Alleged Cult Murder in Delco

Alleged Cult Murder in Delco

By Bob Small

Very rarely does a Delco Murder catch the nation’s eye, but the alleged murder in Chester Heights by Michelle Zajko of her parents Rita and Richard Zajko seems to be all over Fox News and other outlets. It could be because she is a “person of interest” in the previous killing of Border Patrol Agent David Maland Jan. 20 in Coventry, Vt.

Or it could be her membership in a cult-like group known as the Zizians.

Or it could be that she’s a transexual.

She’s certainly aware of the Zizans’ status, saying of the coverage of the group “ has painted them as “Satan’s lapdogs, the devil and the Manson family all rolled into one.”

There are many articles on the Zizians most of which tirelessly remind us that Ziz Lasota, the alleged founder, is a transexual as are many o Zizians. Many of them are also vegetarians, but that’s not as frequently mentioned.

One fascinating tidbit can be found in this BBC article. In 2022 after her failure to show up at a court hearing her lawyer said she was “now deceased after a boating accident in the San Francisco Bay area”. She even received an obituary in an Alaska Newspaper. How many of us, besides her and Mark Twain, have been able to claim to have read their own obituary?

Forget the noise about the Zizians being transexual and vegetarian. According to the Desert Sun quoting the San Francisco Chronicle, many Zizians had worked previously at either Google or NASA. Poulami Saha, a professor at UC, Berkeley said “The internet culture and the absolute immersion that’s possible there means there are forms of connection that only appear only after the fact” She went on to add, “We are kind of grasping for a story that makes sense of it. … People on the outside can never fully know what’s happening on the inside.” Basically, this is not an hour documentary, more like a twelve chapter mini-series.

As we get closer to trial date, in Maryland, it gets curiouser and curiouser. Stay tuned!

Alleged Cult Murder in Delco

A Blast At Wrestlecon

A Blast At Wrestlecon

By Tevin Dix

Wrestlecon is a small pro wrestling convention where you met former WWE Superstars, WWE Legends and wrestlers from other organizations for photo ops and autographs. They even have a little wrestling superstore. They are not associated with the WWE but when WWE has a big event in town they’ll have their convention near by.  The one I attended was Aug. 1-2 in Newark, N. J.

I attended Aug. 2.

MY EXPERIENCE: This was my first time attending and I had a great time. Like seriously I couldn’t smiling because I was ecstatic with joy. I had the opportunity to take a picture with some of the legends. Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to meet everybody, but it was cool to stop by their table and shake some hands. My favorite part of the event was meeting my childhood hero, Jeff Hardy. He’s the reason I fell in love with a professional wrestling. 

WHO WAS THERE: Tommy Dreamer, The Steiner Brothers, Carlito, Sting, Mickey James, Victora, Jerry “The King” Lawler, Abdula the Buther, Kevin Nash, Lio Rush, Jake the Snake, The Hardy Boyz, Kurt Angle, Enzo Amore , Layla, Mark Henry, JBL, The Great Muta, Bret Hart, Billy Gunn, The Honky Tonkman and etc. 

I had such a great time and I’ll do this again.  

A Blast At Wrestlecon
Jeff Hardy with Tevin
A Blast At Wrestlecon
With Mickey James
A Blast At Wrestlecon
With Lex Lugar
A Blast At Wrestlecon
The Legendary Jake the Snake at Wrestlecon

Trump Must Slash Employment Visas

Trump Must Slash Employment Visa

By Joe Guzzardi

President Donald Trump has a second golden opportunity to end the H-1B visa program that, since it became commonly used in the early 1990s, has displaced millions of qualified Americans.

During his first presidency, Trump—who campaigned on a “Hire American” platform—let the opportunity to cut 85,000 H-1B visa foreign nationals from the labor market and replace them with U.S. tech workers slip through his hands. In 2017, President Trump’s first year in the White House, the H-1B visa represented a grave threat to U.S. tech workers and recent college graduates seeking entry-level, white-collar technology jobs. Today, the tech job market is more dire.

recent social media post revealed depressing statistics that America First supporters should note. President Trump must examine these numbers closely and end the job-destroying H-1B program. In 2024, 384 tech companies—including Cisco Systems, Intel, mMicrosoft, Meta, and Amazon—laid off 124,000 workers. Combined with the 428,449 tech workers who lost their jobs in 2022 and 2023, plus those laid-off in 2025, the employment picture is ominous. In the current year to date, 100,000 jobs were cut. Meanwhile, H-1B petitions hit the fiscal year cap within six months, and foreign nationals received 82% of all new tech jobs. Offshoring has reached record highs, with entire shadow economies emerging worldwide to replace American tech jobs which led to office closures across the nation. Meta, Microsoft, Instagram, and Walmart Tech have shut offices in Austin, Portland, Menlo Park, and other IT centers. U.S.-based employers have expanded hiring abroad faster than domestically for the past seven years—a trend especially evident among tech and consulting firms.

