Thursday, July 20, 2006
Woman Seeks Answers from Troopers
“State police officials aren’t talking because of the ongoing investigation…” according to the Standard Speaker. *Singing* ‘To serve and protect; Let you break your neck—It’s Po—lice! It’s Po—lice! They play the heavies. Their hearts are made of wood!’ This just sounds like another case of police negligence, and general (instilled and ingrained) apathy towards the general public. This elderly man was handcuffed behind his back and allowed to fall face first onto concrete. You mean to say two able-bodied troopers couldn’t have prevented this incident which evidently took the man’s life according to the newspaper? Brainwashed and disassociated is NOT the kind of police force we want or need.
PCN Viewers Support Mayor’s Illegal Immigration Relief Act
Now if he only enforces it…
On side note it seems the Speaker HAS found so more happy Mayor Lou pictures to post. If they were reading HP and took note of that—Let us STRESS—WE DON’T WANT TO SEE ANYMORE HAPPY mayor lou PHOTOS!
PA House Panel Tackling Illegal Immigration
So now the next level of inactive politicians wants to get in on the act?
Barletta: City’s Act Has Influence Nationally
But the accompanying picture is not a happy Mayor Lou. It’s a sad Mayor ‘Il Zilcho’ Lou…Is feeling his fifteen minutes of fame waning, ahh—Poor Mayor Lou.
School Board Oks Change Orders, Credits at ‘Castle’
More money; more palm greasing. And guess what folks? YOU are gonna have to pay for it all in the end.
Flood Damage Meeting Fri.
At 7PM at the Educational Conference Center of LCCC…Be there or be wet!
SUFFER
The anti-dredge organization is still in effect and can be contacted at:
SUFFER
P O Box 161
Milnesville, PA. 18239
Fight the dredge before the powers that be drowned us in this trucked in filth.
“State police officials aren’t talking because of the ongoing investigation…” according to the Standard Speaker. *Singing* ‘To serve and protect; Let you break your neck—It’s Po—lice! It’s Po—lice! They play the heavies. Their hearts are made of wood!’ This just sounds like another case of police negligence, and general (instilled and ingrained) apathy towards the general public. This elderly man was handcuffed behind his back and allowed to fall face first onto concrete. You mean to say two able-bodied troopers couldn’t have prevented this incident which evidently took the man’s life according to the newspaper? Brainwashed and disassociated is NOT the kind of police force we want or need.
PCN Viewers Support Mayor’s Illegal Immigration Relief Act
Now if he only enforces it…
On side note it seems the Speaker HAS found so more happy Mayor Lou pictures to post. If they were reading HP and took note of that—Let us STRESS—WE DON’T WANT TO SEE ANYMORE HAPPY mayor lou PHOTOS!
PA House Panel Tackling Illegal Immigration
So now the next level of inactive politicians wants to get in on the act?
Barletta: City’s Act Has Influence Nationally
But the accompanying picture is not a happy Mayor Lou. It’s a sad Mayor ‘Il Zilcho’ Lou…Is feeling his fifteen minutes of fame waning, ahh—Poor Mayor Lou.
School Board Oks Change Orders, Credits at ‘Castle’
More money; more palm greasing. And guess what folks? YOU are gonna have to pay for it all in the end.
Flood Damage Meeting Fri.
At 7PM at the Educational Conference Center of LCCC…Be there or be wet!
SUFFER
The anti-dredge organization is still in effect and can be contacted at:
SUFFER
P O Box 161
Milnesville, PA. 18239
Fight the dredge before the powers that be drowned us in this trucked in filth.
Wednesday, July 19, 2006
Hot, Hot, Hot
Finally the Speaker discusses something new and real, and tangible: the weather. But they must have run outta pictures of happy Mayor Lou, and quotes of him telling us all how he was gonna put on a flack jacket and sun screen (read: olive oil), and take on the hot weather we’ve been experiencing, and make it stop! It’s almost disappointing—ALMOST!
Flooding Affected Nearly 7800 PA Homes
Yes, we live on one of the highest mountains in PA and all our names changed suddenly to Noah. Still, no word on the burn ban having been lifted. Guess the Speaker had pasta sauce to promote.
