The LuLac Edition #4,468, February 11th, 2021

 

IMPEACHMENT 2.0

 

First off, thanks to all for the kind words about my profile photo. It was appreciated.

Today was an extremely busy day at work. To get myself revved up (as if I ever need that) I put on McCartney and let it rip.

All day. At about 4pm I realized there was an Impeachment going on. I just shrugged my shoulders and put on Tony Bennett to close out the day.

See Trump will be acquitted by a Senate of his peers. Most of those Republicans will know he’s guilty but for whatever personal or "political” reasons they can conjure up, will acquit him.

The evidence will be overwhelmingly against him but he will be found not guilty.

He’ll strut around saying he was acquitted but everyone who is a critical thinker and a non Trumpanzee will see his guilt right before their very eyes.

In short, I guess that makes the former (God I love saying that!!!) President; the new O.J. 

Another busy day tomorrow, now where the hell is that Proclaimers music? Ah….here it is.

 

 

'THEY CAME AT TRUMP'S DIRECTION': DEMOCRATS USE RIOTERS' OWN WORDS TO PROVE THE FORMER PRESIDENT INCITED THE MOB 

 

  House Democrats used the words of the Capitol rioters to emphasize former President Trump’s role in the Jan. 6 attack in an attempt to bolster their impeachment case against him.

On Thursday, the third day of the Senate trial, Rep. Diana DeGette, D-Colo., a member of the House impeachment team, pointed to statements made by some of the alleged rioters and their attorneys to argue that Trump incited the riot by calling on his supporters to march down to the Capitol at a rally before the incident.

“More and more insurrectionists are admitting that they came at Trump’s direction,” DeGette said, pointing to statements made by defendants Riley June Williams and Dominic Pezzola through their attorneys, and social media posts allegedly written by Samuel Fisher and Troy Smocks.

“Today president Trump told us to fight like hell,” Smocks posted on Parler on Jan. 6, according to a criminal complaint cited in a BuzzFeed story, which DeGette used in her presentation. “[Trump] said that our cause was a matter of national security.”

Albert Watkins, a St. Louis-based attorney who’s representing Jacob Chansley, the shirtless, horned-helmet-wearing man known as the “QAnon shaman,” told Yahoo News last month that his client among others heeded the call of the president to save the country.

“They listened to [Trump] and his cohorts speak to them in a fashion that is akin to a high school football coach on a Friday evening talking to his team and getting them all hyped up in the locker room before he runs out to the football field with them,” Watkins said.  (AOL News)

  MEET JOHN FETTERMAN

John Fetterman (Photo: AP)

 Tom Wolf’s Lt. Governor has decided to run for the Senate. We’re excited by that and here is his story.

 20 years ago, John came to Braddock to start a GED program. He became mayor, and for 13 years worked to build the once-booming steel town back from collapse. As Lieutenant Governor, John has transformed the position into a bully pulpit for criminal justice reform. He has led the fight to free the wrongfully convicted and give second chances to deserving longtime inmates, and championed the cause of legalizing marijuana on a historic tour of all 67 counties.

A Pennsylvania native, John was born to teenage parents just starting out on their own. At the time, his father worked nights to put himself through college. John grew up in York, PA, and followed in his father’s footsteps to Albright College, where he played offensive tackle for the Lions.

 At 23, John joined up with Big Brothers/Big Sisters, and his life has never been the same.

 John threw himself into the program, mentoring his ‘little’ – an 8-year-old boy who had recently lost his father to AIDS and whose mother was also battling the disease. Before she passed away, John promised that he would continue to look out for her son and make sure that he graduated college. Fifteen years later, John and his ‘little’ had both held up their ends of the bargain, with his little’s graduation from Washington and Jefferson College in Washington, PA.

But John wanted to do more. He joined AmeriCorps and served in Pittsburgh’s historic Hill District, where he helped set up the first computer labs in the neighborhood and taught GED classes to young mothers and fathers.

He went on to earn a Masters in Public Policy from Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government.

John returned to Pennsylvania to start a GED program in the town of Braddock, one of the poorest and most challenged communities in the commonwealth. In 2005, encouraged by his students, John ran for mayor. He managed to win the crowded primary by a single vote. In his 13 years as mayor, John worked to rebuild his community, creating jobs, getting youth engaged, and bringing creative urban policy solutions to Braddock. The town now has a community center, urban gardens, and a free store run by John’s wife, Gisele. 

 

CASEY, MURRAY AND WYDEN INTRODUCE BILL TO REDUCE COST OF CHILD CARE FOR MIDDLE CLASS FAMILIES

SENATORS: THIS POLICY WILL REDUCE 

CHILD POVERTY AND CREATE JOBS

Senator Bob Casey (Photo: LuLac archives) 

Our U.S. Senator Bob Casey Patty Murray (D-WA) and Ron Wyden (D-OR) introduced a bill to expand the Child and Dependent Care Tax Credit to help families pay for the costs of child care. The Child and Dependent Care Tax Credit Act would also help increase employment rates and the earnings of parents, as well as reduce child poverty. According to the National Women’s Law Center, low income families spend almost one-third of their income on child care. A robust and fully refundable Child and Dependent Care Tax Credit will support working parents, reduce child poverty and could increase net employment by more than 500,000 jobs, according to analysis from the National Academies of Sciences.

