Report: Zombie Muhammed Judge Gets Rebuked

The Cumberland County (Pa.) Muslim judge who reprimanded an atheist who brought charges against a Muslim man for allegedly attacking him during the Mechanicsburg Halloween Parade, Oct. 11, 2011 has been subject to a “private rebuke of his behavior” by Commonwealth of Pennsylvania’s Judicial Conduct Board, WorldNetDaily.Com has reported. 

The atheist, Ernest Perce V, wore a “zombie Muhammed” costume during the parade which allegedly prompted Tallag Elbayomy to storm from the sidewalk and pull a sign off his neck.
Perce is the state director of American Atheists.
Perce went to police and after an investigation in which police said Elbayomy confirmed there was physical contact, harassment charges were filed against Elbayomy. The charge was dismissed at a Dec. 6 preliminary hearing before Magisterial Judge Mark Martin who told Perce, among other things, that “What you’ve done is you’ve completely trashed their essence, their being. They find it very, very offensive. I’m a Muslim. I find offensive.”
Since the incident Perce has reportedly received 471 verifiable threats.
According to WorldNetDaily, Joseph A. Massa Jr., the chief counsel for the Judicial Conduct Board, said a letter has been sent to Martin stating:  The board recently concluded its investigation regarding the complaint you filed against Magisterial District Judge Mark Martin, Cumberland County. The board voted to issue a letter of caution to Judge Martin as a private rebuke of his behavior and, thereafter, to close the case.
Perce recorded the hearing and has placed it on YouTube embedded below:

Delco Restaurant Is Tonight’s Restaurant Impossible

The episode of Restaurant Impossible starring Italian Village at 902 MacDade Blvd in Ridley Township airs 10 tonight on the Food Network.

At a meal there in May waitress Nancy said that Robert Irvine was just as big a jerk as he appeared to be on the show albeit he knew his stuff.
The restaurant is offering food “on us” for those that show up to watch it at 10.
If one should miss it tonight it is expected to air several more times.

Report: GOP-e Shunning McGinnis Campaign

Montgomery County Tea Party activist Bob Guzzardi is reporting that the Pennsylvania House Republican Campaign Committee is refusing to support Tea Party-supported Dr. John McGinnis in his quest to represent the 79th District in the State House.

The district is in Blair County.

McGinnis beat long-term GOP incumbent Richard Geist, who had represented the district since 1979, in the primary angering the establishment.

McGinnis has a doctorate degree in finance.

ACLU Is Putting On A Parade At Voter ID Hearing

The Independence Hall Tea Party Association notes in its most recent newsletter that: The PA Voter ID Hearing is entering its 5th Day of trial with no end in sight. The ACLU is parading witness after witness.  They are testifying, with straight faces, that making a trip to the local Penndot office, to obtain a photo ID, would be a terrible burden for them–both financially and logistically.


So, how come the ACLU has never before expressed a concern about these deprived people being able to cash checks, open bank accounts or get a library card?
What a narrow-minded group of people. Don’t they think dead Pennsylvanians should have access to books?
IHTPA notes that the hearing is open to the public and should last until the end of the week. Sessions start at 9 a.m. in Courtroom 3002 Pennsylvania Judicial Center, 601 Commonwealth Ave., Harrisburg, Pa. before Judge Robert Simpson. The IHTPA is offering transportation. Call 1-215-663-1983.

Reviews Matter To Car Shoppers

Emarketer.com reports that seven out of 10 consumers say dealership reviews affected their decision on where to buy their vehicle. 

So salesmen remember the words of the famous bouncer Dalton when dealing with prospective costumers and “be nice”.

