Saints Peter and Paul Ukrainian Catholic Church, 100 S. Penn St., Clifton Heights will soon be putting the sermons of Father John Ciurpita on line.
Here is a sample which is from last Sunday, April 22, and concerns the Myrrh Bearing Women.
When Police Chases Get A Benny Hill Soundtrack
We submit this police chase from the CA-241 Toll Road in Orange County, CA for your perusal. The theme music from Benny Hill is a nice touch.
Hat tip Cathy Craddock
Man Allegedly Harassed High School Girls With Porn On Facebook
By Pattie Price
A 19-year-old Wayne resident turned himself in at District Court, Thursday, before a barrage of reporters and television cameras.
Neil Geckle is facing charges of multiple counts of dissemination of child pornography, possession of child pornography, criminal use of communication facility, selling obscene sexual materials, designing obscene sexual materials, and producing obscene performances. The charges stem from an investigation led by Delaware County CID Detective Lisa Carroll.
According to the affidavit, Detective Carroll received a report March 1 from Radnor Detective James Santoliquito that a high school student logged into her Facebook account and received a friend request and a private message from a “Matt Hemcher.” The message contained a link to a photo album. When the girl checked the link she found pictures from her account and also other females account that “Matt Hemcher” printed out, set on his desk, and took a picture of his penis on her picture.
The first victim said she recognized one of the other victims as one of her friends and notified her.
The second victim reported the same scenario. Neither of the victims know a “Matt Hemcher.”
Tredyffrin Township Police reported that a student at Conestoga High School reported the same incident. She also received a picture sent by “Matt Hemcher” who claimed to be a Connestoga High School student. The girl told police that she does not know anyone by that name. She also reported that some of her friends who attend Connestoga and Radnor high schools received similar pictures.
Setective Santoliquito printed “Matt Hemcher’s” Facebook profile and shared it with Detective Carroll. His profile stated that he attends Connestoga High School and works at Rita’s Water Ice. His account also contained photos of eight juveniles with superimposed obscene material. Hemcher’s profile was subsequently deleted before Detective Carroll was able to view it so she obtained a court order to get the information that led her to Geckle.
Detective Santoliquito received an e-mail from the fourth victim who reported the same scenario as the first three girls.
A search warrant was obtained for Geckle’s residence and served on April 9. Geckle was home at the time and admitted he created the Facebook page using the name Matt Hemcher. He said he used the computer in his grandmother’s bedroom and found the girls pictures in a Radnor High School network. He said he printed out the pictures, placed them on his desk, and took pictures of his penis and superimposed them onto the girls pictures.
Seized from the home were a Cricket cell phone, a Sony laptop, , an HP Probook, an e-machine, 47 DVD’s, a pink Apple i-pod, a Casio camera, and a folder containing the pictures.
Geckle was remanded to the George W. Hill Correctional Facility when he was unable to post $100,000 cash bail.
BASE jumping William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 4-28-12
On July 24, 1966 Michael Pelkey and Brian Schubert jumped off El Capitan in Yosemite Park using surplus military parachutes. They survived albeit with broken bones and gave birth to BASE jumping which means parachuting from Buildings, Antennae, Spans (bridges) and Earth (cliffs).
The sport is considered the most dangerous.
Pelkey and Schubert never jumped together again. They were scheduled to do so on Oct. 15, 2006 from the 900 foot New River Gorge Bridge in Fayetteville, W.V. where BASE jumping is legal for six hours ever year.
Schubert went first. He took too long to open his chute and died. He was 66.
BASE jumping William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 8-2-19
Be Aware Of Plastic Bottle Bombs
Hat tip Pattie Price
Reports have been confirmed of young vandals mixing Drano, tin foil, and a little water in plastic drink bottles to create bombs powerful enough to sever fingers and cause serious burns and blinding.
The bombs are left in lawns, in mail boxes, in gardens, and driveways. Picking up the bomb causes the reaction to start which occurs in less than 30 seconds.
Verification and more information, can be found on Snopes.com.
Corbetts Colossal Cockiness Castrates His Credibility
“Stevie Welch sat on a wall (of cards); Stevie Welch had a great fall (winning a mere two of 67 counties). All of King (or is it Joker?) Corbett’s horses (jackasses), and all the King’s men (endorsements by 27 County Commissioners and 35 State Legislators), couldn’t put Stevie’s candidacy together again (4 of 5 Republican voters rejected the Welch-Corbett-Obama “ticket”).
And so Freindly Fire’s prediction that Governor Corbett-endorsed U.S. Senate candidate Steve Welch would come in a whoppingly-bad third place was proven correct, though it didn’t take a political genius to guess that result. After all, asking — strong-arming, actually — Republicans to support the Obama-voting, Joe Sestak-supporting Welch was anathema to common sense and political savvy. And the resulting carnage is everywhere: the endorsement of the state Republican Party is as meaningful as being valedictorian of summer school; getting backed by Corbett now carries substantial negative baggage, and GOP legislators will think long and hard about aligning themselves with the Governor on his signature issues (are there any?), fearing that his promises of support could be akin to political suicide.
And all of this occurred just 15 months after being ushered into office with a ten-point margin and solid majorities in the House and Senate. And ironically, so easily preventable.
Many insiders will claim the blow to Corbett’s prestige will be a fleeting, short-term event. As is most often the case, those “experts” will be wrong. The political reality is that next month, when the Governor wants his ill-fated and unpopular voucher plan for only low-income families (which ignores the middle class) to pass, he will fall short, as his Party walks away from him. When he attempts to garner support for his proposed education cuts in the budget, he will meet substantial resistance. And should he try his hand at privatizing liquor, many in his GOP caucuses will cut and run. Very few will risk their neck for a Guv who in the best of times was invisible, preferring the shadows to the bully pulpit. Now, Corbett has become a liability.
(Sidenote: Corbett’s low-income voucher allies made that issue the only issue this election, losing all of the races in which they were involved. In particular, they spent big money trying to defeat West Philadelphia State Representative James Roebuck and mid-state Senator Pat Vance –who only ran again because she was “not going to be pushed out by any Political Action Committee.”. Both won easily — another reason Corbett will have a difficult time with that issue.)
Not only is Corbett’s popularity plummeting, but his reputation has been cemented as a lightweight empty-suit who simply can’t deliver. The fact that he poisoned his own Party and made it a national laughingstock is icing on the cake.
In addition to Corbett’s endorsement of Welch (and the fact the he personally recorded the voice vote of every State Committee member during the GOP endorsement process), he went to the mat for his boy through mailers, phone calls, fundraisers and speeches. Yet his election night was a disaster. Consider:
-The Corbett- Welch-ObamaDrama Ticket had all the advantages going into the race. With Santorum out of the presidential contest, many conservative-leaning Republicans did not vote — and low turnout elections almost always favor the endorsed candidate (especially the hand-picked favorite of a Governor). The Party’s organizational structure and resources are usually sufficient to propel the anointed candidate to victory, but many Party committee people rebuked the Governor by openly supporting non-Welch candidates.
– Even better for Welch, there were two other major candidates in the race (Tom Smith, Sam Rohrer), both of whom would split the anti-establishment, anti-endorsement vote (and the remaining two candidates, David Christian and Marc Scaringi, did the same, taking 18 percent collectively). It should have been an easy “divide and conquer” campaign for Welch. Instead, it was a Kamikaze mission.
-There was a large snowstorm the day before the election across much of western Pennsylvania — Smith’s critical home base. Any dampening of that vote should have proven beneficial to the endorsed candidate, but it was Smith’s supporters who out-performed the once-vaunted statewide GOP machine.
