tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8966390Sat, 11 Apr 2026 07:17:01 +0000PoliticsPA NEWSPro-LifeCorruptionRoman Catholic ChurchCommentaryEconomyRadioPA TaxesPittsburghGlobal WarmingGlobal Warming/CoolingMarriage AmendmentJihadUnionOilIranWarOp-EdTaxesIslamPenalty BoxBoneDarfurFairness DoctrineJobsPowerBlog CastTVabortionWelcome to Powerblog! Feel free to read and post your comments. Opinions expressed herein are exclusive to Powerblog! and do not represent the views of of any employer, organiztion or outside entity. Thanks to all who help spread the word about POWERBLOG!http://powerballplace.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com (Shaun Pierce)Blogger6536125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8966390.post-144077520235832447Mon, 08 Jan 2018 15:44:00 +00002018-01-08T10:44:58.052-05:00Ponder this mission statement: " To encourage benevolence and empathy among all people, reject tyrannical authority, advocate practical common sense and justice, and be directed by the human conscience to undertake noble pursuits guided by the individual will." Do you have any issues with that? That is the mission statement of a L.A. Satanic temple. The L.A. Times ran an article the new http://powerballplace.blogspot.com/2018/01/is-it-evil.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Shaun Pierce)8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8966390.post-8684879733945615326Sat, 30 Mar 2013 13:42:00 +00002013-03-30T09:42:36.593-04:00abortionAlisa LaPolt Snow, the lobbyist representing the Florida Alliance of Planned Parenthood Affiliates has reluctantly shown the true desires of Planned Parenthood. That desire is to kill infants even after they are born. Her statement that the decision of if a child lives or dies should be between the patient and the health care provider provides a telling moment. When a child is born alive that http://powerballplace.blogspot.com/2013/03/planned-parenthood-official-argues-for.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Shaun Pierce)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8966390.post-2720923155221147340Sat, 30 Mar 2013 02:45:00 +00002013-03-29T23:03:19.694-04:00I'm rarely asked to explain it. When someone who supports same sex marriage finds out that I strongly oppose the idea, most are quick to label me homophobic, bigoted, or intolerant, but I'm hardly ever asked to explain exactly why I oppose the idea of same sex marriage. Maybe people don't really care why and I guess that's as good a reason as any. But for those who are curious, I can assure you http://powerballplace.blogspot.com/2013/03/explaining-my-opposition-to-same-sex.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Shaun Pierce)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8966390.post-1881100918160473079Thu, 15 Mar 2012 13:03:00 +00002012-03-15T09:03:46.771-04:00It still happens to me every now and then. I'll be talking with someone and they will remember me from my radio days. "Hey aren't you Powerball?" The other day I met a gentleman who out of the blue just stuck up a conversation. He told me about how he was raised Catholic but in his teenage years became involved with a Neo Nazi group. He used to pray the rosary under a poster of Hitler in his roomhttp://powerballplace.blogspot.com/2012/03/hey-arent-you.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Shaun Pierce)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8966390.post-6409076328543839211Thu, 15 Mar 2012 12:28:00 +00002012-03-15T08:28:04.568-04:00In mid-2011-when all indications were that the County was on pace to complete the court-ordered reassessment and taxpayers would be getting notice of their new values as early as July-the Institute obtained two months of sales data on single family homes in order to compare the existing assessments on the homes with the new assessment as soon as it became available. Similar analysis was carried http://powerballplace.blogspot.com/2012/03/assessing-reassessment.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Shaun Pierce)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8966390.post-3351457343694660022Thu, 15 Mar 2012 12:23:00 +00002012-03-15T08:23:35.184-04:00Roman Catholic ChurchThe number of Catholics in the world and the number of deacons, priests and bishops all increased in 2010, while the number of women in religious orders continued to decline, according to Vatican statistics.At the end of 2010, the worldwide Catholic population reached 1.196 billion, an increase of 15 million or 1.3 percent, slightly outpacing the global population growth rate, which was http://powerballplace.blogspot.com/2012/03/vatican-says-number-of-catholics.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Shaun Pierce)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8966390.post-9080366697288403225Thu, 15 Mar 2012 12:21:00 +00002012-03-15T08:21:04.174-04:00One of America’s busiest airports, Orlando Sanford International, has announced it will opt out of using TSA workers to screen passengers, a move which threatens the highly unpopular federal agency’s role in other airports across the nation. With Sanford International having originally been prevented by the TSA from opting out back in November 2010 when the federal agency froze the ability for http://powerballplace.blogspot.com/2012/03/tsa-now-departing.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Shaun Pierce)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8966390.post-1447918523041721912Wed, 25 Jan 2012 14:07:00 +00002012-01-25T09:07:45.675-05:00 Richard Roberts, the son of the late evangelist Oral Roberts, was arrested Tuesday for allegedly driving under the influence of alcohol. An Oklahoma Highway Patrol trooper stopped the 63-year-old just past midnight driving 93 miles per hour in his Mercedes-Benz. According to the arrest report, Roberts failed a breathalyzer and field sobriety test. The officer "detected the strong odor ofhttp://powerballplace.blogspot.com/2012/01/son-of-oral-roberts-arrested-on-dui.