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Answer to yesterday’s William Lawrence Sr Cryptowit quote puzzle: Pleasant hours fly fast.
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Dave McCormick Stops In Drexel Hill — Dave McCormick this afternoon, Sept. 24, gave a persuasive list of reasons as to why he should replace the 15-year incumbent at Pennsylvania’s U.S. senator during a campaign stop at Chickie’s and Pete’s in Drexel Hill.
The most persuasive was that the incumbent voted for the Biden-Harris platform 99-percent of the time.
The incumbent’s sainted father is looking down with absolute disgust.
McCormick said this was the most important election in our lives and a Kamala Harris victory would cause misery and penury through the lifetimes of our grandchildren.
He’s right and, yes, that’s an endorsement of Donald Trump.
McCormick is campaigning with Georgia Governor Brian Kemp, the bête noire of Trump supporters.
Except for some women with ties to Georgia, Kemp was generally ignored by the audiance.
McCormick said the polls have closed greatly in his senate race and that he expects to win. He noted that while Democrats had about a one-million voter registration advantage in 2020, that is down now to a tick over 300,000.
Thank you, Scott Pressler.
McCormick gave shout outs to many of the candidates involved in state races and to Alfe Goodwin who is seeking the 5th District congressional seat.
IEPs And Perverted Principals Topic Of Educational Town Hall — A town hall, last night, Sept. 23, sponsored by congressional candidate Alfe Goodwin addressed Pennsylvania’s crisis in education. It was held at the Media VFW and drew an active and diverse crowd.
By diverse, we don’t just mean Black and White — although it applies. We mean Republican and Democrat, and city and suburb.
The room was full despite attempts by social media censors to hide the event’s promotion.
Alfe is seeking to unseat the wife of the CEO of high-powered law firm Ballard Spahr to represent Pennsylvania’s 5th District. The district is all of Delaware County along with parts of Montgomery, Philadelphia and Chester counties.
Speakers were NaDerah Griffin, and Sharon Devaney. Ms. Griffin is a former Philadelphia School District educator, who is a mental health specialist, and Sharon M. Devaney is a single mom who described her tribulations with the Haverford School District.
Moderator was Joy Schwartz, a retired Penn Wood teacher who still occasionally substitutes.
Many in the audience also shared their experiences with public education along with other institutions in obvious decline such as the military.
Ms. Griffin noted how the misuse of individual education plans (IEPs) has resulted in numerous children being placed on life-long paths of despair.
“When you pull children out they feel they are dumb,” she says.
She said IEPs can be beneficial. The shortage of teachers, however, in the city schools along with the lack of training for them results in children being diagnosed improperly.
She said situations such as trauma and poverty are incorrectly diagnosed as intellectual problems.
Ms. Devaney described the battles she fought with her district to keep her children from being drugged and bullied.
She said Haverford sought to put her son on an IEP but she fought them and won.
She noted the administration’s indifference, if not actual defense, of high ranking officials who should have been dismissed for extremely inappropriate behavior.
Shelia Armstrong, a North Philadelphia parent-teacher advocate, spoke from the audience. She described how she won a lawsuit against the educational establishment’s failure to uphold the General Assembly’s constitutional obligation to provide a “thorough and efficient” system of public education.
Ms. Armstrong also noted that the teachers unions are blocking needed reform. She cited their refusal to allow cameras in the classroom.
“I’m just so tired of the union right now,” she said. “. . .It’s promoting everything else but education.”
She expressed strong support for school choice.
She said progress is being made, however. Ms. Armstrong pointed out that if a child attacks a school employee, the employee can sue the parents.
Alfe Goodwin is a veteran and a retired Philadelphia police officer, who now teaches in Chester at the Edgmont Scholars Academy.
About 180 students at the school now have IEPs, she said.
Del Vann Inspired Media broadcast the event live and is expected to post a video of it.
Alfe’s opponent has cancelled debates with her, apparently out of fear that she can win.
Panelists NaDerah Griffin and Sharon Devaney
Pennsylvania is The Swingiest Swing State
By Joe Guzzardi
Through September 13, Vice President Kamala Harris has visited Pennsylvania twelve times. Most of her campaign stops have been in red counties that supported former President Donald Trump in 2020. Along the way, Harris made an assortment of campaign promises and highlighted her resume to generate support for her presidential bid. Harris’ mission is to acquaint voters with her qualifications and her views for the future. A September New York Times/Siena poll found nearly one-third of voters don’t know who Harris is.
Both Harris and Trump have focused on Pennsylvania, the “swingiest” swing state in a must-win tight presidential election. Between the two, they’ve visited the Commonwealth two dozen times, exclusive of the stand-alone visits from Harris’ VP running mate, MinnesotaGov. Tim Walz and Trump’s VP pick, Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance. When, in early September, Harris landed at John Murtha Johnstown-Cambria Airport, Pennsylvania Democrat Sen. John Fetterman, his wife Gisele, and Johnstown Democrat Mayor Frank Janakovic joined her. Johnstown, a small city within Cambria County, has a population of 18,000. In 2020, Cambria County voted for Trump over Biden 68% to 31%. On another stop in Wilkes-Barre, part of Luzerne County, Harris, for the first time, pledged to lower the standards for federal government employment. The 2020 election results showed that in Wilkes-Barre Trump defeated Biden by a 57% to 42% margin. Those are powerful margins that Harris would have to overcome to cut into Trump’s popularity.
