today’s news and information gleanings from here and there!

Quote for today … “I have always thought that true leaders were supposed to help us overcome our fears and other base emotions to become a better, more noble people. I thought they were the ones who inspired us to do the right thing even if it was at our own peril. I thought they helped us be brave even when we were terrified. But not today. Today, even those whom we have elected to lead us, and those who would become President, have shown themselves to be unable to overcome their own fear and so, unworthy of leading us.” – comment following this WITF article.

• But then, Joe … leaders are not “rhetoric spewers” with the exceptions of Adolf Hitler, Pol Pot, Joseph Stalin, Mao Zedong, Donald Trump, ISIS, Louis Farrakhan, etc., etc.

• Have you read Nicholas Kristof’s column in The New York Times?

It begins, “AS anti-refugee hysteria sweeps many of our political leaders, particularly Republicans, I wonder what they would have told a desperate refugee family fleeing the Middle East. You’ve heard of this family: a carpenter named Joseph, his wife, Mary, and their baby son, Jesus.”

• “LEGAL NOTICE – NOTICE OF MEETING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that on Thursday, November 19, 2015, the Board of School Directors of the Columbia Borough School District, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania (the “School District”) adopted a Resolution which, among other things, authorized the incurring of non-electoral debt … ” – Lancaster Online
• No recent crime activity at the Columbia Police Department’s CrimeWatch Page!

• Flash Mob at Market! – The York Daily Record

• ” … has to be one of the top five dumbest coaches in all of football. You’ve got to get rid of him.” About which coach is this commenter referencing? Kelly or Franklin?  – PennLive