Thursday, January 17, 2019

THIS DAY IN HISTORY

1819 – Simon Bolivar proclaimed Columbia to be a Republic

1939 – Germany’s Reich issues an order forbidding Jews from practicing as dentists, veterinarians and chemists

1950 – Anthony ‘Fats’ Pino and his gang of 10 pulled off the great Brinks Robbery in Boston, stealing over $2.7 million in cash. (They almost got away with it. But, most of the money was never recovered.)

1961 – President Eisenhower delivers a televised and prophetic farewell address.

1977 – Utah executed killer Gary Gilmore (The death penalty was ruled ‘cruel and unusual punishment’ between 1972 and 1976.)

News and The Politics out of D.C.

FOUR AMERICANS KILLED IN SYRIA, ISIS CLAIMED RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE ATTACK

PELOSI TELLS TRUMP THE STATE OF THE UNION IS ON HOLD IF THE GOV’T IS STILL CLOSED

OF COURSE, PELOSI TOOK SOME HEAT FOR HER STUNT

DEM REP STENY HOYER TELLS FOX NEWS BORDER WALLS WORK AND ARE NOT IMMORAL (PELOSI IS GONNA BE PISSED)

NEW MEXICO RANCHERS NEAR THE BORDER — ‘WE’VE FOUND PRAYER RUGS’

AOC EXPLAINS THE RATIONALE FOR HER 70% TAX PLAN — BECAUSE BILLIONAIRES MAKE ‘TONS OF MONEY’

GIULIANI SAYS ‘NO COLLUSION’ WITH RUSSIANS APPLIED ONLY TO THE PRESIDENT, NOT EVERYONE IN HIS CAMPAIGN

CHINA’S ECONOMY CZAR IS HEADED TO WASHINGTON — A GOOD SIGN FOR TRUMP’S TRADE DEAL PUSH

MEANWHILE, VIDEO SURFACES FROM DEMS POSH PARTY IN PUERTO RICO AMID GOV’T SHUTDOWN

MORE ‘PROOF OF LIFE’ BEING DEMANDED AS JUSTICE GINSBURG CANCELS A LATE JANUARY PUBLIC APPEARANCE

THE DNC HAS PULLED ITS NAME FROM THE SPONSORS LIST ON THE ‘WOMEN’S MARCH’ WEBPAGE

FBI ARRESTED A GEORGIA MAN PLOTTING TO ATTACK THE WHITE HOUSE

General News

BRITISH PM BARELY SURVIVED ‘NO CONFIDENCE’ VOTE — BUT, BREXIT PROBLEMS STILL LOOM

MICROSOFT PLEDGED $500 MILLION TO HELP THE HOMELESS IN SEATTLE

MICHIGAN STATE’S PRESIDENT TO RESIGN AFTER OUTRAGE OVER HIS LATEST COMMENTS ABOUT ABUSE VICTIMS

CBS HOLDS A TOWN HALL FOR EMPLOYEES AND IT GETS UGLY… “WHERE’S THE $120 MIL MOONVES WAS GONNA GET?”

HOW CLOSE ARE WE TO AN ALZHEIMER’S VACCINE?

REMEMBER THE PRINCIPAL WHO BANNED CANDY CANES? SHE WON’T BE COMING BACK TO WORK

CELEBS OFFER CLEMSON’S FOOTBALL TEAM A ‘CHAMPIONS DINNER’ WITH LOBSTER AND CAVIAR, ETC

Strange News Catching My Eye

THE CELERY JUICE DIET… IS IT REAL?

ALEXA WON’T SHUT DOWN

BROKE TEEN WHO SOLD A KIDNEY TO BUY IPHONE WILL NEVER BE THE SAME, BEDRIDDEN FOR LIFE

KARMA IS A BITCH… HE THOUGHT HE WOULD DRIVE OVER THE SNOWMAN… THE ONE BUILT AROUND A LARGE TREE STUMP