Lara Witt of the Philadelphia Daily News has a story concerning the arrest of former Temple University football star Matt Brown on human trafficking charges.
Brown, 25, allegedly received money for procuring girls ages 14, 16 and 17 for sex.
He was arrested in Baltimore.
At Temple, Brown was a kick return specialist and the Big East Conference’s special team player of the year in 2012. He signed a contract with the NFL’s Tampa Bay Buccaneers the next year but was released.
Jeffrey Epstein, billionaire with private island.
Ms. Witt notes that human trafficking i.e. slavery generates $32 billion per year and involves tens of millions of people.
Presidential buddy.
We’d just like to point out that small fish like Brown are not the real problem. The real problem is billionaires with private islands and their presidential buddies.
Joe Ball, president of American News Service, has sent us this personal experience memory of an advertising-related contact with Philadelphia Eagles legend Chuck Bednarik who died March 21:
As owner of a small advertising agency in the early 1960’s one of my clients was Cherry-Levis, manufacturers of the spicy “Slim Jim” meat sticks.
I suggested to owner Al Levis, now also deceased, that he use Chuck Bednarik in his marketing.
He agreed- -on the basis that Mr. Bednarik would be paid with company products.
The arrangement was he would receive all the products he could carry on one trip out of the warehouse.
Mr. Bednarik agreed.
In my mind/memory I can still see him leaving the warehouse with huge cartons of Slim Jim’s on each shoulder and placing them in the trunk of his car.
Our staff hard at work investigating tales of the ancient internet.
The warning regarding #90 that has been circulating since the dawn of the world wide web remains with us.
It contains a nugget of truth but it doesn’t effect most telephones including cellphones.
Here is the claim we have been asked to investigate by Judy M.
90# on your telephone I dialed ‘0’ to check this out, and the operator confirmed that this was correct, so please pass it on.. (l also checked out snopes.com and truthorfiction.com This is true, and also applies to cell phones!) PASS ON TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW I received a telephone call last evening from an individual identifying himself as an AT&T Service Technician (could also be Telus) who was conducting a test on the telephone lines. He stated that to complete the test I should touch nine (9), zero (0), the pound sign (#), and then hang up. Luckily, I was suspicious and refused. Upon contacting the telephone company, I was informed that by pushing 90#, you give the requesting individual full access to your telephone line, which enables them to place long distance calls billed to your home phone number. I was further informed that this scam has been originating from many local jails/prisons. DO NOT press 90# for ANYONE… After checking with Verizon they also said it was true, so do not dial 90# for anyone !!!!! PLEASE HIT THAT FORWARD BUTTON AND PASS THIS ON TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW!!!
Farmers feed cows magnets. Magnets sit in the stomachs and attract all the small sharp metal objects cows swallow since they don’t chew. It keeps the small bits of metal from doing real damage. How do you know if a cow already has a magnet? Check it with a compass.
Sen. Don White, who is brilliantly illustrating the absurdity of automatic payroll deductions for political causes.
Pennsylvania State Sen. Don White (R-41) is circulating a memo among his Harrisburg peers proposing that money be automatically be deducted from the paychecks of senate staffers and placed directly in the coffers of the campaign committees respective parties.
Some are expressing outrage, OUTRAGE, we say.
Which is kind of White’s point. He does not want this — seriously or not. His goal is to illustrate that the remarkably unfair, authoritarian, banana republic policy he is suggesting is no different than what is in place regarding automatic payroll deductions for members of Pennsylvania public employee unions, whose leaders then use the money to support political candidates who more often than not proponents of policies in direct conflict with the true interest of those in private labor force
Really, is shutting down refineries and mines, and importing cheap Mexican labor in the interest of Pennsylvania workers? Well, that’s what the candidates that get the public union money support.
So how about it Sen. Tom McGarrigle? Are you getting behind Don White’s plan? Doesn’t not having such a law deprive choice from workers who want a (political party) with an effective political voice.
State Rep. Russ Diamond (R-102) was the last person to testify before the State House Appropriations Committee concerning this year’s Pennsylvania budget.
“I just want to remind you as we go forward that every dollar we spend here is a dollar a hard-working Pennsylvanian first had to earn. We are talking about the dollars of truck drivers who spend maybe days, weeks away from their homes providing for their children, a single mom who works two jobs, the garbage man who risks his life and limb every day jumping up and down on the truck.”
Diamond is a truck driver in real life.
Here is his short speech. Springfield’s Bill Adolph makes a quick cameo.
You’re a tad overweight so you go on diet and drop a few inches from your waistline. Eighty-four percent of the fat was exhaled as CO2 and 16 percent was excreted as water.
Bob Guzzardi, whose case was cited by Delaware County Common Pleas Court Judge James Proud in removing three Democrats from the Delaware County Council Primary ballot.
Jack Evans of Norwood, Richard Womack of Darby Township, and Christine Reuther of Wallingford were removed from the Delaware County Council (Pa) Democrat primary ballot for failing to file the proper report with the proper bureaucrat.
The three filed statements of financial disclosure with the Board of Elections but failed to provide a copy to the County Clerk.
Common Pleas Court Judge James Proud said because of that “no ballot for you”.
Proud cited the infamous Bob Guzzardi ruling handed down May 20 in which the state Supreme Court ruled that Guzzardi could not appear on last spring’s Republican gubernatorial primary ballot because his paperwork was not perfect.
What the Democrats did was a technical mistake. As they are accused of neither acquiring enough signatures nor presenting false ones, it is obvious that enough people want them on the ballot for there to be an election.
As they filed statements of financial interest publicly, they obviously were not trying to avoid scrutiny.
The proper recourse would have been for Proud to tell Evans et al to file the documents correctly and in the case of Evans to sign it and get it notarized. The only deadline that should be immutable is the presentation of signatures. Technical stuff should always take a backseat to democracy.
Delaware County Daily Times editor Phil Heron, however, notes that only 250 write-in signatures are needed for them to get on the ballot. You don’t think there are 250 Democrats in this county willing to do that? You don’t think this is going to make the Democrats more motivated and not less, and nominal Republicans more suspicious of those now holding power hence sympathetic to the Dems.
Don’t assume party loyalty is the force it once was. See Scott Wagner.
The people really are getting sick of sneakiness.
Bob Guzzardi did not have a prayer of beating Tom Corbett last spring. Because Corbett played dirty, though, he burned all his bridges with the anti-corruption activists supporting Guzzardi and went from having a tiny, smidgen of a chance to win the general to none.
Vote fraud is bad and must be punished severely. Technical errors are not vote fraud. It’s sickly ironic that the Pennsylvania Supreme Court which shot down a sensible photo voter ID law upholds these banana republic games.
For the record, County Democratic Party Chairman David Landau has vowed to appeal to the higher courts.
Retired Admiral James Lyons, who commanded the U.S. Pacific Fleet from 1985-1987 came pretty close to calling President Obama an Islamic mole in a talk before the Center for Security Policy on Feb. 11.
“The Obama Administration has a strategy,” he said. “It’s very simple. Any thinking American should be able to grasp it. It’s anti-American, anti-Western, it’s pro Islamic, it’s pro Iranian, and pro Muslim Brotherhood.”
We kind of agree. Biden 2015.
Obama must be impeached.
FWIW, Hillary isn’t any better. The father of her deputy chief of staff, Huma Abedin was the late Dr. Syed Zainul Abedin who worked for terrorism financier Abdullah Omar Naseef. Her mother, Saleha, is a leader in the Muslim Sisterhood, which is the ladies auxiliary for the Muslim Brotherhood.
Here is the video of what Admiral Lyons said on Feb. 11:
