The LuLac Edition #4,341, July 2nd, 2020

BREAD, THE VILLAGES, RACISM AND TRUMP

Roger "White Power" Stokes (Photo: Yahoo News) 

I first came in contact with the citizens of The Villages when I was working for a company that represented one of the biggest bread manufacturers in the country. My job was to deal with consumer complaints about the bread. If it had holes in it, if it turned moldy and God Forbid if it was too little for too much money, I heard about it. Most of the people were reasonable.
Most, except for the entitled, overfed denizens of The Villages. Nothing about the bread could please them. Rude, nasty, and wanting something for nothing. One day I got this guy who proclaimed himself “a bread expert” and that most of the residents in The Villages came to him for advice on bread, especially this brand I was representing. “I’m a very important man down here, and when I tell them about your bread and what I don’t like about it, you’ll see sales plummet. That’s how much influence I have” he said with an air of entitlement and smugness that might even make the late Fred Trump blush.
Well that bread company is still in business and thriving (I own stock in it) despite this blowhard’s bragging about his so called influence.
I thought about that when I heard the story of a display of racial insensitivity by a golf cart driving moron who screamed “White Power” as he drove away, his old white fat ass encased in the lap of what goes for Villages luxury. Tensions came to a now-infamous head on June 14. One demonstration, a large golf-cart rally, was composed of Trump supporters celebrating the president’s birthday (some also had other messages like “blue lives matter” on their carts). Counter-protesters carried Black Lives Matter signs. In the same video, someone shouted “Where’s your white hood?” at a passing caravan of Trump supporters in golf carts.
“White power!” one of the Trump fans shouted back.
Being a Democrat in The Villages is hard because Diaper Don carried the place 75% to 25%. Typical of entitled white blowhards living the good life while denying people of color and immigrants even a morsel of the American Dream they are living. These creatures are the poster babies for “I got mine, if it’s up to me, you ain’t never gonna get yours”.
To make matters worse, Trump retweeted the white power video on his sordid Twitter account. This slime ball pig of a President enables golf cart driving idiots in The Villages to be as ignorant as their tiny brains would allow. That stated, not all the people in The Villages are like that but they outnumber the critical thinkers. One of those is Philadelphia's own Ed McGinty who has been fighting a battle for sanity and reason with his neighbors in The Villages. He seems to be making headway despite overwhelming odds and just might bring a vote total for Trump down a tad in 2020.
The guy who made the "white power" comment was Roger Stokes an ex Miami Dade County Firefighter. Gee I wonder if he picked and chose who he would save in fires. Again, Stokes fits The Villages profile. He is living fat and happy on a government pension funded by people of every race, not just white. This impotent little man I guess needs to prove he still got it. 
Hillary Clinton wrote a book called "It Takes A Village" to demonstrate the good in people. Unity, Friendship. Caring about the future. The only book Stokes goes by is that of Trump which embraces division, bullying and in this case racism.
Maybe Stokes and his fellow idiots will meet up with my bread “expert” in two years and talk about their glory days of influence in The Villages. With the grace of God and sane Americans, their Lord and Savior Donald Trump will be relegated to the dustbin of history. The sad similarity between Stokes and the bread guy is simple, the only influence they think they have exists in their tiny, infantile brains. (LuLac, The Daily Beast, The Villages News) 

THE MASK DEBATE

Only in this divided America would there be a debate on masks as protection of the Covid virus. This is not a hoax but yet people who are otherwise intelligent (well maybe I’m giving them too much credit) believe the stuff they hear. A few morons from WILK' s audience called the other day. Both Patrick from Wilkes Barre and Barbara from Kingston were effectively shut down by the program hosts for spewing shit just when we might not be out of the woods here.
Imagine these clowns during World War II, we’d be speaking German right now and loving Wagner.

THE GOP LOVES THE MILITARY RIGHT?

I love how the Republicans always called out the Democrats for not being as patriotic as their party. They treasured the veterans, waved the flag and were the party that embraced the Vets. Well, except now I wonder what they have to say about a Republican administration that actually enabled the murders of soldiers in battle.
That’s treason, intentional or ignorance. This party is responsible for Trump and therefore responsible for these deaths.

