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Results of the First Special Election of 2023
Results of the First Special Election of 2023
By Bob Small
GOP State Representive Lynda Schlegal Culver will soon become State Senator Culver, based on the results of the very first Special Election of 2023, which took place on January 31. She handily defeated Patricia Lawson with approximately 70 perent of the vote in the 27th District.
Mrs. Culver becomes the 17th active female state senator in Pennsylvania. She was in her seventh term as state representative prior to the election. And she will become the first female state senator for the 27th district.
This special election was required because State Senator John Gordner resigned to work with President Pro Tem Kim Ward.
Mrs. Culver said she plans to work for better jobs and higher wages for her constituents. She wants to make businesses friendlier by reforming the tax structure, while also reducing the size and cost of state government.
The GOP has a 2-to-1 registration advantage over the Democratic Party, so this outcome was no surprise.
The 27th Senatorial District includes all of Columbia, Montour, Northumberland and Snyder counties and parts of Luzerne County.
Mrs. Culver is a graduate of Shikellamy High School with a political science degree from Bloomsburg University. She resides in Rockefeller Township (Northumberland County) with her husband Tom and their son Joshua.
Patricia Lawson works as an adjunct instructor for Bloomsburg and PSU-Harrisburg. She is a speech pathologist.
Her campaign supported common-sense gun laws and term limits for elected officials. On the issue of abortion, she is pro-choice.
As was discussed in this space Thomas Anderson, the Libertarian Party candidate for this district, was denied ballot access on a much-disputed technicality, and was forced to run a write-in campaign. At the time of this report, his write-in totals are not yet available.
Of course, there will now be a special election for Culver’s House seat, yet to be announced.
Abortion Is Not Her Choice 60 Percent Of The Time Says Study
Abortion Is Not Her Choice 60 Percent Of The Time Says Study — A study by researchers David C. Reardon and Tessa Longbons says women are pressured into abortion 60-percent of the time.
“Abortion does not empower women,” said Ms. Longbons. “Quite the opposite. The abortion industry enables and gives support to those who seek to control women.”
About 25 percent of the pressure is described as substantial or high pressure from male partners. Other pressure comes from parents, employers, health care providers and sex traffickers. Also cited are financial pressure, maternal health issues, and fetal malformation.
Obviously, it is cruel to punish a woman — or girl — for an abortion but those celebrating and encouraging it are vile. They are the epitome of evil.
The concept of “my body, my choice” is actually traceable to the Marquis de Sade, maybe history’s greatest misogynist. He wrote in his 1797 novel Juliette:
With regard to the father, he is in no wise concerned with whatever issue may occur, if issue there should be. And, with the assumption that women are held in common, which is what they should be and had better be soon, what concern could he conceivably have? He spits a little sperm into a receptacle everyone else relieves himself into, a womb where what can germinate does germinate; how is this gesture to turn into the grave obligation to look after a fertilized egg? No, he has no more duties to observe toward a foetus than he would toward something deposited by an insect and which some shit he dropped at the foot bf a tree caused to hatch several days later; in both cases I have cited, the problem is simply one of some matter of which a man needs to get rid and which subsequently becomes whatever it happens to become. The embryo is to be considered the woman’s exclusive property; as the sole owner of this fruit rather jestingly called precious, she can dispose of it as she likes. She can destroy it in the depths of her womb if it proves a nuisance to her. Or after it ripens and is born, if she is for any reason displeased with it or irked at having produced it, she can destroy it then; whatever the circumstances, infanticide is her sacred right. Her spawn is hers, entirely hers, and no one else can claim this bit of property belonging to no one else, utterly useless to Nature, and hence the mother may feed it or she may strangle it, depending upon her preference.
It could almost come from the Biden administration.
Or any prominent Democrat.
Returning to a culture where life is protected and revered will solve many of our problems. Maybe even mass shootings.
Abortion Is Not Her Choice 60 Percent Of The Time Says Study
Delco Inflates Vax Shots By New Health Department By 5K%
Delco Inflates Vax Shots By New Health Department By 5K% — Delaware County was saying its new $20 million health department had administered 172,000 Covid-19 vaccine doses as of the end of November.
Terry Tracy of Broad and Liberty investigated and could only confirm 1,149 jabs at a site in Yeadon.
When confronted, the county revised its claim to 2,364 county-wide.
That’s about 5,000 percent less than what it initially claimed.
The Health Department was created in April.
Now someone tell us how many incidents were logged during the month the 24/7 ballot drop boxes were active. There were diligently surveilled by solar-powered cameras all the while. Obviously, some incidents worth noting would have occurred, right?
Assuming they really were diligently surveilled.
Delco Inflates Vax Shots By New Health Department By 5K%
No act is charitable William Lawrence Sr Cryptowit 2-8-23
No act is charitable William Lawrence Sr Cryptowit 2-8-23
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Answer to yesterday’s William Lawrence Sr Cryptowit quote puzzle: No act is charitable if it is not just.
Saint Bruno
CBO Population Projection Off-Mark Regarding Illegals
CBO Population Projection Off-Mark Regarding Illegals
By Joe Guzzardi
In January, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released its projection for U.S. population growth from 2023 until 2053. CBO anticipates a huge hike from today’s 336 million U.S. residents to 373 million three-decades out, a 37-million-person surge.
Over the next decade, immigration will represent about three-quarters of the overall population increase, and the greater number of births than deaths will account for the remaining one-quarter. After 2033, population growth will be increasingly driven by net immigration, which beginning in 2042 will account for all population growth.
