August 26, 2011

July 4, 2011

June 28, 2011

  • All Good Things...

    We concluded our seven part radio series on WCED-FM June 22nd.
    We would like to thank all those who sponsored the series to raise
    community awareness about who we are, what we do and how they
    can become involved.

    This was a joint venture with the Pennsylvania Freedom Fighters group.
    Paticipants included Patty Fish, David Singer and myself. The thing that will
    stand out is that the tenor of the show is conversational in nature.

    The series started with Gary Stormer for our first three shows and
    as most of you know, Gary passed away before the series ended. The
    last part of the series concluded with the very capable Beth Walters.

    Show archives:

    6/22 show
    6/08 show
    5/25 show
    5/11 show
    5/22 show
    4/18 show
    3/30 show
    3/16 show

    Our very best to the Stormer family and all those people that Gary’s life touch.
    Our sincere thanks to Beth Walters for the seamless transition and keeping the
    conversation, as well as Gary’s dreams alive.

    cross-posted at TURN Blog

April 14, 2011

March 25, 2011

  • Since When is US Foreign Policy Determined by the Arab League?

    Since Obama moved into the O Office. But I won't pretend that I am shocked. I'm not.

    Just a hat tip,the following article is by the next guy that  state gop leaders will NOT be backing. They will most likely rally behind Ricky their darling boy who got clobbered by Casey. Why did he get clobbered? Because Republicans would not vote for him.  I won't vote for the asshat again . 

    http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2010/04/santorum_i_endorsed_specter_ag.html

     I am getting sick and tired of recycled candidates that have paid their dues to the party If you think our job of taking back the GOP is done-think again. 

    Since When is US Foreign Policy Determined by the Arab League?


    We now know what caused President Obama to change his mind from opposing US military intervention in the Libyan civil war to championing it.  It was not the request of the American people or the United States Congress.  Instead it was the request of the Arab League.

    On March 12, 2011, the Arab League called for a no-fly zone over Libya.  That is all it took for President Obama to perform his about face and lead the effort.  President Obama's UN envoy Susan Rice announced the UN Security Council resolution imposing the no-fly zone over Libya saying, "The Council today acted in response to a strong request by the League of Arab States."  President Obama said the US military action is "enabling our European allies and Arab partners to effectively enforce a no-fly zone."  But since when is US foreign policy determined by the Arab League?

    The Arab League is comprised of 21 Arab nations and the Palestinian Authority, including some of the most undemocratic and despotic regimes in the world.  Last year Muammar Gaddafi - the dictator of Libya and killer of Americans in Berlin and over the skies of Lockerbie, Scotland - was its president.  Lebanon, one of the Arab League's strongest proponents of a no-fly zone, is controlled by Hezzbollah - the Iranian-backed terrorist organization that in 1983 killed 241 US military servicemen on a peacekeeping mission in Beruit.  Other Arab League nations such as Syria, Yemen and Bahrain are right now violently suppressing peaceful protests in their own countries and killing their own people.  So why is President Obama doing the bidding of the Arab League?

    President Obama says the Arab League members are our "partners."  But these "partners" have not contributed much of anything to the war effort to date.  The United States led the military intervention.  And as soon as the bombing started our "partners" protested and denounced the United States for going too far in its use of military force.  Arab League Secretary General Amr Moussa said, "What we want is civilians' protection, not shelling more civilians."  So now we have our Arab "partners" denouncing the United States for "shelling" Muslim civilians.

    Many in the Arab world will use the US intervention as grounds to denounce America, as in the case of the Arab League Secretary General Amr Moussa, and to kill Americans as will likely be the case with al-Qadea and other radical Islamist groups.  Consider the state run Libyan television that is showing footage of crying Muslim women, blood-stained children being carried on stretchers with a Muslim man screaming, "a whole family was killed."  The footage at the bottom of the TV screen reads, "the crusader imperialism bombs civilians."  And then we wonder why some of them hate us and try to kill us.

    History teaches us that radical Islamic jihadists attack the United States for doing what President Obama just did.  President Obama, who has described himself as a "student of history," should know better.  Senator Robert Casey, one of President Obama's top allies in the United States Senate and a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, should know better too - but Senator Casey mimics whatever President Obama says and does.