Salesforce, having recently announced major Bay Area workforce layoffs, provides a good example. Concurrently, over the past five years, the company has shifted its employee base increasingly to international hires. Salesforce is not alone: U.S.-headquartered multinational enterprises that employ workers both abroad (offshore) and domestically (onshore) have grown their offshore workforce faster in recent years than their onshore workforce. Among these companies, the number of offshore workers grew by 32% since 2019, while those employed onshore grew by 16.7%—a net 15.3% increase in offshore employment.

President Trump has done outstanding work securing the Southwest border. Within six months, border apprehensions dropped to zero—an all-time monthly low. Now is the time for the president to turn his attention to ending the dozens of temporary non-immigrant visas that include work authorization. He should start by curtailing the H-1B, an idea that first came to him in June 2020. More than five years ago, President Trump signed an Executive Order that directed the Secretaries of Labor and Homeland Security to take appropriate actions within 45 days to protect any adverse effects on wages and working conditions caused by H-1B visa holders including doing work at 3rd party sites.

Nothing productive came of that EO perhaps because by November President Trump would be a lame duck. At a recent White House AI summit, however, President Trump hinted that he’s again leaning in the right direction. For too long, the president said, much of America’s tech industry has pursued “radical globalism” that left millions of Americans feeling “distrustful and betrayed.” Many of our largest tech companies, the president continued, “have reaped the blessings of American freedom while building their factories in China, hiring in India, and shifting profits to Ireland. All the while dismissing [via H-1B hires] and even censoring their fellow citizens right here at home. Under President Trump, those days are over.”

Congress has also taken notice of the negative impact the H-1B visa has in academia. Representatives Tom Tiffany (R-WI) and Andrew Clyde (R-GA) introduced the Colleges for the American People Act, or CAP Act, which would end the long-standing H-1B visa cap exemption for U.S. colleges and universities. If enacted, all prospective foreign hires seeking to enter on a U.S. visa—including administrators and professors—would be required to compete under the existing visa cap. Wisconsin Right Now found that the University of Wisconsin System employs nearly 500 foreign workers on H-1B visas, earning salaries totaling almost $43 million annually—income that could have gone to qualified U.S. citizens.

Guest worker visa programs have operated on autopilot for so long that both Republican and Democratic administrations have either forgotten about or stopped caring about its collective and devastating effect on the domestic labor market. In 2024, an estimated 740,000 H-1B holders and an additional 100,000 H-4B visas designated for H-1B holders’ spouses were issued. Another j500,000 work-authorized foreign nationals with temporary, unnecessary visas compete with Americans for employment in a shrinking labor market.

For President Trump to fulfill his America First agenda, he must slash legal visas that allow temporary workers easy access to blue and white-collar jobs yet rarely require them to return home. He should take aim at the biggest offender—the H-1B visa, which President Jimmy Carter’s Secretary of Labor Ray Marshall called “one of the best con jobs ever done on the American public and political systems.” Ample evidence from left-leaning and conservative think tanks supports Marshall’s brutally honest assessment of the H-1B visa.


Joe Guzzardi is an Institute for Sound Public Policy analyst. Contact him at jguzzardi@ifspp.org

Trump Must Slash Employment Visa

The German American Internment

The German American Internment

By Bob Small

When we hear about US Internment Camps, we automatically think of the Japanese Internment Camps that occurred during World War 2, both for the massive publicity they have been given and for the public apologies and reparations that have occurred, both of which, in my opinion, were deserved.

Less well-known are the German-American Internment Camps, the only group interned during both World Wars.

A total of 2,048 were incarcerated by 1918 and the Internment of German Americans was coordinated by the Department of Justice Alien Registration Section, headed by the then 23-year-old John Edgar Hoover, the future FBI director.

Prior to that, evacuees from two German Cruisers, Prinz Eitel Friedrich and Kronprinz Wilhelm were moved on Oct 1916 to The Philadelphia Navy Yard where their lodgings became known as “The German Village”.

During World War II, 11,507 persons of German ancestry were interned which was 36.1 percent of the total internments. Approximately 4,500 Germans were deported from 15 Latin American countries and landed in other US Internment camps. Some internees were not released until 1948.