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Shaun Pierce)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8966390.post-1494762322752390038Thu, 01 Dec 2011 00:20:00 +00002011-11-30T19:36:30.223-05:00A leading religious conservative warned Newt Gingrich Wednesday that he risks losing the support of evangelical women voters if the Republican presidential hopeful refuses to publicly address his "turbulent martial history." "Mr. Speaker, if you want to get large numbers of evangelicals, particularly women, to vote for you, you must address the issue of your marital past in a way that allays http://powerballplace.blogspot.com/2011/11/evangelical-leader-urges-gingrich-to.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Shaun Pierce)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8966390.post-4539467272982755172Thu, 01 Dec 2011 00:16:00 +00002011-11-30T19:18:59.266-05:00President Obama earlier this month quietly signed into law a spending bill that restores the American horse-slaughter industry, just a few months after a government investigation said the ban on slaughtering for human consumption was backfiring. The agriculture spending bill Mr. Obama signed the week before Thanksgiving did not include a ban on the inspection of horse meat — a backdoor http://powerballplace.blogspot.com/2011/11/peta-and-prez.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Shaun Pierce)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8966390.post-3278847339111843861Thu, 27 Oct 2011 15:58:00 +00002011-10-27T11:58:52.222-04:00Chaz (Chasity) Bono jumped into the fame spolight as a transgender contestant on Dancing with the Stars. One has to wonder why? She has trouble walking much less dancing. Was it the "freak factor" show producers considered? If so shame on them and why would Bono agree to it? "Chaz" was born a girl and spent a lot of time and money trying to change that. The result http://powerballplace.blogspot.com/2011/10/dancing-with-scars.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Shaun Pierce)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8966390.post-1899353169825435779Thu, 27 Oct 2011 15:28:00 +00002011-10-27T11:28:24.939-04:00The bloodletting continues. The rumored CLEAR CHANNEL layoffs are underway. The cuts took place primarily in the smaller markets -- with a few exceptions. One outgoing programmer told said, "They simply told me that programming would be delivered in a different manner, eliminating the need for my position." A CLEAR CHANNEL spokesperson explained that the layoffs were not budget related --http://powerballplace.blogspot.com/2011/10/hundreds-cut-by-clear-channel.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Shaun Pierce)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8966390.post-4168050692426244958Fri, 07 Oct 2011 13:29:00 +00002011-10-07T09:29:39.334-04:00 Owning an iPad pr Apple PC is a requirement in some circles. I haven't bought in. After having to return 4 (yes 4) ipods I became very cautious when it came to Apple products. Oh they are slick and look cool but I need it to work. Therein lies the problem. While most of the software is great, Apple’s hardware is awful. After meeting several people who work at the "Genius Bar" I was told http://powerballplace.blogspot.com/2011/10/rotten-apple.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Shaun Pierce)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8966390.post-4081422082358054282Fri, 07 Oct 2011 13:16:00 +00002011-10-07T09:16:38.551-04:00Roman Catholic ChurchPresident Barack Obama bragged about a new regulation, proposed by the Department of Health and Human Services, that the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has denounced as an “unprecedented attack on religious liberty.” The proposed regulation, designed to implement part of Obamacare, will require all private health plans in the United States to cover sterilizations and all FDA-approved http://powerballplace.blogspot.com/2011/10/attack-on-religion-from-west-wing.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Shaun Pierce)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8966390.post-3749138326562290217Fri, 07 Oct 2011 12:45:00 +00002011-10-07T08:45:10.594-04:00GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain has a message for those who continue to occupy Wall Street. “I don’t have facts to back this up, but I happen to believe that these demonstrations are planned and orchestrated to distract from the failed policies of the Obama administration. Don’t blame Wall Street, don’t blame the big banks, if you don’t have a job and you’re not rich, blame yourself!http://powerballplace.blogspot.com/2011/10/cain-says-youre-able.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Shaun Pierce)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8966390.post-5037857986681359934Wed, 24 Aug 2011 03:52:00 +00002011-08-23T23:52:56.086-04:00Pro-LifeGoing back in the Powerblog archives I discovered our first story on the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation written in 2007. Most people know the work of the foundation in the area of breast cancer research and the national "race for the cure". What many do not know is the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation that so many people support, often gives some of that money to Planned http://powerballplace.blogspot.com/2011/08/race-for-blur-why-you-should-not.