Mitt To Storm SE Pa

Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla) will campaign for Mitt Romney, 6:30 p.m., tomorrow, Nov. 1, at the Heritage Ballroom, 2107 MacDade Blvd. Ridley Township, 19043, reports Don Adams of Independence Hall Tea Party PAC.  Doors open at 5:30 p.m. For information and to RSVP visit  www.mittromney.com/events/all/PA?page=3

Meanwhile Tagg Romney will appear at noon, at the Bensalem Victory Center, 3070 Bristol Pike, Bldg. 1, Suite 207, Bensalem, 19020; at 2 p.m. at the Paoli Victory Center, 21 Plank Ave., Suite 300, 21 Plank Ave., Paoli, 19301; and, as we have just been informed by Carol Klein, at the Delaware County Victory Center, 1001 Baltimore Pike, Suite 208, Springfield 19064 from 10:15 a.m. to 11:30 p.m., Friday, Nov. 2.
At 7 p.m., tonight, former Bush press secretary Ari Fleischer and former Minnesota Sen. Norm Coleman will hold a town hall in support of the GOP nominee at Gratz College, 7605 Old York Road, Elkins Park, Pa., 19027. For more information and to RSVP call 610-667-1263.

Inky Falls Beneath 300,000 Circulation

The combined circulation for the Philadelphia Inquirer/Daily News is now 296,427 for weekdays according to the latest figures from the Audit Bureau of Circulations.

This includes 43,224 digital subscribers and 59,474 from “branded editions” which likely includes the Daily News readers.
The weekday circulation in March 2011 was 343,710.
The Inquirer’s circulation for Sundays — which includes 64,774 digital and 23,018 branded edition readers — is 468,559.

FEMA and JournoLists

The toothless old media is still trying to show it has some bite. Mitt Romney, who has been critical of FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency), was peppered at an Ohio campaign stop with questions about his plan for the agency from “JournoLists” types all the while with millions without electricity and their homes underwater.

Romney properly ignored the questions.
FEMA is a policy debate. If FEMA does a good job it should obviously be kept. Right? 
If FEMA doesn’t do a good job and there are more effective protocols of how we handle our emergency responses we should adopt the new system. Right?
What should not be done is to discuss the future of FEMA when FEMA’s administrators should be focused on dealing with Sandy’s aftermath and not have to worry about defending their bureaucracy and jobs. That is commonsense, and anybody who cares about people should understand that. The “JournoLists” don’t.
 

Hurricane Sandy Springfield Photo Essay

Hurricane Sandy Springfield Photo Essay

Hurricane Sandy Springfield Photo Essay 12:38 p.m. Oct. 29, 2012

This serene shot of the creek that runs beneath North Rolling Road in Springfield Pa. was taken at 12:38 p.m., today, Oct. 29. If  the amount rain expected with Hurricane Sandy arrives  there is a good likelihood it will flood closing the road.

Hurricane Sandy Springfield Photo Essay 12:38 p.m. Oct. 29, 2012
Springfield Township, however, is being proactive keeping leaves from clogging the drainage holes as has occurred in the past. Maybe the road will stay open.
Hurricane Sandy Springfield Photo Essay 5:17 p.m. Oct. 29, 2012

Sandy at 5:17 p.m. in Springfield, Pa — about 70 miles west of the storm’s expected 8 p.m. landfall at Atlantic City. The township experienced its first power outage shortly after. It lasted less than a minute.
Hurricane Sandy Springfield Photo Essay 7:53 p.m. Oct. 29, 2012
Sciarrino’s Pizza on Brookside Road, Springfield, Pa. remains open at 7:53 p.m., Oct. 29, which is about the time of Sandy’s landfall on the Jersey Shore.

Hurricane Sandy Springfield Photo Essay 7:55 p.m. Oct. 29, 2012

The empty streets of Springfield at 7:55 p.m., Oct. 29 looking south on Springfield Road towards Brookside Road. The rain had stopped but wind had significantly picked up. On the odd side of Windsor Circle one small tree had been blown over and large branches from another had been blown into the street.

Hurricane Sandy Springfield Photo Essay 10:48 p.m. Oct. 29, 2012

This spruce fell from the Springfield Township traffic island onto the wall at 18 Windsor Circle blocking island’s southern path along with the northern Windsor Circle entrance. It was photographed at 10:46 p.m. It was the second spruce to fall from the island in three months.

Hurricane Sandy Springfield Photo Essay 10:52 p.m. Oct. 29, 2012

Another blurry nighttime view of the fallen spruce. A far greater amount of damaged occurred across the street when a large tree fell from 33 N. Rolling Road onto the roof of 25 N. Rolling Road. Kudos to the Springfield road crews who were cutting up the spruce at 1:25 a.m.

Hurricane Sandy Springfield Photo Essay 9:45 a.m. Oct. 30, 2012

The aftermath: The scene at 33 N. Rolling Road (left) and 25 N. Rolling Road, Springfield, Pa., the morning of Oct. 30. Rain was still falling but the wind had significantly dropped.

Hurricane Sandy Springfield Photo Essay 1:59 p.m. Oct. 30, 2012

Another view of the tree that fell on 25 N. Rolling Road.

Hurricane Sandy Springfield Photo Essay 2:02 p.m. Oct. 30, 2012

Springfield Township workers remove the fallen spruce tree from the Windsor Circle/Rolling Road traffic island about 2 p.m., Oct. 30.

Hurricane Sandy Springfield Photo Essay 1:48 p.m. Oct. 30, 2012

The rain is gone, the high winds are now a light breeze and here is the stream that runs beneath North Rolling Road at 1:48 p.m., Oct. 30.

Hurricane Sandy Springfield Photo Essay

It’s The Corruption, Stupid

Those who question the wisdom or effectiveness of the nation’s various welfare programs usually wind up being called hateful and uncaring by the programs’ defenders. 

There is a reason for that. The programs’ defenders are making a nice living from the money going to them.
The Weekly Standard has reported that the state and federal governments spent $61,194 per household that is in poverty in 2011 on welfare programs. Does each household get $61,194 per year in benefits? One  would be rather shocked to find that to be the case. After all, that would mean there is no poverty in this country as the poverty threshold is $22,350 for a family of four.
So where does the rest of the money go? One strongly suspects it goes into the pockets of those distributing the grants and benefits, who, unstrangely  enough are the most vociferous defenders of these programs.