    Our Founding Fathers understood the importance of avoiding foreign wars and retaining our national sovereignty.  They rejected a foreign policy based upon humanitarianism and peacekeeping.  Thomas Jefferson sent the US Marine Corp to the shores of Tripoli to defend American shipping interests from piracy, not to keep the pirates from killing each other.

    President Obama and Senator Casey, however, risk American lives and spend American treasure not to defend the interests of the American people but to carry out the wishes of the Arab League on a foolhardy mission that will likely become grounds for some future Islamic jihadist attack on America.  That is why we must replace President Obama and Senator Casey in 2012.

    Marc A. Scaringi is a candidate for the Republican nomination to the United States Senate in 2012
    www.scaringiforsenate2012.com

    4075 Linglestown Rd, #322, Harrisburg, PA  17112

     

March 14, 2011

  • Presidential op-ed

    Recently we saw a local activist appeal to our city council to use "common sense" and ban guns in public meetings. This was the cause for a public outcry for our local government to abide by the State and Federal Constitution and the rule of law.

    Our City Council did the right thing and honored our rights. They did however, at the suggestion of some citizens working behind the scenes, ask people to use their concealed weapons permit if they had one .

    The system failed us in Arizona and is a prime example of laws by themselves are unable to protect us. We must have a government that is willing to enforce the laws they are charged to. Arizona has a system in place that enables mandatory psychiatric evaluation for those that are deemed a potential risk. How many times was the young man disciplined by the college he attended. Why was he not evaluated when he was suspended? The question is rhetorical.

    The bottom line is the system failed and we do not get a mulligan. We are supposed to be a nation of laws, not men. Perhaps, we could see some top down leadership and see some leadership in enforcing this nations laws, rather than selective enforcement.

    This transcends the current president. The problem did not begin with him. I do not have the time or energy to devote to "Obashing". Instead, I would encourage him to enforce the laws he is charged with enforcing in his position as Chief Executive.

    Below find a blog post from Bruatally Honest, quoted in full, include trackback:

    Obama's op/ed on guns and common sense

    What next? His op/ed on bibles and religion?

    Writing in the Arizona Daily Star more than two months after the shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and 18 others, six of whom died, Obama said he's "willing to bet" that responsible gun owners would support laws to "keep an irresponsible, law-breaking few -- dangerous criminals and fugitives, for example -- from getting their hands on" guns.

    "Most gun owners know that the word 'commonsense' isn't a code word for 'confiscation," he wrote.

    "I'm willing to bet they don't think that using a gun and using common sense are incompatible ideas -- that we should check someone's criminal record before he can check out at a gun seller; that an unbalanced man shouldn't be able to buy a gun so easily; that there's room for us to have reasonable laws that uphold liberty, ensure citizen safety and are fully compatible with a robust Second Amendment," the president wrote.

    Predictably, on the heels of every major shooting incident in this country over the last forty years, there have been calls by the anti gun lobby and their favored liberal politicians for more gun controls. Our lack of gun control is what is leading to these senseless shootings if we are to believe those who oppose gun ownership on all levels in America.

    Yet is is somewhat out of the ordinary for the President of the United States to be writing op/eds on any topic, much less on gun control.

    The choice of words and phrasing by Obama are less than original in my opinion, and the same dog eared argument is used once again. If we could only "take the guns out of the hands of criminals, these senseless shootings (like recently in Tucson) would stop.

    Here is a clue Mr. President.....The low life who shot the congresswoman and killed six people and wounded twelve more? Well he wasn't a criminal before he bought the gun and went on his shooting spree. Therefore, all the gun laws in the land wouldn't have stopped Jared Loughner from committing his crimes.

    "A man our Army rejected as unfit for service; a man one of our colleges deemed too unstable for studies; a man apparently bent on violence, was able to walk into a store and buy a gun,"
    So riddle me this Mr. President. If Jared Loughner was such a threat to society prior to his rampage, how come the police in his own home town never followed through or tagged him as a potential mentally disturbed person prone to violence.

    It's relatively apparent what happened with Jared Loughner. His mother was a connected county employee, therefore, even the low level crimes that Loughner may have been involved in, were never followed up on and no one ever identified Jared Loughner as a certifiable nut case, because they were apparently afraid of offending his mother or not being able to justify their reasonable fears of him.

    On the one hand, there is one point that the President has made that is absolutely correct. The abject lack of common sense in this country is what is propelling the majority of the violence in this country. Yet it isn't the lack of common sense on the part of the criminals where the failure lies.

