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  • Presidential Birthplaces

    —Snowflakes in Hell

    Heading back up to Pennsylvania on I81 we passed the presidential birthplace of Woodrow Wilson. I wouldn't stop there except to piss on it, but it got me thinking about predidential birthplaces in general. We're pretty much out of the era where people were typically born at home, which makes [...]
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    Fetched: November 29, 2009, 12:44pm EST

  • Q. How Can You Tell Jimbo is Lying?

    —WRITEMARSH!

    A. His lips are moving.On Thursday, the Intelligencer's own Margaret Gibbons reported on Judge Nicholas' ruling that the ethics policy doesn't apply to elected row officers or their staff, because they operate independently of the Board of Commissioners.RINO Commissioner Chairman Jimbo Matthews gave the following quotes to Ms. Gibbons concerning [...]
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    Posted: November 29, 2009, 12:04pm EST

  • Religious Perspectives

    —Snowflakes in Hell

    In Dave Kopel's Aiming for Liberty: The Past, Present, And Future of Freedom and Self-Defense, Chapter Five, "Religious Perspectives on Freedom from the Ancient World," is closely related to Chapter Six, entitled "Religious Perspectives on Freedom From the West." Some excerpts from Chapter Five: Although there is a widespread myth that Jews' [...]
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    Fetched: November 29, 2009, 4:14am EST

  • Disappearing Railroad Blues

    —Pawatercooler.com

    I spent a little time wandering around the South Hamburg railroad yards today. As a child I lived in a railroad town on the Pennsy main line. Railroading was a vibrant culture back in those days and it saddened to me to see the state to which it has fallen. [...]
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    Posted: November 28, 2009, 6:42pm EST
    by DB Light

  • PSU’s Mann Defends Himself

    —Pawatercooler.com

    Reuters Michael Mann, co-author of the Copenhagen Diagnosis and lead author of the UN IPCC Third Assessment Report, blamed skeptics for taking the personal emails out of context. “What they’ve done is search through stolen personal emails—confidential between colleagues who often speak in a language they understand and is often foreign to [...]
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    Posted: November 28, 2009, 5:47pm EST
    by AlexC

  • Mann: To Be Investigated by University

    —Pawatercooler.com

    About the hockey stick, and no doubt influenced by the “leak.” WattsUpWithThat: In November 2005, Representative Sherwood Boehlert (R-NY) requested that the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) convene a panel of independent experts to investigate Professor Mann’s seminal 1999 reconstruction of the global surface temperature over the past 1,000 years. The resulting [...]
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    Posted: November 28, 2009, 3:08pm EST
    by AlexC

  • Philly Inquirer Latches on to VPC Google Research

    —Snowflakes in Hell

    The Philadelphia Inquirer also notes that concealed carry is utterly dangerous, because VPC's highly scientific Google research shows that concealed carry license holders across he whole country over a two years murder at a rate considerably less than your average Philadelphian. Maybe that's because the city just lets murder suspects [...]
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    Fetched: November 28, 2009, 12:45pm EST

  • When in Rome

    —Snowflakes in Hell

    Apparently outsiders moving into Montana heard "When in Rome, do as the Romans do." as "When in Rome, sneer at them and try to frustrate their backwards ways." Maybe when I retire, I need to buy a house in this neighborhood, do the ariel surveys for the hunters, and put [...]
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    Fetched: November 28, 2009, 12:45pm EST

  • Boy Scout to Union Boss

    —Pawatercooler.com

    Number of comments: 1
    Morning Call: Hauling brush and old tires out of the woods in Allentown early Friday, members of the Service Employees International Union learned an Eagle-Scout-to-be is just as forgiving as he is trustworthy, loyal and helpful. The Eagle Scout service project of Kevin Anderson, 17, of Upper Saucon Township was caught up [...]
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    Posted: November 28, 2009, 10:57am EST
    by AlexC

  • Deceptions of Anti-Gunners

    —Snowflakes in Hell

    From Dave Kopel's book, Aiming for Liberty: The Past, Present, And Future of Freedom and Self-Defense, Chapter Four, "Some Deceptions and Errors Used to Promote Anti-Gun Laws": The story of the nonexistent "cop-killer" bullet begins in 1976 in Massachusetts, when a handgun-confiscation initiative was defeated in a landslide. Then in 1982 in [...]
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    Fetched: November 28, 2009, 2:18am EST

  • Philly legend Al Alberts dies at 87

    —TONY PHYRILLAS

    Al Alberts, who hosted a Philadelphia-based television talent-show for decades, died Friday at his home in Florida at the age of 87.

