Nativity Scene Is Back But Let’s Dump The Kwanzaa

Luzerne County has brought back the Nativity scene and menorah that had graced its courthouse lawn for decades before being removed Dec. 16 after the threat of a lawsuit by the ACLU.

Motorist honked their horns in support.

Luzerne County did, however, add secular decorations including a Santa, Mrs. Claus, some reindeer and candy canes, and a sign saying “Happy Holidays” and “Happy Kwanzaa.”

So mostly kudos to Luzerne County but our leaders are eventually going to have to glean the fact that symbols, regardless of theology, can represent evil as well as good.

The menorah, which represents Hanukkah, stands for good things — faith, freedom and the willingness to stand up to tyranny. No American should object to those things.

The manger represents God’s love and the birth of someone who told us to love our neighbor and do unto others as you’d have them do unto to you. No one sane or decent person should have a problem with that — which of course make you wonder about the leadership of the ACLU.

Santa and candy canes represent sweet memories.

Kwanzaa is something designed to be divisive and exclusionary by a hate-monger and thug named Ron Karenga, who served time for imprisoning and torturing  women. He cooked it up in 1966  specifically to replace Christmas — which he considered to be a  “white” religion — in the black community.

If we want to a achieve Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream of a united, color-blind society things like Kwanzaa must have no respect and men like Karenga must have no legacy.

Stensland Fires Back At Spencer

Stensland Fires Back At Spencer — Former Fox29 anchor Dawn Stensland responded, today, to the Delaware County Daily Times’ Gil Spencer regarding this Dec. 11 column concerning rumors of a run for the  Pa7 congressional seat by Ms. Stensland.

Ms. Stensland said  it was unfair for Spencer to compare her to Elin Woods since her husband, former KYW-TV anchor Larry Mendte, was not a serial adulterer.  Which is a fair point by Ms. Stensland.

In fact, I don’t even think Mendte has ever been actually accused of, or admitted to, adultery with former KYW-TV-anchor Alycia Lane, and, anyway, being pals with her is not what got him in trouble.

Ms. Stensland is definitely not ruling out a primary run which would be as a Republican and against party-endorsed former U.S. Attorney Pat Meehan.

“Mr. Spencer hammered another nail into the“Girls Not Allowed Sign” on the “Good Old Boy’s” political clubhouse,” Ms. Stensland said in her letter, which is the sort of thing that winds up as an issue when you get prurient with politics.

A more relevant thing to bring up regarding any candidacy by Ms. Stensland would be that it was the U.S. Attorney’s office led by Meehan that prosecuted her husband for hacking into Ms. Lane’s computer and leaking her emails.

Stensland Fires Back At Spencer

State Senate Contracts Still Off-line

The state open records law requires contracts worth more than $5,000 awarded since July 1, 2008 to be posted online and  a list of 66 Senate contracts and leases was expected to have been so done last August but has not apparently due to software compatibility. The Senate chief clerk’s office uses more-advanced software to electronically transmit documents than with what Treasury is equipped.

If documents are available on searchable public Web sites, citizens don’t have to file right-to-know requests from offices and wait for a response.

Christmas Blizzard Of ’09

Christmas Blizzard Of ’09

Christmas Blizzard Of '09

The streets were carless and the sky was starless and the Christmaslights made Springfield Pa seem something painted by Thomas Kinkade. Sixteen inches of snow have fallen with another four expected beforethe storm’s end. It’s a record for December for the Philadelphia areaand winter doesn’t even start for another 37 hours.

And the people of Windsor Circle would like to thank Brian and Andrew for clearing the sidewalks and driveways with their snowblowers.

Christmas Blizzard Of ’09

Biker And The Lion

Biker And The Lion –A Harley biker is riding by the zoo in Washington, DC when he sees a little girl leaning into the lion’s cage. Suddenly, the lion grabs her by the cuff of her jacket and tries to pull her inside to slaughter her, under the eyes of her screaming parents.

The biker jumps off his Harley, runs to the cage and hits the lion square on the nose with a powerful punch. Whimpering from the pain the lion jumps back letting go of the girl, and the biker brings her to her terrified parents, who thank him endlessly. A Washington Post reporter has watched the whole event.

The reporter addressing the Harley rider says, ‘Sir, this was the most gallant and brave thing I’ve seen a man do in my whole life.’

The Harley rider replies, ‘Why, it was nothing, really, the lion was behind bars. I just saw this little kid in danger and acted as I felt right.’

