The LuLac Edition #4,206, January 16th, 2020

JUDGE ROBERTS ARRIVES TO SWEAR IN SENATORS 

IMPEACHMENT ARTICLES SENT TO THE SENATE

The United States Congress has now forwarded the two articles of impeachment of President Donald John Trump. weeks after the House voted to impeach President Donald Trump. The move kicks off a formal trial against the president.
House Democrats had been engaged in a lengthy standoff with Senate Republicans over procedural issues. Pelosi insisted that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell lay out the rules for the trial before she would transmit the articles.
"We need to see the arena in which we are sending our managers. Is that too much to ask?" Pelosi said.
But McConnell didn't agree.
"There will be no haggling with the House over Senate procedure," McConnell said.
It will be instructive to see if Senators will vote to hear witnesses in the case. Three Republican Senators to watch, LaMar Alexander of Tennessee, Mitt Romney of Utah and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska. Susan Collins, the strip tease artist of the U.S. Senate, (look, look I’m gonna show ya….uh nope I won’t!) cannot be relied on to do the right thing. She was outraged about Brett Cavenaugh’s behavior but not enough to vote against him.

ON HIS PERMANENT RECORD

Even though it is questionable that Donald Trump ever legitimately got through school, (I still want to see his grades) on his political permanent record it will say IMPEACHED!

NEW EVIDENCE

House impeachment investigators turned over shocking evidence from Lev Parnas, the Rudy Giuliani associate who is awaiting trial on campaign finance charges. The emails, text messages and documents appear to show the president’s connection to Parnas and the general Ukraine plot.

MLK EVENTS MARKED FOR THIS WEEKEND

The NAACP Wilkes-Barre branch announces the schedule of events taking place in the community to honor the late Dr. Martin Luther King. . The first event will be held on Friday evening January 17th at the Luzerne County Courthouse and starts at 6pm. “Walk Together” features Wilkes-Barre Mayor George Brown, Ron Felton President of the NAACP Wilkes-Barre branch recites a speech from Dr. King, historical perspective from Constance Wynn, and songs of inspiration from Gloria Nervana of Pastor Patrice’s Powell’s Salvation Christian Center.
On January 18th, the NEPA Women’s March, starts at 11:00 am at Millennium Circle on the Wilkes-Barre Riverfront and hosted by NEPA NOW, Action Together and Queer NEPA. Confirmed speakers are --Dr. Helen Davis, professor of Women’s Studies, Wilkes University, Shari Jacobson, Moms Demand Action, Jessica Rothchild, Scranton City Council member, Marilyn Calderon, teacher and community advocate and Michaela Spaid, Queer NEPA.
Monday January 20th, 11 am, at King’s College the program “Moving Forward” consists of the Mount Zion Choir and Praise Dancers as well as an address by NAACP Wilkes-Barre branch President Ronald Felton. The King’ event will be held at the Sheehy-Farmer Campus Center, Third Floor.
Thursday January 23rd, 11 am at Wilkes University, the Office of Diversity Initiatives invites the public to “A Call for National Unity” in the UCOM Building, rooms 126 and 127. The speaker will be Dr. Leon John , Junior, Director of Alumni Engagement at East Stroudsburg University.
David Yonki, Chairman of the NAACP Wilkes-Barre branch Martin Luther King, Junior program said, “The Wilkes-Barre branch is honored to work with such fine partners in not only celebrating one day and event in honor of Dr. King but coordinating these events that honor his life of peaceful, thoughtful protest and equality for all”.
These 4 programs are free and open to the public.

