The LuLac Edition #2525, September 26th, 2013
A FUTURE CANDIDATE????????
VOTE FOR THIS GUY IN 2017
FOR ANYTHING!!!!!!!!!
HE’LL BE ELIGIBLE AND WILL WIN.
JUST STAY OUT OF RADIO SHACK!
CRUZ PLAYS THE NAZI CARD!!!!
Ted Cruz in his fake filibuster compared the acceptance of Obamacare and the policies of Barack Obama to the rise of Nazi Germany. Cruz said that the United States today has become a type of Neville Chamberlain nation (the English Prime Minister who appeased Hitler in the late 30s) and went on to say that our country is very much like the English government that never stood up to Hitler. Again he repeated that the appeasement came in the 40s.Well Mr. Princeton and Harvard grad, by the 40s England had chosen Winston Churchill as its Prime Minister, the United States had been involved in arming Europe with the Lend Lease Act and U.S. service people were on the ground and in the air fighting against Hitler and what he stood for. Maybe for all of his Ivy League education, he should had a seventh grade American History and Civics teacher like the late Marie Fearick of Pittston. Mrs. Gerick, the first lay teacher at St. John the Baptist Slovak Grade School in Pittston would have slapped him on the side of the head. My grade school classmates, Mike Giamber, Andy and Drew Wasko, Paul Komensky, Joe White, Bob Hizny, Bob Para, my cousins Bob Yonki, Karen Musloski, Tom Pribula, Wyoming Dave Dellarte and even my seventh grade girlfriend would tell you Mrs. Fearick would slap him silly for being so historically dense. But with Ted Cruz, it’s not about what you know, it’s all about the show.
QUESTIONS FOR THE GOP
If Obama Care hasn’t started, how do you know it won’t work?How can a failure be something before it starts?
Why does a party that cares so much about an unborn fetus not give rat’s ass about a live baby born with a disease that in the insurance industry is known as a preexisting condition?
Why does a party that got 5,000 people killed in undeclared wars and spent 30 billion dollars a month all of sudden come to religion on the deficit? Weren’t the future of “our children” just as important when we were buying bullets back then? Isn’t health care for 30 million uninsured a better investment?
Why is this party so fixated on Benghazi where four Americans died (a tragedy for sure) and never talks about the 5,000 dead Americans from the undeclared wars?
Scorecard:
Iraq/Afghanistan: 5,000.
Benghazi: 4.
A life is a life and every one of them is precious no matter the reason for the loss but numbers don’t lie. Why is a party advocating Americans not signing up for a government program designed to help effectively cheer leading and urging its failure?
Isn’t that treason?
Why does this party insist on hurting the middle class?
Just asking.
THE ROSTER
Gerald Ford
Ronald Reagan (once)
GEORGE H.W. Bush (once)
Robert Dole.
Richard Schweiker
H. John Heinz III
Arlen Specter
Richard Thornburgh.
William W. Scranton III
Barbara Hafer
Tom Ridge
These were all the Republicans I voted for in my electioneering life. These were reasonable people. As an American, I can no longer vote for any Republican nationally or even state wide because the party has been hijacked by a fringe element. The party of the men and women I voted for as an Independent Democrat who was taught government was a bi partisan effort is just a memory. I can no longer support a party that is
Unreasonable
Unyielding,
Unflinching in its obstruction and just plain
Unpatriotic.
BLOGFEST FRIDAY
Red Mill, Pittston, starting at 6. Have the TV commitment before and a family one later on. Will be there for a time.
DEMS BIG EVENT SUNDAY
The County Dems Annual Fall Picnic, Sunday September 29th 12-3pm at the Catholic War Vets Grove in Ashely. PA Democratic Party Chairman Jim Burn will be attending. This is a free event.
KATSOCK GRINAWAY EVENT
Don’t forget that key fundraiser at the end of this month for two candidates running for the Wilkes Barre Area School Board. Current board member Christine Katsock and Kathy Grinaway will be holding a fundraiser on Sunday September 29th from noon to 4pm. Cost is $15.00 per ticket or 2 for $25.00. It will take place at the Plains Lions Pavilion which is located at Clarks Lane in Plains. On the menu will be hot dogs, hamburgers, sausage and peppers, haluski, pasta salads, deserts and beverage.
17th District Congressman Matt Cartwright. (Photo: LuLac archives).
