Stan Casacio Gets 1500 Signatures

Stan Casacio Gets 1500 Signatures
Stan Casacio announcing his candidacy Jan. 21.

Stan Casacio Gets 1500 Signatures — The petitions for Montgomery County businessman Stan Casacio were accepted, Feb. 16, by the Pennsylvania Department of State and he will be on the ballot, April 26, for the Republican 7th congressional primary.

He is challenging incumbent Pat Meehan.

Over 1500 names were collected.

Casacio is running because of concerns about fiscal irresponsibility and uncontrolled immigration among other things. While he  still faces an uphill battle, Meehan better take him seriously considering what happened in South Carolina on Saturday.

Casacio’s website is here.

Meehan’s website is here.

Stan Casacio Gets 1500 Signatures.

William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 2-20-16

Count Feodor Ivanovich Tolstoy -- cousin to the great author Leo -- got himself a berth on the sloop Nadezhda on the First Russian Circumnavigation in 1803.Count Feodor Ivanovich Tolstoy — cousin to the great author Leo — got himself a berth on the sloop Nadezhda on the First Russian Circumnavigation in 1803.

The event’s purpose was to bring prestige to the nation and advance scientific knowledge.

Tolstoy was royalty so he didn’t have an assigned role. He spent his time drinking, picking fights and playing jokes. He got the ship’s priest drunk, for instance, then glued his beard to the deck.

The final straw, though, was likely the orangutan.

During an island stop, he acquired a pet orangutan. He snuck it into the captain’s cabin, took out the logbook, put a blank sheet of paper on top and showed the ape how to cover it with ink. He left while ape went on drawing. When the captain returned, the records were ruined along with much scientific data.

Enough became enough and Tolstoy and the orangutan was marooned by the crew on the Kamchatka peninsula. From there Tolstoy made it to Aleutian islands and from there to Siberia and home.

He became known as The American due to his stay in Alaska. Nobody knows what happened to the orangutan.

Count Feodor Ivanovich Tolstoy

Chesco Inquisition Closed? Not So Fast

Chesco Inquisition Closed? Not So Fast — Long-time Republican and Phoenixville election worker Paul Celentano missed the note that the Chester County Republican Party inquisition scheduled for Feb. 11 at party HQ on Church Street in West Chester so he went.

He was met by the county GOP Executive Director Laura Wagoner who explained that the event was cancelled but he couldn’t have attended anyway as it would have been a closed hearing. Chesco Inquisition Closed? Not So Fast

The hearing is suspected to have been an attempt to remove committeepeople  ane Ladley, Tom Ferro, Steve Mobley and Donna Ellingsen  who are accused of violating party bylaws for supporting candidates other than the nominated ones.

Mrs. Ladley is the Area 19 chairwoman.

Mrs. Ellingsen says that those accused have not consented to a closed hearing.

“We have specifically informed the Chesco GOP solicitor that we have nothing to hide behind closed doors,” she said.

Chesco Inquisition Closed? Not So Fast

Lotte Lenya William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 2-19-16

Lotte Lenya named in the American version of “Mack the Knife” was the wife of composer Kurt Weill who co-wrote The Threepenny Opera from which the song comes. Lotte is also known for playing the evil Rosa Klebb in the James Bond movie From Russia With Love. Suky Tawdry, Lucy Brown et al were characters in the play.

Lotte Lenya William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 2-19-16
Lotte Lenya William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 2-19-16
Lotte Lenya was Rosa Klebb?

Pat Toomey Stay Strong

Pat Toomey Stay StrongPat Toomey Stay Strong — Sen. Pat Toomey, who has been a very good senator for Pennsylvania and the nation, has gone on record saying the replacement for recently deceased Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia must be appointed by the next president.

He is right.

There are troubling reports that the U.S. Senate’s Republican majority which is not known for its profile in courage will listen to the whispers of the Washington game players and allow Obama to name another Bill Ayers disciple.

Any choice by Obama, it should be noted, will be a Bill Ayers disciple.

If you want to continue to protect the lives of little girls, Sen. Toomey, make sure you fight these whisperers and make sure the Scalia seat stays vacant until next January.

Many people who voted for you in 2010 did so with for the sole reason that would you be in a position to stop Obama on a matter such as this. If you abandon them they will certainly abandon you this fall.

Pat Toomey Stay Strong

William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 2-18-16

A giraffe’s tongue is 20 inches long. Yes Anthony, that means they can clean their own ear with it.

William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 2-18-16

Money Floats Around In Pa

Money Floats Around In Pa — By Leo Knepper

A couple of weeks ago, Sen. Scott Wagner pointed out the $129 million “Swiss Bank Account” operated by the Pittsburgh Public Schools. The massive cash reserve was brought to light by a report from the Auditor General just in time to avoid an unnecessary tax increase. It is reasonable and prudent for school districts to maintain a rainy day fund. However, Pennsylvania school districts are ready for a biblical flood. They have a combined $4 billion in reserves socked away, but that doesn’t prevent them from crying poverty at every opportunity.  Money Floats Around In Pa

There are other, more disturbing, examples of off the books pools of money that came to light during the budget “crisis”. Even in the absence of a budget, Governor Wolf managed to spend over $30 billion. This spending got the attention of several Representatives last year and what they found was eye-opening. One of the accounting tricks employed by the Governor was the use of waivers:

“Their digging uncovered that $2.7 billion in waivers, which is money left over from previous budget years, had been spent in the four months after the 2014-15 fiscal year ended at the end of June.”

As we enter another budget season, Representatives and Senators need to determine how much more money is floating around off the books. Money left over from previous budgets does not belong to government agencies, it belongs to the taxpayers. Having an accurate assessment of the amount of unspent, previously allocated funds could save taxpayers billions of dollars going forward and plug that “structural deficit” the Governor keeps mentioning.

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

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4G 5G smartphones -- Your smartphone is 4G? What does that mean? The "G" stands for generation.
Searching the globe to bring you interesting and enlightening trivia.

4G 5G smartphones — Your smartphone is 4G? What does that mean? The “G” stands for generation.

The first generation or 1G were the analog cellphones of 1983. 2G was digital and allowed for texting. 3G allows for internet access and 4G allows for wireless broadband connections.

5G is expected to come out next year and be between 10 and 100 times as fast as 4G.

And LTE? That stands for “long-term evolution.’

As of 2010 there were 5 billion mobile cellular subscriptions in the world. The Earth’s population is about 7 billion.

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Pennsylvanians Explain Presidential Candidacies

Pennsylvanians Explain Presidential Candidacies
Jim Babb of the Vote For No one Campaign

Pennsylvanians Explain Presidential Candidacies –Citizen participation is critical to the health of our republic and Bob Small of Delco Debates does more than his share to encourage it.

He even shows that it is possible to run for president without a multi-million dollar bank account.

On Sunday, Feb. 14, five men from Pennsylvania explained why they were running for the nation’s highest office during a two-hour forum sponsored by Delco Debates at Swarthmore Borough Hall. They were:

  • Jim Babb of Montgomery County from The Vote for No one Campaign
  • Bill French, a Democrat from Snyder County
  • Jim Hedges of Fulton County from the Prohibition Party.
  • Tom Irwin of Mercer County from The American Party
  • John Roy of Lehigh County from the Return to Christ Party

The moderator was Ken Krawchuk, who was the Libertarian Party candidate for Pennsylvania Governor in 1998 and 2002  and the author of Atlas Snubbed, a pastiche parody sequel to Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged.

Kudos again to Bob Small and Delco Debates and here is the the video of what happened:

Pennsylvanians Explain Presidential Candidacies