The LuLac Editioon #4,762, June 9th, 2022

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REPUBLICANS PROTECT THE FETUS

ALLOW FULL GROWN CHILDREN TO BE BLOWN TO BITS BY AR-15

THEY DECRY ABORTION…BUT ENABLE MURDER OF CHILDREN!!! 

 

Why is it that the Republican party protects the child in the womb. They do so at he expense of a mother's life. They force a woman to carry a dead baby for months. They enable incest among dysfunctional families.  

But when it comes to protecting children from AR Assault rifles, filled with bullets that decapitate small children, put holes so large in them that their flesh is eviscerated...well they're okay with that kowtowing to  gun lobby. 

REPUBLICANS WHO TOUT THEMSELVES AS BABY SAVERS ARE IN EFFECT CHILDREN KILLERS! 

They'll argue social issues and try to hide the facts BUT REPUBLICANS ALLOW KIDS TO BE KILLED. 

CASE CLOSED! 

 

MARK MEADOWS ASSURED GOP LEADERSHIP HE COULD CONTROL TRUMP — WHILE LETTING ELECTION ‘CRAZIES’ INTO THE WHITE HOUSE

This picture is worth a thousand words. (Photo: CNN)

White House chief of staff Mark Meadows publicly reassured establishment Republicans he would keep Donald Trump in check, while privately ushering conspiracy theorists into meetings with the former president.

The new book, “The Divider: Trump in the White House, 2017-2021,” by New Yorker reporter Susan Glasser and New York Times reporter Peter Baker reveals that Meadows tried to tell both sides -- GOP leadership and fringe conspiracists -- what they wanted to hear in the weeks between the former president's election loss and the Jan. 6 insurrection.

“Meadows was basically a matador,” said Republican involved in discussions with the White House during that period. “He’s sort of just let in anybody and everybody who wanted to come in.”

A White House colleague said Meadows asked Republican leadership to give Trump space room to process his loss, but he was also facilitating efforts to overturn the 2020 results.

The Insurrection committee will be airing this guy's dirt very soon. (AP, LuLac) 

 

GOP LEADER ON PASSING GUN SAFETY LAWS: LOOK, WE DIDN'T BAN AIRPLANES AFTER 9/11

Little man Stevie the gun shot survivor.

GOP House Minority Whip Steve Scalise  said Wednesday that passing gun safety legislation would be the wrong response to America’s constant mass shootings, because nobody tried to get rid of airplanes after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.

“I go back to September 11,” Scalise said at Republican leaders’ weekly press conference. “Because on that tragic day, the country made a clear realization that dots weren’t being connected. Terrorist attacks were happening, and the country didn’t have the right focus on the fundamental core problems that were creating those attacks.”

“Airplanes were used that day as the weapon to kill thousands of people and to inflict terror on our country,” he said. “There wasn’t a conversation about banning airplanes.”

It’s a ridiculous comparison to make: Weapons are not at all the same thing as commercial aircraft. Scalise also may have forgotten that a slew of new safety measures were put in place in response to 9/11 that transformed air travel into a radically different experience.

Scalise was shot by a gun man but that doesn't seem to matter to him. His sorry, ignorant white ass was saved and he has the nerve to equate 911 with kids being killed by Republican boob like him ho have their ugly heads up the gun lobby's ass. (The Guardian, LuLac)

 

REP. CARTWRIGHT ANNOUNCES $4.3 MILLION FOR LOCAL OUTREACH AND COMMUNITY CENTER

Congressman Matt Cartwright (Photo: LuLac archives)

, U.S. Representative Matt Cartwright  announced Lehman Township will receive $4,324,950 loan from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) as a rural development investment to finance a new community food pantry and senior center to better serve Monroe and Pike counties.

The Bushkill Outreach and Community Center will support the growing needs of the region’s senior population and will include a multipurpose room, a large general storage room, thrift store, office space, a kitchen pantry and food preparation and distribution rooms.

“During the COVID-19 pandemic, we saw how many of our friends and neighbors relied on social service agencies and community centers to support themselves and their families. By having the thrift store, kitchen pantry and activities center offer comprehensive services all under the same roof, seniors especially will have an easier time accessing the aid and services they need to thrive,” said Rep. Cartwright. “Lehman Township residents will benefit from this wise investment for generations to come, and I am thankful to the Board of Supervisors for working hard to provide a safe and welcoming environment for seniors and all members of the community.”

“The Lehman Township Board of Supervisors is excited, appreciative and thankful to receive the USDA funds for the construction of the Bushkill Outreach and Community Center. Once completed, the new facility will better serve the community which has been serving Lehman Township for over 40 years and will continue to do so for future generations,” said Robert H. Rohner Jr., Chair of the Lehman Township Board of Supervisors.

