Articles tagged with: Pennsylvania
Tom Waits Sings, “You Can Never Hold Back Spring”
This time of year in Pennsylvania is usually dark, snowy, and somewhat foreboding-looking. This year, however, has been a mild and surprising winter. The sky is bluer and the temperatures are moderate. Snow has only been a light blanket that quickly melted. Perhaps Al Gore was right about global warming. But when it comes to the seasons, I cannot help …
Sen. Toomey Fails the Super Committee & Fails Pa.
Republican Senator Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania, after less than one year in office, has managed to bring disgrace upon himself and his State by refusing to act in a bipartisan manner while serving on the so-called “Super Committee”. The fact that the ultra-conservative Toomey got elected to the Senate in Pennsylvania in 2010, a state that voted for Barack Obama …
Fuggedaboutit!
In an article of Psychology Today they discussed the word “fuggedaboutit.” Though they described the word as “Alpha Male Linguistics,” I am telling you today as a female, Fuggedaboutit! The Stock Market is tanking. So what else is new? I could go on and on about all the problems many of us face, but this is Take a Break Day. …
Santorum : A Legend In His Own Mind
Rick Santorum, the ex-senator from Pennsylvania, made it official today; he is seeking the Republican nomination for President of the United States. Some people may say that Santorum’s bid for the presidency says volumes about the state of disarray within the Republican party; however, it appears that Santorum’s unbridled ambition for a return to power says more about the state …
Pennsylvania’s “Common Sense” Budget Merits Support
Pennsylvania’s newly-elected Governor, Tom Corbett, is the latest in a line of Chief Executives to release their much-anticipated state budgets for the coming fiscal year. Facing a $4.0 billion dollar funding shortfall, Mr. Corbett promised Pennsylvania voters that he would not consider raising taxes to balance the budget. True to his word, Governor Corbett’s spending plan for fiscal year 2011/2012 …
Santorum Thrown “Under the Bus” by Palin
The former senator from Pennsylvania, Rick Santorum, is well known within the echelons of the Republican party as an ultra-conservative stalwart. A newly announced contender for the 2012 GOP presidential nomination, Mr. Santorum is also known within Pennsylvania as the candidate who a few years back suffered the worst defeat of any incumbent senator since George McGovern. Mr. Santorum’s …
Welfare : The “Soma” of the Masses
Image by Steve Rhodes via Flickr
AskCherlock recently received from a reader a copy of a letter sent to President Obama, concerning the “health care crisis” in America. The letter was sent by an emergency room physician, who talked about a Medicaid (i.e. welfare) patient he had recently treated. He described the patient as being covered in elaborate tattoos, wearing expensive …
STOP ALREADY WITH THE SNOW!
Short tempers are flaring. After you have spent hours digging out your car, you get on the road to find people are duckin’ and dodgin’ and slippin’ and slidin’ all over the place. This is no time for road rage
Beware of A New Season of Storms
The warming sunshine and easy-going days of summer have once again become a memory, at least in most parts of the country, and the 2009-2010 hurricane season has slipped silently (so far) through the door. The experts in these matters at the National Weather Service tell us that America is in for a severe hurricane season this year, largely due to …
EARLY OCTOBER: OF SHADOWS AND TREES
Blue sky, soft shadows and trees in early October. The season of change is upon us in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. I am ready to greet a new passage, life-changes which may come, and the shadows of the past which teach us to learn from our environment of nature and to treasure it.
—cher