TRUMP TRIES TO GET RID OF OBAMACARE....AGAIN!!!

Once more Donald Trump wants to get rid of Obamacare appealing to the Supreme Court. After ten years there is no plan to come with an alternative. Here’s what will be at stake. If this 10 year old law of the land is overturned by the court there will be great pain. Here are the numbers:
130 million Americans will have adverse consequences regarding protection with pre-existing conditions.
50 million American’s coverage will be affected during their layoffs because of CoVid.
20 million Americas will lose health care all together.
Those are the numbers. Further it will scramble the health care system that has finally adjusted to the act.
Like everything Diaper Don and the Republicans do, chaos will ensue with no reasonable alternative in place.

CARTWRIGHT VOTES TO LOWER HEALTH CARE, DRUG COSTS

Congressman Matt Cartwright (Photo: LuLac archives)

U.S. Representative Matt Cartwright voted to pass the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Enhancement Act in the U.S. House, which would strengthen protections for people with pre-existing conditions and reduce out-of-pocket health care costs. It passed by a vote of 234-179 with support from both Democrats and Republicans and now goes to the U.S. Senate for consideration.
“Access to affordable health care is essential now more than ever as millions of Americans have been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic,” Cartwright said. “This bill would lower insurance premiums and drug costs, all while saving taxpayer money. I will continue to fight for quality, affordable health care, especially for seniors and those living with pre-existing conditions.”
The passage of this legislation comes just days after the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and several Republican attorneys general filed briefs in California v. Texas before the Supreme Court, asking that the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) be struck down in its entirety as the U.S. continues to grapple with the coronavirus pandemic.
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Enhancement Act would:
Significantly increase the ACA’s affordability subsidies to be more generous and cover more middle-class families. For the first time, no person would have to pay more than 8.5 percent of their income for a benchmark silver plan in the ACA marketplaces, and many Americans will see their premiums cut in half or more:
A family of four earning $40,000 would save nearly $1,600 in premiums each year.
A 64-year-old earning $57,420 would save more than $8,700 in premiums each year.
A single adult with income of $31,900 would see premiums cut in half.
An adult earning $19,140 would see premiums cut to zero, saving $800 dollars a year.
Empower Medicare to negotiate lower drug prices for Medicare beneficiaries and Americans with private insurance.
Incentivize hold-out states to expand Medicaid.
Fight the maternal mortality epidemic by requiring states to extend Medicaid or CHIP coverage to new mothers for a full year post-partum.
Crack down on junk plans and strengthen protections for people with pre-existing conditions.
According to estimates by the Congressional Budget Office, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Enhancement Act would save taxpayers more than $18.2 billion over a ten-year period.

SUSAN B. ANTHONY LIST CANDIDATE FUND ENDORSES HEATHER HEIDELBAUGH FOR PENNSYLVANIA ATTORNEY GENERAL

Heidi Heidelbaugh (Photo: LuLac archives)

The Susan B. Anthony List Candidate Fund announced its endorsement of Heather Heidelbaugh for Pennsylvania Attorney General.
“As an organization that exists to promote strong pro-life, pro-woman leaders in office, we are proud to endorse Heather Heidelbaugh,” said the Honorable Marilyn Musgrave, SBA List Candidate Fund Vice President. "Heather is a highly respected, hardworking community leader with a deeply personal understanding of what it takes to persevere through adversity and succeed. This makes her a particularly effective advocate for the vulnerable and the voiceless. We are encouraged to see her challenge Josh Shapiro, an activist who uses the office of Attorney General to promote an extreme abortion agenda. Shapiro is radically out of step with his constituents and needs to go. Life and the law deserve a champion like Heather Heidelbaugh as the state’s leading attorney, and we urge all Pennsylvanians to support her.”
A devoted advocate for the right to life, Heidelbaugh has received the endorsement of several pro-life organizations in her campaign for Attorney General, in addition to this most recent nod from the SBA List Candidate Fund.
“I am honored to receive the endorsement of the Susan B. Anthony List Candidate Fund and I commend their years of leadership, fighting on behalf of our unborn children,” said Heidelbaugh. "As Attorney General, I will always be an advocate for the most vulnerable lives in our Commonwealth."
Heather Heidelbaugh is the Republican nominee for Pennsylvania Attorney General. A trial attorney with more than 35 years of courtroom experience, Heidelbaugh previously served as a council member at-large on Allegheny County Council and is currently a Partner at her Pittsburgh law firm

