August 28, 2007 by Matt Heckman.

I know Lori Martin will enjoy this considering her recent disgust with Al “Sperm” Walentis at The Reading Eagle.  I have been checking on The Sperm’s blog all day and I swear he is proving to be a closet homosexual over his obsession with Idaho Senator Larry Craig and his bathroom incident.

I’m sure the  bathrooms at The Reading Eagle are not safe from this potential pervert.

As for Larry Craig, I can only say that he could still be useful, especially for Mayor Marvel-Less Tom McMahon, and Al Boscov.  After all they believe in fairness.  So what would be more fair then to get their buddy Ed Rendell to pull some strings and hire Larry Craig to work as a state trooper for The Pennsylvania State Police, and patrol The Goggle Works, and have some homosexual fondling joy with potential homosexuals like Sperm Walentis.  If The Goggle Works is good enough for Pennsylvania State Troopers to fondle on a hetrosexual level then why not some good old fashioned homosexual ball juggling? LOL !

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August 24, 2007 by Matt Heckman.

Ted Nugent goes off and tells it like it is, and his ideas for Hillary Clinton might help her sex life out a little bit.  You can view the link here.

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=757_1187963465&p=1

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August 22, 2007 by Matt Heckman.

Keith Stamm is in the Hospital unable to campaign and Mayor Marvel-Less Tom McMahon still can’t get his voters up here. :) 

Border Patrol Agents arrested 54 illegal aliens (Future Reading, PA residents, and Mayor Marvel-Less Tom McMahon voters) stashed inside a motor home Sunday.

On patrol in Sonoita, Arizona, Tucson Sector agents came across a 1990 model RV. The agents stopped the home near milepost 32 on Highway 82.

Agents say as they approached the vehicle, the driver was acting nervous.  The agents looked inside the RV and found 54 illegal aliens (Future Reading, PA residents, and Mayor Marvel-Less Tom McMahon voters) from Mexico, including the driver.

Everyone was arrested and transported to the local Border Patrol station for processing and removal from the country.

The motor home has been impounded.

Source: http://kvoa.com/Global/story.asp?S=6956989

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August 22, 2007 by Matt Heckman.

As some of you know, I recently relocated, and no longer live in Berks County.  However that does not mean that this site will come to an end.  I will continue to comment on State and Local issues in Berks County, but will also have more of a National and State Wide twist to it.  I finally got my internet access at my new place and should be typing away with my words of wisdom very soon once I’m completly settled in.

In the meantime comments will be moderated, and a new name for this site will be revealed as I don’t live in Berks County anymore, but I will always relate to the people of my home town.

I also want to address rumors that have been flying around on The Al “Sperm” Walentis Blog (which will more in likely be removed by The Sperm upon the posting of this topic) about Keith Stamm, and fellow blogger Jim Reitnour.  First of all the comments I have received from not only The Established Elite of Berks County, but from the kook fringe about both of these men are discusting as they attempt to exploit their current suffering. 

According to Stamm insiders KEITH STAMM IS NOT DROPPING OUT OF THE RACE!  Keith is expected to make a full recovery and is looking forward to debating Wyomissing’s own coward Mayor Marvel-Less Tom McMahon and respond to his minions at The Reading Eagle that have been posting comments exploiting Mr. Stamms injuries and making jokes about his fall as well.

Now for the Jim Reitnour issue that has been floating around the world of Sperm about his marriage falling apart.

Rumor #1.  Jim drove his wife crazy where she almost killed herself.  The person that started this rumor cliams to have accessed “public” records about the incident.

 Fact:  Jim’s wife did indeed have mental issues, but in no way were they driven by Jim.  No doubt the person that started this is some Democrat Party Hack that has a track record of these types of things.

Rumor #2.  Jim Reitnour no longer lives in Berks County, and is seperated from his wife.

Fact:  Jim currently does not reside in Berks County, and has been seperated from his wife for the past few months.  They are currently trying to work things out.

Rumor #3.  According to “City Records” Jim neglected a house on Locust Street that will force the taxpayers to pick up the dime.

Fact:  Jim did not neglect the property.  Like many people investing in Real Estate sometimes a lot of crap surfaces and you cut your losses.  Jim simply cut his losses and backed away from the property.  The City Of Reading is not flipping one cent involving that property.

