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Stop-and-go Starts Up Again in PA House

They can legislate themselves a pay raise really fast but when it comes to solving a solvable problem, eh not so much.

These stores operate under false pretenses and should be shut down unless they comply with the regulations. Is it really this hard.  Read the story from City and State at the link below.

The House Liquor Control Committee Tuesday afternoon unanimously reported to the full House legislation that is designed to address issues related to “stop-and-go” stores in Philadelphia.

Source: Stop-and-go legislation starts up again in PA House | City & State PA

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Local News Is Screwing Up The “No Panhandling” Policy — Philadelinquency

The point of the story is that when you give the panhandlers your spare change or whatever, you are buying heroin.  Read the always entertaining Chris Sawyer story at the link below to get the details.

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Source: Not Sure Why Local News Is Screwing Up The “No Panhandling” Policy — Philadelinquency

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Frank Deford

Frank Deford is dead at 78. He was “Sports Writer of the Year” 6 times. This will be bad news for some folks who got sports information from Frank Deford.

It will be worse news, though, for folks who appreciate great writing. I have absolutely no interest in sports coverage or sports writing – unless the writing does what we like to think that sports does – bring out the best in us.

Frank Deford from Wikimedia Commons

No doubt there are folks who love sports and love great waiting too and they will have different favorites from me.

My favorite commentaries, since I am a sports skeptic, were the ones where he took on the persona of the “sports curmudgeon”. Those pieces weren’t angry or mean, just insightful.

On one occasion, Frank Deford suggested that hockey should stay in Canada. This seemed a bit too much anti-sports even to me at the time, but who is to say whether the subsequent descent of American politics into brawling wasn’t inspired by professional hockey?

I hope for you, Frank Deford, that your literary heir is smart enough to gather those beautiful essays into a book and find a publisher.

Goodbye and thank you Sir; You will not be forgotten while I live.

 

John Buffington

May 29, 2017

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A guest Opinion from John V. Buffington

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Guest opinions are not those of the Frankford Gazette.

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Trump’s Delusion of Persecution

 

Donald Trump recently declared that “no politician in history has been treated more unfairly.” Really?

It wasn’t more unfair for John Wilkes Booth to kill Abraham Lincoln months after the Gettysburg Address, when it was clear that Lincoln meant to knit the country back together on terms that would have been generous to the defeated Confederates?

Was it maybe a little unfair for James Garfield to be killed by a fool who wanted a job when Garfield was trying to set up something like the modern civil service system?

How about Russian sympathizer Lee Harvey Oswald murdering John F. Kennedy months after JFK barely steered the world through the Cuban Missile Crisis, backing down Russian dictator Nikita Khrushchev?

Does any of that sound a little more unfair than Press reports on the misbehavior of trump and his backers?

But wait –there’s more.

Trump didn’t say “any American politician in history”, he said “any politician”. So Mahatma Ghandi’s assassination wasn’t a wee bit more unfair than criticism of trump? How about the hundreds of democratic politicians from all over continental Europe that died in Hitler’s concentration camps?

Thousands of politicians have been killed for standing for the opposite of Trumpery. It is time to start calling “Alternative Facts” what they are: Lies.

John Buffington

This is the first of a series including prequels on Trump’s claim that his inauguration was the biggest ever. the howler about Barack Obama not being an American citizen, and the refusal to show tax returns.

John Buffington is a recovering Republican living in the Frankford neighborhood of Philadelphia.