“It is great to see a number of agencies coming together to help make this worthy rural project a reality in Lehman Township,” said Bob Morgan, State Director for USDA Rural Development. “With the increasing elderly population in the area, it is nice to see Rural Development’s Community Facilities program reach those individuals in the community that will benefit most. This proposed facility is essential for the community it serves.”

The Community Facilities Direct Loan and Grant Program is administered by the U.S. Department of Agriculture Rural Development to provide affordable funding to rural municipalities to build and support community facilities that provide essential services. Examples include health care facilities like hospitals and clinics, public facilities like town halls and street improvements, community support services like community centers and childcare centers, and educational services like museums and libraries.

 

CASEY LEADS BIPARTISAN LETTER URGING VETERANS AFFAIRS TO MAKE WEBSITES ACCESSIBLE FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES

CASEY RELEASES VA REPORT SHOWING ONLY 10 PERCENT OF VA’S WEBSITES ARE ACCESSIBLE FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES, INCLUDING BLIND, DEAF AND PARALYZED VETERANS

CHAIRMAN CASEY’S 2020 LEGISLATION REQUIRES THE VA TO MAKE INFORMATION PUBLIC REGARDING WHICH VA WEBSITES ARE ACCESSIBLE FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES

 ONE FOURTH OF ALL VETERANS HAVE A DISABILITY FROM MILITARY SERVICE

Senator Bob Casey (Photo: LuLac archives)

This week, U.S. Senate Aging Committee Chairman Bob Casey  led a bipartisan, bicameral group of committee leaders in sending a letter to U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Secretary Denis McDonough urging the agency to improve VA website accessibility for disabled veterans. The letter was signed by the Ranking Member of the Senate Aging Committee and the Chairs and Ranking Members of the Senate and House Veterans Affairs Committees, among others.

Chairman Casey is also releasing a recent report from the VA that shows only 10 percent of VA websites are fully accessible for people with disabilities, as required by law, posing barriers to deaf, blind and paralyzed veterans. This report was required by Chairman Casey’s bipartisan VA Website Accessibility Act, which became law in 2020, and mandates that the VA issue reports to Congress on the accessibility of its websites, along with a plan to make them accessible. Because the report lacked key details, such as a detailed remediation plan and timeline, Chairman Casey and his colleagues are calling on the VA to resubmit its report with more information, including what the agency is doing to fix its websites.

Veterans use VA websites to access a range of benefits, including health care, disability claims, education and training, housing assistance and more. VA employees also use VA websites to serve veterans. Without full accessibility of all its websites, veterans face barriers accessing the benefits they earned through their sacrifices to our country, and disabled VA employees face barriers in effectively providing those benefits.

“We write with continuing concern regarding the Department of Veterans Affairs’ (VA’s) poor compliance with Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, which was amended nearly a quarter century ago to require government electronic and information technology, including websites, to be accessible for individuals with disabilities. A report required by the VA Website Accessibility Act of 2019 showed that only eight percent of VA’s internet sites and six percent of its intranet sites are fully compliant with Section 508. This lack of compliance is a problem for the one-quarter of all veterans with a service-connected disability, as well as the 26 percent of the general public with a disability, including veterans, VA employees and people who might seek information from the Department on behalf of a veteran,” wrote the signers.

“Given the enormous task facing VA, the lack of substantive remediation plans and the uneven progress toward compliance spanning multiple presidential administrations, we seek additional information about the Department’s plans to improve its Section 508 compliance.”

The letter was signed by Senate Aging Committee Ranking Member Tim Scott (R-SC) and Senate Committee on Veterans’ Affairs Chairman Jon Tester (D-MT) and Ranking Member Jerry Moran (R-KS), as well as House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs Chairman Mark Takano (D-CA-41) and Ranking Member Michael Bost (R-IL-12). House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs Chair Elaine Luria (D-VA-2) and Ranking Member Troy Nehls (R-TX-22) as well as Subcommittee on Technology Modernization Chairman Frank Mrvan (D-IN-1) and Ranking Member Matthew Rosendale (R-MT-AL) also joined Senator Casey in sending the letter.

Below is a timeline of Chairman Casey’s work on the issue of VA web accessibility:

March 2020: Senator Casey introduced the bipartisan Department of Veterans Affairs Website Accessibility Act alongside Senator Moran and Representative Luria directing the VA to report to Congress regarding the accessibility of VA websites to people with disabilities.

December 2020: Senator Casey’s Department of Veterans Affairs Website Accessibility Act became law (P.L. 116-213).

January 2021: Senator Casey sent a letter to then-VA Secretary Robert Wilkie to confirm the VA was taking steps to implement the VA Website Accessibility Act and ensuring robust enforcement of Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act after reports that the agency was not meeting standards of accessibility established by those laws.

