Dem Delaware County Hypocrisy

Some tidbits recently gleaned concerning this November’s battle for the Pennsylvania Legislature reveal that when it comes to hypocrisy the Keystone State’s Democrats take second place to no one.

The Democrats nominee to fill the 26th District Senate Seat being vacated by Republican Ted Erickson is John Kane, who is business manager of Plumber’s Local #690. Kane, gritty man of the people, has a taxable income of $277,000.

Sure is sweet to be a union official. He says he is not quitting if he should win the race and will keep the $80,000 salary that comes with the seat along with the other bennies.

That wouldn’t quite make him a one percenter but it would likely put him in the 2 percenter category, which is where he probably is now.

His opponent is Delaware County Councilman Tom McGarrigle, who grew up in Springfield, attended a public vocational high school and runs a well-liked garage.

Meanwhile, the D’s picked a full-blown one-percenter to challenge long-time incumbent Bill Adolph for the 165th District seat in the State House.

The candidate, Charles Hadley, is a retired venture capitalist from Radnor who apparently has a net worth of over $100 million.

If you want your freedom and don’t want to live in a land where you have to kiss the rings of the rich and connected vote Republican.

Dem Delaware County Hypocrisy

Dem Delaware County Hypocrisy

Springfield High School Project Town Halls

Regina Scheerer has sent us the schedule for the six town halls that will be held for the proposed Springfield High School (Pa.) project the cost estimate of which is $150 million.

The first meeting is 7 p.m., Oct. 16 at the Springfield High School Auditorium, 49 W Leamy Ave, Springfield, PA 19064.

The schedule of meetings can be found here.

Note if  state law is changed the cost will drop by $30 million over night.

Springfield High School Project Town Halls

Springfield High School Project Town Halls

Publicker Distillery At The Beginning

Many still remember the view of the  Publicker Distillery while crossing the Walt Whitman Bridge and its billboards for Old Hickory Bourbon and other products.

Others remember how the 40-acre site on Delaware Avenue in Philadelphia became a polluted Superfund scandal after it closed in 1982.

In its heyday in the 1950s, it was one of the giants of the liquor industry with a plant in Scotland producing Inver House Scotch, named for owner Simon Neuman’s Radnor home, and was the world’s biggest buyer of Cuban molasses.

The company got into the booze business in 1933 with the end of Prohibition.

Fortune magazine ran a optimistic story at the time about how Harry Publicker — founder and Neuman’s father-in-law — was going to shake up the booze business by making drinkable whiskey without aging it. One supposes they were right. Here is the link.

Publicker Distillery At The Beginning Old Hickory

Publicker Distillery At The Beginning

Help Samantha With Walkathon

Hello! I am excited to tell you that this year, my school, the Springfield Literacy Center, is holding a walk-a-thon fundraiser! On Friday, October 3rd, every child at my school will walk one lap around the field. Each child has been asked to raise money from family and friends to contribute to this fundraiser.  In the past, money gained through fundraising has been used for assemblies by Makin’ Music and The Franklin Institute, after school clubs, playground equipment and necessary supplies for our school.

Donating is simple and your contribution will help me be entered into raffles to earn great prizes! To donate online via Pay Pal simply go to www.ssdcougars.org/webpages/slchs/walkathon.cfm and follow the steps to donate.  You do not need a PayPal account to donate online.  If you prefer to send a check, please make the check payable to SLC Home & School and send it to the Springfield Literacy Center H & S at 210 W. Woodland Avenue, Springfield, PA  19064.  Please include my name on the memo line!

Thank you so much for your time and support.

Love,
Samantha Mazurick

 

 

Help Samantha With Walkathon

Help Samantha With Walkathon

Jet Pack Soldiers

If one was born in say, 1929, one could not be blamed for thinking that the Flash Gordon era has arrived.

Even Dick Tracy would even the new Apple Watch.

And then there is the new jet-powered backpacks cooked up at Arizona State University to help soldiers run faster. The goal is everyone to be able to do a four minute mile.

Hat tip Digg.com

Jet Pack Soldiers

Jet Pack Soldiers

HB 2461 Addresses Suicide Prevention

House Bill 2461 was introduced to enhance suicide prevention efforts across Pennsylvania, says State Rep. Jim Cox (R-129). This legislation, known as the Matt Adler Suicide Prevention Continuing Education Act, would require the State Board of Psychology and the State Board of Social Workers, Marriage and Family Therapists, and Professional Counselors to have at least one hour of continuing education in the assessment, treatment and management of suicide. The bill is in the House Professional Licensure Committee awaiting consideration.

