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Holy Myrrh-Bearers Parish is having a family game night, Saturday, Oct. 8, following the 5 p.m. Liturgy. Feel free to come out and spend time with your family, and with other families, in an evening of friendly game competition.
Feel free to bring your own special family game to this event. Hot dogs will be available.
Holy Myrrh-Bearers is an Eastern Rite Catholic Church at 900 Fairview Road, Swarthmore, PA 19081.
See you and your family there!
Hateful Cold-hearted Hillary — When Hillary Clinton faithfully followed Bill to Arkansas in 1974 — the smartest woman in history had failed to pass the D.C. bar exam — she became what basically was a public defender. Among the cases to which she was assigned was a man accused of raping a 12-year-old girl. 
She took it with great zeal and destroyed the young victim knowing full-well the accused’s guilt.
The first-degree rape charged was reduced to mere fondling and the child molester ended up doing but two months.
Was the overstepping of boundaries due to immaturity and inexperience? Was it something to which she came to regret?
The video below can be found in Special Collections Department of the University of Arkansas Libraries. She describes the case in an interview about 10 years later with a reporter. She laughs and brags about what she did. She obviously has no feelings for the victim. She obviously has no feelings for anybody but herself.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIEHhAChsYc
Springfield Man Fights Trump — For our nevertrumper friends, former 165th legislative district candidate Jeremy Fearn is having a gathering 11 a.m., Saturday, Oct. 8, at his home in Springfield, Pa. as part of a MoveOn.org “United Against Hate Barnstorm” campaign. 
If you want to stop The Donald you can RSVP here.
Frankly though, it seems that those against “hate” would be fighting to keep the person behind things like this and what happen to this man from gaining power.
French women voted for the first time in October 1945.
Dilbert Shadow Banned Due To Trump Support — Scott Adams, who pens the comic strip Dilbert, is not what one considers a typical right winger. However, he has come out for Donald Trump as many of us have because his opponent is a thief and liar, and because The Donald is not intimidated by political correctness and addresses obvious and consequential realities.
This exercise of Adam’s political rights has led to repercussions. He his been subject to pointless personal attacks by the self-proclaimed “tolerant and enlightened” but that goes with the territory of expressing an opinion.
More disgraceful and troubling is his “shadow banning” by Twitter. Shadow banning is banning a user from a web forum in such a way that he is unaware of the ban. It is a particularly sneaky and despicable form of censorship.
Adams learned of his banning when his many followers informed him they were not seeing his tweets. The ban has apparently been lifted after protests. That someone in authority at the failing company thought he could get away with it, however, shows why the company is failing.
Censoring political speech is never justice — social or otherwise.
Harrisburg Broken. Really, Really Broken
By Sen. Scott Wagner
In my past articles, I have reported repeatedly many of the findings in Harrisburg where I see first-hand waste, fraud and abuse.
Here is another great example of how mismanaged Harrisburg really is. Last Thursday (Sept. 29) the Auditor General held a press conference and reported the findings of an audit that was performed at the Pennsylvania Department of Human Services (DHS).
It was reported at the press conference that from July 2013 to June 2014 DHS paid public assistance benefits (CASH) to over 2,300 deceased (DEAD) people.
Click here for a report from TV station WNEP- http://wnep.com/2016/09/29/audit-2300-deceased-people-on-welfare/
I continue to pound on the table that “Harrisburg does not have a revenue problem – Harrisburg has a spending problem.”
Well here is another slogan – “Harrisburg is out of control – zero accountability – who cares, it is not our money.”
I have reported previously that there is a total lack of accountability in the various state agencies. DHS is the best example of an agency out of control.
You may ask yourself how an agency could be out of control. Here is the best and most accurate answer: Lack of leadership, direction and accountability.
Where should leadership, direction, and accountability start in Harrisburg you might ask – here is the simple answer – the Governor’s office.
Gov. Wolf has been in office for almost two years and I have not seen any large initiatives in any single state agency to determine how well a specific agency is performing or not performing.
In the last several months I have met with two separate companies and their representatives who have presented to me a scenario where, due to fraud and abuse, there are between $1.8 billion to $4 billion of fraudulent claims being paid by Medicaid through the Pennsylvania Department of Human Services annually – the $1.8 billion and $4 billion are numbers that the federal government has provided based on total Medicaid dollars spent in Pennsylvania. Medicaid is the subsidized health care program for low income people that is managed by DHS. What is being done about this fraud and abuse?
Absolutely nothing.
Since the beginning of this year I have received continued complaints from private sector companies and the natural gas industry that the Department of Environmental Resources (DEP) is delaying earth disturbance permits for pipeline projects.
Why are these permits being delayed? Here is the answer: No leadership, direction and accountability.
