GW Busch Library

GWB Library to Open in 2009
The George W. Bush Presidential Library is now in the planning stages. The Library will include:
The Hurricane Katrina Room, which is still under construction.
The Alberto Gonzales Room, where you wont be able to remember anything.
The Texas Air National Guard Room, where you dont even have to show up.
The Walter Reed Hospital Room, where they dont let you in.
The Guantanamo Bay Room, where they dont let you out.
The Weapons of Mass Destruction Room, which no one has been able to find.
The National Debt room which is huge and has no ceiling.
The Tax Cut Room with entry only to the wealthy.
The Economy Room which is in the toilet.
The Iraq War Room. After you complete your first tour, they make you to go back for a second, third, fourth, and sometimes fifth tour.
The Dick Cheney Room, in the famous undisclosed location,
complete with shotgun gallery.
The Environmental Conservation Room, still empty.
The Supreme Court Gift Shop, where you can buy an election.
The Airport Mens Room, where you can meet some of your favorite Republican Senators.
The Decider Room complete with dart board, magic 8-ball, Ouija board, dice, coins,and straws.

The museum will also have an electron microscope to help you  locate the President's accomplishments.

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Memories of Christmas!
Current mood: nostalgic

How things have changed....Christmas in the 1950's had to be the best! Shopping on Hamilton St. was like visiting Disney World to us kids.  The street was glittering with lights on every lampost. A huge tree sparkled in Center Square. The sound of Salvation Army volunteers ringing bells on almost every corner. Traffic thick moving down the street, but well monitored by a city policeman at many intersections. Store windows displaying their wares with meticulous seasonal decorations. Like an art...to be appreciated by happy passerbys.  Hess's displayed their famous Pip the Mouse in the front window, where scheduled shows would enlightened the crowds.  If you were lucky enough, you'd be treated to lunch in Hess's famous Patio restaurant where they delivered your food in a toy oven or refrigerator while you gazed at the beautiful models floating through the aisles. The toy department was a treat to all.  Animated  settings adorned the entire area.  Shelves stacked with toys seemed to tower endlessly like indoor skyscrapers leading you to paradise..........Santas Workshop!!!  There he was....amidst the lights, gingerbread, sugarplum fairies and elves!!! Amazing!!!

Another treat we all looked forward to was the Christmas parties held at local private social club, e.g. Italian club, Hungarian Hall, Slovic Social Halls, etc. We dressed in our Christmas outfits and headed out with our parents excited to see all of our friends.  The main hall was decorated and a spot was setup especially for the man himself, Santa!  When he arrived all the kids lined up to sit on his lap & speak their piece. After which, he handed you a red stocking containing....an orange, a candycane and crayons.  WOW!! We were thrilled!

Schools held great Christmas pageants.  I attended Garber-Horne Elementary School , Penn St. (now the Allentown School Adm. Bldg).  We'd file out of the building walking to St. John's Church 5th & Walnut where we performed on stage singing carols for friends and family.

In my younger years, before the age of maybe 8 or 9, my parents always waited to put up the christmas tree until Christmas Eve.  We went to bed with a totally undecorated house....but when we woke up....everything seemed to magically appear! Santa brought it all!  Our gifts were never wrapped in paper.  My mother (or I should say ...Santa) put everything under or around the tree as if she was doing a toy store display.  It always looked great! My brothers' train was moving around the tree. My doll was sitting in the carriage waiting...for me! Stockings were filled with goodies and the tree.....wow...it looked amazing!  When we got older and wiser, we'd travel out to a local tree lot with either a wagon or sled (if snowing ) and pick up a tree for about $5.00...once my mom spent $15.00 and she felt guilty for the next year. Many years we'd pass the Good Shepard Home and stop to gaze at the Nativity Scene they had set up on their front lawn. When we got home we'd all decorate and ready the living.....it was usually the only time we used that room.

Christmas morning was filled with cookie eating, toy playing and of course church.  All the neighborhood kids would sing in the choir after which, we'd dicuss all the gifts we received.  We'd head home for a great meal , more toy playing and an important event...the opening of the Russell Stover Chocolate Assortmant candy...mmmmm! My brother and I would always seem to choose the same piece and the battle of the chocolate began!  

After our Christmas day ritual, we would venture out to visit other family members.  We knew with every stop there would be another gift to open......my brother and I were overjoyed .  The last stop of the night was definetly the best.  All of our cousins ended up at one particular Aunt & Uncles' house.  By that time we had enough sugar to generate power to light 20 trees.  We played all night while the adults drank fancy drinks and beer, ate lots of ham and potato salad and discussed world issues. My aunt also made the best Red Velvet cake on the planet!!! 

Christmas has never been the same....I miss you Hamilton Street...Hess's....Nativity...oranges ...crayons....Russell Stovers Choc.Asst......1955!