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Shaun Pierce)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8966390.post-645324659824492164Wed, 24 Aug 2011 03:41:00 +00002011-08-23T23:41:01.776-04:00Roman Catholic ChurchA Catholic bishop in North Dakota recently gave an interview in which he gave some of the strongest comments yet from a Catholic Church leader on the thorny questions of what to do about Catholic politicians who support abortion. Bishop Samuel Aquila makes it crystal clear he believes there is a process by which Catholic officials should confront pro-abortion politicians and that they should be http://powerballplace.blogspot.com/2011/08/catholic-bishop-boot-pro-abortion.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Shaun Pierce)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8966390.post-4921145552228839195Sat, 30 Jul 2011 02:42:00 +00002011-07-29T22:42:43.086-04:00I am extremely proud of all the true conservatives that stood their ground on the whole debate over the economic future of our nation. Even after Speaker John Boehner ordered his team to "get your ass in line" those who were elected by the tea party movement stood firm and respectfully said no. I've heard several calls for compromise. Give a little, get a little and everyone goes home with an http://powerballplace.blogspot.com/2011/07/no-compromise.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Shaun Pierce)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8966390.post-8048623416096422008Mon, 25 Jul 2011 12:19:00 +00002011-07-25T08:19:19.564-04:00Rep. David Wu has been accused of an “unwanted sexual encounter” with the teenage daughter of a longtime friend, the latest scandal to engulf the troubled Oregon Democrat. The Oregonian reported that the 56-year-old Wu “acknowledged a sexual encounter to his senior aides but insisted it was consensual,” according to sources aware of the incident. Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/http://powerballplace.blogspot.com/2011/07/here-we-go-again-wu-at-center-of-sex.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Shaun Pierce)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8966390.post-8127090425241752138Mon, 25 Jul 2011 12:15:00 +00002011-07-25T08:15:51.610-04:00Marriage AmendmentNew York is in the the news with video clips of men kissing and of course the first two women to get "married" pictutred here. How creepy is that????The New Post reported: " Up in The Bronx, youth pastor Carmen Hernandez, 48, and dental assistant Doris DeArmas, 50, tied the knot." Yes... YOUTH PASTOR! Can we add one more the unemployment list please???? So seven states have signed up for this http://powerballplace.blogspot.com/2011/07/after-honeymoom-future-of-gay-marriage.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Shaun Pierce)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8966390.post-3659613447962549470Tue, 19 Jul 2011 00:02:00 +00002011-07-18T20:02:40.979-04:00http://powerballplace.blogspot.com/2011/07/investing-in-liberty-interview-with.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Shaun Pierce)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8966390.post-8428826992555516472Tue, 19 Jul 2011 00:00:00 +00002011-07-18T20:00:57.854-04:00For decades, the U.S. Census Bureau has reported that over 30 million Americans were living in “poverty,” but the bureau’s definition of poverty differs widely from that held by most Americans. In fact, other government surveys show that most of the persons whom the government defines as “in poverty” are not poor in any ordinary sense of the term. The overwhelming majority of the poor have http://powerballplace.blogspot.com/2011/07/poverty-in-usa.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Shaun Pierce)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8966390.post-8771406575661783691Fri, 01 Jul 2011 13:31:00 +00002011-07-18T20:05:20.753-04:00July 4, 1776 marks what date? It’s not the date when our founding fathers signed the Declaration of Independence. That was actually Aug. 2, 1776. It wasn’t the date that our most eloquent writer Thomas Jefferson crafted it on parchment (an animal skin, not paper). He mussed up his powdered wig on that between June 11-28. It wasn’t the date that the 13 British colonies declared their http://powerballplace.blogspot.com/2011/07/real-th-of-july.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Shaun Pierce)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8966390.post-7452333568602345184Fri, 01 Jul 2011 13:21:00 +00002011-07-01T09:21:28.067-04:00Roman Catholic ChurchPope Benedict XVI has joined the masses on Twitter. "Dear Friends, I just launched News.va. Praised be our Lord Jesus Christ! With my prayers and blessings, Benedictus XVI," the pontiff tweeted. The new Vatican portal brings together various print and broadcast news streams into one site.http://powerballplace.blogspot.com/2011/07/now-you-can-really-follow-pope.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Shaun Pierce)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8966390.post-8859899498072617313Fri, 01 Jul 2011 13:17:00 +00002011-07-01T09:17:23.119-04:00MSNBC better order another stack of suspension letters. They have used quite a few for  foul-mouthed hosts and analysts of late. Let's review... The Time columnist and MSNBC analyst called President Obama “kind of a dick”. He was right but they slapped him anyway. Ed Shultz (this blow hard tried to get me one his show once and I declined) was suspended for a week without pay after he http://powerballplace.blogspot.com/2011/07/msnbc-most-suspended-nimrod-buffoons-on.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Shaun Pierce)0