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Second Office in the Government William Lawrence Sr Crytowit 7-22-22
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Answer to yesterday’s William Lawrence Sr Cryptowit quote puzzle: The second office in the government is honorable and easy; the first is but a splendid misery.
Thomas Jefferson
The first novel written on a typewriter was “Tom Sawyer.” OK, some claim that it was “Life on the Mississippi” and that Mark Twain was misremembering when he said it was “Tom Sawyer”. Regardless, there does not seem to be any dispute that it was Twain that wrote it.
What’s a typewriter, you ask? Think of it as a keyboard without cut and paste. The achievement remains.
Thomas Padula Titan 100 — Thomas Padula — who was our weatherman when he was a student at Unionville High School — is among the 2022 Philadelphia Titan 100.
The Titan 100 program recognizes Philadelphia’s Top 100 CEO’s & C-level executives.
Tom, who heads Padula Media | Digital Marketing Agency, is the youngest on the list, we think.
Congratulations Thomas.
Never Trumpers Unite Against Mastriano
By Dr. Robert Sklaroff
The 3 Most Important Races in the Midterms are for the governorships in Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin; Doug Mastriano is running an ethical/populist campaign. Customarily, input from PoliticsPA is “laundered” so that the content is emphasized; here, however, it’s desirable to note how word-choice reflects its lib-bias by providing its summaries intact.
Craig Snyder, former Chief of Staff to U.S. Senator Arlen Specter, is leading a group of centrist Republicans that have formed a political action committee that opposes GOP gubernatorial candidate Doug Mastriano.
Republicans4Shapiro was established last Wednesday and is chaired by former U.S. Rep. Jim Greenwood, who organized a similar effort to oppose then-President Donald Trump’s bid for a second term in 2020.
Its website states “The Republican nominee for Governor of Pennsylvania, Doug Mastriano, is an extremist, far outside the mainstream of the PA Republican Party which has given the Commonwealth and the Country outstanding leaders like Governors Dick Thornburgh and Tom Ridge.”
· PA GOP Players Form Pro-Shapiro PAC to Buck ‘Unacceptable” Mastriano. Republican gubernatorial candidate Doug Mastriano will have to fend off attacks from many Democratic groups on the way to November and he can now add a GOP-backed political action committee to the list. (PennLive)
· An Anti-Trump Group Is Back For The Midterms. The group, the Republican Accountability PAC, plans to spend at least $10 million to beat candidates who embrace Donald Trump’s false claims about the 2020 election. (New York Times)
The Republican Accountability PAC is putting $2 million behind a campaign in Pennsylvania to convince voters – especially those who may have broken with Donald Trump in 2020 – that they should do the same with Doug Mastriano, the GOP state senator who is up against Democrat Josh Shapiro in the fall election.
This PAC frames itself as a frontline fighter against “anti-democracy candidates” across the country, and insists that “Trump loyalists in today’s GOP must be held accountable,” according to the main text on its website.
“We are going to be playing heavily in this state,” Gunner Ramer, political director for the PAC, said. He called Mastriano a “clear threat to our democracy” who denied the legitimacy of the 2020 election. The PAC has played a role in several GOP primary victories, including Brad Raffensperger’s win over the Trump-backed candidate, Jody Hice, in the Georgia secretary of state race, according to The New York Times.
· Never-Trump Group Reveals Midterm Plans, Days After Never-Biden Group Announces 2024 Plans. “The Republican Accountability PAC, a never-Trump group, plans to spend around $10 million in the upcoming midterms against Trump-endorsed candidates and those who believe the 2020 election was stolen, while a group of anti-Biden Democrats are gearing up to fight against the president’s potential re-election effort.” (Fox News)
· GOP Candidate for PA Gov. Mastriano Paid $5,000 to the Website Used by the Tree of Life Shooter. “Pennsylvania Sen. Doug Mastriano’s campaign for governor in Pennsylvania paid $5,000 for “consulting services” to Gab, a social media platform that provides a home for conspiracy theories and antisemitic content. Gab is the website used by Robert Bowers, who is charged with killing 11 Jewish worshippers at the Tree of Life synagogue in Squirrel Hill in 2018. Bowers routinely posted antisemitic content on Gab before the shooting, according to archives of the posts.” (WESA)
Lancaster-based Penn Cinema canceled the première of the ‘blockbuster’ film, “Return of the American Patriot: The Rise of Pennsylvania,” which featured prominent right-wing PA figures, including GOP gubernatorial candidate Doug Mastriano. A “backup location” was announced 24 hours before Saturday’s opening.
Austin Davis, the state’s Dem nominee for lieutenant governor, is facing heat over a series of tweets from more than a decade ago, around the time Davis attended college, that appear to make derogatory statements about women and the LGBTQ community. But the criticism is from Mastriano who has peddled conspiracy theories about elections and Islam, and who has shared content boosting the QAnon movement. [The last point was tacked onto the leftie piece gratuitously and, of course, incorrectly, reflecting bias.]
