Happy Double Nickels Old Man

For those who happen to be celebrating their 55th Birthday

John Bayard Anderson R.I.P.

John Bayard Anderson R.I.P.John Bayard Anderson, the Republican who ran as a third-party candidate in 1980 against Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan, died Dec. 3. He was 95.

Anderson was a congressman who represented the 16th District of Illinois from 1961 to 1981. He received 7 percent of the vote during his presidential run including mine which  was the first time I cast a presidential vote.

In hindsight I’m glad he lost, but he was a decent and honorable man.

R.I.P. Congressman.

John Bayard Anderson R.I.P.

 

William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 12-4-17

Michael Richard’s character was Kessler not Kramer in the  first episode of Seinfeld.

Comedian Kenny Kramer, upon whom the character is based, had not yet given consent to use Kramer.

William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 12-4-17

Ed Rendell Child Sex Ring ????

Ed Rendell Child Sex Ring ???? — Influential ZeroHedge.com has linked to a story claiming that former Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell is connected to child sex trafficking.

Rendell has also served as Philadelphia district attorney, Philadelphia mayor,  and chairman of Democrat National Committee. He is a noted backer of Hillary Clinton.

The story by Elizabeth Vos and William Craddick of Disobedient Media is based  on an interview with Philadelphia native Greg Bucceroni.

Ed Rendell Child Sex Ring ????
Screen shot of Greg Bucceroni’s tweets from Jan. 2, 2014

Bucceroni was a child prostitute in the late 1970’s and early 1980’s. He  worked for a ring led by notorious pedophile Ed Savitz.

Bucceroni says that as D.A., Rendell knew what Savitz was doing and ignored it.  Further, he says that Rendell’s removal of children from Haiti after the 2010 earthquake was part of a human trafficking scheme.

We questioned the governor’s action at the time but came up with an entirely different motive.

Bucceroni also accuses David L Cohen, who was Rendell’s chief of staff as mayor, of being a pedophile.

“Another Savitz connected pedophile was Ed Rendell’s good pal Comcast CEO David Cohen,” Bucceroni said in a Jan. 2, 2014 tweet.

Actually, Cohen, is a senior executive vice president of Comcast and the company’s chief diversity officer

Bucceroni says that among those with whom he had contact were Lawrence King of the Franklin Credit Union scandal , Jerry Sandusky and Congressman Dennis Hastert.

Bucceroni says King would “take kids from the South Philly Boys Club to Washington D.C.” for sexual abuse.

Hastert, a Republican who represented the Illinois 14th Congressional District from 1987 to 2007 was Speaker of the House from 1999 through 2007 making him third in line to the presidency. He says Hastert once paid him  $40 for sex.

Hastert pleaded guilty in April 2016 to violating federal laws governing the withdrawal of money from banks. It was revealed then that he was a child molester albeit couldn’t be tried on those charges as the statute of limitations had passed. Hastert  was released from prison on July 18 after serving 13 months. He remains on two-years supervised release.

While we have trouble believing the allegations against Fast Eddie,  we certainly accept that there is something seriously wrong in this state.

And whatever did happen to Ray Gricar and his hard drive?

Ed Rendell Child Sex Ring ????

 

William Lawrence Sr. Omnibit 12-2-17

Poison hemlock is a member of the carrot family. Please don’t eat it though.

William Lawrence Sr. Omnibit 12-2-17

Buying Bitcoin, A Personal Adventure

Buying Bitcoin, A Personal Adventure — With all the talk about bitcoin we decided to buy some.

Buying Bitcoin, A Personal AdventureWe enrolled at Localbitcoins. com being guided there from Bitcoin.org, a well-established site where you can also find information about the cryptocurrency.

We found a seller, Georgia-based Swift-Bitcoin, and accepted an offer of about $100 at an exchange rate of $11,276.62 per bitcoin.

