The LuLac Edition #4,061, April 25th, 2019

WHY IMPEACHMENT CAN WAIT

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi had an 87 minute call the other day with members of her party n Congress. The message she gave was that investigations would take the Democrats where they needed to be. But she was in no rush to tart impeachment proceedings and history bears her out.
The Watergate investigation started in May of ’73. Impeachment began in June of ’74. Congress did its due diligence in about 11 months and made sure there was bi partisan support.
In contrast, the Starr investigation, Whitewater lasted 5 years or more and impeachment came only when Bill Clinton was found to be lying about an extra marital affair.
The smart play is to have the House investigate and have Diaper Don cry and whine like a little baby. 57% of Americans think he is horrible. The more comes out to reinforce that, (the Southern District will be the smoking gun) the more that number will increase. Let Impeachment start after the election. Then let the law take its course.

BIDEN IN…BUT FOR HOW LONG?

I like Joe Biden. Might even vote for Joe Biden. But front runners in the Democratic party have a way of disappearing. With so many candidates running, maybe he can distinguish himself But he just might find himself the grandpa at the hip hop concert. Well regarded, respected and loved for his service but not in sync with the people running things. We’ll see. 
Here's Biden's video where he takes on Donald Trump. It is worth noting that Trump lost the popular vote and won the Electoral College with  a swing of less than 80,000 votes.

TRUMP MAD OVER LOSING TWITTER FOLLOWERS, WHITE HOUSE CONFIRMS

The White House has confirmed reports that President Trump spent much of his Tuesday meeting with Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey complaining about losing social media followers.
“They had a very productive conversation about keeping the media platforms open for 2020,” said adviser Kellyanne Con

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way Wednesday morning. “The president is very concerned about what he sees as losing followers or people being blocked for certain actions. That’s obvious.”
Conway’s comments confirm reporting from the Washington Post about the meeting.
“A significant portion of the meeting focused on Trump’s concerns that Twitter quietly, and deliberately, has limited or removed some of his followers, according to a person with direct knowledge of the conversation who requested anonymity because it was private,” read the Post report.
Per the Post, Dorsey explained to the president that the number of followers fluctuates due to the company’s attempts to delete spam accounts and bots. Trump, who has nearly 60 million followers on the service, complained about losing followers back in October after Twitter purged a number of suspended accounts, resulting in a decline of followers across the political spectrum, with Trump losing 200,000 and former President Barack Obama losing 2 million.
Obama has 106 million followers as of today.
Twitter has consistently denied that it pares accounts for political or ideological reasons. Trump appears to view his Twitter following as a measure of his popularity, whether or not it constitutes actual people.
Trump has previously floated the idea of investigations into big tech companies including Facebook, Amazon and Google. Republicans have accused Twitter of having a bias against conservatives, including at a congressional hearing attended by Dorsey last year.

CARTWRIGHT ANNOUNCES OVER $1.5 MILLION IN HHS FUNDS TO SCRANTON PRIMARY HEALTH CARE CENTER INC.

Congressman Matt Cartwright (Photo: LuLac archives)

U.S. Representative Matt Cartwright announced that Scranton Primary Health Care Center Inc. received $1,586,006 in federal funds from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Health Center Cluster grant program.
Established in 1978, Scranton Primary Health Care Center, a Federally Qualified Health Center, offers quality primary medical and dental care at a reasonable cost to all persons in the community, including those who are underinsured and uninsured.
“I continue to be a strong advocate for federal funding that ensures underserved residents and their families have access to quality, affordable health care services from providers like the Clinics at Scranton Primary Health Care Center,” said Rep. Cartwright, a member of the Appropriations Committee. “Local health centers are a vital part of ensuring we have healthy and sustainable communities in Northeastern Pennsylvania.”
"On behalf of Scranton Primary Health Care, we are extremely grateful to Congressman Matt Cartwright for his assistance and support in helping us obtain our continued funding,” said CEO Joseph H. Hollander, Scranton Primary Health Care Center. “This will enable us to continue to fulfill our mission to provide access to affordable, quality primary health care services for the community and all vulnerable populations regardless of their ability to pay. This is wonderful news as we celebrate forty years of providing these services in our community.”
The Health Center Cluster grant is awarded by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), an agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. It is the primary federal agency for improving health care to people who are geographically isolated or economically or medically vulnerable. Their mission is to improve health outcomes and address health disparities through access to quality services, a skilled health workforce, and innovative, high-value programs.

