The LuLac Edition #4,041, March 28th, 2019

WIL TOOLE MASS THIS SATURDAY

The Memorial Mass for Wil Toole, long time politico in this area will be held Saturday March 30th at 10:30AM at St. John the Evangelist Church, William Street in Pittston.

RELEASE THE ENTIRE REPORT

I just love how the Trump nation of lemmings is asking for an apology, blaming the Democrats for the poor treatment of Diaper Don during this period and is shouting from the hill “no collusion” or “obstruction of justice”.
As far as I’m concerned, the Lester Holt interview with Trump was obstruction. But this guy skates away with the illusion that he did nothing wrong.
Yet when a man does nothing wrong, why not wait for the report and not demonize Mueller or Rod Rosenthal as Diaper frequently did during the two years.
When I listened (very briefly I might add) to the Trumpanzees on the radio the other day I was amused at the information they latched on to.
1. Their apparent idea that it was the Democrats who asked for this report. Wrong. Trump appointed the Special Investigator. Not a Democrat.
2. While Mueller said there was no collusion, there was no exoneration. He stated that in the report. This is not a clean bill of health except to the 37% of those who believe anything he says.
3. The fact that “our poor President was treated badly” is a laugh. He avoided testimony and like a spoiled rotten child, he assessed blame everywhere but in his campaign. Why were 37 people charged? Why did they plead guilty? This “tough guy” proved himself to be a coward when taking responsibility for anything.
4. They should be an investigation into the Democrats and the right’s favorite target Hillary Clinton. Now I know these Republican boys get blood rushing to their penises every time they mention her name BUT Secretary Clinton was investigated and brought before hearings where she creamed the GOP leadership.
The bottom line here is that people will believe what they believe. But this is not over.
The Democrats should ask the questions but never try an impeachment of the President.
He’ll do that all by himself when he is thrown out at the ballot box. . Check out the next story.

REPUBLICANS AND HEALTH CARE

It must be maddening to be a supporter of the President and an office holder at the same. Trump got good news on Sunday. Any savvy White House would milk that for two weeks.
He could have had Photo ops every day, thanking the Counsel. Maybe giving a formal talk from the Oval Office saying it’s time to move on. Meeting with religious leaders to pray for safety from the Russian threat and asking for unity.
But there was none of that! NOPE! Trump, seemingly emboldened by his good news decided to go after an issue 52% of the American people think he is screwing up: Health Care.
Trump wants to get rid of Obama care and take 20 million people off insurance. By doing that, provisions for pre existing conditions will be gone. Plus there is no sight of any plan the GOP has been promising since 2010! The big secret is: THERE IS NONE! .
The Republicans tried 70 TIMES to repeal The Affordable Care Act and had 0 plans to take its place. There is a segment of the population dumb enough to believe this is a good thing but they most likely have Social Security and have that “I got mine, now you get yours mentality” in terms of health care. The Democrats ran on Health Care in 2018 and took back the House. Trump is on record many times by saying pre existing conditions would be protected. If you are on that exchange…..how in the world can you believe him?
On the week that Trump should have been rebuilding his political strength he handed the Democratic Party a present that will keep on giving right up to Election Day 2020.

REPUBLICANS ENDING SPECIAL OLYMPICS

President Trump, his Education Secretary and his administration wants to end the Special Olympics Program. This tells you exactly who they are and what they stand for. The Secretary couldn’t even give a number on how many children would be affected.
To those parents with Special Needs Children who want them to experience in some way what other children, untouched by illness obtain, I am so sorry that this will happen.
Yep, years from now when people read the history of this time, there will be those on the very wrong side of it.
Make America Great Again Indeed. But God forbid if your child, through fate and no fault of their own, is not perfect.

THE STATE REPRESENTATIVE WHO WEAPONIZED CHRISTIANITY

Monday in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives a State Representative drew complaints that it was inappropriately divisive.
Stephie Borowicz began the day's session with a Christian invocation that thanked Jesus for the honor and President Donald Trump for standing "behind Israel unequivocally."
Okay, I’m all right with that. Have been a backer for years. She just should have left it at that and if it were me, I would have added “all peace loving nations”
But noooooooooooooooooo, she went on.
"At the name of Jesus every knee will bow and every tongue will confess, Jesus, that you are Lord," said Borowicz. Okay then, but what about the other entities that deserve praise? elected in November to represent a Clinton County district.
She brought up George Washington, Abraham Lincoln and Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf.
A little overblown I’d say. I am a long time supporter o Governor Wolf but there is no way I’d put him in a class with George and Abe.
It comes as a great coincidence that Stephie’s remarks occurred shortly before the swearing-in of Rep. Movita Johnson-Harrell, of Philadelphia, who is the first woman Muslim to serve in the House..
Democratic Leader Frank Dermody of Allegheny County called Borowicz's invocation "beneath the dignity of this House". He said during his 28 years in the House, he never saw anything like it.
"Never have we started out with a prayer that divides us, Prayer should never divide us, it should be inspirational."
Borowicz’s , husband is an associate pastor at a Christian church in Jersey Shore. If a Catholic priest did this, look out.
House Speaker Mike Turzai is currently appealing a federal judge's decision that halted his policy of nonbelievers from giving the invocations.
Turzai, who decides who will offer the invocations, read for House members the guidance that has previously been provided to religious professionals about keeping their remarks respectful of all religious beliefs and to refrain from commenting on extraneous matters.
Since the court decision last summer, Turzai said, he has opted to have the invocations made by state representatives themselves.
Really bad idea Mike. This is a person who was elected in Clinton County as a Representative of the State and not the church. Good for her. She prays.
She should shut up and do it on her own time. Here’s what she said. Plus now you know why I identify myself as a Roman Catholic and NOT a Christian. Separation of Church and State, maybe she missed Civics Class. (ABC, AP, PennLive, LuLac)

