iPhone Clean Energy Charging

iPhone Clean Energy Charging Game — Apple added a new “feature” in iOS 16.1 for the iPhone that has it use “clean energy” for charging.

 “Your iPhone gets a forecast of the carbon emissions in your local energy grid and uses it to charge your iPhone during times of cleaner energy production,” Apple says.

Yes, this means it charges slower.

Yes, it is on by default.

To turn it off go to Settings >Battery>Battery Health & Charging and move the slider by “Clean Charging Energy”.

Hat tip Chief Nerd.

iPhone Clean Energy Charging Game
iPhone Clean Energy Charging

Plans to prosper you William Lawrence Sr Cryptowit 2-27-23

Plans to prosper you William Lawrence Sr Cryptowit 2-27-23

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plans to prosper youAnswer to yesterday’s William Lawrence Sr Cryptowit quote puzzle: “For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. Then you will call on me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you. You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart.
Jeremiah 29: 11-13

On The Holy Images

On The Holy Images — In former times God, who is without form or body, could never be depicted. But now when God is seen int he flesh conversing with men, I make an image of the God whom I see. I do not worship matter. I worship the Creator of matter who became matter for my sake, who willed to take His abode in matter; who worked out my salvation through matter.

Never will I cease honoring the matter which wrought my salvation. I honor it, but not as God. How could God be born out of things which have no existence in themselves? God’s body is God becuase it is joined to His person by a union which shall never pass away. The divine nature remains the same; the flesh created in time is quickened by a reason endowed soul. Because of this, I salute all remaining matter wiht reverence, because God has filled it with His grace and power.

Through it my salvation has come to me. Was not the thrice-happy and thrice blessed wood of the Cross matter? What of the life bearing rock, the holy and life-giving tomb, the fountain of our resurrection, was it not matter? Is not the ink in the most holy Gospel-book matter? From it we receive the bread of life.

Are not gold and silver matter? From them we make crosses, patens, chalices.

And over and above all these things is not the Body and Blood of our Lord matter?

Either do away with the honor and veneration these things deserve, or accept the tradition of the Church and the veneration of images.

St. John of Damascus

St. John wrote this during the height of Byzantine iconoclasm — the destruction of icons or images — which occurred during the 8th century. This was soon after Muslims captured what we call the Mideast, where John lived, from the Byzantine Empire. John got along well with the Muslims albeit not so much with Church leaders in Constantinople, or the Byzantine emperor who forged documents with the intent to get him killed. You can read about it here.

Courtesy of Holy Myrrh-Bearers Church of Swarthmore.

On The Holy Images
On The Holy Images

Gift they are not capable of receiving William Lawrence Sr Cryptowit 2-26-23

Gift they are not capable of receiving William Lawrence Sr Cryptowit 2-26-23

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gift they are not capable of receivingAnswer to yesterday’s William Lawrence Sr Cryptowit quote puzzle: God never gives someone a gift they are not capable of receiving. If he gives us the gift of Christmas, it is because we all have the ability to understand and receive it.
Pope Francis

Stan Casacio Proposes Unity, Debate

Stan Casacio Proposes Unity, Debate — Stan Casacio announced his candidacy to replace Liz Havey as chair of the Montgomery County (Pa.) Republican Committee after her surprise resignation 10 days ago.

Casacio nearly unseated Mrs. Havey when she stood for re-election to the four-year position, June 23.

A new election by county committeepeople is scheduled for March 1. The party establishment’s choice is said to be Christian Nascimento who unsuccessfully ran for Congress against Madeleine Dean in 2022.

There is no requirement for a quick election, Casacio notes, and he suggested that it be postponed 30 days so the committeepeople can be fully aware of their options.

He would also like a candidates debate to held immediately before the vote and only those attending be allowed to cast ballots. This would mean no proxy voting, he said.

Casacio, who represents the party’s populist wing, says the only way the GOP can win elections in Montco is if the populists and establishmentarians work together.

