supreme Court: 175, 225 Commonwealth: 174,103 Common Pleas: 172,804 Clerk of Courts: 173,143 Controller: 172,708
Westmoreland
Supreme Court: 91310 Commonwealth: 90152 Sheriff: 90674
The Supreme
Berks
Supreme Court: 81625 Commonwealth: 80029 Controller: 81039 Wills: 80861
I’m going to end here, I have not looked at every County.
consistently appearing that more votes are being cast for the Supreme court race? Where are these votes coming from? We all know that next year is a presidential election, with the win of McCaffery the Supreme Court of PA is 5 Dems and 2 republicans!
Looking at Edgmont as an example, I can only surmise that either 13 people cast votes with ONLY the supreme court race checked off, or something crooked went on.
My hope is that I am completely wrong and I am missing something that will make all of this make sense. If I am not wrong I hope that someone will look into this and figure out what is going on.
State Races Got Higher Totals Than Local Ones