CARTWRIGHT LAUDS AGENCY ANNIVERSARY
U.S. Rep. Matt Cartwright introduced a resolution commemorating the 20th anniversary of the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS). Companion legislation has been introduced in the Senate by Senator Bill Nelson (D-FL).
Since 1994, more than 39,000 Pennsylvania residents have participated in CNCS programs and served for over 51 million hours at more than2,800 locations throughout the state.
“Each day, CNCS provides millions of volunteers with the opportunity to serve and achieve a positive change within thousands of communities across the state and around the country addressing a wide range of issues,” said Cartwright. “I am proud to work with Senator Nelson to celebrate CNCS’ 20th anniversary and look forward to the continued impact of the agency.”
“Over the past 20 years, millions of people have been able to give back through programs organized by CNCS,” said Nelson. “Americans have become more involved in their community, and neighborhoods and towns across this country are stronger as a result. It’s been an impressive 20 years, and I know CNCS will continue to build upon that success in the future.”
Since 1993, the CNCS has operated as an independent Federal agency, overseeing all national and community service programs authorized by the National and Community Service Act of 1993 and the Domestic Volunteer Service Act of 1973. These programs include AmeriCorps, Senior Corps, and Learn and Serve America. Each year, CNCS engages more than five million Americans in service.
MEDIA MATTERS
ECTV
ECTV Live will take us into the Halloween season with a large helping of history during the week of September 30.Hosts Tom Munley and David DeCosmo will welcome Margo Azzarelli to the program to discuss this season's FREE walking tours at the Forest Hill Cemetery. The stories of prominent and lesser known people buried there trace the history of our area. ECTV Live can be seen on ComcastCh19 throughout the week beginning Monday at Noon.
SUNDAY MAGAZINE
This Week on Sunday Magazine...Brian Hughes speaks with Elija Miller from the Roc Rec Center in Trucksville about his 54 mile run and 540 pullups for charity.
Brian speaks with Scott Benner and Amy Hess Fisch about Type 1 Diabetes and children's sleepovers.
Magic 93's Frankie in the Morning speaks with Julie Sidoni from WNEP about a big gala coming up next weekend at the Westmoreland Club in Wilkes Barre to benefit the Osterhout Library.
And Brian speaks with Steven Rothschild form the Life Foundation about the need for young people to purchase life insurance.
Sunday Magazine, Sunday morning at 5am on NASH-FM, 93.7, 5:30am on 97BHT, 6am on 97.9X, 6:25am on Magic 93 and 7am on True Oldies 590, WARM.
SUE HENRY’S SPECIAL EDITION
Tune in Saturday afternoon at 2pm and Sunday night at 7 when Sue Henry interviews top news makers from the recent week. The show can be heard on WILK AM and FM.
Our 1976 logo.
1976
The Irish rock band U2 is formed after drummer Larry Mullen, Jr. posts a note seeking members for a band on the notice board of his Dublin school.............................Stevie Wonder releases his hit-album Songs in the Key of Life.....After the success of the first Presidential debate since 1960, the Vice presidential candidates, two United States Senators agree to a debate for mid October. Kansas and Minnesota Senators Bob Dole and Walter Mondale agree to the ground rules but continue on their campaign…..in Pennsylvania the budget passed by the Legislature at the direction of Governor Shapp begins to fall apart. While it only projected spending for 5 billion dollars, money projected for tourism dollars was totally inflated. Lawmakers told the Shapp administration that the state might not have enough to cover education subsidies……….in Lackawanna County, Eugene Hickey keeps making the rounds and tells anyone who will listen that he will run for Mayor of Scranton. Eugene Peters the two term Mayor is mum on his plans for ’77 and the number two song in America and LuLacland thirty seven years ago was “The Best Disco In Town” by the Ritchie Family. The number one song was “Disco Duck” but I refused to have anything to do with back then and I still feel the same way today. (Griffith Photo: Citizen's Voice, Sad Elephant, Sean Binkley).
posted by David Yonki @ 6:53 PM
26 comments
26 Comments:
David,
Like you, I have voted for Republicans in the past. Never again. These radicals are a threat to the country. Wanna know how they win elections time and time again in the rural parts of PA like where I live? I've heard their sales pitch over and over again. It goes like this: City people bad, they steal all your tax dollars and give to Philadelphia and Pittsburgh. City people Democrats. Screw city people. Vote Republican.... That's why in the last election there were 100,000 more Democratic votes for Congress in PA, but we got stuck with 13 Republican members of Congress and only 5 Democrats.
