PERMANENT POST – ARREST THE KILLER!

SEE JANE WRITE – NOT!

A HORRIFIC COLUMN!

     Then there is the technology conundrum.
    Andy Serkis was riveting and heartbreaking as Caesar, the leader of the rebellious apes in “Rise of the Planet of the Apes.”
    But his performance involves the computer technique of motion capture, and, yes, he is playing an ape, not a person.
    Still, he gave a tremendously complex, terrific performance.
    “Apes” should have gotten more nominations. (It has only one for visual effects).  It was a terrific movie.
Jane Holahan in her terribly titled column today, “Obvious, odd choices not comparable,” (click here).
    Have mercy! I woke up this morning to Jane, Jane can’t think or write. Her simplistic, grammatically awkward including run-on sentences column, has almost driven me over the edge. Is there an editor in the house? Is there anyone with a brain?
    Jane teases us at the end of this horrifically stupid column with this:
    OK, enough griping. Next column I will give my predictions about who will win on the big night, Feb. 26.
    Jane, I don’t give a hill of beans about your predictions. I’m not sure I’ll even be over this by then.  I’m in a conundrum trying to figure out how you keep your job!
    Thanks a lot for ruining my morning. I hope I cheer up by this afternoon…

GOOD JOB!

Photo by Ron Harper, Jr.

    Police Chief Keith Sadler was in attendance at yesterday’s standoff in downtown Lancaster. It ended peaceably with no one being injured (click here). Good job, chief!
    Have a great Friday and please check back tomorrow.

LNP: NO PHOTO = WHITE

THEY CHOSE VELIZ!   

    There were four crime stories on Page B-1 in the print edition of the Lancaster paper this morning. There was one photo of one person charged. If I give you the headlines, can you determine who merited a photo:
1. Man charged in 30 break-ins
2. Child-porn charges lodged
3. Assault charge for man
4. Police nab woman in home burglary
    No? Can’t figure it out? How about the names of those charged in the same order as the headlines above:
1. Donald Welsh, Jr.
2. Matthew Robert Glattacker
3. Raidiel Veliz
4. Brittney Lee Sawyers
    If you went with the Hispanic name – you would be right! The only photo accompanying the four stories was a booking photo of Veliz, charged with two counts of aggravated and one count of simple assault on October 11th for an alleged assault on his girlfriend on October 5th, who for some reason was not arrested until this Tuesday (He has a very active Facebook page through those dates! He must have been very hard for the police to find! Maybe they didn‘t put it high on their priority list? No wonder the woman was reportedly scared to report it.).
    I think the editor of the paper, Raymond Shaw, should explain to the public immediately why only one photo ran and why they chose Veliz. The editor might also ask the police why they apparently could care less about a Hispanic woman alleging an extremely fierce and life-threatening attack by her boyfriend.
    I will come back to the New Era editorial tomorrow – see “UNCONSCIONABLE AND UNACCEPTABLE!” immediately below.

UNCONSCIONABLE AND UNACCEPTABLE!

SOME GRIEF?

    A School District of Lancaster spokeswoman said in a prepared statement that “unique circumstances” surrounding the case prevented police from notifying parents or otherwise following recommended school policy on such matters.
    What the circumstances were was this: A suspected sexual predator had been among Reynolds students.
    The circumstances demanded swift, decisive action by authorities to investigate the 36-year-old teacher charged in the case, including whether there were any other young victims. Police evidently felt that contacting Reynolds parents about the matter was not absolutely necessary. 
    We certainly sympathize with the parents of the students who were interviewed, but we also appreciate what police are up against in attempting to solve such a potentially explosive case.
    Perhaps the Reynolds case will serve as a teachable moment for police the next time — as there surely will be a next time.
    Next time, maybe it will be just as easy for police to pick up the phone or ask the school to make the calls — either to invite parents to sit in on the interview or, at the very least, tell them what’s going on.
    This just might save everybody some grief.
From today’s New Era editorial, “Police handling of Reynolds case – Some parents at Reynolds Middle School are irate that they did not learn their children were interviewed in connection with a criminal investigation until the children told them.”
    What a ridiculous editorial! Once again, the Lancaster Newspapers back the police no matter what. What the police did was unconscionable and unacceptable. Period. Oh, and maybe the New Era editor, Peter Mekeel, could get his facts correct before he writes such hurtful nonsense.
Please check back later today.

RIDICULOUS!

WRONG SIDE OF THE LAW?
    Motorists who start their cars to warm them up and defrost the windshields and then run back inside the house are on the wrong side of the law in Lancaster city.
The beginning of an article from January 17th, “Police crack down on unattended vehicles,” (click here).
    Really? Really? A three hundred dollar fine? Don’t the police have anything else to do? Does anyone have any common sense?
Please check back later today.

TRUE, AMAZING POLICE STORY!

REFUSE PROSECUTION?

    Everyday I am simply amazed by stories in the paper with no follow-up. Last Thursday there was this four paragraph story titled, “Lancaster woman shot in Ephrata,” (click here):
    Police are investigating a shooting in the Ephrata area Thursday morning.
   A female was shot in the arm shortly before 4:15 a.m., Ephrata police said. She suffered a superficial wound.
    The female and other witnesses are Lancaster city residents and are not cooperating with investigators, police said.
    The victim and shooters know each other, police said, and she refused any prosecution in the matter.
1. It’s not up to her whether to prosecute or not – it’s up to the DA! She can’t “refuse” prosecution! Is their a reporter in the house?
2. Someone shot someone in the arm and they’re going to get away with it? They aren’t going to be arrested and charged?
3. Don’t even try telling me the police can’t figure out who did it! It’s easy to say the victim and other witnesses aren’t cooperating – but that’s bunk. If the police can interview a 12-year-old in school about an alleged sexual assault by a teacher without notifying the parents or having anyone else present (that’s another story from today), then they sure as hell can find out who the shooter was. I bet a 12-year-old could figure it out in about 10 minutes.
4. So, has this person been arrested? Is the gun legal? Has this person shot anyone else?
5. I think the District Attorney better tell these police to do their jobs and do them now!
    I have always said that in Lancaster County the police are quick to say people are “not cooperating.” It’s an easy way to avoid having to investigate or make an arrest and the public buys it and they don’t care either. You do not leave a shooter on the loose and if the police can’t figure out who shot the woman, they should be fired and replaced with police who can. That’s their job, after all.
Tomorrow … more true amazing police stories!

PROTECT THE CHILDREN!

GET A SPINE, MARV!
    This comment in under “TELL IT TO THE JUDGES!” below:
    When I read his “editorial” I wanted to scream at the top of my lungs….SHUT THE H%#L UP YOU PATHETIC HYPOCRIT!!!!!!!!!!! When judges are giving slaps on the wrists of child abusers and letting them walk “free” they NEED to be called out but no one has the back bone to do it. And for Marvelous Marv to write an editorial like he did is down right disgusting!!!!!!! Hey…LNP…Hey…Marv…get a spine and start going after some judges and make THEM answer for THEIR decisions, for THEIR “not going far enough”, for THEIR unwillingness to protect children!!! Just a side question….who the heck gave Marv the name “marvelous” in the first place?!?!?! because he certainly is NOT!!!!!!!!!! Sheezzzzzzzz….LOL
[Editor’s Note: I named Marv “Marvelous” many years ago. I was going for rich sarcasm. J ]
Please check back later today for a look at those crazy Lancaster Police.

TELL IT TO THE JUDGES!

EVERY EFFORT!   

