The LuLac Edition #1625, June 7th, 2011

PHOTO INDEX: OUR "TAPPED OUT" LOGO AND CONGRESSMAN ANTHONY WEINER'S STERNUM.

DIOCESAN DEADBEATS

So the Diocese of Scranton closes all these churches, most of which were Eastern European ethnic communities like Polish, Slovak and Lithuanian. They disrupt the spiritual lives of parishioners who ancestors scraped and scrimped so they could have their own parish. They promise us that the traditions of those churches will be blended into the new parishes and that those houses of worship will never be forgotten. Some they tore down like St. John the Baptist in Pittston (now a parking lot) and St. Mark’s in Inkerman. (Now a vacant field). So after getting these churches out of the way, the dummies in the Diocese find out that in tough economic times these structures are tough to sell. They of course do the great American thing, don’t pay the taxes on the properties. Luzerne county is owed $224,000 by the deadbeat Diocese of Scranton. The buildings sit vacant and the bills keep on piling up. I guess it would make too much sense to have kept the churches open. In the meantime the Diocese will appeal. I predict that in twenty years the Diocese will be asking for money to rebuild new churches due to an increase in the Hispanic population. Then after a short time, they can wipe out and destroy those ethnic traditions in the name of the holy dollar.

WHAT A WEINER!

This guy, Congressman Anthony Weiner from Brooklyn had too much time on his hands. I laugh when I hear these politicians say they are on call 24/7 and that their job is so hard. What is astounding to me is how this guy could could be stupid enough to text, sexed, twittered, flittered, whatever the hell he was doing on a social network page. And to send photos of your exposed body is really bad form for just any citizen but certifiably insane for a politician. These modern day politicians have such vanity and ego problems that it has put political black mailers out of business!!!
First he lied, then he involved the other women he was inflicting himself on, then he got his wife in the conversational mix and then he resorted to the old politico trick of crying. There are also reports that the recently married Congressman talked dirty for over an hour from his House office to a woman from the west. When she, and God I hate to even put it this way, when she star sixty nined the line, it came back as a Congressional governmental number from Capitol Hill. An hour? Well he is a Congressman and they tend to get long winded even if the words are of the 4 letter variety. He was a good spokesman for the liberal wing of the party. He had good ideas and defended the Obama administration eloquently and intelligently. But because of this no one will ever seriously listen to the guy again. And that is the real shame here. In the meantime, all of the oxygen is sucked out of the political debate chambers with reactions and comments about his state of mind. He was reckless, foolish and arrogant. Congressional leaders should get him to resign and let him e mail his bare chest to the world if he wants to but for Christ’s sake let him do it on his own time. Maybe if his parents changed their name to Wine or White this might not have happened.


SANTORUM A GO

Rick Santorum announced today he is running for President. Santorum was a Senator from Pennsylvania for a dozen years. A conservative Republican he can corner the Religious Right market of the GOP recently made vacant by the refusal of Mike Huckabee to enter the race. Santorum can be an attractive candidate to that constituency plus he has the gravitas and experience to pull it off. His main competition for that wing of the party will be Michelle Bachman and Sarah Palin. He does have some baggage (like losing to Bob Casey by 17 points and getting involved in the Terry Shiavo case) but he can tap dance around those problems like David Blight used to do on TV Sunday afternoons. Santorum is articulate, is a good debater, has a good ethnic story to tell without appearing to be too ethnic for middle American GOP reactionaries and can hold his own on policy issues. He also can prove to be a very good attack dog on the policies of the Obama administration. Any Presidential candidacy is a long shot but Rick Santorum just might be the alternative to a Romney saddled with his health care plan, an untested Tim Pawlenty and the unpredictability of a Michelle Bachman or Sarah Palin candidacy. If he doesn’t run out of money, keeps his family values base, keeps his shirt on and stays off Twitter, he has a good a shot as anyone. And then put a southern woman on the ticket for the General and who knows! Stranger things have happened.