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Harder the wooing William Lawrence Sr Cryptowit 3-27-25
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Answer to yesterday’s puzzle: The harder the wooing, the sweeter the winning.
Evelyn Waugh
Pennsylvania GOP Loses Safe Seat; Wake Up Delco — The Pennsylvania GOP, yesterday, March 26, lost a state senate seat it had held since 1978.
Democrat James Malone beat Republican Josh Parsons in the 36th District in Lancaster County by 482 votes which was a margin of less than 1 percent.
Trump won the district by 17 points.
Parson was a Lancaster County commissioner.
The seat had been held by Ryan Aument who resigned to become become the state director for Dave McCormick who just won a seat to the US Senate.
We have written about Aument.
It’s like we saw it coming.
Pennsylvania Republican leaders better wake up.
Same old, same old is not going to work.
The wake up better start in Delaware County, where the GOP is about to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.
It orchestrated the removal of a fellow — who let us note we did not and do not plan to back — who had indisputable widespread support.
The removal was done in the hackish fashion that we have long despised.
This BS, by the way, can no longer be hidden.
And the people sure as sugar don’t like it.
The stupidity was compounded by a crowing statement dissing the fellow’s supporters followed by a mocking meme.
We’ll further note that we like Delco’s GOP leadership. We think Chairman Frank Agovino, Dave Galluch, Michael Straw and Rob Jordan are decent guys despite the attacks on them. We are convinced that they are honest and mean well.
The buck stops with the leadership, though, which means the division is the leadership’s fault.
We encourage Delco’s Republican leaders to reach out quickly to the other side. Start with Leah Hoopes and Greg Stenstrom.
Leah and Greg have legitimate grievances with the Delco GOP. They were abandoned when they spoke out in 2020 after the presidential election which caused them tremendous personal suffering.
We also suspect they will mistrust any peace offering. We are convinced, however, they will listen to reason as their goals are sincere and anything but mercenary.
The GOP bosses don’t have to concede every one of their points, either. They must, however, concede that they have points.
Really, Frank, when the Dems tried to change the law to pack the Election Board, don’t ya kinda think it was maybe even just a little red flag?
And why haven’t you made an issue of the Democrat-controlled council’s unwillingness to accept rulings by the Pennsylvania Office of Open Records to release certain election records?
Making that an issue would flip the “election denier” argument right back on them.
Why aren’t they trying to stop the widespread skepticism, after all?
This is a winnable election.
Even registered Democrats want easy access to hospitals, which is looking to be no longer the case in Delco.
Nobody wants 24 percent tax hikes to fund incompetence, corruption and stupidity.
We are writing in Sharon Devaney for County Council, May 20, then voting for the GOP ticket in November.
We aren’t confident that it’s going to do much good.
The one thing that gives us hope is Meaghan Wagner who is running for Register of Wills against Vinnie Rongione.
She seems to know how to fight.
Maybe she’ll carry the rest of them.
Shroud Of Turin Replica At HMB — A replica of the Shroud of Turin is on display at Holy Myrrh-Bearers Ukrainian Catholic Church through Saturday, March 29.
It’s worth seeing.
Check the link or see below for hours.
Citizen Activism Protects Busway — SEPTA is hard at work its the long-neglected Hathaway Lane busway in Ardmore and we accept a nice chunk of credit for the authority getting off its tail and going to work.
Well done, Sharon Devaney.
As work progressed, however, a new and deep pothole was found by Ellen Segal DiStefano. She told a SEPTA worker who responded that it was a township problem.
So she called Haverford Township who told her it was a SEPTA problem.
She persisted, however. She contacted elected officials and wrote about it on Facebook’s South Ardmore Business Alliance.
Lo and behold the pothole is gone.
Well done, Ellen DiStefano.
Citizen Activism Protects Busway
Characters do William Lawrence Sr Cryptowit 3-26-25
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Answer to yesterday’s puzzle: An author’s characters do what he wants them to do.
W. E. B. Griffin
Bird in the hand William Lawrence Sr Cryptowit 3-25-25
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Answer to yesterday’s puzzle: A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush
English Proverb
Trump Welcomed With Flag Waves
By Tevin Dix
Over the weekend I attended two Trump flag waves. It was fun, but I encountered opposition.
On Saturday, President Trump attended the NCAA Wrestling Championships at the Wells Fargo Center and I met up with a couple of patriots to give him a warm welcome. Unfortunately we were outnumbered by counter protesters.
On Sunday, President Trump attended an event at a golf course in Bedminster, N. J. I joined group of Patriots to give him a warm welcome. Once again, I encountered opposition, but that didn’t stop me. They didn’t even stay that long, which was the funny part.
Trump Welcomed With Flag Waves
Anger slays William Lawrence Sr Cryptowit 3-24-25
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Answer to yesterday’s puzzle: For anger slays the foolish man,
And jealousy kills the simple.
Job
Like newborn babies William Lawrence Sr Cryptowit 3-23-25
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Answer to yesterday’s William Lawrence Sr Cryptowit: Like newborn babies, crave pure spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up in your salvation, now that you have tasted that the Lord is good.
1 Peter
Detrans Awareness Day 2025
By Bob Small
Scott has left Vermont to return to Philadelphia. Maybe we do need a Pennsylvania Border Patrol.
Scott informed me that March 12 was Detrans Awareness Day. If you missed this, as did most of us, you can see it here: Detrans Awareness Day – LIVE from Capitol Hill
This 4th Detrans Awareness Day is sponsored by Genspect. Relatively new to the culture wars, this group was founded in June of 2021 by “gender-critical” psychotherapist Stella O’Malley.
Genspect works with Society for Evidence-based Gender Medicine (SEGM)
Both have been designated as “anti-LGBTQ hate groups b the Southern Poverty Law Center.
Check their list to see which one you might be long too.
Their enemy group is primarily World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH)
At the conference, “one Detransition activist, Soren Aldaro”
urged legislation that would mandate insurance providers to cover “detransition treatment”.
Much as transition treatment has some coverage.
There was much criticism of the New York Times coverage of the event which Times described as being “anti-trans” as in this article by Katie Baker
Suffice it to say, the above is a situation that should rarely happen, if at all.
One next-to-last opinion Genspect and the illusion of good intent – Arsha’s Substack where the Blogger speaks to his father “To have these difficult conversations coming from a source of love and concern”
Not, we should add, from a wellspring of hate and condemnation.
Full Disclosure; My opinions on Transition, if anyone cares, have evolved to the opinion that transition should only occur when the transitioner has achieved the age of 18 and after a full year of therapy.
