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By William W. Lawrence Sr

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Answer to yesterday’s puzzle: It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.
Margaret Thatcher

Fools The Rule Us Reprise

Richard Windsor received the Scholar of Ethical Behavior certificate from the Environmental Protection Agency for 2010, 2011, 2012 based on his email conversations with environmental activists and Obama administration officials.

He also was certified for completion of training courses in the management of e-mail records, cyber-security awareness, and a counter-terror initiative that urges federal employees to report suspicious activity.

He doesn’t exist. It was an alias that Lisa Jackson, former head of the EPA and now an environmental adviser to Apple, used.

What kind of bizarre ego would a leader have to allow the awarding of such honors to her pseudonym?

It certainly reveals the value of having an EPA certificate of cyber-security awareness. It seems that the standards they have for “ethical behavior”are based on agreeing with the boss.

Richard Windsor Lisa Jackson Fools that Rule Us

Richard Windsor

Mailbox Will Be Back On Brookside Road

The mailbox that had long graced Brookside Road in Springfield, Delaware County, is just temporarily gone.

According to the Lansdowne Post Office that now oversees Springfield mail delivery, the box will be returned to  “near the stores” but not to its original place in front of the former post office building.

Hep C, Hipsters And Tats

Hep C, Hipsters And Tats — A recent article in the New England Journal of Medicine estimated that the number of people in the United States infected with the  Hepatitis C virus is between 3.2 and 3.5 million.

The disease may go for years without  symptoms but if left untreated
producse chronic liver disease, cirrhosis, and cancer. About 85 percent
of people infected with the virus develop such things. Hep C, Hipsters And Tats

And what are the primary causes of the disease? Intravenous abuse of drugs and tattooing.

Just something to consider when making unforced lifestyle choices.

Hat tip Dr. Theodore Dalrymple.

Hep C, Hipsters And Tats

51 Uses For WD-40

51 Uses For WD-40

This link of the day courtesy of Reader’s Digest shows how the amazing WD-40 is not just for loosening screws.

It was news to me that it could be used to relieve arthritis symptoms.

51 Uses For WD-40

51 Uses For WD-40

When Did We Become British?

I have great admiration for our British cousins, so I was sincerely flattered when asked to speak at Oxford University. I of course accepted, and look forward with great anticipation to this fall, when I’ll visit England for the first time.

The seminar will concentrate on higher education and how it is evolving, but I’ll also be interested in doing a little snooping while I’m over there.

I’m going to see if I can find some clues as to why we here in America seem to be reverting to being a part of Britain once again.

Perhaps I’m overreacting, but notice, if you will, that at Wal-Mart stores (at least the ones around south Jersey) you are directed to enter and exit to your left, sort of like driving on the left side of the road as they do in England. But we keep to the right in this country and pass on the left. Don’t we?

I’m starting to notice this tendency in many other places, particularly at Wawa and my local post office, where people increasingly enter and exit using the left side of the double-door. It’s even happening in my church, where the right hand door is often left closed—that is, until I reach the exit. That’s when I go through the right side, which, in this country, is the right side.

I’ve even had (many) people hold the left hand door open for me as I enter a Wawa. Imagine how disappointed they are when I ignore their misguided courtesy and pull the right-hand door open for myself. (Well, somebody’s got to take a stand for American Independence!)

This disturbing, bogus/foreign trend has now reached the entertainment and news media—the two wannabe national style-setters. Movie and television scripts are now peppered with the British police phrases, “He went missing,” or “The child has gone missing.”

As a long-time devotee of British TV, I’m familiar with this syntax. As a long-time American police officer, I can tell you indisputably that that phraseology was never used in Philadelphia.

(Excerpted from Good Writers Block)

Pennsylvanians Want Private Liquor Stores

Pennsylvanians Want Private Liquor Stores — The Pennsylvania Manufacturers’ Association reports that the  latest  results  from Susquehanna Polling and Research, show that 55 percent of Pennsylvanians want the state out of the liquor business while just 41 percent are against.

