The LuLac Edition #4,387, August 27th, 2020
NBA BOYCOTT PUT GOP IN BOX
For thinking people, his argument of law and order will ring hollow. Plus, by the NBA boycotting playoffs, it takes away the stage Diaper Don so desperately craves.
WTF??? OUR JOE GETS REALLY MAD
OR THE ORIGINAL TITLE HE INTENDED WHICH IS BETTER THAN MINE
"CLANDESTINE CHANGE TO CDC TESTING GUIDELINES”
Editor’s Note: It is our pleasure to print this bit of logic from our good friend Dr. Joe Leonardi. His concerns about the way the pandemic has been handled are real. Take a look:
This pandemic is not over. It continues to INFECT, it continues to KILL,, it continues to DISABLE, and continues to DESTROY!
Someone needs to stop playing ostrich and act like a functioning adult, not a draft dodging child who is so emotionally fragile that he thinks the world is out to get him. A person who gives credence to conspiracies. Who has no medical or scientific education or background but pretends to be an expert. Who likens his press briefings to brain-dead reality television shows. The person who thinks we have a shared border with China, and claims closing it slowed the spread, when all the science shows the majority of the infection in this country came via Europe. A continent from which travel he was slow to take action to curtail.
The time to wake up and live in the real world is now!
COVID-19 did not miraculously go away.
The heat and sun of summer didn't stop its spread.
No one discovered how to jam a magic UV light internally.
No one could figure out how to inject disinfectant into the body.
We are losing the equivalent of a 9/11 every four days.
And yet, we have NO national plan, NO nationally coordinated mass testing, NO nationwide contact tracing plan.
Why?
Because ONE man thinks a global pandemic is out to get him and not the people it is infecting and killing.
Our fellow citizens in Texas are deciding between not evacuating and dying, or going to a shelter and possibly contracting COVID-19.
How is this possible in a country in which the richest man's worth just hit 200 BILLION DOLLARS?
Are there any republicans in power who have the courage to stand up to the President and put American lives and people over the ego of one man?????
I doubt it, because the cowards waited until the one person, the actual expert, who has the guts to speak up and would have stopped this inane and insane change was under general anesthesia.
POMPEO SPEECH UNLAWFUL AND UNETHICAL
POMPEO FACES INVESTIGATION FOLLOWING BRAZEN RNC SPEECH
Secretary Pompeo (Photo: AP)
What the Trump administration’s legacy will be, whether it will be one term or two is that norms that were sacred and ethical are now being shattered. If this were just politics, that can be expected. But when the very fabric of government gets torn to shreds and becomes acceptable, then that’s a bad thing. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s speech was political and unprecedented. If Hillary Clinton or John Kerry did this, the right wing crybabies would be having fits. Under normal circumstances, political speeches should be judged on their content. And by this metric, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo's remarks to the Republican National Convention were a mess.
Under normal circumstances, political speeches should be judged on their content. And by this metric, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo's remarks to the Republican National Convention were a mess.
Mike Pompeo standing in front of a tree: Republican National Convention from Israel on a TV at the White House in Washington
The Kansas Republican claimed Donald Trump had strengthened NATO, which was the opposite of the truth. Pompeo insisted Trump's failed policy toward North Korea was a success, which was pitifully untrue. The cabinet secretary said the president "held China accountable for covering up the China virus," which was amusing, given Trump's praise for China's "transparency" on the matter.
Perhaps my personal favorite was Pompeo's willingness to boast that Ukraine now has "defensive weapon systems" -- systems Trump was impeached over after the president tried to leverage the supplies as part of an illegal extortion scheme.
But as important as these errors of fact and judgment were, the content of the secretary's speech was only a small part of a much larger problem. NBC News reported late yesterday that the Republican's convention speech is now under investigation on Capitol Hill -- and for good reason..
The House Foreign Affairs Committee's subpanel on oversight informed the State Department of the inquiry in a letter obtained by NBC News after the committee obtained internal State Department legal guidance that explicitly prohibited Senate-confirmed presidential appointees from even attending political conventions. The subcommittee's chairman, Rep. Joaquin Castro, D-Texas, says that the speech is not only "highly unusual and likely unprecedented" but that "it appears that it may also be illegal."
