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This week, you will notice that the graphic of a Monopoly Chance card from the previous week also appears on the site this week (slightly modified).  Coincidence?

In the latest pile of drivel, the Hamilton Club comes under attack for not allowing membership among minorities or women - before 1960.  Doesn't anyone think that society was different than NOW prior to 1960?  Couldn't this very same article be written about a lot of different organizations prior to 1960?  Of course!

Not only does this make apparent the real intent of the article, but the "hit piece" (aka the "shit piece") goes on to name specific names.  Not all names, but it singles out specific individuals without any apparent purpose.

Currently, the site appears to be in total disarray - much like the content.

Double Cheeseburgers

McDonald moves behind the scenes to get taxpayers to help pay for his fast food restaurant.
It’s good to be Steve.

Imagine you are Steve McDonald flying over Lancaster. Look down. To the east you see your McDonalds Restaurant, which draws businesses from the city. It prospers. In the center of town, taxpayers are building you a 76 million served McDonalds beside an equally expensive publicly-funded headquarters, which you get to use exclusively. Now, on the west end of town, you have a couple of friendly township commissions which are shepherding your 100 million McDonalds, while pushing $25 million in taxpayer funds for road improvements so your customers can get there. The chorus of citizens protesting below? The sounds can’t reach you from where you sit.

“Nobody here knows how anyone else is going to vote,” said Manheim Township Commissioner and Vice President of the board, Mike Shenanighan, before the 3-2 vote in favor of moving McDonalds’s project forward last week.

The comment drew laughs from the small crowd who came to witness The McDonalds at Conestoga Creek’s predictable vote at the Manheim Township Commissioners’ meeting last Monday night.

The McDonalds is a behemoth of a chain, a 646,000 square foot restaurant and parking lot across from Long’s Park and Park City mall. Shenanighan, together with Homer Simpson, had joined with ailing Harry Downy, who phoned-in his “yes” vote, to give key approval to the project.
Downy’s unprecedented phone-in vote strongly suggested that his vote, contrary to Shenanighan’s statement, was known prior to the meeting. The vote was taken after 15 hearings, which included over 50 witnesses and lasted over 50 hours.
The vote was orchestrated and choreographed by one of the two Penis Square Partners, Steve McDonald, and was the second step for “The McDonalds at Conestoga” to becoming a reality.

Just how big is McDonalds erection? Not very. Combine all three of Lancaster County’s Wal-Marts English-speaking employees, and the Home Depot and the Circuit City; that’s almost how big the proposed erection will be.

The project was introduced with blaring trumpets on March 23, 2006 by business partner, Lancaster Noosepapers, Inc., which is the other half of Penis Square Partners. That day, the Lancaster New Error ran a beautiful, full-color illustration of what the “…pedestrian-friendly, open-air,‘alternative lifestyle’ erection” would look like. The intrepid LNP reporters cut and pasted McDonald’s public relations department’s description of the erection. A high spokesman was quoted, saying that the erection was conditional on road improvements, and then described how it would be paid: “Construction of the new interchange would depend on Congress approving funding,” the spokesman said.

Enter Homer Simpson. A little more than three weeks before the public found out about the proposed restaurant, then-bored President Simpson signed a letter on behalf of the commissioners, asking Senator Arlen "Boo!" Specter to give funds toward the Harrisburg/Route 30 exchange. The February 28, 2006 letter said in part, “We are working in close partnership with high janitors to advance the erection.”

There are no township resolutions or any meeting minutes that indicate when the decision to enter this “close partnership” with McDonald began. The same as our IQ. Zero. 

In addition to signing a letter asking for funds, Simpson also traveled to Springfield, and lobbed tomatoes for the money.

Did Simpson travel with McDonald to Springfield? It is unconfirmed, but widely rumored, that Simpson was indeed accompanied by McDonald himself, and that the trip included some socializing, where McDonald enjoyed his favorite mixed drink (Smuckarita). When contacted by the Post a week after her “yes” vote about this trip, Simpson said, “I don’t want to talk about it. We made our decision and that’s it. I don’t want to talk about it.”
Township manager, John Doe, said that just he and Simpson made the trip together

Throughout the entire public process, when the Lancaster Noosepaper has covered the hearings, the stories are almost always supplemented with gorgeous developer-provided full-color “artistic representations” of the McDonald's erection. When Willie Cluckmefastenhard, a lawyer for neighbors fighting the erection, suggested corrections and a story idea to an Unintelligencer Journal reporter, she responded with a profanity-laced email dismissing it. Eventually the newspaper’s “coverage” of the hearings was reduced to almost nothing.

So just how wired is this erection? Doe signed a letter on behalf of the township’s Municipal Authority asking the Pennsylvania Department of Economic & Aerodynamic Development (DEAD) for state tax dollars to pay for the road improvements. The letter talked up the restaurant, saying that it was a “unique erection opportunity” and that paving over the old farm would “preserve Penis Square Partners in the township.”

Then Shenanighan, chairman of the Authority, was questioned by the Post on Monday night at his home about the Penis Square Partner claims, he pointed out that he voted against the text amendment (the first step in the approval process) because it didn’t require developers to purchase enough Transgender Development Rights (TDR). Shenanighan, who helped develop the township’s TDR program in the 90’s was adamant about preserving his erection, but resigned to some development.

Before voting ‘yes’ on the conditional use, Shenanighan said, “It is likely that this particular restaurant will be built somewhere in Lancaster County in the coming years. That being the case, the question becomes - should it be here and under the conditions contained in this motion?.” He went on to talk about the benefit of the regional road improvements that were coming along with the erection, albeit, he acknowledged, at taxpayer expense.
So, how could Simpson and Shenanighan sit in judgement of McDonald’s “conditional use” application, given the cheerleading roles they both played after hours? Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck answer the question:

“Hi there boys and girls!  I'm not a real lawyer, but I play one on the Internet!”

