Mitt And Obama Campaign News

“Women’s Coalition for Mitt”will hold a grassroots training session and rally, 12:30 p.m., tomorrow, Aug. 9 at the Grand Ballroom Renaissance, Hilton Philadelphia City Avenue, 4200 City Ave., Philadelphia Pa. 19131.

Special guests will be Massachusetts Lt. Gov. Kerry Healy and National Coalitions Director Courtney Johnson. 

Lunch will be Provided. 

Please R.S.V.P. with Valerie Dowling at vdowling@mittromney.com

Hat tip Independence Hall Tea Party Association.

And for equal time Marlon Marshall of BarckObama.Com has sent me a missive saying “I’m so jealous of you that I can barely write the rest of this email” which went on to say that for just a $3 donation I could be “shooting hoops with Carmelo Anthony, Patrick Ewing, Sheryl Swoopes, Kyrie Irving, and Alonzo Mourning, Oh and President Obama and Michael will be there too.”

Isn’t that so cool? I bet you’re jealous too. 

Olympic Tidbit Of The Day

Ancient Olympian pankration competitor Sostratos of Sicyon was nicknamed “Mr. Digits”. He would snap his opponents fingers to force them to surrender. He won three Olympic victories.

Hat tip VFW magazine.

Route 320 Exit On Route 1 Closed Aug. 8

The Route 1 North off-ramp to Route 320 in Springfield, Pa. will be closed from 10 p.m., tonight, Aug. 8 until 5 a.m. tomorrow to repair a drainage inlet, according to the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation.

Mor information can be found at 511PA website or by callingl 511.

Hat tip Springfield Patch.

Pa. Energy Conservation Grants To Small Business

The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) is again accepting applications for its Small Business Advantage Grant Program to aid small businesses looking to conserve energy and prevent pollution, according to State Rep. Jim Cox (R-129) 

Under the program, businesses can apply for a 50 percent matching grant of up to $9,500 for taking actions to promote implementation of pollution prevention and energy-efficiency practices. Applicants must be a for-profit corporation, limited liability corporation, partnership, sole proprietorship or other legal entity with 100 or fewer full-time employees. The grant-supported project must be in a Pennsylvania facility owned by the applicant and must save the business at least 25 percent, plus $750 annually as a direct result of implementing the grant supported project. All grant projects must be completed by June 30, 2013. 

The application deadline is Sept. 26. Eligible applications will be approved on a first-come, first-served basis until funds are exhausted. For more information about the grants or to apply, visit Cox’s website, hover over the “State Programs and Services” link on the left-hand side and click on the “Small Business Advantage Program” link.

So Who’s Abusing Children Now?

Here’s the latest from Jim Vanore of Good Writers Block.

NCAA President Mark Emmert recently placed punitive sanctions on Penn State University for allowing a known pedophile to victimize boys on their campus from 1998 to 2011. That felon has been dealt with by the legal system and is now facing a lifetime behind bars.
The “big four” administrative department heads responsible for allowing this abuse of children, are University President Graham Spanier, Vice President Gary Schultz, Athletic Director Timothy Curley, and head football coach Joe Paterno.  Paterno died earlier this year, and the other three face their own day in court.
Emmert said, “…the cultural, systemic, and leadership failures at Penn State had to be addressed, and that the NCAA’s  approach demands that Penn State become an exemplary NCAA member by eradicating the mindset that led to this tragedy.” 
His words.  You see, he just wants to eliminate the “mindset” that placed football above the welfare of innocent children.
So who is he punishing? Obviously, Emmert thinks that the football team (all of whom were in grammar school when this crime began) must answer for those who were complicit in these crimes. That’s sort of like the IRS telling your children that they must take a year off from their 7th grade studies and do time in prison, because you cheated on your tax return.
 
 
 
 

Church Attacks And Temple Attacks And The Tea Party

The Aug. 5 shootings at the Sikh Temple in Oak Creek, Wis. is being used by Democrat politicians and their old media supporters to attack the Tea Party, Second Amendment supporters, and Christian conservatives.