MEDIA MATTERS

WALN TV

BOLD GOLD COMMUNITY FORUM

This week's guests are Henry Radulski, Director of the Wilkes-Barre Department of Health and Jim Decker, City Lead Risk Assessor. They'll discuss a new program to correct lead problems in city homes. Tune in Sunday morning at 6 on 94.3 The Talker; 6:30 on The Game, NEPA's Fox Sports Radio 1340/1400 am, 100.7 and 106.7 fm; and at 7:30 on The River 105 and 103.5

ECTV LIVE

ECTV Live welcomes Armand Olivetti to the program during the week of April 29th to discuss plans for the brand new Lackawanna County Fair! Rusty Fender handles the hosting duties while David DeCosmo and his wife are celebrating their 50th wedding anniversary. Electric City Television is in the process of installing a new server which feeds its programming to Comcast Cable channel 19. As soon as that work is complete the station will be back on the air. Meanwhile the station's ECTV Live program can be viewed on the electric city television YouTube page which is also being used to feed Scranton's weekly City Council meetings.
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!”

BOBBY V’S DOO WOP SOCK HOP

SUNDAY NIGHTS!

1969

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The Montreal Expos edged the visiting St. Louis Cardinals in the first regular season Major League Baseball game to be played outside the United States, playing before a standing room only crowd of 29,184 fans at Jarry Park Stadium. After 36 seasons in Montreal, the Expos would relocate in 2005 to become the Washington Nationals……. The 24-game championship series of the World Chess Championship began in Moscow, with champion Tigran Petrosian defending his title against challenger Boris Spassky.......The White House hosted its largest number of visitors since March 4, 1829, when new U.S. President Andrew Jackson invited the general public to come inside the presidential mansion, with 26,000 people arriving in what would become known as the "Inaugural Brawl". First Lady Pat Nixon welcomed 4,702 members of the Daughters of the American Revolution for a reception...

Americans who owned color televisions were cautioned by the U.S. government to stay at least 6 feet (1.8 m) away from their sets when watching TV, "and to stay away from the sides and the back of the set" because of unsafe levels of radiation. The United States Department of Health, Education and Welfare issued the warning after a report that 1,000 of 5,000 color TV sets in Suffolk County, New York "were emitting more than the accepted level of radiation" of 0.5 millionairess of x-ray and gamma ray radiation per hour.

Alexander Dubcek, whose 1968 liberal reforms had been countered by an invasion of his nation by the Soviet Union and other Communist nations, was dismissed as First Secretary of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (KSČ) after 13 months. Dubcek had continued to serve after the August invasion, albeit with restricted powers. The KSČ's 190-member Central Committee voted to dismiss him and to install Gustav Husak of Slovakia's regional party as the new Party leader. Husak had been sentenced to life imprisonment in 1954 during the administration of Dubcek's predecessor, Antonin Novotny, on charges of having participated in a "Trotskyite-Titoite-Zionist conspiracy" against the KSČ, but had been released in 1959 and politically rehabilitated…Sirhan Bishara Sirhan was convicted of the first-degree murder of U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy, ten months after the fatal shooting of Kennedy on June 5, 1968. After a trial that had lasted 14 weeks, a Los Angeles County Superior Court jury of seven men and five women deliberated (and asked Judge Herbert V. Walker for instructions relevant to second-degree murder) before returning the conviction, which carried with it a sentence of either life imprisonment or the death penalty. After almost 17 hours of deliberation (spread out over four days), the jury returned its verdict at 10:47 in the morning. Jurors also convicted Sirhan of five counts of assault with intent to kill for five bystanders who had been wounded in the shooting......The television pilot for Medical Center, a popular CBS medical drama that would run for seven seasons, was shown as U.M.C., a made-for-TV movie starring film tough-guy Edward G. Robinson as Dr. Lee Forestman, James Daly as Dr. Paul Lochner and Richard Bradford as Dr. Joe Gannon. The show would be picked up as a regular series on September 24, without Robinson, with Daly as the star and with Chad Everett taking over Bradford's role.

In Pennsylvania the State police is expanded and recruiting new members…..in Scranton Eugene Peters steps up his effort to win the GOP nomination for Mayor of Scranton and fifty years ago this week the number one song in LuLac land and America was “25 Miles” by - Edwin Starr.