HOMER CITY, Pennsylvania — Eighteen months ago, Shawn Steffee stood in a field in Indiana County and watched the smokestacks of Pennsylvania’s largest coal-fired power plant fold into a cloud of dust, then told anyone who would listen that the wreckage was not a funeral.
“This isn’t the end, this is the beginning,” said the business agent for Boilermakers Local 154.
This Labor Day, that prediction is unfolding.
Homer City Generation announced Friday morning that more than 1,800 direct-hire tradespeople and skilled contractors are currently working at the site of the largest natural gas-powered plant currently under construction in the United States.
Those workers are from nine local union organizations. Roughly 95% of them are local.
They are boilermakers, carpenters, electricians, ironworkers, laborers, millwrights, operators, pipefitters, and teamsters all the same trades that their fathers worked when the coal plant ran three shifts here. And now all are able to stay close to their families, close to the woods they hunt and the streams they fish, and still have good-paying jobs. https://t.co/bqU6uFFS6i
AUTOMATIC LICENSE PLATE READERS & YOUR PRIVACY
Automatic License Plate Readers (ALPRs) are increasingly being used in communities across Pennsylvania. These systems can be valuable tools for law enforcement - but powerful technology requires clear safeguards and accountability.
We can support law enforcement AND protect the privacy of law-abiding citizens. We should insist on both.
That is why I am introducing legislation to establish reasonable safeguards governing the use, retention, access, and sharing of ALPR data in Pennsylvania.
Public safety should not require Pennsylvanians to surrender their constitutional liberties. We can give law enforcement effective tools while ensuring that innocent citizens are protected from unnecessary surveillance and misuse of their information.
Protect public safety. Protect our privacy. Protect our rights.
🚨 BREAKING — SPENCER PRATT DROPS RED PILLS ON AMERICA:
“Communists have infiltrated our institutions and built a shadow network of NGOs laundering YOUR tax dollars to fund the revolution, rig elections, and tear down our society.”
“Are you awake yet?”
💯💯💯 @spencerpratt
WAKE UP, America!
Time to crush communism for good 🇺🇸
RT if you’re done with this!
Just flying out of the still great and proud city of Boston Massachusetts!
Tremendously wonderful and brilliant people live here in the state with the highest concentration of Universities.
My thoughts are of the people visiting our amazing Nation from all over the world who can see for themselves what a truly free, beautiful and vibrant country we are blessed by God to live in.
Unlike the usual propaganda they are force fed by a media that lives on grievances and envy, the same self loathing that now infects our former places of higher learning, our new friends can see and breath in what our Free nation actually is…
A people that are guaranteed their rights not from the state but by their creator, and what those free people can create:
The Freest most powerful Nation and greatest economy the world has ever known.
Our Founding Fathers didn’t promise ‘a
Perfect Union’, but promised to pursue ‘a more perfect union, with its checks and balances put in place to make it most difficult for any one person or party to co-opt enough power to bring tyranny to their new invention.
It’s still working, though the looney Leftist whiners and their not so new fixation with the not so new communism restoration project, which attempts to do the only thing socialism is capable of doing, getting the most despicable of complainers to revolt against a system that actually works and improves the lives of the average working citizen.
Since the commie dipshit has nothing to offer to society, they must feed from the trough of their own self made misery of ignorance and chosen failures.
They complain and tear away at the very fabric that gave them their freedom to complain so safely from government reprisal in the first place.
So it must irk them, like any happy successful person does, that our international friends are loving what they hate most…
America the beautiful, home of the brave and land of the Free!
It is my sincere hope that these malcontent forever adolescents with their ungrateful narcissism and bad breath and interesting choice of a system that caused the deaths of over 100,000,000 human beings over our last century, come to their senses and end their inner and outer ugliness and embrace the gift of Freedom that so many Americans fought and spilled their blood for.
But if they don’t, I take solace in the smiles and joy that our new international lovers of our America are soaking up.
I take even more solace that we have the Second Amendment just in case these dipshits try to force their brand of unhappy ignorance on the rest of us.
I gently remind them, though they may have up to 95 percent of the University faculty, and 100 percent of the trans gender affirming child surgically mutilating boys in girls sports community, we have the Army, Navy, National Guard, Air Force, Police and Fire Departments.
Happy and Free Sunday everybody!
God Bless the United States of America!
TRUMP: “They want to restart the war on Christians and churches, and as you saw with the Communists elected in New York recently... they want to completely destroy the traditional American way of life.”
“Communism is very easy to sell... but you’ll start living in squalor. There will be no food, there will be no housing, there will be no Military, there will be no law and order. There will be nothing. You’ll be Third World in every way, and everyone will suffer or die...”
Saw this on FB: 🔥 🔥
On day 1 of my high school history class, our teacher got up and said:
“You are 15 or 16 years old. 200 years ago, people your age were married, planted crops, had children and built a cabin before winter.
You can do your homework. The bar is set embarrassingly low. You are not dealing with regional famine or plague. You do not have to save your family from marauders or go into battle to destroy your enemies.
You just have to sit down and learn from someone who cares about you in a safe air-conditioned room.
You have no excuses.”
This is the kind of teachers we need.
Was it just me, or did Barack Obama seem very passive-aggressive while lecturing us on how the Founders "fell short?" And I love how he threw in that the Founders only let "white men who owned property" vote. Because it proves that he has NO IDEA what he's talking about.
The Founders didn't care about your gender. They cared if you had a stake in the game. If you owned property, you could vote, no matter your gender. Honestly, we should bring that logic back—if you aren't paying taxes, why should you get a vote on how everyone else's money is spent?
“I'm gonna dox myself because I'm moving, but I've lived near Meridian Hill Park in D.C. for almost two years now and the water's never been in the pond there. This has never happened before. I was always too afraid to come here because of the homeless people but they're all gone and it seriously looks like Paris.
I mean, I've never seen this many people out here. I mean, look, everyone is enjoying it. Everybody.
A year ago, Trump said he was gonna clean up D.C. and he did. It is clean, it's calm, it's quiet except for the Chipotle down in Navy Yard apparently this weekend, but I wasn't there for that. The homeless are out, the birds are chirping, the water is in, the ponds, the fountains are working.
Thank you, Mr. President. This is the benefit of having a construction man as your president.”