Rusty Carter Welcome Home

Rusty Carter Welcome HomeRussell (Rusty) L. Carter was welcomed home this afternoon, April 14, with a police escort that included cars from just about every jurisdiction in Delaware County, fire engines, Mummers, dozens of motorcyclists from Warriors’ Watch Riders and a crowd of hundreds that lined his small block on Orchard Road between Leamy and Woodland avenues in Springfield Pa.

The procession proceeded through an arch made from ladder trucks from the Springfield and Clifton Heights volunteer fire companies from which hung an enormous American flag.

Rusty served as a member of the 101st Airborne Division and was deployed to Afghanistan. In July 2010, he came under hostile fire and suffered a concussion. A month after being treated from his wounds he returned to his unit.

On Jan. 2, 2011 while returning from a night mission, Rusty was in the turret of his Humvee that experienced mechanical problems and went over the side of an unprotected bridge, crashing into a ravine and coming to rest in the river bed 50 feet below. While the five other soldiers on board sustained recoverable injuries, Rusty suffered several broken bones, severe lacerations to his face and skull and a complete C 4 separation of the spine.

Rusty has lost all motor function; he is paralyzed from the chest down and has no feeling from the elbows down. He also suffers from minor traumatic brain injury. The prognosis is that he is permanently disabled, will never walk again and no longer has use of his hands.

The event was organized by Warriors’ Watch Riders, an organization of motorcyclists dedicated to honoring those who served pictured below turning onto Orchard Road from Leamy Avenue.

 Rusty Carter Welcome Home

Wounded Springfield Vet To Get Big Welcome Home Today

Orchard Road in Springfield Pa. will be closed at about 12:30 p.m., today, April 14, for a big welcome home for Army Specialist  Russell (Rusty) L. Carter to his home on the street.

Rusty served as a member of the 101st Airborne Division and was deployed to Afghanistan In July of 2010. He came under hostile fire and ultimately suffering a concussion. A month after being treated from his wounds he returned to his unit. On Jan. 2, 2011 while returning from a night mission, Rusty was in the turret of his Humvee when, after experiencing mechanical problems, it went over the side of an unprotected bridge, crashing into a ravine and coming to rest in the river bed 50 feet below. While the five other soldiers on board sustained recoverable injuries, Rusty suffered several broken bones, severe lacerations to his face and skull and a complete C 4 separation of the spine.

While he has undergone spinal and neck surgeries, he is paralyzed from the elbows down. 

Rusty will be escorted home by Springfield Police and The Warriors Watch Riders, along with members of the community.

Please join Jerry in welcoming home a severely injured young soldier from Springfield, PA  (See the above link regarding our hero, Army Specialist Russell Carter).

The escort is expected to arrive at 1 p.m.

God Bless Our Troops, God Bless America and God Bless Rusty Carter.

Hat tip Cathy Craddock.

Aslo today, at 6:30 p.m., the World War II vets participating in the Inaugural Trip of Honor Flight Philadelphia will be returning to  Anthony’s Restaurant, 4990 State Road in Drexel Hill from their day in Washington D. C.

The  public is encouraged to greet them.

Honor Flight is a national non-profit organization founded in 2005 to give aging or terminally ill veterans a day of honor in Washington D.C. 

There is no cost to the veterans. Thousands of them have participated in the last six years.

The Philadelphia hub was started and is managed by Springfield resident Andrew Schiavello.

Pennsylvania Zombie Music Of The Day

Happy Friday the 13th.

For those interested in Pennsylvania and zombies — I mean you Robert James — here is Pennsylvania Boarded Up House Blues by the Kreeps.

The lyrics, from what I can get from them, seem to be based on the original Night of the Living Dead.
Here is the the Kreeps’ Bad Voodoo — another zombie song — from the videogame Red Dead Redemption Undead Nightmare. It’s actually pretty good.

Gasoline Consumption Drop Indicates Depression

Tanks not getting filled means the economy is tanking.

