December 23, 2005 by Matt Heckman.

A couple of weeks have passed since Stanley “Tookie” Williams was put to death in California. After this execution the editor of the Reading Eagle Al Walentis declared his hatred for California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger for not granting clemency for Mr. Williams. All of the Berks County Liberals from PA Dutchman, Jim Keller, I’m PMS 222, and so on rallied behind this murderous thug, and were against the death penalty.

Now for the present. Now it is Pennsylvania Governor Fast Eddie Rendell’s turn to put somebody to death, and we don’t hear a single peep from Al Walentis declaring his hatred for Fast Eddie on his blog. We don’t hear I’m PMS 222 on her rant about this. This is another do as I say, and not as I do moment here.

In conclusion this just proves that Liberals could care less about the death penalty. They only care when it suits their agenda. Just like Schwarzenegger, Fast Eddie is up for reelection in 2006. The Liberals will blast Schwarzenegger, but when it comes to Fast Eddie the Liberals know that they need their kook base in order to get him reelected, considering Fast Eddie’s failures in property tax reform, the pay raise, raising taxes, and continuing to carry on the Berks County spirit of picking people’s back pockets to pay for their pork.

Here is the article from the Reading Eagle about the execution warrant signed by Fast Eddie Rendell.

Gov. Ed Rendell has signed an execution warrant for a former Reading man convicted in the drug-related killings of two cousins in Exeter Township.

Shawnfatee M. Bridges, 28, an inmate at the State Correctional Institution at Graterford in Montgomery County, is scheduled to die by lethal injection on Feb. 16.

Bridges, formerly of the 300 block of West Greenwich Street, was convicted as an accomplice in the Dec. 8, 1996, slayings of cousins Damon L. Banks, 22, and Gregory A. Banks, 19, both of 545 S. 171/2 St.

The victims were shot inside a minivan and their bodies dumped along West Neversink Road.

Rendell has signed 43 death warrants since taking office in 2003.

The three people executed in Pennsylvania since the death penalty was reinstated in 1978 all ended their appeals voluntarily.

As of Dec. 1, 223 men and five women were on the state’s death row, according to the state Department of Corrections.

Now in closing I am willing to guess we will see more Matt Heckman bashing from Al Walentis rather then debating this issue. My question to these Liberal Democrats is this. Will you be out there protesting this execution? Will you be out there declaring your hatred for Fast Eddie Rendell? Will you push for resolutions preventing Fast Eddie’s name from being put on any future building? I guess we have to just wait and see.

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December 22, 2005 by Ben Helbert.

On behalf of the Berks County PA with a Right Hook staff, I would just like to say that I hope each and every one of you enjoy the upcoming holidays. Whether you celebrate Christmas, Chanukah, or even Kwanza, I hope you enjoy the season of merriment and yuletide bliss. Please try to enjoy this time with your family and friends, even the in-laws. If you will be traveling somewhere in the midst of this holiday season, please be careful on the roads, especially rural areas, as they tend not to be salted to heavily.

Thank you all and have a very happy holiday.

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December 19, 2005 by Matt Heckman.

I watched the President’s speech last night, and I have to say it was pretty good. In my point the President should have started these types of addresses long ago like FDR did with the fire side chat to boost the morale of World War II. Now before all you Bush Haters start making comments let me put something to rest right now. Just like the President said, “It is either victory or defeat”. We can argue all we want if we should have deployed troops over in Iraq, or not, but this is not the argument anymore. We are there, and we need to finish the job regardless, or we will have every nation in the world claiming that we will cut and run if there is too much heat. Remember when Bin Laden admitted to this after the 9/11 attacks that we cut and run when it gets too hot?

The Bottom Line is we need to finish what we started. Allow me to give you the reasons.

