tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-58125666496150159832011-08-02T14:19:39.334-04:00Someone needs to make fun of the people in charge. I volunteer.Third Basemannoreply@blogger.comBlogger431100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5812566649615015983.post-52307564562038252862010-07-29T14:34:00.000-04:002010-07-29T14:34:15.343-04:00

Sixty days ago we moved in to our new home in Upper Milford. It wasn't new, but it was new to us. We like living on the south side of the Mountain from Emmaus. It is quiet at night, and we have seen every type of animal this summer.    Around July Fourth My Golden retriever tangled with a raccoon by the garbage. It required stitches, and I wasn't thrilled about it. That is what happens when you

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I hate moving, but I am glad we are out of that neighborhood. I felt really guilty about selling the house I grew up in. I asked my Mom if she would get mad at me for selling it. She told me she wondered what had took me so long.   We got the price we wanted from a flipper. The catch was we had to be out by April 30. The place we bought won't be empty until May 31 so we are at my parents for

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   A couple of years ago Mayor for Life Pawlowski helped form a group called "Friends of the Parks" to help push his "Pave the Parks" agenda.   I saw on the Morning Call Blog that they picked a new leader. Another pom pom Polly to push the big plan to make the park, "BETTER."    Nothing improves a Park like paving it. You save a lot of money not having to mow the grass. Without Grass and other

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Two things I read in the morning Caw this weekend:   First that Mayfair was going to lock people in a car during the event, and when it was over have a drawing between the survivors over who got a two year lease. Second was that our Mayor For life was playing three card monte with the money from that loan he took out in 2006.    I think we should combine these two news events.   Lets lock

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Well, it looks like once again Mayor Clown Pawlowski and his Deputy Clown Parks Director Weasel are using the cover of night to sneak something past us in Allentown.   It looks like they already got permission from the City Council Clowns to buy new Chainsaws and head on up to the Mountain.   How about they film a very special episode of "Axe Men?" Could you see the loggers on Sounth Mountain?

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Hey Everybody, I haven't refused any comments in a while, but I just noticed that the three I approved are not showing up. I don't know what happened. I haven't been on blogger but once since I posted, so I'm sorry if I screwed up the comments.

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City has a budget deficit in the millions. Parts of Allentown resemble the old west Frontier. So what is our electeds to do?   Ban Cell Phones and build high Speed bike paths.    Yeah, that's the ticket! I got one of those the other day because the meter ran out while I was getting a dog license at the Government center. I thought a quarter for fifteen minutes was enough, but the retards ahead

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You can't say that the mayor is not original.  Mayor Pawlowski announced today that the city is instituting a "TURD Tax". The city has contracted with one of his campaign donors to install Turd counters on all the toilets in the city. Property owners will be responsible for paying the $175 per toilet installation fee of the device that will monitor for turds.    Former Mayor Roy Afflerbach has

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Sometime in the year 2020 the bike paths in the Allentown/Lehigh County park system will be expanded to allow cars.   "Not everyone can ride a bike or walk a footpath, and we think allowing cars to drive through the parks will enhance the experience for residents" explained Mayor Weitzel. "We do plan a mandatory 75 MPH speed limit, allowing us to apply for Federal department of Transportation

Third Basemannoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5812566649615015983.post-60285893840349056172010-02-08T09:11:00.001-05:002010-02-17T06:28:33.797-05:00

My Wife has made a slight suggestion that I have decided to follow. She doesn't mind my bloggin' but she wants me to quit tradin' barbs with the troll.   She doesn't want me gettin' down in the gutter with him. Some of the other Blog people want me to ignore him and go back to my clown postings.   I'm gonna POOF those couple of posts and stop right there. I'm not pullin' an LVCI and bailin' all

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Man, it has been a tough week for the people of our neighborhood. There's been a bunch of vandalism and break ins, but I haven't seen a damn thing about it in the Morning Caw.   Speaking of the CAW, the city is suing them for asking to many damn questions and being too fuckin' nosy.   The CAW reporter wants to see emails Mayor for life Pawlowski sent to all the clowns working under him. The

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I want to know how much this brilliant slogan cost us. The crack team at left is responsible for it. City without Ammo Limits? City without speed limits? City With Limited Intelligence? City of Morons? City of Special Needs? That last one is perfect!

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 What the Fuck! These people are idiots! Did they not learn anything from what happened with the Bethlehem School District when they played with that SWAPTION crap?   I can't fuckin' believe what I am reading in the Morning caw this morning. These maroons are making this bet (and its a multi million dollar bet!) and explaining that they have a couple million dollars in the bank to cover any

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 Sorry I haven't posted much. Between the baby, the wife, and my need to buy stock in all diaper manufacturers I 've been busy.   Yesterday the Morning CAW let some delusional liberal wacky wack post an editorial about how Allentown could be turned into Shangri-fuckin-la if only our city Clowns would take the advice of some outfit from North Carolina.   One more fuckin' example of letting

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I found a picture of Allentown City Council singing at a meeting in honor of Mayor for life Ed Pawlowski. I think it is an accurate portrayal, don't you?    I hear the music was provided by some local group, Insane Villain Posse, or something like that. They are close friends of Ed's too.   I wonder if I could rent them for a birthday party in a year or two. kids like clowns, right?

