Rep. Keller and SUN Area Dairy Princess Dawn Franck to Celebrate National Cheese Month

MIFFLINBURG – Rep. Fred Keller (R-Union/Snyder) and SUN Area Dairy Princess Dawn Franck invite residents of Union and Snyder counties to join them for a Cheese Break in celebration of National Cheese Month.

The Cheese Break will be held from 4:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 28, at Keller’s district office within the Mifflinburg Government Center, located at 343 Chestnut St. The office is located in Suite 1.

“Agriculture is the No. 1 industry in Pennsylvania, with dairy production making up the largest segment of that industry,” Keller said. “I encourage residents to drop by my district office at their convenience, even if individuals can only stay for a couple of minutes. The Cheese Break is an excellent opportunity for people to recognize the importance of agriculture.”

The Cheese Break will feature a variety of local cheeses as well as other favorites made from cheese and milk. Recipes booklets will also be available for the foods served as well as for other family recipes.

“During my term as SUN Area Dairy Princess, I would like to raise awareness about the dairy industry and the impact milk and other dairy products have on all our lives,” Franck said. “This is an excellent opportunity to not only learn about the dairy industry and have some delicious snacks, but also to get one of your three recommended servings of dairy for the day.”

If you wish to attend this free event, please RSVP by Tuesday, Oct. 25, by calling Keller’s office at (570) 966-0052 or (570) 837-0052 or by e-mailing Benjamin Ranck at branck@pahousegop.com.
 
State Representative Fred Keller
85th District, Pennsylvania House of Representatives

We received an email, The NEW ANT and the Grasshopper we thought we thought we’d share . . .

THE NEW ANT and the Grasshopper, Two Versions:

The ANT AND THE GRASSHOPPER

This one is a little different….

Two Different Versions …

Two Different Morals

OLD VERSION

The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter.

The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away.

Come winter, the ant is warm and well fed.

The grasshopper has no food or shelter, so he dies out in the cold.

MORAL OF THE OLD STORY:

Be responsible for yourself

MODERN VERSION  

The ant works hard in the withering heat and the rain all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter.

The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away.

Come winter, the shivering grasshopper calls a press conference and demands to know why the ant should be allowed to be warm and well fed while he is cold and starving.

CBS, NBC, PBS, CNN, and ABC show up to provide pictures of the shivering grasshopper next to a video of the ant in his comfortable home with a table filled with food. 

America is stunned by the sharp contrast.  How can this be, that in a country of such wealth, this poor grasshopper is allowed to suffer so?

Kermit the Frog appears on Oprah with the grasshopper and everybody cries when they sing, ‘It’s Not Easy Being Green…’

ACORN stages a demonstration in front of the ant’s house where the news stations film the SEIU group singing, We shall overcome.

Then Rev. Jeremiah Wright has the group kneel down to pray for the grasshopper’s sake, while he damns the ants.

President Obama condemns the ant and blames President Bush 43, President Bush 41, President Reagan, Christopher Columbus, and the Pope for the grasshopper’s plight.  Nancy Pelosi & Harry Reid exclaim in an interview with Larry King that the ant has gotten rich off the back of the grasshopper, and both call for an immediate tax hike on the ant to make him pay his fair share.

Finally, the EEOC drafts the Economic Equity & Anti-Grasshopper Act retroactive to the beginning of the summer.

The ant is fined for failing to hire a proportionate number of green bugs and, having  nothing left to  pay his retroactive taxes, his home is confiscated by the Government Green Czar and given  to the grasshopper.

The story ends as we see the grasshopper and his free-loading  friends finishing up the last bits of the ant’s food while the government house he is  in, which, as you recall, just happens to be the ant’s old house, crumbles around them because the grasshopper doesn’t  maintain it.

The ant has  disappeared in the snow, never to be seen again.

The grasshopper  is found  dead in a drug related incident, and the house, now abandoned, is taken over  by a gang of spiders  who terrorize the ramshackle, once prosperous and peaceful, neighborhood.

The entire Nation collapses bringing the rest of the free world with it.

MORAL OF THE STORY:

Be careful how you vote in 2012.

I’ve sent this to you because I believe that you are an ant not a grasshopper!

Make sure that you pass this on to other ants.  Don’t bother sending it on to any grasshoppers because they wouldn’t understand it, anyway.