Photos were taken by Liz Diehl at Friday’s PA-GOP Convention Dinner; during his speech, Mastriano claimed secret Dem support, counterpointing opposition by RINOs. Naturally, the Inqy endorsed the latter [With democracy at risk, some Pa. GOP leaders wisely break with one of their own | Editorial]; one can anticipate this drumbeat won’t cease.
Dr. Sklaroff is a resident of Montgomery County and practices oncology and hematology in Philadelphia.
Man and the dollar William Lawrence Sr Cryptowit 7-21-22
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Answer to yesterday’s William Lawrence Sr Cryptowit quote puzzle: Republicans are for both the man and the dollar, but in case of conflict the man before the dollar.
Abraham Lincoln
The parachute was invented by Leonardo da Vinci in 1515, albeit his design wasn’t tested until 2000. Yes, it worked.
Musk Wrong on Population
By Joe Guzzardi
For number crunchers, July’s second week offered eyepopping data. To begin with, the consumer price index shot up to 9.1 percent year-over-year, the highest spike in four decades. Truth be told, consumers may be taking a bigger than 9.1 percent hit. The CPI is a controversial index which many economists insist is manipulated to reflect fewer alarming price increases and, conversely, a stronger GDP. Taken together, those two variables, massaged favorably, help to keep a lid on investor panic, and to underpay on cost-of-living increases for Social Security recipients.
Since time immemorial, CPI was calculated based on a fixed market basket of goods. But in the 1990s, the Bureau of Labor Statistics introduced what it identified as geometric weighing – substituting lower-priced, lower-quality goods in the basket, while excluding more expensive, but still everyday items.
Most blue-collar, working Americans consider the CPI a government gimmick that purposely excludes their day-to-day necessities: energy, up 41.6 percent; gas, + 60 percent, eggs +33 percent; and public transportation, +23.7. A truer indicator of consumer pain showed up in the producer wholesale price index which hit 11.3 percent.
Inflation, which makes Americans poorer with each passing day, has an immediate and tangible effect on consumers’ psyches. But another report issued in early July is, taken over the long-term, more disturbing.
Inflation has its peaks and valleys, but the prediction by the United Nations that the global population will reach 8.5 billion in 2030 and 9.7 billion in 2050 represents an ongoing, and perhaps insurmountable, challenge. By the end of the century, the U.N. estimates that there will be 10.4 billion people on the planet. Today, the world’s population is just a tick under 8 billion, and has grown at an unsustainable rate.
Not until around 1800 did the world’s population first reach 1 billion. But, only 130 years later in 1930, the second billion was reached, and the third billion in 1960, another 30 years later. Then, global population exploded. The fourth billion arrived 15 years later in 1974, and the fifth billion only 13 years after that. During the 20th century alone, the world’s population grew from 1.65 billion to 6 billion. For comparison, in 1970, there were roughly half as many people in the world as there are now. Every year, about 83 million people are added to the global population.
Eight nations will account for most of the growth between now and 2050: the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Egypt, Ethiopia, India, Nigeria, Pakistan, the Philippines and the United Republic of Tanzania. India is expected to surpass China as the world’s most populous country as soon as next year.
Those countries are thousands of miles away, and their difficulties unfathomable to most Americans, but U.S. population also is climbing at an unsustainable rate. The nation’s population is about 332 million now, but will reach 424 million in 2100, about 25 percent more people than live in the U.S. today. The consequences of too many people are grave, both in terms of more difficult human interaction in overcrowded surroundings, and lasting ecological damage to dwindling natural resources.
Ironically, the U.N. released its frightening population projections at about the same time that Elon Musk, claiming the U.S. faces an “underpopulation crisis,” pleaded for an increase in births. “A collapsing birth rate is the biggest danger civilization faces by far,” said Musk, who cited himself as a would-be role model. One of his love interests, Shivon Zilis, gave birth to twins this summer, bringing Musk’s total offspring to nine. To Musk, replacement level fertility, normally considered 2.1 children per woman, is an outdated notion.
Unfortunately, Musk’s message to promote a have-more-children agenda, via his huge social media following, reaches more people than the communications of stabilization advocates. Don’t listen to Musk! Census Bureau data reflects a net gain of one person – births and international migrant arrivals minus deaths – in the U.S. every 26 seconds, far too many to protect the nation’s already crumbling, overcrowded infrastructure and its imperiled ecosystems.
Joe Guzzardi writes about immigration issues and impacts. Find more at joeguzzardi.substack.com.
Sword that heals William Lawrence Sr Cryptowit 7-20-22
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Answer to yesterday’s William Lawrence Sr Cryptowit quote puzzle: Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon. which cuts without wounding and ennobles the man who wields it. It is a sword that heals.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