Barletta on Statewide Call-in Show
Ya know when ya get a taste for SHOWBIZ it must be kinda hard to stop, or to manage your actual mayoral duties. It’s understandable. The call to Hollywood even via cable is so much more important then that job of mayor and its duties that he was elected to in the first place. Another step up the ladder, please? Another round of golf? Why do all that bothersome mayor-stuff when that's yer job?
HASB Director Sticks By Dress Code Revisions
It’s so nice to see the importance the HASB is putting on this dress code issue. It takes all eyes off the fact that the Hazleton school system is completely ineffectual at doing the one thing they are here for: TO TEACH STUDENTS. Yes, let’s worry about cuff lengths and such. Forget about math and literature. After all, you don’t REALLY need to read to work in a CANT DO factory, do you? If these bastards would get off their asses and get focused, they might actually do their jobs and teach something. Oh, but I forgot, that’s not the point here. Teaching? What a silly notion for a school district. No let’s waste money (of the taxpayers), time and effort arguing over necklaces can be used as dangerous weapons.
Area Native Featured in Penthouse
Once more, the Standard Speaker shows just how much a waste it is. An area babe takes her clothes off for money, big deal. Like they don’t do that in ever corner bar in this town! This is so not newsworthy, and also tacky coming from what is supposed to be a family oriented publication. HP has nothing against Ms. Kent herself, just the inappropriateness (again) of the Standard Speaker, lapdog to he powers that be.
Council Approves New Dog Ordinance
OK, pet owners should be fined for letting their animals roam free, but what the hell is all this about staged dog fights? Is Doyna Yar right? Is this little Tijuana? Or is this just more hype against the Latin community?
Now a new piece from the Camp for John Medashefski for Mayor:
A Word About the Immigration Act
By John Medashefski
I support this Act 100%--NOT THE WHOLE ORDINACE—but English as the official language of Hazleton. —I will support that if elected.
I think personally, the move to make such an ordinance should have been made years ago before all this trouble started. The question now is: Is Mr. Barletta going to enforce [the ordinance]—Nothing else prior to this has been enforced. Not one thing. What I think [Mr. Barletta] is doing now is right. Now he and the city have to stand behind it and enforce it.
I’m also looking at the trouble [the ordinace] could cause. Can the city deal with the lawsuits? The legal fees? Is this going to be the city taxpayers getting screwed and footing the bill, while [Mr. Barletta] runs? I want to see [Mr. Barletta] deal with the landlords on the ordinance—[city government] has tried that before.
The mayor says it will be difficult to have the Hispanics register. I have one simple solution to the ordinance. Have them all get background checks at City Hall just like for job interviews. Have per capita tax taken out right there too, so long as they’re going to be residents of the city. Why should the landlords have to pay for this? I’m asking you, the people. Have the tenants do it.
I want to see something accomplished here in Hazleton. So far I haven’t. It’s like art to me. I want to turn around and see what I’ve done when the time comes. I want to change Hazleton—for the better.
Finally the Speaker discusses something new and real, and tangible: the weather. But they must have run outta pictures of happy Mayor Lou, and quotes of him telling us all how he was gonna put on a flack jacket and sun screen (read: olive oil), and take on the hot weather we’ve been experiencing, and make it stop! It’s almost disappointing—ALMOST!
Flooding Affected Nearly 7800 PA Homes
Yes, we live on one of the highest mountains in PA and all our names changed suddenly to Noah. Still, no word on the burn ban having been lifted. Guess the Speaker had pasta sauce to promote.
Barletta on Statewide Call-in Show
Ya know when ya get a taste for SHOWBIZ it must be kinda hard to stop, or to manage your actual mayoral duties. It’s understandable. The call to Hollywood even via cable is so much more important then that job of mayor and its duties that he was elected to in the first place. Another step up the ladder, please? Another round of golf? Why do all that bothersome mayor-stuff when that's yer job?
HASB Director Sticks By Dress Code Revisions
It’s so nice to see the importance the HASB is putting on this dress code issue. It takes all eyes off the fact that the Hazleton school system is completely ineffectual at doing the one thing they are here for: TO TEACH STUDENTS. Yes, let’s worry about cuff lengths and such. Forget about math and literature. After all, you don’t REALLY need to read to work in a CANT DO factory, do you? If these bastards would get off their asses and get focused, they might actually do their jobs and teach something. Oh, but I forgot, that’s not the point here. Teaching? What a silly notion for a school district. No let’s waste money (of the taxpayers), time and effort arguing over necklaces can be used as dangerous weapons.
