Mondelez Workers Failed By Union

Mondelez Workers Failed By UnionMondelez, the Illinois food giant that was spun off of Kraft Foods Inc. in  2012  shut its bakery at Roosevelt Boulevard and Byberry Road last week reported today’s (July 1) Philadelphia Inquirer.

So 350 workers union workers are out of work along with the  hundreds of drivers who shipped its products under the Nabisco, Standard Brands and Kraft corporate labels.

The suspicion is that the products will now be made at a government-subsidized, largely-automated, multimillion-dollar facility in Monterey, Mexico, where the pay is not $24 per hour and benefits.

Wonder when the union rank and file is going to wake up to the reality that the money automatically deducted from their paychecks is used to lobby for causes that are anything but in their interests.

Wonder when it is is going to dawn on them that the most successful political organizations are those whose officers are paid with dues collected voluntarily and not automatically.

Wonder when it’s going to dawn on them that the power to withhold a contribution is a pretty strong bargaining chip.

Mondelez Workers Failed By Union

William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 7-1-15

William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 7-1-15 Quintilis was the original name for this time of year. It means fifth in Latin and was the fifth month on the Roman calendar. Mark Antony, though, wanted to honor his recently deceased friend so he had Quintilis -- which frankly had not made sense as a name for about 700 years as King Numa Pompilius added Januarius and Februarius to the calendar shortly after it was designed -- renamed Iulius which we know as July.

Quintilis was the original name for this time of year. It means fifth in Latin and was the fifth month on the Roman calendar. Mark Antony, though, wanted to honor his recently deceased friend so he had Quintilis — which frankly had not made sense as a name for about 700 years as King Numa Pompilius added Januarius and Februarius to the calendar shortly after it was designed — renamed Iulius which we know as July.

 

Ted Cruz Katie Couric Interview

Ted Cruz Katie Couric Interview -- Ted Cruz Katie Couric Interview -- Ted Cruz did a magnificent job in his June 29 Yahoo!News interview with Katie Couric. You can see it below. Ted Cruz did a magnificent job in his June 29 Yahoo!News interview with Katie Couric. You can see it below. Ted Cruz did a magnificent job in his June 29 Yahoo!News interview with Katie Couric. You can see it belowTed Cruz did a magnificent job in his June 29 Yahoo!News interview with Katie Couric. It’s kind of nice to see Katie not edit things out of context.

You can see it below:

Hat tip Breitbart.copm

Ted Cruz Katie Couric Interview

William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 6-30-15

William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 6-30-15 The moa was a 12-foot-tall bird that lived in New Zealand. Maori found them tasty when they arrived on the islands around 1280. The moa were extinct by 1440. William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 6-30-15 William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 6-30-15 William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 6-30-15
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The moa was a 12-foot-tall bird that lived in New Zealand. Maori found them tasty when they arrived on the islands around 1280. The moa were extinct by 1440.

The moa was a 12-foot-tall bird

Papal Philadelphia Itinerary

Papal Philadelphia ItineraryA comprehensive itinerary for Pope Francis’s visit to Philadelphia, Sept. 26-27 has been announced:

Saturday, Sept.  26
Morning
  • Atlantic Aviation: Private Arrival.
  • The Cathedral Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul: Mass Celebrating the Archdiocese of Philadelphia.
Afternoon
  • Saint Charles Borromeo Seminary: Greeting of the Holy Father by the Seminarians.
  • Independence Hall: (Outdoor; Overlooking Independence Mall) “We Hold These Truths…”
  • Address by Pope Francis (Expected Themes: Religious Liberty and Immigration).
  • The Benjamin Franklin Parkway: Evening: The Festival of Families
    Sunday, Sept.  27.
Morning
  • Saint Martin’s Chapel at Saint Charles Borromeo Seminary:
  • Address to Cardinals + Bishops attending World Meeting of Families – Philadelphia 2015.
  • Curran-Fromhold Correctional Facility: Visit with Prisoners and Select Families.
Afternoon
  • The Benjamin Franklin Parkway: The Papal Mass (Projected: 4 p.m. EST).
Evening
  • A Celebration of World Meeting of Families – Philadelphia 2015 Supporters + Volunteers:
  • Atlantic Aviation: Official Departure Ceremony.

Hat tip John Jushchyshyn

Papal Philadelphia Itinerary

William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 6-29-15

William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 6-29-15

John as in policeman comes from an Anglicization of the French “gendarme.” John as in prostitute’s customer came from the pseudonym many of them used.

Pope Francis Wisdom Shines

Conservatives like to pile on Pope Francis — sometimes even we do too — but when he’s right, he’s right and he is right about turning “capitalism” into some kind of idol. Pope Francis Wisdom Shines

Here are 37 American businesses that wildly celebrated Friday’s (June 26) nonsensical  5-4 ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court forbidding states to restrict a marriage to one man and one woman.

Leave aside that the ruling isn’t going to help anyone’s bottom line. Leave aside that it further endangers our already endangered Social Security program. Leave aside it complicates corporate human resources divisions and increases the cost of benefits programs.

It was hip and gives the rich, spoiled, never-bloodied ones who run corporate America to  shout “Let us break their chains and throw off their shackles.”

The recognition that homosexuality is a sin is a rather small part of the Bible and, despite what some Democrats claim, God does not hate gays. Rejecting that one part, though, gives license to reject the whole thing.

Taking care of the poor and loving your neighbor for examples.

