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God creates William Lawrence Sr Cryptowit 11-2-24
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Answer to yesterday’s puzzle: God creates out of nothing. Wonderful you say. Yes, to be sure, but he does what is still more wonderful: he makes saints out of sinners.
Soren Kierkegaard
Candidates Appeal Judge On Pennsylvania County’s Dubious Mail-ins — An emergency appeal to the Third Circuit has been filed regarding yesterday’s (Oct. 31) denial by Judge Mitchell S. Goldberg of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania to require Delaware County to address claims that mail-in ballots have been given to unqualified electors
This is explicitly prohibited by federal law.
Goldberg ruled that the plaintiffs didn’t have standing despite two of them — Alfeia Goodwin who is running for congress in the 5th District and Kathyrn Buckley who is running for Pennsylvania House in the 168th District — being candidates.
The others — John P. Child, Joy Schwartz, Paul Rumley and Greg Stenstrom — are either authorized representatives of candidates or certified election monitors.
The plaintiffs also note that the judge erred in failing to grant declaratory relief as they are only seeking to clarify the county’s obligation under federal election law and misapplied the “Purcell Principle” which holds that procedural changes too close to an election could confuse voters. The plaintiffs point out that they aren’t seeking procedural changes.
Considering what has been revealed in Lancaster, York and other Pennsylvania counties regarding mail-in ballot abuse and that Delaware County’s prosecutor is a activist partisan, Judge Goldberg’s decision is extraordinarily unwise.
Candidates Appeal Judge On Pennsylvania County’s Dubious Mail-ins
Decision Time In The 165th
By Bob Small
Pennsylvania House District 165 is Springfield; Upper Providence; the 5th, 6th, 7th wards and the 2nd Division of the 4th Ward of Marple; and the boroughs of Media, Morton and Swarthmore.
Incumbent representative is Democrat Jennifer O’Mara of Springfield. She has Master’s Degrees in English and History from the University of Pennsylvania and degrees from West Chester University.
Before joining the State Legislature, she worked for seven years at the University of Pennsylvania as the assistant director of University Stewardship. She is on numerous House Caucus group and co-chairs the Taiwan Caucus.
She is married to Bradford and they have a rescue dog Ladybug.
Liz Piazza is CEO of Piazza Property Pros, Inc. She has been a committeeperson for Media and Upper Providence.
“I want to be a representative like our region had before, such as Reps. Bill Adolph, Chris Quinn and Alex Charlton, and bring back bipartisan problem solving to help fix the gridlock in Harrisburg,”she says.
After graduating from high school, she worked in the insurance sector, while being a single mom raising three children in Upper Providence.
She earned a Widener University bachelor degree in paralegal studies. This led to her two decade career with the Delaware County Court of Common Pleas Family Law Division. She also has been an adjunct professor for seven years, at Delaware County Community College.
On the thorny issue of abortion, Ms. Piazza is a moderate.
” In 2022, there were over 34,000 abortions performed in Pennsylvania, practical compassionate people, whether pro-life or pro-choice should be able to agree we should be doing more to help women grappling with this decision,” she said. “We should be looking for ways to reduce the number of abortions through increased preventative care.”
Ms. O’Mara apparently believes abortion should be allowed for any reason at any time, and tax-funded as well.
Ms. Piazza says the best piece of Legislation passed in the last four years was Act 1 of 2023 which eliminated all costs associated with breast MRIs, ultrasounds, genetic testing and counseling for high-risk individuals insured in Pennsylvania.
Lastly, we should mention her dachshund puppy, Baxter.
Decision Time In The 165th
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Answer to yesterday’s puzzle: A grandmother pretends she doesn’t know who you are on Halloween.
Erma Bombeck
Newtown Square, Pa. was farm country in the 1950s. Newspaper stories involved dogs killing sheep and dairy cows getting loose, and, of course, traffic accidents. A car carrying a man, wife and teenaged son was struck by a drunk driver one Christmas shortly after midnight on West Chester Pike. They were killed. They were coming home from Christmas Eve services. The occupants of the striking car, two young men who will remain nameless since family members are still alive, survived with minor injuries. They were looking for another party.
The driver’s family had political connections and he escaped with a slap on the wrist. Accounts say he liked to joke about it and the deaths he caused.
Within six months, he was back on the road boozing and burning rubber. Within a year, he was dead overturning his 1938 Plymouth hot rod on the trolley tracks that went along the highway. Yes, it was early Christmas morning; yes it was near the place where he killed the family; and yes, his passenger was the man with him in the first crash and he also died.
Spooky, huh? But not a ghost story, at least not yet.
That part of West Chester Pike is patrolled by Pennsylvania State Police and municipal police from Newtown Township. Reports soon appeared of a recklessly driven ’38 Plymouth that they couldn’t manage to bring down. As the years passed, it became quite unusual to see that type of vehicle on the road yet the reports and police chases continued. The chase always happened in the early morning albeit it was not dependent on the season. Roadblocks would be set but the quarry would never arrive.
