Steven Katz EA

07/02/2024

What's Good for the Goose is Good for the Gander Department:

Now that SCOTUS has announced that a President has absolute immunity when acting in an "Official Capacity" and apparently accepted the notion that a President can legally order the assassination of his/her political enemies, I say that Biden should promptly exercise the acts that SCOTUS so kindly gave him - to act as Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces to order our Armed Forces to assassinate Donald Trump, every Republican member of Congress and the 6 SCOTUS justices that just gave him the legal immunity to do so.

07/02/2024

Now that SCOTUS has given absolute immunity to a President acting in "an official capacity" and has ruled that a President talking with the Department of Defense is an "official capacity" conversation, I say Biden should, as Commander in Chief of our Armed Forces, order the Special Services (like the Seals) to assassinate Donald Trump and every Republican member of Congress and the 6 Justices on the SCOTUS who gave him that Constitutional authority.

After all, what is good for the goose is good for the gander.

06/03/2024

How stupid can a Government Bureaucrat Get Department:

My daughter-in-Law is a Native Chinese immigrant to the USA. She was born and brought up[ in China. She learned English as a second language and is reasonably proficient in it. She is attempting to get her Chinese teacher's license converted to a PA teacher's license. She wants a Mandarin endorsement on that license. PA requires that she take a Mandarin Proficiency exam to prove that she knows how to read and speak her native language.

Cue malicious compliance:

How does one show the PA Education Department how stupid that is? Here are some suggestions I offered to her:

1: Ask the test proctors all questions in Mandarin.

2: Correct any grammar or syntax errors in the Mandarin part of the exam and ask "What ABC wrote this crap?" (*ABC is American Born Chinese)

3: If any of the exam instructions are written in English, ask the proctors to translate them to Mandarin for her so she can understand them.

Any other ideas?

05/17/2024

Some homeowners Insurance companies have a "Welcome to Lawrence County" shock in store for you. They will refuse to insure your home.

True story - I bought a house on Taylor Street two years ago for $45,000. I got a real bargain. Bought another, similar (age, size, condition) house in Mahoningtown this year, also $45,000. When you purchase homeowners Insurance the premium is not based on what the house cost you, but (logically) on what it will cost the Insurance Company to re-build it. I have no problem with that, because that, ultimately, is the risk the Insurance Company is taking.

The new wrinkle (at least with Auto-Owners Insurance) is that if the purchase price of the house is less than 50% of the replacement cost, they will refuse to insure. The Insurance company can twist and manipulate the calculation of the Replacement cost in any way it chooses, to drive up the replacement cost value and therefore the premium. In my case the replacement value (according to Auto Owners) of each of the houses is around $500,000. Auto Owners took the premium payment then flat cancelled both policies because I got a bargain. Since central city New Castle has many houses selling for under $250,000 and the replacement cost on just about all of them should be about equal, congratulations, New Castle, you just got Red-Lined. And you know that if one Insurance Company can get away with this, they all will.

01/19/2024

It's sing along time:

Trump is everything that Trumpers say they hate.He’s a guy who’s never done a hard day’s work.He’s the type who is an unrepentant jerk.He’d be poor if he’d ...

10/11/2023

What a LIAR....

Hamas' Head of Political and International Relations has told Sky News that no civilians have been killed by the militant group.Doctor Basem Naim told Sky's ...

10/10/2023

Now is the time for people of all faiths to come together to fight the barbarism of the invasion of Israel by Hamas.

In 1947 Golda Meir came to the USA with $47 in her purse. She returned to Tel Aviv a couple of weeks later with $25 million dollars, all donated by American Jews. Her appeal was simple: "You cannot determine whether we will fight or not. We will fight, we will bleed, we will die. You can only decide whether we win or lose."

It is now time for us to do it again. The American Jewish community must dig deep into our hearts, souls and pockets to fight this barbarism. The non-Jews among us must also help, because the fight of Israel is the fight of all democracies. Not since the 1930's have Totalitarian regimes tried to attack democracies as they are today. If we say that this is not America's fight, then we are allowing the dictators of the world to win. Israel's fight comes while the Ukraine has been defending itself from Russian aggression for over a year. Have we learned NOTHING from Neville Chamberlain's waving a piece of paper claiming "peace in or time"? The democracies of the world all must stand together as one or watch the world be gobbled up by Dictators.

Ukraine's fight is our fight.
Israel's fight is our fight.

Which democracy is next?

Taiwan to be invaded by Communist China?
South Korea to be attacked by North Korea?

10/09/2023

After launching a massive attack on Israel, with their terrorists shooting unarmed civilians at will and taking hostages, now Hamas is threatening to start killing hostages.

They should be glad I am not Bibi Netanyahu. With that threat, if I were Israel's PM I would order the IDF to go into Gaza and round up the first 10,000 people they see and cart them deep into the Negev. Hamas wants to play with hostages lives? Two can play. My answer would be "for every hostage you kill, we will kill 500. If we run out of hostages, we will go back and get more." I would start with family members of known terrorists.

09/22/2023

Well... McCormick announced for the US Senate seat from Pennsylvania. All he has to do is move here and register to vote here, but he has been registered and living in Connecticut for over 15 years.

09/20/2023

This polarization along political lines is something that has been slowly going on for many years, but if you look at the grand scheme of things, our way of looking at candidates is drifting away from the traditional "I support and vote for the best candidate, not the Party" towards being closer to the British system of looking at your vote as a reward or punishment for the Party in Power The Parties them selves have been helping this transition along by dramatizing the importance of supporting a TICKET instead of a candidate. In yesterday's news, the lower legislative chamber in TWO States has flipped to the Democrats by a SINGLE legislator - those States are NH and PA. Our own Federal House of Representatives, while being run by the Republicans, they enjoy only a 4 seat majority. One of those 4 seats is literally guaranteed to flip back to the Blue next year (unless you really believe NY's George Santos has any chance of winning). That makes a net gain of 3 seats to flip nationwide next year while holding the Senate. Vote the Ticket, not the candidate.