Visualizing $100 Million U.S. Budget Cut — President Obama has proposed cutting $100 million form the federal budget. Think that’s a big deal? Hardly. The video at this link puts it in perspective.
Thank you Cathy Craddock.
More Thoughts On Proctor Vs. CAIR
Aaron Proctor is back again writing for Examiner.Com albeit with the restriction that he not write about CAIR or Islam.
His loss of income, and pain and suffering from the incident strikes one as being rather demonstrable.
And that Mr. Proctor found himself in these circumstances as a result of this letter by CAIR-Pennsylvania (or is it CAIR-Philadelphia) Executive Director Moein Khawaja is quite undeniable.
So is it defamatory to tell Mr. Proctor’s employer that “as a precaution, CAIR-Philadelphia has taken steps to notify local police of the possibility that Mr. Proctor will be a security threat to our annual banquet . . .We are particularly concerned as many families with children plan to attend. We have forwarded his profile picture to police”
It certainly seems so unless Mr. Proctor had advocated violence which he does not appear to have done in the articles to which Mr. Khawaja objected.
Hope no greedy lawyer connects these dots. CAIR-Philadelphia could be on the receiving end of untold aggravation by some hungry quick-buck type looking to take advantage of Mr. Proctor’s plight and make a name for himself as per Ralph Nader and Morris Dees. We certainly wouldn’t want that to happen.
Bill Would Ban Bonuses To Pa Workers
A bill that would ban bonuses to state workers is winding its way through the Pennsylvania Senate.
Senate Bill 103 — a.k.a. The Commonwealth Agency Bonus Ban Act — was introduced by Sen. John H. Eichelberger
(R-30) on Jan. 12 and would ban bonuses to all state employees. This pointedly includes the legislative branch.
Reimbursements for travel expenses, uniforms, cost-of-living adjustments and such would be exempted.
Another bill not getting much ink is SB 271 which would change the rules regarding nominating petitions. According to Senate Majority Leader Dominic Pileggi (R-9) who introduced it Jan. 26, the the rule changes would make campaign contribution reports available online more quickly.
And in the not-so-clean-and-open category, Senate President Pro Tempore Joe Scarnati , R-25, announced that he “always intended” to repay gas driller Consol Energy for Super Bowl tickets, airfare and hotel that the Canonsburg-based firm provided him earlier this month.
People are watching Republicans. The Pennsylvania Senate should start looking for a new President Pro Tempore.
Hear About The WMDs?
A local television interview of Al Hallor, the assistant port director and Customers and Border Protection officer for San Diego, provided the revelation that a “weapons of mass effect” has been found on American soil.
“At the airport, seaport, at our port of entry we have not this past
fiscal year, but our partner agencies have found those things,” before a PR handler shut him up.
Front page headlines everywhere, right?
Proctor Returns To Examiner But Will Pursue CAIR On Web Radio
Aaron Proctor, the conservative-libertarian journalist suspended by Examiner.Com after a complaint from CAIR-Philadelphia, has been returned to duty.
Proctor had written articles about the controversial Islamic organization with regard to their looming March 12 banquet at the Springfield Country Club in Delaware County.
Proctor said, however, he has voluntarily removed his CAIR articles from the Examiner site and will not be writing about the organization or Islam for the publication.
He said, however, he will pursue the issue in other venues.
“This doesn’t mean I won’t be discussing the situation on my show tomorrow at blogtalkradio.com/proctorshow or in the future on ‘The Aaron Proctor Show,'” he said. “I am afforded a wonderful, weekly venue every Tuesday night at 8 p.m. that does not give me the constraints of my free speech like the ones instituted by Examiner.com.”
CAIR Articles Get Journalist Suspended
CAIR Articles Get Journalist Suspended — Aaron Proctor, who has been writing about libertarian matters for Examiner.Com since April, has been suspended from the organization due to several articles he wrote critical of CAIR regarding CAIR-Philadelphia’s March 12 banquet at the Springfield Country Club on Sproul Road.