A debate and a considered, trusted election would go a long way in ending suspicions and achieving this goal he notes.

A phone call to Nascimento was not returned.

Stan Casacio Proposes Unity, Debate
Stan Casacio Proposes Unity, Debate

Time is the greatest innovator William Lawrence Sr Cryptowit 2-25-23

Time is the greatest innovator William Lawrence Sr Cryptowit 2-25-23

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time is the greatest innovatorAnswer to yesterday’s William Lawrence Sr Cryptowit quote puzzle: He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.
Francis Bacon

Poprik Claims She Can’t Fill Committee Vacancies

Poprik Claims She Can’t Fill Committee Vacancies — Bucks County GOP Chairwoman Patricia Poprik told PhillyBurbs.com that grassroots activists are lying about how she is purposely leaving committee seats vacant to maintain power.

Poprik Claims She Cant Fill Committee Vacancies
If you can’t cook, get out of the kitchen

She said she has been desperately tying to fill the 200 or so vacancies but nobody wants to step in.

Andy Meehan, the leader of the rebellious faction, says he would have no problem filling them.

Hey Pat, if you can’t fill them and he says he can why not give him the chance? It’s all about strengthening the party, right? If you can get the people elected who will protect the county from impoverishment and servitude, you don’t care about being the boss, right?

Right?

Poprik Claims She Can’t Find People To Fill Committee Vacancies

Delco Brags About Successful Recount

Delco Brags About Successful Recount — Delaware County (Pa) published on its website a release bragging about its “successful” election recount.

“Everything was verified 100 percent,” said Delaware County Director of Elections James Allen. “Every single vote, every single contest, every single over vote, every single under vote, every single write in.”

The article was published Feb. 1. Allen is referring to a hand recount held at Union Power Plant building in Chester on Jan. 12 which concerned ballots from the 3rd Precinct of Haverford’s 2nd Ward from the November election.

It was an agreement devised by Judge Barry Dozor and would be non-binding with the purpose of alleviating the suspicions of vote fraud for those who brought the matter before him.

On Feb. 14, Erich Speckin, one of the recount observers, released a report saying the event was not as successful as Allen implied.

Actually, it was highly flawed, Speckin says.

Speckin of Speckin Forensics, is one of the nation’s most respected experts in document analysis. He has testified in cases ranging from Hollywood to Big Oil.

 Speckin says Allen prohibited photographing documents and that “the mail-in ballots were not secured in the process from the time they are opened from the envelopes and stored in plastic totes.”

He said the ballots were counted quickly akin to how one would count a deck of cards.

Most damningly, the ballots had different shading in the backgrounds and color of red. This would not have happened if the ballots came from the same printer in Albany, N.Y., as Allen claims.

“If the process of shifting ballots were slowed down or the ballots actually examined under magnification, further instances of printing process anomalies may be found,” Speckin said.

He recommends an examination of a broader sampling of mail-in ballots.

Speckin’s report was read into the record by Joy Schwartz at the Feb. 15 County Council meeting.

Hey Jim, it’s not the crime that catches you but the cover-up. If you still insist the election was fair and honest let Speckin observe using standard parameters. There is no downside in letting him examine the ballots as he wants and to his heart’s content.

Granted, if the election was not fair and honest there would be a downside, but that would only apply to you.

Delco Brags About Successful Recount

Failed Presidents Cuddle On Presidents’ Day

Failed Presidents Cuddle On Presidents’ Day

By Maria Kay Fotopoulos

In 100 years, assuming truth prevails as the standard in history and life, hopefully an historian, in writing about the failed Biden presidency of 2021 to ????, tells the story of how an 80-year-old mentally decrepit president chose to fly to the Ukraine on Presidents’ Day.

Again, depending on what prevails in 100 years, the historian might have to remind the reader of what Presidents’ Day is (or was) – a day to commemorate the lives of former U.S. presidents (not foreign presidents). It was the first federal holiday, designated in celebration of the first U.S. president, George Washington. Over time, the day centered around Washington and Abraham Lincoln.

