A day in the life of central Pennsylvania

Posted: May 28, 2024 by chrisharper in Uncategorized

By Christopher Harper
The chimes at St. James Episcopal Church resonated with a poignant rendition of America the Beautiful, heralding the start of a significant event-the annual Memorial Day parade.

This solemn occasion, marked by a discordant burst from a fire engine in Muncy, Pennsylvania, is a testament to our community’s unwavering respect and remembrance for our fallen veterans.
Marching in unison along Main Street, a diverse group of individuals came together to honor our veterans. Among them were not just veterans, but also volunteers from local businesses, government, civic groups, and churches, demonstrating our community’s collective support and pride.

Just up the road, residents placed flags near the headstones of fallen veterans in the local cemetery.

Not too far away in Pennsdale, some residents are exercising their Constitutional right to protest a large solar power installation without the rancor of recent nationwide demonstrations.

Solar Renewable Energy seeks to install more than 6,000 panels on nearby farmland. The local zoning board has granted a variance to build the solar field.

However, residents have many concerns, including declining property values in the area following the installation, contamination of existing aquifers that supply wells of homes adjacent to the site, stormwater runoff from the disturbance of existing land, glare, and other safety concerns.

The local taxpayers plan to take the matter to court if the variance is not rescinded.

Moreover, my wife and I enjoyed chatting with neighbors about the upcoming election. That’s a far cry from our discussions with our neighbors in Philadelphia, where we lived until three years ago.

Days like this remind me how lucky I am to live in a part of the country that harkens back to the days of graciousness and civility.

Who Did it Better? Graham Chapman or Pete Buttigieg

Posted: May 28, 2024 by datechguy in Uncategorized

So Who in fact did it better: Graham Chapman as the minister for home affairs’ when asked “In your plan ‘A Better Britain for us’ you claimed that you would build 88 thousand million billion houses a year in the greater London area alone. In fact you built only 3 in the last 15 years. Are you a bit disappointed with this result?”

Or Pete Buttigieg the actual Secretary of Transportation when asked by Margaret Brennan:

“The federal highway administration says only seven or eight charging stations have been produced with the $7,500,000,000 investment that taxpayers made back in 2021, Why isn’t it happening more quickly?”

Two reminders:

  1. Monty Python was a comedy show not a template
  2. Only one of those interviews were meant to be a joke

I’m Glad Christ is God & King and not Me…

Posted: May 27, 2024 by datechguy in culture
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…because I’d have a hard time finding these folks worth dying to save their souls for.

And the thought that men died to give them this freedom sickens me. They are the true successors to Mike Wallace and Peter Jennings from this panel

In the end we have to pray for them and remembering three things:

  1. When John Says “God so loves the world that he gave his only begotten son” There was no “fine print” excluding sinners we disapprove of.
  2. When Christ died for the sins of man again there was no list of excluded sins or sinners.
  3. The Lord’s Prayer explicitly asks God to forgive our sins as we forgive those who sin against us.

These are simple rules of Christianity, which is why sometimes they are very hard.

To fight back against the left, I say we should refer to all Illinois criminals as “justice-impacted individuals”

Posted: May 26, 2024 by John Ruberry in crime, News/opinion, opinion/news, politics
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By John Ruberry

Oh, for the days when Illinois was normal.

My state is a solid blue state, but it wasn’t always that way. 

In the 20th century, only twice, in 1912 and 1916, Illinois failed to back the presidential winner in the general election.

The Land of Lincoln, the home of the first Republican president, Abraham Lincoln, began its slide to the left in 1988, when George H.W. Bush won Illinois by just 95,000 votes in his blowout win, nationally that is, over Michael Dukakis. Democrat gerrymandering and feckless leadership from the state GOP have demoralized Illinois conservatives. Real conservatives, that is, not the country club phonies who are embarrassed by Donald Trump.

Illinois has now gone hard left, thanks to decades of gerrymandering. At the top of the heap is likely 2028 presidential candidate, J.B. Pritzker, who is nearly halfway into his second term as governor. 

To embellish his woke credentials for his presidential run, Pritzker signed into law and championed the SAFE-T Act, which abolishes cash bail in Illinois. It’s been in effect for nine months. The numbers are still coming in, but at least in Chicago, other than a slight dip in murders, violent crime is up.

Still, criminals manage to get caught and convicted in Illinois, despite the presence until December of a George Soros-funded so-called prosecutor, Kim Foxx, in the state’s largest county, Cook.

But some of those unlucky Illinois crooks soon may not soon be officially known as “felons,” “offenders,” or “convicts” or “ex-cons,” If it’s not on his desk already, it soon will be, but Illinois House Bill 4409 will classify participants in the Adult Redeploy Illinois program as “justice-impacted individuals.”

To be fair, not all convicted criminals in the state will be referred to as such if Pritzker signs HB 4409 into law, but considering that the billionaire governor has proven to be cautious about being out-woked, look for all lawbreakers to be referred to be officially classified as such in that sanitized, Orwellian phrase.

Conservatives and centrists, who, despite Democratic dominance in in the Land of Lincoln, still make up a majority in this state, have two surefire ways to fight back.

They can remind leftists that Illinois–for good reason–has been losing population annually for a decade. 

The other method of attack is to refer to criminals, when a progressive is in earshot or likely to read a social media post, as “justice-impacted individuals.” Leftists can’t process the wrongheadedness of their political beliefs, such as men being able to give birth, and they despise ridicule. 

Believers in common sense, you have your assignment. Think of yourselves as Groucho Marx and the leftist in front of you as the kind of pompous fool the legendary comedian regularly humiliated. 

With some laughs, we might be able turn Illinois, even slightly, to the right direction.

John Ruberry regularly blogs at Marathon Pundit.

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