This legislation enhances efforts by the House, which adopted Act 71 of 2014 to require school entities to adopt a youth suicide awareness and prevention policy, and require educators in Pennsylvania’s public and charter schools who teach sixth through 12th grade to receive four hours of training on suicide prevention every five years.

According to the Centers for Disease Control, more than 39,000 Americans end their own lives, nearly 500,000 people are treated in U.S. emergency departments for self-inflicted injuries, and 1 million adults report making a suicide attempt. Many more people struggle with thoughts of suicide.

Sept. 10 marked World Suicide Prevention Day to raise awareness of this serious public health problem that affects people of all ages.

HB 2461 Addresses Suicide Prevention

HB 2461 Addresses Suicide Prevention

Bangkok Lock Pick Demonstrated

Car thieves in Bangkok have found the world’s their oyster. They have apparently developed a lock pick that can defeat modern car doors and ignitions.

What ingenuity. It kind of puts you between despair and ecstasy.  Can the car makers foil them? It’s the ultimate test of cerebral fitness.

Here it is being demonstrated

 

Hat tip Digg

Bangkok Lock Pick Demonstrated
Bangkok Lock Pick Demonstrated

 

Armed Burglars Terrorize Chesco

Tom Flocco sent a link to a report that residents of Chester County have been the victim of armed daylight burglaries.

The perpetrators are as a man in his early 20’s with tattoos on his upper arms wearing a short sleeve shirt and denim cargo shorts; a man in his early 20’s with tattoos on his arms wearing similar clothing to the first suspect; and a man with dark hair and a grey bandana covering his face dressed in a light grey t-shirt and dark pants.

Those with information should call the Pennsylvania State Police Avondale Barracks at 610-268-2022.

Armed Burglars Terrorize Chesco
Armed Burglars Terrorize Chesco

Cruz Spanks Franken

Forty-nine Democrats in the U.S. Senate led by former Saturday Night Live comedy writer Al Franken of Minnesota have proposed a Constitutional amendment that would declare that First Amendment speech protection does not apply to corporations.

These brilliant (that’s sarcasm) thinkers in seeking to restrict speech just for those of whom they disapprove failed to account for the reality that just about all our news and entertainment outlets are corporations.

Texas Republican Senator Ted Cruz spanks Franken et al as he points out that those who write and produce Saturday Night Live — which is the property of NBC which is owned by Philadelphia-based Comcast CORPORATION — could conceivably face jail time for their satirical sketches if this Democrat amendment should pass.

He does it in a rather presidential fashion too.

Here is the C-Span clip

 

Cruz Spanks Franken

Cruz Spanks Franken

Hat tip Walter Hudson at PJMedia.com

11 Ways You Know You Live In A Country Run By Idiots

11 Ways You Know You Live In A Country Run By Idiots

1. If you can get arrested for hunting or fishing without a license, but not for being in the country illegally, you live in a country run by idiots.

2. If you have to get your parents’ permission to go on a field trip or take an aspirin in school, but not to get an abortion, you live in a country run by idiots.

3. If you have to show identification to board an airplane, cash a check, buy liquor or check out a library book, but not to vote on who runs the government, you live in a country run by idiots.

4. If the government wants to ban stable, law-abiding citizens from owning gun magazines with more than ten rounds, but gives 20 F-16 fighter jets to the crazy leaders in Egypt, you live in a country run by idiots.

5. If, in the largest city, you can buy two 16-ounce sodas, but not a 24-ounce soda because 24-ounces of a sugary drink might make you fat, you live in a country run by idiots.

6. If an 80-year-old woman can be stripped searched by the TSA but a woman in a hijab is only subject to having her neck and head searched, you live in a country run by idiots.

7. If your government believes that the best way to eradicate trillions of dollars of debt is to spend trillions more, you live in a country run by idiots.

8. If a seven year old boy can be thrown out of grade school for saying his teacher’s “cute,” but hosting a sexual exploration or diversity class in grade school is perfectly acceptable, you live in a country run by idiots.

9. If hard work and success are met with higher taxes and more government intrusion, while not working is rewarded with EBT cards, WIC checks, Medicaid, subsidized housing and free cell phones, you live in a country run by idiots.

10. If the government’s plan for getting people back to work is to incentivize NOT working, with 99 weeks of unemployment checks and no requirement to prove they applied but can’t find work, you live in a country run by idiots.

11. If being stripped of the ability to defend yourself makes you more “safe” according to the government, you live in a country run by idiots.

Hat tips  Zero Hedge Fund and Fellowship of the Minds

 

11 Ways You Know You Live In A Country Run Buy Idiots