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I can't wait for all these people to get out of my house and go home. Our daughter is the most beautiful baby in history. I am not arguing that. I would really like to get some sleep.   Ever notice how all the people who come to help require the people they are there to help to work even harder? I do. I love my in laws, don't get me wrong, but I would love them even more if they would go back to

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 Yeah, I am a first time Dad at 44. I never thought that was going to happen. That ought give the clowns at the school district something to think about. My daughterwill be attending Allentown Public schools. Damn, that is some sweet revenge! Maybe now I will get my money's worth from the greedy bastards!

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I have received a secret memo from my sources indicating that as part of the Mayor's top secret plan to balance Allentown's budget he will be reducing the size of the Police Swat team. Pictured here is the team that the new budget authorizes.   The funding announced by President Obama ten days ago is to be diverted for other, more pressing needs. (paving over the Rose Garden)

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In the First year of Pawlowski, my Mayor gave to me.......   A bright and shiny new...... !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Now that we have established thousands of new revenue creating parking meters are to be placed downtown, it is important to know just who will get the jobs created by those meters. I present to you the Pawlowski Parking Patrol, some of the best patronage jobs your donation to the Friends of Ed Pawlowski can buy. This image was taken from the powerpoint presentation by the mayor envisioning

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As part of his plan to increase city revenues without raising taxes, Mayor for Life Pawlowski announced today that the city would arbitrarily be placing extra pay meters at every available parking spot.   In the spirit of legalized gambling though, only one of them will work. But he warned would be parkers that it would be best to put money in each one, to be sure.   "If one is expired, our

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In a statement released this Morning, Allentown Mayor Ed Pawlowski finally conceded what residents have known all along. "It Ain't fuckin' safe out there."  Mayor Pawlowski is worried about the perception that Allentown is too dangerous for outsiders to invest in, so he isn't waiting for money from President Obama. Mayor Pawlowski has made a deal with Pope Benedict, and in exchange for

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  Oh, Man, I am ready for some more football after shoveling the snow, but I was reading my newspaper, and there's a story here about the Insane Clown Posse doing a show in Allentown tonight!    Didn't the mayor just do a show at City Hall on Tuesday night?    Insane Clown Posse! What a great name for Mayor Pawlowski and his posse on council!    Hey I bet I know the opening Act! What are the

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  Damn, it's bad enough I have to look in the mirror everyday and see my scars. I am used to it, and my wife sees what is behind them so it is cool.   But now this Bill Villa turd is accusing me of being Chris Casey.   Chris is one of my few buds. When Uncle Sam released me, he didn't walk away when I came to the support group. He shook my hand.   I admit I get pissed off and let Villa push my

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Every time I see this picture, I think of Drew Carey hosting the Price is Right Game Show.   Doesn't it remind you of him? It does me!   Yesterday the Mayor went to the land of Delusional Liars (Washington D.C.) and today our Glorious Ruler Obama the Omnipotent  is returning the favor.   Math is not these guys best subject.   There was all kinds of bitching and moaning and self flagellation

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    We are back from the Inlaws! I learned a big lesson this year, take your flight home on the Friday after Thanksgiving! It was on time, and we made all our connections. I just don't understand how it is cheaper to fly from Chicago to Philadelphia through Atlanta than direct.    I hooked my computer up to my Wife's crystal ball, and this is sort of what I got off the associated Press Wire.

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Man, I am working really hard this week, getting ready for Turkey Day next week, so I haven't been diligent (another big word!) in reading the blogs.    After dinner I was catching on up with them all, and while reading Lehigh Valley Ramblings I learned that at Tuesday nights' City Council meeting Councilman Pete Schweyer (Pictured at left with my so-so state representative) had suggested that

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Think Mayor Pawlowski in the middle, with his Blogger Crazy team flanking him. For whatever reason, my neighbors here in Allentown reelected Ed Pawlowski as mayor on November third. Hey, majority rules, I have to live with it, at least until I hit the lottery in UK or Ireland, or Swaziland, right? What's pissing me off now is all the trash talking that is being done, and was done, and is still

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I am amazed at the scope of what Mayor McCheese will allow his supporters to do. My case in point is the people who post a blog called Lehigh Valley Somebody. The whack job who runs its has all the other bloggers quakin'. I could give a rats ass. Nutjobs don't know me from Adam, so I got nuthin' to fear. These people think they are like real important in city politics. and that they can make or

