The Annihilator

I'm sure Trump's threat to annihilate Iran impressed the world with his diplomacy. Certainly his proclamation about Venezuela that to the victor belongs the spoils was another keeper.

American voters were assured that the problems with Iran and its consequences on our economy will end after the midterms.😁

On tomorrow's post, I plan on explaining why Trump started walking back his ban on CNN, and how they in turn will treat our 8th grade bully better. However, in our Trump world, my posting schedule is always subject to some outrageous outburst or tweet from The Annihilator.

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Lehigh Valley Water Pimping

When Don Cunningham as county executive many moons ago brought Nestle to the Lehigh Valley, I realized that it wasn't really the prize plum he was bolstering his career with. We have been fortunate not to have been victim of a drought, because they suck a lot of water out of our aquifer.

He rode that deal to head the county development agency, where he then brought us the cranberry juice company from New Jersey. Turns out that New Jersey had become fed up with their polluting, and New Jersey isn't known to be fussy about such things.

Donny is now bragging about bringing us a yogurt company, which was shopping for somewhere to tolerate their wastewater requirements. All these companies always promise to invest and hire big, and Lehigh Valley gobbles up the bait. Now that we have a regional water authority operating both the supply and waste, the taxpayers will be unknowingly subsidizing these new industries, who found a waiting patsy. Fortunately for Donnie and these companies, pushback over the years has been limited to this blog.

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Banned At Allentown City Hall

Trump banning CNN and Politico from the White House is just another example of his low comprehension of how our government is supposed to work. Reportedly, some Republicans on the midterm ballot are starting to put some distance between themselves and him, although so far Mackenzie hasn't been among them.

What brings me to this topic is that reportedly Molovinsky On Allentown was blocked on city hall computers during Mayor Ed's later terms. I will attempt to confirm that old rumor and report back on my findings in an addendum.

On that note, I have bumped into Pawlowski a couple times since his partial halfway house release, and we had amiable, if short conversations. I wish him well with his pending full release and future endeavors. As for Trump and his fake news babble, those excuses will now be put to the legal test.

shown above blogger spotted in Rose Garden pond

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The Morning Call Celebrates Its Demise

The Morning Call has been promoting J.B. Reilly since he started his NIZ enterprise in 2011. In today's promotion, they describe his 15th apartment building as on their former offices. This latest plywood plaza is actually on the distribution end of the former newspaper building, while the offices were on the Linden Street side.

While the other apartment buildings will fall short on their yuppie target for tenants, this latest one aims low, they describe it as affordable housing. I hope it's designed like the old Timex watch, to take a beating and keep on ticking.

On the topic of beatings, this week I visted a couple stores on the south side of Hamilton Street in the 700 block. Between the new center square construction, and the former bank to med school conversion, it takes a lot of will power to patronize those stores. Hope the patients survive the improvements.

shown above Eleanor Roosevelt visiting the former Hanover Acres when it was new

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Hardscrabble In Allentown

We know from Matt that he is Allentown's first Latino mayor. We know from Victor Martinez that Allentown is now majority Latino, and should have more Latino elected representatives. But who is speaking up for the other 49%, especially the elderly poor.

Allentown's elderly poor, many descended from a previous dominant demographic called Pennsylvania Dutch, by culture never availed themselves to whatever subsidies were available. Their family motto was Make It Do, Wear It Out, Use It Up, Do Without.

While the squeaky wheel gets the oil, they never said a peep. You can still catch a glimpse of this yesteryear at a farmers market, or a Lanta bus stop. I'm not even sure that you'll see their names in the paper's obituary column, the paper charges for that now.

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Another Parkway Story

Growing up during the early 1950's in Little Lehigh Manor, aka Lehigh Parkway, aka The Parkway was kiddie city. Most of us were born in the mid to late 1940's, children of WW2 veterans. I don't recall one house without children. Everyone had friends, even the maladjusted. 

In addition to friends, I also had cousins. I had an aunt and uncle on both Lehigh Parkway South and 17th St.SW. Siblings of my mother, the whole family lived in the Parkway. I can tell from Facebook groups that my affinity for the neighborhood is commonplace.

I expect that those growing up in Midway Manor and other Allentown neighborhoods of that era share similar emotions. I know that my father's generation stayed connected to their youth in the Ward. Likewise, today's Allentown youth will cherish their memories.

Shown above myself and a cousin in our Parkway backyard.

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Netanyahu Plays At UN

Netanyahu's speech at the UN might as well be given to Mamdani's staff at the NYC city hall, neither place has any use for him. But he's not speaking to influence the UN, rather voters back in Israel. His platform now is that Israel is Sparta, and will go it alone if necessary. 

Unfortunately, more and more, Israel is alone, and that isn't the worst of it. The shelf life on his reliance on Trump and the United States is getting shorter, election by election. Netanyahu will learn his fate at the end of October. Likewise, Israel will learn more about its reliance on the USA in early November. A blue wave doesn't bode as well for Israel as it once did.

I'm hoping that Israel moves beyond Netanyahu, and that United States moves beyond Trump, but both have staying power. In Israel, things could go even more hawkish and aggressive. Likewise, in the United States any majority will be thin and under constant pressure.

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