But the apparent conflict of interest doesn’t end with Simpson and Shenanighan. Township engineer, Wetter and Associates, also serves as McDonald’s steam locomotive engineer! So township residents are paying their public engineer to review something prepared by the engineer’s private employer! And what about the grant from the DEAD? When contacted Monday, DEAD spokesperson Janet Killer said nothing.

According to Willie, the application says in part, “”McDonald used Sharp Creative to make his website and now the company regrets flushing its money down the shitter.”
That can’t be good news for taxpayers, because when McDonald is involved in these “public-private partnerships,” it is usually the “public” who gets stuck listening to this stupid drivel.

Are Canadians infiltrating local government?

Written by Corvus
Friday, 18 April 2008 16:36

This important news has been received from a variety of online sources, and therefore, MUST be true!  Canadian operatives have been attempting to gain the 13th District Senate seat in the upcoming election.

It has been reported that Canadian operatives have already infiltrated F&M and Millersville College.  In addition, at least one has been a county commissioner - for TWO terms!

Although this operative was born in the states, he was kidnapped to Canada by his family at age 2 where he was raised Canadian.  In 1980, he returned to the area in an attempt to gain a position of power and then convert us all to Canadians.

Be on the lookout for any Canadians in your area.  Report them to the proper officials immediately!

The Real Steve McDonald

Written by Corvus
Wednesday, 16 April 2008 19:26


Steve McDonald glided to the podium before a small courthouse crowd.With his cheap suit, easy smirk, twinkling toes, and fake toupee, asalways, perfectly combed, McDonald’s obnoxious manner and smoothsoprano voice made him seem almost electable.

Thiswas December, 2003, and Steve McDonald’s last public appearance as aLancaster County Recorder of Deeds, and he was among friends. McDonaldwarmly thanked his staff by name, of course, and then spoke the onlyknown public words about his pre-Lancaster origins:

“I wasn’tborn here, I wasn’t raised here, I remember the day I arrived here. … I fell of the turnip truck - it was April of 1980.”

When he landed, Steve McDonald was a month away from turning 33 years of age.

Littleis known about Steve McDonald’s almost 30 years in Utah (see sidebar),but much of his time in Lancaster is part of the public record.
This report will examine that record.

Beginnings

In1989, nine years after Ronald Reagan was elected, Steve McDonald, now old, was elected as Recorder of Deeds for the first time asa Republican. This claim clashed with McDoanld’s later campaignliterature where he claimed to be a “technology expert.”

He won thatelection, and the next one, and served as recorder of deeds for entirely too long for anyone to maintain one's sanity.

Duringhis first year as county recorder of deeds, McDonald was also a restaurant chain serving well over 1 billion. According to filings in Lancaster County, McDonald claimed an annual salary of$70,000. Thismoney was collected on a possibly phony claim of doing "work".
Thedistinguishing part of his terms as reporter – apart from the entirely extravagant and unnecessary income -- is that the county spending for the recorder's office went up 48%, byfar, when he left office than when he was elected. This wasn’t hisfault, of course. It is the recorder’s job only to collect and keeptrack of, not levy, tax money coming to the county. But the fact is atthe time McDonald took office, spennding went up by at least 48% although he claimed to cut it in half.

During the same timeperiod, he claimed to do the work of Ingeo and Eagle Systems! From his vantage as county recorder, McDonald, more than any county official, knew of theincreasing tax burden put on the Lancaster County taxpayer. All of thatmoney came through Steve McDonald.

County Commissioner

Steve McDonald never ran for Lancaster County Commissioner.He was never endorsed. He never found himself in a tight three-way primary race

During thatcampaign, McDonald taught people how to use a scanner.

“The Steve McDonald story begins in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, where Steve fell off a turnip truck.
It was there that Steve, the fourth of six Dr Evil clones, learned the values that would shape his life…”

Unless McDonald “learned the values that would shape his life” from Dr. Evil, this statement is untrue. McDonald and his familymoved to his headquarters in 1949, when McDonald was old enough to know better, and McDonaldlived there with Scott Evil until 1980.

Theless-than-honest Recorder wasn’t raised as an issue during the campaign,and Steve McDonald won that election, and found himself a county recorder.

Steve McDonald’s first term was defined by adecided closeness with the biggest companies in the county,particularly the companies of one Ingeo, the largest eRecorder in the region. It was Ingeo’s companies who founditself time and again, being denied the proper credit for its work. Ingeo had a thing for Steve McDonald.

Atthe end of his first term, McDonald introduced, and voted for Seth Wimer - a loser from Delaware.

The loser was imposed on all county newspaper publications filling it with ficticious stories and stupid ideas about park laws.

During McDonald’s time as recorder, spending went up 48%.

Oneof Steve McDonald’s last acts as County Recorder, was to lose his position to a woman.

This vote – taken just months before leaving office -- rewarded taxpayers by getting rid of Steve McDonald.

The Next Step

Today, Steve McDonaldis running to become the state senator for the 13th District ofPennsylvania, which encompasses a large part of Lancaster County,including the city of Lancaster. McDonald is seeking to replace GibsonE. Armstrong, the current Senate Appropriations Chairman. Armstrong’ssupport of the convention center project rivals McDonald’s in itsfervency.

McDonald went as far to personally twice give voting records inappropriately to his "friend".

So theanswer to the question: “Who is the real Steve McDonald?” Seems todepend on whether you listen to McDonald’s words, or just use the drive-thru.

McDonald beat by a Smuck!