The LuLac Edition #4,371, August 6th, 2020

PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP SAYS IT'S 'DISGRACEFUL' NBA PLAYERS KNEEL DURING THE NATIONAL ANTHEM

President Donald Trump has made his views on athletes kneeling well known. Throughout his tenure, Trump has used athletes protesting racial injustice and police brutality during the national anthem as a rallying cry for his supporters. With a large majority of the NBA currently engaging in those protests, Trump once again reiterated his stance on the issue, telling Fox News he believes players taking a knee during the national anthem is “disgraceful.” First off, taking a knee was a suggestion given to Colin Kaperneck by a veteran who said it showed proper respect. Second, for Trump to call anyone disgraceful is rich coming from this crook, thug, porn star loving pig of a President. (AOL News, LuLac)

MUSICIANS HELP SPREAD THE WORD ABOUT COVID-19 PREVENTION

It's safe to say 2020 has undoubtedly been one astonishing year with the Coronavirus disease pandemic causing so much hardship and pain. Something has to be done, something different, to remind people in an extraordinary way to wear a Face Mask when out in public. “Where’s Your Face Mask? Polka” attempts to do just that - remind people.

The song was recorded as a Public Service (PSA) in the public interest and is disseminated without charge, with the object of raising awareness of, and changing public attitudes and behaviors towards, the social issue in America of wearing a face mask when out in public. The original melody for the song was written by legendary Pennsylvania polka band leader John Stanky as "Where's Your Babushka" in the 1950's. Stanky and the Coalminers shot to fame in this decade thanks to recordings of "Where's Your Babushka" and "Apples, Peaches, Pumpkin Pie".

Musicians performing on "Where's Your Face Mask? Polka" are Roy Griffin, Portville, (NY); Bobby Zampetti, Accordion/Vocal, Tunkhannock, (PA); Tommy Halla, Concertina/Bass, Fort Pierce (FL). Halla performs off-camera. People everywhere are spreading the word about "Where's Your Face Mask? Polka", instead of spreading the virus.

For more information about "Where's Your Face Mask? Polka", what the musicians do, where they are now contact Bobby by email to bobz10@yahoo.com. The video can be viewed by going to Bobby Zampetti on Facebook.

CASEY ANNOUNCES NEW CARES ACT FUNDING FOR PA ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

Senator Bob Casey (Photo: LuLac archives)

U.S. Senator Bob Casey released the following statement to announce that economic development assistance programs in Pennsylvania will receive $35.5 million in new funding from the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) through Revolving Loan Funds as a result of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act: “I am pleased that Pennsylvania will receive this $35.5 million investment to help struggling small businesses and entrepreneurs that have been negatively affected by the coronavirus pandemic across Pennsylvania,” said Senator Casey. “I supported EDA funding in the CARES Act and will continue to fight for Pennsylvania’s small businesses, ensuring that minority-owned businesses receive funding and improving oversight so that these grants reach the truly small businesses that need it most.”

The CARES Act provides EDA with $1.5 billion for economic development assistance programs to help communities support businesses during the coronavirus pandemic. The EDA’s Revolving Loan Fund Program provides access to capital to enable small businesses to grow and generate new employment opportunities and help them to retain jobs that might otherwise be lost, create wealth and support minority and women-owned businesses.

CARTWRIGHT FRUSTRATED

Over two months ago, the House passed the Heroes Act – a comprehensive coronavirus response package to meet the ongoing challenges of COVID-19. I was proud that some of my proposed legislation was included in the package, including my Coronavirus Frontline Worker Fair Pay Act, to provide a hazard pay increase of $13 per hour to essential workers. And the Heroes Act would provide $5 million to bolster statewide legal hotlines serving seniors, modeled after my Senior Legal Hotline Act.

This is the kind of action we need to pass Congress right now! Essential workers are risking their lives to provide healthcare, groceries, packages, and more to the American people – the least we can do is provide them with a living wage! And our seniors are more isolated and vulnerable than ever during this period of social distancing.

