CAIR Comes To Springfield

CAIR Comes To Springfield — CAIR Pennsylvania — the state affiliate of the Council on American-Islamic Relations —  has scheduled a banquet , 6:30 p.m., March 12 at the Springfield Country Club, which has been called the unofficial headquarters of the Springfield Republican Party.

It was the place, in fact, where John McCain kicked off his 2008 presidential campaign after officially becoming the GOP’s nominee.

The theme is “Advancing With Confidence” and the event is being called an “entertaining night out for the whole family.”

The entertainment is “world renowned” David Lucas and Ken Kaplin for the children, and a clown who will do balloon twisting.

Speakers are Dr. Umar Faruq Abdullah and Imam Johari Abdul-Malik.

Perhaps you have heard of Imam Adul-Malik. He came out in defense of Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, aka H. Rap Brown, after he was convicted of murdering Fulon County, Ga. sheriff deputy Ricky Leon Kinchen in March 2002, saying the former Mr. Brown was framed.

That same month he said the raid in northern Virgina which netted Sami Al-Arian was a witch hunt. Al-Arian would be sentenced to 57 month in prison after pleading guilty to conspiracy to help a “specially designated terrorist” organization, which in this case was the Islamic Jihad.

He would then go on to support for other terrorists like Ahmed Omar Abu Ali and Ali al Timimi.

It sounds like an entertaining night out for the whole family.

Hat tip Aaron Proctor of Examiner.Com

 

CAIR Comes To Springfield

The SB 1 Stand At The School House Door


Montco Tea Party activist Bob Guzzardi has pointed out a Delaware County school board member actually — hopefully unwittingly — invoked the imagery of Democrat segregationist George Wallace in her opposition to SB 1, the school choice bill pending in the Pennsylvania legislature.

Charlotte Hummel, who is the president of the William Penn School Board, told the Philadelphia Inquirer, yesterday, that “I will be standing in the schoolhouse door “ if vouchers were enacted.

William Penn hosts two schools — Park Lane Elementary School and Aldan School — that are considered failing by the state and whose students would be instantly eligible for vouchers if the bill should pass.

The Stand in the Schoolhouse Door was famous incident during the Civil Rights Movement in which Wallace as Alabama governor attempted to keep two black students from entering the University of Alabama.

Ms. Hummel is also a Democrat. Some things never change.


Is Sestak Prepping For Gov Run?


Former Congressman Joe “How Can We Miss You If You Don’t Go” Sestak appears to have gotten over his narrow senate loss to Pat Toomey and is sowing the seeds to take on Tom Corbett in 2014 to replace him as Pennsylvania’s governor.

Sestak received a standing O at the Democratic State Committee’s meeting last week and PoliticsPa.Com has heard from several sources that he discussed such a run at the event.

It should be noted that a year ago the Committee rejected him for Arlen Specter as their boy in the primary and that in return Joe described the committee as “an insider group”.

A spokeswoman for Private Citizen Sestak confirmed to PoliticsPa.Com “that he wants to do public service in some way” albeit she did not confirm that he is preparing a gubernatorial run.

And of course, he still has a spokeswoman.

Hat tips to PoliticsPa.Com and PaWaterCooler.Com


Democrat Party Worse Than Nuclear War?

Democrat Party Worse Than Nuclear War? — Fallout 3 is a video game set in the ravaged wasteland of a post-nuclear war America.

Detroit is a city featured in a recent Super Bowl commercial that has been run by the progressive Democrats since the 1970s.

A little over a year ago a poster at GameFaqs.Com named Starjed gave us: “We Play “Is it Detroit or is it a Fallout 3 Screencap? ”

A screencap is an image taken from the game. Starjed posted URLs to the Fallout 3 screencaps and to actual photos of the Motor City and asked you to guess which is which.

Starjed didn’t provide direct links to the images so you’ll have to cut and past their URLs into your address window but the point is made.

The  conclusion that one can  draw is that Democrat Party leadership is as bad for a society as nuclear war.

Some actually make the case that it is worse.

Democrat Party Worse Than Nuclear War?

Democrat Party Worse Than Nuclear War?

 

Olbermann Has New TV Job

Former MSNBC personality Keith Olbermann has been named chief news officer on Current-TV, the  cable network started by Al Gore. Olbermann will host a nightly “news” and commentary show according to the network’s websitewhere he “will lead” the programming slate.

“Nothing is more vital to a free America than a free media, and nothing is more vital to my concept of a free media than news produced independently of corporate interference,” said Olbermann in  statement.

Olbermann’s compensation will include equity in Current Media, the corporate owners of Current-TV.

