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Saints Peter & Paul Byzantine Rite Catholic Church in Clifton Heights is taking orders for its ever popular “Home-made Super Bowl Soup and Artisan Bread Sale”.  Available are beef vegetable, chicken noodle and crab bisque. All are fresh and homemade as are the loaves of artisan bread being sold to go along with them.

The soup is $7 per quart and the bread is $6 per loaf.

Pick up will be noon, Feb. 3 at the church, 100 S. Penn St., following the 11 a.m. Mass.

To place an order, please email us at SSPeterandPaul@verizon.net or call Kathy at 610-328-4731 by Jan. 28.
 

Courtesy of Cathy Craddock

WHY GRAMPS CARRIES A GUN

I don’t carry a gun to kill people.
I carry a gun to keep from being killed.

I don’t carry a gun to scare people.
I carry a gun because sometimes this world can be a scary place.

I don’t carry a gun because I’m paranoid.
I carry a gun because there are real threats in the world.

I don’t carry a gun because I’m evil.
I carry a gun because I have lived long enough to see the evil in the world.

I don’t carry a gun because I hate the government.
I carry a gun because I understand the limitations of government.

I don’t carry a gun because I’m angry.
I carry a gun so that I don’t have to spend the rest of my life hating myself for failing to be prepared.

I don’t carry a gun because I want to shoot someone.
I carry a gun because I want to die at a ripe old age in my bed, and not on a sidewalk somewhere tomorrow afternoon.

I don’t carry a gun because I’m a cowboy.
I carry a gun because, when I die and go to heaven, I want to be a cowboy.

I don’t carry a gun to make me feel like a man.
I carry a gun because men know how to take care of themselves and the ones they love.

I don’t carry a gun because I feel inadequate.
I carry a gun because unarmed and facing three armed thugs, I am inadequate…

I don’t carry a gun because I love it.
I carry a gun because I love life and the people who make it meaningful to me.

Police protection is an oxymoron.

When seconds count the police are only minutes away.

Free citizens must protect themselves.

Police do not protect you from crime, they usually just investigate the crime after it happens and then call someone in to clean up the mess.

Personally, I carry a gun because I’m too young to die and too old to take an “ass” whoopin’….

.author unknown (but obviously brilliant)

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A LITTLE GUN HISTORY

In 1929, the Soviet Union established gun control. From 1929 to 1953, about 20 million dissidents, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated.

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In 1911, Turkey
established gun control. From 1915 to 1917, 1.5 million Armenians, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and
exterminated.
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Germany established gun control in 1938 and from 1939 to 1945, a total of 13 million Jews and others who were unable to defend themselves were rounded up and exterminated.

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China established gun control in 1935. From 1948 to 1952, 20 million political dissidents, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated.

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Guatemala established gun control in 1964. From 1964 to 1981, 100,000 Mayan Indians, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated.

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Uganda established gun control in 1970. From 1971 to 1979, 300,000 Christians, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated.

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Cambodia established gun control in 1956. From 1975 to 1977, one million educated people, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated.

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Defenseless people rounded up and exterminated in the 20th Century because of gun control: 56 million.

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You won’t see this data on the US evening news, or hear politicians disseminating this information.

Guns in the hands of honest citizens save lives and property and, yes, gun-control laws adversely affect only the law-abiding citizens.

Take note my fellow Americans, before it’s too late!

The next time someone talks in favor of gun control, please remind them of this history lesson.

Wiith guns, we are ‘citizens’. Without them, we are ‘subjects’.

During WW II the Japanese decided not to invade America because they knew most Americans were ARMED!

If you value your freedom, please spread this anti-gun-control message to all of your friends.

The purpose of fighting is to win.

There is no possible victory in defense.

The sword is more important than the shield, and skill is more important than either.

The final weapon is the brain. All else is supplemental.

SWITZERLAND ISSUES EVERY HOUSEHOLD A GUN!

SWITZERLAND ‘S GOVERNMENT TRAINS EVERY ADULT THEY ISSUE A RIFLE.

SWITZERLAND HAS THE LOWEST GUN RELATED CRIME RATE OF ANY CIVILIZED
COUNTRY IN THE WORLD!!!

IT’S A NO BRAINER!
DON’T LET OUR GOVERNMENT WASTE MILLIONS OF OUR TAX DOLLARS IN AN EFFORT
TO MAKE ALL LAW ABIDING CITIZENS AN EASY TARGET.

By William W. Lawrence Sr

K vso mkx bex kbyexn dro gybvn lopybo dro dbedr mkx qod sd’c lyydc yx.
–Tkwoc Gkdd

Answer to yesterday’s puzzle: Judgement comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgement.
Simon Bolivar

Tonight’s meal by Chef William Sr. was pan-roasted chicken thighs marinated in a white wine and lemon juice sauce and seasoned with a Peruvian-style rub. It was served with a side of delicious red beans and rice, and helping of canned succotash well buttered — these are the Obama years after all.

Chef William says the trick is to roast the chicken skin side down for at least two hours and to make a deep cut along the bone so the bird parts are completely cooked.

The dessert by Chef Margaret was a vanilla banana cream pie covered with walnuts.

The wine was a Mirassou chardonnay courtesy of the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board. Yes it was perfect.

I like to watch the British-produced police dramas on TV—shows you may not have heard of, Like Wire in the Blood, Taggart, A Touch of Frost, The Murdoch Mysteries… The plots are more interesting and intricate (and a lot less politically-correct) than the standard American-made police shows.

The foreign shows are hard to find sometimes; I gain access to most via Netflix. But in the end, they are all still mostly fiction with a little fact thrown in here and there.