Following the example of the interned Japanese, in 2005, activists formed The German American Internee Coalition: Home. There is also the proposed S.1356 – Wartime Treatment Study Act 107th Congress (2001 … brought up a number of times.

Of course, this history has been denied and distorted. One frequently cited source, Personal Justice Denied lists only four of the 50 internment sites. It should also be noted that 64 percent of those arrested during World II, were either European or European Americans.

For a more thorough review, see Fear Itself: Inside the FBI Roundup of German Americans …

The Alien Enemies Act of 1798, issued during the Presidency of John Adams says that all 14 old males and up from the warring nation, “who shall be within the United States, and not actually naturalized, shall be liable to be apprehended, restrained, secured and removed, as alien enemies.”

According to A History of the Alien Enemies Act, this act was first used during the War of 1812.

See also

WWII: U.S. Germans Were “Enemy Aliens”

How does the Alien Enemies Act work?

The German American Internment

Dr Oz And Bobby And A Wobble of Canadian Ostriches

Dr Oz And Bobby And A Wobble of Canadian Ostriches

By Bob Small

Due to Avian Flu fears the Canadian Health Dept. was preparing to cull 400 Ostriches from a a British Columbia farm. However, RFK, Jr. requested the Canadian Food Inspection Authority (CFIA) not proceed with the cull.

Bobby Kennedy Jr., of course, is our Secretary of Health and Human Services.

Universal Ostrich Farms of British Columbia had requested an exemption but was denied.

They are not going to take it, it should be noted.

And some experts oppose the cull.

“Only one exemption to a cull order has been granted in Canada,

Fiona Brinkman, from Simon Fraser University’s Molecular Biochemistry and Biology wants the CFIA to conduct new tests because so much time has passed since the initial cull order was given.”\

MAGA supporters and the Canadian Freedom Convoy are working together against what they – and Bobby — perceive as “government overreach”.

Dr. Mehmet Oz is also supporting the big birds even offering to house them at his Florida ranch”.

Dr. Oz told the New York Post “The Canadians should stop putting their heads in the sand,” he said. “ and study herd immunity by keeping them alive.

Billionaire John Catsimaditis of the Save our Ostriches believes the birds have “life- saving antibodies.

The plight of the “wobble”– a term for a group of ostriches — has Canadians on both sides of the issue.

Gozmodo has a fairly snide article — RFK Jr. Begs Canada to Pardon 400 Ostriches — about it.

They quote Dr. Oz, however, saying “We’re sticking our necks out for the birds.”

Mostly, though, this was an opinion piece masquerading as a news article.You have to read Ostriches facing cull at Canada farm find unexpected allies to discover some of RFK Jr’s other allies and co-signers,

See also RFK Jr wants Canada to pardon 400 ostriches

If you search the March 5th letters section of Northeast Times: Home there’s an interesting letter entitled RFK Jr, the new Elliot Ness.

Dr Oz And Bobby And A Wobble of Canadian Ostriches

Art for the Ages at DCCC

Art for the Ages at DCCC

By Bob Small

Having previously written about the music series at Delaware County Community College — which continues — we move on to the visual arts.

When visiting the colleges free art gallery which is hosting the 2025 Senior Community Services Art Show through July 31.

My expectations were modest but they were pleasantly exceeded.

Senior Community Service Centers involved included:

Chester Senior Center

Friendship Circle Senior Center

Good Neighbor Senior Center

Schoolhouse Senior Center

Also involved was the Center Without Walls – Senior Community Services.

Feeling that pictures are worth the thousand words, see below;

Art for the Ages at DCCC

Art for the Ages at DCCC
Art for the Ages at DCCC
Art for the Ages at DCCC

No Kings Protest Brought To You By The Democratic Party

No Kings Protest Brought To You By The Democratic Party

By Bob Small

There’s no denial that the NoKings protest was a Democratic plot. This is only disappointing if you expected that this came from “the people” to use a socialism. A few examples from this article:

Already, I established in analysis for the Pearl Project, a nonprofit journalism initiative, that the protests are organized by 197 organizations aligned with the Democratic Party.

At least 70 unique Democratic Party committees and clubs are organizing at least 140 protest events across the country in at least 19 states and the District of Columbia.

Democratic Party clubs are also organizing protests in at least four countries overseas: Australia, Italy, Mexico, and Norway, with groups like Democrats Abroad Norway.

Lastly, one anonymous democratic volunteer said , “It feels less like a movement and more like a performance.” They were told which graphics to share, how to word the signs and even how to answer reporters.

“It is like the whole protest is a campaign rollout — but in protest clothes,” the volunteer said.

Not that other, non-Democratic groups weren’t involved but the big money came from the “Big D”.

