Sunday Hunting in PA
On June 9th, a meeting was held at Seven Springs Resort to debate the possibility of removing the ban on Sunday hunting in Pennsylvania. Currently, PA is one of only eleven states that ban Sunday hunting. Ohio was the last state to overturn the ban in 2002. It doesn’t seem like a big issue, but both sides of the debate are very passionate. Many sportsmen and hunting associations support the issue stating that the extra day would help the sport of hunting by opening it up to more people and allowing parents that work six days a week to spend more time in the woods with their kids. It would also boost the economy by creating more license sales as well as all the other incidentals that go along with a day out in the field. For example, a new hunter would buy some hunting gear, blaze orange vest and hat, boots…maybe a new gun and ammo. On the way to the hunt, he may stop for breakfast and possible dinner after a day in the field. As you can see, just one hunter can create a lot of extra revenue for local businesses.
Hunting is a tradition passed down from father to son.
Opponents of Sunday hunting are mostly farmers, land owners and hikers. They claim that Sunday is the one and only day that is bullet free. They want the Sunday ban to remain in effect so they can enjoy a day of peace and quiet. That’s fine and dandy, but I have a few problems with these opponents! First of all, why is it always a small group of loud mouths that want to impose silly regulations and restrictions on the majority? Secondly, farmers and land owners are allowed to post their property to prevent hunting. Hikers and campers have many weekends that are hunting free to enjoy the outdoors. Most hunting seasons only last for 2 weeks and they are spaced throughout the calendar. There are also many areas that are off limits to hunters that they can enjoy anytime. Farmers also seem to be double sided on this issue. Many complain about deer and other animals destroying their crops due to large numbers but then they oppose the Sunday hunting even though it may help to thin the herds out and protect their land and crops.
I am one of those people that would benefit from Sunday hunting. I work six days a week and I have very little time to take my boys hunting. I would love to see Sundays opened up for people like me. Hunting is an American tradition and something that I would like to introduce my kids. Without Sundays being open, I would have to short my paycheck by taking un-necessary days off or use vacation days. Others that live from pay check to pay check may not even have those options. I also think that the sport of hunting needs new participants in order to held wildlife management. I’m sure anyone in PA or many of the other Northeastern States have noticed an increase in dear vs. vehicle accidents. As the herds grow, the deer expand their Territory until it overlaps with ours causing millions of dollars in damage as well as many deaths. By regulating the deer population, the death and destruction will decrease and the deer herds can continue at a more healthy level.
In conclusion, I think that the whiny minority needs to quit bitching and start supporting American Freedom and tradition. Our country was built on the foundations of hard work, tradition and providing for yourself and your family. Hunting is a big part of our American Heritage and once again, there is a small group that want’s to restrict that. Hunting is also a tradition that is handed down from father to son (and daughters, too) but if silly blue laws like the Sunday ban aren’t repealed, this tradition may become endangered. Hopefully, the Seven Springs committee will do the right thing and introduce the bill to the state senate in order to get the Sunday hunting ban lifted LIKE A MOFO!
Castle Doctrine Bill Passes PA Senate Committee
Yesterday was a big day for Pennsylvania citizens and another small victory for legal gun owners! A Pennsylvania Senate Committee passed the NRA supported Castle Doctrine known as HB 40 with a 13 – 1 vote. Introduced by state Representative Scott Perry (R-92), HB 40 would permit law-abiding citizens to use force, including deadly force, against an attacker in their home and any place outside of their home where they have a legal right to be. If enacted into law, it would also protect individuals from civil lawsuits by the attacker or the attacker’s family when force is used.
Another victory for PA Residents!
Currently, the law in Pennsylvania requires you to retreat from a threatening situation when ever possible. That’s right…even in your own house, you have no right to defend yourself unless it is a last desperate option. Even then, you will be subject to a flurry of civil and criminal lawsuits from any number of factions. Completely unacceptable! HB 40 will give PA Residents the legal power to defend your home and your family that they deserve. It also protects your right to defend yourself outside the home and in your vehicle. It’s a shame that we need a law like this because it is just common sense that you should be allowed to defend yourself but in this day and age, it’s also good to have written law behind you in all cases of self defense.
It’s not over yet…the bill will now be considered by the PA State Senate as early as today! Once HB 40 passes the Senate vote, I hope we can all count on Gov. Corbett to do the right thing and sign it into Pennsylvania Law! So for now, we need to call our Senators and tell them that we want them to support HB 40 LIKE A MOFO!
