3:34 pm on Friday, May 17, 2013
Gee Kevin, you got me. Downtown-uptown-edgetown. Ss-ding-la, ni ben dun, ni bu hao. Oh and thanks for sharing the fruits of your Taiwanese law degree and for the new title, I'll make a plaque, and will definitely stick with my individualism.
2:14 pm on Friday, May 17, 2013
Consider the Democratic Republic of Taiwan and their solution to drunk drivers. I watched a young couple get pulled over for some moving violation or another, this was in downtown Taipei near the 101 building in broad daylight. Cop flips a laptop onto the roof of his car, makes the driver blow into a device, closes the laptop, writes something down, hands it to the kid whose girlfriend looked pretty shook up. Cop drives off and the kids resume driving.
I asked the government people with whom I was meeting and who witnessed this with me, what just happened? "DUI, over .05% limit, kid must now pay a fine of one fourth his annual salary or get locked in jail."
Working for three full months just to pay off a fine? I'd call that significant incentive to modify my uncivilized behavior.
Simple laws, but enforced. You can walk around cities like Taipei at 3:00 AM without fear of becoming the victim of personal crime. Why? Taiwan has infinitesimally fewer laws than we do. But the few laws they have are rigidly enforced. They make it so the juice isn't worth the squeeze.
What a concept.
9:30 am on Friday, May 17, 2013
Messieurs Greco and Manley,
Yawn. Scroll up to see the typical bully tactics and misinformation strategy of the team you support, which neither of you addressed.
Based on my observations, including reading the old, 100% false emails Mr. Greco sent around back when people actually paid attention to them, it is my opinion that you and Mr. Manley are the main "misinformation bards" of the team. Schuetz, Stomel, Edwards & DiPrete won't bravely put their own names to comments so instead they contact you two spin doctors to do their dirty work of spreading lies. Face it boys, it's a new world. Back in your day the lie campaign actually worked. Today - Patch reporters attend Council meetings, reporting just the facts, trusting the intelligent readers to absorb and discuss those facts and to draw their own informed conclusions.
Trappe voters need the summarized, salient, and unfiltered performance record of political candidates and about other business affecting them. As past performance is often the best indicator of present and future behavior, what candidates have done and said is more useful in forming a voting decision than campaign marketing, promises, and spin.
I too have made it my mission to deliver facts to voters, for I know that nothing is more valuable to us and to other taxpayers than the perfect sanity of the record, words and actions, not to be disputed.
Your opinions contradict the recorded truth. And, you bore me - so have the last word.
3:21 pm on Thursday, May 16, 2013
No barbed wire thanks to Bob Swartley challenging Council Members Stomel, Edwards, Schuetz & DiPrete. Bob feeds us only facts. You might try facts, Mr. Manley, they're so much more delicious than misinformation, bias and spin.
http://perkiomenvalley.patch.com/articles/residents-upset-over-new-fence-around-compost-facility
Trappe residents spoke out against the newly erected fence around the shared boroughs' compost site at the January 2, 2013 meeting.
"I'm disgusted with the process," said Pacer Lane homeowner Bob Swartley. He showed a signed petition indicating that none of the homeowners around the site had been asked for input on the fencing project.
"There's been no respect for adjoining property owners," Mr. Swartley stated.
The new 6-foot tall chain link fence has barbed wire laced across the top.
Homeowners informed Council that the fence does not keep the site secure as a newly installed gate is wide open and unlocked.
Councilman Paul Edwards ...requested that Public Works remove the barbed wire by the end of the month.
"Where is the plan for this project and what is the budget?" asked an audience member. "How much has this already cost the taxpayers?"
Edwards said that he did not have that information in front of him, but that Public Works would have it.
"I'm concerned about the procedure here," said Councilman Scholl. "Where is the plan? We get an estimated cost and then go out for bid."
10:24 am on Thursday, May 16, 2013
About the grant: in May 2006, Council voted 5-1 not to move forward with it. Paul Greco, accusing Stu Strauss 7 years later of saying no to free money, was a Councilman at the time. But Greco missed that meeting, that vote. He returned for the June meeting then missed July, August, more until he suddenly resigned. Incredibly, Mr. Greco is still making an issue of this and blaming my Committee partner Stu.
The grant was the focus of 3 meetings including a walk-around of the proposed renovation of a small section of Main Street. Mayor Peck stood to get some free sidewalk repairs (hers are STILL crumbling! The law for her to fix them applies to all property owners). This approved, unalterable grant plan included street trees requiring expensive legal easements and other costs. Affected business owners on Main hated the plan, complaining trees would block views of their businesses.
Grants require taxpayer-funded matching dollars. So had Council voted in favor of this particular grant, all of Trappe's residents in 2006 together would've seen a tax increase just to pay for Connie Peck's sidewalks. Some Councilmen asked if the plan could change, substituting street lights for trees and cover ALL of Main Street to be fair to ALL owners: the engineer said yes, but the entire grant application would require re-submission. So wisely, Stu and team scrapped it.
So this makes Stu and the other 4 Council members who voted against it bad guys?
Really, Paul.
7:40 pm on Sunday, May 5, 2013
I wonder if last November any of the thieves voted Democrat hoping to steal more from the most industrious while attacking individual property and Constitutional rights?
10:39 am on Friday, May 3, 2013
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/345845/problems-toomey-manchin
Major problems with the Toomey-Manchin proposed legislation, summarized above.
To claim we (NRA) want to "keep" it easy for criminals and the mentally adjudicated to obtain firearms is ludicrous and inflammatory. The NRA has always backed smart legislation. This latest SB was ill-considered and that is the sole reason why it failed in the Senate.
10:05 pm on Thursday, April 25, 2013
Tim, read McMenamin's comments in the link I pasted. Theresa, the woman he contemptuously attacked, is one of my constituents. When not working hard to support her family yes, she is working just as hard with all her heart and strength to stop the silent holocaust of abortion. Such a kind soul. After McMenamin beat her up, she prayed for him! And after I read it, I stopped over her house after work to apologize for people like him. Read this:
Sample: Tom McMenamin 11:45 am on Friday, October 14, 2011
Theresa...I certainly DO go past Planned Parenthood between the hours of 8AM and 8PM and have on many occassions not seen you nuts out there in the rain or wind. You would figure God would somehow build a canopy over you so that you could continue fighting the good fight ! I, at not point in time, have EVER said abortion was mandatory (although in your mothers case, I might make an exception).
Theresa, in your last statement you pondered if I was a nut or I made a girl have an abortion.....How powerful do you think I am ?? I don't have the power to make anyone do anything (unlike the church with you religious lemurs who continue to fleece you of your money). Most of the comments in this thread are from you Catholic loop jobs who fear some sort of retribution from the almighty God when you "roll a 7", so I don't really hold most of the comments in high regard.
2:23 pm on Thursday, April 25, 2013
Tim Lewis and Shawn - I think you nailed it.
Some might argue "it's for the children" or "if you have nothing to hide it won't affect you," and both statements are true. But history proves misuse and abuse by determined individuals.
Keep it with the judges. If enforcement officers feel judges today aren't acting fast enough, they need to work on improving their relationships with the judges.
Jack Minster
4:04 pm on Friday, May 17, 2013
Barry - contact Voter Services, they enforce compliance in Montgo: voters@montcopa.org 610.278.3277