Daily Archives: 1, August 13, 2021

Addicted Towns of Pa.: Stories from a state in crisis

Theses are once-proud, hard-working ethnic areas that slowly lost jobs, then entire industries, to the global economy.

“Unspecific Concerns”

“State Rep. Doyle Heffley (R-Carbon), who opposes the proposal, repeatedly questioned the bill. citing unspecific concerns over public safety and the rule of law.” Stephen Caruso, a reporter for the Pennsylvania Capital-Star

…post-Sept. 11 fears of terrorism led the state to tighten the ID laws that year.

State Rep. Doyle Heffley (R-Carbon), who opposes the proposal, repeatedly questioned the bill. citing unspecific concerns over public safety and the rule of law.

“The things that were put in place in 2002 were put in place for a reason, because of what happened on September 11th,” Heffley said. “Thousands of people were killed because we had loopholes in different statuses and people came in here that wanted to hurt us. There are people all over the world that right now would like to do harm to everybody in this country.”

He added that the country’s immigration system was broken, “but they are still the laws until they are adjusted.”

GOP-controlled panel hears bill to grant Pa. drivers licenses to undocumented immigrants

Biden’s war on DeSantis is about kneecapping a GOP governor

The number of migrants crossing our southern border continues to break records, crime is surging and the COVID vaccination effort has stalled. So naturally, the White House spent the past week picking fights with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis.

President Biden said of DeSantis’ refusal to implement vaccine passports, “I say to these governors: Please help, but [if] you aren’t going to help, at least get out of the way.” 

When the Northeast suffered a second COVID wave in the winter of 2020-2021, the buck stopped with the president — not Gov. Cuomo (D), or New Jersey’s Gov. Phil Murphy (D) or Pennsylvania’s Gov. Tom Wolf (D).

Gov. Rob DeSantis clashes with Biden over Florida’s rise …

Aug 5, 2021 – President Biden is blaming Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ handling of Florida’s rising numbers in COVID-19 cases.

CDC admits it DID overcount Florida’s COVID cases: Agency revises down state’s weekend numbers from 28,000 to 19,000 but offers no explanation after falsely claiming ‘record’ infections

• CDC has revised Florida’s COVID-19 figures after the state Department of Health accused the agency of overcounting Sunday’s totals
• The federal health agency reported a new record of more than 28,000 cases on Sunday
• Florida’s DOH accused the CDC of combining multiple days’ worth of data into one and that the true figure is really 15,000, which is an overcount of 15,000
• The state reported 56,000 cases from Friday to Sunday and it is believed that the CDC split the total over two days – Saturday and Sunday – rather than three days
• The CDC’s updated Covid numbers, reporting 19,000 on Sunday, are still higher than the figures published by the DOH   
• Florida no longer reports daily COVID-19 cases, instead publicly revealing weekly counts every Friday 

Congratulations To Biden And His Supporters

Pennsylvania has no plans for COVID-19 vaccine mandate

Gov. Tom Wolf said Pennsylvania has no plans to mandate the COVID-19 vaccine…

“The union exists to protect and support the employees it represents, so the corrections union’s opposition to this initiative to stop the spread of COVID-19 is extremely disappointing,” Wolf press secretary Lyndsay Kensinger.

[The President of the Pennsylvania State Corrections Officers Association, John] Eckenrode told Wolf that the plan for testing won’t make people safer because it does not extend to inmates’ family members, contractors, vendors and volunteers.

“As for masking, our members are required to wear them, but inmates are not,” Eckenrode said

Pa. prison guards’ union warns Gov. Wolf they’ll sue to block vaccine mandate