In a letter to Examiner Category Director Jay Keller, CAIR-Philadelphia Executive Director Mocin Khawaja implied Proctor made statements that were “libelous and defamatory.” He took special issue with Proctor pointing out that CAIR was an un-indicted co-conspirator in a terrorist case involving groups donating money to Hamas.
CAIR-Philadelphia and CAIR are legally distinct entities, Khawala said.
So there!
Mr. Khawala, for what it’s worth, the letterhead of your missive said CAIR Pennsylvania. If legalistic distinctions are your thing, maybe you ought to fix that.
One of the scheduled speakers at the event is Imam Johari Abdul-Malik. Is it “hate-speech” to point that out? Is it somehow more hateful to criticize CAIR — Philadelphia or otherwise — than it is to demean the murder of Fulton County, Georgia sheriff’s deputy Ricky Kinchen by the former H.Rap Brown in 2000 as Malik did?
Khawala, showing the tolerance and restraint for which CAIR — the legal entity separate from CAIR-Philadelphia — is famous, told Keller that he believes Proctor is a security threat and that he has forwarded his Examiner profile picture to police.
Perhaps the message budding journalists should take is that if they want to criticize a religion they should stick to the Catholic Church or Christian evangelicals.
CAIR Articles Get Journalist Suspended
Defense Of The Philadelphia Church
Defense Of The Philadelphia Church — Three Catholic priests and a teacher charged with molesting boys in the late 1990s have inspired a new round of Catholic bashing and dumped new chum in the water for the circling lawyers who feed on such things.
Also facing charges is a church administrator who stands accused of not taking the steps required to protect children.
All well and appropriate but a statement in the grand jury report implying that the Philadelphia Archdiocese remains indifferent, and even tolerant, of these predators spawned opportunities throughout the nation for strident headlines and faux outrage by those always looking to put the Church in a bad light.
One has yet to see addressed the point that if the reforms by the Archdiocese were ineffective why aren’t there any cases newer than 11 years old?
In the 1970s, cynical predators knowing full well that the sheep are always defenseless against the sheepdog sneaked into respected institutions ranging from the Boy Scouts, to the Catholic Church, to Protestant churches, to universities, to government offices, to the ACLU, fully protected by a media that proclaimed only the traditional can be perverse.
Scandal and tragedy have caused the BSA and the churches to get their houses in order, often with the old media putting haranguing obstacles in their path.
The others, well, Bill Clinton, Barney Frank and the late Ted Kennedy remain lionized political figures. The ACLU case happened only a few short years ago in 2007.
And what goes on in our universities is pointedly ignored by the old media.
The Catholic Church is a very good thing. The city, state and nation would be far worse off if it should disappear.
But fear not, because it’s not despite the strongest wishes of some. The scandal and the attacks are only going to make it stronger.
Defense Of The Philadelphia Church
GOP Endorses Appellate Judges 2011
GOP Endorses Appellate Judges 2011 — The Republican Party of Pennsylvania, today at its annual Winter Meeting, endorsed Vic Stabile of Cumberland County for state Superior Court and Anne Covey of Bucks County for Commonwealth Court.
Judges to these bodies are chosen in state-wide elections.
The GOP won all races during the last state-wide judicial election.
Vic Stabile is a partner with Dilworth, Paxton, LLP in Harrisburg, where he practices complex civil and commercial litigation. He and his family live in Carlisle.
Anne Covey owns Covey & Associates P.C. which specializes in labor and employment law. She was appointed by Governor Mark Schweiker in 2002 as the first female member of the Pennsylvania Labor Relations Board. She lives in New Hope with her family.
The nine-judge Commonwealth Court hears appeals from final orders of certain state agencies and certain designated cases from the Courts of Common Pleas involving public sector legal questions. It also functions as a trial court in some civil actions by or against the Commonwealth government and cases regarding statewide elections.
The 15-judge Superior Court hears appeals from common pleas courts.
Decisions from both can be appealed to the state Supreme Court.
GOP Endorses Appellate Judges 2011
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