New Charter School Has Swarthmore College Ties

The Chester Fund for Education and the Arts, a private  foundation also known as The Chester Fund (TCF), has announced  that a charter has  been approved for the Chester Charter School for the Arts (CCSA), which will open its  doors on Sept. 10. 
It will cover kindergarten through sixth grade and any child residing in the Chester Upland School District is  eligible to attend.
“I am thrilled that we have the opportunity to build a great school for the beautiful  children of Chester,” said John Alston, a music professor at Swarthmore College who is founder and president of The Chester Fund, which  will raise funds to provide specialized arts and academic programming at the new school.  
In 2008, through Alston’s efforts, The Chester Fund formed a partnership with the  Chester Upland School District to create the Chester Upland School of the Arts (CUSA).  Last fall, however, CUSA’s educational programs were compromised and 70 percent of  CUSA’s staff was furloughed because of massive cuts in the school district budget and  state education funding. This inability to protect staff and programming was the key reason TCF decided to terminate the partnership with the district and apply to open a  charter school. 
In January, the Chester Upland School Board voted to deny The Chester  Fund’s application to open a charter school and in the spring, TCF brought an appeal  before the Charter School Appeal Board in Harrisburg. The Appeal Board decided in favor of the charter school on July 24.
“I am delighted that the  Appeal Board in Harrisburg has awarded our charter to create the Chester Charter School  for the Arts,” said Maurice Eldrige who chairs the board. “We are working to provide the finest education program possible for the  children of Chester. They have great potential and deserve to realize it. We look forward  to fostering their growth and hope as well to become a beacon of success for the district  itself through collaboration with its other schools.”
Anna Hadgis will serve as principal of Chester Charter School for the Arts, which will  offer full-day kindergarten and classes in music, dance, drama, physical education,  Spanish and the visual arts as part of the core curriculum. An extended after-school  program in academics and the arts will begin in January. The new Chester Charter School for the Arts, which will be  at 200 Commerce Drive in Chester Township although it has an Aston postal address.
The plans call for it to grow by one grade each year through Grade 12 and will also include a Pre-Kindergarten 3 and  4-year-old program starting in 2013.  
Hat tip Celina De Leon

Hey! Got A Minute?

Here is the latest from Jim Vanore at Good Writers Block:

I can’t—and won’t —speak for anyone else, but when we were kids hanging on a street corner, we always viewed ourselves as “being busy”—that is, we had to be doing what we were then doing, which of course, was “nothing.”

Anyone who has ever seen the 1956 Academy Award-winning movie, Martywould know exactly what I’m talking about. The theme of that film revolved around a group of single young men who, night after night, did little more than hang around a bar and talk about what they were going to do. Which usually turned out to be—hanging around!

I will have to admit, as teenagers, we would spend our summer days playing ball, then at night, we’d all gather on the corner and do essentially the same thing we had done the night before…and the night before that. And what we did was—nothing! It’s what young people tend to do with their time. Time means less to them than it does to someone in middle age, and a lot less to them than it means to a senior citizen.

That’s why it annoys me—yes, I do get annoyed—whenever I see a TV show that depicts youth as perpetually busy, while senior citizens are continually shown as dozing, sitting on a park bench, dozing, ambling along with a walker or cane, dozing, gossiping unashamedly, dozing, and drinking the omnipresent cup of tea.

Excerpt, read more at Good Writers Block

Mike Kelly’s Righteous Rant

If you haven’t seen Congressman Mike Kelly’s very righteous rant about our nation’s dire fiscal situation, which is something for which he blames both parties, and the inability for a U.S. budget to be passed, which is something for which the Democratic Party gets the blame in toto, here it is below courtesy of Cathy Craddock:
Kelly represents Pennsylvania’s 3rd District which extends from Erie to the Pittsburgh area. He is a businessman whose involvement in politics before beating incumbent Kathy Dahlkemper in 2010 was as a Butler County councilman.
What he is saying above is much like what Tom Smith, another non-career politician, is saying on the the campaign trail in his quest to unseat incumbent Senator (and career politician) Bob Casey Jr.

Blunt Letter From Joe Biden

Just got this in my inbox from Vice President Biden:

Bill —

This isn’t hyperbole or exaggeration:

If we don’t win this election, it will be because we didn’t close the spending gap when we could.

Because right now we’re seeing that voters have a choice between two very different men.

And the only way someone like Mitt Romney — who’s asking Americans to put him in charge of their taxes while refusing to come clean about his own, who wants to repeal Obamacare, end Medicare as we know it and give more tax breaks to billionaires who don’t need them — defeats someone like Barack Obama, is if the other side spends us into oblivion.

Tomorrow is the most urgent fundraising deadline of this campaign so far. Will you make a donation of $3 or more today to make sure we can keep this close over the last 100 days?

It’s already starting on TVs and radios in swing states, and it’s not going to stop.

In the last two weeks of this month, Romney and his allies had an almost 2:1 spending advantage in Florida, Iowa, New Hampshire, North Carolina, and Virginia — and that could be the election right there.

We’ve got more than 2.4 million grassroots donors building this the right way.

But we’re running out of time to close the money gap when it really matters.

Please donate $3 today, and help make sure our message can get through to as many voters as Mitt Romney’s does:
 
Barack and I honestly wish we could thank everyone who contributes to this campaign personally. You’re our second family, you know.

Thanks,

Joe

Joe — I guess I can call you that as that is how you signed the letter — I can’t help. Maybe after next January when I expect things to be get a little better economy wise, I might be able to send a few bucks your way. Keep in touch.

Bill
Blunt Letter From Joe Biden