This doesn't even seem to be in a murky gray area: federal ethics laws prevent the secretary of State from using his position -- during a foreign diplomatic trip, no less -- for partisan political purposes. Pompeo is supposed to be the chief diplomat of the United States, representing all of us in international affairs, not a GOP operative working on Trump's re-election bid. (NBC News, LuLac)
BOGNET’S COMPLAINT BASELESS
Jim Bognet (Bognet campaign)
An independent congressional ethics panel has recommended dismissing a conflict of interest complaint filed last September against U.S. Rep. Matt Cartwright.However, the Moosic Democrat amended seven years of financial disclosure forms after the complaint’s filing. A Cartwright spokesman said the amendments had nothing to do with the complaint.
The amendments show Cartwright’s ownership of an airplane and part ownership of a Lake George, New York, home that has been in the family for generations.
Republican Jim Bognet, who wants to unseat Cartwright in the Nov. 3 election, accused him of “a pattern of deception,” a charge Cartwright’s spokesman denied.
The Board of the Office of Congressional Ethics, a nonpartisan panel, recommended dismissing the complaint filed in September by the Foundation for Accountability and Civic Trust. The foundation, a nonprofit watchdog group based in Washington, D.C., was founded by Matthew Whitaker, who briefly served as acting attorney general under President Donald Trump.
Meanwhile, Bognet is running an ad against Cartwrioght which is a TOTAL LIE. In the cleverly edited ad, Boggie Boy's minions say that Cartwright said he wanted to defund police. THAT NEVER HAPPENED. I wa on that Zoom call and the man NEVER SAID HE'D DEFUND POLICE.
But this is wht desperate apostles of old Diaper Don do: LIE just like him. Bognet is not up to Trump's 18,00 0whoppers so far but he's trying.
(Times Shamrock, LuLac)
CARTWRIGHT, HOUSE APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE ADVANCE BILL TO SUPPORT POLICE, JUSTICE, AND NEPA JOBS
Congressman Matt Cartwright (Photo: LuLac archives)
Representative Matt Cartwright voted in the House Appropriations Committee to advance the fiscal year 2021 Commerce, Justice, Science and Related Agencies funding bill to the House floor, where it will be considered later this month.In total, the bill contains $71.473 billion, including funding boosts at the request of Cartwright for initiatives that support economic growth in northeastern Pennsylvania. It also includes two pieces of Cartwright-led legislation to support research on and preparation for climate change and extreme weather events. The bill contains funding increases to reform police practices throughout the country and to create jobs, fix the country’s infrastructure, support American manufacturing, protect civil rights, reform police practices, reduce gun violence, address the opioid crisis, and keep schools safe. Furthermore, the bill provides funding increases for science research, science education, and legal services for underserved communities.
“Investments in initiatives that support our historic coal communities and our manufacturers are so important as we work to get our economy safely running again,” said Cartwright, a member of the Commerce-Justice-Science Appropriations Subcommittee. “The funding increases to drive law enforcement reforms and accountability are also key to promoting public safety and justice. I look forward to getting these bills across the finish line and putting our fair share of these dollars to work in northeastern Pennsylvania.”
Cartwright also gave remarks in the committee markup in support of the bill. They can be viewed here.
The fiscal year 2021 Commerce, Justice, Science and Related Agencies funding bill includes strong funding increases to help improve police practices throughout the country, including:
More than $400 million for grants to carry out police reform initiatives, including pattern and practice investigations, implementing statutes providing for independent investigation of law enforcement, and community-based organizations aimed at improving law enforcement;
$50 million within Byrne JAG for training for state and local law enforcement on racial profiling, implicit bias, de-escalation, use of force, the duty to intervene when witnessing another officer using excessive force, and procedural justice;
$25 million for Federal investigation and prosecution support to address misconduct and systemic change in police organizations, and negates limits on such efforts begun by former Attorney General Sessions;
$500,000 for a National Police Misconduct Registry; and $5 million for a new National Task Force on Law Enforcement Oversight.
Wins in this legislation for northeastern Pennsylvania include:
$37 million for the Economic Development Administration’s (EDA) Assistance to Coal Communities program, which works to help communities affected by the decline of the coal industry. This is a 23 percent increase over last year’s allocation.
This legislation funds the EDA at $356 million, an increase of $23 million above the fiscal year 2020 level. These funds will help improve our nation’s infrastructure, boost economically recovering communities, and launch innovative community development efforts.
