December 30, 2006 by Matt Heckman.

After reading a rumor that floated around on Grassrootspa.com today talking about a representative from Reading that made a deal with John Perzel to flip parties, I decided to research it, and have discovered a shocker on a few chat rooms with some Beltway staffers this evening. Tom Caltagirone is indeed the flipper. As most of you know locally that for the past couple of election cycles Tom Caltagirone’s popularity has been declining, and this past election he ran unopposed. Despite that, he has continued to receive fewer and fewer votes to where rumors have also cycled that this would be his last term and planed on retiring to begin with when his term ends in 2008. So he could care less about the backlash, and in the process I’m sure Perzel is padding him quite well.
On a personal note I don’t know what to make of this. Perzel is scum, but on the other hand DeWeese is a piece of crap and we would be far worse with DeWeese as Speaker. Now that this has been exposed lets see what happens.

Source: http://www.grassrootspa.com/blog/archives/12284

Source: http://www.grassrootspa.com/blog/archives/12301

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December 29, 2006 by Matt Heckman.

News reports are coming in that Saddam has now been executed.  Now there may be hope for the Iraqi people can move on.  Regardless of where you stand, I’m sure we can all agree that it is good that this man is dead.

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December 29, 2006 by Matt Heckman.

Well the last post of 2006.  Post whatever is on your mind, or the news breaking story that crosses your mind.  Have a safe New Year.

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December 25, 2006 by Matt Heckman.

Oh my God what a game!

This is turning out to be one heck of a season from the Texans beating the Colts (always good to see a Manning look like an ass) to this. Just as I thought. Tony Romo got rattled pretty bad. Could we be seeing the comeback of the decade with Jeff Garcia? Regardless we saw west coast offense at its best tonight, and if The Eagles can stop the run with Atlanta next week like they did with Dallas tonight, then it will be slam dunk NFC East for The Eagles. I’m going to give the Atlanta/Philadelphia game to Philadelphia by 7.

E-A-G-L-E-S EAGLES!!!!!!

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December 22, 2006 by Matt Heckman.

You know the routine.  I want to take this moment to wish everybody a very Merry Christmas, and thank you for all your comments this past year, and look forward to many more.

God Bless.

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December 17, 2006 by Matt Heckman.

When I read in The Reading Eagle the other day about how The County Commissioners are considering property tax breaks for Al Boscov’s joke of an organization Our City Reading (which is worthy of a big time IRS audit) to fund his taxpayer funded pimp projects such as The Goggle Works II apartments, I was pissed off to say the least. It gets even worse, because The City Of Reading, and The Reading School Board are also considering the same thing for our Illegal Alien employing Tax Pimp. So what this means is you and me are going to pay for the taxes for people that want to live in $1,000+ per month apartment which there was no free market demand for in the first place. All three of these bodies are strapped for cash these days, and what makes Pimp Boscov so freaking special? We know the answer to that one.

Bottom line is we the taxpayers that are paying for the project to begin with. We are paying for it’s construction, it’s maintenance, and now it’s taxes while Al Boscov pockets all the profit. All without putting one damn cent of his own money into it. In a real free market if I wanted to start my own business, part of that is paying the taxes in the area that I choose. Could you imagine if I walked into city hall and said to them that I want to start a business, but don’t want to pay any taxes for the first couple of years? I would be laughed out the door. If Boscov wants this apartment complex, then put his own damn money into it just like anybody else would have to. It’s time that Al Boscov is exposed for the Tax Pimp that he really is. He continues to profit off of the decline of Reading and Berks County, and is considered a saint to this established elite. It’s time to call him on it.

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December 16, 2006 by Matt Heckman.

Now that Jay Sidhu is out of the picture at Sovereign Bank, they are not playing the corporate welfare game anymore.  First line of business is to cut jobs which a majority of them are in Berks County, and Pennsylvania.  Remember I said that the moment that Sidhu was out of the picture that this would begin, and that it would begin slowly.  This is the first of many rest assured.  The Reading Eagle did a great spin job to cover for them which was so transparent.

I will now put myself on notice here.  I will predict that we will see more of this come 2007, and by 2009 Sovereign’s pullout will be visible to everybody.  The Reading Eagle will more in likely blame its citizens for being stupid like always for not following the wisdom of Al Boscov, and Mayor Marvel-Less Tom McMahon.

I also want you to read Stefan Kosikowski’s site about Jobs in the city.  He hits a home run, and explains why we can’t fuel an economy on taxpayer funded bribes or better known as corporate welfare/socialism.  You can read Stefan’s piece here.

http://www.stefanckosikowski.org/jobs.htm

Let’s help Stefan put Mayor Marvel-Less Tom McMahon, and Al Boscov’s asses under the fire here folks.  We know The Reading Eagle will not call them on it, WFMZ will not call them on it, but we sure as hell WILL CALL THEM ON IT.

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December 16, 2006 by Matt Heckman.

It is now official folks. Mike Case has returned. You can click his link on my page, or on the links section of the main page at The Berks Blog Network. I really suggest reading it folks, because he also explains his side of why The Reading Eagle censored him.

http://readingfirsthand.com

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December 16, 2006 by Matt Heckman.

Post whatever is on your mind. Stay tuned because I have a couple of good articles in store for you this weekend. We will be covering the toxic waste issue, and Al Boscov’s latest taxpayer funded whore project. Can’t wait.

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December 13, 2006 by Matt Heckman.

Score one for the good guys.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/12/AR2006121200525_pf.html

This great effort was thanks to ICE.  The same organization that works closely with The Fire Coalition, a watch dog group that exposes employers that hire, and enslave Illegal Aliens.  Also the same group that has Boscov’s listed as an Illegal Alien employer.

http://wehirealiens.com/employer/index.asp?id=6521

Keep in mind now when The Democrats take over in January, the first thing on the agenda is to grant citizenship to Illegal Aliens and also permit them to keep the stolen Social Security Numbers they stole from hard working Americans as part of a back room deal with President Bush.  So next time you hear them talk about Social Security going broke, remember to keep in mind how many Illegal Aliens contribute to the drain of the system.

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