Harris doubled down on her economic opportunity and pro-small business agenda. If elected, Harris promised to eliminate the “unnecessary degree requirements for federal jobs and increase jobs for folks without a four-year degree, understanding that requiring a certain degree does not necessarily talk about one’s skills.” Instead, Harris called for alternative pathways to good-paying jobs like apprenticeships and vocational training or adult education. Voters who have been casting ballots since the Clinton administration recognize Harris’ promises as empty. President Bill Clinton created GEAR UP, a 1998 program designed to help high-school students better prepare for the professional world. The Department of Education squandered millions on the failed program. In a corporate world that relies heavily on technology, specifically the STEM occupations—science, technology, engineering, and math— a vocational school diploma will rarely replace a college degree.
Then, touting her credentials as the former California Attorney General, Harris pointed to “transnational” cartels, and said, “I know these cartels firsthand, and as president, I will make sure we prosecute them to the full extent of the law for pushing poison like fentanyl on our children.”
In 2022, around 73,838 people in the United States died from a drug overdose that involved fentanyl, the highest number of fentanyl overdose deaths ever recorded, and a significant increase from the 36,319 reported in 2019, just weeks from President Joe Biden’s and Harris’ inauguration. Their open border agenda began immediately. Fentanyl overdoses are the driving force behind the opioid epidemic, accounting for the majority of U.S. overdose fatalities.
Curbing fentanyl deaths is an action Harris, the so called “Border Czar,” could do today if she enforced immigration laws which would prevent cartels and other illegal aliens from entering the nation without inspection. Of all of Harris’ hollow promises, none is less convincing than her vow to prosecute drug cartels. As she moves along in her campaign from swing state to swing state, drug traffickers are crossing the Southwest border daily and pushing their deadly drugs into American communities like Johnstown and Wilkes-Barre. In Pennsylvania, overdose deaths rose by 16.4% in 2020 and continued rising to 5,438 reported overdose deaths in 2021, a 6% year-over-year increase. Expressed in starker terms, an average of 15 Pennsylvanians died each and every day of a drug overdose in the last year. Harris has failed at her most important duty—to keep America safe.
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Joe Guzzardi is an Institute for Sound Public Policy analyst. Contact him at jguzzardi@ifspp.org
Pennsylvania is The Swingiest Swing State
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Answer to yesterday’s William Lawrence Sr Cryptowit quote puzzle: Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.
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Fixing Government Gone Wrong Is Keystone Topic — Using the Constitution when government goes wrong is the subject of Thursday’s, Sept. 26, Keystone Town Hall.
It’s 7 p.m. in the amphitheater of the Desmond Hotel, 1 Liberty Blvd., Malvern, Pa. 19355.
Speakers are Shannon Grady, who chairs Moms for Libery, Chesco Chapter, and Fenicia Redman who is in a court battle concerning porn in schools.
Doors open at 6:30 p.m.
For information email KeystoneTownHall@pm.me
Green Party On The 2024 Ballot
By Bob Small
Best to clear this up first. As a recovering Green Party member of the once-active Delco Green Party,I can say that he party bureaucracy will never improve.
This year the Green Party of Pennsylvania Green Party of Pennsylvania managed to place three candidates on the ballot. Unofficially — Cornell West is still trying to fight off a challenge -, the other alternative parties candidate tallies are Constitution Party none, Forward Party 2, and Libertarian Party almost a dozen.
The Green’s presidential candidate, Dr. Jill Stein hopes to be on every state Green Party ballot except Alaska (see below).
Richard L. Weiss is the Green Party candidate for Pennsylvania Attorney General. His J. D. is from the University of Denver. Previously, he was a Ford Foundation fellow in Public International Law at Washington D.C.’s American University. His MBA is from the University of Chicago. Among his many opinions are concerns this one on policing: All training and equipment should be devoted to taking suspects alive, and a death considered a failure.
The Green’s Senate candidate is Leila Hazou who received an MBA from Loyola College. She runs a soap and candle store in Milford and is proud to be a successful Palestinian business woman.
Her and her husband live with their menagerie of animals.
The Green Party of Alaska are traditional rebels from the rest of the party.
In 2020 they refused to place Howie Hawkins ticket on the ballot and substituted Jessie Ventura. After this rebellion, they were officially decertified by the national party.
This year, their candidates are Jasmine Sherman and Tanda Blubear. There is plenty of information on both candidates. You may decide to do a write-in. Among their policies are “rights for sentient beings” and |”abolish the police policy”
Why there remains a separate Alaska Green Party remains perplexing, to say the least.
There was no reply from either the National or Pa. Greens to my emails sent two weeks ago about this subject.
