The LuLac Edition #4,051, April 11th, 2019

ASSANGE LEAVES HIS HOLE-GETS ARRESTED, LET'S SEE HOW BARR TELLS US HE CAN'T GET EXTRADITED HERE!

Wikileaks co-founder Julian Assange has been arrested at the Ecuadorian embassy in London.
Assange took refuge in the embassy in 2012 to avoid extradition to Sweden over a sexual assault case that has since been dropped.
At Westminster Magistrates' Court on Thursday he was found guilty of failing to surrender to the court.
He now faces US federal conspiracy charges related to one of the largest ever leaks of government secrets.
The UK will decide whether to extradite Assange, in response to allegations by the Department for Justice that he conspired with former US intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning to download classified databases.
He faces up to five years in US prison if convicted on the charges of conspiracy to commit computer intrusion.
Let’s see what Barr does about this.

TRUMP SAYS IMMIGRANTS

WANT TO GO TO DISNEY LAND!!!!

President Donald Trump ramped up his rhetoric on immigration Tuesday, saying migrants are coming to the U.S. like it’s “Disneyland,” as he escalated a trade fight with Europe.
There are reported signs the administration is mulling a return of Trump’s decision to separate migrant children from their parents, the president said he wasn’t looking to reinstate it, then implied it was an effective way to stem border crossings.
“Once you don’t have it, that’s why you have many more people coming,” Trump said in the Oval Office alongside visiting Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al Sisi. “They are coming like it’s a picnic, like ‘let’s go to Disneyland,” Trump said.
Trump also claimed it was the Obama administration that began the practice of separating migrant children from adults at the southern border, but fact checks have found that not to be the case. Both presidents have housed “unaccompanied” minors in temporary facilities, but in the Obama era, most arrived in the U.S. without parents or guardians.
Immigrant families WANT to WORK. After being oppressed, the west part of hell would even be like Disneyland to them.
Trump says the country is full. Well old Diaper Don knows a lot about things being “full”.

TRUMP 

SAYS HE HAS BEEN TREATED VERY UNFAIRLY

BY PEOPLE WHO WROTE CONSTITUTION

(Photo: U.S. Constitution Center)

You have to read this to believe it. The President showed just how little he knew about The Constitution when he slammed the writers, all by the way long deceased about how unfair they were to him.
Hinting darkly that "there's something going on," Donald J. Trump complained on Friday that he has been treated "very unfairly" by the people who wrote the United States Constitution.
"If the Constitution prevented me from doing one or two things, I'd chalk that up to bad luck," he said. "But when literally everything I want to do is magically a violation of the Constitution, that's very unfair and bad treatment."
Lashing out at the document's authors, Trump said that "America is a great country, but we have maybe the worst constitution writers in the world."
"Russia has much better constitution writers than we do," he said. "I talked to Putin, and he said their constitution never gives him problems."
"The situation is very unfair!" he added.
In an ominous warning, Trump said that, as of Friday, he was putting the writers of the U.S. Constitution "on notice."
"I don't have their names yet, but that's something I'm looking into," he said. "These jokers are not going to get away with this."

REP. CARTWRIGHT INTRODUCES BIPARTISAN BILL TO INVEST IN COAL COUNTRY

RECLAIM ACT WOULD BOOST ECONOMIC INVESTMENT AND ENVIRONMENTAL RECOVERY IN COAL COMMUNITIES

Congressman Matt Cartwright (Photo: LuLac archives)

Representatives Matt Cartwright along with Hal Rogers (KY-05), Glenn Thompson (PA-15), and Don Beyer (VA-08) introduced bipartisan legislation on Tuesday to revitalize coal country by giving communities the funds they need to clean up abandoned mine lands.
The Revitalizing the Economy of Coal Communities by Leveraging Local Activities and Investing More Act (RECLAIM) Act will accelerate the investment of $1 billion in unappropriated funds over the next five years, bringing roughly $300 million to Pennsylvania alone, giving states the tools they need to invest in communities that are dealing with the legacy of abandoned mines. These old mine sites create problems such as polluted streams, hazardous erosion and land subsidence, underground mine fires, and piles of coal waste. The funding is intended to help resource-strapped states and tribes clean up over 20,000 high priority sites that remain unaddressed.
“This bill brings much-needed funding to struggling coal communities, while also helping them eliminate blight and pollution,” said Congressman Cartwright. “It’s a common-sense piece of legislation that will help Pennsylvanians reclaim these lands and create jobs that can transform entire communities. I applaud Congressman Rogers for his years of leadership on this critical issue.”
RECLAIM funds may be used to restore land and water resources polluted by mine waste; to seal and fill abandoned deep mine entries and voids; to plant land and prevent erosion and sedimentation; and to treat water pollution created by coal mine drainage; among other purposes. These reclamation efforts will help streams recover, increase property values, and make land available for new economic uses that
The RECLAIM act provides a transformative opportunity for coal-producing states to fast-track available funding to restore our land and revive our economy in the coalfields,” said Congressman Rogers, a Republican from Kentucky. “I thank my Appalachian colleague from across the aisle, Congressman Matt Cartwright, for his leadership in this new Congress and I look forward to working together to bring relief to our struggling coal communities across the country.”
“As Lieutenant Governor of Virginia, I spent nine years touring Virginia’s coal counties, where I witnessed the harsh effects of an economic downturn as well as the degradation of the land,” said Congressman Beyer, a Democrat from Virginia. “By reinvesting this money in these communities, we will provide access to much needed jobs and help to restore unused and abandoned mines.”
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MEDIA MATTERS