Describing the tea baggers as conservative is a misnomer. There is nothing conservative in rejecting the result of the last election. It is not conservative to disrupt the function of the government or threaten to default on the obligations of the United States.
These people are anti-government anarchists.
Yonk, they used to call Bill Clinton the first black President. I dare say with your musical tastes that I see on Facebook as well as this blog, you might be the first black blogger!!!
Of all the Stevie Wonder cuts to chose, that one is soul right down to the toes.
And this health care thing, isn't it something that Pennsylvania has one of the lowest rate for health insurance. So much for your broadcast partner Tarone saying it will cost an arm AND LEG!
9:15 pm...
Yeah, there was Stevie Wonder's classic there but he also had the Ritchie Family in there. Thank God he didn't put in that song "Heartbeat, Lovebeat" by the Jacksons!
I agree 100%. The national GOP has lost me. Obama is not the greatest leader in the world but he is benefitting from the enemies he has. They make him look sane! And competent. Horrible, horrible. If there was a college educated Republican running for office or a chimp that was a Democrat, I'd go for the chimp.
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Thank God he didn't put in that song "Heartbeat, Lovebeat" by the Jacksons!
ACTUALLY, IT WAS THE DeFRANCO FAMILY AND IT HIT THE CHARTS IN THE FALL OF '73.
I like your roster Yonki. Shows at one point you really had a bi partisan spirit but that can be killed by this right wing wrapping itself in the Constitution.
Hope to see you tomorrow night in between the time you do the show at WYLN TV and the time you go to your family event.
Well at least Yonki has the political insight to read into that punishment Walter got. He can run for office again and I hope he does.
The fact that he won his primary tells you that people think he got jobbed. Wonder if Judd Shoval will ever get a building named after him?
Just saying.
IN RESPONSE
These people are anti-government anarchists.
GORT, YOU ARE CORRECT. WE BOTH WERE NOT CRAZY ABOUT GEORGE W. BUT HE WAS OUR PRESIDENT FOR BETTER OR WORSE. THESE GUYS JUST THINK THEY ARE WINNING POINTS BUT IN THE LONG RUN, THEY WILL BE RELEGATED TO THE DUSTBIN OF HISTORY, JUST LIKE US BLOGGERS!
BUT THE ONLY DIFFERENCE IS THEY'LL DESERVE IT!!
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Hope to see you tomorrow night in between the time you do the show at WYLN TV and the time you go to your family event.
THANK YOU. ACTUALLY THAT FAMILY EVENT THING IS A COVER STORY. FRIDAY NIGHT IS WHEN LEFT WING, BABY KILLING LIBERALS LIKE ME PUT ON A BLACK SWEATSHIRT, O.J. SKULL CAP AND GO AND STEAL THE RIGHT WINGERS GUNS. THEN WE TAKE THEM TO WASHINGTON AND MICHELLE OBAMA TURNS THEM INTO SCRAP METAL FOR HER VICTORY GARDENS FOR A FENCE SO THE RABBITS DON'T EAT THE CARROTS.
Oh yes Yonki
all hail the shining example of honesty in the democratic party and the leadership of the ever-lying totally-fake money-worshiping Clintons and the endless trail of bodies they have left behind in their wake...to say nothing of Joe Kennedy..FDR would see Harry Reid and throw up in his face.
I can only say that Chris Hitchens died and went to his grave believing absolutely the Clintons were the worst of the worst..and he was so correct
NO!
Sign me up. I too have voted for Republicans in the past, but never never ever again. To the party of NO I say NO! Come to think of it the Republicans I voted for never
did too well as public servants or statesmen. Hell these days the Democrats are bad enough. I have been an Independent for many years now. Blow em all up and start over again.
So Dave, At one point, Ted Cruz tried to enlighten us with a reading of "Green Eggs and Ham",
a book about a stubborn, ignorant troll who claims to hate a dish he's
never actually tasted. Consider the irony. Mrs Fearick would give him the 3 edged ruler across the knuckles and back of his head for that too!
Drew W
A life is a life and every one of them is precious no matter the reason for the loss but numbers don’t lie.
Pathetic logic Yonk based on a hidden and heartless premise.