Area Native Featured in Penthouse
Once more, the Standard Speaker shows just how much a waste it is. An area babe takes her clothes off for money, big deal. Like they don’t do that in ever corner bar in this town! This is so not newsworthy, and also tacky coming from what is supposed to be a family oriented publication. HP has nothing against Ms. Kent herself, just the inappropriateness (again) of the Standard Speaker, lapdog to he powers that be.
Council Approves New Dog Ordinance
OK, pet owners should be fined for letting their animals roam free, but what the hell is all this about staged dog fights? Is Doyna Yar right? Is this little Tijuana? Or is this just more hype against the Latin community?
Now a new piece from the Camp for John Medashefski for Mayor:
A Word About the Immigration Act
By John Medashefski
I support this Act 100%--NOT THE WHOLE ORDINACE—but English as the official language of Hazleton. —I will support that if elected.
I think personally, the move to make such an ordinance should have been made years ago before all this trouble started. The question now is: Is Mr. Barletta going to enforce [the ordinance]—Nothing else prior to this has been enforced. Not one thing. What I think [Mr. Barletta] is doing now is right. Now he and the city have to stand behind it and enforce it.
I’m also looking at the trouble [the ordinace] could cause. Can the city deal with the lawsuits? The legal fees? Is this going to be the city taxpayers getting screwed and footing the bill, while [Mr. Barletta] runs? I want to see [Mr. Barletta] deal with the landlords on the ordinance—[city government] has tried that before.
The mayor says it will be difficult to have the Hispanics register. I have one simple solution to the ordinance. Have them all get background checks at City Hall just like for job interviews. Have per capita tax taken out right there too, so long as they’re going to be residents of the city. Why should the landlords have to pay for this? I’m asking you, the people. Have the tenants do it.
I want to see something accomplished here in Hazleton. So far I haven’t. It’s like art to me. I want to turn around and see what I’ve done when the time comes. I want to change Hazleton—for the better.
Sunday, July 16, 2006
Politics, Ignorance, and Ambition
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How the King of the Heap [that is Hazleton] Bullshit His Way to Capital City
Reluctant views from just outside by Doyna Yar
Is it not plain for all the world to see? Political pandering for self-gain is truly disgusting. When I was first informed of “Fascio” Mayor Barletta actually taking a *stand* on illegal immigration I honestly thought someone was yankin’ my Nathan’s Famous! My first reaction was it was ridiculous for Hazleton’s government to take on illegal immigration since this is the clear [and derelict] jurisdiction of our federal government. I remember saying something to the tune of “…what’s he trying to get on Lou Dobbs?!! He may as well impose Hazleton sanctions on the DPRK or require ALL of Hazleton’s troops home from Iraq by Columbus Day for all it will accomplish…” Well the next day my dinner was crow. Actually it was something else until Lou Dobbs ruined my day by swallowing Barletta’s bait and giving this backwater politician a national platform from which to spout half-truths and blatant lies about Hazleton being on the front lines of the immigration war. After a video montage Highlighting Hazleton’s plight was piled deep, footage of an inarticulate Hazleton PD jackboot, cruisers ablaze with intimidation lights parked in front of the Road’s End Pub (isn’t that West Hazleton jurisdiction?) it was stated that the only thing police accomplished that night was to harass some teenagers! Sounds like a crisis, would Lou like some national guard troops, or the limelight? Talk about over inflated! Like a skillful ringmaster Mr. Barletta placed himself at the center of a tempest he hopes will blow him up the political ladder. What is one of many problems in Hazleton has provided him the opportunity to feed his political aspirations, so everybody dance to il Duce’s flute. The only kernel of truth in the interview was when he ducked Dobbs’ repeated question of actually rounding up illegal aliens for transfer to federal authorities. Truth be known the ordinance is only a landlord [read slumlord] tax and a way for city hall to acquire a database on all city residence (how East German of them)! I’d hate to be Hispanic in Hazleton now as it’s open season for police harassment. Divide and conquer il Zilcho? Not in a town where the typical yolkle thinks Puerto Ricans are foreigners, these people are too sharp for such carpet-bagging politics. Who knew Hazleton was a boarder town? Bullet-proof vest and jackbooted lackeys blocking traffic on 309, what a fucking joke unless you needed to drive across town during Lou’s circus. It kinda makes ya pine for the daze of "I'm the Mayor, and you're under arrest!"
