Roving Reporter: Diane Canney
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Schedule at p. 5
Psalm 109:8 “Let his days be few; and let another take his place of leadership.” (Thanks, Donna Wismer)
Lorry Prizer: Cardiac Arrhythmia
“He has been stable with his arrhythmia this week while Phoenixville Hospital works him up. He will be having a procedure tomorrow at 7:30 a.m. to “map” the electrical activity in his heart wall and then cauterize the problem area. The odds are in Lorry’s favor. The doc will make the decision about doing cautery when he pinpoints the abnormal area and if a transfer is needed to HUP should it be deep on the left. Nothing in this has been clear cut!
“Needless to say, Ceal is under a tremendous amount of stress coming from many directions. She really appreciates everyone’s support. Maybe the best bet would be to send a card to their home, just in case. It is: 75 W. Seven Stars Rd. Spring City 19475.”
Congress: Home for Thanksgiving
Mrs. Lincoln, aside from that, did you enjoy the play?
“Senate Democrats pushed ahead with President Barack Obama’s vision of health reform Saturday night – after a day that exposed significant divides in the party that could make it all but impossible to complete work on a plan by year’s end, or even sink the bill altogether.
“In a 60-39 vote on strictly partisan lines, the Senate sent the $848 billion health care bill to the floor for debate after the Thanksgiving break, but not before a clutch of moderates served notice that they couldn’t back the bill in its current form.
“One key provision – for a government-run insurance plan that would allow states to opt-out of coverage – effectively died in the Senate chamber Saturday, as the last two Democratic holdouts demanded changes to the bill.” (Emph. added, JB)
“‘I am opposed to a new government administered public health care plan as a part of comprehensive health care reform, and I will not vote in favor of the proposal that has been introduced by Leader Reid as it is written,’ said Sen. Blanche Lincoln (D-Ark.), the last Democrat to commit to a vote for opening debate. Two hours earlier, Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.) had said much the same thing.”
And Mary Landrieu, did you really get $300 million?
Remember, a lot of these folks come home for Thanksgiving…be waiting for them!
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1109/29795.html
Full Text of Senate Health Care Bill
http://democrats.senate.gov/reform/patient-protection-affordable-care-act.pdf
Bill Bennett: “Whitewashing Reality” Ft. Hood Was “Terrorism”
“We have carved out for our culture and ourselves categories that are completely meaningless in and of themselves to whitewash the notions of reality before our eyes, realities such as good and evil. In the days following 9/11, many of us thought a lot was morally clarified; that for the first time in a generation, the true hand of evil and the true face of evil could be seen for what they were, without psycho-babble, without moral unseriousness, without politically correct norms, without the language of mush. And we, in fact, were there. It didn’t last. We have a Muslim terrorist, who called for jihad, who shouted “Alahu Akbar” as he was killing unarmed soldiers in a health center, who had cards made up that said “Solider of Allah,” who spoke of pouring boiling oil down the throats of infidels, who has regular correspondence with a radical imam who preached to 9/11 terrorists . . . and, and, and, and . . . we call it not terrorism but a “killing spree” as if that is what it was and not a terrorist trying to kill as many Americans as possible for political motives.” More at http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=YjlhY2E5Y2UxYzUxMjc5YWFjMzVjZjE5MjczYjNmNDY=
Krauthammer: NYC & Terrorist Trial – “Travesty in New York”
“For late-19th-century anarchists, terrorism was the “propaganda of the deed.” And the most successful propaganda-by-deed in history was 9/11 — not just the most destructive, but the most spectacular and telegenic.
“And now its self-proclaimed architect, Khalid Sheik Mohammed, has been given by the Obama administration a civilian trial in New York. Just as the memory fades, 9/11 has been granted a second life — and KSM, a second act: ‘9/11, The Director’s Cut,’ narration by KSM.”
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/11/20/travesty_in_new_york_99224.html
Reuel Marc Gerecht: “Major Hasan and Holy War.”