Just a few weeks ago I received a complaint from a constituent that a specific agency was not returning telephone calls to discuss the constituent’s issue. I directed a person in my Senate office to work on a resolution and guess what? Our telephone calls went unanswered.
How could our telephone calls go unanswered? No Leadership, direction and accountability.
I could go on for hours of how mismanaged Harrisburg really is. No leadership, No accountability, career bureaucrats and an attitude that instead of doing any heavy lifting and managing the money that already flows into Harrisburg. The first quick solution is to just raise taxes.
Governors come and go. House and Senate members come and go. Career bureaucrats stay below the radar screen to keep their jobs, generous benefits, and their coveted pensions when they retire.
At the end of September I completed my 30th month (two and a half years) in the Pennsylvania State Senate. All I can say is – WOW. I knew that state government was out of control in Harrisburg before I arrived and guess what? It is 10 times worse than I expected.
I anticipate that in January of 2017 the Pennsylvania Legislature will be presented with a budget from Governor Wolf that will ask for substantial tax increases.
Who cares?
The current mentality from Governor Wolf is that Pennsylvania taxpayers can afford to pay more taxes.
If you are willing to pay more taxes instead of Governor Wolf providing leadership, direction and holding every person who works in state government accountable, please send me an email so we can put your name on a list so Harrisburg can send you a tax bill.
Out of control government in Harrisburg – the gift that just keeps on taking !
Last night’s meal by Chef Bill Sr was a juicy ribeye steak, fresh fruit salad and grilled potato discs seasoned with garlic and olive oil. Dessert was a delicious vanilla layer cake by Lynn McGrane.
What are shawms and racketts? They were woodwind instruments popular in the Renaissance. You want brass? The sackbut was the Renaissance trombone.
Here is some shawm music:
Left Rigged Game With Strawman Labels
By John Haenn
Does anyone even know what conservatism is anymore? It’s this little idea that’s been grossly and probably purposely undersold to the American public since the days of Reagan.
Conservatism is the idea that given a strong country, strong economy and freedom, that people can fend for themselves. This gets countered as conservatives wanting people to be poor and starve to death. Thank goodness that we have all of these government programs to keep these people barely alive, barely eating, barely having shelter.
Conservatism is the idea that an intact country is a country that has a border. It’s a country that has laws that allow people to immigrate in both directions legally through a process. This gets countered as conservatives wanting America to be closed to the world, a racist and harsh America that looks down on peoples all over the world.
Conservatism is the idea that a smaller government is a better government. This goes completely ignored, because while we are all holding onto our conservative values, the left is selling the idea that jobs, food, housing and happiness all come from the government. They do a damn fine job selling this to the American public.
The American public is bought and paid for. And it’s our fault.
For 20 years, we’ve done nothing to expand our base. We don’t educate blacks and minorities about how better off they’d be living in a country that embraces conservative principles. We don’t control the conversation at all. We’re not doing any talking. We’ve allowed ourselves to be demonized to the point where it will take a generation to undo the damage, and even that may not be enough. We may simply be done.
A. Did we feel we had safety in numbers?
B. Did we feel that we’d win elections on principle, because the good guys always win?
C. Did we think that since our ideas are good that people would just jump on board?
D. Did we assume that blacks and minorities are unreachable?
E. All of the above.
Answer, E.
But while we’ve slept, the left has undone everything that we accomplished under Reagan. And they’ve done more. They’ve infiltrated our party with left leaning Republicans who on some issues will side with the big government liberals every time. Think of it like a casino. We win some battles, but the game is rigged towards the Democrats. This holds true regardless of who controls which chamber or both chambers. In reality, we have 1 political party; The Elite.
Our Elite Overlords.
The elite whom decide our Freedoms.
The elite whom decide our Success.
The elite whom decide our very Survival.
From cradle to grave, this Elite Party controls every part of our lives, from birth, education, family, health and death.
What do we do? As I said, we may simply be done. Welcome to Rock Bottom, nation. The national debt is unthinkable. Total unemployment is 30 percent and probably higher. There’s no manufacturing. No innovation. No invention and no drive. We’ve run out of time. Reagan’s City On A Hill is going dark.
If we have any hope of saving the country, we must begin first with honestly admitting where we currently are as a people. The picture is not good. The outlook is worse. The kind of urgency needed in the righting of the ship is not often seen in human history, but we have no choice. This land was chosen as the last best hope of mankind, and as Ronald Reagan once said, “How can we do any less; we’re Americans.”
A young nation turned to George Washington in their darkest hour. Who will step up this time? Who will be the voice to mend a torn nation?
Mr. Haenn is a resident of Collingdale, Pa.
We just finished watching the Tim Kaine/Mike Pence debate. This sums it up.
Sen. Kaine may have to commit seppuku.