Swarthmore Getting LGBTQ Rainbow Crosswalk

Swarthmore Getting LGBTQ Rainbow Crosswalk

By Bob Small

Swarthmore Borough (population 6,523 as of 2023) will have its very own LGBTQ rainbow crosswalk, probably the smallest municipality by population to attain this distinction.

During the public safety segment of the June 12 Council meeting — at about hour 135.30 — it was announced that    $1,000 will be donated by the Borough for paint. All the work is volunteer. (

For what it’s worth, this we believe this is the first Borough Council we missed in 20203.

While we agree with the sentiments behind this project, we wondered what  local other towns have done this.

The June 12  notes will not be voted on until July 10th, then to be entered online.

In Phoenixville (population 19,354) the painting party became a community lovefest. 

“Together, we ensure every person is safe, loved and celebrated,” said Mayor Peter Ueschel

In Doylestown (population 8,532) there was opposition to the painting decision.

“What about Chinese Flags? What about the hammer and sickle?” asked Resident Art Larson.

“If we’re looking to have a better understanding of each other, there are probably things that work better than painting,” said business owner Jona Franklin.

It was noted that “installation and ongoing maintenance costs will be covered by the Doylestown Pride Festival”.

In Canada, Leithbridge has a “permanent transgender pride flag crosswalk and a permanent rainbow crosswalk”. 

We can also add Toronto and Vancouver to this list of cities with pride designations. Besides Philadelphia, we have Key West, Long Beach, Miami Beach, San Francisco, West Hollywood, and many others.

Swarthmore Getting LGBTQ Rainbow Crosswalk

British Movies About The American Revolution

British Movies About The American Revolution

By Bob Small

I have been thinking about how British movies have treated The American Revolution, with July 4 approaching. Well, there are only three such movies that come to mind, and that’s partially because the Revolutionary War is barely taught in Britain.

Many British considered Britain and the colonies to be like a mother and her whining teenager, as this article makes clear.

“The Madness of King George” (1994), a joint British-American production, speaks of George III, who was the king during the war. The film takes place in 1788. “When King George III goes mad, his lieutenants try to adjust the rules to run the country without his participation.”

Note: all plot summaries are from IMDB.

To add to this, the British Prime Minister at the time was Lord Frederick North.

Briefly, there are only three British or British-American films dealing with the war. “The Devil’s Disciple” from 1959 is one of multiple versions of the George Bernard Shaw play, and it has the best cast — i.e., Kirk Douglas, Burt Lancaster, and Lawrence Olivier.

The plot summary is ”the black sheep of a family and the local minister discover their true vocations during the Revolutionary War.”

Next, we have 1985’s “Revolution”, starring Al Pacino. This plot is “a trapper and his young son get pulled into the American Revolution early as unwilling participants and remain involved through to the end.” It’s actually a British-Norwegian production, and it was widely criticized for having been made in England. Though it tanked at the box office and critically, it’s now being re-appraised.

There’s also 1929’s early Brit talkie “The American Prisoner”, whose plot summary is “an American prisoner of war escapes and saves a squire’s daughter.” I did not find any online reviews.

Lastly, there’s a BBC TV series entitled “Rebels and Redcoats” (2003).

There are also a few more films that were made as joint US-Canadian ventures. To be continued.

British Movies About The American Revolution

Students Want Tech Jobs, But Americans Need Not Apply

Students Want Tech Jobs, But Americans Need Not Apply

By Joe Guzzardi

After decades of frustration in their efforts to make major employment breakthroughs in the IT industry, black tech workers may have found a valuable ally. Nex Cubed founder and Chief Executive Officer Marlon Evans has identified tech as an industry where talented individuals affiliated with Historically Black College and Universities (HBCUs) might land well-paid jobs.

Nex Cubed describes itself as a global accelerator that invests in diverse founders dedicated to solving the nation’s most pressing problems. The venture firm’s website states that its goal is to provide seed capital that will empower startups and investors to develop new technologies.

Recently, Nex Cubed announced that, backed by Costco Wholesale’s $5 million financial assistance, the venture capital firm would launch the Historically Black College and University Founders Fund (HBCUFF). This $40 million accelerator will invest in startups where at least one founder is a student, alumni or faculty member of an HBCU.

