A fellow has figured out a way to use a Shop Vac to remove yellow jackets from the cracks in his porch ceiling and has put a demonstration of it on YouTube. He says it takes about four hours. He starts the machine from a good ways off by putting the plug in the socket and he doesn’t stick around while it does its job.
Shop Vac Vs Yellow Jackets
He says the trick is to put a bit of soapy water in the bucket.
His wife thinks it’s stupid.
But, then, that was before he got 114,000 views.
Our vote is to go the chemical route. His way does make interesting watching, though.
Today, March 31, is the deadline for property taxes to be paid on 62,000 Detroit homes else they will be owned by the county, in this case the County of Wayne, Michigan.
Granted only 18,000 of the delinquent homes are occupied but assuming a three-person household that’s about 8 percent of the city’s population which is now down to 688,701. In 1950, it was touching 2 million and Detroit was considered one of the world’s great cities.
What happened? Democrats. Motown was run by Republicans in its glory day up until 1962.
Property taxes, of course, are a local tax used to fund services such as police, schools, and spa massages for the mayor.
For what it’s worth, Detroit public service retirees expecting a stable financial future have already taken a big hit. It’s something Pennsylvania public workers ought to recognize in working to resolved this state’s existing crisis. In any battle between ink on paper and reality, reality wins.
Joanne Yurchak has sent us the following for those parents wishing to opt-out of the PSSA and/or Keystone exams:
It is well known that the only reason available for parents to opt their children out of the PSSA’s and/or the Keystone exams is if they find that the test(s) are in conflict with their religious beliefs. In order to establish this, the parent has to follow a specified procedure that involves (1) contacting the school administrator; (2) viewing the test; (3) signing a confidentiality agreement; and finally, (4)notifying the district Superintendent that you are opting out your child because of religious beliefs. The opt-out procedure is detailed on the web site: http://optoutpa.blogspot.com/2014/08/how-to-opt-out-of-pssa-and-keystone.html.
The parent is NOT required to note any specific religion or specific objections. In fact, a reputable attorney associated with legislators in Harrisburg has said that it is ILLEGAL for districts to demand to know specific religious objections and for them to “validate” other people’s religions.
Unfortunately, there are many school districts who are misinforming parents as to proper procedures for opting out. Many are telling them that they have to cite specific religious reasons for opting out, while others are telling the parents that they must explain why specific problems on the tests conflict with their religious beliefs. The latter instruction could actually put parents in legal jeopardy since a part of the test-viewing procedure requires that parents sign a confidentiality agreement promising that they will not divulge the contents of the test to anyone!
Adams introduced his work saying he was motivated by an exhibition he saw in Paris concerning the legendary Islamic queen Scheherazade. If you don’t know the story, it concerns an Islamic Persian king who upon marrying a new wife would behead the old one. He had gone through a thousand women by the time he got to Scheherazade.
Scheherazade, of course, had a plan. Before her beheading, she asked to bid farewell to her sister. The king consented and during her farewell she told the sister a story which the king overheard. She stopped in the middle as dawn was breaking and the king asked her to continue. She said should couldn’t as it was time for her beheading. The king postponed the execution for a day so she could finish it for him. She did the next night but started another which again stopped in the middle before dawn. So the king again postponed things and this went on for 1,001 nights and become the inspiration for Bugs Bunny cartoons and Walt Disney movies.
Anyway by the time the stories were finished, the king had fallen in love with Scheherazade and she lived happily ever after with a serial killer.
Adams said that after seeing the exhibit he read One Thousand and One Arabian Nights and was appalled by “casual brutality toward women” it depicted. During this time, he also began reading of the treatment of women in various third-world Islamic-influenced places such as Egypt and Afghanistan.
So he explained this to his audience at his work’s premier, and then for some bizarre reason felt obliged to add regarding the oppression of women: “find it on Rush Limbaugh.”
This sanctimonious twit compared Rush Limbaugh to people who kill girls because they had been raped and women because they had affairs.
There is nothing wrong with disagreeing with Limbaugh. There is nothing wrong with calling Rush a blowhard. But bearing false witness is a big wrong and that’s what Adams did.
We seriously doubt that the has every listened to Limbaugh live and in any sort of context but is merely parroting the conventional wisdom of the his insular crowd.
What’s even sicker is the reaction of his crowd which gave a long round of applause to the slander.
In 2009, Limbaugh was part of a group that was attempting to buy the St. Louis Rams football team. The old media reported that he said on his radio show that James Earl Ray deserved a medal for the murder of Martin Luther King Jr. and that slavery was beneficial. The quotes were fabricated but still placed in his Wikipedia biography as fact. Those who know of the scrutiny Limbaugh faces for every word he utters — which one would reasonably think is everyone in professional journalism — would reject the quotes out of hand. Yet they were reported as true and hence ended his chance at becoming a team owner.
All decent people have a responsibility to defend those being slandered not just if but especially if they disagree with them. Further, all intelligent people should be suspicious of those who use slander to further a political cause.
What Adams and his crowd did was shameful.
For what it’s worth, Wiki, in the latest editing of Rush’s bio, does not even mention the Rams incident.
For those interested in a first-hand take, Rush can be heard in the Philadelphia area from noon to 3 p.m. on WPHT 1210 AM or on the web here.
Gene Ontjes, the manager at the Chick-fil-A in Springfield, Pa., happily directs the overwhelming traffic at the drive-through on Aug. 1, 2012.
A national appreciation day was held, Aug. 1, 2012, for the Chick-fil-A restaurant chain after leftist activists targeted it because it supported Christian causes and a principle in the business expressed disapproval of gay marriage.
Well, the chain is known for giving free water to those who ask for it so one bright progressive figured he would drive up, ask for one. He would then video his harangue at the worker who brought it to him, and put it on the world wide web.
That bright progressive is Adam Mark Smith, who at the time held a $200,000 a year job — that’s almost a 1-percenter considering the $1 million he had in stock options– as CFO of Vante, a medical device manufacturer.
The bad vibes created by his obnoxious performance caused Vante to send him on his way. Smith has since been unable to find another job. He says he has had to sell his home and that he and his family are now living in an RV.
Hey, Adam, move it down by the river and give inspirational talks. Better yet, get a job a Chick-fil-A. It would teach you things, like empathy, decency, humility, and, of course, tolerance.
Indiana Gov. Mike Pence signed into law, March 26, the Indiana Religious Freedom Restoration Act and the usual suspects that bow before the altar of political correctness howled.
The White House said “it doesn’t seem like a step of equality and justice and liberty”.
So what does this law do? It establishes a legal test for judges to use when deciding whether or not a government act goes too far in burdening someone’s exercise of religion.
The law is motivated by instances were religious business-owners were sued under anti-discrimination laws for being unwilling to espouse views praising homosexuality in violation of the tenets of their faith.
For those objecting to this law ask yourself if you would condemn a black baker for refusing to bake a cake for a KKK chapter that celebrated lynching. How about a gay caterer refusing to hang a sign saying “God hates gay” at a function for the Westboro Baptist Church?
Unfair discrimination is refusing to sell the kind of jelly doughnut just sold to the black guy to the gay guy next in line. It’s not refusing to make a special rainbow jelly doughnut for the gay guy.
He says it takes about four hours. He starts the machine from a good ways off by putting the plug in the socket and he doesn’t stick around while it does its job.
