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Answer to yesterday’s puzzle: Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.
Losers Alienate Allies; Winners Don’t — Our political advice for today is don’t alienate allies.
Actually, the smart ones who seek office don’t merely keep their friends during disagreements but turn their former opponents into friends.
There does seem to be some very stupid people seeking office in Delaware County, Pa.
The universal issue is the ever-growing tax burden caused by corruption and greed. Much of what the Democrats have been spending since they took over has been going to places it doesn’t belong.
Really, why else would they have appointed a man as register of wills under whose watch money in municipal bank accounts was not what had been expected in Upper Darby?
This corruption should be enough for a change if the public is properly informed.
Will they be?
That’s something worth pondering.
There are other issues, however, that would also strike a chord should they enter the converstation.
Consider illegal immigration. One fellow who was very good on the issue — he actually made his name on it — told the The Philadelphia Inquirer that it is not a priority as it is handled by the feds.
What’s up with that, Charlie? The County wasn’t setting disturbing policies, after all?
Or are you now “strategizing” like the political hacks we’ve come to hate?
And then there is election integrity, an important issue that might not have much traction in the general population.
There are those, however, who know how critical it is, and that very simple things can be done to make Delco’s elections much more secure. Start by firing Election Director Jim Allen. Then ask why Delco fights rulings by the state Open Records Office regarding election records. Finish up by questioning why Dems don’t seem concerned by the failures of the neato election tech gizmos they adopted.
Actually, they can also ask why the County is so intent on enlarging precincts and why poll watchers don’t have the rights at the central ballot counting center as they do at traditional precincts.
Actually these issues can get traction with the proper promotion.
But these aren’t being talked about. What’s happening is that a certain segment is now attacking those who refuse to bow before them and sprinkle them with holy water.
Why? Hurt feelings? A smart candidate will understand that it’s he who is supposed to have thick skin and it is up to him to make sure feelings of potential supporters are not hurt.
C’est la vie. It’s not happening.
Maybe the issue that upsets us the most in Delaware County is the tyranny and corruption concerning Delaware County Youth Services.
Charlie Alexander gave some powerful and personal testimony about what goes on there. Read it here.
So has Billy “Jack” Ruane, which can be found here.
You think maybe they might concentrate on the things they have in common.
Big Brother Watches Us Everywhere
By Bob Small
Swarthmore College spies on it’s students, even in Crum Woods.
Kya Butterfield ’25 handled one of the observation cameras and was charged with violating the college’s vandalism rule in the Student Code of Conduct.
The initial penalty was $4,800.
Butterfield said, however, it was reduced to $2,400 “out of good faith.”
Swarthmore History Professor Timothy Burke estimated the first camera was installed 15 or 20 years ago.
Citing security concerns, Interim Director of Public Safety Colin Quinn would not disclose the number or location of the security cameras.
By comparison, in 2024 Haverford College reported 85 cameras on campus, up from 45 in 2022.
Swarthmore has re-defined disorderly conduct to include “any other action(s) that result in the unreasonable interference with the learning/working environment or the rights of others.”
Erin Picken sums up his argument by stating “If you only protest against a stubborn institution along the guidelines it has provided, how much change can you really make?
The urban campus of the University of Pennsylvania, which has 120 officers and is the second-largest police force of any private university in the U.S.
Penn uses 145 pan–tilt–zoom cameras, which are constantly monitored, and more than 1,200 other fixed cameras.Â
Student Milo Garcia notes he comes from small-town Mexico and was never attacked there.
“If it hadn’t happened to me in Mexico I wouldn’t think it would happen to me here,” he said.
According to the Campus Safety Publication more than 8 in 10 Campuses use security cameras .
One in four noted that they were upgrading because the video surveillance system doesn’t integrate with other security technologies.
See the article for other statistics.
See also https://billlawrenceonline.com/privacy-concerns-aired-about-swarthmore-security
Walking out of the Swarthmore College Library DVD section, I waved to the cameras.
Big Brother Watches Us Everywhere
Virtue of the bored William Lawrence Sr Cryptowit 3-6-25
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Answer to yesterday’s puzzle: Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
CYS Is Tool Of Tyranny In Pennsylvania — The Delco, Pa. man who uses the handle Billy Jack posted the below on his Facebook page and we are glad more are calling out Delco’s corrupt and incompetent Children and Youth Services.
Actually, Pennsylvania’s youth “protection” laws appear appear to have been created with purpose of stealing money and cowing citizens who are parents.
The child “protection” agencies are tools of tyranny and greed throughout the state.
The laws need to be repealed and replaced and the agencies they spawned need to be burned to the ground.