Led by North Carolina A&T State University, Howard University and Spelman College, HBCUs are responsible for 25 percent of all African-American STEM graduates. With the layoffs of both directly employed and contracted tech workers, Nex Cubed sees openings for black students currently untrained, unrecruited and unemployed in their chosen field.

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s data shows that big tech’s demographic mix is 68 percent white and 64 percent male, statistics that the “Stem News Chronicle” noted. A McKinsey report predicted that the gap in tech employment – the total of black IT workers compared to white – will widen over the next decade. Across all industries, technology jobs – those in data science, engineering, cybersecurity and software development – are expected to grow 14 percent by 2032, but over the same time period, the black tech workers’ percentage is expected to grow only 8 percent.

Nex Cubed understands the reason why U.S.-born tech workers struggle to get gainful employment. From its bulletin: “One of the biggest myths surrounding the [H-1B] program is that it fills labor shortages. While this was Congress’ intent for the program, the U.S. Department of Labor has botched its implementation so badly that H-1Bs are regularly used to replace U.S. workers.”

But understanding what’s going on in the tech employment market – the displacement of skilled, experienced American workers by less qualified, cheaper H-1B visa holders – and affecting a positive pro-U.S. IT employment market are two different things.

Establishing the HBCUFF and emphasizing the underutilized talent that HBCU graduates offer to tech employers are steps in the right direction. But a Net Cubed goal must be to encourage Congress to reform the H-1B visa so that American tech workers, black and white, get the first shot at filling tech jobs. Before COVID-19 and the recent layoffs, the Silicon Valley tech workforce was three-quarters foreign-born. Hundreds of thousands of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services-authorized-to-work nonimmigrant H-1B visa holders are doing jobs that U.S. tech workers are fully qualified to fill.

Because of tech’s mass layoffs – more than 200,000 with more firings anticipated, and possible fraud charges pending against CEOs for improprieties related to the annual H-1B visa lotteries to import H-1B foreign-born contract workers – job openings should be plentiful for HBCU graduates. The CEOs who oversee many of the second- or third-tier white-collar subcontracting firms may face federal investigation. Consequently, the firms in question, many based in India, are closing  up shop, and the executives are fleeing to the home country just ahead of federal prosecution.

Every stakeholder in the battle to put American workers first needs to enter the fray and lobby Congress for meaningful H-1B visa reforms that place U.S. tech workers at the top of the hiring line. The H-1B is the arch enemy of high-skilled but unemployed or underemployed young Americans. In the name of fairness, the visa must either be revised or, better yet, eliminated.

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Joe Guzzardi is a Project for Immigration Reform analyst. Contact him at guzzjoe@yahoo.com.

Students Want Tech Jobs, But Americans Need Not Apply

First Serious Presidential Candidate From North Dakota

First Serious Presidential Candidate From North Dakota

By Bob Small

Doug Burgum, second-term millionaire governor of North Dakota, has declared himself a GOP Candidate for President.

In his campaign website, he touts how he inherited a $1.7 billion state budget shortfall which he balanced by cutting spending.  He’s a self-made millionaire who worked his way through college as a chimney sweep, etc.

The Stanford Graduate, from North Dakota State, (the same college as former Eagles QB Carson Wentz), sold his company, Eagle Great Plains Software, to Microsoft for a cool $1.1 billion.  He began the software company by mortgaging $250,00 of inherited farmland.

He became Governor in 2016 and was re-elected in 2020, despite his ex-wife Karen Stoker campaigning for his opponent, Shelley Lenz

He grew up in Arthur, North Dakota, population  323, 

Why Doug Burgum Could Surprise In The 2024 Republican Primary

 He is among the top six candidates financially.

A New York Times article quotes conservative North Dakota commentator Dustin Gawrylow as saying Burgum “is genuinely thinking this is a vehicle for promoting North Dakota.”

Another New York Times article mentions he has signed eight pieces of anti-trans Legislation, though there was a great deal of protest around this as per this Inform article.