$412 million for grant programs to combat the opioid crisis authorized under the Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act, an increase of $34 million above the FY 2020 enacted level, to help stem abuse, including for drug courts, treatment, prescription drug monitoring and overdose-reversal drugs. The bill maintains Federal law enforcement resources to investigate and prosecute drug traffickers.
$153 million for the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP), a public-private partnership that helps small- and medium-sized manufacturers across the U.S. grow. This is a 4.8 percent increase over last year’s allocation.
$35 million for the Economic Development Administration’s Regional Innovation Strategies program – a $2 million increase over last year’s allocation – which awards grants to help build new American businesses. The program has created more than 14,000 jobs and more than $1.6 billion in follow-on investment in American companies. This year’s White House budget proposed eliminating the program.
AOC CHECKS KIMBERLY GUILFOYLE'S IMMIGRANT STATUS
Today in "things I never thought I'd have to remind Americans ahead of the 2020 presidential election," we have this simple truth: Puerto Rico is absolutely part of the United States. The indisputable fact has come up as a result of a speech Kimberly Guilfoyle delivered at the Republican National Convention on Monday night. The former Fox News host and current girlfriend of Don Jr.'s gave a ridiculously loud pre-recorded speech, during which she claimed she is a first-generation American. But then, she went on to explain that her mother is from Puerto Rico.
As many people (including Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez) know, Puerto Rico is a U.S. territory, which means that Guilfoyle's mother isn't actually an immigrant. Since one cannot immigrate to a country that one is already a citizen of....
On Tuesday morning, AOC addressed Guilfoyle's claims on Twitter, writing "The woman the GOP picked as their 'proud' Latina to tout 'immigrant experience' didn't seem to know that Puerto Rico is already part of the United States." (AOL News, LuLac)
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The Broadway musical 42nd Street opened on Broadway. Its director, Gower Champion, died hours before opening night at the age of 61 from Waldenström's macroglobulinemia. Immediately after the final curtain at the Winter Garden Theater, producer David Merrick walked on stage and told the audience, "This is tragic. Gower Champion died today." With music by Harry Warren and lyrics by Al Dubin and Johnny Mercer, 42nd Street won the Tony Award for Best Musical and went on for 3,486 performances, closing on January 8, 1989…..A special commission was created by the Soviet Communist Party Politburo in Moscow to formulate the Soviet Union's response to the independent labor union movement in Poland. Referred to as the "Suslov Commission", the task force was headed by senior Communist Party ideologist Mikhail Suslov, and included future Soviet leaders Yuri Andropov and Konstantin Chernenko, Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, and Defense Minister Dmitriy Ustinov.
Zimbabwe was admitted as the 153rd member of the United Nations.[95]
Independent presidential candidate and Republican U.S. Congressman John B. Anderson announced that his running mate would be a Democrat, former Wisconsin Governor Patrick J. Lucey…The missing first half of the diary of Arthur Bremer, who had stalked U.S. President Richard M. Nixon and Alabama Governor George C. Wallace before shooting Wallace in 1972, was located underneath a bridge in Bremer's home town of Milwaukee….Tex Avery (Frederick Bean Avery), 72, American animator and director who created most of the Looney Tunes characters for Warner Brothers….A three million dollar extortion attempt involving a time bomb delivered to Harrah's Casino in Stateline, Nevada, ended with a failed try at disarming and an explosion that caused extensive damage Harvey's Resort Hotel. The day before, two men wheeled "a box about the size of a desk" into the casino and said that they had been told to deliver a photocopying machine. The device had with it a letter demanding payment in exchange for the instructions on defusing the bomb, and a warning that it would detonate automatically if further attempts were made to move it. U.S. Army specialists attached a remote-controlled "shaker" device to the bomb "to determine if it could be safely tampered with" and at 3:43 in the evening, the bomb detonated, hurling debris four blocks away and severely damaging the first three floors of the 11-story Harvey's Resort Hotel….Sam Levenson, 68, American comedian and former game show host.
U.S. Representative Michael "Ozzie" Myers (D-Pennsylvania) became the first member of Congress to be convicted of accepting a bribe during the FBI's Abscam investigation. Myers, convicted along with three other defendants, was expelled on October 2 by his colleagues in the U.S. House of Representatives by a vote of 376 to 30, becoming the first Congressman since the U.S. Civil War to receive expulsion…and forty years ago this week the number one song in LuLac land and America was “Fame - Irene Cara “.
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