The LuLac Edition #4,461, December 24th, 2020

  PENNSYLVANIA MAN CHARGED WITH REGISTERING DEAD RELATIVES TO VOTE FOR TRUMP

A Pennsylvania man is facing up to 19 years in prison after prosecutors say he admitted to illegally casting a ballot in the general election for President Donald Trump as his dead mother and also registering his dead mother-in-law to vote with the intent to do the same.

 Bruce Bartman, 70, was charged with two counts of perjury and one count of unlawful voting after allegedly registering both deceased women online to vote in the Nov. 3 election using either their driver’s license or social security number, prosecutors said Monday.

 “He registered both of his deceased relatives as Republicans and he has admitted to the detectives who questioned him that he did this to further the campaign of Donald Trump,” Delaware County District Attorney Jack Stollsteimer said at a press conference. 

 This story mirrors what I hve been saying all along to the general public and the Trumpanzees. If you want a hot and a cot, if you want a felony, commit voter fraud. The fact that this President as well as his minions have bought into this claim that the election was stolen is a big lie. But a lot of non critical thinkers have bought into  that big lie. (Huffington Post, LuLac)

  CARTWRIGHT, CASEY GET COVID-19 VACCINE, URGE OTHERS TO DO SAME  

Congressman Matt Cartwright and Senator Bob Casey (Photo: LuLac archives) 

U.S. Rep. Matt Cartwright, a Democrat from Pennsylvania’s Eighth District, received his first dose of the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine on Friday and recommended that others do the same as it becomes available.

“Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine has been rigorously tested and evaluated over the past year. I’m fully confident that it is safe and effective, and every Northeastern Pennsylvanian can be confident too. I received my first dose yesterday, at the direction of Congress’s attending physician and in line with continuity of government protocols,” Cartwright said in a statement issued Saturday. “As distribution continues, I encourage everyone to make a plan with their primary care provider to get the vaccine as it becomes available.”

 “I will keep following the public health precautions of wearing a mask, social distancing and avoiding large gatherings, because this is how we can keep ourselves and others safe while the virus continues to rage through our communities. I am also keeping in mind that it remains uncertain whether those who are vaccinated can still spread the virus to others,” Cartwright said.

 The Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine was cleared for emergency use by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration earliehis month, followed by Moderna’s vaccine on Friday.

 “I’m thankful for the scientists and doctors who made this medical breakthrough possible,” Cartwright said. “This historic achievement is a testament to our world-leading scientific community. With widespread use of safe and effective coronavirus vaccines while continuing to follow public health guidelines, we can put this virus behind us and get to work on rebuilding an economy that works for everyone.” 

U.S. Sen Bob Casey, D-Pa., has also received the first dose of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine.

 “I encourage all Americans, in consultation with their doctor, to get the vaccine when it becomes available to them,” he tweeted Sunday.

 Casey donated blood plasma in the spring after he tested positive for COVID-19 antibodies. People who have previously had COVID-19 can get reinfected. (Kathryne Rubright Pocono Record)   

TOOMEY LOOKS INTO ALZHEIMNER’S DISEASE

Senator PatToomey (Photo: LuLac archives)

 U.S. Sen. Pat Toomey, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee Subcommittee on Health Care, this week convened a hearing on the testing and treatment pipelines for Alzheimer’s disease and the corresponding fiscal implications on federal health care programs.

 “These problems are compounded by the inequities in the federal funding of Alzheimer’s disease, which still does not receive its fair share of the NIH investment that is commensurate with its outsize impact on patients, families, and federal health care programs,” said Toomey, R-Lehigh Valley.

