Rand Paul Subpoena Vote

The details are in concerning Sen. Rand Paul’s (R-Ky) visit to Philly.  It’s 11 a.m. May 18, at Independence Seaport Museum. It’s part of the WPHT Speaker Series and it will be hosted by Dom Giordano. The cost is $45. Rand Paul Subpoena Vote

Paul is seeking the Republican presidential nomination for 2016 and the topic is his book  Taking a Stand: Moving Beyond Partisan Politics to Unite America.

Hopefully, however, he will be queried on the allegations made by National Review that he stifled a subpoena for the application Congress made to the District of Columbia’s health exchange to beat the Obamacare penalties.

Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) insisted during the debate over Obamacare that lawmakers and staff join one of the health-care exchanges set up under the bill. This meant giving up government subsidies of between $5,000 and $10,000 per person.

Did it happen? LOL. After a secret meeting with House Speaker John Boehner, President Obama agreed to allow Congress to file as a small business. The law defines a small business as having no more than 50 employees. Congress employes tens of thousands.

An application was made declaring Congress to be a small business employing just 45 people and our public servants got to keep their Cadillac health-care plans.

Sen. David Vitter (R-La.), who chairs the Senate Small Business Committee,  wanted to find out who in Congress pushed this claim and sought to file a subpoena against the D.C. health exchange for the full application.

All nine Dems on the Small Business Committee were against it, hence Vitter needed the support of all 10 Republicans.

Only five did and none of them was Paul. The other guilty parties were Mike Enzi (R-Wy), James Risch, (R-ID),  Kelly Ayotte (R-N.H.), and Deb Fischer (R-Nebraska).

Just one of those things that should make one go hmmm. Paul has said that his vote was because he wants a Constitutional amendment to prohibit Congress from passing laws that exempts themselves, according to N.R.

So what’s that got to do with opposing the subpoena? And that’s another thing that makes one go hmmm. Hopefully, that lame answer does not let Paul off the hook.

Rand Paul Subpoena Vote

Lawmakers Seek To Cut Representation

Lisa Esler has informed us that the Pennsylvania House has, this week, passed House Bill 153 that would reduce the size of the House from 203 to 151 and House Bill 384 would reduce the size of the Senate from 50 members to 37. Lawmakers Seek To Cut Representation

If you think easy access to your state legislator is a bad idea then obviously you should support these bills.

On the other hand, if you think easy access to your state legislature is a good idea you would support bills increasing the size of the legislature to 424 as it is in New Hampshire, a state with a population about a 12th of Pennsylvania’s and area of about a fourth.

The claim is to save money. Rather than cutting the size of the legislature by about a quarter, why not cut the salaries of the legislatures by that much? It’s not as though they can’t afford it.
Lawmakers Seek To Cut Representation

William W. Lawrence Omnibit 5-8-15

William W. Lawrence Omnibit 5-8-15

Building the Great Pyramid of Giza today would cost $5 billion.

Privacy Dead On The Web

For those who think surfing habits are anonymous go to this site and take the test. Yes, privacy is dead on the web unless one takes special precautions that most of us find aggravating and feel unnecessary. Privacy Dead On The Web -- For those who think surfing habits are anonymous go to this site and take the test. Yes, privacy is dead on the web unless one takes special precautions that most of us find aggravating and feel unnecessary

Granted, though it is nice to know that there are precautions one can take if one should feel the need and these can be for very good reasons i.e. a dissident in an Islamic nation, not just for perverse or violent ones.

In a related matter, Apple is collaborating with U.S. researchers to launch apps that would get their DNA tested.

Privacy Dead On The Web

William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 5-7-15

William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 5-7-15

The nation of Armenia lost all broadband cable service when a woman in neighboring Georgia cut through a cable while looking for scrap.

Madoff Victims Included Greedy Liberals

Eliot Spitzer Madoff Victims Included Greedy Liberals
Eliot Spitzer

Bernie Madoff financed his Ponzi scheme with promises of what should have been unbelievable returns.  One of his victims was disgraced New York Governor Eliot Spitzer who before he became known as Client-9 was known for aggressive prosecutions of Wall Street investment firms and having a high IQ.

It appears that Eliot was susceptible to dreams of easy money as any greedy capitalists.

Here is a list of Madoff’s more famous victims. Some, one can feel sorry for. The ones who want to take money form the middle class in the name of social justice so they can wear shiny halos, not so much.

