With grilling season now in full swing we provide this video which explains everything that you wanted to know about the different cuts of steaks.
Steaks Explained
Billion Dollar Budget Gap
The Pennsylvania House reconvenes today, June 2, and will begin finalizing a budget proposal for the 2014-15 fiscal year. The deadline is the end of this fiscal year which is June 30.
The House will be in session for the vast majority of June to finalize a budget along with other critical legislative priorities, says State Rep. Jim Cox (R-129)
According to the Independent Fiscal Office, year-over-year revenue is actually up, with Personal Income Tax up roughly 5 percent over last year.
Cox says this is indicative of continuing employment gains and a growing economy throughout the Commonwealth.
He points out however that revenue growth overall has fallen far short of expectations, leaving a more than $1 billion budget gap between estimated and actual revenues.
Cox says the full report is in the PDF file at this link.
He notes that budget news can be tracked at the websites www.pahousegop.com and www.pabudget.com.
Comments by legislators about the budget can be heard at http://www.youtube.com/user/PABudgetNews
Billion Dollar Budget Gap
Inquirer Owner Lewis Katz Dead
Lewis Katz, 72, the co-owner of the Philadelphia Inquirer whose side just won a bitter struggle for control of the paper, is among the seven killed in a plane crash last night, May 31, in Massachusetts.
The crash happened about 9:40 p.m. as the Gulfstream IV was taking off from Hanscom Field in New Bedford for Atlantic City.
Also killed were passengers Anne Leeds, 74; Marcella Dalsey, the executive director of the Drew A. Katz Foundation and president of KATZ Acdemy Charter School; Susan Asbell, 68, of Cherry Hill, who was a member of the planning committee of the Boys and Girls Club of Camden County; and three crew members whose names were not released.
Katz was in Massachusetts to attend an education-related event at the home of historian Doris Kerns Goodwin in Concord.
Former Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell declined to attend due to a another engagement. He would have been on the flight.
On May 27, Katz and H.F. “Gerry” Lenfest paid $88 milllion to interests led by New Jersey insurance executive George Norcross III to achieve controlling interest of the Inquirer and its affiliated products.
Inquirer Owner Lewis Katz Dead
Pittsburgh Author Predicts Earthquake
David Nabhan, a former California teacher now living in Pittsburgh, says the West Coast is going to be hit by a massive earthquake before the summer is over.
Nabhan is the author of “Earthquake Prediction: Answers in Plain Slight” in which he says earthquakes can be predicted.
So he is predicting one.
Nabhan says the quakes occur when lunar and solar gravitational tides are conjoined and that they happen either at dusk or dawn.
“Just imagine the muscle required to move our oceans around every day. Our fractured fault lines are not immune to this,” he says.
He says the next big quake will be between July 12 and Sept. 9 between 4:45 and 7:55 a.m. or p.m.
Pittsburgh Author Predicts Earthquake
William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 5-31-14
William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 5-31-14
You’re lost in the woods and are wondering what berries you can eat?
Just ponder the words of former Green Beret Myke Hawke: White and yellow, kill a fellow. Purple and blue, good for you. Red… could be good, could be dead.
US Economy Shrinking
US economy shrinking. Note the mysterious “W” that appears on Obama’s head whenever he takes heat.
The revised assessment of this year’s first quarter by the Bureau of Economic Analysis reveals that our Gross Domestic Product shrank 1 percent. It was initially thought to have grown .01 percent.
Those of us in the real world are not surprised. Those getting government paychecks simply don’t care.
If a Republican was in the White House this event would be the lead story on all network news broadcast — which remain the major source of information for senior citizens — and blared in headlines and editorials in the few major daily newspapers left.
The Democrat Party will die only when the American public realize that they are being lied to and reject the garbage that they are being fed.
In a related matter, the White House revealed the name of the CIA station chief in Afghanistan last Sunday, May 25.
They did it in a press release.
It endangers his life and the lives of others, and greatly damaged our intelligence operation.
The incompetence, callowness, irresponsibility and general stupidity of the deed is something most of us can’t get our minds around.
Again, if a Republican administration did this, this would still be being blared in headlines and discussed on the broadcasts especially with regard to yesterday’s (May 30) resignation of Obama Press Secretary Jay Carney, whose office was responsible for the blunder.
Hat tip Brietbart News.
William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 5-30-14
William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 5-30-14
If you should ever need a candle when the zombies attack, a Crayon will burn for 30 minutes.