Lavish Lawmaker Spending In Face Of Looming Budget Cuts
School Budget Cuts Bad News for PA
With looming budget cuts and financial turmoil dividing Harrisburg, PA, I was surprised to find a report from a local TV station exposing lavish spending from not just one but a whole list of Pennsylvania lawmakers! One of the biggest budget cuts in the state is affecting our education system with hundreds of Pennsylvania teachers getting their pink slips at the end of the school year. Schools all over the state are cutting back on student functions and extra curricular activities for next year. However, the budget crunch hasn’t ended the frivolous spending that goes on by our elected officials! Take a look at this article from WTAE in Pittsburgh:
Team 4 Uncovers Lavish Lawmaker Spending In Face Of Looming Budget Cuts
Lets break this article down into snippets…
PITTSBURGH — As school districts lay off teachers and cut programs because of budget cuts in Harrisburg, Team 4 has been digging into lawmakers’ spending.Team 4 investigative reporter Jim Parsons found a lot of questionable spending, including an Allegheny County lawmaker who authorized a $10,000 party, a senator who had a pair of $50 meals just a few miles from his Pittsburgh home and another legislator who took a $900 limo ride from Harrisburg to Philadelphia and then back again on the same day.All of those expenses were funded by taxpayers, Parsons reported.Team 4 got the spending records from the House and Senate Leadership Fund, the official term for what some refer to as the call the state legislature’s slush fund. The fund is $180 million that lawmakers can spend any way they want. Like the $50 meals Sen. Wayne Fontana of Pittsburgh ate with his Harrisburg staff at McCormick and Schmick’s. The restaurant is not in Harrisburg, but on Pittsburgh’s South Side.WOW! This is the kind of spending that we need to cut back in the state capitol! I don’t know what is more troubling, out of control spending or the attitude from the lawmakers when they are asked to account for it:
“Why are taxpayers buying you lunch in Pittsburgh?” Parsons asked Fontana. “I assume it’s a meeting we had in Pittsburgh. I can’t remember what the
Senator Wayne Fontana
There you have it! Nothing pisses me off more when elected official are interviewed and they evade, elude or refuse to talk to reporters! We elected this pricks and now they don’t want us to know what is going on behind closed doors at the state capitol! It is seriously time to clean up our government system and get rid of the dead wood. There are too many career politicians that are in the business of government just to line their pockets for retirement and live like a king doing it! Let’s read on:
House Democratic Leader Frank Dermody of Oakmont hired Premier Catering last December to bring in lunch for 500 people.The menu included crab fondue, turkey au jus with Dutch stuffing and mashed potatoes and apple
Catered Lunch Spread, Anyone? We paid for it!
That’s the attitude of an aristocracy, that’s not the attitude of public servants! Hot Diggity Dog! Mr. Potts, you nailed it right on the head! This is exactly what I am talking about! We elect these representatives and all of the sudden, they become better than us peasants! They feel that they deserve to live high on the hog. The fact is that they work for us! We pay them with our hard earned tax dollars. They should be required to answer our questions and do as we say! Something needs to change and it needs to change now! We can not sacrifice the education of our children while these pompous assholes run a muck while in control. As hundreds if not thousands of Pennsylvania teachers lose there jobs, don’t just sit back and say “Oh well.” Get on the phone and call your state representative and tell them you want this shit cut out! Tell them to pack a lunch LIKE A MOFO and save thousands of dollars that can help get our education system back on track!
Protecting stupid people from themselves
Hello readers! Welcome back after the long Memorial Day Weekend! As I logged on to the internet this morning, I was greeted by a local news story that
Derry, PA
got my blood pumping! “Police Say Pedestrians Still Crossing Deadly Set Of Train Tracks” If train tracks are deadly than pencils cause misspellings! Matches cause forest fires! Spoons caused Rosie O’Donnell to get fat! OK, OK…you get the point! It’s not like a train sneaks up on you while your walking on the tracks! Especially on the section of tracks this article is referring to! These tracks are straight and you can see for close to a mile in either direction…if you are crossing the tracks at the place where these several accidents happened, you will have plenty of advance warning of a train coming. Not only can you see it, you will hear it as they always blow the air horns when approaching the road crossings just down track from this area. This is just another case of the government trying to protect stupid people from meeting their destinies! It’s natural selection, people! If you are dumb enough to step in front of an oncoming train, than you probably deserve the gruesome results. You don’t need the government to keep you safe from trains…all you need is some common sense!
