~ What Size Shoe? ~ THE HOLIDAY SPIRIT!       Did it ever enter the little mind of yours that the murder might not have happened in Stewart's apt?  Maybe that's why there was no blood found. Maybe it didn't happen in his vehicle. You have no and I mean no idea what a murder investigation involves.  Why don't you keep your uninformed opinions to yourself? An email in yesterday.     Now, you know I respect your opinion – sometimes - but you’re pushing this one.  The prosecution’s two “key witnesses” both testified Stewart told them it happened in the apartment.      As to the email I posted yesterday saying I didn’t have a “right” to question anything about this case (see below) - you’re wrong!  Surprise!  Apparently you’ve never read a (good) newspaper or magazine in your life.  As a taxpaying citizen, I have every right and as a journalist, it is my God given duty.     I know this has nothing to do with the police union, but who is this Becky character at lipnews? And why does she hate DA Totaro and Det. Geesey so much?  Inquiring minds want to know. As far as I can tell, she's one of those recovered memory nuts. As someone wrote earlier, she has issues. Posted on Talkback about me!     I love the “I have issues” argument.  I suppose that might go away if I took down the incest story, thereby stopping the cheap shots.  But I’m not going to.     As for “hating” Totaro and Geesey – I don’t.  I don’t respect them and I think they should both be in jail.  More will be coming at a later date.     A, Becky is a wack job. Stay away from her. Posted by the same Talkbacker about me!       Yikes!  To which the person addressed posted this:     Thanks for the warning, groundpounder. The first part is a given, and I stay away from anyone encountered on the internet.     Then why are you on an internet forum?  Believe me, if I knew who you were I’d stay away from you, too!     I feel like I’m being attacked by a rabid Chihuahua or something. Posted by a Talkbacker yesterday.     For once, I am not the target of this post nor am I the “rabid Chihuahua!”  Thank goodness!  Is there anything better than a forum fight?  Well, yes.      The “LOL Boss” (yes, I still have a wicked crush on him for those desperate to know – and you know you are) had to step in with some common sense:     “Anonymous people cannot be slandered by anonymous people.”     Say what?  But, I want to sue!  I’ve been called a “wack job.”  Where’s my lawyer?  Say What?  He’s out holiday shopping?     You mean it’s almost Christmas?  Oh, golly!  I have shopping and cleaning and cooking to do!  I have to buy the Boss a pair of shoes that fit!   Lighten up folks and please check back tomorrow!     “Anonymous people cannot be slandered by anonymous people.” SAY WHAT?  I want to sue!  Please check back later today…                     DOES IT GET ANY BETTER THAN THIS?        I AM a teacher and there isn't a DAMN thing you can do about it you nasty, foul mouthed, hate filled, bigoted, stalking, harassing, hatemongering, small minded, peabrained POS. Posted on Talkback today  and quickly deleted by its  author.  Would you believe the target was a “Mennonite lady?”  I do.     Aren’t forums wonderful?  Please check back later today… (HONEST!)       “Commissioner Henderson sends occasional e-mails, telling me that a friend has sent her my most recent critical comments. In other words, she doesn't read this column.     I am crushed.” Marvelous Marv, “Taxing times in eternity, too,” today’s Sunday News (click here).     Aww.  Don’t be crushed, Marv.  Nobody reads your column except for those of us who want to make fun of it.  And that has just become too easy, Marv.  There is no challenge or fun to it anymore.  You just make it too embarrassingly easy.      You said happy birthday to Abby’s Aunt Peggy last year, too. (Honest!)  She may be a "gift" – you most certainly are not, Marv.     “And for seizing the reins of the global media, for founding and framing the new digital democracy, for working for nothing and beating the pros at their own game, TIME's Person of the Year for 2006 is you.” Thank to the poster who pointed this out about Time’s Person of the Year under Marvelous Marv’s column (click here).       Here, here to the bloggers and the website owners and the internet and you!  I love it so much.   Have a pleasant Sunday and please check back tomorrow.   ~ And Investigate Totaro ~       "The commissioners’ citations were the only punitive actions recommended by a grand jury that spent the past year investigating both the sale of the county nursing home in 2005 and the hiring of Gary Heinke, the county’s former chief human services officer, according to District Attorney Donald Totaro.     Both investigations are now concluded, Totaro said." “Commissioners guilty of violating state law,” today’s Intell, click here.      Is this a joke?  A grand jury investigated for a year and this is it?  The grand jury was supposed to be investigating racketeering, drugs and unsolved murders.  That’s what Totaro put in his application for the empanelling of a grand jury.  How much has this cost the public?      Investigate Totaro now.  There will be much more on this at a later date.   Tomorrow – the witness who throws out three absurd red herrings in the Stewart trial, the convention center and “Lost Angels.”   