Kudos To Brookside Bagels

Congrats to Mike Santolup of Brookside Bagels on Brookside Road in Springfield. He has gotten some nice PR for supplying the past year the cast of After Earth — the movie by M. Night Shyamalan and starring Will Smith that just wrapped up filming at Sun Center Studios in Aston — with his bagels, muffins and danish.

Santolup is a great guy with great food and is always willing to help out a charity.
Hope the movie is a hit too.
Hat tip Springfield Patch.

Link Of The Day: Deck Of Cards

The Deck of Cards

Hat tip Tom Flocco

Charter Schools, Sex Abuse To Be On Agenda

The Pennsylvania Legislature reconvenes, Monday, Sept. 24, and on the agenda are charter school reform, debt reform and stronger sex abuse laws to protect children, reports State Rep. Jim Cox (R-129). 

Cox said that 177 bills have been signed into law so far in the 2011-12 legislative session addressing issues such as  issues such as reforming business taxes to provide a level playing field for employers; closing loopholes in the state’s Megan’s Law to protect children; enacting an impact fee on gas drilling in the Marcellus Shale; expanding the Castle Doctrine law; and adopting on-time fiscally responsible budgets.

Tidbit Of The Day

New Zealand was uninhabited a thousand years ago.

Autumn 2012 Starts Now

Autumn 2012 Starts Now — At this moment, 10:49 a.m. EDT, Sept. 22, the sun has crossed the celestial equator  and autumn has started, according to The Old Farmer’s Almanac.

This means that today the very center of the Sun sets just 12 hours after it rises. Of course as the upper and lower parts of the Sun also give light and that the Sun is actually visible below the horizon due to the reflection of the atmosphere we get a bit more light than dark even on equinoxes.
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Autumn 2012 Starts Now

Montco To Use Nursing Homes To Issue Photo-Voter IDs

Montgomery and Allegheny counties, thinking they have found a loop-hole in Pennsylvania’s photo-voter ID law, are going to use  county-run nursing homes to issue photo identification to voters.

The law allows allows the use of college and government-managed care facilities IDs to prove eligibility to vote. It was not spelled out that one had to be an employee, resident or student, however, hence the wise Dems who rule these counties now appear about to issue nursing home ID to all able to produce appropriate proof of eligibility. In Allegheny County’s case it appears what they will ask for is a ” non-photo state or federal identification card, a firearm permit, a utility bill, a bank statement, a paycheck, or a government check.”
Montco does not appear to have determined the criteria.

Firstly, as long as the IDs are going to legit voters those of us who are concerned about vote fraud have no problem with it, and if county administrators and commissioners want to put their names on the line as to being responsible for any abuse by going outside the box, so be it.
Secondly, there sure are a lot of pills and personal effects and such in nursing homes. It sure will be interesting in seeing how security is maintained with everybody and his uncle having an ID for the place. 
Thirdly, it really isn’t that hard to get IDs for voting now is it?
Hat tip Carol Klein.

Empty Chairs Symbolic Lynchings

Empty Chairs Symbolic Lynchings — Some guy in Austin, Texas hung an empty chair and the self-proclaimed sensitive ones wailed it symbolized a lynching.

So, what do empty chairs on the back of a bus mean? SEPTA sure does a lot of symbolizing.
Anyway here is a real example of a symbolic lynching:
Empty Chairs Symbolic Lynchings

Is The Tea Party Backing A Dem??

Tea Party activist Bob Guzzardi has sent out a release pointing out the benefits of having a Democrat as state attorney general and noting that the GOP has held the office since it became a line on the ballot 32 years ago.

He said nice things about Democrat nominee Kathleen Kane,  a former assistant district attorney for Lackawanna County, calling her “independent of both Democratic Party leadership and organized union leadership.”
He said not-so-nice things about the GOP nominee David Freed who he said was “inextricably entwined in (the) Harrisburg Republican incestuous insider network”.
He pointed out that Freed is the son-in-law of Leroy S. Zimmerman, the state’s first elected attorney general who held the office from 1981 to 1989. He noted that Zimmerman chaired Hershey Trust Co. and was a manager of the Milton Hershey School and that an investigation is active into misuse of the funds of those institutions.
Splitting the ticket might be something to think about. One guesses it comes down to how frosted one is at the Dems this Nov. 6.

Iranian Cleric Smacked Silly By Gal

No respect at all I tell ya. No respect.

Hojatoleslam Ali Beheshti is an Iranian cleric. So, he’s out just minding everybody else’s business and he sees a woman inappropriately dressed and tells her to cover up.
What happened next?
I’ll let him say it in his own words:
“I fell on my back on the floor. I don’t know what happened after that, all I could feel was the kicks of this woman who was insulting me and attacking me.”

Those people want freedom. Three years ago we could have helped them get it. Unfortunately, the majority of us four year ago picked Barack Obama to be our president. This November, let’s make amends.

Things You Haven’t Seen: Jihadist Economic Superwarfare

William Scott speaking at the American Center for Democracy on July 9, 2012. Make it viral.

Hat tip Stephanie Koonce