Here is a snippet from the article linked above:
DERRY, Pa. — Police in one Westmoreland County community said pedestrians are still illegally crossing a set of train tracks that’s been the scene of three fatalities in the past two years.According to police, Robin Price, 39, was cited for criminal trespass for crossing the Norfolk Southern railroad tracks at East Second and Chestnut streets in Derry Borough.Police said the crossing is known for two recent fatal train accidents involving three people, including a mother and her young child.In July 2009, a 15-year-old boy was struck and killed by a train after leaving a grocery store in Derry.In October of the same year, Sheila Singer, 37, and her 2-year-old son, John Smart, also died crossing the same set of tracks. Police say pedestrians use the tracks as a shortcut instead of taking the bridge along state Route 217.There have been several train vs. pedestrian accidents through the years in the small railroad town of Derry, PA, but the one that got people talking happened in July 2009. A 15 year old kid leaves the grocery store and stops on the tracks to fiddle with his Ipod. Apparently, he see’s a train coming so he backs up to the other set of tracks and stops again, planning to wait the train out only several feet from the tracks in use. Not realizing a train was coming simultaneously from the other direction…he gets blasted! October 2009, a 37 year old mother tries to beat the train across the tracks with her 2 year old son in a stroller. Stroller gets stuck, she gets her young daughter across safely and returns to get he 2 year old just in time to get hit killing both her and the 2 year old child. Both cases were totally preventable if the victims just had some common sense! The unfortunate 2 year old child was murdered by his stupid parent. I do feel bad for this child but I still do not think all citizens should be restricted because of the actions of a few stupid ones. Robin Price does not deserve a citation for criminal trespass in my opinion! Media outcry is unjustified.
The tracks separate North Derry from South Derry and have long been a shortcut to go from the residential section in North Derry to the Downtown area in South Derry. The only other option is to walk up the tracks and climb a set of steep stairs to the Route 217 bridge and walk across the long bridge to the other side and then walk back down the tracks to town. Definitely a long trip for anyone especially the elderly. One can effectively look both ways and cross the tracks in less than 30 seconds. No problem. Problems happen when people get stupid and try to cross before the train gets there or just plain don’t pay attention.
RIP Common Sense
The resulting debates from the 2 accidents divided the small town even more. The Mayor called for a large fence to block crossing as well as extra police patrolling the area issuing citations to anyone caught trying to cross the tracks. That’s all fine and dandy, but who pays for the fence and extra police presence? We do! We have to pay to keep stupid people safe! This notion goes a lot deeper than the train tracks of Derry, PA…just think of all the instances where the government has decided that we are too stupid to protect ourselves from danger and thus created new laws and extra expenses to help keep us safe! Examples are everywhere! Some are justifiable in the name of public safety but others are ridiculous! All because some stupid people decide to set the benchmark for idiocy and make the evening news.
Although I do like a good debate, I don’t want to sound in-compassionate. I truly feel for public safety but I just want to stress the importance of common sense! If more people would practice good common sense and situational awareness, we could cut meaningless accidents down by half. Accidents will always happen, but a majority of them are preventable. You don’t need the government to protect you from every cut, scratch and boo-boo, you just need to think LIKE A MOFO before you act! An ounce of common sense will keep you safer than a metric shit ton of rules and laws!
Greensburg 6 – Death Penalty for All!
That’s right, no pussy footing around, no endless trials and appeals! Just put all 6 of them to death! People that take part in torture and murder like this do not deserve to breath the same air that we do! It doesn’t matter who did the torturing or who finally killed the victim, they all took part in some fashion and they are all responsible!
I had the displeasure of meeting Ricky Smyrnes when he lived in some rat hole trailer in New Alex several years ago. He stopped by work on several
The Greensburg 6
occasions to purchase items for a vehicle he was working on but ended up bouncing the check and never paying. I can assure you that this guy was ans still is a waste of life! Ignorant, arrogant and just down right weird! I would have no problem pulling the lever on the electric chair for any of these losers! When a animal tastes blood, it is changed forever and people are no exception. We cannot heal these people and they will never serve a constructive purposeful life so why incarcerate them for the rest of their worthless lives?
Let’s just do the right thing and zap them! Get ‘ole Sparky warmed up. It will be a busy day! Broadcast it on all the major networks too! Just as a reminder to all the other dumb asses out there that think torture and murder is normal. It’s not normal…functioning mentally handicapped people know the difference between right and not right! So we better not hear that excuse either from these six dead beats. Make no mistake, we will be hearing about this case for a long time. With six accused, the trials and appeals will last until they die of natural causes. But it shouldn’t be that way…It’s our tax money that pays for these proceedings so I say fry them and keep the change LIKE A MOFO!
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