The LuLac Edition #2627, April 1st, 2014

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MAYBE I’M AMAZED

MAYBE I’M AMAZED……..that the Wilkes Barre/Scranton area has been ranked as the 13th most miserable place to live. So out of many cities that were surveyed, we ranked not in the top ten, (we weren’t trying hard enough) but right at 13. As Huey Lewis sang, maybe we gotta get a new drug. Or maybe we should just get high on life. Or maybe we should pay a consultant to the Chamber of Commerce and have them find out the answer. Naw, stick with what this guy has to say.

MAYBE I’M AMAZED……….that the naysayers still are denouncing the Affordable Care Act. Nearly 7 million people have enrolled. This is called increasing the pool so that this thing can work financially. It slays me that Insurance carriers are raising rates and the Health Care Act is getting the blame.
MAYBE I’M AMAZED……..at the reaction in Lackawanna County about the beating of another baby. The “mom” has a boy friend watching five kids. His solution to one of them crying is to bash and then knock the kid around. A neighbor, aunt whatever said they had an inkling that things were bad. She said she called Lackawanna Children and Youth and they did nothing.  I guess that begs the question, then why didn’t she do something? I am all for helping people get a leg up but when innocent, helpless babies get the snot kicked out of them by a “friend”, “baby daddy” or other “caregiver” and I use that term loosely it is time for taking the kids away to another adoptive home, slashing any welfare benefits whatsoever and if that can’t be done, then give the mother welfare but on the condition she have no more babies. This happens every few weeks around here doesn’t it?
POSTSCRIPT: The woman interviewed on TV had serious head injuries from an accident and has medical issues and concerns of her own. Other family members were more directly involved but the woman named Tiffany was courageous enough to go on camera and speak to the media. We wish her well in her recovery from a head injury.
MAYBE I’M AMAZED……and speaking of “Baby Daddies” Walt Disney is most likely spinning in his cryogenic container or wherever he is if his spirit becomes aware that The ABC Family Network has a reality show coming up called “Baby Daddy”. Man we’ve come a far way from “The Adventures of Davey Crockett” and “The Mickey Mouse Club”.
MAYBE I’M AMAZED…….that the County of Luzerne wants to start a bank. A few County Council members think it is a good idea but with all of the trouble we have had keeping money straight does anyone thing this is a good idea? My suggestion is to get the finances under control, get out of debt and then talk about getting a bank. As a child my first bank was a baseball bobble head bank. Then I got a Kennedy Fifty Cent piece bank. But the bank would be useless if I had no money in it. As a kid I wasn’t in debt so a bank made sense. I put money in it. But when you are in debt, what do you do with a bank? I’ll tell you this though, if the County does get a bank, I am going to petition for a radio station. Just think of the lineup, “Lawton’s Lecture Series”, “Morelli’s Midday Matinee”, “The FBI and our man Walter”, “The Brominski Report”, “The Urban Legends”, “Dishing Dirt with Dobash” and the drive time morning show to kick off things called “The County Coffee Klatch” with these two guys below. 

County Councilman Jim Bobeck and your blog editor. (Photo: LuLac archives). 
MAYBE I’M AMAZED…………….while we're in the County frame of mind here, I'm wondering why no one seems to be asking this question about Lackawanna County Home Rule: do they really need it? One set of Commissioners committed crimes. They were some dust ups along the way before that but nothing that a good electoral cleansing didn’t fix. And what is the deal with Chuck Volpe? Volpe seems to be front and center on this thing and one has to wonder if he is using this as a launching pad for some political entre? He has funded candidates, ran for Governor himself twenty years ago and then dropped out. For all I know Volpe ‘s intentions could be pure as the driven snow but people are asking two things, is a change really needed and what’s up with Chuck?
MAYBE I’M AMAZED………that tennis was originally played with bare hands.
MAYBE I’M AMAZED……but not really that many local political heavy hitters are lining up behind the candidacy of Tom Wolf for Governor. We are now down to four with former Auditor General Jack Wagner dropping out leaving State Treasurer Rob McCord, Katie McGinty and Allyson Schwartz left to fight for the nomination. 

Katie McGinty, Tom Wolf, (top) Rob McCord and Allyson Schwartz (bottom). (Photo: Philly.com)
MAYBE I’M AMAZED……that the Statue of Liberty wears a size 879 sandal.