    “To me, it wasn’t about guilt or innocence in a legal sense,” said trustee and Merck chief executive Kenneth C. Frazier, of Paterno’s perfunctory response in 2002. “Every adult has a responsibility for every other child in our community. And we have a responsibility not to do the minimum, the legal requirement. We have a responsibility for ensuring that we can take every effort that’s within our power not only to prevent further harm to that child, but to every other child.”
From Marv Adams’ Sunday News editorial, “WE ARE …” (click here).
    So, why haven’t you called out Lancaster County Judges Dennis Reinaker and Margaret Miller, Marv? Why?
Please check back later today.

& PATERNO DIES

KID GLOVES!   

    Kreider Farms must buy a lot of advertising in the Lancaster Newspapers because they were treated with kid gloves in today’s below-the-fold front page story, “One-third of Kreider Farms workers had invalid documents,” (click here).
    There are many things that seem obvious:
1. Kreider Farms had to know in spite of this whole article which does nothing more than present their “side” of the story.
2. Kreider faces no action or fines so they made out like bandits for years.
3. The illegal immigrants won’t be deported but there are over 100 people out of work with no way to provide for themselves or their families.
4. This is only the tip of the iceberg. Who else is being audited? Tyson, Nissan or Turkey Hill?
    There will be more on this later.
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    Today, Sunday News editor “Marvelous” Marv Adams wrote a scathing editorial about Joe Paterno. It is total hypocrisy and terrible timing by Adams.
    Rest in peace, Joe.

DO YOU BELIEVE HER?

Immigration Officials Remove 100 From Manheim Farm

Some Had Worked At Kreider For Years
WGAL-TV (click here)
Wow!

CAN’T FREAKIN WIN?

ENEMY ACTION?   

    There’s been a lot of serious news this week – and I’ll come back to that tomorrow – but for a Friday before snow – it’s to the forums we go:
    And it’s unfair to brand people with a bad reputation for something someone else did, but I ended up hiring one LeFever and doing business with two others, and all three of them were extremely dishonest. The employee embezzled, and the other two failed to deliver on bargains we had struck. So I can’t help thinking the acorn doesn’t fall far from the tree. And my apologies to any honest LeFevers I’ve maligned, but I read in the 1950s that “once is happenstance, twice is coincidence, and three times is enemy action”.
    LOL! This was posted on the LancTalk.com forum under the story, “Police: Woman agreed to care for horses that she sent for slaughter,” (click here). I don’t know any LeFevers and therefore, on the advice of my attorney, have no comment!
    This seems unprecedented. Is there a lawyer in the house? Under what authority can a municipality prevent an individual from owning purchasing property inside its jurisdiction?
    This was posted on the Lancaster Online trashback forum under today’s article, “Judge rules McMichael can’t buy any more city properties,” (click here).  I agree – and in this preliminary article – the judge in question is not named. Could it be Mayor Dick’s best buddy, President Judge Joseph Madenspacher? There will be more on this tomorrow, and if there is a lawyer in the house, I didn‘t say that about LeFevers! Follow the link!
    Personally I don’t care if the board is a boxing match day after day…..but the thing is, soon as it becomes one, the complaints start coming in, the reported posts, the bitching………so I have concluded this………we can’t freakin win no matter what we do…….someone is always going to bitch about it being unfair…….so whatever people….think what you will, think the worst of us, in the words of my 19 yr old…..whatever, chillax……
    It’s been a day of angst and breast-beating on the TalkPa.net forum. Sigh….another day….another blowup. Yes, AngelFace, it is a DISCUSSION BOARD! Calm down. You aren’t an angel and you were suspended, not banned. Count your blessings and as the moderator says – chillax….
Have a great Friday and please check back tomorrow.

THE WHITE ELEPHANT CRIES!

MORE MONEY!   

    The executive director of the Lancaster County Convention Center Authority on Thursday publicly proposed an increase in the county’s hotel room tax.
Today’s article, “Hike in hotel room tax is proposed,” (click here).

SHAME THEM TO RESIGN?

