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The Weekly Standard’s Daniel Halper is reporting that Hillary Clinton’s Hard Choices, a memoir of her State Department experiences is a bomb.
The book has sold 60,000 hard covers the first week and 24,000 ebooks according to Halper. Publisher Simon & Schuster was hoping for 150,000 print the first week.
Mrs. Clinton reportedly received a $14 million advance for the book — she’s not going to donate it to charity, btw . Simon & Schuster is not expecting to make it back.
Cop Killers OWS
Jerad and Amanda Miller, the couple who murdered two police officers in Las Vegas on June 8 along with a bystander who tried to intervene have dropped out of the news.
The Millers draped a “don’t tread on me” flag over the bodies of officers Igor Soldo, 31, and Alyn Beck, 41, before entering a Wal-mart where they killed Joseph Robert Wilcox, 31.
Initial reports had these sickos as Tea Party types. Heavy coverage was expected as has become the norm in shootings with multiple deaths.
So why did the establishment media stop covering the Millers? Well, it turns out that this heartless pair were not Tea Party after all but affiliated with the anarchists in Occupy Wall Street.
So that explains that. If the facts don’t fit the narrative down the forgotten hole it goes.
It should be remembered that Soldo and Beck were shot in ambush.
Wilcox, who had a concealed carry permit and was armed, was killed from behind by Amanda after he confronted Jerad.
Betcha Wilcox was Tea Party.
The Millers retreated to the back of the store as police closed in, where Amanda shot Jerad then herself.
With Pope Francis’ comments concerning capitalism causing concern in conservative circles it’s a good time to explain Catholic economic doctrine which is often termed “distributism.”
Despite the name, it is not about taking money from the rich and giving it to the poor.
The policy actually declares property ownership to be a fundamental right and that the means of productions should be spread as widely a possible so that they are not centralized under state control which would lead to soul-destroying tyranny.
The doctrine says that socialism is bad and that capitalism ends up concentrating economic power eventually capturing the state leading to a form of socialism.
It’s pretty hard to argue that point.
It looks like Francis is a DIY Tea-Party kind of guy.
Crisis Magazine has a good article on the subject here.
A Connecticut firm called Skunks Unlimited back in 1983 developed a protective spray device that squirted skunk scent instead of tear gas.
Frank Videon Jr.Frank C. Videon Jr. died June 12 at his home in West Chester following a long battle with stomach cancer. He was 70.
He was the proprietor of Videon Chevrolet in Newtown Square and was known for the friendly advertising rivalry with his brothers Wayne and Steve who had Chrysler-Dodge-Jeep dealerships in Newtown Square.
The ads would be full page on the back page of the County Press and often feature headshots of the other brothers on top of farm animals or childhood photographs of them.
As the advertising space rotated among the dealerships, Frank Jr. would find himself the subject of retaliation.
Frank ran the Chevy dealership until 2009 when General Motors forced him to close as part of the Obama restructuring.
He is survived by his wife of 47 years, Carol; his mother, Edna; daughters Tara, Tracy and Tami; and seven grandchildren.
His father, Frank Sr., died in 2011.
Visitation will be 12:30 p.m., Sunday, June 22, at Newtown Square Presbyterian Church, 3600 Goshen Road, which will be followed by a funeral at 2 p.m.
Donations may be sent to Newtown Square Presbyterian Church or the American Cancer Society, Box 22718, Oklahoma City, OK 73123-1718.
Apparently, the Supreme Court changes decisions after issuing rulings.
It’s not something taught in the typical civics lesson.
The matter was revealed by New York Times columnist Adam Liptak last month.
David Zvenyach, the general counsel to the Council of the District of Columbia, writes computer code as a hobby. He applied the JavaScript application Node to crawl the opinions posted on the Supreme Court every five minutes. He then follows up with a manual tweet.
Kudos to Zvenyach and all hail institutional transparency.
Internet Now Full
There are fewer than 17 million IPv4 internet address remaining in North America, the American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) reported in April.
This means that officially the internet is full.
The IPv4 standard allows for 4.295 billion addresses worldwide. As 536 million of them are reserved, there is only about 3.7 billion usable.
There are 7 billion people in the world.
The web has reached its limit.
The solution is to advance to the IPv6 standard — IP means Internet Protocol and the “v” stands for version — which would provide 2 followed by 128 zeros worth of addresses.
The sticking point is that IPv4 and IPv6 are not compatible.
We feel it will all work out somehow.
If you think about it, it is kind of a good problem.
Avrum D. Lapin has begun The Lapin Group, LLC. based in Jenkintown, Pa..
The group will provide consulting services to U.S. and international non-profits
Lapin’s served 22 years as Senior Partner with The EHL Consulting Group.
“The environment is shifting and the skills and capacities that successful nonprofits need to master are changing rapidly,” said Lapin. “Our focus is on keeping our clients mission-driven and on maximizing outcomes, growing beyond only established relationships and history.”
First Flag Day Was In PaFlag Day commemorates the anniversary of the congressional adoption of the first stars and stripes flag design, which took place on June 14, 1777.
Although the national observance was not adopted by Congress until Aug. 3, 1949, Pennsylvania was the first state to adopt June 14 as Flag Day, with the original resolution adopted on May 7, 1937.
For the origins of Flag Day, click here.
For how to appropriately display the flag, click here.
The Pennsylvania House, June 3, unanimously adopted House Resolution 879, which commemorates June 14 as Flag Day in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, says State Rep. Jim Cox (R-129)
We just saw the front page of the most recent National Enquirer in the Shop Rite.
It carried the words “Impeach Obama Now”