For all of that, there is a great deal of hope for his candidacy.

He signed a bill requiring physicians to inform women that it may be possible to reverse a drug-induced abortion.  For his other views, see these two websites.

According to https://ontheissues.org “he would not back a nationwide ban on abortions and that the issue is best left to the states”.

First Serious Presidential Candidate From North Dakota

Biden Speaks With Forked Tongue About Migration

Biden Speaks With Forked Tongue About Migration

By Joe Guzzardi

Only the most trusting among the general population believe a single utterance from establishment Washington, D.C. In fact, an inverse relationship exists between an issue’s importance and the likelihood entrenched D.C. speaks about it honestly. The more important, the less probable that the public will hear the truth.

The best the populace can hope for is that decades after the damage has been done, architects of the ruinous policies will make half-hearted apologies. A sampling: in the mid-1990s, 20 years after 58,000 American soldiers died in Southeast Asia, former Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara, the war’s chief prosecutor, confessed, “We [President Johnson, Secretary of State Dean Rusk and McNamara] were wrong, terribly wrong.” The war cost $168 billion, or adjusted for inflation, $1 trillion in today’s dollars

Then, in March 2003, speaking from the White House, President George W. Bush lied about weapons of mass destruction that Iraq allegedly kept at the ready. Bush ominously added that those WMDs could “kill thousands or hundreds of thousands of innocent people in our country, or any other.” But in January 2004, David Kay, a former U.N. Weapons Inspector, told Bush that his intelligence was wrong; Iraq had no WMDs, and he resigned. Nevertheless, and largely on Bush’s bad information, the Iraq War lasted from 2003 until 2011, and cost $2 trillion. About 4,700 U.S. and allied troops were killed, as well as more than 100,000 Iraqi citizens. In 2022, Bush sheepishly admitted that the Iraq invasion was “unjustified and brutal.”

The 20-year war in Afghanistan, 2001-2021, purportedly launched to beat back the Taliban, ended in a humiliating withdrawal, but not until the Department of Defense squandered $2.3 trillion, and 243,000 U.S. soldiers, allies and citizens died, exclusive of fatalities by disease, inadequate diet, dehydration and other indirect consequences. Two decades, apparently, isn’t long enough for Presidents Bush, Obama or Trump to apologize for their collective misjudgment in sustaining the Afghan war that the nation could never have been won.

The Biden administration has kept Washington’s commitment to dishonesty alive and well, this time as it mischaracterizes the Southwest border invasion. To hear Biden and his Department of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas describe conditions, agents have operational control of the border; asylum seekers have been thoroughly vetted, and the president’s open borders largesse reflects Americans’ generosity. The inconvenient truth is the opposite of the official narrative.

Since Biden took office, Customs and Border Protection has encountered 6.2 million illegal immigrants and releasedmore than two million of them into the interior. Another estimated 1.5 million gotaways, those who escaped CBP’s detection, are also now part of the general population. Although the official patter is that the border crossers are vetted, the statistics tell a different story. A significant portion of arriving migrants have criminal convictions for rape, assault and murder. A 2021 Department of Justice report revealed that 64 percent of federal arrests in 2018 involved illegal aliens, despite then comprising only 7 percent of the population.

Biden’s open border has lured hundreds of migrants to their deaths. For example, 38 illegal aliens were killed after a fire broke out in a Ciudad Juárez holding facility, and last year, more than 850 illegal aliens died while trying to traverse rough southwestern terrain into the U.S.

In 2022, fentanyl overdose deaths hit 110,000, a record, and are climbing daily. About 150 people O.D. every day from the drug that smugglers bring across the poorly defended Southwest Border. The administration’s welcome-the-world approach to immigration has spawned other crises – sex trafficking, migrant child labor abuse, overwhelmed school districts and hospital overcrowding.

Comparisons between the fallout from long foreign wars and today’s border crisis are not exact. But the similarity is that when a subject affects all Americans – wars and sovereignty-busting open borders – people are lied to. The border mess is still in its earliest stages; Biden has been in office 30 months with 18 months remaining, and possibly four more years if he is reinstalled for a second term. The annual taxpayer cost per the ever-mounting illegal immigrant population including its U.S.-born children is $8,766 per illegal alien. Americans oppose everything about Biden’s law-breaking immigration agenda. A quick rule of thumb: when the subject is immigration, the administration speaks in forked tongues.

