A mother’s love means a life’s devotion – and sometimes a life’s sacrifice – with but one thought, one hope and one feeling, that her children will grow up healthy and strong, free from evil habits and able to provide for themselves. Her sole wish is that they may do their part like men and women, avoid dangers and pitfalls, and when dark hours come, trust in Providence to give them strength, patience and courage to bear up bravely.
Happy is the mother when her heart’s wish is answered, and happy are sons and daughters when they can feel that they have contributed to her noble purpose, and in some measure, repaid her unceasing, unwavering love and devotion.
–Anonymous
Margaret Jane Lozinak Lawrence, Jan.1, 1924-June 10, 2016
Knowledge of the True God Nurtures Us To Eternal Life — Are we saying that knowledge is eternal life?
Are we saying that to know the one true and living God will suffice to give us complete security for the future without need of anything else?
Then how is “faith apart from works dead?”
When we speak of faith, we mean the true knowledge of God and nothing else, since knowledge comes by faith.
The prophet Isaiah tells us: “If you do not believe neither shall you understand.” But he is not talking about a knowledge that consists in barren speculations, which is entirely worthless. For one of the holy disciples said, “You believe that God is one, you do well. Even the demons believe and shudder.”
What then shall we say to this? How is it that Christ speaks the truth when He says that eternal life is the knowledge of God the Father, the one true God, and with Him of the Son? I think indeed we must answer that saying of the Savior is completely true. For this knowledge is life, laboring as it were in birth of the whole meaning of the mystery and granting to us participation in the mystery of the Eucharist, whereby we are joined to the living and life-giving Word.
And for this reason, I think, Paul says that the Gentiles are made fellow members of the body and fellow partakers of Christ, inasmuch as they partake in His Blessed Body and Blood. And our members may in this sense be conceived of as being members of Christ.
This knowledge, then, which also brings to us the Eucharist by the Spirit, is life.
For it dwells in our hearts, reshaping those who receive it into son-ship with Him and molding them into incorruption and piety toward God through life, according to the Gospel.
Our Lord Jesus Christ, then, knowing that the knowledge of the one true God brings to us and promotes our union with the blessings of which we have spoken, says that it is eternal life.
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Answer to yesterday‘s William Lawrence Sr Cryptowit quote puzzle: Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials, but the voters of this country. Franklin D. Roosevelt
Delco Dems Hire Tabas Firm To Fight Open Records Appeal; What’s Up With That? –Delaware County has hired the powerhouse Obermayer Rebmann Maxwell & Hippel law firm to fight a right to know appeal by Leah Hoopes of Chadds Ford for county election return board records.
The appeal was made May 8 to the Pennsylvania Office of Open Records.
Seriously, Delco what is the big secret? You realize how many Pennsylvanians no longer trust the elections? A little transparency would go a long way.
Leave that aside, though, there is a more troubling issue.
Lawrence Tabas is a partner at Obermayer, where he heads the Election Law Practice Group.
Tabas side gig is chairing the Pennsylvania Republican Party.
If Tabas wants to put on the fig leaf that it’s his law firm and not he that is involved in this defense of Delaware County Democrats, it’s sleight of hand to distract from the point.
Namely, Tabas, the leader of the opposition, is refusing to take a free, easy and effective shot at the other side.
Why isn’t the Delaware County government being called out for its lack of transparency?
The state and county GOPs should be releasing statements and holding press conferences asking what is this thing the Democrats are fighting so hard to hide.
They are not.
Kind of makes you go hmmm.
By the way, Obermayer has tasked attorney Terry Mutchler with defending the county. Ms. Mutchler was the first director of the Office of Open Records when it began in 2008.
A whole lot of effort is being made to keep the public from seeing this records.
Again, hmmmm.
Seriously, Larry, whose side are you on?
Delco Dems Hire Tabas Firm To Fight Open Records Appeal; What’s Up With That?
In Canada, where they have moose and caribou there are 38 undercrossings and six overcrossings in the Trans-Canada Highway which have reduced wildlife collisions by 80 percent.
Another reason for these “critter crossings”, is to “expand the dating pool” for these various animals.
According to Patricia Cramer of the Wildlife Connectivity Institute trainer deer teach other animals how to use the crossings.
Now some areas have highly intelligent animals. Brian Goldfarb says urban coyotes in Chicago look both ways and cross at the crosswalks
tSadly, our Pennsylvania deer are generally, not “roadsmart”.
