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MAYBE I’M AMAZED………that as a solution to the state budget deficit is being worked on by the State Legislature and Governor, there seems to be a serious disconnect as to where they’ll get the money to balance the budget. It appears that any tax on the people who have the money (the gas drillers) is off limits. The other options are one time allotments which will be gone after this year or the people that have the least, Pennsylvania taxpayers.
MAYBE I’M AMAZED……and I hesitate to write this because if there are any guys out there who gave their girl friend’s pearls and the girl friend is upset, or vice versa, but vinegar will dissolve pearls.
MAYBE I’M AMAZED………that Oreo now has a new flavor, limeade. I have always loved lime as a flavor and think this new mix will be very good. But these Oreo varieties are like baseball caps. When I was a kid, there was a chocolate Oreo and one baseball hat per team. Progress I guess. So maybe we can eat our limeade Oreos while wearing a Sunday road baseball hat while watching a game at PNC Field.
MAYBE I’M AMAZED…….that a 911 operator in Luzerne County was fired because a fire truck was dispatched to the wrong address. I’m sure there were discipline procedures in place for this type of thing. If this was a normal work place there might have been steps for corrective action. It is significant that the Times Leader reported that the employee missed some alerts. County Councilman Edd Brominski has called for a more in depth inquiry. Here’s the thing though, where were the managers or “leaders” in all this? I hope Brominski’s probe gives us more answers. These jobs are so important that in a case like this, said employee has to check and double everything. I’m stating the obvious here but details here count.
MAYBE I’M AMAZED….that the President who had the most children was John Tyler our 10th Chief Executive. His last child was born when Tyler was 70. You go John. Tyler as stated previously before on LuLac is significant because he was the first President to succeed from the Vice Presidency and withstood some pressure from William Henry Harrison supporters who were stunned by the death of the old General after 30 days and weren’t crazy about Tyler.
MAYBE I’M AMAZED…..and glad that the State Attorney General’s office has requested a copy of the transcript for the Megan Panowicz hit and run trial. Since the Judge never commented, I’m glad someone is looking for an explanation.
MAYBE I’M AMAZED…..that this weekend marks the 100th anniversary of the assassination of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria. Ferdinand was the heir to the Austro Hungarian throne and was a inspector general of the armed forces. He was not even supposed to be an heir but at the end of the 19th century, a cousin Prince Rudolph committed suicide. That left his father as next in line but he renounced the throne to Franz Ferdinand. Ferdinand was killed with his wife in Sarajevo, the capital of the Austro-Hungarian province of Bosnia and Herzegovina, His assignation along with national pride, various European alliances and a tug of war between nationalism and imperialistic forces were the causes that were laying dormant. His brutal assassination, just a few hours after a grenade attack by members of a Bosnia terrorist organization dubbed The Black Hand is regarded as the fuse that lit World War I. He was killed June 28th, 2014.
MAYBE I’M AMAZED…….but not really that Frankie Valli will be singing at the Fourth of July event in Washington, D.C. The success of the play and movie “Jersey Boys” as well as Valli’s long time popularity will be a welcome sight. Valli turned 80 this May.
MAYBE I’M AMAZED…that with the death Chuck Noll, the former Steelers coach, finally some credit is given those Steeler teams of the 70s. The Steelers won 4 Super Bowl in 6 years. And they weren’t all by one field goal like the New England Patriots. Chuck Noll was a class act and it is good people remembered his body of championship work.