The LuLac Edition #3838, July 19th, 2018

 SUE HENRY EVENT MONDAY!!!!!

FOX NEWS PARROT TUCKER CARLSON SHOWS RACIST SIDE 

Well the GOP right has to come up with some way to defend the President’s recent actions and repudiation of his own oath of office to protect and defend the United States of all enemies Foreign and Domestic. Carlson said the United States was under attack by Mexico because of Immigration which by the way has been decreasing. But he seems to be bothered by the color brown.
In an interview with "The Five," Fox News host Tucker Carlson said that Russia had sought to meddle in US affairs. But he asserted that other countries, such as Mexico, have been more successful in doing so. "I don't think Russia is our close friend or anything like that. I think of course they try to interfere in our affairs. They have for a long time. Many countries do. Some more successfully than Russia, like Mexico, which is routinely interfering in our elections by packing our electorate."
As the host of "Tucker Carlson Tonight" in Fox's prime-time lineup (a show on which I have appeared), he regularly rails against undocumented immigrants and sanctuary cities. He has been a strong supporter of Trump's hard-line immigration policies.
That this brand of racism is still alive and well speaks volumes about the state of conservative thought in the age of Trump. American citizens of Hispanic descent who are voting are participating in democracy. And for the record, there is no evidence to support Carlson's claims.
Besides being false, Carlson's comments are insidious because they go back to the tired trope of "illegals" being somehow responsible for everything that ails America, from social ills to violent crime. This line of thought is hardly new or novel. After he won the presidency, Trump falsely claimed that "millions" of illegal voters cost him the popular vote; a commission set up to investigate such supposed massive voter fraud was disbanded in January without finding any real evidence of corrupt elections.
Now Carlson seems to be crossing a line by suggesting that the true threat to American democracy is not Russia or Putin's agents but Hispanic voters. This is an astonishing claim. To vote in our elections, a person must be a US citizen. It sounds like Carlson is not pleased with the idea of his fellow citizens -- who might happen to be of Mexican origin -- voting. How is that idea not offensive, to the 8 million people born in Latin America who are now US citizens? Carlson's sentiments should be offensive to all Americans -- especially the thousands of Hispanic-Americans who have served in the US military. (LuLac, CNN)

WHY NAACP PA STATE CONFERENCE OPPOSES BRETT KAVANAUGH’S SUPREME COURT NOMINATION,

WHY WE ARE ASKING SEN. TOOMEY TO VOTE “NO” ON THIS NOMINATION,

AND WHY ALL PENNSYLVANIAN’S SHOULD TOO
SEND A MESSAGE TO PAT TOOMEY

Senator Toomey, please stand for what is best for Pennsylvanians and hear the voices of your constituents.
Pennsylvanian is the birthplace of the Constitution and Bill of Rights. We hold that the next Justice must uphold these for the Common good.
The progress toward social, economic, and racial justice made over the last 64 years is at stake. Judge Brett Kavanaugh has demonstrated through his writings and opinions that he is a threat to this progress.
Based on his writings and rulings, Judge Kavanaugh is a threat to:
•Health care for families
•LGBTQ rights
•Women’s rights
•Workers’ rights
Public safety – opposing gun regulations at a time when gun violence is a public health crisis in Pennsylvania and across the nation
This country is in crisis. The American people should have a voice in the selection of their next Supreme Court Justice.
Contact Numbers for Senator Pat Toomey:
215-241-1090 (Philadelphia office),
202-224-4254 (Washington, D.C. office)

PENCE COMING TO PA FOR LOU

Vice President Mike Pence is going to be coming to Pennsylvania next week to support Lou Barletta for the Senate. Here’s a statement from Barletta’s campaign:
It has been an honor to work with my friend and former House colleague, Vice President Pence, to implement a conservative, pro-America agenda. Because of the Vice President’s hard work, we have lowered taxes for Pennsylvania families, strengthened our borders, and kickstarted the economy!
Friend, I am committed to working with President Trump and Vice President Pence to Make America Great Again. I promise you, if elected to be your U.S. Senator, I will work every day to make you and our great state proud.
Just so you know, if Barletta is committed to working with President Trump and Vice President Pence to “Make American Again”, perhaps given the President’s latest fiasco with Russia, we all better bone up on our Russian
Barletta MUST be asked the question, “Do you side with President Trump in his attack on our own intelligence agencies and the Vice President’s tacit support of the Trump actions?
If so, Lou Barletta DOES NOT belong in the Senate. .