April 2021: Senator Casey sent a letter following up on concerns on VA website accessibility with VA Secretary McDonough.

September 2021: VA transmitted a report to Congress regarding Section 508 compliance.

March 2022: Senator Casey received responses from VA to questions from his April 2021 letter.

 

GOV. WOLF HIGHLIGHTS WORKFORCE TRAINING INITIATIVES, CALLS FOR NEW INVESTMENTS IN PENNSYLVANIA WORKERS, BUSINESSES, COMMUNITIES

Governor Tom Wolf (Photo: LuLac archives)

The Wolf Administration joined the Harrisburg Regional Chamber & CREDC to give an address highlighting Governor Tom Wolf’s commitment to workforce and economic development and new opportunities to make major investments in Pennsylvania families, businesses and communities.

“I’ve always recognized the importance of our business industry to the continued growth of our commonwealth,” said Gov. Wolf. “That’s why I’ve made it a priority over the past seven and a half years to invest in our commonwealth’s businesses. As we look to the future, we have an opportunity before us to build on the work we’ve done over the past seven years and make a major new investment in our economy and in Pennsylvanians. That’s exactly what I want to do in this year’s budget: build on our successes in order to pave the way to a prosperous future for all Pennsylvanians. And right now, we have the money to do it.”

“Technology is changing fast, and the nature of work is changing right along with it. We need to take a strategic, forward-looking approach to workforce development to ensure that today’s students and workers have the skills they need for tomorrow’s jobs – and that’s exactly what the administration, ​under the leadership of Governor Wolf, has done,” said Department of Community and Economic Development Acting Secretary Neil Weaver.

The Wolf Administration has invested $116 million in science, computer science and technical education, including $80 million in the innovative PAsmart program, which Gov. Wolf launched in 2018, and $36 million in apprenticeships and workforce training.

In 2017, Gov. Wolf launched the Training-to-Career program as part of his Manufacturing PA Initiative, and has since funded 76 projects with more than $16.6 million. The Training-to-Career program supports businesses by building a pipeline of workers equipped with the skills these businesses need to grow and thrive while giving Pennsylvania students advanced skills and a career pathway.

The Wolf Administration has also spurred economic growth by investing directly in businesses growing or relocating in Pennsylvania through the work of the Governor’s Action Team (GAT). In the 2020-21 Fiscal Year, GAT completed 58 projects and invested $82.5 million into business growth in Pennsylvania. In turn, those projects spurred over $3.8 billion in private investment, created nearly 10,000 new jobs and retained more than 33,000 existing jobs.

Last week, Gov. Wolf announced that Pennsylvania has collected record revenues for the 2021-22 Fiscal Year – more than $4.9 billion above estimate. Based on the latest revenue estimates, even if the governor’s proposed budget were implemented in its entirety, Pennsylvania would still have a multi-billion dollar General Fund balance at the end of 2022-23.

Gov. Wolf’s budget plan calls for major investments in education, families and businesses that will strengthen our economy and lower costs for Pennsylvanians, including:

$1.25 billion in basic education funding to support students and provide an opportunity to relief to taxpayers;

$300 million for the groundbreaking Level Up initiative launched last year to support the 100 most underfunded schools in PA;

$200 million for the Nellie Bly Tuition Program for students attending a PA State System of Higher Education (PASSHE) university or community college so more people can earn a degree with less debt and encourage young people to remain in Pennsylvania;

Increase the minimum wage to $12 per hour on July 1, 2022, with annual increases of $0.50 until reaching $15 in 2028, with an estimated 1.5 million people getting a boost in pay;

Reduce the corporate net income tax rate from 9.99 percent, among the highest in the nation, to 7.99 percent immediately, with a path to 4.99 percent as quickly as possible to make Pennsylvania more competitive and expand the tax base to level the playing field for all businesses;

$1.5 million increase for the PREP Network to help small businesses and higher education institutions partner to benefit students and entrepreneurs; and

$8 million for job training through the Workforce and Economic Development Network of Pennsylvania (WEDnetPA), which has helped more than 2,000 companies train nearly 1.3 million Pennsylvanians.

$18 million increase to support the Ben Franklin Technology Development Authority, a commitment to supporting innovation in the commonwealth.

In addition to his budget proposal, Gov. Wolf wants to spend $1.7 billion of Pennsylvania’s remaining federal American Rescue Plan Act money to lower costs for Pennsylvanians struggling with higher prices right now, including:

$500 million to create the PA Opportunity Program to give money directly to Pennsylvania families in need;

$225 million to help small businesses through the COVID Relief Statewide Small Business Assistance Program; and

$204 million to increase property tax relief through the existing Property Tax/Rent Rebate Program.

