By William W. Lawrence Sr
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Answer to yesterday’s puzzle: Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.
Oscar Wilde
Beaver Valley Applications Withdrawn But Return Expected
Beaver Valley Applications Withdrawn But Return Expected — A crowd of a thousand packed into the Garnet Valley Middle School auditorium, May 14, to hear the Concord Supervisors announce that the applications for a zoning change to allow three developers to put a big box store, and various residences on 324 acres belonging to
Woodlawn Trustees has been withdrawn.
It was pointedly noted, though, that new applications are expected.
The meeting scheduled to start at 7 p.m. began five minutes late and was officially closed at 7:15 although Woodlawn Chief Operating Officer Vernon Green gave an off-the-record statement afterwards noting that Woodlawn founder William Bancroft started the trust to provide parkland and inexpensive housing for workers with the expectation that some land would be sold to fund these goals.
Cameras for all the local television stations were present. The
supervisors noted that they had received a petition of 5,500 names
against the development.
Supervisor Dominic J. Cappelli said that it will be at least
60 days before any new applications would be received and hearings
will be announced well in advance on the township website.
Cappelli during the hearing noted that Supervisor Chairman Dominic
Pileggi had recused himself from the matter in October due to a conflict
of interest.
A note to Republicans: among those attending were Democrat County Council candidate Bill Clinton and Democrat Register of Wills candidate Frank Daly. Expect a fight this year.
Beaver Valley Applications Withdrawn But Return Expected
Link Of The Day — Substitute Teacher
Courtesy of Cathy Craddock
Progressive Nazis At Swarthmore
Progressive Nazis At Swarthmore — Delaware County has got itself in the national spotlight due the actions of progressives who crashed a Swarthmore College’s Board of Managers demanding the college divest from fossil-fuel businesses.
The activists took over the microphone, shouted down those who objected and completely violated the rules of order.
Who needs laws if your cause is just? Or at least if you convince yourself that it is.
Once suspects this crowd could easily rationalize serious violations of the rights of others — siccing the IRS on them if they should object to their policies perhaps or wiretapping their phones– if they should ever obtain the power to do so.
Progressive Nazis At Swarthmore
Why “Non-Profits” Are Lies
For those who believe in the inherent goodness of academia and trust the altruism of those who run “non-profits” we are here to bust your bubble and remove the scales from eyes which can be done by simply pointing out that Graham Spanier, the enabler of child abuse who ran Penn State for 16 years, was the highest paid college administrator in the nation when he was forced out in November 2011.
And how can we seriously call an institution that pays it top dog nearly $3 million a “non-profit”.
People have got to wake up and understand that our institutions are abusing our trust.
Why “Non-Profits” Are Lies
Feds Can Pay Obligations Without Raising Debt Ceiling
Feds Can Pay Obligations Without Raising Debt Ceiling — Sen. Pat Toomey (R-Pa.) is praising the passage of the Full Faith and Credit Act by the U.S. House of Representatives last week.
“The legislation will ensure that the U.S. government does not default on its debt by requiring the Treasury to prioritize payments on the debt in case the debt ceiling is not raised,” Toomey said.
Toomey authored the Senate version of the bill to protect Social Security benefits and military pay and to require that our government prioritize all obligations on the debt held by the public in the event that the debt limit is reached.
“For months, some political leaders have argued that failure to raise the debt ceiling would necessarily cause the United States to default on its debt,” Toomey said. “This is not the case. If Congress refuses to raise the debt ceiling, the federal government will have more than enough money to service its debt.”
He noted that that this year, about 6 percent of all projected federal government expenditures will go to pay off the interest on our debt, and tax revenue is projected to cover about 76 percent of all government expenditures.
“We need to end government by crisis,” he said. “We need to take the default scare tactics off the table. As the sequester proved, limiting spending does not cause the sky to fall. The Full Faith and Credit Act will allow Congress and the President to have a frank discussion about putting our nation on a path to balance by taking the specter of default off the table.”
Feds Can Pay Obligations Without Raising Debt Ceiling
Stop Internet Sales Tax
Stop Internet Sales Tax — The Independence Hall Tea Party Association is asking all to call the congressman to stop the Internet Sales Tax bill, known as the ‘Marketplace
Fairness Act,’
The bill passed the US Senate in lopsided vote 69-27 vote but can be stopped in the US House.
“Please continue to call the Capitol Switchboard at 202.224.3121 and ask to be connected to your Congressman/woman. Tell your Representative to oppose the Internet Sales Tax bill,” says Association President Teri Adams. “Then, use the same number to call Speaker John Boehner and Majority Leader Eric Cantor. Tell them not to move the bill forward.”
She also suggest a call be placed to House Judiciary Committee Chairman, Congressman Bob Goodlatte (R-VA) as that committee can deal a lethal blow to the tax bill.
Stop Internet Sales Tax
Pension Bills Introduced In Pennsylvania
Pension Bills Introduced In Pennsylvania — Governor Tom Corbett was joined by several legislators at the Capitol last week for the introduction of his plan to address rising costs associated with the state’s two public pension systems, the State Employee Retirement System (SERS) and the Public School Employees’ Retirement System (PSERS), reports State Rep. Jim Cox (R-129).
House Bill 1350, and its companion Senate Bill 922, are aimed at providing short- and long-term pension relief, Cox said.
The plan would rebalance the state’s obligations to both pension funds and the General Fund, Cox said. It also would provide short-term budgetary relief to avoid deep cuts in core services and programs. Long-term reforms would produce overall savings to the pension systems.
The legislation contains no changes to current retiree pensions; keeps current employees and retirees in a defined benefit plan; automatically enrolls new employees, including legislators, in a defined contribution plan, similar to a 401(k); and limits the amount by which the state’s employer contributions can be increased to provide short-term budgetary relief.
According to the governor’s budget office, new calculations show the current unfunded liability of SERS and PSERS to be $47 billion. If no reforms are made, pension costs will consume an estimated 60 percent of all new state General Fund revenues in the 2013-14 fiscal year.
Pension Bills Introduced In Pennsylvania
Cryptowit
By William W. Lawrence Sr
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Answer to yesterday’s puzzle: There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families.
Margaret Thatcher
Star Sign From The Theorist
Today’s journey into the whackier side of the world wide web concerns the internet film “The Theorist” which is an entry in “Operation Paul Revere” a film contest sponsored by Alex Jones’ infowars.com.
This bit of wonder manages to touch on numerous pieces of paranoia including genetically modified foods, artificial sweeteners, fluoride — yes, Mandrake fluoride — and government microphones embedded into compact fluorescent bulbs, which is frankly one we never heard of nor could we even begin to imagine it.
Some nice things to say about it concern the acting of the wife and daughters who actually are quite good.
The movie climaxes with the hero having a nightmare in which his daughters are groped by Nazi-garbed TSA highway-patrol agents after which he goes to his basement studio and lip-synchs a song after which he is shot by a government sniper apparently concerned about the impact the webcasts are having.
Pretty whacky.
So why are we embedding it? We like the song. It starts at 31.25.