“A domestic Islamic threat is real and the FBI is unprepared to fight…A concern for not giving offense to Muslims would never prevent the French internal-security service, the Direction de la Surveillance du Territoire (DST), which deploys a large number of Muslim officers, from aggressively trying to pre-empt terrorism. As Maj. Hasan’s case shows, this is not true in the United States. The American military and especially the Federal Bureau of Investigation were in great part inattentive because they were too sensitive.”
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704888404574547571230575110.html
Rex Murphy: Obama Inspires; Palin Connects
“There are two great political speakers in the America today. Sarah Palin is the other one…
“Mr. Obama is utterly composed, deliberate down to gesture and word, very conscious that he is a ‘figure’ on a stage. Mr. Obama ‘bestows’ himself on an audience. Ms. Palin has none of that. She will never speak in front of faux Greek columns. She walks on the stage much the same way she’d go into a gas station. But she’s shrewd in her choice of themes, has a marvellous feel for her audience, and a confidence that will never be confused with arrogance.
“They are, in the way fate or the mysteries of politics sometimes offers such things, curiously equivalent or parallel figures, polar opposites but equals. Ms. Palin connects: Mr. Obama inspires. She’s a latter-day frontier figure, impulsive, instinctive; he’s pure urban cool, highly deliberate, even detached. Both have real charisma.
“It will make Obama fans perspire to hear this, but Ms. Palin has a more forceful bond with her supporters than he with his.”
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/obama-inspires-palin-connects/article1372198/
Sarah sold 300K on Day 1!
Sarah makes a point of “running through the pain.” Stallone and Eastwood and every US Marine do something similar…
“Publisher HarperCollins said Friday that Sarah Palin’s memoir sold 300,000 copies its first day, among the best openings ever for a nonfiction book. In 2004, Bill Clinton’s “My Life” debuted with sales of 400,000 copies. The year before, Hillary Rodham Clinton’s “Living History” started at 200,000.”
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20091120/D9C3IM400.html Meanwhile, here’s a petition taking her side against MSM http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/supportsarahpalin/
Sarah Talks, Sean Listens: Part 1 & 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_oX6j8cJOk; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5soCdOgyps&feature=related
Mark Steyn: “The Superbower”
“…radio pal Hugh Hewitt said to me on the air the other day that Barack Obama “doesn’t know how to be president.” It was a low but effective crack and I didn’t pay it much heed. But, after musing on it over the last week or so, it seems to me frighteningly literally true. I don’t just mean social lapses like his latest cringe-making bow, this time to Their Imperial Majesties, the Emperor and Empress of Japan — though that in itself is deeply weird: After the world superbower’s previous nose-to-toe prostration before the Saudi King, one assumed there’d be someone in the White House to point out tactfully that the citizen-executives of the American republic don’t bow to foreign monarchs. Along with his choreographic gaucherie goes his peculiar belief that all of human history is just a bit of colorful backstory in the Barack Obama biopic…”
James Joyner: Glenn Beck – “Community Organizer”
“Glenn Beck has a plan. Actually, the Plan. Which he reveals on his website.”
http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/glenn_beck_community_organizer/
Service Employees International Union (SEIU)
Fraud is, by some polls, 15th on the voters’s list of priorities….I guess they lost their sacred honor…
“We hold out no hope that federal labor officials will seriously investigate SEIU’s fraud. Its President, Andy Stern, is, after all, America’s most frequent White House guest.
“Still, that doesn’t mean the public shouldn’t be informed of SEIU’s actions. We have a treasure trove of information on SEIU’s fight with its fellow union. It is a story that will unfold here over the coming weeks.”
http://biggovernment.com/2009/11/20/whistleblower-video-reveals-seiu-ballot-fraud/
Hadley Climate Research Unit Hacked and Exposed!
(Thanks Rush!) Someone broke into computers of the Hadley Climate Research Unit and posted tell-all evidence of fraud.
