News, Entertainment, Enlightenment
Former Congressman and Obamacare supporter Joe Sestak is expected to announce tomorrow, March 5, that he will be seeking the Pennsylvania Senate seat held by the very competent Republican Pat Toomey.
Here is the campaign photo that is being passed around Facebook.
Apparently his gimmick is going to be a ventriloquist act where he has a conversation with a small dog.
William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 3-2-15
The world’s most expensive coffee is made with Siamese elephant dung.
Democrat Gov. Tom Wolf, a man bought and paid for by the teachers unions, stripped Bill Green of his chairmanship of the Philadelphia School Reform Commission, Sunday night, March 1. Why? Because Green heard the pleas of Philly parents and allowed for five new charter schools.
This was in defiance of Wolf and the unions who wanted no new ones.
Of the school district’s, 206,567 pupils, 64,301 now attend charter schools.
There is a waiting list of thousands more that has been estimated at 40,000.
The objection of Wolf and his cronies is that the charter school’s take money from the Philadelphia School District. The answer to this is that the Philadelphia School District prevents parents from sending their children to schools where they won’t be pushed around, threatened, mocked for “acting white” and actually get an education.
When are the residents of Philadelphia going to wake up to the reality that the Democrat Party is anything but their friend?
There is an opportunity here for the Republicans.
Sam Priestley of England had a goal of going from a novice to one of his country’s top 250 table tennis players so every day of 2014 he practiced or played and nearly every day his progress was recorded by coach Ben Larcombe as part of the Expert in a Year Challenge.
While Sam didn’t quite make the top 250 he did become a tournament player.
Below is the little documentary Larcombe produced.
William Lawrence Sr Omnbit 2-28-15
Loretta Lynn, the country singer, became a grandmother at age 29.
Gov. Tom Wolf is proposing cutting Pennsylvania’s corporate tax in half — 9.99 percent to 4.99 percent on net income — by 2018.
It’s probably a good thing. Comcast will certainly appreciate it.
And what are corporations but entities created by a legal process? Good lawyers and accountants can minimize net income by creating marketing and administrative expenses that would other otherwise not be considered. These invariably benefit the lifestyles of those running the corporation.
So good for Wolf.
But we kind of wonder about his priorities. Pennsylvania has the highest gas tax in the nation — thank you Tom Corbett. It has an extremely burdensome property tax, which puts disproportionate pain on the elderly and unemployed, which to Wolf’s credit he says he wants to address. It also has a sales tax, which, while on the low end does not account for the reality that the most populated part of the state is a half-hour ride from tax-free Delaware.
The income tax is also on the low end, but that is something Wolf wants to raise.
Overall, tax burden for a resident of Pennsylvania is in the nation’s to 10.
Yet, the first thing Wolf talks about is cutting the corporate tax.
The ease of living in Pennsylvania does not look like it will improve.
Unless you are a corporation.
William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 2-27-15
Q — Whose home was Longwood and where was it?
A– It was the name of Napoleon’s residence on Saint Helena
Chris Freind’s column Vaccination Mandates Are Necessary is getting negative feedback on Twitter. Young robot redhead trying to be creative? That’s cold.
Anyway, a friend has sent us the other side regarding why vaccinations should not be mandated.
Many may think something calling itself Off The Grid News should be an object of mirth rather than be taken seriously but it is a huge mistake to dismiss it and similar sites, and fail to discount their influence.
The anti-vaxxer movement should be proof enough of that.
Regarding vaccinations, the principles that should be followed are freedom, honesty and information not force, intimidation and mocking.
It is quite appropriate for a hospital to require its workers to be vaccinated. If one wishes not to be vaccinated one has the freedom not to work there.
It is also appropriate for a public school to require its pupils be vaccinated — providing opportunities are provided for children whose parents wish them not to be. Cyber-charter schools — and they exist in Pennsylvania — would be one example. Property tax exemptions for parents who home school their children works as well. And funding via vouchers for like-minded parents who want to have communal schools without a vaccination mandate also solves the problem.
It should be noted that not mandating vaccinations is not banning them. If people trust the information they get they will act on it. The Amish are noted for their suspicions of modern ways. Did you know that most of the Amish population –63 percent — is vaccinated?
Seattle-based Modumetal has created a nanolaminated alloy that is stronger and lighter than steel, and is being tested in oil fields, according to MIT Technology Review.
The company’s founders are physicist Christina Lomasney, chemical engineer John Whitaker, and mechanical engineer Leslie Collinson.
Modumetal says its product is 10 times stronger than existing steel and much more resistant to corrosion.
A big plot point in Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged concerns Rearden metal, a radical alloy lighter and stronger than steel.
It looks like it’s now here and just in time for 2016 which is when the fictional alloy was to come to be.