The LuLac Edition #4004, July 5th, 2019

THE PARTY OF TRUMP? 

There will be people who will tell you the Republican party has become the Trump party. Uh not quite. Trump’s base consists of fans not followers.
Since the GOP Senate and House Republicans have virtually followed Trump in lockstep, they have revealed what they have always believed.
Wrapping it all in the American flag is just a hideous and hypocritical exercise. Free will? The GOP has none.

ICE AGENT SMART ASSES 

Several Democratic lawmakers paid a "surprise Father's Day visit" to an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention center in New Jersey, capping off a week of heightened tensions surrounding the issue of migrant family separations.
Reps. Hakeem Jeffries (N.Y.), Jerrold Nadler (N.Y.), Adriano Espaillat (N.Y.), Carolyn Maloney (N.Y.), Frank Pallone Jr. (N.J.), Albio Sires (N.J.) and Bill Pascrell (N.J.) arrived around 9 a.m. at the Elizabeth, N.J., center, which houses migrants who were separated from their families after illegally crossing the border.
immigrants who were separated from their families after illegally crossing the border.
According to Jeffries, the lawmakers were blocked from entering the facility after meeting initial resistance from ICE staff.
Maloney tweeted that the group was allowed in more than an hour later after "banging on the door" and telling ICE staff and local police that they would not move until they were let in.
"After being made to wait over an hour. After having to deal with local PD. After banging on the door and making it clear that we WILL NOT MOVE until we're allowed in, ICE is finally granting us access to see individuals who have been separated from their families," Maloney tweeted. Okay I have a question here. Does Congress by virtue of having the power of the purse have the right to inspect a government institution?
ICE should be ashamed of their treatment of the Congress but it is an extension of the sordid policy of the Trump administration. (LuLac, The Hill)

REP. CARTWRIGHT ANNOUNCES $1.2 MILLION GRANT TO MARYWOOD UNIVERSITY

U.S. Rep. Matt Cartwright announced that Marywood University will receive a $1.2 million federal grant to continue to promote excellence in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education in Northeastern Pennsylvania.
The new funding will allow Marywood University to recruit 20 diverse and academically-talented STEM students, mainly mathematics and biology majors, to teach math and science in high-need Pennsylvania school districts. These students will receive scholarships and other substantial support for their work, and they will help address teacher shortages in these fields.
“Teaching our students about math and science is a key component of preparing them to join a competitive workforce,” said Rep. Cartwright, Vice Chair of the Commerce-Justice-Science Subcommittee. “Our community needs young leaders who will shine in these fields and ensure our economic growth for years to come. I applaud Marywood University for receiving this competitive award, and I’m a strong advocate for the work of the National Science Foundation.”
The grant, which totals $1,195,022, will be awarded as part of the National Science Foundation (NSF)’s Robert Noyce Scholarship Program.
The NSF is a federal agency created to support research, innovation, and discovery in mathematics, computer sciences, and other fields. It funds nearly a quarter of all federally-supported basic research conducted by America's colleges and universities.

MEDIA MATTERS

WALN TV

BOLD GOLD COMMUNITY FORUM

This week we will hear from U.S. Attorney David Freed, outlining the crimes committed by former Scranton Mayor Bill Courtright.
Tune in Sunday morning at 6 on 94.3 The Talker; 6:30 on 1400-The Game, NEPA's Fox .Sports Radio and 106.7 fm;and at 7:30 on 105 The River.

ECTV LIVE

ECTV Live welcomes Kristen Bogash back to the program during the week of July 8th to outline plans for the annual World War II Days event in Berwick. Few know this small Columbia County community was on Hitler's target list during the second World War because of the military tanks being manufactured there. Visitors to this free two day event will see encampments, battle reenactments, and equipmentfrom those days and do some swing dancing as well! ECTVLive is seen three times daily on Comcast channel 19 and 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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SUNDAY NIGHTS!

1969

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Michael Mageau, 19, became the first person to survive a murder attempt by a man who would become known as the "Zodiac Killer", and the first to provide a description to the police. Mageau and a friend, 22-year old Darlene Ferrin, were shot while sitting in Ferrin's car parked at a municipal park in Vallejo, California. The killer then called police from a pay phone near the Vallejo Police Department. Ferrin died at the hospital, but surgeons were able to save Mageau. On August 1, the Vallejo Times Herald and two San Francisco newspapers would receive letters from a man who would claim responsibility for Ferrin's murder and for the December 20 murder of two high school students in Benicia, along with a cryptogram, and demanded that the three papers publish the letters to avoid more murders......A sudden storm killed 42 people in Ohio and Michigan, many of them people who had been outside during American independence day celebrations. The National Weather Service received the first storm warnings at 7:33 in the evening, and told the Emergency Broadcast System to stand by for an alert to be sent, but never gave the go-ahead for a warning to be sent to people in and around Cleveland. Several people attending a Fourth of July event in neighboring Lakewood, Ohio, were killed when a tornado swept through the city parThe Rolling Stones performed a live rock concert in front of at least 250,000 fans (and by some estimates, almost 500,000) at Hyde Park in London. The event was their first public concert in more than two years, and had originally been planned as the debut of guitarist Mick Taylor, who had joined the Stones after Brian Jones had quit the band in May. Sadly, Jones had died in an accident two days before the Hyde Park Festival. Lead singer Mick Jagger opened the show with a tribute to his late friend, telling the crowd to "Cool it for a minute, because I would really like to say something about Brian... I'm just going to say something that was written by Shelley." Jagger was referring to 19th century poet Percy Bysse Shelley, and the crowd of rock and roll fans quietly listened to classical verse from Shelley's poem "Adonais", an elegy to another artist who had died young, John Keats. After the release of hundreds of butterflies, the Stones played 14 songs, starting with a cover of the Johnny Winter song "I’m Yours & I’m Hers”……

The crew of Apollo 11 told a press conference in Houston that they had given names to the two lunar spacecraft. Mission commander Neil Armstrong told reporters that crew had christened the lunar module as "Eagle", "since the eagle is the symbol of the flight", and the lunar orbiter was named for "Columbia, the statue that stands on top of our capitol. Columbia also was the name of Jules Verne's spacecraft that went to the moon." Armstrong was arguably wrong on both counts, in that the statue is officially called the "Statue of Freedom", and the name of the lunar ship in Verne's book From the Earth to the Moon was actually called the "Columbiad".The final vestige of the penny arcade era was quietly retired as the last known one-cent machine, a "fortune teller" that dispensed tickets for one penny, was removed and replaced by newer version that cost five cents….in Harrisburg PUC Commissioner George Bloom says utility rates will remain the same….in the Lu and The Lac 4th of July celebrations dot the landscape and fifty years a
go this week the number one song in LuLac land and America was “Spinning Wheel” by Blood, Sweat & Tears.