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Tuesday, July 09, 2002     Page: 14A

Paul Maher should give up walking until September and then he should walk
the halls at Meyers and GAR where he will have police protection and not worry
about being mugged because the police will protect him from any unruly
students.
   
Makowski and Pizano are in a fix. Steve Flood is after this bond that they
are after, this $25 million bond. All this money is direct payoffs to their
contributors … that is what they need that $25 million for. I hope Steve
Flood stops this money. This is taxpayers’ money that eventually will have to
be paid.
    What this Adelphia cable company needs is some competitive cable companies
to lower prices and knock them off of their socks.
   
Wilkes-Barre Area school directors are partly to blame for this excessive
increase in taxes, but the real fault lies with the state Democrat legislators
that gave the teachers union the special power that they have to dominate the
state.
   
Clinton didn’t only drop his pants, he and Al Gore passed NAFTA, sent our
jobs South. That is why the economy is in the shape it is in. He let our boys
be killed by terrorists, he never did a thing. Sold the Lincoln bedroom,
released criminals from all of their crimes. Thank God we have George Bush,
who is trying to get our country back together and doing a great job of it. Of
course, you wouldn’t know it from your paper and the stupid Democrats that
call and Tom Bigler who never wrote a decent thing about any politician that
was Republican. You people have your heads in the sand.
   
In regards to all the people calling in about the teachers union, salaries,
benefits, etc. The first thing we have to do, folks, is to get at the
legislators. Remember, we put them in office and they gave the teachers what
they wanted. And then we have to hit the school boards. They have given away
the store years ago, and we stupid people continue to vote them into office.
When are we going to wise up?
   
This is for Fred Williams, who had this talk show on WILK. Fred Williams,
you spoke the truth, but these people up here are nothing but a bunch of
bigots, white and black. But they don’t only pick on the black people, they
pick on all kind. And if they could get their own way up here, they are going
to do it. Freddie, you tried to tell them the right thing and the truth, but
the truth hurts them, and some day the city of Wilkes-Barre will go right down
the tubes and the people in Wilkes-Barre will get everything they are asking
for because they are voting the wrong people in.
   
Is it a coincidence that the judge who approved the sale of the watershed
to the German firm has a German-sounding name?
   
About Monsignor McGowan. The caller says basically he is a good man because
he does a lot for charity. That is where I disagree. Because a person is
privileged and can give monetarily does not make them good. It is like buying
your way to heaven. You can’t do that no matter how much you give. You might
get a tax break on Earth, but that is all you get. My doctor donates a month
every year to foreign countries, but ask him to do something for a patient
here. He gets all bent out of shape. Either a person is good in all that he
does or he isn’t, just because at times he feel compelled to donate. And that
is the truth.
   
I am reading the article in the paper this morning on July 2 on Paul Maher,
Kanjorski’s representative, wants to know where the police are, it isn’t safe
to walk the streets. That man should know that all the police have been taken
out of the city; we don’t know where they are. It is a shame that he was
beaten up and had no help, because that is what is going to happen. There are
no police. You cannot, cannot find a Wilkes-Barre cop. I don’t know what Tom
McGroarty did with them, but I will tell you one thing. I think it is a shame
that we have these men and they are in hiding because of him. So that is what
happened to poor Paul and to a lot of them.
   
I cannot believe the number of people who love to bash the teachers in
SAYSO. I am a senior citizen on Social Security, so I guess I am poor. Do you
realize how many very good teachers we have out there? Where would we be
without them? Granted, the union has gotten too strong, but don’t forget,
people, we will still have to pay taxes to educate our children. Even with the
voucher system, maybe more taxes. So check with your grandchildren and
children. For every bad teacher there are 20 good teachers and even some
really great ones who really take that extra mile and make a big difference in
a lot of kids lives.
   
For a long extended period of time we have heard nothing from Mr.
Kanjorski. All of a sudden in the last two weeks or so, every time you pick up
a paper there are about five articles about Mr. Kanjorski doing this or saying
that. It must be election time, Paul.
   
I see where the Times Leader will not put the names in of the priests who
have been accused of sexual crimes. Yet if that was an average person just
being accused of a crime like that their name would be in the paper.
   
Editor’s note: This was a diocese decision.
   
Why is PAWC considering even selling the water supply to a German
corporation controlled by bin Laden’s family? This is very, very dangerous.
Why should we be sending our payments of American dollars to Germany? Someone
has lost their marbles. Please hold off long enough so that I could move to
Canada somewhere.
   
I would like for somebody to please explain to me how a person who lives
with rent assistance, public assistance and welfare and everything else, can
afford to have a satellite dish, or worse yet, there is one house on our
street with two satellite dishes and they can’t afford their own bills. But,
by God, they could afford that television? I think they should be forced to go
out and work at hard labor like digging ditches or something.
   
Will you please have an article on how to play the new Powerball game? I
played it last week and a straight ticket is a dollar and then if you add
another dollar you get a Powerball and it is supposed to make you win eight
ways, but no one explains on how the eight ways work.
   
This call is to the heartless person responsible for abandoning the mother
cat and three kittens on Corby Road in Courtdale on Sunday night, June 30.
Don’t you realize that animals are capable of feeling fear, hunger and pain
just like a human is? Where did you think they were going to go? What did you
think they were going to live on? Who would take care of them? They are
domestic animals depending upon us for food, shelter and, most of all, love.
This is a despicable act of violence against animals. Shame on you. You have
no conscience. God doesn’t sleep. You will someday pay for this cruel deed.
   
This is in response to the idiot that wrote in on Tuesday and said they
prefer a president who drops his pants but keeps us out of war. What a stupid
statement. 9-11 happened. We are at war. If your dear Clinton had been in
office, he would have run to Canada just like the draft dodger did when his
country was at war not too many years ago. Wake up and face reality. This war
would have happened regardless of who was in office. Get a life.
   
Here it is only July 2 and already the fireworks are out of control in
Avoca. The police and the mayor do nothing to protect our neighborhoods from
these loud booms and stuff landing on our houses. Unbelievable.
   
Can’t the city council of Wilkes-Barre stop the mayor from wasting all
these money on these ads? They are nothing but paid political advertisements
so that he can get his name in the paper for the upcoming election. Do you
notice there is a lot of them now? I thought we had a calendar out to inform
people of the pickups and garbage and everything? He has to continually put
his name in the paper. It is nothing but using taxpayer money for paid
advertisements. It should be stopped. Save the money for other things. Hire
another cop.
   
Kudos to George W. and Israel for not joining the world court. This is just
another attempt to form one world government and trash our constitution.
   
Since a young man bravely opened a flooring store on South Main Street, we
should all try to support him. Maybe others will follow. Do you need a new rug
or new tile?
   
To a caller who said the removed priests committed a crime, the SAYSO
editor replies that you can’t accurately say they have committed crimes unless
they have been convicted. The only reason they haven’t been convicted is
because they have been aided and abetted by their bishops.