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Holy Myrrh-Bearers Eastern Catholic Church is having a special sauerkraut pierogi sale. Cost is $10 per dozen. Orders must be placed by Saturday, April 23, by calling 610-544-1215 or emailing HMBChurch@verizon.net.
Pick-up is April 28 at the church, 900 Fairview Rd
Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, PA 19081.
MPGA — Senate Ed Committee OKs 5 Sane Bills — Pennsylvania State Sen. John Eichelberger (R-30) reports that the Senate Education Committee, yesterday, April 19, approved five bills, including legislation intended to improve transparency and legislation expanding access to vocational education and school resources to students.
The bills are all small but significant advances to the cause of common sense that should be no-brainers but have long be stifled by our special-interest wannabee masters.
Two of the bills are sponsored by Stewart Greenleaf (R-12) and one by John Rafferty (R-44). Neither is considered the type who would fly a Gadsden flag and wear a “Don’t Tread on Me” teeshirt.
It’s amazing the progress that is being made. Make Pennsylvania Great Again.
Here are the bills. Hat tip Joanne Yurchak.
Senate Bill 88 (Greenleaf) – The legislation would amend current law to prohibit censorship of an American or Pennsylvania historical document based on any religious content. The bill would allow documents or portions of documents such as the Declaration of Independence, the Constitutions of Pennsylvania and the United States; Acts of the Pennsylvania General Assembly and of the United States Congress, etc. to be used, read or posted in their entirety regardless of whether such documents contain religious references.
Senate Bill 93 (Greenleaf) – The legislation would amend current law to provide that a pupil of a home education program or a private tutoring program shall not be refused admission to courses held in additional schools or departments such as a vocational school. Under current law, a school district is not required to provide dual enrollment for homeschooled students.
Senate Bill 273 (Rafferty) – The legislation would prohibit any form of state funding to any public or private institution of higher education that designates itself as a “sanctuary campus”, refuses to share information about undocumented students, or in any way impedes the federal government’s ability to enforce federal immigration laws.
Senate Bill 383 (White) – The legislation would authorize school boards to allow certain school employees to access firearms on school property and further enhance security measures when emergencies arise. If a local board decides to establish such a policy, any person so authorized must at a minimum have a license to carry a concealed firearm; and maintain a current certification in the use and handling of a firearm.
Senate Bill 592 (Stefano) – The legislation would amend current law to require that when a school board extends an offer of employment for a district superintendent, assistant district superintendent, associate superintendent, or any principal, it must first post the terms of employment on the school district’s public website.
MPGA — Senate Ed Committee OKs 5 Sane Bills
Who was Lord Warkworth? He was Englishman better known as Hugh Percy but that was what he was called in his 20s. He became Earl Percy in 1766. He joined the British Army, became a general and led the relief force that let Lt. Col Francis Smith’s detachment escape to Boston after the Battle of Lexington and Concord.
Obama Beats Comcast Huck Says— Former Arkansas Gov. and GOP presidential candidate Mike Huckabee uses Philly-based Comcast as does many unfortunate others. He recently expressed his opinion of them in a series of tweets.
Hey Mike, Comcast has one good point. It makes you able to tolerate Verizon.
By the time @comcast shows up to fix THEIR problems after they missed THEIR appt today, my 5 year old grandson will be graduating college.
Mafia better service than @comcast Sure they shoot you, but it’s over with and they don’t charge you for the bullet.
How bad is @comcast service? I’d rather have Obama back as President than have Comcast.
Springfield Residents Warned Of Strong-Arm Robberies — Springfield, Pa. residents received a recorded warning, yesterday, April 18, from Police Chief Joe Daly regarding teenagers interfering with traffic, throwing rocks at trolleys, using drugs and drinking, and, most disconcertingly, committing strong-armed robbery.
He noted that when caught they will be prosecuted according to law. If the teens are township residents, as is likely, their parents will have received the message along with their neighbors and the odds are the behavior will be curtailed either voluntarily or via arrests and prosecutions.
This is very good proactive policing and township governance.
Springfield, by the way, has a curfew for teens running from 11 p.m. to 5 a.m. Sundays through Thursdays, and starting 11:59 p.m. Fridays, Saturdays and national holidays.
The word “tax” is from the Latin taxare, meaning “evaluate, estimate, assess, handle.”
Japanese restaurateur Kiyoshi Kimura paid $1.76 million for a bluefin tuna in 2013. It weighed 489 pounds. That’s $230 per ounce which does not make it the most expensive food. The title belongs to 2.9 pounds of white truffles sold in 2010 for $330,000 or $7,112 per ounce.
Christos Voskrese 2017 — Christos voskrese, which means Christ has Risen, is the Easter greeting in Church Slavonic which brings the response Voistinu voskrese or Indeed, He has risen.
Easter, of course, celebrates the Resurrection of the Lord Jesus and the salvation of Man. The date for Easter is the Sunday following the first full moon after the spring equinox, which is always reckoned, regardless of astronomical observations, to be March 21 as per the Western churches that use the Gregorian calendar, so Easter always falls between March 22 and April 25.
The dating for Easter correlates with the means the Jews once used to set the date for Passover, which correlates with Scripture since Scripture indicates that the Crucifixion of the Lord occurred as the lambs were being slaughtered for the celebration of that holiday. In fact, in most Western languages the name for the day is a cognate of the Pesach which is the Hebrew name for Passover. In Latin it would be Pascha so Paschal lamb would be Passover lamb.
In English and German, the word comes from Eostre month, which was basically April, and which the pagans who spoke Germanic languages had named for the goddess Eostre much as our own March and April are named for the Greek god and goddess Mars and Aphrodite, respectively. In Slavic, the holiday is called “Great Night” (Velikonoce in Slovak) or “Great Day” (Velikden in Ukrainian). There are some caveats regarding the date. The Eastern churches that use the Julian calendar set the equinox at April 3, and, of course, the spring equinox is based on that of the Northern Hemisphere.
So, Christos Voskrese 2017.
The Titanic had four smokestacks. Only three of them worked. The fourth was just for looks.
Today, Maundy Thursday, commemorates the washing of the disciples’ feet by Jesus before the Last Supper. Maundy comes from the Latin mandatum, meaning “commandment,” and refers to the commands Jesus gave his disciples at the Last Supper: to love with humility by serving one another and to remember his sacrifice.