Anywho, I really did not want to hear any more of this farce but it won’t go away. Because the issue is something that politicians in a position of responsibility don’t seem the have the nerve to tackle, because they can’t separate legitimate voting hispanic-Americans from euphemized *undocumented immigrants* [read ILLEGAL ALIENS], the lightweights with big mouths can seem larger than they really are. Also because of federal sidestepping the problem won’t get fixed any time soon giving slick politicians like Barletta cover because he can say he did his part with the authority of mayor. What a great way to ‘suggest’ to the voting masses to kick him up to state of fed? The shame of it is the ignorant and uninformed will buy into his ploy. Immigration is just another revolving issue, like minimum wage, abortion, or social security, that seasoned politicians on both sides love to wrap themselves in every few years and say "look what I did [vote Quimby!]" when it should be fairly obvious to identify the problem and fix it!!!
I guess my rambling has brought me to a good as any place to address the issue itself as I see it:
1) Illegal immigration was a problem in the 90s, 80s, 70s, and probably back at least to post WWII.
2) Illegal means Illegal no matter how you try to white wash terminology and blur the distinction. An illegal alien may be an *undocumented immigrant*, but that does not change the fact of breaking our laws by crossing our boarder without proper permission or legitimate intention. Doing that along the Iron Curtain a few decades back was a good way to get yourself shot.
2.5) When illegal alien activists use the term *undocumented immigrant*, do they realize that they mean WOP? A ‘With Out Papers’ immigrant is still legal, as opposed to illegal aliens, because despite their undocumented status they are coming to the shores of America to become AMERICANS!
3) All illegal aliens should be immediately repatriated to their resident state. They should be blacklisted from becoming American citizens as a lesson to their countrymen to follow accepted legal immigration procedures. Their homeland should be required to pay compensation to our Federal government for their detainment and processing.
4) Repeat offenders should face incarceration in their home state or execution here in the US at the choice of their home state. I can’t stress enough the value of sending a message of personal responsibility and the price of violating the sovereignty of a state.
5) Mexico particularly benefits and encourages her citizenry to violate American sovereignty both for population reduction and economic gains. Leveraging unwanted population over our boarder and bleeding our economy and social services is an Act of War against the United States. It remains to be seen if there is a darker and more insidious plot by Mexico thru encouraging Mexican citizens to emigrate to the American southwest without assimilation. Could this be laying the groundwork for reversing the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ala Reconquista ‘greater Mexico’?
6) The notion that illegal aliens take jobs our citizens won’t do is fantasy. Employers who use illegals for labor are cheating free market forces in pursuit of profits. Take for example Truck Farming. They’d have you believe our citizens won’t pick tomatoes. They would for a fair wage based on our labor market, so what if tomatoes cost 3 times as much and x% of tomato farmers go under? This would only be a market correction to the artificial pricing and wages caused by the employment of illegal aliens and greed of their employers. If a business can’t compete and adapt in the market it has no right to exist. Businesses who knowingly hire illegal aliens should be seized and auctioned off by the Fed, another lesson in responsibility. Their management and human resource staff should be prosecuted for aiding and abetting illicit activities and the economic sabotage of the US market.
7) Boarder security is a Federal responsibility. If boarder guards are ineffectual then it should fall to the military. Use eminent domain to seize and federalize a boarder no mans land. Sounds like a good place for training army snipers! I can’t help but imaging the impact on would be illegal aliens if they knew they could be shot on sight!