See No Kings: A Rigged, Paid Uprising (As Usual) That Seems … and also“No Kings” Demonstrators Acknowledge Soros NGOs Paying … both these similar

Articles citing an outreach for “the toughest dudes in the area”. There’s also a listing of what we can safely call “Dem support groups”, much as there are also “GOP support groups”.

Under the second cited article, under the Craigslist ad title “Operator”, we learn that a weekly pay of $6,500 to $12,500 to those willing to “go into dangerous situations and work as “a select team of the toughest men in the area”. This ad was taken down before I could contact anyone in Swarthmore I knew who qualified for this position.

Since Larry Krasner no longer needs him, I guess “old George” has to do something.

California Governor Gavin Newsom responded to the posting, on X, of a photo of a burning car, with the citation “Another “mostly peaceful protest” brought to you by @Gavin Newsom. Deport”.

Newsom’s Press Office responded by asking “Are you going to send the marines the next time the Philadelphia Eagles win, too?”

Make of the above what you will.

No Kings Protest Brought To You By The Democratic Party

Who else is behind No Kings

Who else is behind No Kings

By Bob Small

There’s a plethora of agitation groups involved in the No Kings/No ICE Demonstrations. Some truly believe they’re on the right side of history by being on the “left side”.

Antifa has a long history of disruption and refuses to return any of my electronic messages, so they could present “their” side. Leads one to conclude they don’t have one.

BAP (The Black Alliance for Peace) is much more communicative. “Nuestra America” they have translated into “Our Americas” “to help bridge the gap between the US usage “America” that describes the United States as the only “America” and the concept put forth by revolutionary forces.” “

From Canada to Chile” as they say.

Their website is rather thick due to the inclusiveness of Spanish and “Haitian Kreyo;” for nearly every paragraph. They are currently working on a “Zone of Peace Campaign”.

Chirla is a pro-immigrant organization that is mainly based in California and was founded in 1986. They have along history of advocating for immigrant rights.

Their is a dedication to immigrant rights. Note, one of the listings under CSO is the Chicago Symphony Orchestra but nothing about immigrant rights.

For another viewpoint

Fire Dangerous LAUSD Educator Ron Gochez

In Defense of Ron Gochez and Unión del Barrio

The 1942 Attack On Ellwood

The 1942 Attack On Ellwood

By Bob Small

The residents of Goleta, CA were preparing to listen to FDR deliver his “fireside chat” on the radio on Sunday Night, Feb 23, 1942, less than three months after the Dec 7 attack on Pearl Harbor At approximately 7:15 pm, a Japanese I-17 submarine began to fire at the Ellwood Oil Field’

The only injury was a soldier who had tried to deactivate an unexploded shell for which he later received a purple heart. This sub was later sunk in August 1943 by the Royal New Zealand Navy and US Navy Planes around Australia.

This gave birth to a large number of conspiracy theories. For one of these see Goleta the Good Land: Tompkins, Walker A.

Meanwhile, two days later, Radio Tokyo falsely reported “Santa Barbara, California was devastated by enemy bombardment.”

The American Oil and Gas Historical Society fills in some missing details Japanese Sub attacks Oilfield as the effects.. This not only fanned the flames of a Japanese invasion , “but quickly led to the largest mass UFO sighting in U.S. history.”

Meanwhile in LA “The U.S. Army’s 37th Anti-Aircraft Brigade fired at elusive “unidentified airplanes.” The brigade fired 1,340 rounds. “ Many Los Angelinos feared an alien invasion, either from Japan or from another planet.

The Carriage and Western Art Musem of Santa Barbera has a more succinct view of the incident. Monies were collected to build a bomber to be named “The Flying Santa Barbara” It remains unbuilt.

Besides influencing the decision to create the Japanese Internment this was “the furthest direct attack on a land target that the Japanese Empire” made during the war. This was the first bombardment of the US since the 1814 Battle of Baltimore.

Lest we state incorrectly that only Japanese and Japanese-Americans were interned during World War 2. both Germans Internment of German Americans and Italians were also interned, albeit at a much lower level.

Lastly, a John Belushi movie was made, based on “The bombing of Los Angelos” 1941 (film).

Based on the IMDB reviews it may be the worst movie associated with the name of Steven Spielberg.

 100th Anniversary Of The Great Independence Day Pitching Duel

 100th Anniversary Of The Great Independence Day Pitching Duel

By Joe Guzzardi

On Independence Day 100 years ago—July 4, 1925—50,000 baseball bugs flocked to Yankee Stadium to watch the traditional holiday double-dip between two teams that had fallen from their American League pinnacles.

