Tag Archive for "Bucks County"
November 20, 2008More than 200 Lower Southampton residents packed into a church basement last night to air their largely negative views about a planned Community Center in a meeting with the Township’s Board of Supervisors.
Courier-Times writer Gema Duarte does readers a disservice by applying a false manufactured balance in reporting the meeting. The tone in the room was decidedly anti-Center. Residents jeered nearly every pro-Center comment by the Supervisors and presenters and cheered nearly every anti-Center resident who took to the podium.
At issue was the wisdom of building an unwanted and unfunded $11-million dollar taxpayer albatross that will never make the Township any money, and relies on half of its users coming from outside the Township to even be viable.
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The Intelligener is reporting that another incident involving a naked man in Bucks County may have occurred Monday.
A naked man twice approached a woman walking along a trail in Nockamixon State Park in Upper Bucks County, an official said.
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The incident at Nockamixon State Park occurred Monday, the same day a naked man ran up to a female jogger on New Hope Road in Buckingham, put her in a bear hug for about a minute and committed a lewd act.
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A naked, bald man attacked a female jogger on New Hope Road in Buckingham early Monday afternoon.
Police said a woman jogging on the road between Route 413 and Holicong Road was attacked from behind by a naked man. Police are investigating the incident as a sexual assault.
The woman said her attacker got her in a bear hug and lifted her upright. He then released her and ran to Holicong Road where he got into a silver sport utility vehicle, believed to be a Jeep Liberty. Police said the vehicle had a Pennsylvania license plate, but the victim could not get the tag number.
The man is described as between 30 to 35 years old, 5 feet 10 inches tall, bald, medium build and clean shaven.
I checked, and Doylestown native Michael Smerconish is considerably older than that. You know, due dilligence. It would be much easier to be on the lookout for the suspect if the Courier-Times decided to tell us what race bald man we should be looking out for.
Apparently, this is not the first “naked man in public” incident in Bucks County this month.
The incident sounds similar to one that occurred in Middletown last week.
Middletown police said that on Nov. 11 a man wearing only a pair of socks was seen on Red Berry Road. Police said the man was described as a white male with a medium build and balding. He was last seen in a small silver SUV.
Definitely a white guy there.
Are police really having a lot of trouble spotting naked guys in socks running around the suburbs when driving around on their patrols? Unsolicited Tip: If you see a naked guy driving a Jeep Liberty in the middle of November, pull him over.
Residents of Lower Southampton Township can voice their opinions about the Township’s unpopular plan to build an unfunded and largely unwanted multi-million dollar Community Center on a residential side street Wednesday night, when the Township board meets at Assumption Church at 7PM.
The meeting has been moved from the Township building to the church to handle an expected large crowd in opposition to the center’s inappropriate location and outrageous cost.
A group of residents remain opposed to the location of the township’s folly as well as the situation regarding its funding and the wisdom of undertaking such an expensive project in a time of economic downturn.
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Sebastian at Snowflakes notes that recently defeated Democrat State Representative Chris King (PA House District 142) has closed his district office. His phone message instructs constituents to contact State Senator Tommy Tomlinson’s line.
According to PA law, the transition between old and new offices is supposed to take place on November 30.
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Tonight’s episode of TruTV’s (the channel formerly known as Court TV) Forensic Files focuses on the case of Rachel Siani, the Bucks County stripper who was murdered and thrown from the bridge connecting the New Jersey and Pennsylvania Turnpikes in March of 2000.
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Courier-Times scribe David Rauch reports buzz from some lefty blogs that Li’l Pat may have his eyes on Arlen Specter’s Senate seat.
[Leftist blogger John] Morgan said he’s been “reading rumors” that 8th District Congressmen Patrick Murphy and Joe Sestak of the 7th District might run. Both just won their second terms by healthy margins “but don’t yet have the clout Allyson [Schwartz] does,” he said.
Senateguru.com apparently is on the same page with Morgan. They list Murphy, Schwartz and Sestak as “House members who I think are especially likely to be in a position to run for Senate in 2010.”
Although running for jobs for which they’re not qualified worked out well for the Democrats in 2008, the same may not be true in 2010. Historically (1978, 1994) modern mid-term elections after voters usher in Democrat Presidents work out well for Republicans. It’s like we forget how terrible Democrats are in control of the government and then get big cases of buyers’ remorse.
Having Li’l Pat run for the Senate would provide a good opening for Republicans in PA-8, provided we find a dynamic and articulate conservative candidate who can explain the benefits of small, unintrusive government and who is willing to stick a finger in the eye of Democrats every once in a while and fight on the battlefield the Democrats create.
The Discovery Channel will air a documentary called “UFOs Over Earth: Bucks County, Pennsylvania,” based on UFO sightings in the area that drew national attention, on November 24th.
Producers from the Discovery Channel came to Bucks County this summer to investigate dozens of reported sightings in the area. The Mutual UFO Network also sent field investigators to Lower Bucks to review the claims.
The rise in UFO reports began in Jan. 27 when a Falls police officer was dispatched the Oxford Valley mall. Someone called 911 to report a craft “hovering like an octopus.”
Coming in 2009: “Ghosts That Ate From My Underwear Drawer: Bucks County, Pennsylvania” on Sci-Fi.
On the bright side, this will be twice within a month that green man seeking loon and Obama transition chief John Podesta will have reason to be impressed with Bucks County.
I have been nothing less than effusive when it comes to expressing praise for the grassroots street-level workers I met during my too-brief stint volunteering locally for the election of McCain and Manion.
That said, the more I look into it, the more disappointed I am in the higher-ups in the Republican party here. Albert Einstein said that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again expecting different results. Looking at the local Republican bosses, one could come to the conclusion that their strategy is insane.
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I had the incredible good fortune of being among the many volunteers who gave their time and their efforts to electing John McCain, Sarah Palin and Tom Manion over the past couple of days. We were there, huddled around our space-aged telephones, dutifully calling voters.
I regret that the rigors of daily life prevented me from getting involved at this grassroots, shoe-leather-on-the-road level until the very end. I did what I could here - providing an outlet for all the information I could find. But, when push came to shove, I knew I couldn’t live with myself if I didn’t get as involved as was humanly possible out there: Divorced from the keyboard and in one-on-one contact with the people.
Although the outcome was not the one we had hoped for and had worked for, I still count it among the most positive experiences I can remember. There were no David Plouffes or Steve Schmidts in the room. No high powered party bosses chomping cigars and cracking whips. What I found there was room after room, station after station, of every-day hard-working well-informed citizens concerned for the future of their country and dedicated to doing all they could toward electing the candidate that best represented their world view and values.
