The LuLac Edition #2523, September 22nd, 2013
MAYBE I’M AMAZED
MAYBE I’M AMAZED………..that only a handful of people were in line at Best Buy when the new IPhone machines came out. That either tells you LuLac land is wired just fine thank you or else people really don’t care that much.
MAYBE I’M AMAZED………at the father of the cat from the Abingtons who was arrested by the Secret Service for threatening the life of the President when Obama came to Scranton. The guy’s father said his son was a good boy. Yeah, a good boy who just happened to have 11,000 rounds of ammunition in his house. Marguerite Oswald, Lee’s mom said this, “"Lee Harvey Oswald my son, even after his death, has done more for his country than any other living human being." So go figure.
MAYBE I’M AMAZED…….that there seems to be a resurgence and recognition of the Presidency of Lyndon Johnson. Johnson is going to be the subject of a Broadway play with “Breaking Bad” star Brian Cranston playing the 36th President. Johnson who died 40 years ago on January 22nd in the late afternoon at his Texas ranch (he was 64) has benefited by the rudderless Congress. Stories of Johnson’s wrangling of Senators to get the Civil Rights Bill have become the stuff of legend and are even more pronounced given the diminution of bipartisan poetics in Washington. Plus Johnson gets very little credit for the seamless transition that occurred fifty years ago when he became President after the death of John Kennedy.
MAYBE I’M AMAZED……..that Pen State was the fourth biggest selling sports ticket in the nation this week. It appears that Nittany Lion fans are coming back in force and that is in no small measure to the leadership of the Penn State coach Bill O’Brien. Also, I’m going to make a prediction here, the Paterno statue will be up on campus by the year 2020.
MAYBE I’M AMAZED…….that the city of Wilkes Barre has fined Sherman Hills over 30,000 bucks for code infractions. Good. It is about time. If the new ordinance is going to go after landlords with problem tenants, then go after a landlord and/or company that has had a history of problems.
MAYBE I’M AMAZED………….that it appears County Democratic leaders are more concerned about taking back Control of the Controller’s office than they are having a working majority on the County Council.
MAYBE I’M AMAZED…….that from the crime files, we have Jason Geasley who was arrested on a parole violation. This was the guy stealing bones from the Hollenbeck cemetery and was jailed a few years back. Then there were the two drug dealers/users living in filth in Kingston who were arrested on trafficking charges. The woman had packets of drugs in her mouth as a way of concealing them. She told police she was not a dealer but a user. I guess she was trying to just gulp ‘em down for a maximum ride.
MAYBE I’M AMAZED…..that Senators Ted Cruz, Mike Lee and Republican Sen. Rand Paul says President Barack Obama's health care law probably can't be defeated or gotten rid of. And he's suggesting there is little he and other congressional Republicans can do to stop the law from taking effect. Then why are they wasting our time with their blockage of a law? The only thing I can see is that Cruz and these other idiots wanted to have Congress defund it, then have a vote go to the senate so Senators who are on the ropes for 2014 will have to take one more vote on it. Then the GOP lie machine will bombard their states with ads that completely misrepresent the Affordable Health Care Act as well as the sitting Senator. Awful people who don’t belong in positions of trust.
MAYBE I’M AMAZED……..that as the Yankees set to honor Mariano Rivera today for his long service to the New York Yankees as well as his contributions to Major League Baseball, it has been revealed that Rivera was almost traded to Seattle in 1995. Yankee adviser to George Steinbrenner, Clyde King thought that the team needed a back up to then rookie Derek Jeter because King thought he was progressing too slowly. King who had an undue influence on Steinbrenner almost had his way but Gene Michael, the man rebuilding what would become the Yankee dynasty put the brakes to that action seeing potential in Rivera. King was described by many as back stabbing, petty influence on the Yankees and he held great sway with the owner. Many Yankee experts think had King not been part of the equation, the Yanks might have gotten to the post season earlier.
MAYBE I’M AMAZED………that even Karl Rove has taken Senators Ted Cruz and Mike Lee for not consulting with other Senators on their two front assault on their own party members in Congress and the Affordable Health Care Act. History has shown that when the GOP touts government shutdown, it never works out for them in the long run.
MAYBE I’M AMAZED….....that former Senator and Presidential candidate John Edwards has not yet, not yet bought a headstone for his late wife’s (Elizabeth Edwards) grave in North Carolina. Edwards reminds me of that old Garth Brooks song, “Thank God for Unanswered Prayers”. Can you imagine if a slime ball like that got anywhere near the residency? The one saving grace of George W. Bush’s reelection in 2004 was that Edwards didn’t get near the Vice Presidency.
MAYBE I’M AMAZED………that it has been forty years since two big events in the month of September. The first was that tennis match between Bobbie Jean King and Bobby Riggs. That was broadcast nationally on ABC TV and was a huge event. Riggs said he took a dive, King is trying to debunk that statement. I don’t know, I saw the thing on TV and think she faced him. She had an age advantage to begin with.
And also forty years ago last week was the untimely death of Jim Croce. Hated “Big Bad Leroy Brown” but loved his other stuff especially this one.
posted by David Yonki @ 11:05 AM
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Worked for ABC/Dunhill around the time of Croce's death. It was absolutely unbelievable the way his records started flying off the shelves. He was already selling very well. Couldn't get them in and out of the warehouse fast enough. Agree with you on Leroy Brown, but most of the other material was insightful, sensitive and very very good. A real shame.
Pete
Habitat for Humanity should check out the people getting help. I have never taken them seriously and certainly won't now.
So if I give them a sob story, I get a house. No strings.
Should've called them to do your roof Yonk.
Bring out the old cane, the MRIs from the cancer, kick the dog so he limps a bit...you could've pulled it off.
Johnson will always be saddled by the war in Vietnam. But if it wasn't for him, I doubt Civil Rights would not have come as soon as it did and as peaceful as it happened back then.
County Democratic leaders are more concerned that three of the five candidates on their ticket will actually get elected. You see, those three candidates aren't really Democrats; take a look at what they want to do. They're Tea Partiers with D's next to their names. If Luzerne was a majority Republican county, they'd be running as Republicans. They're out of their minds and I don't blame the Democrats for not supporting them. They got the nomination because no one good wanted to run for Council after seeing the sh*tshow that it turned out to be, so they got the nomination solely by default, and that's not enough to merit official party support. Let the GOP and the one Independent take three of the seats and only two of the Dems -- Instead of focusing on having a majority on the County Council, the Democrats are smartly and rightfully focusing on making sure that the Council candidates elected are, first and foremost, sane; even if some turn out to not be registered Democrats.
They're not standing in line for the new I-Phone because it's easier just to go downtown Wilkes-Barre and steal one from someone else.
"I Believe!"
If there is such a thing as purgatory, Lyndon B Johnson is there and rightfully so!
LBJ and the Southern wing of the Democratic Party persisted in supporting anti-black positions. Consider, as LBJ's term neared:
- In 1956, Democrats expressed their opposition to the desegregation decision of Brown v. Board of Education in the "Southern Manifesto." One hundred members of Congress, all Democrats, signed the manifesto.
- In 1957, REPUBLICAN President Eisenhower authored a Civil Rights Bill, hoping to repair the damage done to blacks and their civil rights by Democrats for nearly a century. Passage of the bill was blocked by Senate Democrats.
- In 1959, Eisenhower authored a Voting Rights Bill, again, in an effort to undo the disenfranchisement of blacks by Democrats through poll taxes, literacy tests, and threats of violence by the KKK. And once again, passage of the bill is blocked by Senate Democrats.
IN RESPONSE
1:42PM
And once again, passage of the bill is blocked by Senate Democrats.
VERY TRUE. KENNEDY NEVER GOT OFF THE DIME ON CIVIL RIGHTS UNTIL MAY OF 1963. HE GOT THE BLACK VOTE IN 1960 BECAUSE HIS BROTHER IN LAW, SARGENT SHRIVER TOOK THE CALL FROM MRS. KING. HE ADVISED JFK TO SEND A SYMPATHETIC MESSAGE TO MRS. KING AFTER MLK JR WAS JAILED IN THE SOUTH. BOBBY KENNEDY WENT BALISTIC BECAUSE HE WAS AFRAID OF LOSING SOUTHERN VOTES.
THE KENNEDYS CAME TO THE PARTY LATE.
JOHNSON WAS CLOSE FRIENDS WITH THE PERSON WHO BLOCKED ALL OF THE LEGISLATION YOU REFER TO. HE KNEW RUSSELL'S BAG OF TRICKS AND COBBLED TOGETHER A COALITION OF LIBERAL AND MODERATE DEMOCRATS AND REPUBLICANS LIKE EVERETT DIRKSON WHO WANTED TO BE ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF HISTORY.
IN RESPONSE
They're not standing in line for the new I-Phone because it's easier just to go downtown Wilkes-Barre and steal one from someone else.
"I Believe!"
KUDOS!!! WISH I WROTE THAT!!!!
Remember, if we go by standards of the time politically, the South was dominated by the Democratic Party for the singular reason that the GOP, the party of Lincoln, freed the slaves and oversaw reconstruction.
If my history is correct, in 1956 the very liberal Democrat, Adlai Stevenson, a communist by today's tea party standards, WON all of the deep south. This was not because he supported civil rights, it was because Ike was in the party of Lincoln.
It was not until the 64 civil rights act was passed (and JFK's open support of it in 63) that Southerners began to turn on the Dem party. ANd the GOP bigwigs decided that they would go for that racist vote.
In short, GOP'ers today in the South are the Southern Dems of the 50's and 60's.
NO ONE WILL EVER CONVINCE ME THAT IF THIS STRUGGLE WERE GOING ON TODAY THAT RUSH AND HANNITY WOULD BE ON THE SIDE OF KING, JFK AND LBJ.
Then the GOP lie machine will bombard their states with ads that completely misrepresent the Affordable Health Care Act as well as the sitting Senator.
We've GOT to defund it before we know what will happen.
NO ONE WILL EVER CONVINCE ME THAT IF THIS STRUGGLE WERE GOING ON TODAY THAT RUSH AND HANNITY WOULD BE ON THE SIDE OF KING, JFK AND LBJ.
If you dropped your bias and listened: both WOULD side with King, NOT JFK or LBJ.
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