Thought you would like this… color photographs from the late 30’s and early 40’s
http://blogs.denverpost.com/captured/2010/07/26/captured-america-in-color-from-1939-1943/
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Hypothetical Chinese menace
The following is excerpted from “Washington Rules, America’s Path to Permanent War” by Andrew J. Bacevich:
“For some comparative perspective, consider this possibility: In light of his country’s status as a rising power, China’s minister of defense announces plans to…
Kudos for PAM’s new leadership
In assessing their rescue efforts on behalf of the Pennsylvania Academy of Music (PAM), few will accuse Chairman Dr. Holmes Morton, Executive Director Dr. Tom Godfrey, and attorney Jacque Geisenberger, Jr. as pandering or even seeking to be ‘nice’ as is expected by members of the Lancaster ‘Establishment’ in dealing with their peers. Nor are they particularly adept in their public outreach, at least not at the outset.
LETTER: Restore Dick Shellenberger’s and Molly Henderson’s good names
“Lastly, let us resolve to do better in the future”
No. I do not agree. Before we come to this last item of a resolution for the future, before we can move on, the damage done to the reputations and leadership positions of two very good and honest people needs to be restored. If we do not, we teach a horrible lesson to any future office holder which is to forget the public interest, forget your fiduciary responsibility, forget your personal integrity, when very powerful private interests oppose you.
LETTER: How the stimulus bill saved America
At last the secret is revealed. Not only has the stimulus saved us in the short term from a depression and given tax relief to 95% of taxpayers, but it is much broader and deeper in providing medium term foundations to help solve many long term challenges of our country and make it competitive in the 21st century. Too bad it has been such a carefully guarded secret. Hopefully if the truth were to be known we might yet be able to save the country from its obstructionist forces.
Local examples of why American health care is broken
A youngster visits his Otolaryngologist (hearing doctor) for a routine examination and is billed $175 for the consultation, of which his insurance company pays $145. He came from the barber shop and he mentions that he has an itch in his ear. The doctor takes a look, removes a hair with tweezers, and adds a charge of $215 for “Foreign body removal external ear canal” of which the insurance company is charged the full amount.
The sale of Conestoga View nursing home revisited
For those of us with memories that stretch back five years, the following headline and opening paragraph from the Intelligencer Journal / New Era come across as bitterly ironic:
“Conestoga View set to kick off expansion: In its biggest upgrade since becoming privately owned, Conestoga View next week will embark on a $2.3 million expansion and renovation.”
The impoverishment of America
The introduction to Andrew J. Bacevich’s “Washington Rules” opens with a provocative statement: “Worldly ambition inhibits true learning. Ask me. I know. A young man in a hurry is nearly uneducable: He knows what he wants and where he’s headed; when it comes to looking back or entertaining heretical thoughts, he has neither the time nor the inclination. All that counts is that he is going somewhere. Only as ambition wanes does education become a possibility.”
An Authority unchecked and unchallenged
After the Lancaster County Commissioners voted in early 2006 to hire the consulting firm of Pannell, Kerr, Forster (PKF) to conduct the first feasibility study on the by then $145 million convention center project, the firm’s lead consultant, David Arnold, was surprised to learn that he would not be receiving any cooperation from the Lancaster County Convention Center Authority (LCCCA).
State to further reduce its share of library funding
The F 2011 PA Commonwealth budget has cut state public library subsidies by 9.1%. But that isn’t all of the bad news. Since library funding may be further cut, the State has switched from annual disbursements to monthly allocations. According to the report of a response by State Rep. Mike Sturla before Lancaster Chamber of Commerce gathering, the intent of the state is to induce the local communities and counties to pay a greater portion of the library costs.
LETTER: Annoyed by cognitive dissonance, people seek harmony
And, of course, the opposite of dissonance is harmony. And, so the “painful” revulsion to cognitive dissonance is cured by seeking that which is harmonious. This certainly is the reason why some watch Fox and others watch MSNBC.
INTELL NEW ERA / AP
Article reports “Obama plans Israel, Palestine talks” goes on to say “Winning agreement to a least restart the direct talks makes good on an Obama campaign promise to confront the festering conflict early in his presidency…”
More offices see bedbug infestations
From USA TODAY: Nearly one in five exterminators have found bedbugs in office buildings in the U.S., according to a recent survey of extermination firms by the National Pest Management Association and the University of Kentucky. That compares with less than 1% in 2007.
“It’s a national issue,” says Ron Harrison of pest control firm Orkin. “Not all of us have to go to work and worry about it, but we all have to be sensitive to it.”
INTELLIGENCER NEW ERA / AP
Front page headline is “Spike in layoffs stuns economy” with a sub-head “Government stimulus funds are drying up and consumers are keeping their wallets closed.” The article reports “New applications for unemployment benefits hit a nine-month high last week – a spike the suggests private employers may shed jobs this month for the first time this year.”