BARLETTA VOTES TO STRENGTHEN GENOCIDE PREVENTION EFFORTS

Lou Barletta (Photo: LuLac archives)

Congressman Lou Barletta voted for H.R. 3030, the Elie Wiesel Genocide and Atrocity Prevention Act. Named after the Nobel Peace Prize recipient whose personal experience as a Holocaust survivor led him to defend human rights and peace globally, the bill, which Barletta cosponsored, would require the prevention of genocide and similar crimes to be part of the U.S. National security strategy. The House passed H.R. 3030 by an overwhelmingly bipartisan vote of 406 to five.
“The United States is the international leader in responding to genocide,” Barletta said, “and this bill helps us strengthen our efforts to prevent this kind of tragic violence from ever happening again.”
Introduced by Representative Ann Wagner (MO-02), H.R. 3030 would require the State Department to train its foreign service officers to identify warning signs and escalation of genocide. That training would include instruction on conflict assessment, delegitimizing violence, and capacity building within society to peacefully manage disputes. Further, the bill requires an annual report to Congress on the administration’s actions to prevent and respond to potential genocides and mass atrocities, and the identification of countries at risk of such genocide or mass violence. Genocide and atrocity crimes, including war crimes, crimes against humanity, and ethnic cleansing, are defined by shocking acts of violence perpetrated by governments and non-state actors, resulting in the murders of millions of civilians and other innocent persons across the globe. 
But I guess it's okay for Barletta to side with Trump for taking children away from their parents.  That happened some 75 years ago in Germany didn't it?

MEDIA MATTERS

JOE GRIES

Joe Gries (Photo: Times Leader)

Joe Gries longtime broadcaster at WBRE Radio passed away the other day. Through the years, Joe and I would occasionally butt heads but he was always a gentleman. Our source of conflict came when I was an inrern at the then unionized WBRE Radio and TV. As a kid, Gries had to gently rein me in.
Joseph began his career in broadcasting at Texas Lutheran College and later the University of Texas and West Virginia University. In 1955, he returned to the Wyoming Valley, working for WBRE Radio and later WSCR in Scranton, to announce University of Scranton athletics and high school sports. He covered thousands of high school, college and professional baseball, basketball and football games in his long career, most notably the Sugar Bowl, and did play-by-play for the New York Giants, the great Wilkes College Colonels football teams and King's College basketball teams of the late 60s and 70s. He retired as the national sales manager and sports director at WARD Radio.
For his distinguished broadcasting career, he was inducted into the Pennsylvania Sports Hall of Fame in 1988. In addition, he received the Wilkes University Lifetime Career Achievement award, PIAA Broadcaster of the Year award, Capital Records Disc Jockey of the Year award and numerous other honors and awards for his service to the community as a speaker before various civic clubs and groups.
Joe was high school and college football/baseball/ basketball broadcasting in this area. He was a consummate pro and shared enthusiasm for the sport and the athletes. The last time I saw Joe was when he and Jim Ward attended a Tony Bennett concert at the Kirby when Bennett was making his rebound. Great guy. He was pure class.

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BOLD GOLD COMMUNITY FORUM

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ECTV LIVE

Rusty Fender will handle the hosting duties on ECTV Live during the week of July 23rd while David DeCosmo is on vacation. Rusty welcomes Marko Marcinko and Bob Shelsinger to the program to unveil plans for this year's Scranton Jazz Festival.

ECTV Live can be seen on Comcast channel 19 (61 in some areas) and is aired during the Noon, 6pm and Midnight hours each day of the week. Following Monday's Live program the show will become available on Electric City Television's YouTube channel which can be viewed on your computer.

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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The Soviet Union completed the Sino-Soviet split by notifying the government of the People's Republic of China that all 1,390 Soviet advisors and experts there would be withdrawn. Over the next monthhe Soviets cancelled twelve economic and technological agreements, and 200 joint projects.[3……..The phrase "New Frontier", which would be used to describe the policies of John F. Kennedy, was first used in Kennedy's acceptance of the Democratic presidential nomination in Los Angeles. After referring to the American West ("what was once the 'last frontier'"), Kennedy said that "we stand today on the edge of a new frontier— the frontier of the 1960s"…..In Chicago, the National League's owners voted unanimously to expand from eight teams to ten, and to meet with leaders of the American League and the new Continental League to plan the growth of Major League Baseball. The new NL teams, both in CL cities, would be the New York Mets and the Houston Colt .45s (later the Houston Astros)…… At 8:30 pm EST, CBS aired the unsold pilot for "Head of the Family" on Comedy Spot.

The pilot had Carl Reiner as TV writer Rob Petrie, Barbara Britton as Rob's wife Laura, Sylvia Miles as Sally Rogers and Morty Gunty as Buddy Sorrell. In 1961, CBS would score a hit with a new name and a new cast of Dick Van Dyke, Mary Tyler Moore, Rose Marie and Morey Amsterdam…President Eisenhower announced that the United States had a budget surplus of $1.06 billion at the end of the 1960 fiscal year, a dramatic turnaround from the $12,426,000,000 deficit at the end of the 1959 fiscal year…The first television station in Egypt began broadcasting. After a verse from the Koran was read, United Arab Republic President Gamal Abdel Nasser was shown live, making a speech during celebrations of the eighth anniversary of the 1952 revolution…..Pennsylvania Democrats return from their convention in L.A. convinced that they have a winning ticket with Senators Kennedy and Johnson….in Scranton Young Democrats at the University of Scranton led by a young Jim McNulty say they are all in support of the ticket and fifty eight years ago the number one song in LuLac land and America was Finger Poppin' Time by Hank Ballard and the Midnighters.