    Although he was a founding member and lead singer of The Four Aces, an all-male harmony group that scored several hits, including "Three Coins" [...]
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    Posted: November 28, 2009, 1:07am EST

  • Newspaper: Rock the (Legislative) boat

    —TONY PHYRILLAS

    A Berks County newspapers is calling for major change in the Pennsylvania Legislature by encouraging reform candidates to take on the professional political class in Harrisburg.

    From the editorial in the Reading Eagle:The Issue: Our entrenched state lawmakers have not budged on shrinking the size of the Legislature.

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    Posted: November 27, 2009, 11:00pm EST

  • What Leadership!

    —Snowflakes in Hell

    Apparently food donations go to waste in New York City because of the trans-fat ban. It continues to amaze me that 150 or so mayors in Pennsylvania think it's just peachy to associate with this power hungry monster. Related posts:From the City That Brought Us the Cheesesteak?Philadelphia’s a “Pro-Choice†City?Chinese AR-15' [...]
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    Fetched: November 27, 2009, 9:48pm EST

  • More endorsements for Schroder

    —THE CENTRIST

    State Rep. Curt Schroder has announced the endorsement of seven fellow state lawmakers representing portions of the 6th Congressional District.

    "I am pleased and honored to have the support of colleagues who know me well and have worked with me on many efforts to improve" [...]
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    Posted: November 27, 2009, 12:42pm EST

  • Matthews & Hoeffel: Spinning the Ethics Defeat

    —Pawatercooler.com

    On the topic of the Montgomery County ethics ordinance preventing certain officials from running for political office. The Intelligencer: Hoeffel, the driving force behind the enactment of the legislation, repeatedly has maintained that no one department was the target of the legislation. However, in support of the legislation, Hoeffel has cited what [...]
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    Posted: November 27, 2009, 12:27pm EST
    by AlexC

  • PSU’s Mann: Climate Enforcer

    —Pawatercooler.com

    That’s a pretty nice climate you have there…. it’d be a shame is something happened to it. This past September, [Penn State's Michael] Mann told a New York Times reporter in one of the leaked emails that: “Those such as [Stephen] McIntyre who operate almost entirely outside of this system are [...]
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    Posted: November 27, 2009, 12:22pm EST
    by AlexC

  • Green Group: Pa Is Awful

    —Pawatercooler.com

    Fifth worst in the country! An environmental group claims new data indicates that Pennsylvania’s coal-fired power plants are among the “oldest and dirtiest” in the country, and are among the biggest contributors to global warming. Coal is the dirtiest of all fuels, according to PennEnvironment’s Nathan Wilcox, and Pennsylvania ranks fifth nationwide [...]
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    Posted: November 27, 2009, 12:15pm EST
    by AlexC

  • Thanksgiving Traditions

    —Pawatercooler.com

    Turkey, mashed potatoes, stuffing, your crazy uncle. Swordplay. A black western Pennsylvanian has been charged with attempted homicide for using an 18-inch sword to stab a drunk white man who yelled racial slurs at his own dog and the suspect. Forty-four-year-old Vernon Bridges, of Ambridge, allegedly stabbed 48-year-old Ronald Book with an 18-inch [...]
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    Posted: November 27, 2009, 12:08pm EST
    by AlexC

  • 'Welcome to the 2009 Unnamed Holiday Season'

    —THE CENTRIST

    Welcome to the 2009 Unnamed Holiday Season

    We will shop for Unnamed Holiday gifts. Our children will participate in public school Unnamed Holiday concerts celebrating snow, sleigh bells, and red-nosed reindeer, and then enjoy an Unnamed Holiday break. Municipalities will decorate with Unnamed Holiday trees, wreaths, [...]
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    Posted: November 27, 2009, 12:00pm EST
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