Here is Billy Jack’s post.
Remember the Delaware County Child Youth Services Case Manager who was arrested for recruiting prostitutes? …
Lest we forget…
“While working as a case manager, Talley recruited the mothers of her minor clients to work for trafficker-controlled prostitution rings in the Philadelphia area. Talley promised to assist mothers in returning children from foster care and ensure negative drug tests if they engaged in commercial sex from which Talley would financially benefit. Talley also promised positive custody determinations to mothers who engaged in commercial sex. Talley’s network allegedly included 2,000 sex buyers and a third-party who kept 50% of the money paid to the prostituted women. She received 25% of the “profit” in exchange for her recruitment and transportation”
CYS Is Tool Of Tyranny In Pennsylvania
Best road to progress William Lawrence Sr Cryptowit 3-5-25
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Answer to yesterday’s puzzle: The best road to progress is freedom’s road.
John F. Kennedy
Scenes From The Philadelphia Flower Show — A great time was had, today, March 4, at the Philadelphia Flower Show.
LA Was Once Largest Farming County
By Joe Guzzardi
For the lucky few among us who grew up during the 1950s in Southern California, and specifically around the Pacific Palisades/Malibu area, the non-stop video coverage of the massive wildfire was impossible to watch. My thoughts took me back to when the state lived up to its golden image. In their book “From Cows to Cement,” authors Rachel Surls and Judith Gerberk documented Los Angeles County’s agricultural history which was once America’s largest farming county. Today, L.A., once a silkworm center, is the U.S.’ largest urban county. After World War II, around 1945, people moved to Los Angeles in waves to build factories, large office buildings, cookie cutter housing and other edifices that drove land prices ever-upward. Values slowly but inevitably rose; land boom followed land boom. As property assessments soared, farmers couldn’t resist the lucrative opportunity to cash in. A less esthetic L.A. survived, with farmland replaced by cement. By 2023, Los Angeles County had become the nation’s most populous, with nearly 10 million residents, more than about 25% of California’s total population. In 1950, the county’s population was 4.2 million. Today, L.A. County is one of the nation’s largest, covering more than 4,000 square miles. If it were a state, it would be the country’s eighth largest.
Underneath Los Angeles’ urban cement nightmare lay thousands of acres of once-productive farmland. Farming was Los Angeles’ hub from its 1781 founding into the mid-twentieth century. Over the four decades between 1909 to 1949, Los Angeles grew from a farming community into an agricultural powerhouse. Farmers experimented with a multitude of crops, from fruits and vegetables, to hemp, cotton, and flowers. Livestock was important too, with major stockyards that competed with Chicago and Omaha. Hundreds of dairy and poultry farms flourished.
Intrastate transplants went west for more than business opportunities. The sunny and warm weather was a lure. To mid-western arrivals, the beaches were unparalleled. California’s coastline which stretches out over 840 miles has over 420 public beaches, the star gem of which is Malibu. Beach Boys’ songs and movies like “Beach Blanket Bingo” drew a picture of non-stop fun in the sun. All age groups that in-migrated to California found their way to the beach to suntan, fish off the pier, dine in one of the popular just-caught fish restaurants or to hang out, but also to build homes as close to the beaches as their pocketbooks could afford. The celebrities and other wealthy elite built on the ocean’s edge unconcerned about the mudslides that heavy precipitation brings.
The recent Palisades fires followed by pounding rains have created an ecological threat to the Pacific Ocean. Debris and toxins released from the fires will damage kelp forests and lead to destructive algae blooms that snuff out ocean life. The much-needed rain will mark the beginning of the worst effects in the ocean. “The Malibu coastline is extremely unique,” said Dan Pondella, Occidental College biology professor and Southern California Marine Institute research director, “It’s probably the highest density of fishes throughout Southern California.” When rain mixes with debris from burn scars, a slurry of mud, rocks and rubble pour into ocean, which Pondella said acts like both sandpaper and a blackout curtain for the fragile kelp forests. “You’ll see anything from reduced light, which limits photosynthesis in plant and algal growth, to reefs actually being completely buried in ash,” he said. The ash layer remains in the environment for a long time. When the Woolsey Fire tore through Malibu in 2018, it dumped thousands of tons of ash into the ocean, which Pondella’s team was still finding in reefs five years later. More bad news: Wildlife officials reported that a toxic algae outbreak has left as many as 50 sea lions sickened and stranded on Malibu beaches in the past week.
For the next few years as clean up and rebuilding continue, Malibu’s good times are over. When friends ask what it was like to grow up near California’s beaches, I can’t come up with a description that would do my experience justice. I simply say, “I wish you’d been there with me to appreciate it.”
