Off The Internet: Revised Chinese Proverb

Courtesy Cathy Craddock

Original Chinese Proverb:

Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day.
Teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime.

2012 White House Revision:

Give a man a welfare check, a free cell phone with unlimited free minutes, cash for his clunker, food stamps, section 8 housing, free contraceptives, Medicaid, ninety-nine weeks of unemployment, free medicine, and he will vote for Democrats the rest of his life; even after he’s deceased.

Dem Ad Shows Black GOP Congressman Beating Elderly White Woman

An ad depicting Congressman Allen West — who is a black Tea Party favorite — beating an elderly white woman has drawn nary a peep from the usual suspects so quick to cry racial grievance at the most innocent and mundane.

The ad was produced by American Sunrise PAC which is funded with money from Thomas Murphy who is the father of Patrick Murphy who is the Democrat whom West is facing.
Florida had redistricted West from the 22 District which he won in 2010 hence he is now seeking the 18th District seat.
Hat tip Breitbart.com.

Vets To Be Honored At Fair Acres

A Keep the Spirit of ’45 Alive ceremony will be held 2:30 this afternoon, Aug. 16, at Fair Acres Geriatric Center, 340 N. Middletown Road in Middletown Township, Delaware County, Pa. in the main lounge of Building 8. 

It will be presented by Linda Frangipane, veteran liaison of VITAS Innovative Hospice Care.
Keep the Spirit of ’45 Alive recognizes and honors the service of World War II veterans.
Hat tip Rick Megaro

Free Phone Frenzy

This link  courtesy Cathy Craddock is something to let you start your day with your blood flowing and hopefully gets you to think about your vote this November.

Tonight’s Meal

Tonight’s meal by Chef Bill Sr. was a delicious grilled lamb chop with the secret being it’s tenderized with Adolph’s Meat Tenderizer, garlic powder and cracked black pepper before putting it to the flames. It was served with grilled eggplant — thank you Andrew;  sauteed red peppers and cherry tomatos again cooked over the grill and mushrooms stuffed with breadcrumbs and inexpensive supermarket-brand horseradish cheese.

It was four stars for sure.
The wine was Jack’s Blend from McWilliams Harwood Estate purchased from a Pennsylvania Wine and Spirits Shoppe. McWilliams does not tell what the blend of grapes happens to be but it was rather enjoyable actually. 

Judge Upholds Pa. Voter ID Law

Chalk up a win for the good guys.

Commonwealth Court Judge Robert Simpson, this morning, Aug. 15,upheld the Pennsylvania law requiring a photo identification to be produced before voting.

The law — Act 18 signed by Gov. Corbett on March 14 —  had been challenged by the American Civil Liberties Union, the NAACP and other groups that are basically auxiliaries of the Democratic Party, which has traditionally found itself of the wrong side of allegations of vote fraud schemes.
They have vowed to appeal.
Simpson in his 70-page opinion said that he was “convinced that efforts by [the state] and interested groups will fully educate the public,” on the simple steps required to cast one’s ballot this November.

Putting Up The Flag

Putting Up The Flag courtesy of Rick Megaro.

Omnibit Of The Day

The Atlantic Ocean is named for Atlas. No, not the Titan purportedly holding up the world but the son of Poseidon who was king of Atlantis.

HB 1776 Not Dead Yet

House Bill 1776, which would require school districts to replace property taxes with either a sales tax or a personal income tax, is not dead yet.


State Rep. Jim Cox (R-129), who is the bill’s sponsor, says it has been advanced by House Finance Committee to the House Appropriations Committee, which is now doing an in-depth analysis of the bill.

Thank you Rep. Cox. It strikes one as being “socially unjust” to rent one’s house from a government to fund six-figure salary and benefits packages for assistant to assistant school administrations.

Not Crazy Internet Conspiracy Of The Day

This talk by Catherine Austin Fitts, who served as assistant secretary of housing and federal housing during the George H.W. Bush administration, is being circulated around the web. She calls the $12 trillion of unsecured debt issued by the financial sector during the 1990s a “leveraged buyout of a country.” 

She says that we are witnessing the “end of sovereign governments and the rise of corporations. We’re literally changing the governance structure on planet Earth so that we are no longer  governed by countries . . . but we’re literally governed by private corporations.”   
She says “liabilities are being shifted into sovereign governments and assets being shifted into corporations so the corporations are getting the assets and governments getting the liabilities.”

She said that all that’s left in Social Security are worthless promises on worthless paper.

Being paranoid doesn’t mean they aren’t out to get you.
Hat tip to my old friend Tom Flocco.
Ms. Fitts also makes good observations about the benefits of keeping money close to home in community banks rather than large national ones.
The talk is 46 minutes long despite being sped up. Don’t feel obliged to watch the whole thing but you won’t be wasting your time if you do.
Here it is: