Billybytes Publications have investigated and established the nexus between octogenarians Anna Mae Kessler, age 81, a former resident of 574 Bangor Road, Plainfield Township, Northampton County, Pennsylvania, and Alice Mae (Nee Kays) Kitchen, 86, of Hainsburg Village, Knowltown Township, Warren County, New Jersey.

Anna Mae Kessler and Alice Mae Kitchen share more in common than just the initials of their middle name (which also, not coincidentally but through the inscrutable intervention of God Almighty, is also the middle name of my mother, Ida Mae Givens. age 92.

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Pennsylvania Act 71 of July 1, 2004, “legalizing” slot machine and horse racing-track (casino/racino) gambling occurred only four months following the admission by leaders of the National Museum of Industrial History including its Executive Director Stephen Donches that the project lacked sufficient funding to proceed.

The same kind of scam is being employed in Bethlehem’s sister city, Easton, located nine miles to the east on State Route 22 and on the Delaware River bordering New Jersey, to construct an interstate transportation bus terminal and/or depot-parking garage-shopping center-condominium mutation in the flood plain of the Delaware River and a major Delaware River tributary, Bushkill Creek.

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“As director of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs [OIRA] at the White House of Budget and Management [OMB], Susan E. Dudley will have an opportunity to change or block all regulations proposed by government agencies,” as reported by Los Angeles Times Staff Writer Joel Havemann at Latimes.com.

Much of the plot to overthrow our government through a bloodless coup centers on the so-called “Lehigh Valley,” a geographical area in eastern Pennsylvania, whose borders, like shifting sand (quicksand, that is) undulated with the latest U.S. Bureau of Census figures used to establish Metropolitan Statistical Areas.

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Billy Bytes Blog post titled “The Selling of Easton, Pennsylvnia’s. Environment,” dated August 17, 2006, describes the ladder at the convergence of the Delaware and Lehigh rivers.

This is not the fish ladder that enables the fish to negotiate the dam off Scott Park. Rather, it’s the ladder proposed by this public-private partnership: the City of Easton and its Parking Authority; Northampton County and LANTA (Lehigh and Northampton Transit Authority); the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania; the Delaware River Joint Toll Bridge Commission (DRJTBC); Lafayette College and Arcadia Properties.

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The two lead stories in today’s edition of The New York Times, “House Narrowly Backs Iraq Timetable” for bringing our troops home,” and “Ex-Deputy of Interior Dept. Pleads guilty,” describe the impetus that led to the takeover of our national government in last November’s Congressional elections: the Iraqi War and Government Corruption.

The Billy Bytes Blog, http://www.billybyte.com/blog, has published volumes opposing the Iraqi War and fully supported the position of former U.S. Presidential Candidate Howard Dean and current Chairman of the National Democratic Party Committee, and Pennsylvania Congressman John Murtha.

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“Atlantic City Aiming Higher as Casinos Slip,” published in today’s edition of The New York Times, is turning increasingly to money and sex to survive:

“Money is one way Atlantic City is fighting back [against the growing casino gambling competition], sex another.”

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John Todaro, a legally blind resident of Palmer Township, Northampton County, Pennsylvania, attended the January 3, 2005, meeting of Northampton County Council.

Also attending the meeting was the County Executive Glenn Reibman and his administrations attorney.

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The Small Business Liability Relief and Brownfield Revitalization Act (H.R. 2969), signed on January 11, 2002, by President George W. Bush in Conshohocken, Pennsyvania, is a fraud - particularly as applied to the former Bethlehem Steel Corporation CERCLA (Superfund Site) in Bethlehem Pennsylvania.

Whatever relief small businesses have experienced on the 1600- to 1800-acre site is not the result of the Act, but the promise of an $879 million redevelopment effort anchored by Sands BethWorks LLP of Las Vegas, Nevada, and the support of that state’s senior U.S. Senator, Harry Reid, now the Senate’s Majority Leader.

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Today’s Express-Times bills as “breaking news” what it terms a “documentary” titled “Communities: Bethlehem” to be aired tomorrow night at 7:00 p.m. and again with overkill at 8:30 p.m. on WLVT-39 TV.

WLVT-39, older viewers will recall, was the national Public Broadcasting System that has become the Tass, Pravda, and Isvestia propaganda apparatus of the former U.S.S.R., rolled into one.

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I want to thank The Morning Call for its article and editorial, and I say this as someone who has been a severe critic of the publication, as columnist Bill White, editorial page editor Glenn kranzley, and Easton editor Bob Orenstein, and other staffers, can attest.

I refer readers to the lead editorial, “Who owns slots casinos must be clear,” published in today’s edition of The Morning Call.

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