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2012 Mummers Results
The parade is over. Many thanks to Philly’s WPHL-TV17 for the webcast and the video clips.
String Bands Division, Woodland . . . 94.4
Fancy Brigade Division, Downtowners. . . 174
Fancy Costume Division, Hog Island . . . 1603
King Clown, Polynesian Volcano Dancer (Hog Island). . . 75
Juveniles, Struttin Ms Daisy (Hog Island). . . 30
Comic Division, Murray . . . 8760
Brigade, Two Street Stompers (Goodtimers) . . . 200
Most Original Character, Occupy 2nd Street Those Dirty Dancing Mummers (Landi). . . 200
Most Original Costume, Mummers’ Dance Studio (Murray) . . . 200
Wenches, Mardi Gras (O’Malley). . . 125
The total list of 2o12 Mummers Results and the 2012 Mummers Videos of all the bands and brigades.
2012 Mummers Parade Live Video Stream
According to Philadelphia television station WPHL-17, the entire Mummers Parade will once again be streamed live on this page from 10am to 5pm (EST) on New Year’s Day (1/1/12).
And like last year, after the parade, all the band videos will be captured into video clips and be available for viewing anytime.
Link: PHL-17 video link
Manuel Noriega Headed For Panama Prison
Manuel Noriega, Panama’s military dictator of the 1980s, 
is being returned to Panama today to a jungle prison and a 20-year term for the murders of opponents during his rule.
Having served sentences in the United States and France, now 77 years old, he has only 20 more years to go before he completes his sentence.
Link: The Guardian
Marine Corps 236th Birthday
Helping to make our birthday’s possible, and our nation secure. May we never forget the sacrifices they made and make every day.
Commandant of the Marine Corps’ Birthday Message.
To me, the spirit of America and the spirit of the Marine Corps are one and the same. OoooRaaaa
Colorado Proposition 103 Gets A Shellacking
Big news in Colorado. The 2008 election made Colorado a Blue state for the first time in 15 years, Obama 54% McCain 45%, buoyed by the support of the state’s growing Hispanic population, a key demographic to victory in 2012. So you would be surprised to see that 63.5% of the voters rejected Proposition 103 Tuesday.
Prop 103 was a $2.9 billion tax increase in sales and income taxes to be used for schools. I think this marks the first time that the ‘it’s for the children’ excuse has not worked. The people of Colorado feel they are paying enough taxes already and expect the state to do the job with what they have. A notion contrary to liberal dogma.
“We need to do this for our kids,” said Heath, D-Boulder. “Our kids can’t wait.”
“This is a victory for all Colorado taxpayers,” said Senate Minority Leader Bill Cadman, R-Colorado Springs. “We can’t help children by bankrupting their parents.”
It looks like ‘it’s the economy stupid’ is paramount in the minds of the people of Colorado and spells trouble in 2012 for an administration that only wants to raise taxes more.
When A Soldier Comes Home
Something to consider the next time you pass a soldier in an airport terminal, or anywhere else. Reach out your hand and thank them for their service and their sacrifice.
The content below was sent to me in an email from a Vietnam veteran who I’ve known for the better part of 12 years. Regardless of what you might think of the Commander-in-Chief, never forget that these men and women volunteered to do military service. They volunteered to preserve our country by serving our country in the most dangerous of circumstances. They, and their families, deserve your thanks, respect, and support.
When a soldier comes home, he finds it hard….
…to listen to his son whine about being bored.
…to keep a straight face when people complain about potholes.
…to be tolerant of people who complain about the hassle of getting ready for work.
…to be understanding when a co-worker complains about a bad night’s sleep.
…to be silent when people pray to God for a new car.
…to control his panic when his wife tells him he needs to drive slower.
…to be compassionate when a businessman expresses a fear of flying.
…to keep from laughing when anxious parents say they’re afraid to
send their kids off to summer camp.
…to keep from ridiculing someone who complains about hot weather.
…to control his frustration when a colleague gripes about his coffee being cold.
…to remain calm when his daughter complains about having to walk the dog.
…to be civil to people who complain about their jobs.
…to just walk away when someone says they only get two weeks of vacation a year.
…to be forgiving when someone says how hard it is to have a new baby in the house.
The only thing harder than being a Soldier…
Is loving one.
I was asked to pass this on and I will gladly do so. Will you???
aSide Order
There is an ‘Issues’ box in the left-hand column. I was looking for a place to highlight some posts that are just as important and relevant today as they were when they were originally written.
If I had a reading assignment, it would have to include all the posts there.
Well, except for maybe the Bayou Texar link. That is a local (Pensacola) environmental issue. Part of that story is how environmental contamination is allowed in some cases, and not in others.
If there is a company with deep pockets involved, the lawyers would swarm all over that and the problem would be fixed. But when the problem can not be traced to a company but can be traced to a homeowner, then well, it’s OK.
It must be OK because nothing has been done about fixing it in the four years I’ve been following it, and the decades before that.
9 Things That Make You Say…”Help Me, Jesus!”
OSAMA BIN LADEN has just met with the first of his 72 virgins that had been promised to him.
ECAT Working Conditions, Worst In 16 Years
Escambia County Area Transit (ECAT) bus drivers are on strike. Thyrie Bland at the Pensacola News Journal writes ECAT drivers on strike, Wage issue halts public transit for thousands.
The human aspect of the bus drivers going on strike is inescapable. Their riders are their customers. They are people who don’t have personal transportation and that includes the working poor. They also include physically handicapped folk like Mr. Freeman. Regardless, these are folks that need to get to their jobs so they can put food on the table and pay their bills, get to the store or the doctor.
Being responsible for creating a hardship on those with no alternative transportation is unconscionable. But is also standard fare for organized labor negotiating tactics. A lesson about labor unions and liberals in general is that they are liberals first, they are union first, and you are not on their list.
I bet these riders vote. And I also bet that they will remember who it was that caused them to miss work. It was a government labor union member who has a full-time job making from $12-16 an hour.
According to Michael Lowery, president of Local 1395 . . .
The employees have gone over 1,000 days without a raise, and working conditions are the worst I’ve seen in 16 years.
No raise in a couple of years huh? How does it feel (government labor union member) to be more like your neighbors? The ones that still have a job. Surprise! It happens in the private sector too! That’s life in the big city. The article brings to question a dispute of one half on one percent. If there’s a half of a percent in dispute in the current contract, then ‘work’ it out.
Working conditions? What working conditions? With all due respect to the drivers, you drive a bus.
Worst working conditions in 16 years? Which begs the question, when the head of my local labor union says that my working conditions are the worst that they’ve been in 16 years, just what am I paying my dues for?
Here’s an idea . . .
Teaching Tolerance?
What liberal teachers and activists do when they have unfettered access to children.
Warning: Sexually graphic and gross.
h/t Black & Right