Monday – August 23, 2021

THIS DAY IN HISTORY

1305 – Scottish patriot William Wallace is hanged, beheaded, drawn and quartered in London

1775 – King George III declares the American colonies to be in rebellion

1900 – Booker T. Washington for the National Negro Business League in Boston

1927 – Immigrant workers Sacco and Vanzetti are executed for a crime they did not commit 

1947 – The first Little League World Champions are crowned in Williamsport, PA

1950 – The US Army tells 77,000 members of the reserves to get ready to join the Korean War

1954 – The first flight of the military’s massive C-130 Hercules 3aircraft

1990 – East and West Germany announce they will reunite on October 3rd

News and The Politics out of D.C.

BIDEN STANDS BY AFGHANISTAN EVACUATION DISASTER

PENTAGON ACTIVATES CIVIL AIR RESERVE FLEET FOR ONLY THE 3RD TIME IN HISTORY

U.S. AND GERMAN FORCES REPORTEDLY INVOLVED IN FIREFIGHT WITH GUNMAN AT KABUL AIRPORT

ADMINISTRATION CONSIDERS BLOWING UP MILITARY EQUIPMENT LEFT BEHIND

DID YOU KNOW WE EVACUATED THE FRENCH EMBASSY BEFORE SAVING AMERICANS

CBS REPORTER CONFRONTS BIDEN WITH NEGATIVE POLL ABOUT HIS INCOMPETENCE
    – POLL: AMERICANS WANT US OUT OF AFGHANISTAN – WE JUST DISLIKE THE WAY BIDEN’S DOING IT

FORMER BRITISH PM TONY BLAIR SLAMS BIDEN’S AFGHAN PULL OUT AS ‘IMBECILLIC’

BLINKEN ADMITS U.S. IS ASKING FOR “PERMISSION” TO RESCUE AMERICANS

NY TIMES BASHES BIDEN ON AFGHANISTAN INCOMPETENCE, “AT ODDS WITH REALITY’

TALIBAN REPORTEDLY SETS WOMAN ON FIRE BECAUSE HER COOKING SUCKED

FORMER NAVY SEAL WHO KILLED BIN LADEN WANTS TO GO AND RESCUE AMERICANS

SOOOOO HOW ARE WE VETTING THE AFGHAN REFUGEES???

MEANWHILE IN SINGAPORE, VP KAMALA HARRIS IS SAYING BASICALLY NOTHING

NIKKI HALEY ON BIDEN ADMIN, ‘THEY HAVE COMPLETELY SURRENDERED’

FOX NEWS ANNOUNCES IT HAS EVACUATED THREE AFGHANS WHO WORKED WITH THEM

JOE MANCHIN SAYS THE COAL INDUSTRY MUST BE SAVED (HE WANTS TO BE RE-ELECTED)

VIDEO SHOWS MASKLESS PELOSI AND HER FOLLOWERS AT A HUGE FUNDRAISER

OUCH – CBS REPORTER’S TWEET ZINGS BIDEN ON LACK OF KNOWLEDGE ABOUT BAD POLL

General News

AT LEAST 22 DEAD, 50 MISSING IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE FLOODS

HENRI’S RAINS WILL LEAVE A SWAMPY MESS BEFORE HEADING OUT TO SEE

FDA REPORTEDLY SET TO GIVE FULL APPROVAL TO COVID VACCINE ON MONDAY

‘MASK WARS’ TURN VIOLENT AS STUDENTS RETURN TO COLLEGE CAMPUSES

KY COURT CLEARS THE WAY FOR LAWMAKERS TO REIGN IN GOV’S PANDEMIC POWERS

AFTER PROTESTS GROW AND COVID SURGES, AUSTRALIA RETHINKS IT’S COVID LOCKDOWNS

WANT TO SEE AN OREGON OR OREGON STATE GAME? BRING YOUR VACCINE PAPERS

WTF AUSTRALIA? RESCUE DOGS SHOT BECAUSE OF COVID RESTRICTIONS

TEXAS COUNTIES THAT FILED FOR AID DUE TO BORDER CRISIS, HAVE NOT GOTTEN IT

AUBURN STUDENT GOVT VOTES DOWN JUDICIAL NOMINEE OVER CONSERVATIVE. TWEETS

Other News Catching My Eye

AT LEAST 17 TOP EXECUTIVES LEAVE BLUE ORIGIN AFTER SPACE X GETS BIG NASA CONTRACT

LARRY THE CABLE DOES WHAT LATE NIGHT HOSTS WILL NOT DO… SKEWER BIDEN

MSNBC AND RACHEL MADDOW COME TO TERMS, SHE’S STAYING

REVENGE OF THE NERD — GOOGLE’S 3RD FOUNDER ADMITS HE CREATED REVENGE SITE TO MESS WITH HIS ESTRANGED WIFE

R-I-P DON EVERLY – GONE AT 84

HEARTWARMING: PURPLE HEART RETURNED TO FMILY 76 YEARS AFTER SOLDIER’S DEATH