The LuLac Edition #1968, March 2nd, 2012

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Wilt Chamberlain holding up a piece of paper indicating he scored 100 points in a basketball game. Kids, that how we did things in the early 1960s. Just write it down on a piece of paper and hold it u t the camera

MAYBE I’M AMAZED…..that it was fifty years ago today that Wilt Chamberlain, then of the Philadelphia Warriors scored 100 points in an arena in Hershey Pennsylvania. The Philly team was playing the Knicks and the big draw was not the two NBA teams but an exhibition game between the football Eagles and then Baltimore Colts. I was in second grade and it was barely mentioned on radio or TV. I think ABC’s Wide World of Sports did a short segment on it that following Saturday and Sport Magazine and SI gave it some space. In Wilt’s book, he said that thousands of people told him they saw him achieve the fete at “The Garden”. He never called it on them and simply smiled and said thanks.

MAYBE I’M AMAZED…….that the majority of the people laid off at the Courthouse were making less than $35,000 a year. The fat cats in the Courts, the joke that is the Central Court where there are no cases and no magistrate had no layoffs, and the overpaid administrators (some who don’t even bother to show up because they are running their businesses during the day) are immune. The little people get screwed and the lazy, do nothing connected roll on until retirement. Then LCCC hires them!
MAYBE I’M AMAZED……….that the GOP can’t warm up to Mitt Romney. Maybe he’s an alien and is going to take over the world after the Mayan calender ends in December. He looks good but the space station from afar has to fix the speech patterns so that he can relate to human kind.
MAYBE I’M AMAZED…….that President William McKinley had a pet parrot he named “The Washington Post”.
MAYBE I’M AMAZED…….that there are always many layers to every story. Last week’s revelation that certain Attorneys were over billing for time through a Children and Youth fund has many subsets. The first of course is a possible criminal probe. But the big back story here is going to be the reawakening of Controller Walter Griffith. Not that Walter was ever asleep on the job mind you, but let’s just say Walter was treading carefully as the new County Council got its footing. But the fact that Griffith signed off on this thinking that since a Judge, Public Defender and Attorney gave it an imprimatur, everything was just fine. But then he found out it wasn’t, so Katy bar the door. Walter the Watchdog doesn’t like to be shown up. And that’s what this careless “error” did, show Walter up. Folks, all hell is going to break loose now. If you are an Attorney or any type of vendor even thinking of overcharging the county, hell hath no fury like a Controller almost fooled. Look for a fine tooth comb going over your invoices and then a camera crew to explain it all on the news. Game on.
MAYBE I’M AMAZED………..that the Yankees get rid of A.J. Burnett and trade him to the pitching poor Pirates. Burnett then gets his eye socket broken in one of his first games.
MAYBE I’M AMAZED……..that New Jersey authorities arrested a suspect in the machete attack a few weeks back. Police arrested 19 year old Juan Borbon in Passiac, New Jersey. I think this might shut up all the loud mouths who are saying there is no gang activity in Wilkes Barre or Northeastern Pennsylvania. Kudos to the Wilkes Barre Police Department for working this case. And do you ever notice that when these guys commit a crime, they always find their way out of town in a hurry?
MAYBE I’M AMAZED……that on my Facebook page, Bob Cordaro is constantly listed as an “Add a Friend” on my page. I don’t think Bob will have internet access for a while. Or maybe he will. Cordaro is being housed in a prison 70 miles outside of New York City. So presumably maybe next time Paul Sorvino is in “The City”, he can stop in and say hi to his Executive Producer (with the help of a half million bucks of Lackawanna County taxpayers dough) of the movie “The Trouble With Cali”. Also the folks from Mandalay Industries might want to pop in and say “hey”.
MAYBE I’M AMAZED……that it was 49 years ago this week that “Walk Like A Man” was the number 1 song in America by the Four Seasons.
MAYBE I’M AMAZED…..that it is only three more weeks to the return of Madman on AMC. Very, very addicted to that show. The last time that happened to me was “The Gilmore Girls” in the 90s.
MAYBE I’M AMAZED…. that Pa. House lawmakers postponed a vote that was set for later this month on controversial legislation to require women seeking an abortion to first have an ultrasound exam to determine the gestational age of the fetus. (See LuLac Edition #1967-March 1st). Representative Mike Turzai, confirmed the delay citing concerns raised by the medical community. He said there is no timeline to take up the legislation. I bet. This is a political hot potato that will be set aside by any thinking politician with half a brain this election year.
MAYBE I’M AMAZED…..The GOP’s top blowhard viciously attacked law student and women’s health advocate Sandra Fluke on the air.
First he called her a “slut” and a “prostitute.” Then added, “So Miss Fluke, and the rest of you Feminazis, here’s the deal. If we are going to pay for your contraceptives ... We want something for it. We want you to post the videos online so we can all watch.” What did Sandra Fluke do to invoke this wrath? Simply suggested during a Democratic congressional hearing that insurance should cover contraception. Which it should. Anyway, Rush is always going to be Rush. You will never fix him. What is more troubling is the fact that GOP candidates for President aren’t repudiating his statements. If someone believes in contraception, fine. I respect that. If someone believes in the rhythm method, I respect that too. But if a national party ever wanted to hand an election over to a middling administration (yeah he killed Bin Laden and saved the auto industry but he didn’t go far enough on the stimulus and health care plus I am so sick and tired of him apologizing to anyone and everybody) this would be the year. Again, Obama is blessed more by those who hate him rather than those who champion him and/or are indifferent to him.
MAYBE I’M AMAZED…..that children actually grow faster during springtime.
MAYBE I’M AMAZED…..at the outpouring of emotion by people my age over the death of Davey Jones. Jones and the Monkees were based on the Beatles. They were formed in a TV studio as an offshoot of the Fab Four. I’m struck by all of the remarks made on national news shows as well as radio stations. Our friend, Edd Raineri scored the last interview with him on his Beatledd Hour on WRKC FM. The Monkee phenomenon lasted only a short time but in 1967 which is our feature year the Monkees sold more records combined than the Beatles and the Stones. This song closed out 1967 and brings back memories of grade school dances in a church basement laid to rubble. But I can still see my 7th grade girlfriend's blond hair and that Colgems 45 spinning on the record player.