Orca vs Shark — Killer whales are actually real mean dolphins. Who would win in a fight between an orca and a great white shark? The orca. Jaws wouldn’t stand a chance.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uF4NqU48HPY
William Lawrence Sr Omnbit 9-19-16
Delco Symphony Season Starts Sept. 25
Delco Symphony Season Starts Sept. 25
By Joseph B. Dychala
Music lovers rejoice! The start of the 2016 – 2017 Delaware County
Symphony season returns Sept. 25.
This season features eight concerts from September to April. All concerts start 3 p.m. at Neumann University’s Meagher Theater in Aston, Pa. This modern venue features excellent acoustics and ample seating.
The September Chamber Series showcases W. A. Mozart’s Sinfonia Concertante for Violin and Viola. Concertmaster Nina Vieru, violin and Adelya Shagidullina, viola will perform. In addition J.S. Bach’s well known Brandenburg Concertos – No. 3 and No. 4 will round out the program. These influential 18th century selections are sure to delight novice and experienced concert goers alike. Associate conductor Robert Whalen is the music director for the Chamber Series concerts.
Tickets, which are $12, may be purchased at the door. One child under 12 is permitted free admission with each paying adult. This is an excellent opportunity to bring classical music to a new generation of listeners. Tickets may be purchased online for each individual concert. A season subscription is also offered.
The first full orchestra concert entitled “Virtuosic Display” is scheduled for Oct. 16 under the baton of newly appointed conductor and Symphony Series director Joseph Caminiti and will feature selections from Bizet, Brahms and Rimsky-Korsakov.
Delco Symphony Season Starts Sept. 25
William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 9-17-16
Baroque as in baroque music means misshapened pearl. It was meant as an insult.
William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 9-17-16
Pointless Pettiness Is Bad Politics
Pointless pettiness is bad politics.
The Pennsylvania Constitution mandates that judges retire at age 70. Some thought that was too early and wanted to make it age 75. The amendment process requires one of the legislative chambers — both of which have been under Republican control since 2011 — to write the amendment. It is then advertised in at least two newspapers in every county at least three months before the next general election. It then must be passed again via simple majority by both chambers in the next session. The wording is then placed on a ballot as a referendum giving the general public final say.
The chambers approved this: Shall the Pennsylvania Constitution be amended to require that justices of the Supreme Court, judges and justices of the peace (known as magisterial district judges) be retired on the last day of the calendar year in which they attain the age of 75 years, instead of the current requirement that they be retired on the last day of the calendar year in which they attain the age of 70?
The referendum was scheduled for the April 26 primary and the mandated advertising — costing the public $1.3 million — was performed.
The Senate leadership had second thoughts, however. Cynics are saying they feared the public might vote it down which would have forced the removal of Chief Justice Thomas Saylor, a Republican, giving the Democrats control of the state Supreme Court.
So they filed a legal challenge claiming the words were too confusing. The state Supreme Court laughed and threw it out.
The legislature then passed resolutions, April 6 and April 11 invalidating the election two weeks away. They re-wrote the amendment for the Nov. 8 general election as: Shall the Pennsylvania Constitution be amended to require that justices, judges and justices of the peace be retired on the last day of the calendar year in which they attain the age of 75 years.
Democrats filed a legal challenge saying the delay was unconstitutional because the legislation was not presented to Gov. Wolf as required. Commonwealth Court rejected the argument.
They filed another challenge saying the delay illegal because it was political in nature. Commonwealth Court rejected this claim on July 6.
A challenged was filed on July 21 by former Supreme Court justices Ronald Castille and Stephen Zappala Sr, and Philadelphia attorney Richard Sprague saying the new wording was deceitful.
Supreme Court took the case and voted 3-3 which left the wording as the short version. Saylor appropriately recused himself.
Yesterday, Sept. 16, the court ruled 4-2 that the case can’t be reconsidered, hence the short version without the mention of an existing mandated retirement age is what the voters will see.