The COVID-19 pandemic has further illustrated the critical need to help families obtain quality and affordable child care. The Census Bureau and the Federal Reserve found COVID-19 has disrupted child care arrangements for millions of parents; one in five working-age adults cited child care as a reason they were not working, with disproportional impacts falling on women. Access to safe, affordable child care is essential to our economic infrastructure and our Nation’s economic recovery.

“In the midst of the economic crisis caused by COVID-19, millions of parents are even more worried about how they are going to pay the rent, put food on the table, keep the heat on or afford the cost of child care,” said Senator Casey. “Expanding the Child and Dependent Care Tax Credit and making it fully refundable will reduce poverty, create jobs and provide support that will lessen the financial strain that many families are facing. It is critical that we pass this commonsense legislation.”

“Families are facing unprecedented struggles in getting quality child care—and this bill will put more money in their pockets so they can afford the child care they need,” said Senator Murray. “I’ll keep fighting to support working families and the child care sector during this crisis, make access to affordable, quality child care a reality for every family, and guarantee livable wages for early educators.”

 “The COVID-19 pandemic has shined a spotlight on our broken child care system, which has been failing working parents for decades,” said Senator Wyden. “Working parents are on their own and at their breaking points, left to patch together child care arrangement day by day. Our bill would go a long way to giving working parents the resources they need to manage the needs of work and family.”

The Child Care and Dependent Credit Enhancement Act would:

• Make the full Child and Dependent Care Tax Credit available to most working families: This bill would make the full credit available to families with income under $125,000. The current phase-down of the credit begins at $15,000 of income;

• Put more money into a family’s pocket: The bill increases the maximum credit from $1,050 to $4,000 per child (age 0-13), up to $8,000;

• Ensure lower income families see a benefit: The bill would make the credit fully refundable to make sure those with the greatest need see a benefit;

• Retain the value over time: The bill would index benefits to inflation to ensure they keep up with ever-growing costs; and

• The credit fully phases out for incomes above $440,000 a year.

In addition to Senators Casey, Murray and Wyden, the following Senators support the bill: Bob Menendez (D-NJ), Ben Cardin (D-MD), Sherrod Brown (D-OH), Michael Bennet (D-CO), Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), Maggie Hassan (D-NH), Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV), Debbie Stabenow (D-MI), Maria Cantwell (D-WA), Tina Smith (D-MN), Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), Chris Murphy (D-CT), Dick Durbin (D-IL), Mazie Hirono (D-HI), Patrick Leahy (D-VT), Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), Cory Booker (D-NJ), Jack Reed (D-RI), Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), Martin Heinrich (D-NM), Jeff Merkley (D-OR), Chris Van Hollen (D-MD), Tammy Duckworth (D-IL), Ben Ray Luján (D-NM), Gary Peters (D-MI) and Chuck Schumer (D-NY).          

CARTWRIGHT CALLS OUT P.O. BOSS

Congressmen Matt Cartwright and your blog editor  

Representative Matt Cartwright  said that he is calling for new leadership at the U.S. Postal Service after receiving thousands of complaints from constituents this week about their mail service.

During a virtual press conference, Cartwright said that more than 6,500 Northeastern Pennsylvanians logged complaints with his office within the past 72 hours regarding delayed mail, intermittent service, lost packages and misdelivered mail. In response, Cartwright is asking President Biden to quickly fill the three vacancies on the USPS Board of Governors who will hold the Postmaster General accountable for improving delivery standards.

 “We need leadership at the USPS who thinks about the seniors counting on the service to deliver medication, the business owners who use it to ship out their products, and the workers who rely on it to get their paychecks and pay bills on time,” Cartwright said. “I am calling on President Biden to nominate qualified leaders to fill the three vacancies on the USPS Board of Governors – leaders who will take seriously their responsibility to ensure the Postal Service delivers for Americans.”

He added that the President should consider firing any board members who are deemed as not sharing the goal of rebuilding a functional and efficient Postal Service.

Cartwright also recognized the postal workers whose commitment to their mission never wavered during the pandemic.

“So many of us know our neighborhood mailman or mailwoman by name, and we see how hard they work – how seriously they take their jobs. They worked to deliver for us in the midst of these recent snowstorms, and of course, the pandemic over the past year. I want to thank them for their dedication. I’m fighting not only because the American people deserve better from the USPS, but you do too,” Cartwright said.

Ninety-four percent of respondents who reported issues with USPS to Cartwright’s office said they have experienced delays in their mail delivery; 41 percent of respondents reported not receiving mail they had expected; and 41 percent of them also said they recently have been receiving mail intermittently or sporadically. A recurring issue from respondents who self-reported as small business owners wrote that faltering delivery standards have led to delayed incoming and outgoing payments, as well as lost revenue due to product shipments getting lost in transit.

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1987

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 SN 1987A, the first "naked-eye" supernova since 1604, is observed…… Beginning of the Phosphorite War protest movement in the Estonian SSR.     And the Iran–Contra affair: The Tower Commission rebukes U.S. President Ronald Reagan for not controlling his National Security Council staff. …..and this week in 1987 the number one song in LuLac land and America was “Somewhere Out There” by Linda Ronstadt And James Ingram.