The LuLac Edition #3815, June 21st, 2018

JOIN WILK TEAM TARONE FUNDRAISER

Me and L.A. Tarone (Photo: LuLac archives)

It is nearly a year since my good friend l.A. Tarone passed away from Lung Cancer. Sunday there will be a race at Kirby Park to combat that disease. Our friends at WILK put up information on their site. Here’s the link: When you get to the page, you’ll see the WILK Team Tarone highlighted. Click on it to donate in his memory.
https://wilknews.radio.com/events/join-5k-walkfun-run

TRUMP BACK FLIPS

President Trump signed an Executive Order allowing parents to be housed with their children once they are denied or detained at the border. The pressure from Trump was enormous with even members of his own party.
But here’s the rub. The administration has intimated that “it won’t lift a finger” to help reunite those children already dispatched all across the country with the parents they have been separated from.
So this was just another pointless and impotent announcement.

KELLY ANNE AND HER USE OF CATHOLICISM

During the last few days, Kelly Anne Conway has been trying to show off her Roman Catholic credentials in her defense of President Trump’s separation of children and their parents in the name of Immigration reform. Trump and Ms. Conway will tell you that to let people in this country for asylum will let in gangs, murders and rapists. These people in the photos released by the Government, the Trump administration, don’t look all that dangerous to me.
Here’s what I was taught as a Catholic.
You embrace the dignity of all people. In my life, I have never passed up an indigent person on the street if they asked for money. This quote stuck in my head many times, Jesus taught that on the Day of Judgement God will ask what each of us did to help the poor and needy: "Amen, I say to you, whatever you did for one of these least brothers of mine, you did for me." From first grade on, that was drilled into my head. What if the hobo was Christ in disguise seeing if we treated him with dignity? What is we failed that test?
If that meant giving a guy a buck at the Penn Plaza when I was coming out of that wonderful bakery there and seeing him take the buck into the liquor store, so be it. As a believer, at least I was taught to give and show compassion to those in need.
The nuns taught me that through our words, prayers and deeds we must show solidarity with, and compassion for, the poor. The moral test of any society is "how it treats its most vulnerable members. The poor have the most urgent moral claim on the conscience of the nation or the world. The vulnerable just aren’t those who are here among us, they are in the world. When a government takes public policy and does not keep the most vulnerable in mind, it lacks a moral core.
Pope Benedict XVI  wrote that "love for widows and orphans, prisoners, and the sick and needy of every kind, is as essential as the ministry of the sacraments and preaching of the Gospel in the Catholic faith. This preferential option for the poor and vulnerable includes all who are marginalized in our nation and beyond! We are not taking are of those “beyond” looking only for what all immigrants asked for, a better life.

KELLY ANNE CONWAY AND CHRIS CUOMO

The other night, Monday as a matter of fact, Chris Cuomo on CNN invited Trump shill Kelly Ane Conway to his show. What transpired was one ugly interview that was not Cuomo’s doing. The vapid mean and spiteful behavior of this so called “patriot” reminded me of a person who just couldn’t face or tell the truth. If you can stand watching this, try it.

US COMMERCE SECRETARY HELD RUSSIA, CHINA-LINKED ASSETS: REPORT

Wilbur Ross  (Photo: CNN)

US Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross held assets for much of last year that created conflicts of interest and has since transferred ownership to a family trust instead of divesting outright, Forbes reported Monday.
Days before coming under negative media scrutiny last year, Ross shorted stocks in a company tied to Russian President Vladimir Putin's inner circle in a way that would have let the commerce chief benefit from falling share prices, according to the magazine.
The Commerce Department told AFP that, along with the US Office of Government Ethics, it had certified that the transactions at issue were in compliance with legal requirements. (AFP)