Green Party On The 2024 Ballot
Angels’ Pitcher Donnie Moore’s Tragic Story
By Joe Guzzardi
September is Suicide Prevention Month. Suicide, one of the leading causes of death, is a national crisis that effects, both directly and indirectly, Americans of all ages. Suicide rates increased approximately 36% between 2000–2022 and was responsible for 49,476 deaths in 2022, about one death every 11 minutes.
Although suicide is most often measured in emotional terms—the crushing effect on family and friends—the financial cost is significant. In 2020, suicide and nonfatal self-harm cost the nation over $500 billion in medical and work- loss costs. Suicide adversely affects all professions, even those that are associated with glamour and high incomes. For example, the list of baseball players who have taken their own lives is eighty-five names long. Listed chronologically, California Angels pitcher Donnie Moore is number 76. On June 18, 1989, Moore died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Adding to the tragedy, before he killed himself, Moore shot and wounded his wife Tonya with three bullets from his .45 caliber firearm while the couple’s three children were at home. Tonya sustained injuries to her lungs, stomach, and neck.
The Chicago Cubs selected Moore in the first round of the 1973 Major League Baseball Draft. In his 13-year career, Moore pitched for the Cubs, the St. Louis Cardinals, the Milwaukee Brewers, the Atlanta Braves, and the Angels. In the thirty-five years since Moore’s suicide, the widely accepted theory is that one post-season pitch thrown to the Boston Red Sox Dave Henderson drove Moore to the depths of despair. Moore threw his fateful pitch when he entered the game with the Angels holding a 5-4 lead, two outs in the ninth inning and a 3-1 advantage in the best of seven series. The Angels were one strike away from advancing to the World Series for the first time in franchise history.
When Moore took the mound, catcher Rich Gedman, who had been hit by a pitch, was on first base. Henderson hit a 2–2 pitch off Moore for a home run to give the Red Sox a 6–5 lead. The Angels were able to score a run in the bottom of the ninth, pushing the game into extra innings which gave the Halos beloved owner Gene Autry hope. Moore returned to the mound and stifled a tenth inning Red Sox rally by getting Jim Rice to ground into a double play. Nonetheless, the Red Sox scored off Moore in the 11th inning with sacrifice fly by his nemesis Henderson. The Red Sox held the Angels scoreless in the bottom of the 11th and lost the game 7–6. The defeat left the Angels with a 3–2 series advantage with two more games to play at Fenway Park. The Angels, however, lost both, by scores of 10–4 and 8–1. After the fifth game, Moore admitted that he made a bad pitch to Henderson. “I was throwing fastballs, and Henderson was fouling them off, so I went with the splitfinger, thought maybe I’d catch him off guard, but it was right in his swing.” Lost in the retelling of the story, Moore was injured during the Red Sox series, received cortisone shots in his shoulder, but never got healthy. After saving nine more games in forty-one appearances over 1987 and 1988, the Angels released Moore. The Kansas City Royals signed him for the 1989 season, but he played only in the minor leagues before being cut in June of that year, ending his 14-year career in baseball.
No one truly understands why Moore, age 35, killed himself. The often-cited reason for Moore’s suicide is that he could not shake his failure against Henderson which prevented the Angels from advancing to the World Series. But pitchers routinely give up gopher balls, many at key times in crucial games. Bad performances in baseball are part of the game. Moore had been arguing with Tonya, and the pair had discussed divorce. But Moore had better options including counseling or separation. Money was not a concern; in 1986, Moore signed a $3 million contract, $8.6 million today. Moore’s 13 years in baseball were more than the average MLB pitcher lasts, and for about five years, he was one of the game’s premier relievers. He pitched two shutout innings in the 1985 All-Star Game. Despite his accomplishments, Moore was deeply depressed.
Moore’s heartbreaking story has a comforting footnote. Because of her injuries, Tonya missed Donnie’s memorial service in Santa Ana and his funeral in Lubbock, Texas. To help Tonya get over her grief and at her request, family attorney Randall Johnson arranged to have Moore’s body brought to her at the hospital. Orderlies delivered his coffin to an empty room, and then wheeled Tonya in. Tonya said the viewing gave her a chance to express her feelings. “I told him I forgive him,” she told the Los Angeles Times from her hospital bed. “I told him I love him. He had a lot of problems, but I still love him. He was a sweet guy.”
Angels’ Pitcher Donnie Moore’s Tragic Story
Autumn rains William Lawrence Sr Cryptowit 9-23-24
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Answer to yesterday’s William Lawrence Sr Cryptowit quote puzzle: Be glad, people of Zion, rejoice in the Lord your God, for he has given you the autumn rains because he is faithful. He sends you abundant showers, both autumn and spring rains, as before.
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Autumn 2024 Starts Now — The 2024autumnal equinox is right now 8:44 a.m., EDT, Sept. 22 according to the Old Farmer’s Almanac as the sun crosses the celestial equator. Fall has arrived in the Northern Hemisphere, and the days are now shorter than the nights and will continue to be so until the spring equinox.
The celestial equator is a circle concentric with the actual equator that extends infinitely to space. As the Earth has a 23 degree tilt the the northern half tilts towards the Sun during half its orbit and away the other half. The equinoxes occur when tilt switches.
Autumn 2024 Starts Now