Damn, now I have a headache… glad I don’t live in Hazletijuana (don’t drink the mine run off water)! So I have to give Barletta credit for what it’s worth. Wrapping himself in an issue he cannot possibly solve. Getting the ignorant Hazletonians to embrace their xenophobia rather than face the real troubles of crime in the area. Getting his mug on television nationwide- that’ll stick on the way to congress. So if Hazleton won’t vote him out, then by all means vote him up and we’ll see who gets the last laugh. The PA voters can vote him out or up to Congress. What will America do when he’s entrenched and ineffectual in Washington? The world wonders…
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How the King of the Heap [that is Hazleton] Bullshit His Way to Capital City
Reluctant views from just outside by Doyna Yar
Is it not plain for all the world to see? Political pandering for self-gain is truly disgusting. When I was first informed of “Fascio” Mayor Barletta actually taking a *stand* on illegal immigration I honestly thought someone was yankin’ my Nathan’s Famous! My first reaction was it was ridiculous for Hazleton’s government to take on illegal immigration since this is the clear [and derelict] jurisdiction of our federal government. I remember saying something to the tune of “…what’s he trying to get on Lou Dobbs?!! He may as well impose Hazleton sanctions on the DPRK or require ALL of Hazleton’s troops home from Iraq by Columbus Day for all it will accomplish…” Well the next day my dinner was crow. Actually it was something else until Lou Dobbs ruined my day by swallowing Barletta’s bait and giving this backwater politician a national platform from which to spout half-truths and blatant lies about Hazleton being on the front lines of the immigration war. After a video montage Highlighting Hazleton’s plight was piled deep, footage of an inarticulate Hazleton PD jackboot, cruisers ablaze with intimidation lights parked in front of the Road’s End Pub (isn’t that West Hazleton jurisdiction?) it was stated that the only thing police accomplished that night was to harass some teenagers! Sounds like a crisis, would Lou like some national guard troops, or the limelight? Talk about over inflated! Like a skillful ringmaster Mr. Barletta placed himself at the center of a tempest he hopes will blow him up the political ladder. What is one of many problems in Hazleton has provided him the opportunity to feed his political aspirations, so everybody dance to il Duce’s flute. The only kernel of truth in the interview was when he ducked Dobbs’ repeated question of actually rounding up illegal aliens for transfer to federal authorities. Truth be known the ordinance is only a landlord [read slumlord] tax and a way for city hall to acquire a database on all city residence (how East German of them)! I’d hate to be Hispanic in Hazleton now as it’s open season for police harassment. Divide and conquer il Zilcho? Not in a town where the typical yolkle thinks Puerto Ricans are foreigners, these people are too sharp for such carpet-bagging politics. Who knew Hazleton was a boarder town? Bullet-proof vest and jackbooted lackeys blocking traffic on 309, what a fucking joke unless you needed to drive across town during Lou’s circus. It kinda makes ya pine for the daze of "I'm the Mayor, and you're under arrest!"
Anywho, I really did not want to hear any more of this farce but it won’t go away. Because the issue is something that politicians in a position of responsibility don’t seem the have the nerve to tackle, because they can’t separate legitimate voting hispanic-Americans from euphemized *undocumented immigrants* [read ILLEGAL ALIENS], the lightweights with big mouths can seem larger than they really are. Also because of federal sidestepping the problem won’t get fixed any time soon giving slick politicians like Barletta cover because he can say he did his part with the authority of mayor. What a great way to ‘suggest’ to the voting masses to kick him up to state of fed? The shame of it is the ignorant and uninformed will buy into his ploy. Immigration is just another revolving issue, like minimum wage, abortion, or social security, that seasoned politicians on both sides love to wrap themselves in every few years and say "look what I did [vote Quimby!]" when it should be fairly obvious to identify the problem and fix it!!!
I guess my rambling has brought me to a good as any place to address the issue itself as I see it:
1) Illegal immigration was a problem in the 90s, 80s, 70s, and probably back at least to post WWII.
2) Illegal means Illegal no matter how you try to white wash terminology and blur the distinction. An illegal alien may be an *undocumented immigrant*, but that does not change the fact of breaking our laws by crossing our boarder without proper permission or legitimate intention. Doing that along the Iron Curtain a few decades back was a good way to get yourself shot.
2.5) When illegal alien activists use the term *undocumented immigrant*, do they realize that they mean WOP? A ‘With Out Papers’ immigrant is still legal, as opposed to illegal aliens, because despite their undocumented status they are coming to the shores of America to become AMERICANS!
3) All illegal aliens should be immediately repatriated to their resident state. They should be blacklisted from becoming American citizens as a lesson to their countrymen to follow accepted legal immigration procedures. Their homeland should be required to pay compensation to our Federal government for their detainment and processing.
4) Repeat offenders should face incarceration in their home state or execution here in the US at the choice of their home state. I can’t stress enough the value of sending a message of personal responsibility and the price of violating the sovereignty of a state.
5) Mexico particularly benefits and encourages her citizenry to violate American sovereignty both for population reduction and economic gains. Leveraging unwanted population over our boarder and bleeding our economy and social services is an Act of War against the United States. It remains to be seen if there is a darker and more insidious plot by Mexico thru encouraging Mexican citizens to emigrate to the American southwest without assimilation. Could this be laying the groundwork for reversing the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ala Reconquista ‘greater Mexico’?