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Okay, I haven't got all day, who wants to guess whose pocket I had my hand in?    I might as well have voted for Pip the freaking mouse yesterday. If we didn't have it so good that we can both walk to work and the market, I would move the hell out of Allentown tomorrow. I'm sure I could get a good price on the crib from a New Yakker.   I think the cumulative IQ of the inner city dwellers 

Third Basemannoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5812566649615015983.post-27093175742512295242009-11-03T18:40:00.001-05:002009-11-03T18:44:01.051-05:00

   Rumor has it that Walter Felton is pulling out all the stops to defeat Ron Manescu for District Magisterial Justice. Reports are coming in that Voodoo dolls resembling Manescu are popping up all over Allentown in front of polling places. They are almost as numerous as Walter Felton's campaign signs. After a prankster set one of the dolls on fire, Manescu reported having unexplained "Hot

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  Mayor Fester Pawlowski is going to win. I have been watching the polls all morning, and voting in the West End Cemetery Ward has been very heavy. The dead have been rising all day and coming in to vote, almost all bearing "Reelect Ed! stickers on their rotting corpses.    A few unexperienced poll workers were eaten in the first hours, but once the cart of hog brains was put in front of the

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   Last night I was sitting in front of my TV, watching the Channel 69 happy time news, when immediately after sports I was submitted to a sight I could not believe. The smirking members of the Pawlowski family, all four of them.   Did you know that not only is Ed our mayor, but he also lives in Allentown?   How frickin' noble of him to live among us peasants! The feudal Lord getting on down

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   This Morning I open up the plastic bag on my porch/lawn/somwhere and pull out my daily paper and read THIS by Jarrett Renshaw     The guy writes this article about how last year the city was six million in the hole, (That's one Bionic Steve Austin) and this year it will be nine million in the hole. (That's one Jaime Sommers, the Bionic woman, three years later, with inflation.)    Didn't we

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I have written this election off. Then last night I had a choice. I could watch the paint dry in the bedroom I painted, or I could watch the debate before the Phils kicked some Blue Dodger butt.   It was a tough decision, but my wife wanted to watch, and if I wanted peace during the Phils, I had to go along.   About halfway through my wife turned to me and says "What planet does the mayor live on

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    The weather around here lately is just like our choices for elected office, Crappy!    I have been thinkin' a lot about what I was going to do voting wise, and I have decided that I am going to write in Bob Lovett for Mayor. Yada yada yada, I know, he lost to Roy back in 2001, but I can't stand either of the idiots on the ballot.    Bob Lovett was the last guy I can remember with a brain

Third Basemannoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5812566649615015983.post-36033786558289817412009-10-13T07:53:00.000-04:002009-10-13T07:53:42.284-04:00

   You ever buy a used car? When Mike Schlossberg came a knocking on our door, I felt like the guy from a used car lot was trying to sell me something. I kept wondering if he dumped a bag of sawdust on the ground where the car leaked oil to try and cover it up.   Schlossberg was trying to be nice, but I have this thing that I think people are lying to me, or trying to sell me a bag of crap when

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    This morning I read a hilarious headline in the Allentown Morning Call.    Windows shot out at Library    The article said that sometime between 6 PM Friday and 11 AM Monday, two windows were shot out with a BB gun at the downtown library. The estimated damage was $3000 dollars.    I have a couple of questions on this one.    Why would you shoot at a library? Did you lose all your money

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     This just in from WFMZ: Allentown has booming Restaurant/Theater District! The Things you learn watching TV at dinner time. WFMZ had a report starring, (YOU GUESSED IT!) Mayor for Life Ed Pawlowski touting how the center city is being overrun with restaurants.     What WFMZ neglected to show at the 5 PM newscast Tuesday was that just one block north of Hamilton Street, a fight had broken

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   I am scratching my head/   We went almost three months in Pennsylvania without a State Budget. Local school districts started cutting programs daily.   All I saw on TV was about how there was no Money for schools.   Somehow after all that there is money for a Hockey arena in Allentown?   WTF?   Where did that money come from?   Mayor Pawloski, now running unopposed, smiled for the camera

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   Man, this election is not funny at all. We, the good citizens of the third largest city in Taxylvania are F*cked! We have a choice between Mr. Powerpoint Presentation and Mr. Facebook Fun.   That is no choice at all.   I read who is running for City Council, and all I see is Yes men for Mr. Powerpoint Presentation.  It's like Pawlowski went around the city shining his laser pointer in

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Man, you gotta be kidding me. The man is running for mayor and talking to some unhappy baby mama on Facebook about tossing the Salad? That is news? I guess a city ten million dollars in the red 'taint all that big an issue. I guess impending layoffs and cutbacks on city services aren't that important. I was in the downtown library, and they have half the lights off and no security. There was a

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I decided it was time to fill a void in the Lehigh Valley and beyond. Nobody wants to really take a shot at properly snarking many of the politicians and bureaucrats in the valley. I volunteer to be that person! I don't have any friends anyway, so what do I have to loose? We should be laughing at all the people who think they are important, and want to remind us everyday that we should know how

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