A March 28 letter signed by 49 NASA retirees including six Apollo astronauts among whom were moonwalkers Charles Duke and Harrison Schmitt; Johnson Space Center directors Gerald C. Griffin and Christopher C. Kraft and Space Shuttle Program director Leroy Day has been sent to the agency asking it refrain from including unproven remarks in public releases and websites concerning the claim that human activity is causing global warming.
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Proposed Springfield School Budget Would Hike Taxes $110 For Average Homeowner
Regina Scheerer attended tonight’s (May 10) Springfield (Delco) School Board where the final budget was presented.
She says it would increase property taxes 2.7 percent 28.730 mills which would mean the average homeowner would pay $110 more than last year.
Last year’s increase was 2.76% at 27.975 mills.
Say says the new 5-year teacher contract will be a factor, but will not cause an increase above what is proposed.
She says that a public comment on the budget will be taken at a hearing 5:30 p.m., next Thursday at the McLaughlin Center.
The proposed budget can be found at at www.ssdcougars.org, under District, Financial Information, then Budget.
It will also be available at the Township Library.
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Nancy Pelosi’s Daughter Made This Video. Really.
Nancy Pelosi’s daughter Alexandra made this video. Don’t bet a lot of money on Barack Obama’s re-election.
Grave Departure
Grave Departure, the first novel of journalist and former Philadelphia policeman Jim Vanore is now available as a Kindle download for just $3.99.
Jim describes the book as the mystery novel for “the thinking reader.”
Freedom Radio Rocks
If you’re looking for a new media site with interesting subjects check out Freedom Radio hosted by Pat Carfagno and Tim Summer and broadcasts out of King of Prussia.
This mornings guest was Charles “Cully” Stimson of the Heritage Foundation whose topic the military commission of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.
4 Of 10 W. Va. Dems Prefer Texas Inmate To O
With yesterday’s, May 8, primaries over and most political junkies aware that North Carolina — a state that went for Obama four years ago — overwhelmingly rejected gay marriage and a long-time go-along-to-get-along Republican Sen. Richard Lugar fell to a Tea Party candidate in Indiana, one tidbit that flew under the radar was that 41 percent of West Virginia Democrats picked Keith Judd over Barack Obama.
Washington Post Is Sinking
The Washington Post has reported a first-quarter operating loss of $22.6 million with print ads down 17 percent and online revenue down 7 percent.
The paper’s circulation has dropped 10 percent falling below 500,000.
Reptiles will survive they will just be smaller.
LePage’s Cure for High Unemployment: Get a Job
I read a story in the Huffington Post. It said that at the Maine
GOP convention, Gov. Paul LePage (R) received an enthusiastic
standing ovation from his fellow Republicans for saying that all
able-bodied out-of-work Americans need to “get off the couch”
and go find employment.
He wanted the state legislature to pass structural changes to
welfare, saying, “Maine’s welfare program is cannibalizing the
rest of state government. To all you able-bodied people out there:
Get off the couch and get yourself a Job.”
“I understand welfare because I lived it,” he added. “I
understand the difference between a want and a need. The Republican
Party promised to bring welfare change. We must deliver on this
promise.”
LePage has been pushing for these reforms for months, which the
Democrats have argued, define Welfare Reform to broadly. They
include things like disability, Maine Care, which is Medicaid, as
Welfare”
Mike Tipping, communications director for the Maine People’s
Alliance, said LePage’s comments were “downright offensive to
Maine people searching for work in a difficult economy, especially
considering his embarrassing record of failing to invest in programs
that create jobs and cutting assistance for the unemployed while at
the same time giving massive new tax breaks to the wealthy.”
I have been getting Telemarketing Calls from the Sheriffs Office,
From Firefighters, and from Veterans, and I donate what I can. I’m
struggling to find work myself. Why am I paying taxes with this not
being taken care of? What is wrong with a country when it can’t take
care of firefighters, Veterans, and Law Enforcement agencies, or the
people, but can continually give tax cuts to millionaires who take
the money out of the country, invest in overseas companies paying
slave wages, and then pretend like they are competing with someone
else by constantly raising prices when they are competing with
themselves?
Some people feel good about people like LePage working is way up,
or whatever he may have done. But that was a different world.
Before, if one had a dream and was willing to do the work, one could
start making money by even selling rags and end up as buying houses,
renting apartments, or whatever was possible. If one worked hard
enough in a factory one could move to a supervisory position. One
could work their way through school and come out of the other side
without debt.
When I was young a person could work for the summer and save
enough to pay tuition for the college year. Nowadays this is
impossible. Costs have been going up and real wages have been frozen
and going down since 1968. Jobs have been exported overseas. The more profits the companies make the more they can afford to invest in jobs overseas with slave wages or low paying jobs here that are worthless. There is a major problem here. Saying
“Go out and get a job,” when he is the one in charge of creating
jobs, but thwarting the creation of them at the same time, is not
acceptable.
There is a lot of unnecessary struggling going on now, when it
comes to the economy. The one thing that I can see contributing to
it all is that companies and corporations want people to do the work without paying them.
Now it has gotten so bad that LePage even wants people to work not
only with no pay, but with no job! What a world we live in!
Dr. John Gilmore, D. Min.
Life-Coach, Writer, Workshop Leader
www.nextstepcoaching.4t.co