Once an officer did manage to pull alongside the Plymouth and see the occupants. He wrote that they were “two young men in strangely out-of-style slicked back duck-tail haircuts, with expressions of absolute and abject terror and pain, as though they were seeing Hell and knew they could never escape”.
That’s the ghost story.
This is rather similar to the first story although it takes place in Springfield about the turn of the millennium and involves two young ladies. Well, three if you count Kristina.
Somehow a story got around that a ghost child named Kristina lived in a particular house in Springfield, Pa. and that if you called her name, she would appear to you. All that summer and fall youth from throughout Delaware County would pass the house — on feet, in cars, on bicycles, on skateboards — shouting “Kristina, Kristina” at all hours of night and day annoying the neighbors to no end. Of course, Kristina never appeared.
Well, maybe once.
The young ladies — we’ll call them Aimee and Lisa, although they aren’t their real names – – were popular, attractive, and by all accounts, rather mean. They were returning from a Saturday night party early Sunday morning and as they passed the house, Lisa, the passenger, yelled out “Kristina” through her open window. Aimee saw a little girl appear in front of the car and was certain she hit her before managing to come to a stop. As she feverishly tried to figure a way out of the mess, the girl appeared at her window. “Hi,” she said. “I’m Kristina. You’re both going to be dead by this time next week. Prepare yourselves.” She then vanished.
Initially shaken, Aimee and Lisa soon began giggling. They credited the event to the drugs they had been taking. They talked about it all that week at school. “Ha Ha,” they joked. “Say goodbye to us. Kristina said we are going to be dead.”
And while returning from a party early Sunday morning, Aimee drove into a maple tree killing them both.
Some say you can see them in a ’38 Plymouth, the unhappy dates of two unhappy men.
You can be certain these stories are true. They are on the internet.
Copyright 2009 © BillLawrenceOnline.com
Pennsylvania Witch Trial — Pennsylvania had its own witch trial that beat the more famous — and far more deadly — ones in Massachusetts by a decade.
It was presided over by William Penn, himself, and it happened in Delaware County in Ridley.
Margaret Mattson, the wife of Neals, was accused of bewitching cows and indicted for the dastardly deed on Feb. 27, 1683. She pleaded not guilty and was remanded to trial with a jury of 12 and Penn as the judge.
Penn asked her “Art thou a witch? Has thou ridden through the air on a broomstick?” Margaret, a Swede who did not speak English very well, answered “yes.” Penn pointed out that riding a broomstick was not illegal. The jury went out and came back with verdict of guilty of “having the common frame of being a witch” but not guilty of bewitching the cows. Her husband and son-in-law pledged 50 pounds each to guarantee her good behavior for the next six months. Presumably they never lost their money and Margaret lived to a nice old age.
This was Pennsylvania’s first and only witch trial.
Just gives us one more reason to feel superior to New England, we feel. Quidditch is cool in The Keystone State.
Own opinions Cryptowit Quote Puzzle 10-31-24 by William W. Lawrence Sr.
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Answer to yesterday’s puzzle: For I am not so enamoured of my own opinions that I disregard what others may think of them.
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Trump Bus Tour Coming To Broomall — The Trump Bus Tour stops noon, Saturday, Nov. 2 at Sulecki Fabrication, 1107 Sussex Blvd., Broomall, PA 19008.
We got a chance to meet Kash Patel when it stopped in Sharon Hill, Oct. 21, its last visit to Delco.
Alfe Goodwin, Pennsylvania’s excellent 5th District congressional candidate, is expected too. Come out and meet her.
Trump Bus Tour Coming To Broomall
Dem Incumbent Refusing Debate In 161st District
By Bob Small
Pennsylvania’s 161st State House District consists of Aston; Chester Township; Nether Providence; the 1st District of Middletown along with the 1st and 2nd divisions of its 2nd; the 2nd and 7th wards of Ridley, along with the 1st and 3rd divisios of its 1st Ward and the 1st Division of the 5th Ward; and the boroughs of Brookhaven, Rose Valley and Upland.
Incumbent Democrat is Leanne Kruger formerly Leanne Kruger-Braneky.
Ms. Kruger has a BA from Rutgers and an MA from Eastern.
She has declined to debate her Republican opponent, John Mancinelli.
It seems the Democrat Representatives are unable or unwilling to debate their Republican House challengers.
She had previously worked at The Business Alliance for Local Living Economies and was the first executive director of the Sustainable Business Network of Greater Philadelphia.
Mancinelli works for A. Town Properties, a real estate company. An Astonian, he has a St. Joe’s Bachelor degree in marketing and a Master’s degree from Neumann College in Sports Management.
He is also co-owner of Manbroso’s To Go, an Aston pizza shop being rebuilt due to a fire.
He was previously a member of Delco Young Republicans and a board member with CIAO Delco, which supports Italian-American Culture in Delco.
John Mancinelli says his key values are: economic growth and job creation; fiscal responsibility, limited government and public safety.
If one lives in this district, wouldn’t you want to hear a debate between the two contenders? Just saying.
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Answer to yesterday’s puzzle: A big wife and a big barn, will never do a man any harm.
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