The LuLac Edition #3735, March 20th, 2018

MAYBE I’M AMAZED

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MAYBE I'M AMAZED......that the denial of the Russian involvement in our American elections come from sources that know better. As an example the other day, a man called the WILK Comment Line and likened being beaten down by the winter weather and the Russian investigation. He sounded like he was past 60. While anyone that age, thinks the Russian story is a farce is beyond comprehension for me. Surely these people remember the Cuban Missie Crisis as well as the Cold War. I can only make one of two conclusions, that they are either breathtakingly ignorant or won't admit that their candidate is innocent of any of this. It has already been documented that the Russians were trying to get into our power grids. This guy would cry like a little fool if he had no power and couldn't spew his bullshit on a comment line that is at times a forum for dullards.
MAYBE I’M AMAZED…….that the moral center of the national Republican party came out in full view, finally, on the issue of tariffs. Womanizing, racism, indecision, rudeness, porn stars, ignorant behavior, they were all fine with that. But tariffs and the GOP has their panties in a twist. That tells you everything you need to know about the moral center (mushy as a Milky Way bar) of this once proud party.
MAYBE I’M AMAZED……that Anne Murray, she of “Snowbird” fame 48 years ago has a daughter in the entertainment business. Dawn Langstroth has become quite the singer on her own in Canada and I’m sure you’ll hear from here in the states too.

MAYBE I’M AMAZED…..that there are reports that Donald Trump’s minions are talking to Bill Clinton’s Impeachment lawyer. The New York Times, citing four people familiar with the matter, said Trump met with lawyer Emmet T. Flood in the Oval Office about joining the team as Trump and his allies continue to deal with the special counsel investigation led by former FBI Director Robert Mueller.
MAYBE I’M AMAZED….but not really by the shameful behavior of the President who at his Moon Township campaign stop encouraged the booing of the free press and then pretty much defamed and belittled people before an audience of lemmings who think it is okay to praise a dictator who runs a country devoid of a press that reports the facts.
MAYBE I’M AMAZED….that a male firefly’s light is brighter than a female’s. Huh, first time I ever heard of a member of the male species being brighter than a female!
MAYBE I’M AMAZED…that at many churches, handicapped parking spots are filled 40 minutes before The Mass. Equally amazing is that seconds after most people exit the church, (which should be after the final blessing) said parking spaces are as empty as a McDonald’s on Christmas morning. It must be a miracle that they can move so fast after Communion! 
MAYBE I’M AMAZED…that in 2014, the Department of Veteran’s Affairs was paying a Civil War pension. Richly deserved but still paying it. Wilkesboro's Irene Triplett collects $73.13 from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs as a pension payment for her father's military service -- in the Civil War. Triplett, 84, is the last living person collecting a pension payment for service in the Civil War.
Pvt. Mose Triplett was born in 1846 and lived to the age of 92. After his first wife's death, he married Elida Hall, nearly 50 years his junior, in 1924.
In 1930, Irene Triplett was born when her father was 84 and her mother was 34. As of last report, Tripltt is still alive and collecting. 

Now living in skilled-nursing facility in Wilkesboro, Medicaid pays her expenses at the home, supplemented by a pension her father earned her nearly 150 years ago in 1865.
MAYBE I’M AMAZED…that with this gambit and discussion of a meeting with North Korea, while decent news is unsettling because there is no group of experts to interpret whatever deal this President might think he can get. When you decimate your State Department, have no Ambassador to South Korea and discuss the implications of Nuclear reduction,  that can be dicey.
Now with the departure of Rex Tillerson and the tumult surrounding the revolving door of this administration, one wonders how these changes will affect this “big meeting”.
While I think talking is good with North Korea, it should have started with intermediaries and not at the top. With all of the complexities and implications,  I really don’t trust this President’s big brain to compute any of that. I still want to see this guy’s grades.
MAYBE I’M AMAZED….that the owner of a Mickey Mantle Bowman Rookies card, the first ever, was bought by a member of The Strawberry Alarm Clock in 2003 for $600,000. Now the card is reported to sell for 2.3 million dollars! That’s a lot of Incense and Peppermint.
MAYBE I’M AMAZED….that 2018 marks a landmark for former Senator and Presidential candidate Gary Hart and his wife Leah. The Senator who had to step down in 1987 for having an affair that essentially ruined his Presidential ambitions and his wife are celebrating 60 years of marriage. Despite two separations and the scandal, they apparently did what real adults do in a marriage. Find the best, forgive but not forget the worst.  and stay together. That’s called commitment .
MAYBE I’M AMAZED….in Alabama it is illegal, illegal I tell you to carry an Ice Cream cone in your pack pocket at any time. Knowing that, we can all sleep better!