YOU GO, SANTA!     On a lighter note, this is just charming and classic and it’s the first thing to put me in a holiday mood (click here).   Thank you and Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to the sender and to all! “BITCH”        "He hesitated for about 30 seconds before saying, 'The (expletive) got what she deserved,' " she recalled. “Stewart lawyer:  Proof is missing,” New Era, 12-12-06 (click here).     Do you know that neither paper used the word “bitch” in their articles?  This is what ADA Hackman refers to as the “piece de resistance” in this case and neither paper prints the word bitch or even indicates the letter the word starts with - leaving some to assume it may have been a “worse” word.       Of course, Cindy Stauffer, wouldn’t know.  She wasn’t there.  She took this directly from the Intell coverage – quote and all.     This is terrible reporting and journalism.  There is absolutely no excuse for this.   Please see the story immediately below regarding Renalda McClair who testified Micah Stewart said the above.   ~ Tom Holzinger ~ VD AND LICE        After the Stewart trial, I am going to concentrate on my brother, Tom.  One of his good friends from his Lancaster days told me “he was known for giving people VD and lice."  Yup.  That's right.  This wonderful Quaker couple who claim to be pacifists and believers in civil liberties, raised this charming son.  And somehow we all thought his sexual obsession was "okay."  It's not okay and children do not emerge from the womb as pedophiles!      You'd think an "anthropologist" would know that.  But, of course, as with everything else in this monster's life, the "wonderful" professor is a total fraud.  He is a total academic fraud.  Stay tuned.  The fun has just begun.  How much time do you give Franklin & Marshall’s "Charles H. Holzinger Anthropology Award?"  . An email I sent to my parents and brothers and sisters today.     Years ago, a friend who read my special paper edition of LIP – “INCEST – A Family Tragedy; The Holzinger Story” asked if I had heard from my brothers and sisters.  The answer to this day is - no.  I have been “shunned” – much like the Amish tradition.  This was done on the demand of my father – a man they are scared to death of to this day.      My sister would not let her own cousin, June, drive her up the lane to their house when she visited several years ago.  My parents didn’t like June and she wasn’t “good” enough for them.  (No one has ever been "good" enough for them.).  So Anne got out of her car at the end of the lane and walked up it so my parents wouldn’t know who dropped her off.  My cousin June committed suicide several weeks later.  My parents never “liked” June because my father physically threatened her husband years ago and June witnessed it. The incest story will continue on this site.  VD and lice?  Yes.   ~ NO! ~ DOES ANYONE AT LNP HAVE A BRAIN?       The sense among some local journalists, who participated in the seminar, was that the national media could have stayed away and relied on the local media to feed them the news. Patricia Poist, “Covering life’s tragedies,” today’s Sunday News (click here).     Does Patricia Poist have a brain?  Oh, you mean I’ve already asked that question and given my answer?  Why didn’t someone tell me?  No, she doesn’t and neither do the other “local journalists” she mentions.  These “journalists” should not be in the news business period.  It’s so absurd and disturbing it’s almost funny.  Almost.     Editor Marv Adams is on vacation. His 10-year-old daughter Abigail is not. "Cute couple,'' she said recently, when she saw her parents hug. Today’s Sunday News, Page P-3.     I feel it’s in my best interest to make no comment about this as the FCC would come after me for obscenities.   $1,500 BOND!     Oh, this is rich.  “Ronniedog” is back!  And “BeingReal” is scouring the country to find women who have done horrible things to their children or their partner.  Yes, our happily married, mother of two (would you get the hell off the Talkback Board and take care of them) went to Alabama for this one:     “Morgan County deputies have charged a woman with domestic violence after they say she drove her car into her husband while he was on a motorcycle.    According to a police report, Donna Cluxton and her husband got into an argument Monday morning at their Baileytown home. Later that afternoon, Andy Cluxton was struck by a Buick while riding his motorcycle on St. John road. Cluxton told deputies that his own wife was behind the wheel. Mrs. Cluxton was arrested and is being held on $1,500 bond in the Morgan County jail. Mr. Cluxton was treated and released from a local hospital.  (Click here.)      In her latest email she sent me this response to today’s post (see below):     I don’t.  We don’t live in a home of incest and sexuality, like the one you’re accustomed to.  And I don’t give a rat’s ass what Talkback thinks, since I don’t post on there, Daddy’s Girl.”     You sure do keep a close eye on my site, though, don’t you?  Does it get any better than this?  Please check back tomorrow….    