You owe every Benghazi victim's family the same offense and defense you provided to Cindy Sheehan.
Why is a party advocating Americans not signing up for a government program designed to help effectively cheer leading and urging its failure?
You're kidding right? Again YOU are cheerleading the same result. Crippling an American Economy with a huge unsustainable deficit. Are you deaf to the business decisions made necessary by what the owners perceive is heading their way? Did you ignore the warnings of the unions you support? My God how could you miss it?
I've changed my mind.
Give it a rest. If there is any harm being done to the conservative cause by the fight to defund this monstrous piece of legislation, it is coming at the hands of unreliable conservatives. Stop parroting the Left's talking points about how Republicans want to shut down the government. Just stop.
You are not actually stupid enough to believe the Democrat lies to that effect, are you? Have you heard them quote all of these imaginary Republican Congress-critters who supposedly say that they WANT to shut down the government? Yeah, me either. There's a reason they don't offer those quotes; because only the Democrats are talking about government shutdown.
As for my fellow conservatives who may read this site, let's not be too quick to cast out those who vote with us 80% of the time but who might not have the courage to fight this fight in this way. It took every single Republican faction acting in unison to end the Democrat's beloved slavery, and it will take that kind of unison today to accomplish our current goals.
Reagan understood that he needed every Republican he could get - moderates and conservatives - to advance his agenda. This constant sniping at those who are our allies on most causes is completely counterproductive. If you want to "primary" moderate candidates and replace them with conservatives, then by all means do it. But let's not alienate them completely and consign ourselves to a permanent state of impotence.
Keep trying to convince those who may not be paying attention that there are other opinions. Help the understand how this will cost them money for a product they are required to buy.
Those of you with 27 year olds, go to the ACA website and see how much they MUST pay - or the fines assessed if they don't. It's like the 60's draft we fought against except it will only kill their spirit.
tea baggers
Real classy Gord. Showed your @$$ on that one buddy...
Guess you don't feel Taxed Enough Already. Must be a one-per-center.
If Obama Care hasn’t started, how do you know it won’t work?
How can a failure be something before it starts?
(1) On top of higher premiums, Obamacare's exchanges will also feature steeper out-of-pocket costs for many consumers...if they're ever operational, that is:
Consumers may have to dig a little deeper into their wallets to pay for health care in the Obamacare insurance exchanges, according to a new analysis by Avalere Health. The study of six states suggests that consumers could face steep cost-sharing requirements — like co-payments, co-insurance and deductibles — layered on top of their monthly premiums.
(2) In addition to yesterday's ill-timed and embarrassing delay, the administration quietly acknowledged another problem that will affect Spanish-speaking citizens. Que barbaridad:
In a potentially more significant delay that affects the law's larger insurance market for individuals, the administration quietly told Hispanic groups on Wednesday that the Spanish-language version of the healthcare.gov website will not be ready to handle online enrollments for a few weeks. An estimated 10 million Latinos are eligible for coverage, and 4 million of them speak Spanish primarily.
(3) The most popular question on www.healthcare.gov as of yesterday dealt with how to avoid the law:
Most popular on http://t.co/FdsO8jswn3:
"How do I get an exemption from the fee for not having health coverage?" pic.twitter.com/MJYBz2sVyG
— Garance Franke-Ruta September 26, 2013
The answer, of course, is to be a member of Congress.
(4) Harry Reid is vowing to preserve a job-destroying Obamacare tax that he himself has referred to as "stupid" and has voted to repeal in the past.
(5) With his law drowning in a sea of its own failure, President Obama is lashing out at Fox News. Again.
(6) If Democrats are going to try to blame Republicans for Obamacare's shortcomings (problem: zero Republicans voted for the law), they're going to have a tough time explaining the messes in Democrat-led Colorado, Oregon and Washington, DC.
(7) The SEIU in Ohio is leading a strike to protest benefits cuts triggered by....Obamacare.
(8) Obamacare is hurting low-income single mothers:
"Michelle La Voie wants health insurance, but as a single mom making $38,000 a year and supporting two teenagers, she's not sure she can afford it -- even with a subsidy through the federal health law known as Obamacare. When enrollment in new online insurance markets begins next month, La Voie will likely qualify for a subsidy to buy private insurance, but would still have to pay $191 a month, or about 6 percent of her income toward the premium. She could also face as much as $2,000 in potential out-of-pocket costs for hospital care and prescription drugs, if she needs those things. “What’s the point of having [a policy] if I can’t afford to use it?” asks the 47-year-old librarian in upstate Franklinville, N.Y., referring to the co-pays and deductibles she might incur."