Getting the coin required us to take a photo — no scan accepted– of our drivers license and send it to the seller. He thought the first one was fuzzy and made us take another. We then had to make a cash deposit at a Bank of America according to his instructions, write “No Refunds” on the receipt, and send him a a photo of the receipt next our face.

He then released our purchase and we are now proud owners of about .009 bitcoin.

Remember, bitcoin is not meant to be an investment, albeit it’s probably not a bad one right now. It’s designed as a medium of exchange with an intrinsic value set digitally and kept true by a cryptography-secured public ledger (blockchain). Just about all government-issued money in the world — including the United States — is “fiat” which means the value is arbitrarily determined by a government or government-connected bank.

Buying Bitcoin, A Personal Adventure

 

 

Stop Government Doing Union Work

Stop Government Doing Union Work

By Leo Knepper

Most people don’t realize it, but the state government and localities across the commonwealth collect campaign contributions for political action committees (PACs) controlled by government unions.

In February, the Senate sent legislation to the House (SB 166 and 167) to end this practice. As we noted then:

“Over the course of the last ten years, various elected officials in Pennsylvania have gone to jail for using public systems for political gain. However, government unions have been using the public employees’ payroll system to collect funds that are spent directly on candidates and influencing elections (PACs) and funds used to engage in lobbying, voter registrations, get out the vote, and a host of other political activities.

“Why should it be legal for unions to use the public payroll system for political purposes, but illegal for former-Speaker John Perzel to use the constituent data system to help sway elections? There is no difference between these two activities; both are political, both are on the public dime, and both should be illegal.”

The good news is that the House State Government Committee sent two pieces of legislation, SB 166 and HB 1174, to the floor of the House for final passage. We would prefer government getting out of the business of collecting union dues and political contributions entirely. However, the passage of either of these bills would be a drastic improvement over the status quo.

The main difference between the two bills is that HB 1174 would still allow the collection of political contributions from the state police, corrections officers, and other “public safety” employees. SB 166 does not make a distinction between public safety and standard employees; it prohibits the collection of campaign contributions from all government employees.

Please take a moment to contact your Representative and encourage them to support both of these pieces of legislation.

Mr. Knepper is executive director of Citizens Alliance of Pennsylvania.

Stop Government Doing Union Work

Stop Government Doing Union Work

SB 76 Fails To Ease Tax Burden Says Lisa Esler

SB 76 Fails To Ease Tax Burden — Lisa Esler, who is one of our favorite people and is a Penn Delco school director, had a 14-minute interview, today, Nov. 30, with Gunther Rewind concerning SB 76. The proposed legislation would prohibit homes from being taxed to fund schools.

Lisa notes that this reform does not solve the tax burden issue and that  state legislature is not interested in taking the simple, commonsense steps necessary to do so.

She says the prevailing wage mandate increases construction and maintenance  projects between 10 and 30 percent and should be simple to repeal with an honest government. She notes unnecessary state mandates such as paid teacher sabbaticals. She points out the crushing $70 billion-and-rising pension shortfall. She mentioned how the right to strike by teachers inevitably means tax increases.

And while nobody should be taxed from their home, Lisa is 100 percent correct that  Harrisburg is not serious about fixing things.

You can find Lisa’s interview here.

SB 76 Fails To Ease Tax Burden

SB 76 Fails To Solve Tax Burden Problem

Philadelphia Earthquake Felt Nov. 30

Philadelphia Earthquake Felt Nov. 30 — Philadelphia residents who felt their houses shake about quarter-to-five this afternoon (Nov. 30) did not imagine it.

The region experienced a 4.1 magnitude earthquake centered on Dover, Delaware.

Philadelphia Earthquake Felt Nov. 30

Philadelphia Earthquake Felt Nov. 30

William Lawrence Sr. Omnibit 11-30-17

Golden eagles kill and eat coyotes and bobcats.

William Lawrence Sr. Omnibit 11-30-17