The LuLac Edition #5, 596, March 10th, 2026

 

JANUARY 6 COMMEMORATIVE

PLAQUE APPEARS IN CAPITOL

AFTER YEARS OF DELAY

Speaker Mike Johnson is to blame for the delay in placement of a plaque recognizing the storming of the Capitol on January 6^th. plaque honoring the heroism of police officers during the January 6, 2021, attack by a mob supportive of President Donald Trump has quietly been installed at the US Capitol after years of delay.

The installation of the plaque early Saturday morning, which was first reported by The Washington Post, did not feature a formal ceremony or remarks. It came years after it was required by federal law to be installed by 2023.

Since Trump’s return to office, the president and his Republican allies have either ignored the January 6 riot or recast the day’s events and diminished the level of violence that occurred. In one of the first acts of his second term, Trump pardoned over 1,000 rioters who were charged in connection to the attack. t year, two police officers who defended the Capitol on January 6 sued the Architect of the Capitol to have a memorial be installed.

In the lawsuit, Harry Dunn, formerly of the US Capitol Police, and DC Metropolitan Police officer Daniel Hodges slammed Trump’s allies in Congress and beyond for attempting to recast the events of January 6 and accused them of “rewriting” history.

According to their lawsuit, the law directs that the plaque be placed “on the western front” of the Capitol.

The plaque has been placed at the end of a hallway, just inside an entrance on the West Front of the Capitol, which is not open to the public. (MS, LuLac)

 

CONFUSION IN

THE 120^th

 Two weeks back there was a report on the West Side (the 120th district) that 30 Two weeks back there was a report on the West Side (the 120th district) that 30 voters were told that two candidates running for State Representative were in two different districts. The 30 or some voters that signed the petitions were not your average voters. Some were savvy enough to see that there was something amiss here.

We are told that complaints were filed with the state party and a resolution with the voters was taken care of. The two candidates running, Fern Leard and Johanna Bryh Smith are running in the same district to face off against incumbent Rachel Pugh.

Here’s the issue. Things get heated in a campaign. But you can’t mess with petitions. It reminds me of a scene from one of my favorite movies of all time starring Henry Fonda, Cliff Robertson and Dallas Pa. native Lee Tracy. 

Tracy played an ex President, Robertson played the part of an ambitious U.S. Senator, In one scene Hochsteader, the ex President says to Robertson the Senator, President Art Hockstader: Y'know, it's not that I object to your being a bastard, don't get me wrong there. It's your being such a stupid bastard that I object to.”

Be competitive all you want in a campaign, but don’t be stupid.

WHO ARE THE “REAL” DEMOCRATS?

There seems to be a lot of discussion going around as to who are the real Democrats. People seem to be treating this as something new for the Democrats. It’s not. There have ben factions and splits in the party as long as I’ve been alive.

Currently this splinter began last year when the Dem Executive Committee, emboldened by a near sweep of the county Council races decided to dispatch then Chair Tom Shubilla from his position months before his term ran out. Then the Executive committee led by new Council members decided to sanction Fern Laird for breaking a party rule by having her picture taken with a Republican law enforcement officer. Both were doing community work.  

HOLY SHIT! A law enforcement resident in a district where you need all voters of any stripe. 

Well these guys picked on the wrong person. Little did the know that Fern Leard had a loyal infrastructure.  A built in loyalty that began disenchanted with the high handed dispatch of Shubilla and the “trial” of Leard. So they formed their own group. That group the independent Democratic Coalition of NEPA has been holding very  successful petition signings. The traditional team held two events. Other candidates had their own.

Two things happened.

1.  Petitions got signed at multiple events despite the philosophical differences.

2.  Everybody who signed them were real Democrats.

There’s an element in the Democratic party that thinks history began on the day they first voted. The Democrats won elections even if the party was split. The old timers knew that in the General if a skunk was a Dem, you held your nose and voted him in. The GOP MAGAs taught that lesson well but for the wrong agendas.

Here’s what all Dems need to know. The county registration:

The latest figures:

REPUBLICANS 91, 936

DEMOCRATS  84,038 

7898 Rs ahead of Ds.

INDEPENDENTS  30, 634

Dems…………..you’re behind in registration. You didn’t win county council because you were swell people. IT WASN’T ABOUT YOU!

The way I look at it, you have 38 352 people to convince in the general. You need EVERY Democrat on deck to persuade enough to truly send a message.   You can’t afford to throw a person out for a picture with a Republican or some outside organizer manning your ship.

The papers are pretty much signed.  Now we’re on to the primary. They will be disagreements but there should be one rule. THERE ARE REAL DEMOCRATS EVERYWHERE…and to suggest otherwise is a foolish and selfish thing.

EDITOR’S NOTE: I have contributed money to both factions this spring. Why? They’re ALL DEMOCRATS, real, not imagined in a pique of ego. 

 

 

GRAHAM STILL

A LAP DOG

Southern corn poned Senator  Lyndsey Graham ia now kissing Trump’s ass with hats. You gotta see this act. 

 

 https://youtube.com/shorts/-0XvNM5_Pwc?si=MGRUBKAkKGvaiVFt

The LuLac Edition #5, 595, March 9th, 2026

 MONDAY MEMES 

 

The LuLac Edittion #5, 594, March 8th, 2026

 

FOOD-TASTIC NEWS

PROCESSED FOODS…

THE NEW CIGARETTES?

