Emperor Trump And The Colosseum

Roman emperors distracted the masses with entertainment in the Colosseum. Trump tries to distract MAGA with cage fights and the IndyCar race through Washington. 

I saw on Facebook Dr. Oz with Trump praising how great the race was. I couldn't understand how people voted for Fetterman instead of Oz in 2024. Considering Oz's silence about Dr. Trump's childhood vaccine recommendations, Fetterman was the way better choice.

Trump is campaigning more in the primaries than I expected. I suppose it is the equivalent of the thumb up or down in the Colosseum. After the midterms, we'll see how the senators treat Caesar.

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The Morning Call In Today's Allentown

A motivator for this post is frequent comments I receive that the paper has a left leaning agenda. Years ago they certainly did have agendas. Back in Allentown's golden era, the Park & Shop Livingston Club days, the publisher was a local king maker. Even up to 2005, they made local election endorsements on the editorial page.

Because of how news and information is now conveyed, the traditional newspaper industry has downsized to survive. I've subscribed to the Morning Call for over fifty years. Most of the articles I currently read are written by only two reporters, Lindsay Weber and Nick Evans.Years ago, their assignments went to four different reporters.

We're lucky we still have a paper, that's more than many other cities can say. The Morning Call is part of Tribune Publishing, now owned by Alden Global Capital. While they may influence which national articles appear, they certainly don't edit the local news.

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Let Them Eat Steak Before The Election

When the reporter asked Trump on Air Force One about allowing the large beef import from Argentina, Trump gave his patented answer that she didn't know what she was talking about. Funny thing is that Charles Herbster, meat baron from Nebraska and a Trump supporter, also thinks that Trump is selling our meat producers down the river, to lower the cost of beef for the midterms.

Trump's lies are coming home to bite the Republican incumbents. Everyone except the dumbest can see through them. I notice that his rally crowds are getting younger and younger. and less informed.

Shown above was my family's meat business. The shop was closed several years before I took the photo, just prior to it being demolished. At the time when Allentown had the huge A&B, there were also half a dozen small packers.

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Counting On Dollars

Subscribers to this blog know that I expect a blue wave in November. My Republican sources believe that  MAGA  is alive and well, and will turn out for the midterms. Trump has tapped some big players, Elon Musk among them.

I'm of the opinion that money pays much less dividends in elections than it used to. Those postcards, which get bigger and more in each election, don't get past the first waste can. Those repetitive TV ads get the mute button. Those phone calls get a quick hangup. 

I suppose that the objective now is to increase turnout, as opposed to changing minds. Getting back to my first sentence, I think that the turnout will be blue. But my red friends need not fret, they can still contribute to the various monuments to Trump, from the ballroom to the arch.

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Coming Home To Roost In Allentown

Everyday we're reading about more fatalities, especially with motorized two wheel vehicles. Students of this blog know that I take a weekly cruise down Tilghman to 2nd, and then back up Linden to the stadium area. Whenever I post about these patrols, I always mention the wheelies, double parking, driving in the wrong lane and utter disregard for lawful driving.

Everybody sees these things, and everybody knows that the police have been standing down on enforcement. Mayor Tuerk and Chief Roca have to take some blame for the current consequences.

A traffic crackdown is long overdue. When I say the administration has to take some blame, I'm being polite, they own most of it. City Council has to speak out. School starts soon, and children should be able to safely cross streets. Pee Wee shown above on his bike is cute, but that's not the reality we're dealing with.

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The Bicycles of Allentown

produced by Gary Ledebur, Netherfield Studios, Philadelphia
contains adult content

reproduced from March 15, 2010

ABOVE REPRINTED FROM 2011
 

 BELOW FROM AUGUST 20, 2026

State Senator Nick Miller secured $500K to connect Trexler and Cedar Parks. Connecting the parks has been a park department agenda for the last twenty years. I'm the only person who speaks against it, but I consider myself better informed in regard to park matters than even some in the administration.

The connection concept is a cyclist agenda. Our spandex friends would like to zoom from park to another, avoiding the reality of our streets. As a frequent visitor to our parks, I can tell you that more and more people with dogs and children are walking the paths. Nothing endangers them more than a fast cyclist coming up from behind.

Allentown purchased two large parcels for additional parks, Basin Stret and the old fertilizer plant on Martin Luther King Blvd.  Both these purchases were ill advised, but they could be redeemed with a loop(s) for cyclists. The administration and park department consider me a thorn, but I could have put $500k to some real park improvements.

State Of The Blog

While I'm hoping that this post makes it to publication, in Trump's world you never know when the presses have to be stopped, and the typeface reset. While the blog started production in Cetronia in 2007, the south Florida satellite office soon followed. With south Florida becoming too pricy, the current office is farther north along the Brightline tracks in Eau Gallie. The old staffer there can see the rockets rising from Cape Canaveral.

With Trump deciding that the world is an oyster for his family's future, the need for an overseas office became apparent. A rented room in an old Turkish hotel will do. The staff is two students. Although I don't pay them, they are receiving college intern credits in journalism.

While my partisan Republican readership has drifted away. I hold no resentment, because their Waterloo is only a few months away. I take heart in Principles First, conservatives against Trumpism. I look forward to a time when this blog can again concentrate on local issues.

Readers will notice a new link to a book I produced through Amazon bookstore at the bottom of posts. My old school blog template is not mobile friendly, and the post link is the only option for advertising.

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