“So the 1079 emails and 72 documents seem indeed evidence of a scandal involving most of the most prominent scientists pushing the man-made warming theory – a scandal that is one of the greatest in modern science. I’ve been adding some of the most astonishing in updates below – emails suggesting conspiracy, collusion in exaggerating warming data, possibly illegal destruction of embarrassing information, organised resistance to disclosure, manipulation of data, private admissions of flaws in their public claims and much more. If it is as it now seems, never again will “peer review” be used to shout down sceptics.
“This is clearly not the work of some hacker, but of an insider who’s now blown the whistle.”
http://tomnelson.blogspot.com/2009/11/hadley-hacked-roundup-with-updates-and.html,
http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/comments/hadley_hacked, http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/11/19/breaking-news-story-hadley-cru-has-apparently-been-hacked-hundreds-of-files-released/ ; http://www.climateaudit.org/?p=7806 And a more cautious, pro-warming appraisal: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/nov/20/climate-sceptics-hackers-leaked-emails
Revenge of the Climate Laymen
“Barack Obama conceded over the weekend that no successor to the Kyoto Protocol would be signed in Copenhagen next month. With that out of the way, it may be too much to hope that the climate change movement take a moment to reflect on the state of the science that is supposedly driving us toward a carbon-neutral future.
“But should a moment for self-reflection arise, campaigners against climate change could do worse than take a look at the work of Stephen McIntyre, who has emerged as one of the climate change gang’s Most Dangerous Apostates. The reason for this distinction? He checked the facts….
“And if Mr. McIntyre has a credibility problem with climatologists, climatologists’ predictions are increasingly viewed skeptically by the public.”
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704335904574496850939846712.html
Also: www.ClimateAudit.org.
Inhofe to Boxer: “We won, you lost. Now get a life!” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c93Fp_kmrz4
Buchanan: The Education Scam
“No two kids were ever created equal – not even identical twins. The family is the incubator of inequality, and God is its author. As the parable teaches, each of us is given different and unequal talents.
“Given equality of opportunity, the brightest will inexorably rise, and the less talented – athletically, artistically, academically – will fall behind. All things being equal, the fastest kid will always win the race.
“This campaign to equalize test scores among unequal students is utopian and unattainable, and amounts to a scam by the education industry.”
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=116599
See also Charles Murray (2009) Real Education: Four Simple Truths for Bringing America’s Schools Back to Reality. And http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmTr2EMt66c
LA ACORN Hookers, #2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5soCdOgyps&feature=related
Andrew Breitbart promises to release “lots more” tapes just before 2010 elections if Holder fails to investigate ACORN: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5soCdOgyps&feature=related and http://biggovernment.com/2009/11/19/the-la-story-part-iv-program-for-torture-victims/
Tim Phillips: Cap n’ Trade Slips
“Ever wonder if your grassroots efforts are making a difference — well the state’s largest newspaper, The Oregonian which is one of the most liberal in the nation, editorialized the next day that the pro cap-and-trade side sees its “momentum slip sliding away…” The Oregonian went on to detail how public opinion is turning against the cap-and-trade forces as well which is a stunning confession from such a liberal newspaper.
“Al Gore tried to deflect the grassroots fire against his radical ideology by calling our Americans for Prosperity rally a “…so called astroturf campaign from Washington, D.C…”
“Whenever the Left begins losing on an issue, instead of trying to win on the merits they resort to negative, personal attacks on the messenger. We’ve seen this tactic before and it’s a recipe for failure on their part. But, they’re welcome to keep trying it!”
PSSH: “The Good Old Days”…
Pennhurst State School and Hospital, an institution for as many as 3000 mentally retarded adults, closed in 1986. (Its history is at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pennhurst_State_School_and_Hospital.) The reasons included skyrocketing costs and the consent agreement between litigants and the Commonwealth. The “complaint alleged that conditions at Pennhurst were unsanitary, inhumane and dangerous, that these living conditions violated the fourteenth amendment, and that Pennhurst used cruel and unusual punishment in violation of the eighth and fourteenth amendments. After a 32-day trial and an immense investigation, prosecutors concluded that the conditions at Pennhurst were not only dangerous, with physical and mental abuse of its patients, but also inadequate for the care and habilitation for the mentally retarded. The State of Pennsylvania also concluded that the physical, mental, and intellectual skills of most patients had deteriorated while in Pennhurst.”