6) The notion that illegal aliens take jobs our citizens won’t do is fantasy. Employers who use illegals for labor are cheating free market forces in pursuit of profits. Take for example Truck Farming. They’d have you believe our citizens won’t pick tomatoes. They would for a fair wage based on our labor market, so what if tomatoes cost 3 times as much and x% of tomato farmers go under? This would only be a market correction to the artificial pricing and wages caused by the employment of illegal aliens and greed of their employers. If a business can’t compete and adapt in the market it has no right to exist. Businesses who knowingly hire illegal aliens should be seized and auctioned off by the Fed, another lesson in responsibility. Their management and human resource staff should be prosecuted for aiding and abetting illicit activities and the economic sabotage of the US market.
7) Boarder security is a Federal responsibility. If boarder guards are ineffectual then it should fall to the military. Use eminent domain to seize and federalize a boarder no mans land. Sounds like a good place for training army snipers! I can’t help but imaging the impact on would be illegal aliens if they knew they could be shot on sight!
Damn, now I have a headache… glad I don’t live in Hazletijuana (don’t drink the mine run off water)! So I have to give Barletta credit for what it’s worth. Wrapping himself in an issue he cannot possibly solve. Getting the ignorant Hazletonians to embrace their xenophobia rather than face the real troubles of crime in the area. Getting his mug on television nationwide- that’ll stick on the way to congress. So if Hazleton won’t vote him out, then by all means vote him up and we’ll see who gets the last laugh. The PA voters can vote him out or up to Congress. What will America do when he’s entrenched and ineffectual in Washington? The world wonders…
We at Hazleton Pravda have been completely unanimous in thinking it better that we just NOT bothered about the recent circus events going on in *trumpets please* The Greater Hazleton Area and how amazingly stupid THE REST of the country must be to be paying attention to Mayor Lou much less putting him on TV, and that goes for WYLN too, but at least they have the excuse that there is nothing REAL to report in Hazleton because all the corruption and backdoor dealings of the powers that be seem to get passed over and missed somehow. However, it seems we must finally say something about this ridiculous situation.
GROUNDBREAKING
More like FOOT STABBING as in stabbing one’s self in the foot. This is only alienating the Latino/Hispanic people for no real good reason, because not only is this new measure only going to hurt the little people ONCE AGAIN and distance ethnic groups even more, but do you really think any of this will be really enforced? Do you really think THIS will stop the crime and the drugs? No! Not by a long shot. This is just another attempt to step up the ladder for the mayor, Il Zilcho. His touting about how many positive e-mails he’s received is complete nonsense. Ask the people on the street. The average joe thinks this is all just a ludicrous show, a joke taken too far, and something that really won’t solve any problems just make more INCLUDING INVASION OF PRIVACY. And we have received word that all of the speakers on both sides of this were ‘selected’ if you get our meaning, just to make it more interesting for the news. As the one lady, a Latino representative pointed out in a interview on TV, it’s the criminals NOT the illegal aliens that are causing the troubles. Although we here at HP do feel the illegal aliens shouldn’t be here either and should be sent packing because they are taking our jobs, most of them are hardworking average people running store shops or slaving in the LAND OF CANT DO. Sure there is a drug problem and crime, but blame CANT DO. They put up all the posters in the metropolitan cities saying ‘COME TO HAZLETON—ENJOY! ENJOY OUR SLAVERY!’ You must admit the influx of Hispanics has invigorated this dump’s economy. Where there were vacant shop windows for so many decades there are now thriving shops offering variety and AN OPTION TO GIANT COMPANIES LIKE WALMART AND THE LIKE. And once again it is Hazleton’s growing pains. You can’t bring the inner-city to Hazleton and have them sit down and bark like the lapdogs WE have all been trained to be. People in the REAL world don’t like being Hazleton drones. Why? Because it sucks. Think people. And let’s try to—dare I say it?—get along! Let’s not draw lines between people we—or rather the powers that be—invited here just so Mayor Lou can get on national television and tell the world all the things he’s pretending he’s gonna do. This all has nothing to do with the real problems of Hazleton. THEY all live in glass houses evidently. Besides, now that we are OFFICIALLY A FACIST STATE, shouldn’t the official language be hazleton diego?
