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Affairs of Wizards William Lawrence Sr Cryptowit 3-22-25
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Answer to yesterday’s puzzle: Do not meddle in the affairs of Wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.
J. R. R. Tolkien
God vs Nothing — A comic neatly sums up and destroys the philosophy of the nihilist hipsters who now sit in the drivers seat of our culture.
Courtesy of @RealGemBalboa
Charlie Off Ballot In Delco — The Delaware County (Pa) Republican Party has successfully removed Charlie Alexander of Marple from the ballot for the May 20 primary election.
Despite Charlie getting 1,500 petition signatures for the County Council race.
The challenge concerned the filing of a financial statement.
It was likely an inadvertent misreading of requirements and easily corrected.
Those who enforce the election code are notorious for their insistence on obeying every jot and tittle of it.
At least for those who run against the establishment.
We are not fans of Charlie and we are confident that he would have fairly lost to party-endorsed Liz Piazza and Brian Burke.
It remains, however, an extremely boneheaded move by GOP leaders which they have compounded with a crowing statement dissing Charlie’s supporters, most of whom are honest, very hard working activists and wonderful people.
You know, the kind you want on your side.
We plan on writing in Sharon Devaney and then backing the GOP ticket for the general as it is about the only way of saving Delco from the mind-blowing corruption that effuses the county Democrats like odor from a rock-concert port-a-potty.
We’d also like to point out that we generally like GOP Chairman Frank Agovino and his leadership team. We have no plans to pile on other than to point out that they really screwed up here.
Judicial Watch And Who They Watch
By Bob Small
Judicial Watch is a “conservative non-partisan educational foundation” whose motto is “Because no one is above the law”. This group, which we also learnt about at the annual Bill of Rights Banquet, is in the news.
It has over 60 major legal wins since 2001 albeit few against Republican administrations.
One crusade concerns the extraordinarily extreme roadblocks created by authorities against those with whom they disagree.
While few of their fights are in support of traditionally liberal causes a recent one focused on animal rights, namely the controversial killing of the pet squirrel Peanut by New York State.
And they also took on former Vice-President Dick Cheney, which they unfortunately lost.
Judicial Watch has been praised by The New York Times as being “the group has forced the release of government records that would otherwise have been kept from the public.” quote from NY Times as per Wikipedia
All sides recognize Judicial Watch as conservative.
Judicial Watch notes though that corruption is nonpartisan and does not occur in one specific ideology.
A group that watches Judicial Watch is Democracy Docket which takes issue with Judicial Watch lawsuit to purge thousands of voters in Pennsylvania.
Democracy Docket, by the way, was founded in 2020 by Democratic Party lawyer Marc Elias. Democracy Docket They have the support of Hillary Clinton and Eric Holder
We’ll be curious to see the actions of Judicial Watch over Trump’s current term.
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Answer to yesterday’s puzzle: The first day of spring is one thing, and the first spring day is another. The difference between them is sometimes as great as a month.
Henry Van Dyke
Not in your shoes William Lawrence Sr Cryptowit 3-20-25
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Answer to yesterday’s puzzle: If your socks are not in your shoes, don’t look for them in Heaven.
Thomas Banacek
Spring 2025 Starts Now –According to our server’s clock it is now 5:01 a.m., EDT, March 20, which means the vernal equinox is happening and Spring 2025 has begun.
Equinox is Latin for “equal night.” Days and nights are approximately equal everywhere and the Sun rises and sets due east and west, explains The Old Farmers Almanac. At the equinoxes, the tilt of Earth relative to the Sun is zero, which means that Earth’s axis neither points toward nor away from the Sun.
Vernal comes from the Latin vernalis which means spring.
Bulging Shapiro Budget To Be Exposed –Pennsylvania State Sen. Dawn Keefer will be among the speakers at tomorrow’s, March 20, Keystone Town Hall.
Her topic is exposing Shapiro’s Bulging Budget.
Also on the agenda are Twin Valley vs “Renewable Energy” and an analysis as to how Trump won.
The meeting is 7 p.m., at the Desmond Hotel, 1 Liberty Blvd., Malvern, Pa. 19355
For information email KeystoneTownHall@pm.me
GOP Gives Boneheaded Challenge To Charlie’s Petition — Charlie Alexander X-posted, last night, March 18, that the Delaware County Republican Party is challenging his petition for the May 20 primary alleging he incorrectly filed the required financial statements with the county.
This is mind-blowing stupidity by the GOP.
We think stupid games are unnecessary for party-endorsed Liz Piazza and Brian Burke to beat Charlie.
And a loss by Charlie means that the sore-loser law takes effect preventing him from a third-party run
It might even mean a better outcome.
Treating Charlie with a little respect might even garner his support.
If Charlie should win, of course, it means the people will have spoken and no party can win without its people.
Charlie says he got 1,500 signatures That is 1,250 more than required.
When candidates do the things of which Charlie is accused, it is invariably an innocent misreading of unnecessarily complex and arcane legalese, and easily correctable.
This game playing is only going to cause the many people in this county who think like Charlie to stay home and the GOP will lose a very winnable election.
Even if Charlie doesn’t run as an independent.
And for the record Charlie, Sharon Devaney was never in any secret meetings with the Republican Party.
GOP Gives Boneheaded Challenge To Charlie’s Petition
Cyber Attacks Created Year Of Tears
By Sharon Devaney
Swattings of anti-corruption crusaders are in the news. I’m far from the most prominent but include me among the victims, of at least something similar.
My experiences didn’t concern armed police. These cyber-attacks led to a year of misery, tears and despair, however. My bank account was robbed. Notices from Toyota were never received leading to missed payments.
The most dangerous attack might have been when I never was told my health insurance payments had stopped. I didn’t realize that I had gone six-months without health insurance until renewal time came in December and I was wondering why I wasn’t getting the usual email and text warnings from my provider.
There was good reason for the missing emails. Someone changed my email address on their records to one I hadn’t used in more than decade.
I learned that this address had also been changed on bonus plans including at CVS, Claire’s and Victoria Secrets. The most recent revelation was that it was changed at my accountant, which is why I hadn’t gotten the usual reminders this tax season that I actually depend on.
So why didn’t I get text messaging?
That’s where the swatting connection comes in. Swatters use the actual phone numbers of their victims when making their false 911 reports.
I’m certain someone had been using this tech to block my phone number from long-time friends and clients. One close friend said she received an insulting text from me. I never sent it, of course, and she knows me well enough to not think I did. I wonder, though, if others who I don’t see regularly got similar ones.
If they did, please know it wasn’t me.
Other troubling/frightening things were an inability to send messages on Facebook and the disappearance of my Uber app after an ordered a ride. Even the driver was perplexed as to that happening.
I reported the bank theft to Haverford Police and my bank was able to make good on it. I’ve also made a reports to the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3.gov), along with the security offices at my health insurance provider, Verizon and Apple.
I have a new phone number and things seem to be working. I’m back in touch with some old friends, my car payments are up-to-date and I have health insurance.
If you are a friend or old client please send me a note at info@BillLawrenceOnline.com and I’ll give you my contact info.
Whoever did this though deserves to rot for a long time in a bad prison.
The tears, fear and despair were real.