Failed Presidents Cuddle On Presidents' Day

But Biden, and his minions or masters (it’s unclear how things are managed in this installed regime), chose not to honor those who came before, but to take the day to fly 4,864 miles across the pond to honor another country’s president. Biden made an appearance as second banana to Volodymyr Oleksandrovych Zelenskyy, the actor, and talented piano man who plays with his penis, another installed president, this one of the Ukraine, a man likely unknown to 99 percent of Americans until the U.S. proxy war ensued in 2022 with the Ukraine and Russia.

Now, who doesn’t know the man named Time’s Man, uh, sorry, Person of the Year? Zelenskyy is the media darling, who manages to always find time in his war-time schedule to make appearances at the Golden Globe AwardsCannes Film FestivalGrammy’sUnited Nations and with the leadership of various countries that support this disaster and devastation in the Ukraine, usually demanding more money to destroy his country and the citizens, as he makes references to a coming WWIII. And, Zelenskyy does it all with only one change of clothes!

When Zelenskyy isn’t making virtual appearances at high-profile events, he’s at them in spirit, for instance at the 2022 Oscars. The ever-dramatic and overwrought actor Sean Penn actually gave his Oscar to Zelenskyy. Drama queen to drama queen.

At the most recent photo opp on Monday, Biden fell short of pulling out an oversized check prop showing $500,000,000, made out to Zelenskyy, or kneeling at the feet of Zelenskyy, but he may as well have. America is not bound to the non-NATO country of Ukraine by treaty, and we’re most certainly not “fighting for Democracy” there, despite the massive messaging campaign – heck, much of current U.S. “leadership” doesn’t even support the idea here at home. Yet, we’ve handed over more than $100,000,000,000 (and more going back to 2004) to the Ukraine and now to the man who played a president on TV – and then became the president, heading a party named after the TV show, “Servant of the People.” Additionally, as we hear repeatedly from Biden, Pentagon Press Secretary John Kirby and others, the checking account from the U.S. for the Ukraine has an unlimited balance.

If it appears like we’re living a movie or TV plot, it may be we are. Shades of “Wag the Dog,” “Argo” and “BrainDead,” with some “Dr. Strangelove” thrown in.

The Ukraine may serve some purpose for the busy dark forces in the U.S. that we peasants may never be able to even imagine. While that might have sounded like “crazy talk” a few years ago, not so much now. Maybe the very bad, greedy and corrupt are in charge – those who want to destroy Russia and carve her up for her resources – or maybe there are bigger forces at play. I talk with more and more people who frame what’s being played out as something of more epic proportions – something Biblical – a good vs. evil battle. Whatever the case, we regular folks are on edge, because we don’t really know what’s going on.

One of the most important underpinnings to a functioning United States has been journalism and the practitioners of it committed to one thing – the truth. That’s dead amongst the big players. Since we now have a failed Fourth Estate, it’s difficult to get to truth. What’s really happening? Who the f _ _ _ knows! Is Biden really a Manchurian candidate? Who is actually calling the shots? How come there’s barely a breath of an anti-war movement in America now? Why do so many Americans apparently no longer care that people are dying for no reason?

To sift through the tons of propaganda and ferret out real news is a major workout. Few citizens have the time for that.

A year into the Ukrainian shit-show, there’s essentially no on-the-ground reporting. While, for instance, FOX was on the ground early on with regular reporting, that quickly got the kibosh. We see stories that the mainstream media works to slap down hard – reports of bio labs, money laundering, corruption, nazis and plans long in the making to destroy Russia, driven by the Wicked Victoria Nuland, the U.S. under secretary for political affairs with the State Department, and a long-time hand in the Ukraine, well-versed in colour revolutions. Nuland pretty much stays out of public view, except when called in for the Congressional hearing here and there, where she drops a bomb or two.