(9) When Mike Iwry was asked if he was ever involved in a discussion considering delaying the individual mandate he so desperately doesn't want to have to say "yes," for obvious reasons. This is painful to watch - Search YouTube for Administration Refuses to Disclose Consideration of Individual Mandate Delay on C-Span. For those of you who may not understand "slimey":
Translation, It's being considered, but we don't want to say so publicly. Dozens of Congressional Democrats have already peeled off, including the first blue Senator.
Congress has absolute power over the public purse. Article 1 of the Constitution says, "No money shall be drawn from the Treasury but in consequence of appropriations made by law."
The law authorizing President Obama to spend more money for Obamacare expires Sept. 30. If the House refuses to vote for any bill that contains new Obamacare funding, Obamacare is dead.
Thus the Republican House controls the fate of Obamacare.
But if we don't fund Obamacare, comes the Republican wail, Harry Reid will let the government shut down, the American people will blame us, and all of our pundits say we can't win this fight.
You cannot win if you do not fight.
But if a Democratic Senate refuses to pass the House-passed continuing resolution funding the government, because Obamacare is not in the bill, who is shutting down the government?
If Obama vetoes any continuing resolution funding the government that does not contain Obamacare, who is shutting down the government then?
Who is putting the U.S. economy at risk to protect a bollixed program the American people do not want and Congress would never approve if they voted on it today?
What House Republicans have lacked is not courage, but a political and communications strategy.
Having provided a continuing resolution to fund the government, except Obamacare, the House should next begin passing Continuing Resolutions -- one for each department. A C.R. to fund defense and veterans affairs. A C.R. to fund State, the CIA and Homeland Security. A C.R. for justice, transportation, energy, etc. One every day.
Would Harry Reid refuse to fund the U.S. Army and Navy unless John Boehner's House stuffs Obamacare into the defense budget?
Do Republicans really feel incapable of winning this argument?
Are Republicans so tongue-tied they cannot convince America of the truth: They have already voted to fund the government.
If Republicans capitulate and lose this battle, and this unwanted mess passes into law, there is something deeply wrong with the party.
Two weeks ago, a brave Congress, listening to America, stood up and told Obama: Your red lines be damned; we're not voting for war on Syria.
Now House Republicans need to tell the country: Come hell or high water, we're not voting to fund Obamacare. We will pass a C.R. on everything else in the budget, but Obamacare is not coming out of this House alive.
Love Lulac! Today I learned a new word, bollixed. I read a lot and have a pretty good vocabulary so I always enjoy learning a new word.
Now I've got to try to slip it into a conversation which shouldn't be too hard. How about everything is all bollixed up?
Never Too Old
Yonk, what the hell's wrong with you? Vote for a convicted Wire Tapper for what? Dog catcher? Not even for that. Griffith will become an automatic target and he won't get away the Luzerne way next time. He's a crook, and you recommending him for anything tells all I need to know about you!
8:29 PM ripped ALL of their commentary off from Pat Buchanan's latest piece on WorldNetDaily:
http://www.wnd.com/2013/09/republicans-fix-bayonets/
Plagiarism is not the most useful way to make an argument.
Plagiarism is not the most useful way to make an argument.
While I agree with your sentiment I would not usually run into Buchanan's thoughts, especially hear.
Over the years I look to blogs much like CB radio. Not much is original but sometimes the exchange of ideas trumps originality. I did not think to check the source.
What motivated you and did knowing who authored the piece change your willingness to give his ideas consideration?
It did not instill bias in me.
Hey 4:07 did you recognize the writing style, read it somewhere else, google it because nobody that reads this blog could possibly think and write like that?
Don't care who wrote it - it added something to the way I thought and maybe I learned something.
Glad Yonk let it go.
Democrats wont rest until they have their way - which is a one party system in which they are in control.
why do you think they dont want any third party candidates? to say nothing of what the Republicans did to Ron Paul
IN RESPONSE
Democrats wont rest until they have their way - which is a one party system in which they are in control
AND THEY'LL GET IT WITH THE WAY THE REPUBLICANS ARE BEHAVING. .
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