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Tuesday, August 17, 2010

It's The End of The World As We Know It

"Is there a doctor in the house?"

Except for cartoons, when the hell have you ever hear that? It took me 59 years, but those are the exact words I heard as I walked into a crowded Bethlehem School Board meeting at East Hills Middle School last night. All the hot air had affected some poor preteen in the hallway, and he keeled over.

He's very lucky to be alive.

The Northampton County Bulldog, Ron Angle, was there. So was I, not as a bottom-feeding blogger, but in my capacity as his one of his Evil Minions. That's not unusual. We both laughed as the school board inanely tried, and failed, to appoint a replacement for Judy Dexter. Two board members were participating by phone, and some poor bastard had to run the phone to a mike or speaker every three seconds.

Eventually, he keeled over, too.

After Judith Dexter finished telling everyone she really liked getting flowers and pies, the issue was the ArtsQuest TIF. This is where things get really get bizarre. Ron is allied with Jeff Parks, gazillionaire Linny Fowler, project managers and about four different unions. That's right, foo-foos, union thugs, Ron Angle, John Stoffa and even John Callahan (MIA) are united in a pitched battle against School Board Prez Loretta Leeson, who really should audition for the role of Wicked Witch of the West.

Leeson is downright anal about public comment. She strictly limits speakers to three minutes. Business Manager Stacey Gober sits there with a stopwatch, and rudely shouts out "thirty seconds" as people speak. When people attempt to ask questions, Leeson replies there's no discourse. But the second a speaker walks away from the podium, she'll cheap shot him with all kinds of rebuttal at a time when he's unable to respond.

Angle, of course, was nearly tossed. He went beyond his allotted three minutes and basically called Leeson a liar. She started banging the gavel as Gober kept telling Ron his time was up.

This is where things got even stranger. I'm the writer, but last night, Angle wrote a speech for me. It must have been a pretty good one because everyone clapped when I was done, although that might be because it only took me a minute.

Then another strange thing happened. A woman I know was in the audience. She's a babe. Haven't seen her for years. She not only recognized me, but planted one on me, right in the middle of the meeting. Stoffa saw it, too.

That's when I keeled over.

Angle, Stoffa, Jeff Parks & Linny Fowler as the four horsemen. Pretty woman kissing me. Dogs lying with cats. Toads from the sky. It's the end of the world as we know it.

19 comments:

  1. Can you post the text of the speech?

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  2. "I challenge Loretta Leeson to sit down w/ Ron Angle, Stoffa & Callahan within the next week. Let's help children, taxpayers, the Beth Steel property and ArtsQuest to succeed."

    Pretty short.

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  3. "Ron is allied with Jeff Parks, gazillionaire Linny Fowler"

    Would this be the same person that called him and inquired about the purchase of Gracedale??


    It all makes sense to me now!!

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  4. Angle wants to break the trust of Northampton County residents by dumping Gracedale. Then he turns around and wants to help fund the Jeff Parks Plaza.

    I wonder who is helping him this time. The money must be somewhere.

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  5. "who really should audition for the role of Wicked Witch of the West"


    sweet

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  6. I ma more concerned with the TIF request for Martin Tower which the board seems to be leaning toward granting than the one for artsquest this board is made up of mostly inept fools.

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  7. "Leeson is downright anal about public comment. She strictly limits speakers to three minutes. Business Manager Stacey Gober sits there with a stopwatch, and rudely shouts out "thirty seconds" as people speak. When people attempt to ask questions, Leeson replies there's no discourse. But the second a speaker walks away from the podium, she'll cheap shot him with all kinds of rebuttal at a time when he's unable to respond."


    This is not what the Founding Fathers had in mind. Residents need to vote all these people out and change the public comment allotment time. Three minutes for taxpayers who fork over a ton of money every year and yet they are ordered around by a woman with a stop watch!
    How can this Stacey person have any self pride.

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  8. Was it the end of the world? Or did the Rapture occur and you were left in a room with all the people the Big Guy didn't want?

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  9. Is she attached? Did you get her number and/or ask her out? To hell with politics. Time to start riding that bike again.

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  10. Business Manager Stacey Gober sits there with a stopwatch, and rudely shouts out "thirty seconds" as people speak.



    Who would take a job like this?

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  11. "Would this be the same person that called him and inquired about the purchase of Gracedale??"

    Linny Fowler looks like she belongs in a nursing home, but would not be buying one. She's a philanthropist, moron, and a major Dem party contributor.

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  12. "Is she attached? Did you get her number and/or ask her out? To hell with politics. Time to start riding that bike again."

    The probelm with that is a lot more people now want to run me over.

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  13. "Or did the Rapture occur and you were left in a room with all the people the Big Guy didn't want?"

    I think it's just Angle, Hickey, me and you.

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  14. "Business Manager Stacey Gober sits there with a stopwatch, and rudely shouts out "thirty seconds" as people speak.

    Who would take a job like this?"

    10:22 AM

    She scored a record high on the pre-employment profile for a spot at the public-trough.

    That's how they roll.

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  15. funny how angle will support artsy-fartsy stuff, but support paycuts for the working class at county?

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  16. Slightly OT, but it was just a bad dream. The world is as it was.

    Exhibit A - Jon Geeting is still a deranged libtard. His exact words:

    "Bombing us will not make us intolerant like you."

    -and the very next sentence?

    "Fuck these assholes for pretending to care about New York City."

    Just had to share, for those who haven't taken the time to see what the enlightend one espouses on a daily basis, since he shows up here from time to time to tell us how smart he is/how stupid everyone else is.

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  17. Libtard? I think you made his point about intelligence.

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  18. I had better, but decided that

    eu·phe·mism (y f -m z m). n. The act or an example of substituting a mild, indirect, or vague term for one considered harsh, blunt, or offensive

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  19. Were you calling Linny Fowler a moron?

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