VULGARITIES       I am so shocked by this morning’s Intell headline, “'Queen of hate' makes case for new trial” (click here) that I am going to take the day off to ponder the District Attorney, Coroner Kirchner, Assistant District Attorney Craig Stedman who reportedly gave her that name and apparently plans to run for District Attorney, the Lancaster Newspapers and “doing what’s right”.  Please check back tomorrow.     This note to “BeingReal” who is sending me emails from this address - razorsharp_66@hotmail.com - I believe the “Talkbackers” would be shocked by your sexual crudity and vulgarity.  I hope you don’t use that kind of language around your two young children!                 *** BREAKING NEWS *** Jury selection has been completed in the murder trial of Micah Stewart according to Judge Michael A. Georgelis’ office this morning.  The jury will be sworn in and the trial will begin this Monday at 9:00 a.m. in Courtroom #12 at the Lancaster County Courthouse.     SAY WHAT? “The time is always right to do what is right.” Please check back later today… (and “ronniedog” returns!)   ~ And Terrible Reporting! ~ WOODEN NICKELS DOMESTIC VIOLENCE     The trial for a 49-year-old Caernarvon Township man accused of shooting his girlfriend to death in front of their daughter was delayed again Monday. November, 27, 2006, Intell, “Murder trial again delayed.”     A 29-year-old Lancaster city woman severely burned two weeks ago in a fire at her North Mulberry Street home died Monday in a Chester County burn ward.  Angela Readance, 29, of 35 N. Mulberry St., died at Crozer-Chester Medical Center from injuries sustained in the Nov. 17 blaze, investigators said.     … Investigators allege John W. Graves Jr., 38, of Lancaster, deliberately set the fire about 6 p.m. while Readance was inside.     Graves and Readance were acquaintances, investigators said, but they could not elaborate on the nature of their relationship. November 28, 2006, Intell, “Woman hurt in suspected arson dies.”     The young Lancaster County woman’s body was never found. But after two years of collecting evidence and talking to acquaintances, prosecutors were taking James Arthur Fannings Jr. to trial today on charges that he murdered Stacey Lynn Hazelton in Mississippi. November 28, 2006, New Era, “Lancaster man on trial for murder.”     In the course of two days, there were the above three stories about three women being murdered by men in their lives. ONE AGENDA ONLY     “Nehmen Sie keine hoelzernen Nickel an.”  “BeingReal’s” signature line on the Talkback Board.     This is German for “Don’t take any wooden nickels.”    She changed it to this month’s ago after I said she was about as “real” as a wooden nickel.  I also stated months ago that this was the “newer, softer” version of the “men’s rights” poster.     This person has one agenda – and one agenda only.   And sure enough, our happily married, wonderful mother of two children who seems too good to be true posted “Why is the Washington Times Dragging its Feet on the Flawed Abuse Article” yesterday.     This poster thinks that because one pathological liar in North Carolina (Terri Lynn Tersak – “Starling” previously on Talkback) thinks they should retract an article on abuse in India, that everyone should be outraged.     What outrages me is you!  Why don’t you click here to read this story which is absolutely horrifying, “More Afghan women turning to suicide by fire – Desperate to flee hardship, scores of Afghan women self-immolate annually.”     I will come back to this liar and outright fraud of a poster shortly. TERRIBLE REPORTING     The second horrible story posted above about the women burned to death leads me to my other topic today.  The Lancaster Newspapers and their dreadful coverage of many, many stories.  Why don’t we know what her relationship to the arsonist was?  Why haven’t they interviewed her family?  Her neighbors?  Her friends?  If they had a competing paper we would know so much more about this horrific murder.     The same applies to these four other stories all within the last week where “Talkbackers” are raising the questions the papers should be asking and investigating.  The stories are:     “After prison death, questions,” Intell, November 28, 2006 (click here).  Gee, do you think there are questions?  Like why is Vincent Guarini still the warden?  District Attorney Donald Totaro is on the prison board.  Why haven’t they interviewed him?  Why and how was the prisoner released back into the general prison population?  How did he hang himself and with what?     “Autopsy set in man’s death,”  Intell, November 28, 2006 (click here).  What a bizarre, disturbing and sad story.  Did the victim sign his license as an “organ donor” or not?  What a “mess-up” by Coroner G. Gary Kirchner.  The feud between the coroner and District Attorney Totaro comes back into the limelight.     “County man gets probation for punching police officer,” Intell, November 28, 2006 (click here).  Excuse me?  There’s something very wrong with this whole story.  The only thing I’m sure of is this man is white.    “Hunter misses deer, wounds Brickerville gas pump,” New Era, November 28, 2006 (click here).  On top of having the most preposterous and absurd headline (call a doctor!), this story is interesting because this morning’s Intell article about the incident says this, “The hunter has been identified, but police would not release his or her name Tuesday.”      