Answer to yesterday‘s William Lawrence Sr Cryptowit quote puzzle: A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people. Frederick Douglass
Montco Judge Puts Lawyer In Cuffs — We just posted the horror story involving Montgomery County, Pa.’s judicial system and then we learn this was just put on Facebook by National Safe Parents.
It concerns Richard Ducote, a litigator on matters of domestic abuse. Ducote, who is based in Louisiana, got a license to practice in Pennslvania in 2009.
Richard Ducote
He is representing noted ophthalmologist Dr. Nicole Gross in her own horror-story divorce case.
Montco Common Please Court Judge Kelly Wall had Ducote arrested and handcuffed, May 8, while he was questioning a witness, according to Danielle Pollack of National Safe Parents.
Ducote had said that Judge Wall should recuse herself as she had engaged in ex parte communications, which is a violation of judicial ethics.
He says his arrest was retaliation for this.
Ex parte is when one of the parties in a legal dispute is not present when an action occurs. Sometimes it’s allowed but usually not.
Silly Soviet Graffiti Seen In Media Borough — Borough GOP Chairman Michael Straw sent us this scrawl seen in Media during a recent Dining Under the Stars. The old Soviet Union is what progressive Democrats want, though. Wonder how many of them heard of Solzhenitsyn Wonder if they get that they aren’t going to the ones running things, and that to be a serf “sucks,” to quote Kevin Madden.
Montco Courts Still Won’t Let Jody McMahon See Her Kids — Maybe the evil was always there and maybe it just seems worse because it’s getting exposed.
Which would be a good thing, we suppose.
Anyway, here’s another story from Montgomery County, Pa.
Jody McMahon’s marriage hit the rocks, and she and her husband, Shawn, separated in 2017.
Jody, of West Pottsgrove, was an English teacher at Owen J. Roberts High School. Shawn was a financial adviser.
There was a custody fight over their four children. An adjudication hearing was held June 4, 2019. Shawn showed up with a team of lawyers. Jody represented herself.
Shawn got complete custody.
Why?
A custody evaluation described him as “immature and self-indulgent”. It said he “might go into rage because of poor impulse control.”
Among other things.
So why did he get complete custody?
Jody is an epileptic and prone to seizures. Is that a reason for a stripping a mom of all rights and contact with her children? Only in a place completely devoid of compassion.
A truly monstrous place.
Like Montgomery County.
Jody returned to court on Nov. 19 of that year. This time she brought a lawyer.
Or thought she did. The lawyer didn’t show. Jody says she learned the lawyer was pressured to drop her that morning.
Her American with Disabilities Act advocate, Tina Graham, stood by her, however.
Jody had a right to the advocate because of her epilepsy.
Judge Wendy Demchick-Alloy was made aware of Jody’s condition and why Ms. Graham’s presence was needed.
During the hearing, Jody had a seizure.
Did the judge postpone the hearing? Call for an ambulance?
No, she put Jody in leg shackles and handcuffs, and charged her with contempt.
When the deputies lifted her from her chair they dropped her and her head banged the courtroom’s concrete floor.
So an ambulance was called, after all.
Her restraints weren’t removed, though, not even at the hospital.
There is a well-understood protocol for treating epileptic seizures. Unfortunately it can’t be done with one’s hands and feet shackled.
Jody fell again at the hospital, again banging her head on the floor.
This time she fractured her skull.
She also suffered a stroke.
Did Demchick-Alloy schedule a new hearing? No, she awarded Shawn sole custody.
Jody got one-hour-per- week supervised visitation for the first year.
There was no visitation during Covid.
Now, she gets 15 minutes per week with her children over Zoom. She has to pay $90 to the county for someone to supervise.
She says the children ask why she let their dog starve to death.
For the record, she didn’t.
You kind of wonder where they got the idea she did.
The $90 per week to talk to her children is her largest expense, she says. She is well below the poverty line.
Regarding what happened in Judge Demchick-Alloy’s courtroom, you would think the media would have made it a bigger issue.
KWY’s Carol MacKenzie had a story which was followed by crickets. Nothing in Larry Weilheimer’s Philadelphia Inquirer. Nothing on any of the local evening newscasts.
Somebodies and somethings are being protected.
Jody McMahon in happier times with her children.
Montco Courts Still Won’t Let Jody McMahon See Her Kids