And as far as Lou Barletta being called a racist, well let’s clear this up right now. MAYOR LOU IS NO RACIST—JUST AS LONG AS YOU ARE ITALIAN! Hey! Yo! Stugats. Yous OK den!
HERE ARE SOME OF THE NATIONAL MEDIA CIRCUS ARTICLES with the smiling Il Zilcho!
Pennsylvania Town Enacts Strict Illegal Immigration Ordinance
Dobbs: Bush, Senate 'lackeys' reach new low
Lowe’s blows!
I heard it from at least a half dozen people when I told them I had an interview. I heard it from at least two dozen people since I took the overworked underpaid job I was offered. However I have yet to experience it for myself. “Lowe’s is a great company to work for”, “They pay really well”, and “The benefits are great” are some of the misinformation that was pumped into my head. In all reality, (keeping in mind this is coming from someone who has had around 20 different jobs to date) I calculated this is the third worst job I have ever had.
Let me start by saying the pay is horrific. The work is backbreaking, and they expect you to be nice to fucking 5,000 people every day on top of this shit.
They do not hire full-time, although you work full-time hours. This is just another way for the Lowe’s juggernaut to fuck you out of one of the most basic elements of someone seeking gainful employment – benefits. You are “part-time” for several months and then if you bust your nuts long enough and hard enough, you are then considered for full-time, provided a full-time position has opened up, at which time 90 days after that you are eligible for benefits.
You are told when you are hired you get a break every two hours, until you get out on the floor. “We don’t take breaks here, not unless you really need one”, is what I was told by my boss.
The schedule makes it impossible to have any other aspect to your life, including a part-time job, which everyone who works there does need. You can be expected to start as early as 6 am or get out as late as 11 pm (provided there is no extra work that needs done). You are mandated to take a one-hour lunch every day (what a great way to keep you in their control for an extra 5 hours a week). You almost never get overtime. You may be asked to stay a few hours here and there, but they will send you home early or tell you to come in late at the end of the week.
The rules, procedures and policies are absolutely eternal. I can honestly say if I was there 20 years I would still have a stack of procedures to learn. It is absolutely endless!
The most recent mind-blowing thing I have seen is how they use this eternal list of procedures and rules to fire people when busy season slows down (after July 4). The management team will sit and watch the dozens of cameras that scan every square inch of the store (does Alcatraz ring a bell?) and wait for someone to make a small mistake, often for a procedure we were never informed about. They are soon after called to the managers’ office and fired on the spot. Nothing like job security, eh?!
I guess my gripe isn’t so much that Lowe’s is a horrible company to work for, it is that the simple-minded Hazletonian way of thinking masks the truth so the people of this area think this is a great place to work. Sure, I can’t do any better at the moment either, but I do not go around bragging about how great this company is. DO NOT fall into the trap of the typical Hazletonian; take a deep breath and see things for what they really are.
Trust me, if you can get a job somewhere else, take it. Lowe’s fucking blows!
Ray Ians
We’d like to thank are newest contributing writer, Ray Ians for that insight into another thing TAINTED by the ways of Hazleton—Gombeggar, Editor
“DON’T GO TO THE HEAD OF THE TABLE—EVER!”—Hazleton axiom? Or CANT DO credo? Check out our FORUM (look to the right) to discuss the matter—Gom
GROUNDBREAKING
More like FOOT STABBING as in stabbing one’s self in the foot. This is only alienating the Latino/Hispanic people for no real good reason, because not only is this new measure only going to hurt the little people ONCE AGAIN and distance ethnic groups even more, but do you really think any of this will be really enforced? Do you really think THIS will stop the crime and the drugs? No! Not by a long shot. This is just another attempt to step up the ladder for the mayor, Il Zilcho. His touting about how many positive e-mails he’s received is complete nonsense. Ask the people on the street. The average joe thinks this is all just a ludicrous show, a joke taken too far, and something that really won’t solve any problems just make more INCLUDING INVASION OF PRIVACY. And we have received word that all of the speakers on both sides of this were ‘selected’ if you get our meaning, just to make it more interesting for the news. As the one lady, a Latino representative pointed out in a interview on TV, it’s the criminals NOT the illegal aliens that are causing the troubles. Although we here at HP do feel the illegal aliens shouldn’t be here either and should be sent packing because they are taking our jobs, most of them are hardworking average people running store shops or slaving in the LAND OF CANT DO. Sure there is a drug problem and crime, but blame CANT DO. They put up all the posters in the metropolitan cities saying ‘COME TO HAZLETON—ENJOY! ENJOY OUR SLAVERY!’ You must admit the influx of Hispanics has invigorated this dump’s economy. Where there were vacant shop windows for so many decades there are now thriving shops offering variety and AN OPTION TO GIANT COMPANIES LIKE WALMART AND THE LIKE. And once again it is Hazleton’s growing pains. You can’t bring the inner-city to Hazleton and have them sit down and bark like the lapdogs WE have all been trained to be. People in the REAL world don’t like being Hazleton drones. Why? Because it sucks. Think people. And let’s try to—dare I say it?—get along! Let’s not draw lines between people we—or rather the powers that be—invited here just so Mayor Lou can get on national television and tell the world all the things he’s pretending he’s gonna do. This all has nothing to do with the real problems of Hazleton. THEY all live in glass houses evidently. Besides, now that we are OFFICIALLY A FACIST STATE, shouldn’t the official language be hazleton diego?