So here’s why I’m shaking my head over all this: The Heroes Act is still sitting on Mitch McConnell’s desk. He hasn’t even brought it up for a vote in the Senate. Americans are dying from COVID-19 every day. Workers are missing out on paychecks every week. And yet Republicans in Washington are haggling to see how small they can set unemployment insurance checks and refusing to hold corporations accountable for COVID-19 deaths that occur under their watch. It’s shameful. I won’t be quiet about this. And I hope you won’t either.

MEDIA MATTERS

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BOLD GOLD COMMUNITY FORUM

This week's guests are Meghan Loftus and Linda Robeson, from Friends of the Poor in Scranton, Tune in Sunday morning at 6 on 94.3 The Talker; 6:30 on The Mothership 1340/1400 am, 100.7 and 106.7 fm; and at 7:30 on The River 105 and 103.5.

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!”

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1980

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The closing ceremony was held in Moscow for the 1980 Summer Olympics. Of the 81 participating national teams, 18 marched with the Olympic flag instead of their national flags in order to show their disapproval of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. Later, in place of the American flag to identify the nation that would host the next summer games, the flag of Los Angeles was hoisted instead……The first triathlon in Canada was held at Elk/Beaver Lake Regional Park near Saanich, British Columbia, almost six years after the modern event had been introduced in San Diego on September 25, 1974. The event of a one-mile swim across Elk Lake, a 20-mile bicycle race and a ten-kilometer run, attracted 51 competitors….Hurricane Allen swept across Haiti, killing 220 people in 24 hours. After officials in Haiti discovered 140 additional bodies that had been buried in mudslides, the death toll was revised from 80 to 220. Of 272 people killed by Hurricane Allen, all but 52 of the deaths were in Haiti….As Hurricane Allen broke the high pressure system that had stalled over Texas and brought rainstorms, the record heat wave in much of the United States began to abate as Dallas and most of north Texas reached a temperature of only 95 °F (35 °C) after six weeks in a row (42 consecutive days) of "triple-digit heat" — daily highs of at least 100 °F (38 °C) temperatures — since June 23.

Susan G. Komen, 36, American model, died from breast cancer. In her memory, her younger sister Nancy Goodman Brinker founded the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation……Legislative elections were held in the Solomon Islands, with 241 candidates running for the 38 seats of the National Parliament. The United Party, led by Prime Minister Peter Kenilorea, won 16 of the 38 seats…..In Poland, Anna Walentynowicz was fired from her job as a crane operator at the Lenin Shipyard in Gdańsk for attempting to recruit new members to the unauthorized labor union Free Coastal Trade Unions (Wolne Związki Zawodowe Wybrzeża or WZZW). The firing came seven months before Walentynowicz would have qualified for retirement on a government pension, prompting shipyard electrician Lech Walesa to call a strike on August 14, 1980… Production ceased on the Ford Pinto compact car as the final model came off of the assembly line at the Ford Motor Company of Canada plant in St. Thomas, Ontario at the last factory that manufactured the vehicle. The St. Thomas plant had manufactured the first Pinto almost exactly ten years earlier, on August 10, 1970…The Presidential campaign of U.S. Senator Teddy Kennedy ended at the Democratic convention after Kennedy's supporters were unable to get a change of rules to permit an "open convention", where the would be allowed to vote for the candidate of their choice on the first ballot, regardless of whom they had been committed to represent. With 1,666 votes of 3,330 necessary to change the rules, less than 1,390 were in favor and 1,936 were against the change. After Speaker of the U.S. House and convention chairman Tip O'Neill announced the result at 8:42 in the evening, Kennedy quit the race….Chrysler Corporation re-introduced its Imperial luxury automobile brand with a 1981 model, after discontinuing its luxury line in 1975, as the first of the new "K cars" rolled off of the assembly line at Chrysler's plant in Windsor, Ontario. At a ceremony, Chrysler chairman Lee Iacocca handed the keys to the first model to singer Frank Sinatra, who endorsed the car— one of the few 8-cylinder vehicles made in North America— in TV commercials. The vehicle was priced at $19,000 in the U.S., equivalent to $58,500 in 2020. The second, smaller version of the Imperial was manufactured only for the 1981, 1982 and 1983 model years……and forty years ago the number one song in LuLac land and America was “Into the Night” by Benny Nardonez.

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