Joe Guzzardi is an Institute for Sound Public Policy analyst. Contact him at jguzzardi@ifspp.org
LA Was Once Largest Farming County
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Answer to yesterday’s puzzle: All is fair in love and war, but friendship there is truth.
Pro Wrestling Is Scripted But It’s Real
By Tevin Dix
I always like to have fun outside the political world.
I fell in love with wrestling when I was in middle school and I’ve been following ever since. I remember like it was yesterday watching an entire episode of Monday night Raw in May 2009 and I’ve been following it since. Jeff Hardy was my favorite wrestler at the time. Now it’s The Miz.
MEETING WRESTLERS: Over the years I’ve met guys like Rey Mysterio, Rhea Ripley, Sheamus, Drew McIntyre, Natalya, Joe Hendry, Hulk Hogan, The Miz, Alundra Blayze, Tiffany Stratton, Bayley, King Kong Bundy, Bob Backlund, Indy wrestlers and many more.
Meeting professional wrestlers means so much because they’ve entertained me so much. The wrestlers that I really want to meet are John Cena, The Rock, Stone Cold Steve Austin, Cody Rhodes, Asuka, Seth Rollins, Bianca Belair, The Undertaker, Ric Flair. But mostly Jeff Hardy because he was favorite WWE Superstar when I got into wrestling.Â
WHAT IS PRO WRESTLING: Professional wrestling is combat sports, intense choreography, stunt work, comedy, storytelling and its true performance art.
The risk and sacrifice that these wrestlers take to entertain millions and make fans happy. They put their lives on the line every week for this sport. It is scripted, but people who claim it’s fake are wrong. I’ve seen many injuries, marks, and bruises. That ring is not a trampoline there is plywood under the mat, the same plywood where you can get from Lowe’s or Home Depot. The weapons that they use like a kendo stick or a steel chair are not props as in a movie but real steel and wood.Â
GOING TO A WRESTLING SHOW: I’ll never forget when I attended my first wrestling show. It was a WWE non-televised event on February 14, 2010 at the Wells Fargo Center. It was the coolest experience ever. But later that same year, I attended my first televised event of Monday Night Raw on June 28th. Just being there on TV and hearing the loud Pyro was insane. I’ve been to 31 WWE events and a few Indie wrestling shows. So I think I’ve been to 40 Wrestling shows total.
Raws, Smackdowns, NXTs, WWE premium live event events, NWA, Monster factory pro wrestling. What makes it better is that I attended my first Wrestlemania last year. I have photos of all the events I’ve been to over the years.
MY WRESTLEMANIA EXPERIENCE: I’ll never forget when I found out that Wrestlemania was coming to Philadelphia. It was July 28, 2022 and I was scrolling through Facebook and when I saw it. I immediately lost it and shared it with so many people. I had to double check and it was legit. Never in a million years I thought this would happen so soon.
Wrestlemania is the Super Bowl of WWE. It doesn’t matter what city they’re in. They take over and fans from all over the world come to get their Wrestlemania experience. I’ve met people from the UK, Europe, Australia, and Bangladesh.
I attended WWE World at the Pennsylvania convention center. The experience was so fun seeing all the memorabilia from WWE’s archive and what made it better was The Rock showed up.
WRESTLING IS POPULAR: For years I’ve heard that pro wrestling is for kids, a redneck sport, a man’s soap opera. That IS NOT true. It’s popular all over the world places like Japan, the UK, Europe, Canada, Mexico and Australia. Women love it just as much as the men. There’s people older than me that have been fans since the old school era.
What I don’t understand is the ones who say it’s for kids still get excited for Disney movies. Like if the new Toy Story 5 came out all the adults would shove the kids out the way.
WRESTLING COMPANIES: If you never watched wrestling a day in your life the first company that comes to your mind is WWE. In reality, there’s so many other companies out there and you don’t have to watch WWE to be a wrestling fan. There’s TNA, AEW, ROH, New Japan Pro Wrestling, WOW Women of Wrestling, MLW, NWA and many indy wrestling companies.
I think it’s good for fans to watch these shows besides the WWE because you’ll learn how other companies do things and you’ll learn new talent. There were some wrestlers I knew about before they came to the WWE you’ll feel a true fan.
I was bullied a lot growing up for my love for professional wrestling, but that negativity didn’t stop me at all. It just made me love it even more and I’m still a fan to this day. It’s a part of me. It’s helped me during bad days, it’s something that’s always put a smile on my face. I’m happy that I was able to tell my story.
Pro Wrestling Is Scripted But It’s Real
Pro Wrestling Is Scripted But It’s Real