And as far as Lou Barletta being called a racist, well let’s clear this up right now. MAYOR LOU IS NO RACIST—JUST AS LONG AS YOU ARE ITALIAN! Hey! Yo! Stugats. Yous OK den!
HERE ARE SOME OF THE NATIONAL MEDIA CIRCUS ARTICLES with the smiling Il Zilcho!
Pennsylvania Town Enacts Strict Illegal Immigration Ordinance
Dobbs: Bush, Senate 'lackeys' reach new low
Lowe’s blows!
I heard it from at least a half dozen people when I told them I had an interview. I heard it from at least two dozen people since I took the overworked underpaid job I was offered. However I have yet to experience it for myself. “Lowe’s is a great company to work for”, “They pay really well”, and “The benefits are great” are some of the misinformation that was pumped into my head. In all reality, (keeping in mind this is coming from someone who has had around 20 different jobs to date) I calculated this is the third worst job I have ever had.
Let me start by saying the pay is horrific. The work is backbreaking, and they expect you to be nice to fucking 5,000 people every day on top of this shit.
They do not hire full-time, although you work full-time hours. This is just another way for the Lowe’s juggernaut to fuck you out of one of the most basic elements of someone seeking gainful employment – benefits. You are “part-time” for several months and then if you bust your nuts long enough and hard enough, you are then considered for full-time, provided a full-time position has opened up, at which time 90 days after that you are eligible for benefits.
You are told when you are hired you get a break every two hours, until you get out on the floor. “We don’t take breaks here, not unless you really need one”, is what I was told by my boss.
The schedule makes it impossible to have any other aspect to your life, including a part-time job, which everyone who works there does need. You can be expected to start as early as 6 am or get out as late as 11 pm (provided there is no extra work that needs done). You are mandated to take a one-hour lunch every day (what a great way to keep you in their control for an extra 5 hours a week). You almost never get overtime. You may be asked to stay a few hours here and there, but they will send you home early or tell you to come in late at the end of the week.
The rules, procedures and policies are absolutely eternal. I can honestly say if I was there 20 years I would still have a stack of procedures to learn. It is absolutely endless!
The most recent mind-blowing thing I have seen is how they use this eternal list of procedures and rules to fire people when busy season slows down (after July 4). The management team will sit and watch the dozens of cameras that scan every square inch of the store (does Alcatraz ring a bell?) and wait for someone to make a small mistake, often for a procedure we were never informed about. They are soon after called to the managers’ office and fired on the spot. Nothing like job security, eh?!
I guess my gripe isn’t so much that Lowe’s is a horrible company to work for, it is that the simple-minded Hazletonian way of thinking masks the truth so the people of this area think this is a great place to work. Sure, I can’t do any better at the moment either, but I do not go around bragging about how great this company is. DO NOT fall into the trap of the typical Hazletonian; take a deep breath and see things for what they really are.
Trust me, if you can get a job somewhere else, take it. Lowe’s fucking blows!
Ray Ians
We’d like to thank are newest contributing writer, Ray Ians for that insight into another thing TAINTED by the ways of Hazleton—Gombeggar, Editor
“DON’T GO TO THE HEAD OF THE TABLE—EVER!”—Hazleton axiom? Or CANT DO credo? Check out our FORUM (look to the right) to discuss the matter—Gom
