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The name “anaconda” is probably from the Sinhala language which is common to Sri Lanka, the island off India once known as Ceylon. It was applied to pythons for about 100 years until the late 19th century when it became a common name for the giant South American snakes. In Brazil, they call them sucuriuba.
Joe Gale Smears Show Establishment Fears — Maybe the greatest service provided Donald Trump is exposing the mind-blowing political corruption that has been impoverishing us for decades and the extent of which we have been blissfully unaware.
The corruption is the same regardless of the party in power.
Montgomery County residents have been getting flyers attacking incumbent county Commissioner Joe Gale as the Republican Party primary approaches May 21.
Gale is accused of of such vile deeds as “Voting With Democrats 96 Percent Of The Time”.
Really? Montco is run by three commissioners, one of whom is required by law to be of the minority party.
The vast majority of votes concern mundane matters such as filling county jobs, allocating funds, and honoring community groups.
Joe can either be a partisan jerk and nay every vote turning himself into a joke, or he can save his ammunition for the important stuff.
Joe, a true corruption fighter, wisely chooses the latter, and does so with great effect. A case in point is the Montco Justice Center scandal.
That the team he plays for is the citizen taxpayer and not the Montgomery County Republican Committee has caused fear and panic among the party leadership.
The flyers, we understand, are being produced by something called Hometown Freedom Action Network, a political action committee dwelling deep in the Washington swamp. What’s up with that?
Also a little birdy told us that some of the trash being thrown at Joe is being fed to the GOP swampers by fellow commissioner Ken Lawrence.
Licking honey William Lawrence Sr Cryptowit 5-14-19
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Answer to yesterday’s William Lawrence Sr Cryptowit quote puzzle: Living is like licking honey off a thorn.
John Quigg
Medusa, a reticulated python, owned by Full Moon Productions Inc. in Kansas City, Mo. is the longest snake ever measured in captivity at 25 feet, two inches.
Body is formed William Lawrence Sr Cryptowit 5-13-19
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Answer to yesterday’s William Lawrence Sr Cryptowit quote puzzle: As you do not know the path of the wind, or how the body is formed in a mother’s womb, so you cannot understand the work of God, the Maker of all things.
Ecclesiastes
Government is ourselves William Lawrence Sr Cryptowit 5-12-19
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Answer to yesterday’s William Lawrence Sr Cryptowit quote puzzle: Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials, but the voters of this country.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
The mercury fell in Philadelphia to 28 F on this date (May 11) in 1966. It is a record low for May in the region that still stands.
Transgender Surgery Big Moneymaker –The Wall Street Journal, May 3, had a great article by Abigail Shrier concerning Paul McHugh, the brilliant doctor who shut down Johns Hopkins Hospital’s Gender Identity Clinic while the hospital’s psychiatrist in chief in 1979.
“(The hospital) wasted scientific and technical resources and damaged our professional credibility by collaborating with madness rather than trying to study, cure, and ultimately prevent it,” he said.
The clinic was reopened as the Center for Transgender Health in 2017, performing what it now calls “gender-affirming surgeries.”
“Demand is massive,” Ms. Shrier reports.
The complicated operations are “big moneymakers,” she was told.
We guess that’s the rest of the story.
“Either the plastic surgeons and the transgender psychiatrists are right and I’m wrong—and if that’s the case, they will have done a lot of good by opposing me, and I will have been a drag on the system,” said McHugh, who has just turned 88. “Or the opposite. Suppose they’re wrong and I’m right? They will have mutilated thousands of children, and I will look good. Who do you think is sleeping better at night?”
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Answer to yesterday’s William Lawrence Sr Cryptowit quote puzzle: A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.
Frederick Douglass