Click Here for Reason Number 1
Click Here for Reason Number 2
Click Here for Reason Number 3

I don’t care who you are. You can not justify these actions. When you have people like Stefan Kosikowski who’s running for the State Representative seat for the 127th District of Pennsylvania saying, “I would also point out that those Americans are being “beheaded” because they serve Haliburton, Bechtel, or one of their subsidiaries, because they are the INVADERS and OPPRESSORS of the Muslim Homeland.”

Source: Click Here

Now do these people look like Oppressors? If you work for a company, and somebody does not like that company does that give them the right to approve of this?

It’s time for all of us to unite, and seek victory, and bring our soldiers home as heroes. In the end America will be better off.

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December 18, 2005 by Matt Heckman.

I am happy to announce that this web site now has a link on Blue State Conservatives. For those of you that don’t know the Blue State Conservatives is a web site with tons of blogs from Conservative Residents that live in Blue States. Since the link to this site was put on the Blue State Conservative Site we have been having record breaking hits on this site. Here is the link to Blue State Conservatives.

http://www.radiobs.net/thebluestateconservatives/

I hope you enjoy the many blogs Blue State Conservatives has to offer, and a big thank you to everyone for making this site the Conservative Hot Spot of Berks County.

Regards,

Matt Heckman
Ben Helbert
And the rest of the Berks County PA With A Right Hook Team

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December 14, 2005 by Matt Heckman.

I was browsing the Mayor’s blog on the Reading Eagle today, and he is promoting the Goggle Works. As most of you know the Goggle Works is the latest attempt by the Wine & Cheese crowd of Reading to point to as the symbol of Reading’s comeback to greatness.

One of our regular posters Styrker has pointed out numerous times on how this $9,000,000.00 plus project funded by taxpayer dollars pimped by Al Boscov is such a waste considering that money could have been better spent on serious matters concerning the city. Here is the text from Mayor Tom McMahon’s blog on the readingeagle.com website.

As a break from the swirl about Antietam, I recently took in a movie, in the city no less!

Drop in any time during the day to see the arts and crafts, and make a note of the movie times. Meet some friends for a rainy afternoon movie, or catch a dinner downtown at one of the restaurants, then do the movie. (Remember I know what is best for you, after all Hitler feed a poor country, and almost took over the world, and I gave it a try with this, and by telling City Counsel where to go.)

Come discover the new downtown Reading. (Come experience the street gangs, crack whores, drug dealers, and random shootings. A most recent health report indicated that lead can prevent a lot of terminally ill cases. Once you are dead you are cured.)

Now with that being said would you rather have jobs in Berks County, or have a Socialist Utopia under Mayor “Hitler” McMahon? Remember it’s your tax dollars at work.

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December 14, 2005 by Ben Helbert.

Being a new addition to the Berks County PA with a Right Hook staff, I have been wandering around the county almost aimlessly to provide my first contribution to the site. Alas, I think I may have found just that. If you have been anywhere near the city, I am sure you are familiar with the Pagoda sitting atop the mountains. If you are familiar with that, I think it safe to assume you know about Skyline Drive.

Though not being old enough to know for a fact, I heard that during the Great Depression, the city hired the common folk to build a wall leading to the Pagoda all across the mountain roads. This helped to relieve the sagging weight of trying to stay afloat during those troubled times. While not only providing money to struggling families and working experience to all involved in the project, it also provided the city itself with a kind of glamour. In recent years however, these walls have begun to crumble, as they are getting older and older.

The City of Reading is quite the impecunious community, what with an average income hovering around $17,000 a year. Some of this is due to unemployment, though I believe most is due to a dependency on the welfare system.

Though I may be going out on a limb with this suggestion, I believe it possible to reduce much of the stress being experienced by the City and the welfare system if Skyline Drive were to employ drones of workers as they had done previously in the Great Depression.

