Corbett Investigating Constitutionality Of Nebraska Break

Pennsylvania Attorney General Tom Corbett said, yesterday, that his office is conducting a legal analysis of theconstitutionality of the provision granting Nebraska a permanent exemption from paying Medicaid expenses that all other states, including Pennsylvania, are required to pay.

Nebraska Senator Ben Nelson secured this special provision for Nebraska
in exchange for his support of the Patient Protection Affordable Care
Act.

Corbett notes that Medicaid expenses for Pennsylvania are about $15 billion per year

Merry Christmas


1In those days Caesar Augustus issued a decree that a census should be taken of the entire Roman world. 2(This was the first census that took place while Quirinius was governor of Syria.) 3And everyone went to his own town to register.

4So Joseph also went up from the town of Nazareth in Galilee to Judea, to Bethlehem the town of David, because he belonged to the house and line of David. 5He went there to register with Mary, who was pledged to be married to him and was expecting a child. 6While they were there, the time came for the baby to be born, 7and she gave birth to her firstborn, a son. She wrapped him in cloths and placed him in a manger, because there was no room for them in the inn.
The Shepherds and the Angels
8And there were shepherds living out in the fields nearby, keeping watch over their flocks at night. 9An angel of the Lord appeared to them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were terrified. 10But the angel said to them, “Do not be afraid. I bring you good news of great joy that will be for all the people. 11Today in the town of David a Savior has been born to you; he is Christ[a] the Lord. 12This will be a sign to you: You will find a baby wrapped in cloths and lying in a manger.”

13Suddenly a great company of the heavenly host appeared with the angel, praising God and saying,
14″Glory to God in the highest,
and on earth peace to men on whom his favor rests.”

15When the angels had left them and gone into heaven, the shepherds said to one another, “Let’s go to Bethlehem and see this thing that has happened, which the Lord has told us about.”

16So they hurried off and found Mary and Joseph, and the baby, who was lying in the manger. 17When they had seen him, they spread the word concerning what had been told them about this child, 18and all who heard it were amazed at what the shepherds said to them. 19But Mary treasured up all these things and pondered them in her heart. 20The shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all the things they had heard and seen, which were just as they had been told.

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.