The Court got it right with the last argument. It isn’t their job to determine the wording of amendments. On the other hand, it is judiciary’s job to judge process and if constitutional amendments require legislative votes in consecutive sessions with advertising in between, then one wonders how changes in the wording can be made at the last minute.
And what’s it say about our solons if they can’t get it right in the first place?
The word changes are pointless gamesmanship and political pettiness at the highest level. This stuff always backfires especially when one learns it has wasted $1.3 million of our money.
And, for what it’s worth, the retirement age should not be increased. Vote this amendment down on Nov. 8.
Pointless Pettiness Is Bad Politics
William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 9-16-16
Splenda Scam — Splenda is 95 percent dextrose which is sugar. So how can it call itself “no calorie”? The 1-gram packages in which it is sold are 3.36 calories which is less than 5 calories. The FDA allows servings less than five calories to be labled “no calorie”.
Sugar packets are 2.8 grams and contain about 10 calories. If a sugar producer had a sense of humor it would sell 1-gram packets and call them “no calorie”.
Yes, Splenda is a scam.
William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 9-16-16 Splenda Scam
Soros Virus Sickening America
Soros Virus Sickening America –George Soros, a one-percenter’s one-percenter, with fantasies about a strong, central, socialist world government, has been taking an active role in U.S. politics since 2004.
The atheist Hungarian’s “Shadow Party” was instrumental in the success of the Democrats in 2008 and continues to pervert public discourse. He has been the money guy for Occupy Wall Street and Black Lives Matter.
His latest act of pollution is the bankrolling of opponents to the tough-but-decent Maricopa County, Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio. He objects to Arpaio’s willingness to enforce laws with which Soros disagrees especially with regard to immigration. It should be noted that Arpaio is the son of immigrants.
What’s ironic is that those who don’t want non-profit groups to be able to participate in electioneering are just peachy with Soros’ activities.
Soros Virus Sickening America
William Lawrence Sr. Omnibit 9-15-16
The seat of Calhoun County, Texas was once Indianola. A wicked hurricane hit it on Sept. 15, 1875 almost entirely destroying the town and killing up to 300. The courageous people rebuilt. Eleven years later, though, on Aug. 19, 1886 another hurricane hit it. Enough was enough. Indianola is now a ghost town.
William Lawrence Sr. Omnibit 9-15-16 Indianola
Carly Fiorina Endorses Trump
Carly Fiorina Endorses Trump — Carly Fiorina, a presumed “never Trumper” has endorsed The Donald.
Independent Journal Review reports that Mrs. Fiorina declared at the fall dinner of the Washington State Republican Party that “We must have President Trump — we can’t have President Clinton.”
That message was then tweeted by the party.
Mrs. Fiorina had sought the nomination herself and was consistent in her attacks on Trump.
Welcome to the Trump Train, Mrs. Fiorina.
Carly Fiorina Endorses Trump
Trump Mocked Disabled? Nope
Trump Mocked Disabled? Nope — One of the more destructive tropes being pushed by the neo-feudalistic globalists desperately clinging to power is that Donald Trump is mean and mocks disabilities.
The basis is a speech he gave in South Carolina in November in which he defended a claim he made that many Muslims in America celebrated the 9/11 attacks and blasted New York Times reporter Serge F. Kovaleski for walking back a story that Kovaleski had written about it in 2001.
During his criticism of Kovaleski, Trump gestured in a mocking fashion. Kovaleski has a disability. The establishment began spreading the story that Trump was mocking it, which would have been a rather cruel if true.
Well, it turns out that Trump has made those exact same movements in mocking other opponents who don’t have disabilities including Ted Cruz.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4604reEqk0
Obviously, The Donald was not making fun of Kovaleski’s disability, but what’s a little false witness when one’s path to the public trough is in danger?
Now if you want to see cruelty, insensitivity and heartlessness in action, well, here:
And in other election news Carly Fiornia has endorsed Trump.
Trump Mocked Disabled? Nope
William Lawrence Sr. Omnibit 9-14-16
No Anthony, the first national monument was not the Liberty Bell. Theodore Roosevelt gave that honor to Devil’s Tower, a slag of rock in Wyoming in 1906.