Madoff Victims Included Greedy Liberals

William Lawrence Sr. Omnibit 5-6-15

William Lawrence Sr. Omnibit 5-6-15

The treatment for poisoning by methanol (denatured) alcohol is ethanol alcohol.

Apple Phishing Site Mixes Truth With Lies

Give credit where credit is due but we have received this great Apple Phishing solicitation. Apple Phishing Site It reads: Dear customer, You’ve placed your Apple ID under the risk of termination by not keeping your information up to date. To complete the process, we just need to verify your information. Simply click the link below and sign in using your Apple ID and password to start the process. It provides a link “Verify Now” then continues: “Wondering why you got this email? When you don’t regularly update your Apple ID information, Apple will require you to sign in by following the link in a verification email and update your information. This is to help protect your identity and keep your account secure. For more information, see our frequently asked questions. Thanks, Apple Customer Support.

What is brilliant about this particular scam is that the return address in the email is to service@Apple.com and frequently asked questions link is to Apple.com. The Verify Now link, however, is to https://server45.host-argentina.com.ar/~pazfenor/administrator/Apple/WebObjects/iTunesConnect.html and the sign in page looks like this: Apple Phishing Site

When you sign in the bad guys get your Id and can rack up what they want at the iTunes store.

Beware of links in unsolicited emails and always check the address before typing in information.  Here is a description of “Phishing”

Apple Phishing Site Mixes Truth With Lies

Child Dismemberment Battle Continues

By Rev. Frank PavoneChild Dismemberment Battle Continues

On April 7, 2015 — which was Easter Tuesday, during the most intense days when the Church is celebrating the victory of life over death — Governor Sam Brownback of Kansas signed into law the “Unborn Child Protection from Dismemberment Abortion Act.” This legislation, drafted by our friends at the National Right to Life Committee and carried forward in Kansas by our friends there at Kansans for Life, was the first of its kind in the nation, and protects children from the “D and E (Dilation and Evacuation)” abortion procedure, the most common type of abortion in the second trimester of pregnancy.

Since the late 1990s, when the debate on partial-birth abortion was raging, I began writing, speaking, and consulting with doctors and pro-life strategists about the fact that once we protect children from partial-birth abortion, the second phase of the process had to be protecting them from the D and E abortion procedure. I was therefore delighted to be asked by Gov. Sam Brownback to join him for a ceremony in which he repeated the signing of this bill on Tuesday, April 28. (Governor Brownback is a long time friend and ally with whom we collaborated on many projects when he was in Washington.) He made four stops at various parts of the state to have signing ceremonies to raise awareness among the public of the significance of this particular legislation. I had a chance to have a private meeting with him that day, in which I let him know how much of a priority we at Priests for Life are making it to see that this legislation is enacted in as many other states as possible around the nation. Oklahoma quickly followed Kansas in enacting this legislation the week after Gov. Brownback first signed it into law.

Interestingly, news reports, the day I was in Kansas, as well as news reports about this legislation during the months leading up to it, have a habit of saying things like this procedure is one that “the Governor describes as dismemberment”. Yet the reason he describes it as dismemberment is that the abortionists describe it as dismemberment. For instance, abortionist Dr. Warren Hern states on page 154 of his medical textbook Abortion Practice, “The procedure changes significantly at 21 weeks because the fetal tissues become much more cohesive and difficult to dismember….A long curved Mayo scissors may be necessary to decapitate and dismember the fetus…”

But opponents of the law cannot even say the word. When the debate was held in the Kansas senate, pro-abortion Democratic Senators Marci Francisco (D-Lawrence) and David Haley (D-Kansas City) spoke, but neither discussed the actual dismemberment method that the law prohibits. And a Planned Parenthood of Kansas and mid-Missouri press release could not even mention the name of the bill which it was opposing, lest people see the word ‘dismemberment.’

Instead, these pro-abortion extremists talk about how the law “will greatly hurt women.” That’s nothing more than projection, from people who turn the other way when females in the womb are being dismembered.

For more information on this procedure, on the law, and on our efforts to protect children from dismemberment, visit StopDandE.com.

Father Pavone is national director of Priests for Life.

Child Dismemberment Battle Continues

William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 5–5-15

William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 5–5-15

More than half million Americans own firearm silencers.