– It should have been a slam-dunk for Welch to raise millions from Corbett and the big GOP donors. But he took in an embarrassing $150,000 in the entire first quarter —half of Smith’s total and, quite possibly, even less than Smith’s dog. That lack of gravitas is quite telling.
– There was one bright spot: Welch’s campaign consultants reaped the benefits of the $1 million Welch personally gave his campaign. The effectiveness of how they spent that money is another story, since there was no Philadelphia broadcast TV, limited media, and, come to think of it, virtually no campaign at all — usually not the best way to win an election.
-By far the most surreal moment of the night was Welch crying poor, complaining about being outspent 5-1 —even though he is accurately described in every news article as being the self-funding millionaire entrepreneur. All self-funders claim that they will only spend a fixed amount, and, of course, exceed that after consultants convince them they are “closing fast.” That never happened with Steve. The irony is that he was always perceived as a self-funder (and no one wants to contribute to a rich candidate), but he clearly wasn’t able to micturate (look it up) with the big dogs in the tall grass. Playing the rich-guy card (against a really rich guy like Smith) without having the aces in your hand isn’t just a bad bluff. It’s a dead-man’s hand.
Kind of makes you wonder what the hell the point was in going for the endorsement — or running at all.
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So what happens from here? Prosecutor Kathleen Kane, who whipped the whining Patrick Murphy despite his endorsements from all the wrong folks (career pols Rendell and Nutter), is in the driver’s seat to become the first Democrat Attorney General. And expect the Penn State scandal to be front-and-center in the fall election, with Kane pounding away about what former Attorney General Tom Corbett knew, and when he knew it.
Not only would a Kane victory reflect negatively on Corbett (since the Dems would have captured that prize on his watch, and in doing so, beaten the Governor’s hand-selected candidate in what should be a Republican-leaning election), but his image and effectiveness will be further compromised as more is learned — and publicized —about his role in how the Penn State investigation was handled.
From having it all just a year ago, Tom Corbett will witness his own Party run away from him on the issues and in the election — and helplessly watch as the Democrats make him the issue.
It took George W. Bush six years to get to that point. If Tom Corbett’s goal was to best the former President, well…Mission Accomplished.
Corbetts Colossal Cockiness Castrates His Credibility
Delco Pubs Mad At Corbett?
A little birdie told me that the reason for the lack of political signs in Delaware County for the just-passed primary election is that the Delaware County GOP is really, really mad at Gov. Tom Corbett. Corbett was the one who pushed state party endorsement in the U.S. Senate race for Obama-voter Steve Welch.
The Second Most Dangerous Game
How many readers are aware that there is an actual sport in which people see how deep they can dive in the ocean just by holding their breath?
The record dive is by Austrian Herbert Nitsch who made it to 700 feet helped by a watersled.
It is consider the second most dangerous sport behind BASE jumping with about 60 fatalities per year from participants.
There have been competitions since 1996,
Hat tip Outside magazine.
Apple’s Insidious Plan
The latest Forbes has a fascinating article on what Apple plans to do with the $64 billion it has sitting overseas. Writer Connie Guglielmo notes that bringing it here would cause it be taxed at 35 percent and hence would be a rather stupid thing for it to do.
So, the plan is for Apple to use the money to build offshore factories hence putting itself in complete control over its supply chain and preventing this equipment from being used to build products for HP and Dell.
Now, if competent, wise people led our nation then Apple would not feel compelled to spend all that money overseas.
The mysterious thing is why to American billionaires and Californians like those at Apple support the Democrat Party.
They’re Not On The Level
Former Philadelphia cop and one-time English teacher Jim Vanore gives a lesson on how American English is being misused for political ends.
He begins:
I want to originate a new word. I think I still have the right to do that in this country. Try though they do, the forces of dictatorship have not yet completely suspended my right of free speech.
When I taught junior high English, I wanted the students to understand the difference betweendenotation versus connotation, because dictators are clever in the way they initiate a bloodless coup: They can simply insist that a word’s connotation becomes its denotation.
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