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Cellphonitis
Current mood: nauseated

You people are out of control with your cell phones!! Most of us don't care that you are....driving home from work, driving to work, going to the mall, walking around the mall, leaving the mall, going out to dinner, not going out for dinner,  watching TV, not watching TV, fighting with your boyfriend/girlfriend, making up with your boyfriend/girlfriend, getting your dental checkup, getting a pap test, getting an xray, getting a mamopgram, getting a bloodtest, getting an exam, getting a haircut, looking for new glasses, picking out a new cellphone, getting your nails done, picking your kids up at school, going golfing, playing tennis, racquetball, baseball, football, poker, checkers, bowling, eating, puking, farting, burping, sneezing, crying, laughing, gossiping, fighting, flirting, having sex, not having sex, going to bed, waking up, having breakfast, lunch or dinner, stopping at a friends, visiting family, going to a birthday party, going to a funeral, going to a wedding, sitting at the bus stop, driving to NYC, going to the shore, gambling in AC, whitwater rafting, para-sailing, skiing, sailing, skinnydipping, camping, being bored.....because I'm the one you're boring with your senseless obsessive chatter. 

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Auto Obituaries
Current mood: confused

Helloooooo....is it really necessary for people to write the names of deceased family members or friends on their cars?  Clearly the answer is a big NO! If you're too cheap or irresponsible to put it in the local newspaper, obviously they weren't all that important to you anyway.   Most of us probably didn't even know the deceased person and I don't think they'll be reading it anytime soon. So why not just send a card or flowers, say prayer or light a candle? Your moving billboard can only increase the chance that someone could have a tragic accident and kill themselves trying to read it, and then their friends will want to write on their cars and they will cause another accident and on and on and on and on......R.I.P.= Remove It Please

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Snow!Snow!Snow!
Current mood: optimistic

Everyone worked hard to shovel the snow...OK...well almost everyone. There are some really lazy people who have not shoveled at all. Their cars are buried in dirty piles of hardend crust or they just grab the spot you spent all day shoveling after you've gone to work.  Even though you may be one of the energetic shovelers who cleared a great parking spot on the streets of Allentown....REMEMBER...you DO NOT have the right to put a chair...garbage can....old piece of furniture...lamp....etc. etc. etc. in the area to save it for you or a family member.  We all agree it sucks to do all the work & have someone else move into while you're gone...but...that's the price you pay for living IN TOWN.  Get over it!  Spring is almost here!

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2007 Resolution Suggestions
Current mood: determined

Let's try to make 2007 a better year than 2006! It's not really all that difficult. Just try not to do a few of the following: don't throw your trash out of car windows or off your front porch, try not to double park for more than 5 minutes, don't let your kids play with matches, don't beat your kids, use birth control, use condoms, don't drink & drive, don't carry a weapon, try not to shoot your friends & neighbors,don't do drugs, don't join a gang, turn down your car sterio, have car insurance & registration, don't spit, don't urinate in public, don't butt in line, don't have a guttermouth, don't dress like a whore,  get a job, wear deodorant,  learn to parallel park, don't burglarize, turn off your cellphone in the movie theater, take care of  your property, finish high school, respect your teachers, parents, co-workers, neighbors and your city. It's that simple. Don't wait....in a blink .......it'll be 2008!!

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YOU THINK YOU KNOW ALLENTOWN.........
Current mood: nauseated

It WAS a great city before the infestation of dirty, uncaring, burglarizing, drug addicted, lazyass, gun-toting, welfare leeching, non-tax paying, arrogant, loud mouthed, over breeding illiterate rudeasses that have arrived in droves, like a tsunami of foul stomach acid pouring out over a once proud landscape of decent immigrants.  

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Ebonics
Current mood: infuriated

Yes...Americans SHOULD no how to speak english.....Ebonics is NOT english....speaking it sounds ignorant but actually writing it scares most of us!!  Dis is jus sumpin I dun thinks y'all should rekenize!! Word.

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LEARN & USE THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE
Current mood: annoyed

America is the melting pot!! We all agree!!  Here in the valley we have Italians, Chinese, Japanese, Austrians, Hungarians, Irish, Slovaks, Indians, Russians,etc. etc. etc.who have all learned & use english and yet the majority of the hispanic population seems to think everything written should also be provided in Spanish!

The local news has a Spanish editon.  We've never had a Hungarian, Italian, or Chinese edtion. Guess those people had to find out the news on the ENGLISH edtion.

Mcdonalds has even printed a Spanish menu.....come on....where's the German or Hungarian menu.....after all , most of the Lehigh Valley emigrated from Eastern Europe...don't we owe them something too.... many of them actually built this town!!

Most people came here to live the American dream and to BE Americans!!  Americans speak ENGLISH!!  If an american moved to a country that spoke another language THEY would have to learn it, speak it and USE IT!!

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DON'T TRASH THE CITY!!!

Have some respect for YOUR city!  Some neighborhoods are looking like dirty infested cesspools!!  There is no need for sofas ON the porch....that's why houses come with living rooms....helllo!!!

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