You never want a serious crisis to go to waste, right?
 

The murder of six and wounding of three was done by Wade Michael Page who was an overweight, over-tattooed, U.S. Army reject that most recently played bass in a neo-Nazi, white supremacist band. 
If one is a neo-Nazi, white supremacist then one is an anti-Christian by definition, and an anti-American to boot as the Nazis were the enemy.
Which gets us to the next point: where is the outrage at the attacks on churches in the country?
Carl Chinn has compiled this list of incidents of violence at American churches (and mosques and synagogues)  with the ones happening this year highlighted in yellow. Granted many of the acts — such as bodies found in parking lots and shootouts between drug gangs — involved the churches simply because they served bad neighborhoods, and granted that many of the acts involved deranged people who had come into contact with the churches through their ministry, but note the number that involved bombs and molotov cocktails. You can fairly call them acts of “domestic terrorism” and hate crimes.
Also, note how the death toll was kept to one in an April 22 incident in, ironically, Aurora, Col., because one of the congregants had a gun, much as the deaths were stopped in 2007 because a church member was armed when a gunman entered New Life Ministry in Colorado Springs and began shooting.  
Evil doesn’t go away when people are disarmed. It does, however, increase when lies are told and division created solely for political gain.
By the way, the Tea Party is not “anti-government” but anti-corruption. 
The Tea Party is inspired by the recognition that people have entered government and acquired influence and power for their own benefit all the while laughing at those they claim to be wanting to serve whether it be by giving “free” health care or increasing “social justice”.

Olympic Tidbit Of The Day

Athletes in the Ancient Olympics were exempt from homicide charges for deeds done during competition. Every year there would be cremations after the festival.

Hat tip VFW magazine.

USA Is Not Dead Yet In Manufacturing

Apple once boasted that its computers were “Assembled for Apple in California”. That has long not been the case as the work is now infamously done in China.

Of course, assembly is about the easiest part of building a computer and doesn’t even begin to tell the story about how one is made.
So Macword.com endeavored to find the source of the components of MacBook Pro laptop.
It learned that while the body came from China, display came from South Korea, and the hard drive from Thailand; the Intel chip was likely made  in Chandler, Az., and the RAM possibly came from Boise, Idaho.
These, btw, are the most important parts of the computer.
It further notes that while the wireless card and graphics chip were fabricated in either Europe or Asia, both were designed in California.
  

Off The Internet — Retirees Having Fun

Working people frequently ask retired people what they do to make their days interesting. Well, for example, the other day I went downtown and into a shop.

I was only there for about 5 minutes, and when I came out, there was a cop writing out a parking ticket. I said to him, ‘Come on, man, how about giving a retired person a break’? He ignored me and continued writing the ticket.

I called him a ‘Nazi.’ He glared at me and wrote another ticket for having worn tires.

So I called him a ‘doughnut eating Gestapo.’ He finished the second ticket and put it on the windshield with the first. Then he wrote a third ticket.

This went on for about 20 minutes. The more I abused him the more tickets he wrote.

Personally, I didn’t care. I came downtown on the bus, and the car that he was putting the tickets on had a bumper sticker that said, ‘I ♥ Obama.’ I try to have a little fun each day now that I’m retired. It’s important to my health.

Amtrak Food Service Lost $834 Million Since ’02

Despite having a captive cliental that even a Jim Carry character could have turned a profit with, it has been revealed that Amtrak’s food service has lost $834 million since 2002.

The causes are waste, employee theft and lack of proper oversight according to government auditors.
Anybody surprised?
What is the incentive for there to be oversight to stop theft and waste? The overseers have nothing to gain but aggravation by stopping the waste and theft, and they are going to get paid no matter what.  Why not be popular with the rank and file and maybe even get cut in?
Of course, if they were the ones who had put up the money to buy the stuff getting wasted and stolen it would be an entirely different story.
Here’s a question to ponder: what do those who run and work for Amtrak have to gain by increasing the number of riders other than more work for the same amount of pay? 
Now, ask yourself that regarding SEPTA. 
Hat tip TrueBlueLiberty.com