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Wallingford Swarthmore Hiding Transitioning From Guardians — Just heard a horrifying storying concerning Wallingford Swarthmore School District in Pennsylvania. A little girl is “transitioning”. The school is refusing to tell her grandmother, who is her legal guardian.
If you think for one moment that the pathetic little monsters who run this district care an iota about this girl’s well being, you are as pathetic as they are.
This is an evil, moneymaking scheme.
Wallingford Swarthmore Bans Christmas On Buses — The Wallingford Swarthmore School District has sent a memo ordering all bus drivers and aides to not have Christmas theme decorations or wear Christmas-themed attire.
“If you have decorated your bus with anything specific to the Christmas Holiday or any other decorations relating to a specific religion, please remove them immediately. In addition, employees are instructed not to wear clothing related to Christmas or any other religious holiday.”
The memo claims the policy is response to complaints from parents.
The present public school system is run by cowards and very, very stupid people.
It must be abolished and replaced with school choice.
That way the few intolerant Christmas-hating scolds can have their joyless, sterile institutions where their children are taught to submissively accept whatever authority to which they are so groomed.
And the rest of us can have a party.
Wallingford Swarthmore is in Delaware County, Pa. and consists of Swarthmore, Rose Valley and Rutledge boroughs, and Nether Providence Township.
Here’s the memo:
Here’s the video:
Fort Orange Press, What’s The Secret Delco? — Robert Mancini of the good-government group Delco Deepdivers sought, in December 2022, records concerning Delaware County’s dealings with ballot-printer Fort Orange Press.
Mancini of Media wanted emails between the county and the Albany, N.Y. printer along with the names of those requesting the ballots.
Delco said no, the people may not see!
Considering the suspicion that is dividing our nation regarding elections, that was probably unwise but maybe there was a legitimate reason.
Perhaps the correspondence contained nuclear codes. Perhaps there were plans for an invasion of Russia. Who are we to judge?
There is a way to appeal via the Pennsylvania Office of Open Records, however, and Rob did so in January 2023.
The Office said let the people see.
At this point, a sane and competent government would have conceded, grudgingly or not, and the people would see.
Delco, however, appealed to Common Pleas Court.
This is allowed.
But why do it? It does make one go hmmmmm, after all. Really, what’s the big secret? There is a logical explanation, of course, but it’s not one the county should want its citizens to reach.
The hearing scheduled for this month has been postponed.
Rob says the contract with Fort Orange specifically says the dealings are subject to right-to-know.
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Answer to yesterday’s William Lawrence Sr Cryptowit quote puzzle: The virgin was called Mary. ‘Greetings, favoured one!’ said the angel when he arrived. ‘May the Lord be with you!’
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The Great Feast — This familiar parable is read in the Church each year just two Sundays before the feast of our Lord’s Nativity. In it we are reminded of the great care with which God prepared the way of His incarnation. All of the Law and the Prophets look forward to this moment, the moment wen the God-man Jesus Christ comes into the world.
He is, in fact, the fulfillment of the law and the Prophets — the goal towards which they were all aiming. The whole world was prepared by them for this great event.
As the parable tells us, the King — that is God — has prepared a great feast for us and has invited us to come and enter into that joy that He has prepared for us.
Today we begin in earnest to move toward the feast in the birth of our Incarnate Savior Jesus Christ.
Today we are called to see the great preparation that has gone into this event, to marvel at the great love and care of God for us that He would labor so long and with such great care for us.
Today we look back at the whole of the history of the people of God and see that it is the history of God’s preparation all leading to the moment when He would take flesh, become incarnate and enter the world as a child.
We have been given an invitation to come and join the feast, to abandon the world and enter the Kingdom of God, to leave our own life and receive instead the Life of Christ.
We have been invited – chosen by God. Well we accept the invitation and choose Him?
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Answer to yesterday’s William Lawrence Sr Cryptowit quote puzzle: It is true that going out on to the street implies the risk of accidents happening, as they would to any ordinary man or woman. But if the church stays wrapped up in itself, it will age. And if I had to choose between a wounded church that goes out on to the streets and a sick, withdrawn church, I would definitely choose the first one.
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DOJ Reportedly Backing Crime Supporting DAs – The Justice Department is funding groups affiliated with George Soros funded soft-on-crime prosecutors and judges, according to Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey.
Bailey has sent a letters to Congress, Dec. 13, asking for an investigation.
Bailey cited the Vera Institute — a Brooklyn-based advocacy group that wants to “transform the criminal and legal justice system.
What say you, Jack Stollsteimer?
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Answer to yesterday’s William Lawrence Sr Cryptowit quote puzzle: We lost because we told ourselves we lost.
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Remembering Hyman Solomon ’s 77 Years in Baseball
By Joe Guzzardi
In 1901, Hyman Solomon, aka Jimmie Reese, was born in New York City to Russian-Jewish immigrant parents. After Hyman’s father died, the Solomon family moved to Los Angeles where the youngster worked as a newspaper boy, took his new name and fell in love with baseball. By the time Reese died at age 92, he had spent 77 years in baseball and is the oldest-ever person to have regularly worn a professional team’s uniform.
During nearly eight decades on the diamond, Reese threw batting practice fastballs to Lou Gehrig, roomed with Babe Ruth when the two were New York Yankees teammates, hit fungos to Nolan Ryan and gave fielding tips to Jim Edmonds. Referring to his time spent with Ruth on Yankees road trips, Reese memorably said that he didn’t room with the Babe in the traditional sense; he roomed with his suitcases.
Reese’s baseball life began as a boy when he finagled his way into the Pacific Coast League’s Los Angeles Angels practices, becoming at age 12 the team’s batboy, a job he gleefully carried out for six years. Chicago Cubs first baseman and Hall of Famer Frank Chance managed the Angels and worked with Reese to develop his skills. Reese was recognized as his high school’s most valuable player.
From high school, Reese moved up to semi-pro where his slick fielding impressed the Oakland Oaks who signed him in 1924 and launched him to the big leagues. In 1928, the Yankees purchased Reese’s contract from the Oaks. The year prior to Reese’s promotion to the star-studded Yankees, Reese hit .337 with one homer, 65 runs batted in, 24 stolen bases, and led all PCL second basemen with a .979 fielding average with 622 putouts in 190 games. Reese’s peers recognized him as one of the smoothest fielding second basemen in the game with near-acrobatic skills at the keystone corner.
In 1932, the Yanks sent Reese to the America Association’s Triple-A St. Paul Saints. The St. Louis Cardinals quickly picked him up to fill in for the injured Frankie Frisch. In 90 games with the Cards, Reese batted .265, hit two homers and drove in 26 runs. And so ended Reese’s three-year major league career; 232 games played with a respectable .278 batting average, eight homers and 70 RBIs.
Litle did Reese realize in 1933 when the Cards sold him to the PCL Angels that his baseball career still had six decades remaining. Reese enjoyed outstanding seasons with the Angels and San Diego Padres. He compiled a PCL career batting average of .289 in 1,673 games and holds the league record for most putouts by a second baseman, 4,771, and most assists, 5,119. In 1937, Reese was chosen as the starting second baseman on the All-Time Pacific Coast League team, and in 2002 was elected to the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame.
Between 1938 and 1994, Reese worked for minor and major league teams as a coach, manager and scout. With a one-year baseball hiatus in 1944 when he served in the U.S. Army during World War II, Reese was continuously in baseball’s employ. In 1972, at age 71, Reese asked the Angels for a job and was hired as conditioning coach – a position he held until his death in 1994. Angels’ owner Gene Autry had given Reese a lifetime contract.
After the 25-year old righty Nolan Ryan was traded to the Angels from the New York Mets, he befriended Reese. Years later, Ryan said, “He’s the finest human being I’ve ever met.” Ryan’s second son is named Reese in Jimmie’s honor.
At the time of Reese’s death, he was still on the Angels payroll. A year after Reese passed, the Angels encased his locker in tinted Plexiglas. Inside were his beloved fungo bat and his uniform. His number 50 was retired, joining Ryan, Gene Autry and Rod Carew whose numbers no future Angels player would ever wear. The Angels retired number 26 in Autry’s honor. Baseball rosters had 25 men; Autry became the Angels “26th man.”
Today’s big baseball news is Shohei Ohtani’s $700 million, ten-year contract – “a record” as the headlines blare. But Ohtani’s mark won’t last long. Owners are printing money and, since they can jack up ticket prices at will and indefinitely, have no qualms about laying out cash. Reese’s 77-year baseball longevity record, however, will endure for ages and is a testimony to his love for the national pastime.
Joe Guzzardi is a Society for American Baseball Research and Internet Baseball Writers Association member. Contact him at guzzjoe@yahoo.com.
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Delco Must Accept GOP Election Board Nominee, Court Rules — The Delaware County GOP announced on its Facebook page, Dec. 13, that it has won its challenge and the Democrat-controlled County Council cannot reject its candidate for minority representative on the Election Board.
State law requires county election boards to have a minority member.
The previous law had Council choose one of three submitted by the minority party.
The Democrats, Jan. 18, passed a tradition-breaking ordinance giving themselves the power to reject all Republican candidates in, basically, perpetuity until they found one they liked.
Hey Bill Martin, how exactly did that little stunt increase understanding and trust with Delco’s election process?
Hopefully, the Delco GOP starts showing an interest in the right-to-know requests filed concerning election matters, especially those the county is fighting to hide despite being overruled by the Pennsylvania Office of Open Records.
Hopefully, the Delco GOP starts getting real loud about the problems going on at the prison.
What good is a loyal opposition if it isn’t opposing anything?
Delco Must Accept GOP Election Board Nominee, Court Rules