Victor David Hanson, a week ago, published a heartbreaking column on PJMedia.com describing how the water crisis and environmental fanaticism are causing people to literally abandon their homes in the working class interior of California while the  gated-community hipsters in Silicon Valley and Hollywood enjoy rich lawns and expansive carbon footprints.

The people who run America’s institutions whether business, academic or political truly don’t care about gays as individuals unless that particular gay can be of some benefit to them, and they don’t care about non-gays either.

So kudos Pope Francis for having the insight to spell it out.

And what is the Pope’s position on gay marriage? It’s pretty clear.

“The family is also threatened by growing efforts on the part of some to redefine the very institution of marriage,” he says about it. “As you know, these realities are increasingly under attack from powerful forces which threaten to disfigure God’s plan for creation and betray the very values which have inspired and shaped all that is best in your culture.”

Pope Francis Wisdom Shines

Tom Wolf Fiddles While Pensions Explode

By Scott WagnerTom Wolf Fiddles While Pensions Explode
I am writing to respond to the June 25 Op-ed from Frances Wolf, first lady of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

It’s unfortunate that nearly a half-year after his inauguration Gov. Tom Wolf remains in campaign mode, crisscrossing the state with Mrs. Wolf and others making absurd claims about education spending.

Mrs. Wolf writes that King Elementary school, part of the Lancaster Area School District, has a library filled with 30-year-old textbooks and Mrs. Wolf is quoted saying, “They don’t have the funds to replace them with updated versions.” She leads readers to believe it’s the result of “devastating cuts” in state funding.

A quick check by my office reveals that the school district is sitting on a funding balance of $15.24 million.

And while the governor promises a windfall of new spending to help schools, he ducks action on the number one cause of school cutbacks and property tax hikes: skyrocketing pension costs.

That same school district the First Lady visited will see their pension costs go up by $4 million in 2016, which alone wipes out all of the promised new funding from the governor.

The fact is, Pennsylvania spends more on schools today than it ever has in the history of the Commonwealth, $27.4 billion.

That’s more than all but five other states in the nation.  Pennsylvania is ranked 12th in per-pupil spending, at around $15,000, while the U.S. average is $11,300.

Obviously, if commitment to education was measured by dollars spent, Pennsylvania is among the most committed states in America.

But, if we measure that commitment by reining in the skyrocketing costs that are placing a crushing burden on schools, such as pensions and unchecked union dominance, then we have work to do.

Wolf wants to raise taxes – personal income taxes, sales taxes and impose a natural gas extraction tax. But in seeking his tax hikes, he should get off the campaign trail and make an honest appeal for his priorities.

State Sen. Scott Wagner, a Republican, represents the York County-based 28th District.

Tom Wolf Fiddles While Pensions Explode

Honesty Highest Political Value

By Father Frank Pavone Honesty Highest Political Value

As I point out in my new book, Abolishing Abortion (due in August from Thomas Nelson/HarperCollins), there is a profound blind spot in the views and policies advocated by many public officials regarding the unborn. Hillary Clinton tops the blindness list. Her attitude toward children in the womb is that they are not welcome to enjoy the basic constitutional protection our nation affords to everyone else’s life.

But then again, Hillary is seeking her party’s nomination for president, and the Democratic Party is affected by the same blind spot so severely that it’s not imaginable that anyone can seriously seek that party’s nomination without being blind to the children in the womb.

Now some will say that, even in political debate, we need to be nice. Particularly in church circles, as we go into the 2016 political cycle, the pleas for ‘civility’ will probably be louder than the pleas for the children in the womb.

But the fact is that civility is not the highest virtue in political discourse. Honesty is. This doesn’t imply that we need to be mean or coarse. But it does imply that when there’s a holocaust going on around us, and an entire political party not only denies it but fosters it, we can’t sit back and pretend that the main thing that matters is that we be nice and non-partisan. Someone has to start sounding the alarm, and it might as well be us.

Interestingly, Cecile Richards, who heads up the largest abortion business in the world (Planned Parenthood), recently made a public call for the need to talk about abortion. Yet the pro-life movement has been making the same call and engaging in the very same effort for decades. What makes the abortion supporters all of a sudden feel the need to talk about abortion? They have never done so before, and they still don’t. All their talks in favor of “abortion rights” speak not about abortion but about choice, freedom, women’s health, constitutional rights, etc. But not once, neither in Cecile Richards’ comments nor in speeches by President Obama or any other abortion supporters will you ever find a description of the abortion procedure.

And when Sen. Rand Paul recently called on Debbie Wasserman Schultz, the head of the Democratic Party, to answer a question as to whether she thinks it’s okay to abort a baby at 7 pounds in the womb, she failed to directly answer the question. Again, they do not want to talk about abortion; they only want to pretend to be talking about abortion.

The blind spot continues. It is up to us to call for honesty as the highest virtue in political discourse. With legislative proposals now underway to protect children from 20 weeks forward and to protect them from dismemberment abortion, it is a fair and urgent question to ask any public official or any abortion supporter in any profession why dismembering children in the womb should continue to be permitted in our nation.

Frank Pavone is national director of Priests for Life. One can pre-order his  book, Abolishing Abortion, at Amazon or Barnes and Noble.

Honesty Highest Political Value

William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 6-27-15

William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 6-27-15

Lenoid Rogozov was the surgeon on a 12-member Russian Antarctic expedition in 1961. He came down with appendicitis. He removed the offending organ himself using mirrors.