About Lackawanna County, PA

This article caught my attention today. A seven point buck spies a rival in the yard of Mike and Carol Brye's home in Viroqua, Wis.

During mating season bucks will defend their territory against rival bucks. In the back yard the anxious buck spies a 640 lb concrete elk. Off he goes to charge and butt it multiple times.

Alas, the Elk won. Not before the buck did some serious damage to the statue.

In the picture you can see the buck laying in the yard and the destroyed statue in the foreground. (source)

The Congress passed the massive Health Care Reform Act Saturday night. 220 voted in favor.


Want to know how your Congressmen voted from Pennsylvania?


The following Representatives voted in favor of the Health Care Bill

Robert Brady

Chris Carney

Kathy Dahlkemper

Mike Doyle

Chaka Fattah

Paul Kanjorski

Pat Murphy

Allyson Schwartz

Joe Sestak


WE THE PEOPLE spoke out all this summer and made it known we were against this massive overhaul of our health care system. In spite of our protests these Congressmen from Pa voted party line and not the will of the people. They blindly followed the leadership of Obama and Pelosi. Such action should put their seats in peril in 2010.

November 10, 2010 will be another historic day in American politics. If you disagree with the vote of these elected officials make it known next election day.

For now, contact your state Senators and implore them to vote against this bill when it reaches the Senate floor.

Robert Casey Arlen Specter

It has been many years since our government honored our returning war dead. Dover Air Force base has long been the destination for our fallen heroes return to.

Having served their country in war and conflict, they have made the ultimate sacrifice for us. The first U.S. soil they come home to is Dover Delaware.

For years that somber sorrowful moment has been withheld from the public. The press has been forbidden from covering it. The returning remains in flag draped coffins are handled respectfully by a military team.

They are slowly carried down a ramp from a cargo plane while taps is played and transferred to waiting hearses. The only other people to mourn for them or pay respects are the devastated families.

This practice has existed through several administrations. President Bush did not feel it was appropriate for him to be there, but rather to meet privately with the families.

Our heroes returned to their homeland, having proudly served their government, without any significant government official present to receive them.


On Thursday a clear fall night, the president and staff members traveled to Dover on a 40-minute helicopter ride from the White House. He immediately sat down privately with all the family members in a base chapel.

The solemn process of transferring remains of 15 soldiers and three Drug
Enforcement Administration agents unfolded in four separate movements.
Obama took part in all of them. A chaplain offered prayers for the fallen.

President Obama lifted the ban on the press and allowed families to determine whether or not their loved ones remains would be photographed during the return.

President Obama arrived after midnight and met with the families. He solemnly saluted the coffins as each of our brave Americans passed by him. He returned to the White House at about 4:45 am.

I don't believe the ban should have ever been placed on this moment and hidden from the American Public. I commend President Obama for choosing to remove the ban and that he was present to honor a large number our valiant soldiers.

Thank you President Obama.

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It was reported today that The National Institute of Health is conducting studies into the affects that guns have on health.

This same type of study was discontinued by the CDC more than 10 years ago and deemed useless. Under the Obama administration it has been handed quietly to another agency to continue.

Gun owners should be aware that this is taking place and the possible implications it may have. I'm sure anyone with common sense will know that teenagers who carry guns, drink and hang out on corners are more likely to be involved in a shooting incident than other teens.

Read the linked article for more. U.S. Quietly begins to study gun safety.

The administration is spending your tax dollars why?

"Gun related violence is a public health problem - it diverts considerable health care resources away from other problems and, therefore, is of interest to NIH," Don Ralbovsky, NIH spokesman, wrote in an e-mail responding to questions about the grants.

"These particular grants do not address gun control; rather they deal with the surrounding web of circumstances involved in many violent crimes, especially how alcohol policy may reduce the public health burden from gun-related injury and death," he said.

Republican lawmakers have questioned the value of these studies. "They're also leery of NIH research relating to firearms in general, recalling how 13 years ago the House voted to cut CDC funding when critics complained that the agency was trying to win public support for gun control.

"It's almost as if someone's been looking for a way to get this study done ever since the Centers for Disease Control was banned from doing it 10 years ago," Rep. Joe L. Barton, Texas Republican, said of one of the NIH studies. "But it doesn't make any more sense now than it did then."(Washington Times)

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President Obama certainly has enough on his plate these days - no doubt.

He is busy saving the nation from itself and saving the world from us. One would think he could find a micro minute between flights to sign a pardon.


Late black heavyweight champion Jack Johnson was sent to prison nearly a century ago because of his romantic ties with a white woman.

John McCain has been urging a presidential pardon for Johnson, who was convicted in 1913 of violating the Mann Act, which made it illegal to transport women across state lines for immoral purposes. The law has since been heavily amended, but has not been repealed.


Since Johnson’s death, there have been a couple attempts to grant him a posthumous pardon, and Sen. John McCain is now asking President Obama for a second time to pardon Johnson.

Senator John McCain of Arizona spoke publicly October 17, 2009 about pressing President Obama to posthumously pardon black heavy weight champion boxer, Jack Johnson. McCain, and cohort, Rep. King (R) from New York, who both have amateur boxing in their background, drafted a letter to the President in August stating that after years of trying, the resolution to pardon the boxer, Jack Johnson, has been passed in both chambers of Congress. Now, they would like the President to take action on this matter.

In Friday’s new letter they wrote, “Regrettably, we have not received a response from you or any member of your administration,” adding that they hoped Obama would be eager to “right this wrong and erase an act of racism that sent an American citizen to prison.”He and New York Rep. Peter King requested one in April of this year, but the White House did not respond, so they’re trying again.

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