CBO released its report without fanfare, perhaps because it included, buried deep on page five, this sentence: “Net immigration of foreign-born people without legal status” (my emphasis) – a wokeism meaning illegal aliens – into the U.S. is projected to average 220,000 a year over the next decade, a remarkable 175 percent bump from the 80,000 average the CBO had forecast a mere six months ago.
Although the CBO identifies as objective, critics question how its analysis could arrive at the modest 220,000 annual illegal alien projection, a completely detached conclusion from the Southwest border reality. In December 2022 alone, the Department of Homeland Security announced that CBP had more than 300,000 migrant encounters. And since President Joe Biden’s 2021 inauguration, an estimated 5.5 million migrants from at least 160 nations have unlawfully crossed into the U.S.
The administration’s goal is to grant parole, and the work authorization that parole status includes, to as many illegal immigrants as possible. The consequences for citizens seeking entry-level employment, especially minorities and the working poor, will be devastating. Using even the low CBO estimate of 220,000 illegal immigrants annually means a significantly expanded labor pool. When using the year-to-date total since Biden’s inauguration of 5.5 million arrivals, more than the combined populations of Chicago and Houston, and the aggregate available workers, mainly unskilled or low-skilled, the labor market bloats dramatically.
The inarguable labor supply and demand fact applies. And because the nation will have an in-take of millions of aliens instead of hundreds of thousands that occurred with previous administrations, the newly arrived illegal immigrants will compete for employment not only with U.S. workers, but also with each other – a dream come true for profit-driven corporate America.
The supply and demand truism exists at all economic levels. In New York City’s subway system, next to the arriving/departing train platforms, Ecuadorians and Hondurans are, without a mandatory city general vendor’s license, selling M&Ms and Skittles for $2. But one level above, a vendor who’s done everything correctly, including paying his licensing fee, loses life-sustaining revenue, pays less in city and state taxes, and may eventually go out of business. Everyone loses including the migrants who sell candy in New York’s dangerous underground.
Annual illegal immigration totals are twice those of legal immigration. In 2021 and 2022, and referring back to the 5.5 illegal entrants, about 1.25 illegal immigrants on average crossed each year contrasted to about 1 million legal immigrants.
U.S. workers deserve a break. Not only does the federal government issue more than 1 million annual permanent residency green cards that include lifetime valid work permission, the State Department approves another 1 million guest worker visas, some without numerical ceiling, and without risk that the government might intervene to assure that employers comply with the regulations.
Employers have a bottomless supply of foreign-born workers to hire. Evidence: At the end of 2022, 29.6 million legal and illegal immigrants were employed, 1.9 million more than during the pre-pandemic years. Meanwhile, the Labor Force Participation rate for Americans continues to decline. As long as Biden continues his reckless and wanton policy of welcoming the world, then workers’ best friend – a tight labor market – won’t exist
Joe Guzzardi is a nationally syndicated newspaper columnist who writes about immigration and related social issues. Joe joined The Project for Immigration Reform in 2018 as an analyst after a ten-year career directing media relations for Californians for Population Stabilization, where he also was a Senior Writing Fellow. A native Californian, Joe now lives in Pennsylvania. Contact him at jguzzardi@pfirdc.org.
CBO Population Projection Off-Mark Regarding Illegals
Butter no bread William Lawrence Sr Cryptowit 2-7-23
Butter no bread William Lawrence Sr Cryptowit 2-7-23
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Answer to yesterday’s William Lawrence Sr Cryptowit quote puzzle: “Ifs” and “Buts” butter no bread.
John Quigg
David Icke 1998 Predictions
David Icke 1998 Predictions — This video by former British spots personality David Icke is from 1998. He hits the nail pretty hard on the head. It’s almost enough to make one believe in extraterrestrial reptilian shape-shifters.
Protection of wisdom William Lawrence Sr Cryptowit 2-6-23
Protection of wisdom William Lawrence Sr Cryptowit 2-6-23
“Pmz” huk “Ibaz” ibaaly uv iylhk.
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Answer to yesterday’s William Lawrence Sr Cryptowit quote puzzle: For the protection of wisdom is like the protection of money, and the advantage of knowledge is that wisdom gives life to the one who possesses it.
Ecclesiastes 7:12
Prodigal Son And God’s Mercy
Prodigal Son And God’s Mercy — All that God looks for from us is the slightest opening and He forgives a multitude of sins.
There were two brothers, they divided their father’s goods between them. One stayed home while the other went to a foreign country, wasted all he had been given and then could not bear the shame of his poverty. The son who went away represents those who fall after baptism. This is clear from the fact that he is called a son, since no one is called a son unless he is baptized. Also, he lived in his father’s house and took a share of all his father’s goods. Before baptism, no one receives the Father’s goods or enters upon the inheritance. We can therefore take all this as signifying the state of believers.
What does he say after falling into the depths of evil? I will return to my father. The reason the father let him go and did not prevent his departure for a foreign land was so that he might learn well by experience what good things are enjoyed by the one who stays home. For when words not convince us, God often leaves us to learn from the things that happen to us. When the dissolute returned after going to a foreign country and finding out by experience what a great sin it is to leave the father’s house, the father did not remember past injuries but welcomed him with open arms. Why? Because he was a father and not a judge. And there were dances and festivities and banquets and the whole house was full of joy and gladness.
Are you asking, “Is this what he gets for his wickedness?” Not for his wickedness but for his return home; not for sin, but for repentance; not for evil, but for being converted. What is more, when the elder son was angry at this the father gently won him over saying: You were always with me, but he was lost and has been found; he was dead and has come back to life.
“When someone who was lost has to be saved it is not the time for passing judgment but only for mercy and forgiveness,” said the father.
Courtesy of Holy Myrrh-Bearers Church of Swarthmore.