Ask a Horse . . . a daily publication from Len Richey

Every morning we can count on our daily Ask a Horse email from our good friend Len Richey.  If you’d like to be included on his email list contact him at askahorse@letsgofirstclass.com.   Len n is a very interesting fellow fighting for liberty; he previously worked under the President Reagan administration.  When Len is around, there is never a dull moment. 

PI 2011 # 240 – Not Until We Act

ASK A HORSE

“When good people in any country cease their vigilance and struggle, then evil men prevail.” ~  Pearl S. Buck

 Wednesday, October 12th, 2011

 Liberty Lovers,

 Americans Will Not Be Free from overreaching “State” authority until they exercise their sovereignty, uphold self-government, and take responsibility for their destiny.  Nor will they be free from private sector exploitation unless they do likewise. 

 “I have always thought the actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.” ~  John Locke

“The greatest menace to freedom is an inert people.” ~  Louis D. Brandeis

 “Knowing is not enough; we must apply!” ~  Johann Wolfgang von

Liberty is Self-Determination. Liberty is declared for Americans by America’s founding Constitutional principles.  Chief amongst those principles is a recognition of private property ownership.  Americans, not “The State” own their property and preside over its use.

“It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners.” ~  Albert Camus

“Thou shalt not be a victim.  Thou shalt not be a perpetrator,  Above all, thou shalt not be a bystander.” ~   Holocaust Museum, Washington, DC

 Shoring Up Opportunity for self-determination is easily done by abolishing direct taxation; by redistributing power, not wealth; and by implementing citizen-controlled taxation.

“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world.  Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.” ~  Margaret Mead

“Action is the antidote to despair.” ~  Joan Baez

“The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.” ~  Herbert Spencer

People Intending To Live In Liberty do not allow legislators – or other public officials within These United States of America to overrule commonwealth/state (10th Amendment) sovereignty as determined and defined by citizens of those respective Commonwealths.  They protect their lives, liberty, and pursuit of happiness as they see fit.

Let Freedom Ring

Click Here – abolishtaxes.org — It’s  your property, not “State,” property.

Best Wishes,  

Len Ritchey

Join Americans for Prosperity for an Unhappy Birthday event

Wednesday, October 5th, at the Capitol Rotunda for an unhappy birthday event!

As the Pennsylvania Prevailing Wage Act of 1961 turns 50 years old, we’ll team up with the Associated Building and Contractors (ABC) to wish it a very “unhappy” 50th birthday! 

The ABC will be joined for a press conference by sponsors of amendments to the Pennsylvania Prevailing Wage Act, during which a giant cake will be presented to commemorate the bill that cost taxpayers untold amounts of money for over-priced public works projects.

DETAILS:

WHO: Americans for Prosperity and Associated Building and Contractors

WHAT: An Unhappy Birthday for the Prevailing Wage

WHEN: Wed., Oct. 5, 2011  9:20 a.m.

WHERE:  Room 148 Main Rotunda, Capitol Bldg. Harrisburg, PA

Join us as we “chalk one up” for the good guys.

 For prosperity and freedom,

 Sam Rohrer

Pennsylvania State Director

Americans for Prosperity

SUNACRW pass resolution for Servanos

SUNACRW formally reaffirmed its commitment to assist Pedro and Salva Servano in their quest for citizenship when it passed a resolution calling upon our elected officials to intervene on their behalf.

Factual Sources

http://dailyitem.com/x691277300/Specter-reviews-case-for-Servanos

http://dailyitem.com/0100_news/x691278402/Servano-attorney-hopes-to-rebound-in-court

http://dailyitem.com/0100_news/x546127871/Despite-immigration-limbo-life-better-for-Filipinos

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/12/us/12naturalize.html?pagewanted=all#

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,312021,00.html

http://articles.philly.com/2007-11-27/news/25224262_1_immigration-officials-filipino-immigrantsfilipino-couple

http://www.manilamaildc.net/2007/12/21/servanos-get-60-day-reprieve/

Pedro and Salvacion Servano

Over the past several years, the immigration act has become a wedge issue with political issues. There are those who are abusing those rules, and those who have sought the proper channels and seem to be caught in catch 22 in the system.  One case involves the Servano family of Selinsgrove, PA. It had received national attention throughout 2007 when then U.S.  Senator Arlen Spector advocated for their cause. The Servano family continues in legal limbo to this day. See attached, “The Servano Story . . . “