People ask me why I left Berks County, and aside from professional reasons, it’s these types of personal reasons as well.  Don’t worry Jim is a big boy an he can handle the kooks, just like I did when The Sperm tried to pass off another Matt Heckman in the police log aressested for drug possession as me by not putting in the middle inital of that Matt Heckman to give the kook readers a false impression.  The issues with Keith Stamm are another example.  I admire and respect Keith for getting back up after a serious fall to continue to fight for what he believes which is something Berks County has lacked for at least the past 10 years.  Rumors, Gossip, and Kooks are the reason Berks County continues to decay into a third world crap hole.  When you have the only newspaper in the county that outs a witness to a murder like they did with Jason Steif, and when you have a Reading Eagle staffer named Dana Hoffman on her personal war against the Gosselins encouraging her readers to conduct road rage against them, or peak in their kitichen window.  Yet people in Berks County continue to scratch their heads and wonder why people are leaving.

In closing I wish Keith Stamm & Jim Reitnour the best as they struggle with personal pain, and hope they overcome the issues at hand.

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August 16, 2007 by Matt Heckman.

As most of you know Keith Stamm is currently in the hospital due to a serious injury.  Keith is the Republican challanger to Wyomissing’s own Mayor Marvel-Less Tom McMahon.

We here at The Berks Blog Network wish Keith a speedy recovery.

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August 6, 2007 by Matt Heckman.

Reading The Reading Eagle, and The Sperm Walentis Blog, I have had it up to here with all of these people who are crying about not being able to afford their houses because of property tax assessment.  You will take notice that the people who are crying are the ones that took out these interest only, and A.R.M. mortgages.  With The Federal Reserve raising rates, and most of the interest only terms coming to an end, these people are adding over $1,000.00 a month on thier mortgage payment.

These same reassesment crybabies are lashing out most recently with Jim Cramer from CNBC with his yelling rant to the fed to cut rates for the sake of these people.  While Jim Cramer is correct that we are on the verge of an economic disaster, we also have to blame this whole issue on just the lack of common sense with the reassessment crybabies. 

I was always brought up to be modest with my lifestyle, regardless of how much you make in life.  Being raised by a single mother, the first value that was taught to me was to live within my means.  Like most kids being brought up by single mothers, I never had all the expensive toys like the other kids in my neighborhood had, or the cool looking swingsets.  I had a rope to swing off of a pear tree in my backyard, and a two seat swing set that my grandfather made out of scrap pipes from when he used to be a pipe fitter.  Naturally the other kids would make fun of me, and insult my mother because my father was never around for me as he left before I was even born.  Naturally as a kid it would upset me, and when I would go to my mother about it, I was always taught to be modest in how you go about life.  You can spend all the money in the world on a game system, a plasma tv, but at some point you will hit a bump in the road of life where you will need money and don’t have it, because you decided to spend it all on your wants rather then invest into your future needs.

I continue to carry that approach in my life.  Even to this day, I would have people talk about their $200,000.00 - $300,000.00 home, how they are living the high life, while my wife and I are renting out a $125,000.00 rancher out west.  Now naturally I’m a grown man, and those types of childish things don’t hurt me, but what is amazing is how very little people mature these days.  Just like in my childhood, those very same people who call me poor and behind the times are now hitting the end of thier interest only mortgages on thier lavish homes, and they can’t afford them.  Now what they want is to have people like you and me who live modestly and still use our brains, to pay higher taxes to these reassesment crybabies in the name of “fairness”, because they know The Federal Reserve will not cut rates.  Diana Olick from CNBC said it best with her latest blog entry, and I quote.

Clearly the credit market needs some help. The fear factor is overwhelming some of the basic fundamental facts, but not all of them. I just worry that if you lower interest rates you’re essentially reversing an important, albeit painful lesson. American homeowners got greedy, bottom line. They saw these low rates, they saw these “exotic” mortgage products, and they bought themselves homes they should never have owned in the first place. Now they’re in trouble, and many of the them should be.

Yes, there was plenty of predatory lending and plenty of illegal and immoral practices going on in brokers’ offices in every state of the U.S., but the bulk of the boom was driven by straight-up brokers with straight-up documents that just happened to offer very cheap money for a short time. People didn’t read their papers, didn’t take the time to understand their investments and now they’re getting burned.

I have to admit I’m torn. People need relief. The housing market needs relief. The credit market needs relief. But is the answer to open the barn doors again and see the rush of blind bulls say, ‘It’s all ok again. It’s time to buy more house. It’s now time to forget what we can all afford again?’

I’m not so sure.

Happiness and respect are not gained through who has the good toys, or the bigger house, it is gained by something that we as a society have lacked over the past few years, and that’s character, and integerity.

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