You may be wondering “How the hell do you figure this to work out?” and “Why has Matt Heckman chosen this imbecile to write trash like this?” Well folks, here is my vision…

The welfare dependant would get the first opportunity to join this project. This would allow them to gain job experience, higher wages than what they are experiencing now, and the satisfaction of a job-well-done. This also would attract more people to the Pagoda, which in turn may allow the Pagoda to open its doors to the public for longer periods of time than in the present time.

So in conclusion, with the help of the City, the dedication of the future workers, and the initiative of all to help in any way, Skyline Drive and the Pagoda can turn into a nice place to hang out on a weekend, instead of just a place to “bone a chick” as it has recently turned into.

Feel free to comment on anything brought forth in my article, or if you feel I have missed out on any important details. But please, try to stay on-topic. Thank you.

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December 13, 2005 by Matt Heckman.

This came by on the Reading Eagle web site today. Now this is great news for Berks County. Now just like the bottling plant at the former Dana site you and I both know that this can not stand well with the Berks County Democrats. Just wait and see I’m sure we will see some execuse for them to be against this in the coming weeks.

A Montgomery County developer has an agreement of sale to buy the 133-acre Agere Systems Inc. property in Muhlenberg Township and projects the return of 1,000 jobs to the site within 18 months, with more jobs to follow.

But Gene Call, a spokesman for Oaks-based Audubon Land Development, would not provide details on what the company intends to do with the property, which has more than 1 million square feet of manufacturing, warehouse and office space.

Call said Monday that Audubon would investigate potential uses, but added that many of its projects are commercial.

“We haven’t made a decision on the best possible use of the property,” he said.

Agere spokesman Glen Haley confirmed the deal, but said he had no idea what Audubon has planned.

The Berks County Industrial Development Authority had been trying to buy the property, and Thomas C. McKeon, authority executive director, has doubts about the viability of Audubon’s employment projection.

“It’s hard for me to give much credibility to their claim of 1,000 jobs,” McKeon said.

McKeon, who previously met with Audubon officials, said it has been difficult to pin down the company about its plans.

The authority had approached Allentown-based Agere last summer with plans to buy the North 13th Street plant, which closed in 2003.

McKeon said an excess of industrial property and the age of the buildings make demolition and redevelopment the best option. Many of the buildings date to 1962.

McKeon said the authority recently received a $175,000 state grant for environmental testing and a cleanup plan for the site. It had proposed using state and federal funds for the demolition, estimated at $6 million to $12 million.

Agere had been asking for $8 million for the property, but Haley and Call declined to disclose the purchase price. The deal is expected to close by the end of January.

The assessment of the property was lowered to $9.5 million from $26.3 million after Agere appealed.

McKeon said the authority’s big concern is the cleanup of the property.

Call said environmental consultants would be hired.

Terri C. Lampe, authority deputy director, said at least three developers came close to buying the site, but passed because they believed they could not make the deal viable.

“It’s not over yet,” Lampe said.

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December 7, 2005 by Matt Heckman.

I just read this article on the Reading Eagle, and I got to ask myself how anybody can be this stupid. Here is the article, and you can be the judge.

A Greenwich Township couple lost $2,800 after they wired money to Canada in a scam that promised them $230,000, state police said Tuesday.

Paul and Irene Grim of the 700 block of Wessner Road sent the money to a company called the North American Bureau of Assets and received nothing, troopers said.

The couple called the Hamburg station on Monday afternoon.

Troopers did not provide a timetable for the crime.

Someone called the Grims and told them that they won the prize money, and that it would cost $2,800 to claim it, troopers said.

Sgt. Edward C. Hoke, the station commander, warned against such scams.

“We would caution anybody who is contacted with this type of solicitation to be wary,” he said.

Call local or state police to check the validity of the offer, Hoke said.

Now this could give some ideas to the wine and cheese crowd in Berks County. I can just see Tom McMahon, and the Berk County Commissioners calling residents with the same line, and they can use all of the money to buy Antietam Lake LOL Maybe even build another goggle works. I’m sure Al Walentis would be the first person called.

Just a thought.

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