    It is with those we charge with protecting us. Those who allow criminality and idiocy in the name of egalitarian fairness and the fear of offending those who should be offended. There in lies the real crime.

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March 5, 2011

  • How about a Pay Cut?

    THOSE who believe that it is a good thing for YOU to take further pay cuts to support THEIR causes WILL be going to the polls in force this November 2nd. They have to make sure the flow of cash from your paycheck to their wallet continues.

    The question is are you going to continue to whine  "my vote doesn't count", "the elections are rigged" or "it doesn't matter" ? Are you going to stay home if it is rainy and damp? If the line might be a little long? Those thoughts are their battle plan against you, properly planted to make you feel powerless!

    If you think you should survive on less, continue staying home , not voting and being disengaged from the process. And while you are at it, why not just shut up and like the screwing you are taking. In fact, you deserve exactly what your getting.

    At what point will people say you have taken enough...no more?? idk, people must think that surviving on less is a good thing because their actions speak louder than words. When only 30% of the population votes in midterms and all those committed to taking your cash are at the polls, you changing the dynamic is not difficult. Get up and say enough. Put an end to the bleeding. Or bleed out. It is your choice. Whatcha' going to do?

    Business as usual is no longer acceptable, if for no other reason than it is unsustainable. Something is going to change. It has to. Are you going to allow others to be the ones to dictate what the change is? Or are you going to stand up and say enough is enough?

    If those of us who pay the countries bills turn out to vote and say enough, we can begin...note I say BEGIN, to turn this around.  Their is no HOPE or hoping that things will change..that is a crack pipe illusion. Change comes because it is planned and executed. Saying Enough is a plan. Now it has to be formulated and executed. There is no hope in bringing about change, there is only action that brings about change.

    So the bottom line is this. November 2nd you must decide if surviving on less is a good thing or not. Doing nothing and staying home is an active decision to survive on less, nodding your approval that it is a good thing to allow other people to make choices for you. Or you can say enough. Re-elect those who have protected your paycheck and freedom. Fire those who have not.  To me, surviving on less so my money can be wasted is unacceptable. That will translate into my voting on November 2nd to protect my families interest. 

    Remember, there is no such thing as a tax increase. They are all pay cuts.

     

February 15, 2011

  • TURN meeting ends with 8 People announcing candidacy

    Treasure Lake-

    Taxpayers United for Representation Now had a lively meeting discussing the DuBois Area School District's failing to respond to over 50 letters and inadequate response to formal complaints. The focus of the discussion was not on the play but rather does the school board actually represent the taxpayers when they refuse to respond to them. 

    Sam Miles, Chairman of the Watershed Committee was the guest speaker for the evening discussing his work to date on the watershed and fielding questions from the audience on water quality, monitoring and water revenue for the city. Mr. Miles was invited back to speak to the group at their April Meeting.

    John Balliet, Director, spoke on the need to put down the signs and get into the fray by becoming part of the solution by either running for office or finding someone qualified who is willing to run for office.

    The meeting night coincided with the first day nominating petitions could be circulated for the primary, and the floor was opened to candidates to announce their candidacy and an offer to circulate their petitions and answer questions for potential supporters after the meeting.

    Announcing their candidacy at the meeting, were: Roland Bechtel, R & D , Du Bois Area School Director Region B;  Sam Miles, R, Du Bois City Council; Lee Mitchell, R, Du Bois City Council ; Diane Bernardo, D, DuBois City Council; Lester Smiley, D, (2 year term) Du Bois City Council; Darell Duttry, R, Sandy Township Supervisor; J. Barry Abbott, R, Clearfield County Commissioner; John Sobel, R, Clearfield County Commissioner  and Joan Robinson McMillen, R, Clearfield County Commissioner.

     

  • Good reception in Elk County

    Visited the Elk County Commissioners this morning and was very pleased with their reception. Upon arrivial I was cordially greeted by the commissioners and staff, despite the fact that they did not know who I was or why I was attending their meeting.

    Arriving early and upon introduction I was able to extend a written invitation to them to attend the upcoming 582 town hall being hosted by the Du Bois Chamber of Commerce and ourselves on February 21st at the Best Western Inn in Du Bois at 6:30 PM.

    It is hard to quantify the value of being prepared in advance.

February 12, 2011