GOP Must Reject Alinsky
Saul Alinsky’s 1971 book Rules for Radicals included a dedication to Lucifer and advised as political strategy the use of ridicule, threats and the personal destruction of opponents.
Alinsky can fairly be called the founder of the modern Democrat Party. Brack Obama is a follower as is Hillary Clinton.
Most of the old media is filled with followers of Alinsky. They are basically political operatives who call themselves journalists. When hard questions are asked and uncomfortable truths are reported by the few who still actually practice the trade, the Alinskites let accusations of bias fly and attack their integrity. Some would say they are projecting. We, however, think it is a premeditated strategy, which is even worse.
The educational system at all levels is dominated by Alinsky disciples. Ask a young person if he thinks truth is objective or is something for the individual to decide. The answer is likely to be revealing.
Ask yourself if people who threaten, and are willing to follow through on those threats, to harm children to get greater wealth should be allowed to be teachers. If you live in Pennsylvania, then ask why already wealthy teachers are allowed strike when it is obvious that the biggest victim of strikes is those whom we entrust to them. It certainly should not be difficult to end this practice but it has been around since about the time of Alinsky’s book.
If you live in any state ask yourself why it is so hard to fire unsatisfactory, even bad, teachers.
Some conservatives advocate adopting the tactics of Alinsky for their cause. They are badly mistaken.
Mocking stupidity is certainly a temptation that can’t be avoided but ridiculing to destroy is something we must not do. We have to build. We have to create. We have to unite, not merely utter the word meaninglessly as per Obama.
We have to recognize that truth is objective and real and applies to everyone regardless of what they want things to be.
We have to love our neighbor and our enemy.
We have to follow someone else, not Lucifer, who is not a radical fighter for the little guy as per the claims of Alinsky but a simple tyrant-wannabe.
GOP Must Reject Alinsky
William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 5-29-14
William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 5-29-14
No Robert James, New York City did not have the biggest Yellow Pages directory in the USA in 1987. Dallas did.
Take Megan Rath Seriously
Congressman Bob “Peter Russo” Brady, the Democrat who has represented Pennsylvania’s 1st District since 1998 looks like he has a real challenger this fall.
Megan Rath, 34, a health care specialist whose job entails providing operating room advice to surgeons concerning medical equipment, is the Republican nominee and she is taking it seriously.
She has meet with municipal leaders and ward leaders throughout the city and the Delaware County towns that make up the district.
And they’ve been friendly.
Even the Democrats.
Democrat power aside, wealthy Mr. Brady may not be as well-liked as he thinks.
Ms. Rath says she was motivated to run by the aggressive and disruptive changes to our current health care system. She has seen people lose their insurance and/or pay higher deductibles. Patients have decided to not to have surgery due to the doubling and tripling of their deductibles. She feels the crisis is only beginning. She has ideas that would solve it without a requiring a full repeal of Obamacare, namely ending its personal and business mandates as well as making the prices of procedures and testing transparent.
“No one knows how much something costs until you have the test or procedure done,” she says. “Patients are completely left in the dark.”
She says one of the unintended consequences of Obamacare is the early retirement of doctors and the reluctance of talented people to pursue careers as primary care physicians.
If a primary-care physician shortage occurs, those who have come to expect seeing doctors will find themselves seeing nurse practitioners.
“Primary care physicians are essential to our health care system,” she said. “We need to find a way to encourage people in medical school to pursue careers as primary care physicians. Practitioners are part of the team but they do no replace doctors.”
It’s not only the rich that expect doctors, by the way. Ms. Rath says she has administered first aid to a gunshot victim outside her home in the city’s Fairmount section. She sent him off to the emergency room pointing out that they can’t turn someone away.
A nice thing as long as the emergency rooms still have doctors.
Brady, whose bread is buttered by Philadelphia’s and Washington’s special interests, obviously, stands in the way of any solutions.
Ms. Rath’s is also making an issue of energy, another potential weak spot for Brady, who has allowed the leadership in the fight to save the riverfront refineries to pass to the Republicans, especially Congressman Pat Meehan and Gov. Tom Corbett.
Meehan was warning about the danger of their closings in 2011. Brady was silent.
Ms. Rath notes that Pennsylvania needs to pursue the natural gas in the Marcellus Shale. Brady has been reluctant to buck the environmental church-members that dominate his party to push for the expansion of production.
Her other big concern is education. She says safety need to be a huge priority in Philadelphia public schools. She says making sure that they are adequately financed is only part of the solution.
She does triathlons. She is in it for the long haul.