Five staff members of WRKC (88.5FM), the College's radio station, received two first place and three finalist trophies at the Intercollegiate Broadcasting System Awards held recently in New York City. The station and its staff members competed with schools across the country for the accolades. The station won a finalist award for Best College Radio Station for colleges and universities with fewer than 10,000 students.
First place winners were Samantha Bucher for Best Logo (WRKC 50th anniversary) and Dan Stokes, class of 2018, for Best Sports Update.
Additional finalist trophies were earned by Scarlett Spager, news director, for Best Spot News; Katie Pugh, former station manager, for Best Community News Coverage; and Lauren Gallagher, station manager, for Best News Interview.
WRKC is celebrating its 50th anniversary in 2019 and is the oldest non-commercial radio station in Wyoming Valley. The station is home to the oldest over the air radio reading service in the country, "The Radio Home Visitor," serving the blind, visually impaired and home bound every day. The service began in 1974.

Pictured, from left, is Pugh; Sue Henry, station manager; and Gallagher, Bucher, and Spager.

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1969

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Popular and controversial, singer Jim Morrison of The Doors appeared with his attorney before the Los Angeles office of the FBI to answer federal charges of "interstate flight to avoid prosecution" in relation to his indecent exposure at his March 1 concert in Miami. By arrangement, Morrison was arrested and immediately released upon posting of a $5,000 bond. By then, The Doors' 1969 concert dates had been canceled and the group was blacklisted by the Concert Hall Managers' Association.

UCLA graduate student and computer scientist Steve Crocker wrote and ciruclated the very first Request for Comments (RFC) publication to be circulated among the Network Working Group (Crocker, Jeff Rulifson and Bill Duvall of Stanford Research Institute, and Steve Carr of Utah) that was developing the communication protocols for the upcoming ARPANET, the forerunner of the internet.[ The very first RFC summarized the tentative agreements that the group had settled on for the Interface Message Processor (IMP) routers in the network sites, with initial messages being limited to 8,080 bits.
The United States Supreme Court ruled in Stanley v. Georgia that the possession of obscene material was protected by the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Writing for the majority, Justice Thurgood Marshall commented that "A state has no business telling a man, sitting alone in his house, what books he may read or what films he may watch," adding that individual state governments remained free to restrict public distribution of those materials.
The Montreal Expos defeated the New York Mets, 11 to 10, in what sportswriter Dick Young described as the first international major league baseball game in history" The Expos, one of four new major league teams and MLB's first team from outside the United States, played the Mets at New York's Shea Stadium, and Montreal mayor Jean Drapeau tossed out the ceremonial first pitch; ten-year MLB veteran Maury Wills batted first for the Expos, who almost blew an 11-6 lead in the final inning.

The result was not a sign of things to come; the Mets would win the 1969 World Series, while the Expos and the other new National League team, the San Diego Padres, would tie for MLB's worst win-loss record (52-110) in 1969.....All four of baseball's newest teams won their openers. The San Diego Padres debuted at home and beat the Houston Astros, 3 to 1, taking the field first in a half-filled stadium in front of an opening-day crowd of just 23,370. Dick Selma threw the first pitch and allowed only five hits, and Rafael Robles was the first to bat. The Kansas City Royals, bringing major league ball back to Kansas City after the Kansas City Athletics had moved to Oakland for 1968, beat the visiting Minnesota Twins, 4 to 3, before just 17,688 fans in a half-filled Municipal Stadium; the win came in the 12th inning as Joe Keough hit a single with the bases loaded; Lou Piniella was the first to bat for the Royals. Finally, the new Seattle Pilots (who would go bankrupt and become the Milwaukee Brewers the following year) won 4-3 at Anaheim to beat the California Angels; Tommy Harper batted first for the Pilots….

In Philadelphia Manager Bob Skinner said he’d welcome facing off against the new expansion teams….in Wilkes_Barre the City Manager Form of Government takes slow steps in its infancy and fifty years ago this week the number one song in LuLac land and America was “”You Made Me So Very Happy” by Blood, Sweat and Tears”.