Why not?  Isn’t that public information?  Who is this person?  The Talkbackers are having a field day with the article and it’s good reading.  It may not have been Pete Shaub but who the hell was it and why don’t we know?     If these papers had any competition or competent reporters, we would know the answers to these questions and much more by now.                       Nehmen Sie keine hoelzernen Nickel an Bring it on, fraud and liar.  You’d think you’d have learned.  But nothing stops a troll, does it? Please check back later today…   Note to New Era copy editor – you cannot “wound” a gas pump, for God’s sake!  Argh….                                                                   ~ And Love! ~ NAVEL-GAZING     I don’t do a lot of navel-gazing in this space because I figure most people aren’t interested. Nevertheless, I did want to pause and note that according to Lancaster County Magazine, this space has again been voted favorite local newspaper column. Fifth year in a row, actually. Gil Smart, “Standing up; saying thanks,” (click here).     Who was your competition, Gil?  Marvelous Marv?      Commissioner Shellenberger’s letter reminds me of Commissioner Henderson’s e-mails to supporters. Like his colleague, Commissioner Shellenberger says the newspapers have not “objectively’’ explained his questioning of “the taxpayer’s liability’’ in the convention center-hotel project, because Lancaster Newspapers is involved. Marv Adams, “Pay them to go away,” (click here).     Can we pay you to go away, Marv?  Oh, and Marv, the Lancaster Newspapers have a 44% stake in the $160, or $170 or $200 million dollar white elephant.  When you were at your newspaper conference several weeks ago did you proudly tell everyone that your own newspapers tried to legally gag the commissioners, Marv?   Are you proud of that?     Abigail has to be eleven soon, Marv.  You started about Halloween this time last year and she was ten then.  Don’t make me look it up, Marv.  Ten may sound cute but she can’t be ten forever.  Of course, her daddy writes likes he’s ten so maybe she can.     Artie See says, “Sunday News Editor Loses His Mind,” (click here and it’s below the 13 lawsuits article – good question, Artie.)     Who else could your competition have been, Gil?  Hawkeye Hawkes – the man who never has an opinion.  I can’t honestly figure out why anyone reads his mush.  I don’t anymore.     Larry Alexander, the man desperately in need of a makeover?  Can someone find a comb?  One in ten of his columns is mildly amusing.      That leaves Erik Stark, who for some reason was allowed to rant about Christmas music on the front page of this week’s Sunday News with one of the most boring columns I have ever read.  Maybe you should go back to radio, Stark.      That’s some mighty stiff competition you had there, Smart.  I wonder how many people voted in this poll?      Yes, you guessed it.  I’m extremely cranky.  And while I’m at it, what the hell was the pink picture of an Amish man on the front page of the Intell on Thanksgiving?  (Click here and click on the photo to enlarge.)  Is it a real person?  Whose idea was that?  Why is his little bowl empty?     Tomorrow I’ll look at some of the amazing stories or non-stories, according to the Lancaster Newspaper’s coverage, that have been published for the last week.  Can you imagine if these papers had competition?     No, the only thing bringing me any joy lately is the “LOL Boss.”  Of course, I have a crush on him.  Who else would call themselves the “LOL Meanie Poopie Pants?”   Yes, I know he’s married (what was he thinking?)  And I’m sure she’s charming (Yeah, right!  Think bride of Dracula!).  I would make sure his shoes fit.  (She doesn’t care.)  I’ll just wait and hope he comes to his senses… There will be updates on the jury selection in Micah Stewart's trial for the murder of Cortney Fry.   SAY WHAT? “I don’t do a lot of navel-gazing” Please check back later today…   *** BREAKING NEWS ***      I spoke to Roger Renteria, Micah Stewart’s defense attorney, today by phone at 1:00 p.m.  He said the process of jury selection has begun in the murder trial of Cortney Fry.  He said there were no LNP reporters present.  Can you image?      I will not be there for jury selection this week, but will cover the trial in person when it begins next week.       ~ And Cortney Fry ~ RACISM BEGINS AT LNP       "His neighborhood, as with much of the West End, has seen an increase in crime, and the constant presence of a large group of teenage kids, many of them African-American, congregating in the alley behind his house might make some people nervous."     How did this sentence make it to print? Because the Lancaster Sunday News does not have one single minority on their staff.  The city of Lancaster, PA is 30% Hispanic and 15% African American. This is an outrage. This sentence was written by Gil Smart, who is the subject of a different thread on this board. He should be fired. Posted by me on ReporterTalk on July 23, 2006 (click here).     Boycott the Lancaster Newspapers and the Steinmans.  Don’t buy their papers.  Buy the York or the Philadelphia or the Harrisburg papers.  Don’t shop at their advertisers.