THUMBING THEIR NOSES?
    By staying in their posts, the two are resisting the entreaty of Scott Martin, chairman of the county commissioners, who wants them to resign immediately.
    But more than that, the two are thumbing their noses at hardworking Lancaster countians who are already burdened by high taxes while in the throes of a nagging recession.
From today’s New Era Editorial, “A waste of scarce taxpayer dollars – There’s no disputing the fact that the job of Lancaster County’s two jury commissioners is obsolete and has been for some time.”
    The New Era comes out swinging! Will it work?
Please check back later today.

KEEP YOUR HANDS OFF!

Tell Congress: Please don’t censor the web.
Google
For over a decade, we have spent millions of hours building the largest encyclopedia in human history. Right now, the U.S. Congress is considering legislation that could fatally damage the free and open Internet. For 24 hours, to raise awareness, we are blacking out Wikipedia
Wikipedia
PS: corporate paymasters, KEEP THOSE CLAMMY HANDS OFF THE INTERNET!
Craigslist

PRODUCING CHILD PORN!

IT CAN’T GET MUCH WORSE!   

    Torrie Gochnauer told a local judge Tuesday that, with the proper therapy, he never would have produced the child pornography that was found on his computer in 2010.
    “I could have been such a much better person if I’d have just gotten help a long time ago,” Gochnauer told Lancaster County President Judge Joseph Madenspacher at sentencing.
    Madenspacher said he would cut Gochnauer “a break” by not sending him to state prison.
    “But I can’t ignore this,” Madenspacher said. “The real problem here is the secret filming… It can’t get much worse than that, Mr. Gochnauer. It really can’t.”
    Madenspacher ordered the Clay Township man to 1 to 2 years in county prison followed by 15 years on probation.
Today’s LNP story, “Clay Township man gets 1-2 years in prison, probation for child porn collection.” (click here).
    On the LancTalk.com forum the heated topic of discussion all day has been under another story from today, “Locals react to Paterno story,” (click here). And then this article appears immediately below it.
    There really are no words for this. Once again an absolutely inexplicable and unconscionable sentence by a Lancaster County Judge. Do we really care one iota about child sexual abuse in this county?

LEADING THE WAY!

ALL OF HUMANITY?

    “If a man hasn’t discovered something that he will die for, he isn’t fit to live.”
WGAL-TV, “7 Great Quotes From Martin Luther King Jr.,” (click here).
    This comment in under “INJUSTICES ROLL ON!” below:
    LNP is not THE most racist employer in Lancaster County; it is only one of many. Minorities are not welcome in far too many jobs outside of Lancaster City and its immediate suburbs.
    LNP is merely a reflection of the vast majority of Lancaster County. Those of us who accept all of humanity as real people are the exception here.
    Yes, but the Lancaster Newspapers should lead the way.
Please check back later today.

UNDERSTORED?

CROSSING THE LINE!  

LIPSTICK ON A WHITE ELEPHANT!

50 YEARS? TRY TWO!
    Kevin Molloy, executive director of the convention center authority, urged patience.
    The convention center, he said, is in its infancy. He said he hopes its success is measured over 50 years, not just a few years.
From Wednesday’s article, “Local hotel owners, convention center officials spar at commissioners meeting,” (click here).
    Of all the things I have read this week, this has to be the winner of the “pie in the sky” award. Sadly, it is just ridiculous on so many levels.
    And where is the Lancaster Newspaper’s disclaimer? They brought you this white elephant! Let them pay for it!
    Really excellent comments have been coming into this site for several weeks (thank you!) and I’ll take a look at those and other news tomorrow.
Have a great Friday!

YIKES!

  
It’s Friday the 13th! LIP News will publish later today…I hope!

YOU CAN PAINT THE CAR…

BUT THE ENGINE IS THE SAME!
 

    A comment came into this site under the article, “INDIVIDUAL & SOCIETAL TRAGEDIES!” below. It contained a phone number which I dialed yesterday shortly after 4:00 pm. When you play on the internet, just know this: I have several friends who are the best detectives in the world. If it’s on the internet – they’ll find it!
Please check back later today.