 Last year, the subcommittee held a hearing on barriers to treatment and care for Alzheimer’s patients. Chairman Toomey and Ranking Member Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.) also sought input from stakeholders — providers, researchers, patients, patient advocacy groups, states, and others — to inform the development of regulatory recommendations and potential future legislation. The senators sent a letter to the administration in October, requesting certain regulatory actions to improve care for Alzheimer’s patients

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Korvettes, the original discount department store chain, closed the last of its stores. At its height, Korvettes had 50 stores in New York City and other U.S. metropolitan areas, after opening its first outlet in 1948 with prices much lower than any of its competitors. By the end of 1980, it had declined to 17 stores…..In the traditional holiday blessing given every Christmas by the head of the Roman Catholic Church, Pope John Paul II spoke from the balcony of St. Peter's Basilica in Rome, delivering the "Urbi et Orbi" ("To the City and the World") to more than 100,000 people in St. Peter's Square and to millions of television viewers in 31 countries. After delivering the blessing, John Paul then wished the world a merry Christmas in Latin and then in 41 modern languages, the most ever used for the occasion. In 1979, he had used 34 languages…….Iran released films and still photographs showing that the 52 U.S. Embassy hostages unharmed, and allowed half of them to send greetings to relatives. On the 418th day of their captivity, which had started on November 4, 1979, the hostages were allowed a celebration of Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, with services from the Roman Catholic papal nuncio to Iran and Iranian Protestant Christian clergymen. The hostages would remain captive until their release on January 20, 1981……The U.S. Postal Service issued the first of its Great Americans series of stamps, starting with its 19¢ stamp to honor the Cherokee educator Sequoyah, who had devised an 86-character system of writing for the Cherokee language. The first-day issue of the series of the stamps went on sale at Tahlequah, Oklahoma, capital of the Cherokee Nation,[94] primarily to be used for the new 19¢ rate for international post cards.  Over the next 18 years, the USPS honored women and men, concluding on July 27, 1999 with a 55¢ stamp for U.S. Congressman and Senator Justin Morrill……..Canadian ice hockey defenseman Mark Howe of the Hartford Whalers was hospitalized after sustaining "a deep puncture wound in the rectal area" caused by "a pointed metal projection at the base of the Hartford net"  after sliding into the back part of the goal during a game against the visiting New York Islanders. At the time, the National Hockey League goals had a frame that was fastened onto a spike 6 inches (150 mm) length. Howe was cross-checked by an Islanders player, skidded into the goal post and as the frame was knocked loose, he was impaled by the bayonet-like spike. Suffering a deep internal puncture wound followed by sepsis, Howe required two surgeries and was out for six weeks, missing 17 games, but returned to the ice in February.  The injury led the NHL to redesign its nets to a safer version. ……..Jimmy Carter became the first incumbent U.S. President to sustain an accidental fracture while in office, breaking his collarbone after a fall while cross-country skiing at Camp David……U.S. Representative Frank Thompson (D-New Jersey), one of the defendants convicted from the FBI's Abscam investigation for accepting a $50,000 bribe, resigned five days before the scheduled expiration of his term. Thompson, who had continually won re-election after 1954, had lost by a landslide in November in his bid for a 14th term. On December 3, he was convicted by a jury; after retirement from Congress, he received a pension of more than $4,000 per month for the rest of his life at an estimated $48,530 per year……Tim Hardin, 39, American songwriter known for "If I Were a Carpenter"; from a heroin overdose……J. W. Milam, 61, one of two men who committed the 1955 kidnapping and murder of Emmett Till, then bragged about it in an interview after being acquitted; from spinal cancer…..

Ella Grasso, the Governor of Connecticut since 1975, resigned at the end of the year after learning that her ovarian cancer was terminal. Grasso, who had become the first woman to be elected governor of a U.S. state without having previously been the wife of another governor, had announced her decision on December 4. [She was succeeded by her lieutenant governor, William A. O'Neill.  She died 36 days later, on February 5……

Marshall McLuhan, 69, Canadian author and communications theorist who profiled the effect of television on society. McLuhan had summed up his findings with the statement "The medium is the message," explaining that the technology of TV was more influential than the content of the information broadcast…..and forty years ago this week the number one song in LuLac land and America was “Hungry Heart” by Bruce Springsteen.