By Charlie Crystle This is the start of my New Year’s post, coming later this week. If you don’t like foul language like bullshit, you might want to stop reading here. And as usual, there are no hidden messages. It’s meant for all of us, but especially myself. This year’s pledge? End the bullshit. Yours. […]
Month: December 2010
Unanswered open letter to Lancaster Newspaper editors re LGH
October 16, 2010 ON THE RECORD To: Marv Adams, Gil Smart, E. Cornelius From: Robert Field Re: Below NewsLanc article If the funding of dire needs of the hungry, the homeless and the sick were not so demanding on my resources during this great recession, I would raise funds to create a foundation which would […]
NEWSMAX
Lead article entitled “Obama Embraces ‘Death Panel’ Concept in Medicare Rule” goes on to say: “During the stormy debate over his healthcare plan, President Barack Obama promised his program would not ‘pull the plug on grandma,’ and Congress dropped plans for death panels and ‘end of life’ counseling that would encourage aged patients from partaking in costly medical procedures.
Man quits job, makes living suing e-mail spammers
USA TODAY: Daniel Balsam hates spam. Most everybody does, of course. But he has acted on his hate as few have, going far beyond simply hitting the delete button. He sues them. Eight years ago, Balsam was working as a marketer when he received one too many e-mail pitches to enlarge his breasts. Enraged, he […]
Anonymous Deflate state lawmakers’ pension plan
DAILY ITEM: The Harrisburg Patriot-News reports that former Senate Democratic Leader Robert Mellow of Lackawanna County wil receive more than $330,000 a year in pension payments, due to an obscene almost 40-year-old carryover from the days when he first took office. The pension payments will be triple his salary. Former Rep. Frank Oliver of Philadelphia […]
Arlen Specter and Me, Part One
A few occurrences particularly stick out in my memory concerning the frantic election campaign in 1980 from which Arlen Specter rose from what most considered a political grave and surprisingly emerged as a United States Senator. (Arlen was a fraternity brother of my older brothers Martin and Joe at Penn and later attending Yale Law School with Joe.
Inquirer Editorial: Follow the money
INQUIRER: …Since the election on Nov. 2, Corbett has been assembling people to help him devise policies on energy, transportation, welfare reform, and education. Collectively, these individuals spent $1.9 million to get Corbett elected. Their companies, coworkers and other associates donated another $2.7 million to Corbett’s campaign. These donations account for nearly one-fifth of the […]
More liars in jail – and more innocent fathers with their children!!!
700,000 men in America were charged with PFA’s (Projection From Abuse orders) that were dismissed last year. Yet, before they were dismissed these men lost there rights to due process, property, freedom and mostly to their children. Even after a PFA is proven illigetimate the loss is not rectified. Almost all men loose in custody. Our […]
WikiLeak cables expose corruption resulting from Drug War
NEW YORK TIMES: The Drug Enforcement Administration has been transformed into a global intelligence organization with a reach that extends far beyond narcotics, and an eavesdropping operation so expansive it has to fend off foreign politicians who want to use it against their political enemies, according to secret diplomatic cables. In far greater detail than previously […]
3-D the hottest new toy
ABC NEWS: A few days ago I found an odd package waiting in my mailbox. One of the commercial TV networks got my postie to deliver a pair of 3D glasses – very old school, with separate red and blue lenses. I spent a few moments assembling them, and presto! I looked like I’d just […]
NEWSLANC’S MISSION ACCOMPLISHED: Discontinuing weekly newsletters; website evolves
Robert Field had lived in Lancaster for 45 years but his business and political activists interests were mainly national and international. It took the Convention Center issue to attract his attention and, to his horror, the realization that what had once been one of the fairest and most democratic counties had fallen under the control of a few predators and their many dupes.
Pennsylvania Dutch numbers growing
MORNING CALL: Once thought to be headed for extinction, they still roam the countryside in Berks, Lehigh and Northampton counties in great numbers. Possessing a distinct sound like no other creature, they seemed to be dwindling in number a decade ago, but there’s apparently no need to put them on the endangered species list just […]
Predatory Lancaster General Health
If one links to Lancaster General Health’s ad on Lancaster On Line, the one that proclaims “Your health. Your Lifestyle. Your web site”, a banner message is “Free rapid HIV Testing.” This is an important message. But lest we think that LGH is mending its way and using some of its immense profits resulting from […]
SUNDAY NEWS
Gil Smart in his column “Bailey gives way to Potter” reflects on the meaning of the classic movie “It’s a Wonderful Life” as follows: “We come now at the end of a year marked by incredible hardship. Unemployment and want stalk the land, quietly though never too deep beneath the surface. As I’ve said before, […]