The reporter says, ‘Well, I’ll make sure this won’t go unnoticed. I’m a journalist, you know, and tomorrow’s paper will have this story on the front page. So, what do you do for a living and what political affiliation do you have?’

The biker replies, ‘I’m a U.S.Marine and a Republican.’ The journalist leaves.

The following morning the biker buys the paper to see if it indeed brings news of his actions, and reads, on the front page:

U.S.MARINE-BIKER ASSAULTS AFRICAN IMMIGRANT AND STEALS HIS LUNCH

That pretty much sums up the liberal news media’s approach to the news these days.

Kudos to FreeRepublic.Com for the tip.

Biker And The Lion

Villanova Wins FCS Crown

Villanova Wins FCS Crown —  Villanova beat Montana 23-21 in Chattanooga for the FCS crown. The Wildcats were down 14-9 at halftime.

The comeback was led by wide receiver Matt Szczur who had 159 yards rushing and two touchdowns often taking snaps from center in a wildcat formation.

Montana, who was down 23-14 with two minutes to play provided a scare at the end.

FCS stands for Football Championship Subdivision. It is for the NCAA Division I schools. They had been Division IAA until 2006.

Villanova Wins FCS Crown

Ethics Office Recommends Dropping Murtha Investigation

Ethics Office Recommends Dropping Murtha Investigation — The Office of Congressional Ethics announced this afternoon that it will recommend to the House Ethics Committee that matters be dropped regarding  the relationship between the PMA Group lobbying firm and congressmen John Murtha (D-PA12), Norm Dicks (D-Wash.) and Jim Moran (D-Va.).

PMA employees and clients were leading donors to Murtha, Moran, Dicks and other appropriators, and received multiple earmarksfrom them.

Ethics Office Recommends Dropping Murtha Investigation

Encounter With An Old Man

While walking the bad dog past the Springfield (Pa) Post Office this afternoon, an old fellow who just left the building unsolicitedly  asked me how I liked global warming. He said climate change was “bullsh*t”. He told me the polar bears were breeding like rabbits.

I had to agree. I told him it was just people looking for our money.

Why The Outrage In Lower Merion?

Why The Outrage In Lower Merion? — Lower Merion fans at a high school basketball game, Tuesday, said some rather nasty things regarding host Upper Darby which brought a response from the Royals side which eventually escalated into some extraordinary ugly and anti-Semitic statements regarding LM, which has a large Jewish population. These ugly statements included things like “We’ll write you letters when you’re in Auschwitz”.

Now, this is not something that should be ignored but since Tuesday the dinosaur media has been tut-tutting over incident and the officials from both schools have been indulging in public hand-wringing and the Lower Merion parents have been calling for the heads of the perpetrators.

All well and good but I remain amazed at the angst aimed at words chanted by ignorant teenagers at a basketball game, especially since all the groups expressing it — dinosaur journalists, school officials, Jewish parents, Lower Merion Township, Pa. — voted overwhelmingly for President Obama.

And President Obama is someone:

–Whose spiritual adviser blamed all the problems in the Mideast — and 9/11 to boot — on Zionism and whose institution bestowed upon Louis Farrakhan, the Dr. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr. Trumpeter Award.

–Whose FCC diversity officer called the reign of Hugo Chavez — who appears to be leading a pogrom in Venezuela — “really an incredible revolution”

–Who couldn’t bring himself to lend even moral support to opponents of the rabidly anti-Semitic Ahmadinejad regime after they were cheated out of an election. BTW, did you see where Iran just  occupied an Iraqi oil well? What will President Obama do?

You can’t fault people for being fooled which may have been the case last November. By now, however, you would think they would take some of that ire aimed at teenage stupidity and point it at something of consequence.

Why The Outrage In Lower Merion?

Little Threat Makes Luzerne County Remove Nativity Scene

Little Threat Makes Luzerne County Remove Nativity Scene — In a spectacular display of spinelessness, Luzerne County, Wednesday, removed a decades-old nativity scene — along with a menorah — from the county courthouse lawn.

The action occurred immediately after a Pittsburgh lawyer from the ACLU contacted County Solicitor Vito DeLuca  “to give the county an opportunity to remove the
items” before the ACLU filed court action, according to the Times Leader of Wilkes Barre.

The county was threatened with a suit over the matter in 1990, which never materialized.

What a display of courage. But then in 1990, Luzerne County wasn’t sending kids to prison to make a buck.

Little Threat Makes Luzerne County Remove Nativity Scene