The Philadelphia Athletics, led by manager/owner Connie Mack—”Mr. Mack” to the baseball world—were between two dynasties. Mack had led his A’s to pennants from 1910-1914, and with his $100,000 Infield and pitchers Eddie Plank, Albert “Chief” Bender, and Rube Waddell, won three World Series during that period. But when the nascent Federal League raided MLB teams, Mack chose not to engage in bidding wars for his players. Instead, he sold or traded his superstars and rebuilt a second dynasty that included Hall of Famers Al Simmons, Mickey Cochrane, one of baseball’s best hitting catchers, and Jimmy Foxx, who hit 30 or more home runs in 12 consecutive seasons and drove in 100 or more runs in 13 straight campaigns.

The Yankees had also plunged from American League royalty. In 1925, the Yankees would finish in seventh place with a 69-85 record, 30 games behind the pennant-winning Washington Senators. The team’s biggest concern in 1925 was Babe Ruth’s illness, also referred to as the “Bellyache Heard Around the World.” Ruth had persistent high fevers during spring training, and after an early-season game, he fainted at an Asheville, North Carolina train station. Upon arrival in New York, the Yankees rushed Ruth to St. Vincent’s Hospital, where surgeons operated. Some reports claimed it was influenza, but this wasn’t the consensus opinion. Whispers circulated that he might never play again and that “the true nature of his illness was being kept secret”—an inference that the culprit was, at best, excessive hot dog consumption or too much bootleg whiskey, or at worst, venereal disease. Concerns about Ruth’s fate spread worldwide. Sportswriter W.O. McGeehan penned the lasting story that Ruth’s ailment resulted from eating a dozen hot dogs, and a legend was born. The Dundee (Scotland) Daily Telegraph headline read: “BASEBALL FANS GET SHOCK: IDOL OF THE CROWDS REPORTED DEAD!”

A few days after Ruth’s release from St. Vincent’s, on June 1, Ruth made his 1925 debut. Independence Day fans harbored modest expectations from the great Bambino. In 1925, Ruth suffered through his worst season. For most players, batting .290 with 25 home runs in half a season would be outstanding, but not for the Sultan of Swat.

Although fan hopes may have been modest, in Game One they witnessed one of the greatest all-time pitching duels  between two Hall of Fame left-handers: the Yankees’ Herb Pennock and the A’s Robert “Lefty” Grove. The hurlers had dramatically different personalities and pitching styles. Pennock was a laid-back, humble Pennsylvania Quaker who placed soft curves on the corners; Grove was a short-tempered flame-thrower. Baseball historians rate Grove as one of the three best left-handed pitchers ever, along with Warren Spahn and Sandy Koufax. Grove’s nine ERA titles, seven strikeout crowns, and his .680 winning percentage (300-141) represent the highest among 300-game winners and sixth-best overall in the modern era.

When Pennock took the mound, fans settled back to watch the crafty lefty set down batters one-two-three. A big zero went up on the scoreboard for the A’s. More zeros followed through 15 innings. Pennock’s challenge was Grove, who matched the crafty Kennett Square hurler goose egg for goose egg until the bottom of the 15th, when Yankees catcher Steve O’Neill knocked in the winning run with a sacrifice fly.

Pennock faced 47 batters—two over the minimum—surrendered four hits, struck out five, and didn’t walk a batter. After the game, Grove said, “I was breaking my back trying to knock bats out of their hands, and Pennock was just lobbing the ball up there.” Pennock had once been on the A’s roster, and Mack always regretted the day he released him. In World Series play, Pennock amassed a 5-0 career win-loss record with three saves, becoming the second pitcher to win five World Series games, after another A’s ace, Jack Coombs. Pennock was part of seven World Series championship teams —1913, 1915, 1916, 1923, 1927, 1928, and 1932—, though he played on four World Series winning teams as an active member.

Although not as spectacular as Pennock in World Series play, Grove posted a 4-2 record with a 1.75 ERA. After Grove retired from the Boston Red Sox in 1941, he mellowed, coached youth baseball, and operated his bowling alleys. He passed away at age 75. Pennock, on the other hand, remained baseball-active in his post-playing career. He coached in the Red Sox farm system, then moved up to become the Red Sox pitching and first-base coach. Pennock later became the Philadelphia Phillies’ general manager. In 1948, in the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel lobby, Pennock, age 53, collapsed and died from a cerebral hemorrhage.

Pennock and Grove were among baseball’s best, but their accomplishments are, sadly, fading from fans’ memories.

Joe Guzzardi is a Society for American Baseball Research historian. Contact him at guzzjoe@yahoo.com