Olbermann left the constantly low-rated MSNBC on Jan. 21 three days after the network was acquired by Comcast along with the rest of NBC Universal.

Perhaps the most remarkable thing with regard to Current-TV is that has even fewer viewers that Olbermann’s old network.

Corporate question of the day: will Olbermann’s stake of stock cause him to stifle the spit and spite for the benefit of profits now that they are his own?


Olbermann Has New TV Job

Gee, Who Just Turned 20?

Happy birthday to our favorite ghost and animal lover Kristina Brotzman of Springfield and Slippery Rock who is now no longer a teenager.

Joke And Recipe For Feb. 8, 2011

The joke for Feb. 8.

The recipe for Feb. 8.

Sen. Pileggi Tweets Bypass The Press


Majority Leader Dominic Pileggi (R-9) has been diligent about tweeting updates to the goings on of the Pennsylvania Senate.

Yesterday, for instance, he informed the world that the Senate Rules Committee has a new website with links to documents filed by cabinet and other nominees.

He notes that Senate Bill 106 has been introducted by Sen. Kim Ward (R-39) to amend the state Constitution to prohibit lame-duck legislative sessions.

He tells us that Senate Bill 107 , introduced by himself, would prohibit contigent-fee lobbying for state grants as is now the case with legislative issues.

He points out that Senate Bill 200 , introduced by Sen. Pat Brown (R-16) aimed at preventing concussions among student-athletes was approved today in committee.  

And he tells us that a hearing is being planned for his own Senate Bill 247 which would make changes to the three-year-old Open Records Law.

And four days ago he told us that Sen. Browne introduced SB 105 which would establish a searchable web-based database for matters involving state spending.

Anybody see a story on that in the old media?

The Senator can be followed here .


Teachers Union Hikes Dues To Fight Choice


The Pennsylvania State Education Association — the union which represents public school teachers, school nurses, guidance counselors, librarians and such — has announced it will raise the dues of its 190,000 members by 11 percent according to Citizens Alliance of Pennsylvania . 

The new revenue is apparently aimed at fighting the pending school choice legislation .

The PSEA already gets about $90 million from dues which it uses to pay for 230 employees, including eight full-time lobbyists who make about $150,000 a year apiece.

The dues hike is expected to bring in about $9 million more.

All public school teachers (librarians, nurses etc.) must contribute to this very anti-child union whether they want to or not. The money ultimately comes from the taxpayer anyway.

Hat tip Bob Guzzardi.


 

Development Trend For Peasantization

There is set of people that has the strange desire for order in the lives of other people and that, that they have been somehow ordained to be the means to do so. Development Trend For Peasantization

One of their latest conceits is the transit-oriented development which is basically putting in a high density development of homes, apartments and offices around a 19th century commuter rail station in the middle of a successful suburb.

Peasant homes for peasants you could call it.

If done properly, the developer will be able to sip a Chablis before the gas-fire in the fireplace of his McMansion’s living room as he watches through arched windows the deer play in the snow of his two-acre backyard and think warm thoughts about his “little people” scurrying about like happy hamsters in his new community, and feel as though he has just saved the world.

An attempt is being made to put one of these in Middletown Township, Delaware County, Pa. on the old Franklin Mint property with the proposed Wawa Station on SEPTA’s Media-Elwyn rail line as the transit hub.

It would have 1,200 residences including “luxury” apartments; 798,000 square feet of office space, and 235,000 square feet of retail space.

And in Montgomery County, Abington Township has signed on to a  transit-oriented development centered on SEPTA’s Noble Station on the West Trenton Line which will allow for increasing the residential unit density from eight per acre to 300 on an 8-acre tract next to the Baederwood Shopping Mall.

Someone is going to point out that starter homes and apartments are needed, and they would be right. But rather than break things that are fixed — like low-density, affluent suburban townships — how about we try to fix things that are broken.

Like, well, Philadelphia.

In 1950, Philly had a population of 2.07 million ; a population density of 16,286 per square mile. Today, it has a population of 1.55 million and a population density of 11,457 per square mile.

Clearly, it can fit more people.

And  historic North Philadelphia Station and the Broad Street Subway line would make great hubs for transit-oriented developments.

Now, some will point out that nobody who loves their children would willingly subject them to the city’s public school system. True!

But  school vouchers would easily solve that.

Other cynics might say that these are very high crime areas. Also true! But if you really had confidence in your ability to order the lives of others you would have the faith that responsible homeowners in self-contained communities would push out the “no-snitch” crowd.

And if not, well, maybe you shouldn’t try to break things that are fixed.

Development Trend For Peasantization