WHEREAS, Pedro and Salvacion applied for visas for the United States of America in 1978, while they were still single individuals, and

WHEREAS, during the waiting time and visa process Pedro and Salvacion Servano married in 1980, and

WHEREAS, Salvacion was granted a visa in 1982 and legally came to the USA, and

WHEREAS, in 1984 Pedro was granted a visa and joined his wife Salvacion in the USA, and

WHEREAS, Pedro earned a degree as a medical doctor and Salvacion earned a degree as a nurse. They have been working in America and paying taxes. Pedro has been providing medical care to Americans, including those on Medicare, which other doctors would not accept. Pedro has worked at Geisinger Medical Center for 17 years. Salvacion is currently working part-time at Grayson Assisted Living Center and operating a family store in Sunbury, and

WHEREAS, they purchased homes and established successful businesses in America and have four children who were raised in America and are natural born U.S. citizens. Their children Shappine is 28 and works in Philadelpia; Steven is 26 and a sophomore student at Howard Taft Law School in Santa Ana, CA; Peter is 19 and taking courses for Physical Therapy at the University of Maryland in Baltimore County, MD; and Phoebe is 17 and a senior at Selinsgrove High School, and

WHEREAS, in 1990 Pedro and Salvacion Servano applied for US citizenship and were notified by an immigration official that their visa application listed them as single. They were accused of lying and misrepresenting their marital status and dismissed, and

WHEREAS, Pedro and Salvacion Servano have not broken any laws, and

WHEREAS, Pedro and Salvacion Servano have followed the procedure to obtain rightful legal status in the U.S. and the hope of citizenship in that they waited the time involved and were apart for two years as one was granted access before the other, and

WHEREAS, Pedro and Salvacion have given back to the United States of America through their professions and businesses, and

WHEREAS, Pedro and Salvacion have raised their children to be proud Americans and to be involved in community and civic activities as part of their patriotic duty, and

WHEREAS, Pedro and Salvacion have lived their lives in limbo for the past 21 years, not sure what is going to happen to them or if they will be separated from their family, and

WE RESOLVE THAT, consideration be given to Pedro and Salvacion Servano due to the complexity and uniqueness of their case.

WE RESOLVE THAT, there was no intention to misrepresent their marital status and commend this couple for taking marriage vows and their strong commitment to each other.

WE RESOLVE THAT, copies of this resolution be submitted to members of Pennsylvania’s delegation to the U.S. House and Senate.

WE RESOLVE THAT, a bill be presented from the House of Representatives and the Senate of the United States of America that will provide Pedro and Salvacion Servano U.S. citizenship.

SUNACRW pass Marriage Resolution

On September 1st SUN Area Council of Republican Women unanimously passed the following resolution is support of traditional marriage.  We have submitted the same resolution to PFRW for consideration at next week’s annual convention.

MARRIAGE

Whereas throughout the history of the world marriage has been recognized exclusively as between one man and one woman as husband and wife, and

Whereas by the recognition of marriage the state grants special benefits for spouses, and

Whereas the institution of marriage provides society with the specific benefit of its stable continuation, and

Whereas the institution of marriage is highly regulated; and as such, it is not now, nor has it been a universal right for all persons, and

Whereas sexual love has never been accepted as the sole criteria for defining marriage, let it be

Resolved that the Pennsylvania Federation of Republican Women promotes marriage as the union of one man and one woman as husband and wife, and be it further

Resolved that the Pennsylvania Federation of Republican Women confirms its support for the Republican Party position on marriage as articulated in the 2008 Republican Party platform, “Because our children’s future is best preserved within the traditional understanding of marriage, we call for a constitutional amendment that fully protects marriage as a union of a man and a woman, so that judges cannot make other arrangements equivalent to it. In the absence of a national amendment, we support the right of the people of the various states to affirm traditional marriage through state initiatives.”

“Republicans have been at the forefront of protecting traditional marriage laws, both in the states and in Congress. A Republican Congress enacted the Defense of Marriage Act, affirming the right of states not to recognize same-sex marriages licensed in other states. Unbelievably, the Democratic Party has now pledged to repeal the Defense of Marriage Act, which would subject every state to the redefinition of marriage by a judge without ever allowing the people to vote on the matter.We also urge Congress to use its Article III, Section 2 power to prevent activist federal judges from imposing upon the rest of the nation the judicial activism in Massachusetts and California.”