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Joe Guzzardi is a Project for Immigration Reform analyst who has been writing about immigration for more than 30 years. Contact him at guzzjoe@yahoo.com.

Biden Speaks With Forked Tongue About Migration

Biden Speaks With Forked Tongue About Migration

Philly Hearing Was Example In Lawfare

Philly Hearing Was Example In Lawfare

By Greg Stenstrom

We were in Philadelphia this past Tuesday defending ourselves, the People of Pennsylvania, and the United States, rights to free speech and to lawfully bring grievances to our government. The Common Pleas Court was giving serious consideration to searching our homes and confiscating our arms, restricting our liberty and movements, gagging and silencing us from speaking anymore about our evidence of massive election fraud, limiting our ability to defend ourselves Pro Se (self-representation), and sanctioning us for $15,000 and other fines. 

The fact that we had a lengthy hearing on those subjects at all and had to vigorously defend ourselves should be of concern to all people and provides a metric of the state of the nation today, and the jeopardy to the liberty of all citizens, which was the point of the hearing. 

It was pure intimidation, harassment and a threat from our government not just to Leah Hoopes and me, but to all People of the United States of America. 

All of our previous motions and requests to the Court in a defamation case where we are codefendants with President Trump, had been summarily denied without hearing or argument allowed that we had requested. 

Frankly, it was not until we accused the Court of malfeasance and drew their ire, that they finally saw fit to have a hearing after more than two years of assaulting us in Philadelphia, Delaware County, Harrisburg, and the US Supreme Court with a literal mountain of litigation meant to bury us, and our evidence, with what is now tens of thousands of pages of filings and responses, and had we not been Pro Se, millions of dollars in legal fees. Their strategy is to isolate, contain and destroy us – and to exhaust us.

That is the high stakes “game” our illegitimate government is playing. A couple of dozen people that have joined us in the fight were in the court room with us, and some have joined us in upcoming legal cases to protect our elections and our community and homes where we live, most notably our hearing on July 11th, before the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania to inspect the mail in ballot envelopes from the most recent election, and previous elections, for their declarations of qualified electors.

The Plaintiff’s attorney, J. Conor Corcoran, in this case, accused us of “threating” (sic) to use “explosive devices” against him, the Plaintiff, James Savage, the Court, and gay people, and placed multiple press releases to that effect preceding the hearing, as well as presented other false evidence before the court. His argument in court expressed admonitions that we (Leah and myself) had abused the court and legal process, and that we didn’t know what we were doing Pro Se, and were wasting everyone’s time.

We did not falter or demure, and plainly asserted our rights, that the truth is a complete defense, and that our efforts over the past three years in the courts, our book “The Parallel Election: A Blueprint for Deception,” and media statements were necessary to protect our loved ones and nation from the pain of “powder box,” which is a metonymy for the lawful provisions of Constitution to redress grievances after all other lawful remedies have been exhausted.

What was said at the end by the Judge was concerning – mostly the fact that without “red flag” laws that are currently before the PA legislature and being aggressively pushed onto a mute, feckless congress without much resistance, that he was powerless to disarm us – and that the US Constitution and PA Constitution, as written, also forbade him from granting the order. The point being that the order was overall reluctantly denied. 

The end result was not a “win,” but rather should be a warning call to all people in the US, because we shouldn’t have been in that courtroom at all defending ourselves from those ridiculous charges. 

Had Leah and myself not been Pro Se (self-represented), and alternatively, a lawyer bound by the bar and rules of the court and threat of censure and disbarment not so vigorously defended us, the outcome would likely have been very different.

If you’re not awake, paying attention, and arming yourself with the facts, and evidence that a relatively small number of misanthropes have stolen out elections and installed an illegitimate government, then you best get started.