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"O Canada" became the national anthem for Canada after the National Anthem Act received royal assent and took effect as part of the Dominion Day celebrations. In Ohio, The Columbus Dispatch became the first newspaper to provide an electronic edition for computer users, as part of a service from the electronic CompuServe Information Service.[4] In a precursor to newspaper websites on the Internet, the text of the Dispatch could be read on the home computers of CompuServe's 3,000 subscribers in Columbus. Initially the service was available from 6:00 in the evening to 5:00 in the morning on weekdays, and all day on weekends and holidays, and transmitted at a rate of 300 words per minute. The cost was an additional 8.33 cents per minute ($5.00 per hour, equivalent to $15.50 per hour in 2020). CompuServe unveiled similar deliveries for 10 other metropolitan newspapers, including The New York Times, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times and the Chicago Sun-Times. The Los Angeles Unified School District became the largest school system in the United States to adopt a calendar of year-round school as part of easing congestion in 44 overcrowded schools, starting with ten units (four elementary schools, and six middle and junior high schools.
The deregulation of the American trucking industry began as U.S. President Jimmy Carter signed the Motor Carrier Act of 1980 into law….. The government of Poland announced that the price for consumer goods was being increased, after 14 years of prices being maintained at the same level with government subsidies. Two previous attempts to raise the price of meat— in December 1970 and June 1976— had been rescinded after rioting. Trybuna Ludu, the official newspaper of the ruling Polish United Workers Party, announced that increases were made because "there are now ways speedily to improve the market situation." The price of beef doubled from $1.50 per pound to $3.00 per pound, and raw bacon to $2.30 per pound.[12] The first reported reaction was that 6,000 employees of a tractor factory in the Warsaw suburb of Ursus walked off the job in a one-day strike. Two days later, thousands of Polish workers walked off the job on what would be the first of many labor strikes that would lead to the recognition of the Solidarity Movement in August.........U.S. President Jimmy Carter issued Presidential Proclamation 4771 and re-instated the requirement that young men register with the Selective Service System.[13] At that time it was required that all males, born on or after January 1, 1960, register with the Selective Service System. Those who were now in this category were male U.S. citizens and male immigrant non-citizens between the ages of 18 and 25; they were required to register within 30 days of their 18th birthday even if they were not actually eligible to join the military…. The comedy Airplane!, a parody of the popular disaster film genre, was released throughout the U.S. and Canada, and attracted generally favorable reviews. Janet Maslin of The New York Times wrote that "'Airplane!' has jokes— hilarious jokes— to spare. It's also clever and confident and furiously energetic." and Charles Champlin of the Los Angeles Times called in "a thrillingly nutty send-up of the movies, with the redeeming and overdue social value of generous and innocent laughter." [18] However, Kathleen Carroll of the Daily News wrote that after the first hour, "'Airplane' loses its buoyancy. Jim Abrahams, David Zucker and Jerry Zucker... become so desperate for laughs that the jokes descend to a much cruder level. And 'Airplane' does an abrupt nosedive, turning
 into a hopelessly silly movie...............

Evonne Goolagong of Australia defeated Chris Evert Lloyd of the U.S. to win the women's singles title at at Wimbledon for the first time in nine years.

A group of 26 illegal aliens from El Salvador were smuggled across the border from Mexico into the United States, and then robbed by their guides and abandoned in the Yuma Desert within the Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument in Arizona. The next day, one of the survivors reached Arizona State Route 85 near the town of Ajo. Searchers from the Pima County sheriff's office, the U.S. Border Patrol, the U.S. Customs Service, the National Park Service and the Arizona Department of Public Safety then searched the area and found 12 other survivors, along with 13 bodies of the unfortunate travelers who had died from dehydration…” “Little Jeannie” - Elton John.