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Prayed with my legs William Lawrence Sr Cryptowit 3-14-21
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Answer to yesterday’s William Lawrence Sr Cryptowit puzzle: I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.
Frederick Douglass
St Joe Cowards Persecute Greg Manco — Bob Small of Swarthmore sent us this link to a Philadelphia Weekly article about the plight of St. Joseph University math teacher Greg Manco.
Manco, who had taught at the school for 17 years, published this tweet on Feb. 17 questioning the wisdom of racial reparations.
Manco was placed on paid leave and is under investigation for expressing this opinion.
The tweet had been circulated among the school’s activist community with instructions to contact the school administrators to demand Manco’s firing.
The problem isn’t the activist community. Spoiled activists will spoil. It’s their nature. They can’t help it. The problem is the school administration for not dismissing the complaints out of hand. Cowards will coward you might say but we should never tolerate cowards in school administration or any type of leadership role.
The St. Joseph administrators are clearly cowards. They must be replaced.
With regard to racial reparations, it is a disgusting racist concept that must not be merely questioned but dismissed out of hand.
Congrats to PW for good journalism and to Bob for letting us know about it.
Miracles are a retelling William Lawrence Sr Cryptowit 3-13-21
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Answer to yesterday’s William Lawrence Sr Cryptowit puzzle: Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.
C. S. Lewis
Charles Dawes was the vice president under Calvin Coolidge, and created the Dawes Plan which successfully ended an international crisis caused by the World War I reparations forced on Germany, and for which he won a Nobel Peace Prize.
His most memorable achievement, however, may be the melody for Tommy Edwards 1958 number 1 It’s All in the Game.
Dawes wrote the music in 1911 as Melody in A Major which was itself a popular tune in the 19teens and early 20s.
Dawes can be consider an ur-Buckaroo Banzai.
Free world led William Lawrence Sr Cryptowit 3-12-21
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Answer to yesterday’s William Lawrence Sr Cryptowit puzzle: The free world led by the U.S. fought almost all regimes that trampled on human rights.
Liu Xiaobo
The oldest boat — at least known boat — is the Pesse canoe, which is a dugout canoe discovered in 1955 during the the construction of the Dutch A28 motorway. It is estimated to have been built between 8040 and 7510 B.C. This doesn’t mean that there weren’t older boats, though. Wood rots.
Those who deny freedom William Lawrence Sr Cryptowit 3-11-21
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Answer to yesterday’s William Lawrence Sr Crytowit puzzle: Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln
Here’s some shocking news. Electric eels hunt in packs.
Amidst the mists William Lawrence Sr Cryptowit 3-10-21
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Answer to yesterday’s William Lawrence Sr Cryptowit puzzle: Amidst the mists and coldest frosts,
with stoutest wrists and loudest boasts,
he thrusts his fists against the posts
and still insists he sees the ghosts.
—Archie McNally
Government Cares Not For Your Thoughts
By Leo Knepper
In recent polling, the Pew Research Center found that 71 percent of Americans believe that government officials DO NOT care about what they think. The vast majority of people that we hear from share that belief. The public points to outrageous salaries, healthcare paid for by taxpayers, and a revolving door between elected officials, lobbying jobs, and appointments to lucrative government jobs.
Pennsylvania is famous or infamous depending on your perspective regarding politicians “taking care of” friends and family at taxpayer expense. Most Boards and Authorities created by the legislature include seats to be filled by the “leadership” of the House, Senate, and the Governor. Many of those seats come with a high salary and little observable work. One example of a Board packed with former lawmakers is the PA Gaming Control Board (GCB).
Of the seven Board members, three are former lawmakers. One of those lawmakers is former-Representative Frank Dermody (D-33), who lost his reelection bid in November. The fact that his salary went up to $145,000 probably gives Dermody some consolation. Former lawmakers aren’t the only ones to benefit from spots on the GCB.
Last week, we learned that Jake Corman (R-34), President pro tempore of the Senate, named Frances Regan to the GCB. Mrs. Regan is the wife of Senator Mike Regan (R-31). Between his Senate salary and her GCB salary, the Regan’s are now collecting over a quarter-million dollars per year in government salaries. When you consider that lawmakers only pay 2 percent of their annual salary for medical coverage, it paints an even worse picture. And, according to a 2019 news story, Senator Regan stayed in the lucrative legislative pension program (which is underfunded by $78 billion) instead of opting into a 401-k type plan. Finally, Mr. and Mrs. Regan will also be collecting two federal pensions on top of everything else due to their time working for the federal government. At what point is enough taxpayer money enough?
How likely is that out of 12 million Pennsylvanians, Mrs. Regan was the most qualified person in the state? It certainly looks like this is another case of politicians taking care of themselves and their friends at taxpayers’ expense.
Is it any wonder that the public believes that elected officials are only in it for themselves? With numbers like these, it’s hard to argue anything else in this case.