The LuLac Edition #4,082, May 30th, 2019

MUELLER REMINDS AMERICA THAT TRUMP IS NOT WHAT HE CLAIMS TO BE

Donald Trump and his minions will tell you that he is the best president for the nation. They will tell you he was exonerated and there was no collusion or obstruction. But Mueller made it plain that the only reason Trump wasn’t charged with obstruction was because a sitting President could not be. That gives any mad man or woman who gets the highest office in the future carte blanche to do pretty much anything.
Here are the key takeaways from the Mueller exit from the stage.
•That Russia, as alleged in a grand jury indictment, made “multiple, systemic efforts” to interfere in the 2016 U.S. presidential election – a “concerted attack on our political system,” he said, that “deserves the attention of every American.”
•That his team found “insufficient evidence” to charge the Trump campaign with conspiring with Russia to influence the election.
•And that, when it came to obstruction of justice, his team “did not make a determination,” being bound by Justice Department guidelines that prevent a sitting president from being charged with a crime. “If we had had confidence that the president clearly did not commit a crime,” he said, “we would have said so.”
Perhaps most notably, Mr. Mueller stated, “The Constitution requires a process other than the criminal justice system to formally accuse a sitting president of wrongdoing.” That seems certain to further ramp up calls on the left for impeachment.
Mueller is saying to the nation, I did my job. Now it’s time for Congress to do theirs. Trump will carry on about Mueller but let us never forget he appointed him.
No matter what the fans of Trump say, history will score Trump as an illegitimate President supported by a mob of people who weaponized the Constitution for its own political gain.

REP. CARTWRIGHT INTRODUCES BILL TO TEACH STUDENTS ABOUT FINANCIAL LITERACY

Congressman Matt Cartwright (Photo: LuLac archives)

–Representative Matt Cartwright  introduced a bill to prepare the next generation for success, by ensuring American high school students have the best tools to manage their finances.
The Youth Financial Learning Act of 2019 would create competitive grants to help states implement, expand, or sustain school-based financial literacy programs for students, specifically ones focused on personal credit and student loan management. Pennsylvania currently does not have any requirement that students graduate from high school having taken a course on financial literacy.
“The financial decisions that young people make can follow them around for the rest of their lives. For example, there is currently $1.3 trillion of outstanding student load debt nationwide,” said Representative Cartwright. “It is so important that we prepare our students so they can make educated decisions about their money.”
After high school, almost every important life decision an individual makes will be influenced by their ability to manage their finances. Today, only 17 out of the 50 states require high school students to take a course on personal finance, and only 7 require they take a standardized test on personal finance. As we strive to prepare our students for success in the 21st century workplace, ensuring that young people know how to manage their money is essential.

ELECTION VIDEO RECAP

We have had a few requests to run the video of the results we reported on Wednesday morning on the Lackawanna County Commissioners race. It was complex and as I stated on TV we needed a chart.
https://www.pahomepage.com/news/breaking-down-the-results-with-political-analyst-david-yonki/2018390776

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Former Prime Minister Georges Pompidou and Acting President of France Alain Poher finished first and second in a field of seven candidates in the first round of the French presidential election. Pompidou received almost 45% of the ballots cast, and Poher edged Communist Party candidate Jacques Duclos split another 44% of the votes, with Poher getting 23% to Duclos's 21%. Because none of the candidates received a majority of the votes, a runoff election between Pompidou and Poher was set for two weeks later…..he United States Supreme Court voted 6 to 2 in the case of Boykin v. Alabama to set aside a death sentence meted out to an African-American who had pleaded guilty of the armed robbery of five stores in Mobile, Alabama, holding that it was clear from the transcript of the case that Edward Boykin's plea had been made without any indication that he had been made aware of its consequences. Writing for the majority, Justice William O. Douglas said "A plea of guilty is more than an admission of conduct; it is a conviction... Ignorance, incomprehension, terror, inducements, subtle or blatant threats might be a perfect cover-up of unconstitutionality. What is at stake for an accused facing death or imprisonment demands utmost solicitude of which courts are capable, in canvassing the matter with the accused, to make sure he has a full understanding of what the plea connotes and of its consequence... So far as the record shows, the judge asked no questions of [Boykin] concerning his plea, and [Boykin] did not address the court. Boykin had been scheduled to go to the electric chair in June 1968 despite the fact that nobody had been killed in the robberies, and the only injury had been when a girl was struck in the leg by the ricochet of a bullet. The Court did not reach the question of whether a state could impose the death penalty for armed robbery without fatalitie….In the first authenticated case of falling space debris causing damage on Earth, the Japanese freighter ship Dai Chi Chinei was heavily damaged by wreckage from a Soviet spacecraft that had re-entered Earth's atmosphere. Five of the crewmen on the Dai Chi Chinei were seriously injured by a chunk of debris while the freighter was traversing the Strait of Tartary between the island of Sakhalin and mainland Siberia, and the accident was then investigated and confirmed by the United Nations. According to the Japanese crew, two Soviet Navy ships arrived shortly after the freighter had been struck….in Pennsylvania Lt. Governor Raymond Broderick says he is definitely interested in running for the top spot in 1970…..in Luzerne County, hundreds flock to Moon Lake Park as the summer starts and fifty years ago the number one song in LuLac land and America was “These Eyes” by the The Guess Who.