Those
who would be more likely to support liquor privatization, however, grew to 69  percent if penalties for selling to minors became stricter and to 68 percent if displaced workers could find jobs in the private sector.

Now, Republicans control the governor’s office, and both houses of the legislature. Who do you think is going to get the blame if this rather popular — and simple — thing goes undone?

Hmmm, Sen Erickson?

Hat tip Bob Guzzardi.

Pennsylvanians Want Private Liquor Stores

Pennsylvanians Want Private Liquor Stores -- The Pennsylvania Manufacturers’ Association reports that the  latest  results  from

Manufacturing Sharpest Drop In 4 Years

Manufacturing Sharpest Drop In 4 Years — The Institute for Supply Management’s factory index fell to 49 from last month’s 50.7, the Tempe, Arizona-based group reported today.

It was the fastest manufacturing drop in four years shocking analysts.

Hip, hip hooray to Philadelphia’s  Janney Montgomery Scott LLC, whose fixed income strategist Guy LeBas was the only one to call it right.

This news is also likely to shock those at The Philadelphia Inquirer for those few still reading it.

Manufacturing Sharpest Drop In 4 Years

Cinematic Hotbed Delaware County

Last years, Delaware County, Pa. was featured in all its beauty in the brilliant and Oscar-winning Silver Linings Playbook.

Last weekend, Will Smith’s After Earth, filmed largely at Sun Center Studious in Chester Township, opened on 3,000 plus screens.

Look at it this way: We are batting .500.

Cinematic Hotbed Delaware County

Cinematic Hotbed Delaware County

Elizabeth O Margerum (1929-2013)

Elizabeth Osterhout Margerum died May 30. She was 83.

Mrs. Margerum worked at the County Press and associated newspapers in Delaware County, Pa. for 31 years, much of that time as society editor.

She also edited the Bits and Pieces and Health Briefs columns and wrote occasional articles. She was also the prime designer of many of the newspaper’s prize-winning floats in the Marple Newtown Fourth of July Parade.

She worked full-time until last year.

“She battled esophageal cancer for over three years,” her daughter Patricia said.  “She did not let chemo or radiation stop her from anything.  Even her doctors were amazed at how resilient she was at 81.”

She made her own jewelry and was a long-time member of the Tuscarora Lapidary Society.

She loved travel and the  outdoors.  She and her family camped up and down the East Coast for many years.  She also visited many islands and even made it to Morocco, Spain, and Portugal just a few years ago.  Her favorite place to spend time was in Plevna, Ontario, Canada, where she owned land, hiked, and fished.  As she would say, it felt like an untouched part of the world.

“She looked at life through a 20 year old’s eyes and was always excited and interested in trying anything new,” Patricia said. “She never considered herself old.”

Mrs. Margerum was graduated from Upper Darby High School in 1947 and studied art at Lock Haven State.College.  She lived in the Media area for 50 years, most recently in Upper Providence Township.

She was a long-time member of the Media Presbyterian Church.

She was married for 46 years to William B. Margerum IV of the Margerum family that long had a meat market in Reading Terminal.

She was predeceased by her husband; son David;  daughter Tamara Lee;  brother Donald P. Osterhout, Jr.,; sister Anne E. Chandler; and  brother-in-law Bud Chandler.

Besides Patricia, she is survived by nephew  Keith Chandler, niece Lee Anne Chandler, sister-in-law Trudi Osterhout and Osterhout nieces and nephew; Susan, Patty, and Peter.

Services will be held at Media Presbyterian Church on Wednesday, June 12, with visiting at 10 a.m. and Memorial Service at 11 a.m.

In lieu of flowers, please make donations to Juvenile Diabetes Association or American Cancer Society.

Elizabeth O Margerum (1929-2013)

 

Elizabeth O Margerum