The 2015 autumnal equinox is right now 4:21 a.m., Sept. 23 according to the Old Farmer’s Almanac as the sun crosses the celestial equator. Fall has arrived in the Northern Hemisphere, and the days are now shorter than the nights and will continue to be so until the spring equinox.
The celestial equator is a circle concentric with the actual equator that extends infinitely to space. As the Earth has a 23 degree tilt the the northern half tilts towards the Sun during half its orbit and away the other half. The equinoxes occur when tilt switches.
William Penn didn’t read the documents he signed. An evil fellow Quaker named Philip Ford was his business manager. He had him sign a document that transferred ownership of Pennsylvania to himself. He then started charging Penn rent, which he didn’t pay. When Ford died, his wife threw Penn in debtors prison. The powers that be thought that that was too low, freed him and gave him the colony back.
CAP will be among the participants and will be introducing The Thomas J. Smith Recruitment Initiative in honor of the 2012 U.S. Senate candidate whose primary victory shook the state Republican establishment.
The event is free and open to the public. Doors open at 4 p.m. and the event begins at 5:30.
Entertainment will be provided by country singer Aaron Tippin. The keynote speaker will be Senator Scott Wagner.
Where is Gunnbjarnarsker? That is Greenland as that is what it’s discoverer, Gunnbjørn Ulfsson, called it when he found it in 930 AD. It means Gunnbjørn skerries, which are small rocky islands. Eric the Red was the guy who made the first settlement there. He renamed it Greenland to entice suckers.
Holy Myrrh-Bearers Eastern Catholic Church, 900 Fairview Road, Swarthmore, PA, 19081 is having its first kielbasi sale. Fully cooked, ready-to-eat rings will be available 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., today, Sept. 19 at the church. Pre-ordering is not necessary.
The church was consecrated April 18 and held its first Mass the next day.
Free the money, Gov. Wolf. Think of the children and not your ego.
This email came from State Sen. Scott Wagner. At his request we are promoting the article below concerning the Republican stopgap budget:
Yesterday I had the opportunity to sit down with ABC27’s Dennis Owens to share my position on Governor Wolf’s refusal to support a stopgap budget that would continue to fund various agencies throughout the state that many people depend on.
Our tax dollars continue to be collected and those dollars are just sitting in the State bank account in Harrisburg.
In the private sector business world, cash flow is the oxygen that every business needs, and the state of Pennsylvania is enjoying our tax dollars flowing into the state bank account – Harrisburg is getting a continuous flow of oxygen.
There is plenty of money that could be released to these agencies that are in need but Governor Wolf is refusing to help them.
Below is the full article.
Please forward this to your friends.
Thank you,
Scott Wagner
HARRISBURG, Pa. (WHTM) – Mount Wagner has been quiet for several weeks.
On Thursday, it erupted as brash and outspoken Senator Scott Wagner (R-York) ripped Governor Tom Wolf (D) over the 79-day budget impasse.
Wagner supports the stopgap budget that the GOP Senate is in the process of passing. It would free up money for schools and social service agencies while the broader negotiations continue.
To make his point, Wagner showed a pay stub from one of his employees and highlighted the line where state taxes were deducted. He also showed the receipt from a truck purchase, this time highlighting the line where state sales taxes were collected.
“That money is going into the bank account of the state of Pennsylvania and its sitting there,” Wagner said. “There is plenty of money sitting in a bank account right now that we could release to the agencies that need money.”
The collection of tax dollars continues, Wagner reasons, so why shouldn’t the state’s disbursement of tax dollars?
On Wednesday, the normally even-tempered Governor Wolf blasted the Republican stopgap tactic, calling it a gimmick.
“I’m against the stopgap,” Wolf said in perhaps his most emotional tone since becoming governor. “They’re poking me in the eye again. They want to see how hard they can push me. They can’t.”
But that won’t stop Wagner from trying. He has adorned his Capitol office with several anti-Wolf poster-sized signs that are critical of the governor’s leadership.
“I want the message to be loud and clear to the people out there who depend on the money from the state, those agencies. You need to get Governor Wolf’s cell phone number and his address and start picking on him. Stop picking on me. Stop picking on my fellow senators. Governor Wolf deserves all the blame for this, what’s going on, pure and simple. Don’t blame me.”
Wolf and Democrats call the Republican stopgap a gimmick that gives some money, but not nearly enough money to schools and social services
“This is the most cynical response I have yet to see in politics,” Wolf said. “This is ridiculous. This is what the people of Pennsylvania hate about Pennsylvania politics.”
But York County apparently can’t get enough of Wagner, the self-funded outsider unafraid to speak his mind. He could be Pennsylvania’s version of GOP presidential front-runner Donald Trump, though Wagner quickly notes the differences.
“He (Trump) talks a lot about himself. I don’t think he has really any class,” Wagner said.
“Donald’s obviously stirring things up, but I think I have better hair.”
The school year is less than a month old, but there are already two districts where teachers are on strike. There also are at least two more districts were teachers have indicated they’d walk out by mid-October. Teachers from Shamokin and Line Mountain Areas are out of the classroom. In both cases, the teachers’ unions are demanding more.
The PSEA negotiator at both school districts is Mark McDade, who makes over $100,000 per year. The situation was neatly summed up in a letter from the Line Mountain School Board:
“It is apparent, by the Association’s last proposal, that the Association has no desire to settle these negotiations . . . Based on McDade’s leadership of 5 other local Teachers’ Unions toward strikes, regardless of how much they are being offered, it is obvious they just want more!”
In Shamokin Area, the School Board offered teachers $9,000 in salary increases over the next three three school years. The Line Mountain School Board was even more generous. Some teachers there would have seen their salaries increase by over $17,000 by 2020. Higher salaries also mean higher pensions. A multi-billion dollar funding shortfall in the pension system means taxpayers all over the state will be picking up those costs.
Pennsylvania is one of only 13 states where teachers may hold students’ education hostage to extract a higher salary and better benefits than the taxpayers who are covering the tab. We also lead the nation in teachers’ strikes. It would appear we are on track to keep that title.
The 2015 autumnal equinox is right now 4:21 a.m., Sept. 23 according to the Old Farmer’s Almanac as the sun crosses the celestial equator. Fall has arrived in the Northern Hemisphere, and the days are now shorter than the nights and will continue to be so until the spring equinox.