A lot of theater. But we want theater to actually be theater, as in entertainment only. We don’t want this madness to be reality and in our actual lives!

A brief note on the corruption. Ukraine is one of the most corrupt countries in the world – human trafficking, drugs and money laundering. And, the Biden family has dipped their toes in it. That Hunter Biden – son of the U.S. president – received $50,000 a month, for no particular skillset, from the Ukrainian energy company Burisma stinks to high heaven on the face of it. What better way to get access to Joe, and funnel money to him, than through his drug-addicted, amoral son. And we can’t forget Uncle Joe’s direct action when, as vice president of the U.S., he strongarmed Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko in March 2016 to fire a prosecutor, whose investigations were about to include Hunter Biden. Hrrrrm.

The game is afoot, Watson!”

Biden is either so daft or so beyond any comprehension, after a lifetime of lies, of right and wrong that he bragged about putting the hammer to Poroshenko at a Council of Foreign Relations gathering, two years after the deed.

That Biden chose to go to the Ukraine on a day he should have been in his own country is probably not surprising then. There’s money to be made and plunder to be done in the Ukraine. Must have priorities. Biden has spent more time in the Ukraine than in the crisis zones of the U.S. – the southwest border where more than 5 million illegal aliens have been allowed to cross in a tsunami and, now, the environmental and health crisis in East Palestine, Ohio, a community of 4,700.

For as bad a form as it was on Monday that Biden shunned his own country by failing to commemorate those who came before him, that he went on a European tour without having traveled to East Palestine in a show of support – and with actual support – for the residents who are suffering there is an affront to every American citizen.

On 3 February, a Norfolk Southern train carrying hazardous chemicals derailed. Among the chemicals were butyl acrylate, which can cause eye, respiratory and skin irritation, and the carcinogenic vinyl chloride. A decision was made to burn the chemicals, thus releasing more toxic material into the air. Could this turn out to be one of the worst environmental disasters in recent U.S. history? Could be, but no one is on the job to tell us. It took Biden’s people two weeks to even put out any statement, and as of 22 February, Biden had made no direct statement, according to a Newsweek report. The mayor, many in the community and many across the country were appalled by the unpresidential behavior of the sitting president of the United States. More abdication of duty.

Likely former President Trump, if he were still in office, would have been onsite early. Unlike the man who holds the job now and his no-show transportation secretary Pete Buttigieg (who has to be sure he gets his personal time), President Trump did actually show up in Ohio. In addition to bringing water, Trump reassured the people of the community that “they were not forgotten.” The contrast between the competence of Trump and the unrivaled incompetence of Biden, Buttigieg, et al is, to say the least, stark.

Biden claimed he would be a “uniter,” but he’s in dereliction of duty in Ohio, at the border and in so many ways to the citizens he is supposed to be representing. Trump took Ohio in 2020 with 53 percent of the vote. Is Biden’s AWOL status in Ohio his payback to the people? That too would not be surprising, as Biden comes across as a mean and vengeful old man. “You cross me, man, why I’m going to throttle you!!!”

Biden has not been held to account for any of his many failures in his two years in office. He’s not going to straighten up and fly right now. Biden’s regime will continue to print money for the Ukraine and arms makers as fast as it can, with no end in sight, in line with Biden’s plan which has been revealed: Put America Last.


Maria Fotopoulos writes about the connection between overpopulation and biodiversity loss, and from time to time other topics that confound her. On FB @BetheChangeforAnimals. You can find her Substack here and other articles here.

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Art enables us William Lawrence Sr Cryptowit 2-24-23

Art enables us William Lawrence Sr Cryptowit 2-24-23

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Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time. Thomas Merton Sing ye to the Lord a new canticle: sing to the Lord, all the earth. Sing ye to the Lord and bless his name: shew forth his salvation from day to day. PsalmsAnswer to yesterday’s William Lawrence Sr Cryptowit quote puzzle: Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.
Thomas Merton