STATEMENT: ON THE AGREED-UPON PA BUDGET SPENDING PLAN

Pennsylvania Budget and Policy Center Director Marc Stier made the following statement after the PA House Appropriations Committee passed a budget spending plan:
"When Governor Wolf released his budget proposal in March, we said that his plan had the right priorities but, given the political realities he faced, understandably did not put forward initiatives bold enough to close the deep public investment deficit in Pennsylvania.
"Our first take on the general appropriations bill that passed the House Appropriations Committee reaches the same conclusion. The new budget provides welcome new investments in pre-K and K-12 education, special education, higher education, workforce training, child care, treatment for substance abuse disorder, and intellectual disabilities (although we have some concerns about the lack of an increase for the birth to three early intervention program). These are all welcome initiatives, although in many cases they are far less than we think Pennsylvania needs.
"That these new investments are smaller than they should be is largely due to the failure of the General Assembly to take needed steps toward increasing general fund revenues from those most able to afford it. There is no shale tax, no corporate tax reform, and no fee for local governments that rely on the State Police instead of local police forces.
"The budget includes a new $60 million initiative for school and community safety. We worry that a large new spending program created to show that the General Assembly recognizes the intense public concern over school safety will lead to wasteful spending while also letting the General Assembly off the hook for taking action on reasonable gun control measures.
"And the biggest and most striking gap in the entire plan of which this general appropriation bill is a part is that it does not call for an increase in the minimum wage. It appears that the General Assembly will again fail Pennsylvania’s working people on that front.
"This budget takes steps in the right direction and rightfully funds many of Governor Wolf’s priorities. But by leaving so many gaps in funding for education, higher education, human services, and infrastructure and the environment, it is not the budget that Pennsylvania really needs."
The Pennsylvania Budget and Policy Center is a non-partisan policy research project that provides independent, credible analysis on state tax, budget and related policy matters, with attention to the impact of current or proposed policies on working families.
Pennsylvania Budget and Policy Center, 412 N. 3rd Street, Harrisburg, PA 17101 | 717-255-7156

MEDIA MATTERS

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ECTV LIVE

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BUDDY RUMCHEK

Want to hear some great parodies on the news? Tune in to WILK Radio at 6:40 and 8:40 AM on Mondays. As Ralph Cramden used to say, “It’s a laugh riot!”

BOBBY V’S DOO WOP SOCK HOP

SUNDAY NIGHTS!

1960

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In Moscow, KGB Chairman Aleksandr Shelepin secretly delivered a report to Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev, warning that, according to KGB sources in the U.S., "the chiefs at the Pentagon are hoping to launch a preventive war against the Soviet Union". Relying on the misinformed report, Khrushchev publicly stated ten days later that the Soviets would use their own missiles if the U.S. attempted to invade Cuba….The Charlotte Motor Speedway opened in Concord, North Carolina, and hosted the first World 600 NASCAR race. Joe Lee Johnson won the first running of the 600.…..On his tour of the Far East, U.S. President Eisenhower encountered his first hostile reception, while visiting the island of Okinawa. A crowd of 1,500 protesters demonstrated in favor of the island's return from U.S. administration to Japan… At New York's Polo Grounds, a crowd of 31,892 watched Floyd Patterson became the first person to regain the world heavyweight boxing championship. In the fifth round, Patterson knocked out champion Ingemar Johansson with a powerful left hook that left the Swedish boxer unconscious for ten minutes. Johansson then walked out under his own power….

Nan Winton became the first national female newsreader on BBC television….

The last operational B-29 bomber flew its final mission, a routine radar evaluation flight. On the day that the unpopular U.S.-Japan Security Treaty went into effect, Japan's Prime Minister Nobusuke Kishi announced his resignation. Kishi was replaced by Ikeda Hayato.....Rival Congolese leaders Joseph Kasavubu and Patrice Lumumba agreed to share power, with Kasavubu to become the former Belgian colony's first President, and Lumumba to become the nation's first Prime Minister......The Romance of Helen Trent, which had been a daytime soap opera on the CBS Radio Network since its debut on October 30, 1933, was broadcast for the 7,222nd and last time, ending a run of almost 27 year…in Pennsylvania, Senator Hugh Scott says that the Republican convention will be interesting since it appears that New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller might make a last minute run. Others in the state are concerned that “Rocky” only has two years under his belt as a sitting Governor…in Wilkes Barre Congressman Dan Flood continue to tout the candidacy of Senator Kennedy and fifty eight years ago the number one song in LuLac land and America was “Paper Roses” by Anita Bryant