The traffic gates that have been tormenting motorists for a year were removed Aug. 26 from SEPTA’s Springfield Road Trolley Stop in Springfield, Pa. Thank State Rep. Bill Adolph (R-165) who promised to get them removed and then followed through. It should be noted that stops remaining on opposites of the busy road so commuters will have to cross it either coming or going, which is something that wasn’t the case for about eight decades.
Bush Volunteered For Vietnam
During the first eight years of the millennium, a large segment of the the American public bought the line spoon fed to them by the propagandists who work at the networks and major newspapers that as a young man George W. Bush avoided combat in Vietnam by using family connections to join the National Guard.
Well, as it turns out, Dubya not only picked one of the few Guard units whose members were seeing combat but he actually volunteered for it himself.
While supporters had heard and accepted reports of this, in a bit of serious irony Dan Rather’s lawsuit — Captain Dan is suing CBS for $70 million claiming he wasn’t able to defend his story alleging special treatment for Dubya because, don’t laugh, CBS executives wanted to curry favor with the President — has conclusively established the fact to all but the most psychotic anti-Republicans.
Newsman Bernard Goldberg has reported that on page 130 of the report created by a panel of outsiders CBS assembled to get sort out Rathergate, it was noted that Rather co-conspirator Mary Mapes had information prior to the airing of the Sept. 8 2004 segment that President Bush, while in the Texas Air National Guard volunteered for service in Vietnam but was turned down in favor of more experienced pilots. For example, a flight instructor who served in theTexANG with Lt. Bush told Mapes in 1999 that Bush“did want to go to Vietnam but others went first.” Similarly, several others advised Mapes in 1999, and again in 2004 before Sept. 8,that Lieutenant Bush had volunteered to go to Vietnam but did not haveenough flight hours to qualify.
Bush Volunteered For Vietnam
Glenn Beck And Who Needs Prime Time?
The attack by anti-speech partisans against newscaster Glenn Beck appears to be backfiring. As of Aug. 24, his Fox News show was the third most watched one on cable with 2,810,000 viewers behind Bill O’Reilly (3,440,000) and Sean Hannity (2,937,000).
Unlike O’Reilly and Hannity, however, Beck does not air in prime time coming on at 5 p.m.
SEPTA To Remove Gates
SEPTA will remove the gates at the trolley stops in Springfield Township starting with the Springfield Road station where they have been causing traffic snarls for a year albeit things have gotten better in recent months, thank you State Rep. Bill Adolph.
Plans also call for the removal of gates at Scenic Road and Saxer and Leamy avenues.
Spend thousands to put them up and spend thousands to take them down. Measure once cut twice could be the motto of any organization affiliated with government in this area.
Will the signal timing change at Springfield Road? I doubt they will be having trolleys once again make all stops on the northern side of the busy highway something that allowed the vast majority of commuters to avoid crossing it.
Rodney King To Fight Ex-Cop In Delaware County, Pa.
Rodney King whose rough-handling during arrest was captured on videotape leading to a trial of the officers, their initial acquittal and the L.A. Riot of 1991 will be boxing a yet-to-be identified ex-policemen, Sept. 12, at Celebrity Boxing Federation event at the Maple Zone Sports & Fitness Center in Bethel Township, Pa., in Suburban Philadelphia.
King, 43, who boxed as a youth, has been training in San Bernadino, Ca.
He may be best known for his plea “Can we all get along?” made at the height of the riots.
Rodney King To Fight Ex-Cop In Delaware County, Pa.
Facing Jail For Praying In The USA
Pace High School Principal Frank Lay and school athletic director Robert Freeman face up to 6 months in jail and a $5,000 fine for offering a mealtime prayer at the school in Florida. They are accused of breaching the conditions of a lawsuit settlement reached last year with the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).
Pray for these brave and decent men and pray that America gets it common sense back.
Also work to pull the teeth of the totalitarians who wrap themselves in the flag and the mantel of civil liberties. The ACLU is anti-liberty.
Facing Jail For Praying In The USA
Mayor Nutter And Blazing Saddles
Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter is threatening to shut down the city’s court system if the state doesn’t give him permission to reform the city’s pension system and raise the sales tax from 7 percent to 8 percent.
It’s like a strategy from the film Blazing Saddles. Nutter is trying to win over the unfriendly townsfolk by holding a gun to his head and saying “give me a tax hike or I’ll shoot the mayor.”
A sales tax hike is not going to help him considering that the rate is 6 percent in the rest of the state (and zero in not-to-far-away Delaware) and it is not that inconvenient for Philadelphians to get to the malls, car dealers and appliance stores in those places.
If he’s counting on the restaurant/bar crowd, he ought to remember that eating out is a seriously discretionary expense.
Tough love is what’s required. Granted this would require the Mayor cutting into the union/Democratic Party patronage base, but what must be done must be done.
Mayor Nutter And Blazing Saddles
Doctor Shortage Is Concern
Today’s headline in USA Today concerned a doctor shortage as, for some reason, fewer people are becoming doctors. I didn’t see anything in the story which addressed either the aggravation caused by frivolous lawsuits or the crushing expense of liability insurance.
Nor did the publication remark on any concern potential doctors might have about surrendering professional freedom to political science majors who went into government.
The story can be found at: http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2009-08-17-doctor-gp-shortage_N.htm
Doctor Shortage
Pa. To Cut Funds To Brandywine Battlefield
Pa. To Cut Funds To Brandywine Battlefield — Pennsylvania will no longer fund Brandywine Battlefield, a 52-acre paradise of very historic open space in Chadds Ford. Operations are now the responsibility of the Brandywine Battlefield Park Associates, which is an association of volunteers.
Again we pay more and get less. The Pennsylvania budget has increased from $35.8 billion in 1998-99 — when there was no issue about funding the Battlefield — to $61.3 billion in 2008-09.
Parks — and maintaining historical sites — are one of the few areas in which government generally does a better job than the private sector.
Pa. To Cut Funds To Brandywine Battlefield
Springfield P.O. Will Move
It’s official, the Springfield Post Office that has graced Brookside Road in thePennsylvania Township for more than five decades is going to be moved to a yet-to-be identified location on Baltimore Pike. Also, the post office annex in the Springfield Mall will be closed.
Springfield has long been a non-delivery facility with mail addressed tothe 19064 Zip Code being trucked from the Media Annex on Route 452 inMiddletown Township.
The idea is to save money but do you really expect to see a cut in cost of postage — or your taxes? Not on this planet.
So, the bottom line is that there is going to be a decrease in service while we are charged the same if not more.
And the Democrats wonder why we object to the government takeover of health care that they are trying to foist on us.
By the way, the Post Office has a legal monopoly with regard to the delivery of most mail. A minor change in the law — which Congress has the power to do — would allow competition which would see a huge decrease in cost and a great increase in efficiency.
Sort of what happened when UPS and FedEX began competing with the delivery of packages and urgent letters.