CAMPAIGN FOE SAYS: SHAPIRO WILL SEEK TERM AS TEMPORARY ATTORNEY GENERAL

Heather Heidelbaugh (Photo: Pittsburgh Post Gazette)
Making no bones about his ambition, Josh Shapiro this week announced plans to run for Temporary Attorney General in the 2020 elections, an office he considers a convenient parking place until he can launch his campaign for governor.
The 46-year-old Shapiro hopes to add attorney general to a long list of temporary posts he has held while seeking higher office.
He previously served as Temporary State Representative in the 153rd District of Pennsylvania before leaving that position to be a Temporary County Commissioner in Montgomery County. Shapiro then ditched that position to run for Attorney General of Pennsylvania.
While the post traditionally was not designed as a temporary office, Shapiro later transformed it into one shortly after he was seen examining the curtains in the governor’s office.
“Josh is excellent at almost every job he quits,” said one political pundit. “I have watched a lot of career politicians come and go in Harrisburg, but Josh quits jobs like nobody I’ve seen. He was born to quit this job.”
Shapiro’s side recently announced that he has $3 million in campaign funds heading into the 2020 election.
“This is an awesome amount of money from a lot of grateful special interests,” observed the pundit. “With that kind of dough, Josh is well positioned to quit any job he likes. I expect him to easily outdistance any quitter in the field.”
Shapiro likely faces widely respected Pittsburgh litigation attorney Heather Heidelbaugh in the November general election, though Shapiro’s camp has expressed skepticism about Heidelbaugh’s chances because she plans to serve a full term and focus on prosecuting crime.
“To Josh, something like that just seems too counter-intuitive,” said one observer. (From Heather Heidelbaugh campaign)
Keep in mind it was Shapiro, a Democrat who was only the second Attorney General of his party to get elected.

BASEBALL CHEATING

Not since The Black Sox scandal has an event rocked baseball. Two managers fired, (Houston and Boston) as well as the Mets are or might be unemployed. There was a sign stealing scheme that compromised the game. Houston.
Manfred mentioned Cora by name 11 times in a nine-page report, saying he "originated and executed" the scheme in which Houston used a center field camera to decode catchers' signals to pitchers, then banged on a trash can to relay the signs to batters so they would know what type of pitch was coming.
The Astros fired manager AJ Hinch and general manager Jeff Luhnow, making that announcement an hour after Manfred suspended them for the 2020 season for their roles in the cheating scheme. Cora met Tuesday with Boston management and they issued a release saying they had “mutually agreed to part ways.” New Mets manager and former Astros player Carlos Beltrán also was implicated by Manfred in his report Monday — the only player mentioned. Manfred decided that no players would be disciplined for breaking rules prohibiting the use of electronics to steal catchers' signs in 2017 after levying penalties against Boston and the New York Yankees.
The Mets declined comment on Beltrán's status.
The Los Angeles Dodgers lost the 2017 World Series to the Astros and again in 2018 to the Red Sox.
Dodger fans want Houston and Boston to relinquish the titles because of the sign stealing system using a camera, banging on a garbage can and audio cues. Kudos to Jeff Crane Hoston GM for doing the right thing.
The dots to Boston’s Alex Cora who used the system in Boston after serving as the bench coach for wait for it….the Astros!

MEDIA MATTERS

WALN TV

BOLD GOLD COMMUNITY FORUM

This week's guest will be Adam Marco, Marketing Director for the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders.
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 PREVIEW

Electric City Television's new Stage Studio is the setting for David DeCosmo's Public Affairs Program "PREVIEW" during the week of January 20th, His guests are historian Robert Wolensky and producer Albert Brocca who, along with Brocca's cousin David, are about to premier a new documentary about the Knox Mine Disaster which effectively ended deep coal mining in our area. PREVIEW is seen 3 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 6:20 and 8:20 AM on Mondays. As Ralph Cramden used to say, “It’s a laugh riot!”

BOBBY V’S DOO WOP SOCK HOP

SUNDAY NIGHTS!

1980

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The London Gold Fixing hits its highest price ever (adjusted for inflation), at US$850 a troy ounce.
MS Athina B is beached at Brighton (England), becoming a temporary tourist attraction.
At least 200 people are killed when the Corralejas Bullring collapses at Sincelejo, Colombia.
January 22 – Andrei Sakharov, Soviet scientist and human rights activist, is arrested in Moscow…..The Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad is ordered liquidated due to bankruptcy and debt owed to creditors….and forty years ago the number one song in LuLac land and America was “Rock With You” by Michael Jackson.