When the old Bob Newhart Show was in Prime Time back in the 1970s, I asked my cousin, who is an Oxford-trained psychologist, just how accurately the show portrayed the life of a psychologist, since Newhart played a Chicago-based therapist in the popular sit-com.

“It’s not at all accurate,” he exclaimed in mock horror. “The guy never heals anyone!” So he then asked me if any police shows met with my approval, since I had been a cop for about 10 years at the time.

I had to think about that for a while. How police are portrayed in TV, movies, and books has always been a sore-spot with me. Most are fantasies in every sense of the word. After a short pause, I told him that the sit-com Barney Miller was the show that most closely resembled how cops interact with both colleagues and citizens—and of course, even that was almost pure make-believe.

Such is the makeup of the entertainment industry. Never forget that they deal in fiction; that is, the material they present is not true. I’ve touched on this subject before, but I feel we need to be reminded of this every once in a while—perhaps on a regular basis.

That came home to me while I watched a police-themed drama on TV recently wherein the standard intra-department animosity was depicted, with the FBI exercising authority over a municipal police department with their usual arrogance, and the local police cowering with their usual petulance.

Nothing could be further from the truth. We worked closely with the guys in the Philadelphia FBI office. We even went drinking with them a time or two after an assignment had been completed. They were cops just like us, only with a bigger budget. My men especially liked taking rides with them in their helicopter.

As far as jurisdictional squabbles were concerned, well, we were only too glad to turn over a case that appeared to be more a federal issue than one handled at the municipal level. Hey, it meant less work for us! But in every fictional murder mystery or police procedural, law enforcement departments are represented as self-centered, self-serving, self-interested, and in no way cooperative with their like-minded colleagues.

And by the way, the FBI has no “authority” over any municipal police department, unless the crime is a violation of a federal statute. And of course, they then take over, and the locals are usually more than happy to relinquish that part of their caseload.

(Excerpted from Good Writer’s Block)

By William W. Lawrence Sr

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Jzdfe Sfczmri

Answer to yesterday’s puzzle: Life should not be estimated exclusively by the standard of dollars and cents.
Charles Goodyear

Pravda was once one of the house organs of the communists who ruled the Soviet Union and hence became a punchline for jokes concerning the twisting of reality for the sake of propaganda.

The sobriquet “Pravda West” became used for American old-media institutions like  The Philadelphia Inquirer and The New York Times because they showed the same propensity regarding the reporting of matters involving liberal causes and the Democratic Party.

Well it looks like we can no longer use that phrase anymore. Check out this article from Pravda.ru: Americans never give up your guns.

The world has certainly turned upside down.

Courtesy of Cathy Craddock

Just wanted to let you know that today I received  my Fiscal Cliff Survival Pack from the White House.
 
It contained

• a parachute,
• a ‘Obama Hope & Change’ bumper sticker,
• a ‘Bush’s Fault’ poster,
•  a ‘Blame Boehner’ poster,
•  a “Tax the Rich’ poster,
• an application for unemployment,
• an application for food stamps,
• a prayer rug,
• a letter of assignation of debt to my grandchildren
• and a machine to blow smoke up my a**.

 
All directions were in Spanish.

By William W. Lawrence Sr

Axut hwdjas cdi qt thixbpits tmrajhxktan qn iwt hipcspgs du sdaapgh pcs rtcih.
Rwpgath Vddsntpg 

Answer to yesterday’s puzzle: Fast is fine, but accuracy is everything.
Wyatt Earp

Ryan Shafik of Rockwood Strategies is one of the best political analysts in Pennsylvania.
 
He has analyzed Tom Corbett’s polling numbers and has determined that he is one of the “most unpopular Republican governors in America” and has much worse polling numbers than Rick Santorum did at this point in the year before his 2006 electoral defeat. Namely, Corbett is approved by 38 percent of Pennsylvanians and disapproved by 52 percent. As I have pointed, Republican Attorney General candidate, Dave Freed, underperformed every other Republican (and every other state wide candidate) in Pennsylvania.

The Republican base deserted Republican Freed/Corbett/Zimmerman and even voted Democrat to end 32 years of one party rule and Corbett’s perceived cover up of the Penn State cover up of the Sandusky serial child molestations. The Freed underperformance can be looked at as a proxy election for Tom Corbett 2014.

The polling numbers and the election results tell us that the Republicans need a new candidate.  

Election Numbers Republican Attorney General Candidate Dave Freed significantly Freed/Corbett underperformed every other Republican state wide candidate. Republican voters rejected Freed/Corbett and voted for the Democrat.

My view is that Republicans were aware that Dave Freed was a close associate of Tom Corbett and his Establishment donors and that Dave Freed as Attorney General would protect Corbett from claims of slow rolling the Sandusky investigation in exchange for 100s of 1000s of campaign contributions as well as sabotaging the LeRoy Zimmerman/Hershey Trust investigation. 

Republican Attorney General Candidate Dave Freed significantly Freed/Corbett underperformed every other Republican state wide candidate. Republican voters rejected Freed/Corbett and voted for the Democrat. Republican candidate for Treasurer did not run a highprofile campaign and, likely, represents the base line of the Republican statewide vote.

My view is that Republicans were aware that Dave Freed was a close associate of Tom Corbett and his establishment donors and that Dave Freed as Attorney General would protect Corbett from claims of slow rolling the Sandusky investigation in exchange for 100s of 1000s of campaign contributions as well as sabotaging the LeRoy Zimmerman/Hershey Trust investigation.  

Democrat   Kathleen Kane 3,125,557

Republican

Dave Freed’s 2,313,506.

Mitt Romney – 2,680,434;

Tom Smith – 2,509, 132;

John Maher Auditor – 2,548, 767:

Diana Irey Vaughan – 2,405, 654.