Back in the day when I was a kid everyone smoked. My dad smoked Raleigh’s. There was a coupon on the back which encouraged you to get prizes when you had enough of them. We got an ottoman and my first stereo. I tried smoking once. It was a lot of work. You had to open the back take it out, light it with matches, put it in your mouth, smoke it and repeat the process after flipping the ashes into an ash tray. 7 steps was way too much for me. 

He quit smoking cold turkey in 1968 when he broke his leg on the railroad. The first anti-smoking commercials appeared. One that was especially effective was where William Tallmsan who played Perry Mason’s legal foe Hamilton Burger.

Today it seems processed foods might be in the cross hairs similar to the cigarette ban.

Researchers from Harvard, Duke, and the University of Michigan are calling for ultra-processed foods to be regulated like tobacco, arguing that they’re engineered for habitual overuse.

The paper compares cigarettes and ultra-processed foods, highlighting their use of additives, reward mechanisms, and marketing tactics that manipulate biological and psychological responses.

The researchers say that certain ultra-processed foods are more like engineered consumables than real food and call for policies that promote minimally processed options and limit misleading health claims.

In their research review, the parallels are pretty stark. Like cigarettes, ultra-processed foods are fine-tuned to deliver the right dose of sugar — think a quick hit from soda — or the careful balance of fat and carbs in chips.

The rapid delivery of feel-good chemicals to the brain can give these foods addictive potential, similar to cigarettes. They note that while cigarettes are engineered to deliver nicotine within seconds, ultra-processed foods are engineered for rapid digestion and absorption because they have little to no fiber, making it easier for the body to process sugar and fat more quickly.

The battle to do this involves education and a change in diet. Unlike cigarettes, nutritional choices are controlled directly by one fact: everybody eats. Food companies respond to that. Low sodium foods are healthy but sometimes not tasty.

Whether a ban on processed foods will come to fruition is unlikely. A pizza has cheese, tomato sauce and dough. But oh that pepperoni is processed. It will be hard to free that pizza topping from the cold dead hand of consumers.

And Sopersatta? As an Italian would ell you, “Fuh get about it”.

 

DAIRY QUEEN FREE CONE DAY

Dairy Queen's annual Free Cone Day is right around the corner.

Each year, the chain kicks off spring by giving away free ice cream for one day only.

Per a press release, Dairy Queen has given away 38 million free cones since the first Free Cone Day in 2015.

As the countdown to this year's event continues, we're sharing everything you need to know to scoop up a piece of the action.

Free cone day is Thursday March 19^th at participating Dairy Queen locations.

 

 

 

The LuLac Edition #5, 593, March 7th, 2026

 

MARY KATHERINE

GODDARD

AND

HER GUTSY

SIGNATURE

Mary Katharine Goddard  was an early American publisher, and the postmaster of the Baltimore Post Office from 1775 to 1789. She was the older sister of William Goddard, also a publisher and printer. She was the second printer to print the Declaration of Independence. Her copy, the Goddard Broadside, was commissioned by Congress in 1777, and was the first to include the names of the signatories.

After moving to America, The Goddard family (Sarah Updike Goddard, William Goddard and Mary Goddard) set up a printing press and were the first to publish a newspaper in Providence, Rhode Island, called The Providence Gazette.

Mary's brother William was the publisher and printer of a revolutionary publication, the Maryland Journal; however, William then left Rhode Island to start a newspaper in Philadelphia. Mary Goddard took over control of the journal in 1774, while her brother was traveling to promote his Constitutional Post, and she continued to publish it throughout the American Revolutionary War until 1784, when her brother forced her to give up the newspaper.

In 1775, Mary Katharine Goddard became postmaster of the Baltimore post office. She also ran a book store and published an almanac in offices located around 250 Market Street (now East Baltimore Street, near South Street).

Since taking over the Maryland Journal, Goddard was very active in the American Revolution, on the side of the colonial revolutionaries, via her printing. Goddard reprinted Thomas Paine's Common Sense in her publication, and she wrote and printed editorials speaking out against British brutality. Additionally, Goddard released publications about the Battle of Bunker Hill and Congress's call to arms.

Goddard Broadside of the Declaration of Independence, with "Printed by Mary Katharine Goddard" at bottom.

During the Revolution, Goddard opposed the Stamp Act vehemently because it would increase the cost of printing.

When, on January 18, 1777, the Second Continental Congress moved that the Declaration of Independence be widely distributed, Goddard was one of the first to offer the use of her press. This was in spite of the risks of being associated with what was considered a treasonous document by the British. Her copy, the Goddard Broadside, was the second printed, and the first to contain the typeset names of the signatories, including John Hancock. The names of secretary Charles Thomson and president John Hancock of the Continental Congress were the only two that were on earlier printed copies. Goddard also signed her name on the bottom of the document. It reads “Baltimore, in Maryland: Printed by Mary Katharine Goddard.” About 2 years earlier, she had started printing her name on the bottom of her newspaper. However, those she signed with “Published by M.K. Goddard" instead of her full name.

Goddard was a successful postmaster for 14 years, from 1775 to 1789. In 1789, however, she was fired by Postmaster General Samuel Osgood despite general protest from the Baltimore community. Osgood claimed that the position required "more traveling ... than a woman could undertake" and appointed a political ally of his to replace her. On November 12, 1789, over 230 citizens of Baltimore, including more than 200 leading businessmen, presented a petition demanding her reinstatement, which was unsuccessful.

After that she opened a bookstore and was a mainstay in the community until her death in 1816. As for the flunky who took her job because of political patronage, no one remembers who the hell he was. But history never forgot Mary Katherine Goddard. (wikipedia, LuLac, WVIA FM)