MEDIA MATTERS

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ECTV LIVE

Mary Garm from the Lackawanna County Library System visits ECTV Live during the week of April 1st to unveil plans for the Library Lecture Series and update several other developments and services.

ECTV Live is seen three times daily on Comcast channel 19 (61 in some areas) and can be viewed on your personal device on the electric city television YouTube page.

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!”

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The 33rd President of the United States Dwight Eisenhower dies. I was sick with an illness when he passed away. I remember vividly listening to Jim Ward on WBAX when he was “The Morning Mayor” on 1240AM in Wilkes-Barre. Most of the calls were from World War II vets who met Ike.

From the AP:

General Eisenhower Dies

Washington (AP)—Dwight D. Eisenhower, commander in World War II of the mightiest armed force ever assembled and former President of the United States, died today.
The announcement of the general’s death was made in a somber voice by Brig. Gen. Frederic Hughes, Jr., commanding general of Walter Reed Army Hospital, who said Mr. Eisenhower had “died quietly at 12:25 p.m. (9:25 a.m. Seattle time) after a long and heroic struggle,” and that he had died peacefully.
Mr. Eisenhower’s wife, Mamie, his son, John, and other members of the family were nearby when death came.
President Nixon, who arrived at the hospital after the former President had died, paid immediate tribute to the man he had served under for two terms as vice president.
The 78-year-old five-star general, known as “Ike” throughout the world, was hit by congestive heart failure March 15 and again last Monday while recuperating from an intestinal operation and pneumonia complications.
With the rugged constitution of a Kansas farm boy, he already had battled back from seven heart attacks before undergoing surgery for an intestinal obstruction February 23.
Four days after undergoing the surgery, he contracted pneumonia. Doctors successfully combated the pneumonia with antibiotics.
But throughout the February trouble, it was Mr. Eisenhower’s heart which caused doctors their prime concern.
Doctors made no mention of the congestive heart failure March 15 until after Mr. Eisenhower’s wife, Mamie, said at a party the general had endured a “particularly bad” day.
Reporters questioned the hospital and were told of the latest onset of heart trouble.
Mr. Eisenhower had been hospitalized since last April 29, when a heart attack felled him in California after a round of golf. He was transferred to Walter Reed and there suffered three more, his seventh on August 16.
Since then he had gained vigor, walked short distances, received President Nixon and former President Johnson, and grinned his famed and folksy grin from a hospital window when an Army band, observing Salute to Eisenhower Week, serenaded him on his birthday October 14.
The grin was undimmed from 1944, when it heartened Allied troops mobilized for the awesome thrust through Normandy to the heart of Nazi Germany; from 1948, when he became President of Columbia University; from 1951, when he assumed supreme command of North Atlantic Treaty Organization forces; and from 1952, when both Democrats and Republicans sought him as their nominee for President.
As a Republican, he swept into office and four years later won re-election in what was then the greatest landslide in history. That made him the only G.O.P. President of this century to win successive White House terms.
Despite this stunning political victory, Mr. Eisenhower disdained always-partisan politics and privately made no secret of a dislike for politicians.
And despite his rise to supreme allied commander in Europe during World War II, he was no fonder of what he called “this damnable thing of war.”
He left office after his second term proudest that he kept the peace, but warning against the growing influence of a “military-industrial complex.”
In 1955 the nation was plunged into apprehension when a severe heart attack hospitalized him in Denver for seven weeks.
Then Vice President Nixon, just one faltering heartbeat from the presidency, got a foretaste of the dire responsibility he would not win in his own right until 13 years later.
In the final weeks of the 1960 campaign, Mrs. Eisenhower made speeches in several big cities for Mr. Nixon. The crowds were big and enthusiastic—but often the hand-lettered signs said, “We still like Ike” instead of “We want Dick.”
The general stayed neutral in the bitter Republican battle of 1964 which resulted in the nomination of Senator Barry Goldwater, but in last year’s campaigning he came out strongly for Mr. Nixon.
Services for Mr. Eisenhower are scheduled for Monday in Washington Cathedral and burial Wednesday at the Eisenhower Library in Abilene, Kan., his boyhood home.


In Pennsylvania Governor Ray Shafer orders all flags at Half Mast in honor of the deceased former President, in Wilkes Barre and Scranton Congressman Dan Flood and Joseph McDade remember the fallen President fondly and fifty years ago the number one song in LuLac land and America was Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In (The Flesh Failures) by The 5th Dimension