ZeroHedge.Com reports that gasoline deliveries hit 30.9 million gallons per day last November down 42 million gallons per day from a year before and down from 58.8 million gallons per day in November 2006 which is when the Democrats took over Congress.
It notes that while cars have gotten 6 percent more efficient between 1999 and 2010, the drop in gallons per day delivered from 2006 to 2011 is 47 percent. 
It notes that this kind of drop only occurs in war or severe economic contraction.

Mitt To Stump At Tea Party Event

GOP presidential front-runner Mitt Romney will be appearing at the Tri-State Tax Day Tea Summit, 6:30-8 p.m., April 16, at the Franklin Institute, 222 N. 20th St., Philadelphia.

Tickets range from $10-$30 and can be obtained from the Independence Hall Tea Party Association.
The host committee is American Sheepdogs; Cherry Hill Area Tea Party; Diamond State Tea Party; Faith & Freedom Coalition of Delaware; Jersey Shore Tea Party; Montgomery County Young Republicans; Repatriot Radio; and Saturday Morning in America.
Scheduled to appear with Romney are Christine J. Toretti, National Republican Committeewoman (PA); Congressman Charlie Dent (PA); Congressman Chris Smith (NJ); Congressman Jim Gerlach (PA); Congressman Jon Runyan (NJ); State Senator Joe Kyrillos (NJ) and The Honorable Anna Little (R-NJ).
If Romney is the nominee, I’m voting for him this November. 
That’s not saying much since if Bernie Madoff were the Republican nominee I’d vote for him this November.
On Primary Day, April 24, I’m voting for Newt as I don’t expect to be drunk enough that early to hit the button for Ron Paul.

Confident Rohrer Gives Eddystone Gathering Leadership Lesson

With 13 days to go before Pennsylvanian’s Republican Primary, a confident Sam Roher told a gathering in Eddystone, tonight, April 11, what kind of leadership will be needed to extract this nation from the fiscal and social mess in which it finds itself.

 

Rohrer, who has a distinguished career in the State House, is seeking the Republican nomination to take on Democrat incumbent Bob Casey Jr. in the U.S. Senate race.
Rohrer noted that while serving in the House he followed a checklist of simple principles, that caused him never to vote for a tax increase nor for tax funding for abortionist, and caused to oppose the improper use of eminent domain.
His principles also caused to refrain from endorsing fellowing Republican Tom Corbett in the 2010 gubernatorial race after losing to him in the primary. Corbett still holds a grudge.
He pledged to follow the same principles if sent to Washington.
His list:

  • Is it moral?
  • Is it constitutional?
  • Does it strengthen individual freedom or does it strengthen government control over the individual?
  • Does it preserve and strengthen the traditional family?
  • Is it in the best interest of the general public — or does it help only special interests?
  • Is it necessary?
  • Is it inefficient or ineffective?
  • Is there money to pay for it?

He’s added one for this bid — should it be done at the federal level?

Rohrer gave specific examples of recent laws passed that he would have opposed which included the Stop Online Piracy Act, The National Defense Authorization Act For Fiscal Year 2012, and the Patriot Act because of their threats to civil liberties.

Much of Roher’s talk was a history lesson including interesting snippets regarding how William Penn and his religious convictions influenced our nation’s Founding Fathers.

Roher was introduced by Dale Kerns Jr., who along with Tom Boggia, is running to be delegates to the Republican National Convention from Pennsylvania’s 1st Congressional District.

Sam, you have my vote.

Ad Causing Grief For Pileggi

A ad released by State Senate Majority Leader Dominic Pileggi is causing him grief in his surprisingly tough 9th District Republican Primary battle with reformer Rogers Howard. 

The ad shows Pileggi standing in front of six law enforcement officers with text boasting about legislative achievements.
It is not consider kosher to use implied endorsements from public workers in campaign ads.
Below is the ad:

Rush Move To FM Reported

Rush Limbaugh is moving back to FM in Philly where he lived through most of the ’90s  if reports are accurate. 

