The LuLac Edition #3489, May 5th, 2017

CONGRATS TO THE REPUBLICAN CONGRESS:

YOU OWN HEALTH CARE 
NOW!!!!

If you are a disabled person on Medicaid, Medicare, or an older person living in Pennsylvania, the REPUBLICAN Congress has screwed you. Now you know what the REPUBLICAN party thinks of you.
The House of Representatives passed the American Health Care Act (AHCA), NOT TO BE CONFUSED WITH THE ACA, or Obamacare. This is a a bill that would make drastic cuts to Medicaid, end Medicaid expansion, and increases health care costs for Pennsylvanians. 

The AHCA makes drastic cuts to Medicaid, a program in which 43 percent of enrollees are children or young adults. Those federal funding cuts will 'trickle down' to the state, adding $2-3 billion in annual costs to our already-strained state budget.

For average Pennsylvanians, particularly those over 50 and who are sick, the costs of obtaining health coverage will skyrocket. New potential surcharges for pre-existing conditions along increased premiums and decreased financial assistance with plans that can charge at least five times more than younger individuals will essentially lock out people from the critical care they need.
The REPUBLICAN party now OWN this. Some are looking to the Senate to fix it and save their political asses. Whatever the Senate does, remember this. This REPUBLICAN HOUSE has turned its back on disabled children. They preach about the fetus in the womb but baby, once you’re out of that birth canal, THE REPUBLICANS say you are on YOUR OWN child.
But hey, the President said that the Senate will make it bigger and better than the wonderful piece of legislation that passed yesterday.
He then said perhaps the United States should do something similar to Australia’s health care plan which his right wing co cohorts have always called Socialized Medicine.
Donald thinks it’s fine so what they hey.
Don’t fear though, someone will explain what he really meant.
In the meantime, THE REPUBLICAN Congress has opted out of Obama care and gave you their version. (PHAN, LuLac)

DEMS CRITICIZED FOR SINGING STEAM SONG

The REPUBLICAN Congressional members got their little feelings hurt because some Democrats began to sing that one hit wonder from 69-70 by Steam, “Na Na Na, Hey, Hey Goodbye”.
They said it was unseemly. Hysterical that this party disrespected Congressman Marjorie Margolis Mezvinsky when she voted for a budget bill in 1994. She lost but pretty much has moved on.
The cry baby REPUBLICANS though, have always got pleasure by beating up on women in politics. Now their little, itty bitty feelings are hurt.
Boo ****ing Hoo.

ALAN SHEPHARD’S FIRST FLIGHT @ 56

Alan Shepard (Photo: NASA)

It was 56 years ago today that Alan Shephard went into space. The Mercury Astronaut became the first American to leave the bonds of earth.
He was selected as one of the original NASA Mercury Seven astronauts in 1959, and in May 1961 he made the first manned Project Mercury flight, MR-3, in a spacecraft he named Freedom 7. His craft entered space, but did not achieve orbit. He became the second person, and the first American, to travel into space, and the first person to manually control the orientation of his spacecraft. In the final stages of Project Mercury, Shepard was scheduled to pilot the Mercury-Atlas 10 (MA-10), which was planned as a three-day mission. He named Mercury Spacecraft 15B Freedom 7 II in honor of his first spacecraft, but the mission was cancelled.
Faced with intense competition from the other astronauts, particularly John Glenn, Shepard quit smoking, and adopted Glenn's habit of taking a morning jog, although he did not go so far as to give up the cocktails or the philandering. On January 19, 1961, Robert R. Gilruth, the director of NASA's Space Task Group, informed the seven astronauts that Shepard had been chosen for the first American manned mission into space. Shepard later recalled Louise's response when he told her that she had her arms around the man who would be the first man in space: "Who let a Russian in here?" During training he flew 120 simulated flights. Although his flight was originally scheduled for April 26, 1960, it was postponed several times by unplanned preparatory work, initially to December 5, 1960, then mid-January 1961, March 6, 1961, April 25, 1961, May 2, 1961, and finally to May 5, 1961.
In the final stages of Project Mercury, Shepard was scheduled to pilot the Mercury-Atlas 10 (MA-10), which was planned as a three-day mission. He named Mercury Spacecraft 15B Freedom 7 II in honor of his first spacecraft, but the mission was cancelled.
Shepard was designated as the commander of the first manned Project Gemini mission, but was grounded in 1963 due to Ménière's disease, an inner-ear ailment that caused episodes of extreme dizziness and nausea. This was surgically corrected in 1969, and in 1971, Shepard commanded the Apollo 14 mission, piloting the Apollo Lunar ModuleAntares to the most accurate landing of the Apollo missions. At age 47, he became the fifth and oldest person to walk on the Moon, and the only one of the Mercury Seven astronauts to do so. During the mission, he hit two golf balls on the lunar surface. He was Chief of the Astronaut Office from November 1963 to July 1969 (the approximate period of his grounding), and from June 1971 until his retirement from the United States Navy and NASA on August 1, 1974. He was promoted to rear admiral on August 25, 1971, the first astronaut to reach that rank. (Wikipedia.com)

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