The Kenyan, and elected "D's in general) have set precident for this form of law breaking. The voting districts should follow their examples.
Posted on 08/17/2012 8:26:58 AM PDT by smoothsailing
My Father and my older Brother attended St Henry’s. We lived at 9th and Courtland, moved from their in 1975 - it was getting bad by then.
“...it was getting bad by then....”
You know the saddest thing about all this?
So many of us have been displaced from our hometown, our neighborhoods...and we look back fondly and nostalgically.
Neighborhoods just don’t “go bad”...”neighborhoods” themselves don’t do ANYTHING.
It’s the people that come in after you. People make the neighborhood. Or destroy it.
Of course, we’re “racist” if we say so...
Perhaps the saddest thing is realizing that the poet who said “You can’t go home again” was indeed, correct, for a lot of us.
And it makes me more than a bit angry too. My folks had pride in their home; it wasn’t much, a shoebox of a rowhome, but it was theirs, they worked for it, they maintained it, and they raised their kids - our people - there.
And now it’s trashed by people with zero respect for themselves, for their neighborhood, for anything. And it happens over and over again, systematically.
That’s what is angering to me.
Me too. A friend of mine grew up in coal country east of Pittsburgh and he says the entitlement mentality is the culprit. As the industries (railroads, oil, steel, coal) have drawn down the majority of the laid-off workers have gone onto the dole. Across large swaths of the state there are white families that are two, three or even four generations removed from the notion of working for a living. My friend has in-laws in this category. None of them have worked a permanent job in decades. They receive welfare, foodstamps and a housing stipend of some sort from the state. Thier kids went straight from college(!) to the unemployment line a decade ago when jobs were plentiful and there wasn't much of an excuse. They aren't typical donk voters, but they recoil from the idea of voting for someone who might derail the gubmint gravy train. My friend swears that folks like this are legion in rural PA. Based on past elections, he might be right.
Where in the Constitution are you guaranteed the right to vote without proving you are a citizen who has the right to vote?
The USSC couldn't find it anywhere.
I remember the people that were the problem, they didn't live right in area at first, they would just cause problems in our area. Before we moved there were homes being abandoned when the old folks that lived there passed and no one wanted to move in. Beautiful Wissahickon schist houses, left to rot.
Pennsylvania confounds me.
However,the gas/oil boom in N.Pa is changing things for the better up here.
At least I think so.
Its not just the gas/oil but all the other side business that benefit from the influx.
Most everyone in the oil bussiness our pro-family,obviously hard workers, and they have money to infuse into some of the pooreer areas.
All things that appeal to non-communist and or non-reliefers.
I pray that Philly and Chicago turn themselves around and make Paddy choke on his words, (actually it's too late for Paddy..he died some time ago.)
I hear you, friend.
Your story sounds much like my own.
Best we can do is build that atmosphere, as much as possible, in our own neighborhoods now.
Know your neighbor; help them when they need it. Watch over next door’s kids when they’re playing outside. Know which cars belong on your street, and which don’t. Got a sick or elderly widow/widower, help them out. Make sure they’re OK.
Take pride in living where you live, and your neighbor will too. Chances are, HE got moved out just the same as we did.
I miss it, but I’m glad I am where I am now. People who take care of their own little area of responsibility set an example for others.
Hang out a flag, Christmas lights, Halloween candy for the kids, know their names, and be “that guy” on the block who always has a helping hand to lend.
At the end of the day, THAT is what Mom and Dad taught us in those little Philly rowhomes, with their struggles and triumphs. I think it’s just part of being an American, and loving the idea of America.
It NEVER has to go away. Only goes away if we let it.
95% means they ain't trying. If you look at the census statistics for some Philly precincts they get 105-115% turnout.
The Kenyan, and elected "D's in general) have set precident for this form of law breaking. The voting districts should follow their examples.
Ignore the ruling? I think you read it wrong.
The judge’s ruling upheld the new Voter ID law.
“If you look at Philly election statistics, they have something like 95% turnout in which over 80% votes Democrat.”
I thought in the 2000 election Philly had over 100% turnout.
It seems that every election cycle those on the left have the time, energy and money to go out of their way to get people registered to vote. Then they have the same time, energy and money to somehow transport people to the polls to vote.
Now, why don’t they take these same resources to get people to state offices to get a valid ID? Seems pretty logical to me.
Don Anderson Jr., Cottage Grove
http://www.twincities.com/opinion/ci_21330408/letters-logic-left
But, who is going to enforce this in Philly when you have Black Panthers standing there in fatigues with clubs in their hands? Seriously; how will this be enforced. If anyone has the answer, I’d love to hear it.
“If you look at Philly election statistics, they have something like 95% turnout
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NO WAY!!! No place in America has ever had 95% turnout. Am I missing something here?
Despite Bammy's win here in 2008, it still is nowhere close to a RAT stronghold. But by driving what remains of the good people out with the accreditation scare and near dismantling of the athletic program, the gay mafia and their RAT allies are poised to take control.
This really hits close to home and rips my heart out. Our son in law had been accepted into a mostly scholarship paid graduate program and we were so looking forward to having him, our daughter and (especially) our grandson close to home. But, of course, he's asked them to defer the offer and, of course, Penn State has accepted the request because they don't exactly have a lot of people lined up to take his place. They are doing okay now. He's recently earned a promotion at work and they just don't want to take the risk of investing in a degree program which might be rendered worthless by administrative fiat.
I think you’re responding to someone else; I asserted that they had over 100% turnout when Gore ran against Bush.
You’re right; my bad. Apologies.
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