It puts to bed in a conclusive way the long-pondered question “Is Hillary how she is because Bill does what he does or does Bill do what he does because Hillary is the way she is?”
Reading it, we actually felt sorry for the old Arkansas Love Machine.
Olson’s source is Sally Miller, a former Miss Arkansas who was one of Slick Willie’s girlfriends and who knew Hillary also.
Sally says Hillary is cold, calculating and interested solely in herself. She said she had several abortions and was talked into keeping Chelsea by Bill for political reasons. She said she was a lesbian who does not like men.
One does have to admit this is a lot easier to buy than Cruz as a Latin lover.
Big Soda Shafts America — Joseph DiStefano of Philly.com notes in his story about Big Soda’s response to Philadelphia’s proposed soft-drink tax that Coca-Cola Co.’s tax rate is now less than 25 percent of its income while in the late ’90s it was 36 percent.
PepsiCo dropped from 34 percent to 23 percent.
Why?
In Coke’s case, it is because it has shifted plants and earnings to lower-tax countries and accepted “tax incentive grants” from nations like Brazil and Swaziland.
Pepsi baldly explained their strategy in 2005 declaring “We intend to continue to reinvest earnings outside the U.S.”
Father John Ciurpita performs the first Easter basket blessing at Holy Myrrh-Bearers Church in Ridley after this morning’s (March 27) services.
Christos Voskrese 2016 — 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.
What in the United States is generally called Holy Saturday is called Saturday of Light by Coptic Christians and Black Saturday in the Phillippines.
It commemorates the day that Jesus Christ’s body lay in the tomb and the Harrowing of Hell in which the Lord descended into Hell and brought salvation to all of the righteous who had died since the beginning of the world.
So why do they call the day commemorating Christ’s Crucifixion “good”? Nobody’s sure. It most likely comes from German either as Gottes Freitag i.e. God’s Friday or Gute Freitag i.e. Good Friday with “good” being used synonymously with “holy.”
For what it’s worth, the Germans today call it Karfreitag or Mourning Friday.
Gottes Freitag William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 3-25-16
Spring Craft Event Cometh — The Haverford Guild of Craftsmen’s Spring Fine Arts and Crafts Show will be April 30 and May 1 at Saint Anastasia School, 3309 West Chester Pike, Newtown Square 19073.
Saturday hours are 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. and Sunday hours are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Event spokeswoman Judy McGrane of Springfield notes that the show features works for sale by a large and varied group of Delaware County artists, including painters, potters, photographers, jewelers, wood, clay, leather and glass workers.
The Haverford Guild was chartered in August 2009 as the 16th chapter of the Pennsylvania Guild of Craftsmen.
The parent guild is headquartered in Lancaster and was founded in 1942. It is among the oldest professional craft guilds in the country.
Maundy — as in Maundy Thursday — comes from the Latin mandatum. This is the first word of the phrase “Mandatum novum do vobis ut diligatis invicem sicut dilexi vos.” It means A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you which is how Jesus in John 13:34 explained to the Apostles the significance of his washing their feet the night before His crucifixion.
Maundy Thursday — William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 3-24-16
At a press conference Wednesday (March 23), Governor Wolf begrudgingly accepted reality and announced that he would allow the recently passed budget to become law. He will not sign the budget, but the Pennsylvania Constitution allows legislation passed by the General Assembly to become law ten days after passage if it is not signed or vetoed.
Initially, the Governor stated he would veto the budget, yet again, and drag the nearly nine-month saga out even longer to force the General Assembly to raise taxes. Wolf’s strategy was met with widespread criticism from within the Democratic caucuses and the usually friendly news media. On final passage, Democrats in the House and Senate joined with their Republican colleagues in voting for passage of the budget. Media reports also indicated that there would be widespread defections in the House and Senate among Democrats leading to a veto override if Wolf went down that path again.
While the budget could have done more to reign in out of control spending, it is a far cry from the Governor’s original proposal that would have required a multibillion-dollar tax increase to pay for even higher levels of spending. The enactment of this budget has an impact broader than funds being released to schools. Wolf’s 2016-2017 proposed budget had, in a flight of fancy, assumed that he would have gotten his way from the General Assembly in the 2015-2016 budget. By finally accepting lower spending for the current year, the baseline for the next budget decreases substantially. This would not have been possible without CAP members in the General Assembly, and other conservatives in Harrisburg.
We hope Governor Wolf learns some long-term lessons from his budget battle. However given his previous pronouncements about spending levels, we won’t be holding our breath.
