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

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.

Sestak And His Running Dog Lackeys

The Delaware County Daily Time’s parent company was just reorganized out of bankruptcy, a state in which the Philadelphia Inquirer owners remain.

And there is a reason for their troubles and why both newspaper companies will eventually fail. Neither practices journalism.

The main headline in today’s Inky remarked on number of health care plan supporters attending the “town hall” held by Congressman Joe Sestak (D-Pa.7). I didn’t see a word in the story pointing out that where the “town hall” was held — Broad Street Ministry, 315 S. Broad St., Philadelphia —  is a very Democratic and union friendly area well outside his suburban district,  nor did it remark on what the admission policy was. The Daily Times also declined to address those salient and obvious points.

If those who ran newspapers had the epiphany that most people don’t want to pay for propaganda the products might have a chance. If such an experience hasn’t happened despite the experience of disappeared profit and bankruptcy court, I don’t expect it to.

Sestak To Have Town Hall Outside Of District

Congressman Joe Sestak (D-Pa7) is having a town hall, 6:30 p.m., today,  at Broad Street Ministries, 315 S. Broad St., Philadelphia regarding President Obama’s proposed national mandated-medical rationing plan.

You expect a lot of constituents Joe?

Having it outside the district is really slick but why not really throw the protesters a curve? Reschedule it for 1 a.m., Saturday at 18th & Diamond.

Another Protestor Threatened

Another Protestor Threatened — Mike Sola lodged a protest against President Obama’s proposed health care plan at an Aug. 6 town hall sponsored by Congressman John Dingell, D-Mich. He had brought his wheelchair-bound 36-year-old son who has cerebral palsy to the meeting and demanded a direct answer as to what kind of treatment his son could expect.

When an answer was not forthcoming, things became heated and Sola and his son were escorted out.

Well, Sola now says “thugs” have located his home and delivered a threat which he has reported to police.

Sola told Fox News, Aug. 10, that “I will use every means available to me, lethal force if necessary, to protect [my son] and my wife. My wife is terrified,”

Mike Sola lodged a protest against President Obama’s proposed health care plan