This week, we were blessed, and they didn’t get through us. But, more enemies are piling on by the hour, and we are fighting lawfare backed by the 65 Project, the Lincoln Project, battalions of lawyers, and government agencies and surveillance run amok with billions of dollars at their disposal. 

A few dozen of us who are in the fight are holding them back, or at least stalling them with God’s grace, but sooner, or later, they will figure out a way to get by, or simple roll over us without more help – your help.

Facebook will surely shadow ban this post, and few will see it, so please share it if you do. Most will skip by this post, and on to whatever trite meme or media distraction catches their eye. 

But, otherwise, Facebook has become our unofficial means of communicating with our enemies, and enemies of our Republic – who will take the time to read this with great interest, which is the primary reason I take the time to make these posts – for them. 

So to them I say, some of us are still standing the watch, and we will not stop, we will not quit, and we will fight in the courts, no matter how futile they may make that seem. We are counting on good people, good judges, good public servants, and God, to carry the fight, and will keep coming.

Philly Hearing Was Example In Lawfare — Mr. Stenstrom and Leah Hoopes defended themselves, June 20, in a hearing in Philadelphia Common Pleas Court concerning a dubious protection Protective Order Request filed in defamation case relating to the 2020 Election.

Philly Hearing Was Example In Lawfare

Oz Woman Has Plan To Fight Global Tyranny

Oz Woman Has Plan To Fight Global Tyranny

By Bob Small

Australian Monica Smit has organized Global Walkout.

“We are walking out from the Globalist Society they are trying to enslave us into,” she says.

The group says that the tyrant’s agenda includes phasing out cash and bringing in digital currency.

They noted how Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau froze bank accounts just for donations to the protesting truck drivers. 

Their plans include growing one’s own vegetables, sharing skills and using bartering. This is similar to the Transition Town movement.

There is still an active Transition Town in Media Borough, Pa.. I was part of Transition Town Swarthmore until it detransitioned.

Global Walkout differs from Transition Town in that it advocates using cash as much as possible and deleting payment methods from your electronic devices.

Every Second Sunday at 8 p.m. Oz time which is 3 p.m. ESDT a new step will be announced which can be found on its website

“Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they aren’t after you,” as Joeph Heller said. 

Ms Smit, by the way, was named by Inside the Vatican as one of their Top Ten of 2021 for her work as a founder of Reignite Democracy and her time in jail for “incitement”.  I

“Yet, one thing that has remained constant is the determination of individual’s to follow the Spirit’s call,” says the article.

“From age 18 to about 26, I tried the world instead of the Faith to see if it was better than being a Catholic,” Ms. Smits says. “Turns out it wasn’t.”

Further information can be found about her at these links:

BREAKING: Monica Smit ARRESTED for incitement – Rebel News

Monica Smit: Melbourne anti-vaxxer was once a reality TV wannabe | n

Activists Monica Smit and Avi Yemini back in court – The Age

How an anti-mask firebrand fans the right’s flames against Dan Andre

Thanks to Scott from Vermont who sent me the initial article about the Global Walkout.

The group says that the tyrant's agenda includes phasing out cash and bringing in digital currency.

Woke Or Worth It Movie Guide

Woke Or Worth It Movie Guide

By Bob Small

Deciding that the mass of us needed a guide as to whether or not a movie is “woke” or not, James Carrick has created a needed guide for those of us worried about “wokeness”.

He gives his opinion on whether a film is “worth it or woke.”

His ratings are:

woke

woke-ish

non-woke

in the ways he defines woke, including “A woke rating indicates a strong emphasis on activism over narrative”.  It’s possible he means only “left ” activism  over narrative, but that remains to be seen.

To be fair, there were two movies he reviewed which I then compared with IMDB and Rotten Tomatoes;

Sounds of Freedom received an overall score of 97% and an approval under role models.  Surprisingly, IMDB, which usually has both negative and positive reviews, was almost exclusively positive.

Rotten Tomatoes which usually has various opinions also had only positive reviews.  Sounds like a movie to see.

And one more review: billlawrenceonline.com › sound-of-freedom-gettingSound Of Freedom Getting Released – BillLawrenceOnline

Another review was on Spider-Man; Across the Spiderverse.  He finds a problem with a “2.5 second flash of  a “Protect the Trans Kids sign” in Gwen’s room” but otherwise seems to like the film.