NO WORSE CRIME!

CASH FOR PROBATION?
    Craig Stedman has a short list of what he calls “high-priority” crimes.
    Sex offenses, particularly those against children, are right near the top.
    “Short of homicide, there is no worse crime than the sexual assault of a child,” Lancaster County’s district attorney said. “I have made it clear to my office that we must aggressively prosecute sex offenders.”
From the November 20, 2011 front page article, “Sex crimes against children gets top priority at DA’s office,” (click here).
    Coming off the Penn State Scandal the DA goes for some good publicity. But what about the Judges? Is their one set of sentencing guidelines for the Amish and Mennonite – and a different set for everyone else? Or is it “cash for probation” in Lancaster County?
Please check back later today.

INDIVIDUAL & SOCIETAL TRAGEDIES!

INJUSTICES ROLL ON!

“MARVELOUS” MARV AND MORE!
    This morning’s paper has several articles on the upcoming Martin Luther King Day. One of my favorite posts from almost six years ago went something like this: There’s a picture of a black man on the front page of the Intell and he’s not charged with a crime – it must be Martin Luther King Day! Yes, it was!
    The Lancaster Newspapers remain the most racist employer in the county and as a result we have judge’s decisions and stories that almost bring tears to your eyes, such as this one which is pure racism, “17-year-old robber sent to state prison,” (click here). I’ll come back to this story later.
    We haven’t heard anymore about the stalemate with the jury commissioners resigning except for editorials. The Intell thinks they should go. The Sunday News yesterday said they should stay and basically called Commissioner Scott Martin a jerk. Well, they got the second half right at least and there will be more on this coming.
    Speaking of the Sunday News, Editor “Marvelous” Marvin Adams repeated a column yesterday. That’s right – he took a column from June 17, 2010 and barely rewrote it. What’s it about: the dangers of the internet, of course, and stupid people like Marv who have no common sense when it comes to “spam” emails. Click here for “Whispering down ‘Net”” and here for yesterday’s “The rest of the story.” This is truly pathetic.
    And while on the topic of the internet, this was posted on the Lancaster Online Trashback forum to avoid LNP’s “paywall:”
    Switch your browser mode to “In Private” (IE), “Private Browsing” (Firefox or Safari), or “Incognito” (Chrome). Each time you restart your browser it will reset the number of articles that it thinks you have read.
    Many comments ensued stating that this was “stealing.” No, it’s not. I still beat their paywall by pushing “escape.” They’ve made it trickier, but it still works.
    I am coming back to Judge Margaret Miller’s terrible, awful ruling to put a convicted pedophile living back with the children he has already molested later today. Believe me, I am not letting this unconscionable ruling stand.
    On a lighter note for a Monday morning, this email in from out of the blue (thank you!):
    Becky: I have to admit after having my son 8 months ago, I kind of lost track of your website. However, today as I drove by Angela Funk’s house, I was reminded of your website because of what I saw. What I saw made me become very curious and I was wondering if you had an answer. There is a nice newer Mercedes Benz in front of Ms. Funk’s house. Gift from Mr. Roseboro?
    My Denver friends, can you help us out here? Is Angie driving a Mercedes and where’d she get the money? Hmmm…
Please check back later today.

SORRY – BAD COLD – BACK TOMORROW!

PROTECT THESE CHILDREN!

SHADES OF SANDUSKY   

    What have we learned from the Penn State child sexual abuse case? In Lancaster County – nothing. Absolutely nothing. The last thing on Judge Maraget Miller’s mind was to protect the children from a known pedophile.
    Will Lewis Martin molest one of his nieces or nephews today? Or one of the children attending the Gehmans Mennonite School two-tenths of a mile from where he lives?
    Click here for “Judge: Sex offender violated probation” and please check back later today.