It has been confirmed that Premiere Media, which syndicates Rush, will be pulling him off WPHT at 1210AM, which carried him since 1999 when he left WWDB on 96.5 FM, which is now the hip-hop station WRDW.
The reports say that Rush will be moving to 106.9 FM, which had been the local Family Radio station, a network that has fallen on hard times since its owner predicted that the world would end last May 21, and has since been acquired by Merlin Media.
A move to FM means no more annoying static from cell towers while motoring and no more pre-emption from Phillies games.
Michael Smerconish is slated to replace Rush on WPHT, which is a bit of demotion as he will no longer be the station’s evening drive-time guy. 
The reports say that 106.9 will also be carrying former WPHT stars Glen Beck and Sean Hannity.
It sounds like the end of WPHT as we know it.
I think Rush feels fine.

Job Bills Pending In State House

In an effort to enhance job opportunities for Pennsylvanians, House members have introduced a package of bills aimed at creating more family sustaining jobs and improving the state’s business climate, according to State Rep. Jim Cox (R-129). 

Some of the bills would: 

• Allow unemployed Pennsylvanians to apply to work for a participating business to garner critical on-the-job training while continuing to collect unemployment for a temporary period.

•Provide regulatory flexibility for small businesses and improve state rulemaking by creating procedures to analyze the availability of more flexible regulatory approaches for small businesses.

• Continue lawsuit abuse reforms to end frivolous lawsuits and reduce the cost of doing business in Pennsylvania.

Only In America


1) Only in America could politicians talk about the greed of the rich at a $35,000 a plate campaign fund raising event.

2) Only in America could people claim that the government still discriminates against black Americans when we have a black President, a black Attorney General, and roughly 18% of the federal workforce is black.

3) Only in America could we have had the two people most responsible for our tax code, Timothy Geithner, the head of the Treasury Department and Charles Rangel who once ran the Ways and Means Committee, BOTH turn out to be tax cheats who are in favor of higher taxes.

4) Only in America will you find people who burn the American flag and call America an “imperialist nation,” but who get offended if you say they’re not patriotic.

5) Only in America can we have terrorists kill people in the name of Allah and have the media primarily react by fretting that Muslims might be harmed by the backlash.

6) Only in America could someone drinking a $5 latte and texting to his friends on an iPhone 4 complain that the government allows some people to make too much money.

7) Only in America would people take rappers who brag about shooting people and selling drugs seriously when they complain the police are targeting them unfairly.

8) Only in America would we make people who want to legally become American citizens wait for years in their home countries and pay tens of thousands of dollars for the privilege while we discuss letting anyone who sneaks into the country illegally just become American citizens.

9) Only in America could the people who believe in balancing the budget and sticking by the country’s Constitution be thought of as “extremists.”

10) Only in America could the most vicious foes of successful conservative women be self-proclaimed feminists and the National Organization for Women.

11) Only in America could you need to present a driver’s license to cash a check or buy alcohol, but not to vote.


12) Only in America can we have terrorists fly planes into our buildings and have some people’s first thought be “what did we do to make them hate us?”

13) Only in America would we think teaching kids at college is an appropriate job for communists, terrorists, and other dregs of humanity.

14) Only in America could people demand the government investigate whether the oil companies are gouging the public because the price of gas went up when for every penny of profit the oil companies make, the government tacks on roughly 24 cents’ worth of taxes.

15) Only in America could the first people asked to weigh in on the seriousness of a racial incident by the media be professional race hustlers like Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, and Ben Jealous. In other words, it’s like calling in a car dealer as a neutral source on whether or not you need to get a new car.

16) Only in America does airport security put its hands on your underwear….while you’re wearing it.

17) Only in America could the government force a skating rink to have handicapped parking spots and Braille on the ATM machines.

18) Only in America could the government collect more tax dollars from the people than any nation ever has before in all of recorded history, still spend a trillion dollars more that it has per year, and complain that it doesn’t have nearly enough to money.

19) Only in America could the rich people who pay 86% of all income taxes be accused of not paying their “fair share” by people who don’t pay any income taxes at all.

20) Only in America could the people who approve of slaughtering 25 million females babies via abortion accuse OTHER PEOPLE of waging a “war on women.”