Proposals exist now to refurbish the former Administration Building and create a museum. Some of the rationale is that Pennhurst offered an “alternative living opportunity” for its residents.
The truth is that 90 percent of Pennhurst residents never saw the Administration Building, and – until Pennhurst’s latter years – spent their years in confinement and lived shoeless, in T-shirts, and wearing one-size-fits-all, “dope” pants. The floors were frequently littered with urine and feces. Medication was a trial-and-error experiment. Hepatitis was a recurrent risk. Behavior training was inconsistent and frequently ineffective. Trips outside depended on the energy and good will of the aides on duty. And assault from other clients was a routine danger.
Pennhurst, thus, was the public’s whore. It was also a work-camp much like Auschwitz, intended to shelter misfits at minimal cost and extract work – farming and assembly tasks – from them. The institution’s destructive effects on the normal development of its residents also compares with death camps such as Belzec or Treblinka. A former Board member remarked that Pennhurst most needed a “Christian arsonist.” A “Christian bulldozer” now seems most appropriate along with erection of a suitable monument to Pennhurst’s hidden 90 percent. The Germans and my relatives – the Poles and Ukrainians – know how to make such things.
Meetings/Announcements
November 28, Noon-4 PM, 912 @ Berkshire Mall
1665 State Hill Rd, Wyomissing, Reading, PA 19610. Bring your signs! Bring your flags! It’s time to wake up your neighbors and bring them along! (Park in the mall lot on the Boscov’s side away from the store, close to State Hill Road.)
November 30, 6:30 PM. Pottstown 912 Monthly Meeting
Price: $5.00 per person. Trinity Evangelical Congregational Church, 66 South Limerick Road, Royersford, PA 19468. carlnamapex@comcast.net,
December 2nd, Wednesday, 7 PM: Delaware County Patriots
The Media Inn, 435 E. Baltimore Pike, Media PA 19063, 610-566-6500
December 3rd, 8 PM: Glenn Beck’s Christmas Sweater at KoP IMAX
December 4th, 7 AM: BHO Comes to Allentown
…A Specter Benefit? Or a 912/Patriots Party? “The one, the ONLY Barack Hussein OBAMA (MMMMM, MMMMMM, MMMMMM) is COMING TO TOWN!” Plans emerging under Joan Campbell’s baton….so far, 102 “yes, will attend,” 24 “maybes.” More, more, more!
December 11th, 6-8 PM Valley Forge Patriots
“Fort Hood: Replacing Political Correctness with Political Courage.” James Brody, Ph.D. AND addressing Christmas cards to the ACLU! (Bring, please, two first-class stamps with you!)
Pickering Creek Inn, 37 East Bridge St, Phoenixville, 610-933-9962.
December 12th 2009, “Season of Unity” Christmas Party
PLEASE SEND PAULA YOUR RESERVATION AND CHECK BY 11/30!
KoP FIREHALL. Room for 200. (170 Allendale Road). 7 pm until 11 pm for dinner (please bring a dish), Cash bar (non-alcoholic beverages included in your $10) and music. Liberal bashing allowed! $10 per person. Please send your check to: Paula Stiles, 444 Cardigan Terrace E., West Chester, PA 19380. Make check payable to her. ALSO, please put the names of everyone who you are paying for in a small note with your check. Please include a phone number and e-mail address. Let her know that you received the invitation from Karin. KarinStocking@msn.com
Every Saturday
West Chester: Sheep Dogs, Courthouse Steps, 11-Noon. RichDavis53@comcast.net
Exton: Rt 30 at Rt 100, 12:30-3 PM: RichDavis@comcast.net. (CANCELLED until the sidewalks are done)
King of Prussia: Mall Blvd & Rt 202. Noon-2, 2-4 PM. VF Patriots & 912. Lou Flanagan louis@apo146.com,