Again, IMDB and Rotten Tomatoes seem to agree.

One can understand that there is are well-made movies with bad intentions like the silent Birth of A Nation as opposed to  poorly made movies with good intentions like Guess who’s Coming to Dinner.  We all have our belief systems but we should also be open to any art that questions it and hopefully he has that capacity.

Two “left” critiques of his website are:

https://www.rollingstone.com › culture › culture-features › worth-it-or-woke-film-critic-red-pilled-review-1234740605

https://bgr.com › entertainment › worth-it-or-woke-is-a-rotten-tomatoes-alternative-for-conservatives

In short, though I won’t agree with all of their reviews, it seems an interesting addition to IMDB, which has been my main source, which is why I signed up with Worth it or Woke. At least, this gives me someone else to argue with in future posts, now that I’m receiving them on a regular basis.

Follow-up;  One of the first reviews received indicated Padre Pio was a poorly made movie with good intentions, and IMDB generally agreed.

Work Or Worth It Movie Guide

Will Marianne Williams Spoil Kennedy Bid?

Will Marianne Williams Spoil Kennedy Bid?

By Bob Small

Democrats are fond of the term “spoiler” in reference to candidates they consider “fringe” candidates, with no realistic chance of winning, but possibly siphoning votes away from the :machine” candidates.

During my active time with the Green Party, both Jill Stein and Ralph Nader were dubbed “spoilers” who might cause their candidates to lose.  If the best candidate you can choose is Hillary Clinton rather than Bernie Sanders, say, you’ve probably already spoiled your chances for victory.

In her second run at the Presidency, Marianne’s website lists some illuminating ideas.  However, she may only be spoiling the chances of Robert F. Kennedy, Jr, the  other major Democratic candidate.

On her website, one could wade through her eight page “Economic Bill of Rights” and discover some quality ideas such as the right for universal quality healthcare and the right  to an equitable and fair justice system.  Other sections are equally verbose. Health is nine pages; Climate Action, 8 pages, and Why I’m Running is seven pages.

Some of the alternative parties that I used to run with insisted on handing out double-sided flyers and I would want to scream “Who are you trying to reach?”  Less is always more in these instances.

One place where Marianne will do well is Fairfield, Iowa but they are in a highly spiritual universe that probably doesn’t exist in over one-tenth, if that, of our country.

And like many others, she may lack the “people skills” required for a lengthy campaign.

Her decision-making may also be called into question.

If Marianne Williamson is not a “spoiler”, she is, at best, a “vanity Candidate”, like Chris Christie or Francis Suarez.  Hopefully, she gets what she wants from her campaign.

Will Marianne Williams Spoil Kennedy Bid?

Juneteenth Our Most Recent Holiday

Juneteenth Our Most Recent Holiday

By Bob Small

Today, June 19, is Juneteenth, the most recent of our 11 Federal Holidays, having been signed into law on June 17, 2021.

It  commemorates  June 14, 1865 when the Juneteenth Order (General Order #3), co-written by General Gordon Granger and his subordinate Major Frederick Emery, was posted throughout Galveston, TX.

Pennsylvania deems the day an “official annual observance”,  first recognized as an observance in 2019.

Texas was the first state to recognize Juneteenth as a permanent state holiday, it does not recognize the day as an observance.?!

Opal Lee is called “the grandmother of Juneteenth”. She began a walking campaign at the the age of 89 (2016) which eventually led to the creation of the Juneteenth holiday. She has written a Juneteenth children’s book. She is raising funds for a National Juneteenth Museum in Fort Worth, Texas, the same city where, as a child, she watched her house being burnt down by a white mob. She is quite an extraordinary woman.

Not all Afro-Americans see Juneteenth in the same way;  Professor Robert A.. Brown of Morehouse notes “Lawmakers have been more willing to engage in performative symbolism than passing laws to make substantive change”.

He cites police reform and reparations as two roads not yet taken. Others add voting rights to this list.

Though others still celebrate.

Juneteenth Our Most Recent Holiday