 

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BILL WASCHKO 

 William S. "Billy" Waschko, passed away suddenly in Lehigh Valley Hospital-Hazleton Tuesday morning. Born in Hazleton, he was the son of Marie (Pochessa) Waschko and the late George Waschko. Bill was a 1971 graduate of West Hazleton High School and attended the Career Academy's School of Broadcasting, Washington, D.C. He began his radio career at WAZL, Hazleton, and was most recently employed in the sales department at WHLM, Bloomsburg. He also spent many Saturdays helping out at the family business, Waschko's Pharmacy.

He was a lifelong leader in community organizations, including the Helping Hands Society and the Rotary Club of Hazleton. He was an integral part of countless local events, including Funfest, First Night, Tastes of Greater Hazleton, the Helping Hands and American Cancer Society telethons and the Weatherly Hillclimb. Also an avid scuba diver, Bill enjoyed many dive trips in the Caribbean and was formerly a volunteer rescue diver with the local sheriff's department.

My earliest recognition of him came when I’d listen to him do weather on the old WVCD Beautiful Music channel in Hazleton. I later wound up working with him at Citadel Broadcasting and saw him frequently when I was doing programmng with the late L.A. Tarone.

He was a broadcast institution in Hazleton, was 68 and will be missed.

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ASSAULTS WEAPON BAN IN THE 90s DIDN’T WORK

The Midday Mussolini proclaimed loudly the other day on WILK that in the 90s the assault weapon ban didn’t work. No facts,  no information no data, just the same crap spewing from his mouth.  

 

BOLD GOLD COMMUNITY FORUM 

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1975

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The United Kingdom became an oil-producing nation as the first crude oil was pumped from a well drilled into the North Sea. The Transworld 58 submersible drilling rig, located 180 miles off of the coast of Scotland, pumped the first oil from the Argyll oil field into the tanker Theogennitor……The U.S House of Representatives voted 209 to 187 to reject President Ford's proposal for a 23 cent federal fuel tax on each gallon of gasoline sold in the U.S. The President had promoted the tax as a step in eliminating U.S. dependency on foreign oil by 1985……..Alice Olson, whose husband Frank Olson had jumped to his death more than 20 years earlier, on November 28, 1953, learned for the first time that her husband had been the subject of secret CIA experiments with the hallucinogenic drug LSD. Mrs. Olson had been unaware of the CIA's role in her husband's death until reading the details in a front-page story in that morning's Washington Post, and recognized the unidentified "civilian employee" of the U.S. Army referred to in the story headlined "Suicide Revealed". The news item, in turn, was drawn from the recently released report of the Rockefeller Commission on CIA activities…..The new Communist government of South Vietnam sent an order to all "puppet soldiers" of the losing Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN), directing soldiers to attend three days of "re-education" (hoc tap), and former officers to bring supplies for one month of training. Most of the officers, complying with the order, were imprisoned for more than one month…..The Venera 9 space probe was launched by the Soviet Union to explore the planet Venus. It would land on Venus on October 22 at 13:12 Venus solar time (0513 UTC) and transmit data for 53 minutes…..At a press conference in New York City, Pelé, the Brazilian superstar footballer, signed a contract with the New York Cosmos of the North American Soccer League that made him the highest paid professional athlete in the world. The salary for Pelé, who grew up in poverty, was $4,700,000 for 107 regular season games for the Cosmos in 1975, 1976, and 1977…..In Washington, DC, the Rockefeller Commission issued its report on CIA abuses, recommending a joint congressional oversight committee on intelligence……Edward G. Connors, 42, former welterweight boxer and an organized crime figure in Boston, was set up for a hit by Whitey Bulger and Howie Winter, in retaliation for talking too much. Winter directed Connors to appear at a specific phone booth in Dorchester, Massachusetts. While Connors was engaged in conversation, Bulger and his partner Stephen Flemmi drove up and fired multiple shots into the phone booth….In Baghdad, Iraq and Iran signed a peace treaty formalizing an agreement reached in Algiers. After the monarchy in Iran was replaced by a republic, Iraq's President Saddam Hussein would declare the agreement void on September 17, 1980, seize the Shatt al-Arab river dividing the two nations, and begin the eight-year-long Iran–Iraq War…The Venera 10 space probe was launched by the Soviet Union to explore the planet Venus. It would land on Venus on October 25 at 13:42 Venus solar time (0102 UTC) and transmit data for 65 minutes….British commercial diver George Turner drowned after experiencing nitrogen narcosis and slipping his lifeline while conducting a surface-orientated SCUBA dive from the construction/pipe laying barge Choctaw I in the North Sea….and the number one song in LuLac land and America was  “Love Won't Let Me Wait” by - Major Harris.