Wednesday – May 31, 2023

THIS DAY IN HISTORY

1790 – President Washington signs the US Copyright law… 
1859 – Big Ben is set up in London
1889 – Over 2000 people died in the Johnstown Flood 
(Damn that climate change)
1962 – Former SS Commander Adolf Eichmann is hanged in Israel
1969 – John Lennon and Yoko Ono recorded “Give Peace A Chance”
1977 – The BBC bans airplay of “God Save The Queen” by the Sex Pistols

1988 – Ronald Reagan arrived in Moscow, the first US President to do so in 14 years

News and The Politics out of D.C.

DEBT LIMIT DEAL CLEARS HOUSE PANEL AND HEADS TO A FLOOR DEBATE

– CBO SCORED THE BILL… SAYS IT COULD CUT SPENDING $1.5 TRILLION OVER 10 YEARS

– GROUP OF HOUSE REPUBLICANS IS STILL HOLDING THEIR GROUND AGAINST THE DEAL

– HOUSE REPUBLICANS WHO ARE VOTING ‘NO’ (SO FAR)

– JEFFRIES SAYS DEMS WILL DELIVER VOTES TO PREVENT DEFAULT

– AOC SAYS SHE’S VOTING AGAINST THE BILL

    – GAETZ: PASSING BILL WITHOUT A GOP MAJORITY WILL ‘LIKELY TRIGGER IMMEDIATE MOTION TO REMOVE McCARTHY

– MAJORITY OF VOTERS SUPPORT A SHUTDOWN OVER THE SPENDING

GOV DeSANTIS CAMPAIGN EVENT IN IOWA, RIPS DEBT DEAL, VOWS TO SEND BIDEN BACK TO THE BASEMENT

TRUMP PLEDGES TO END BIRTHRIGHT CITIZENSHIP — AKA ‘BIRTH TOURISM’

U.S. BORDER PATROL CHIEF IS LEAVING AT THE END OF JUNE

BIDEN SEXUAL ASSAULT ACCUSER FLEES TO RUSSIA, SAYS SHE FELT, ‘SAFE, HEARD AND RESPECTED’

NORTH KOREAN MISSILE LAUNCH TRIGGER’S JAPAN’S EMERGENCY ALERT SYSTEM

– THE NORTH KOREAN SATELLITE LAUNCH ENDS IN FAILURE, CRASHED INTO THE SEA

PENTAGON: CHINESE JET BUZZED U.S. SPY PLANE

FORMER FIRST LADY ROSALYNN CARTER HAS DEMENTIA

General News

NINE TEEN ARRESTED IN BRUTAL BEATING OF THREE MARINES IN CALIFORNIA

AIR TRAVEL IS BACK… MEMORIAL DAY TRAVEL WAS ABOVE 2019, PRE-PANDEMIC LEVELS

SEAWEED PILES HITTING FLORIDA BEACHES MAY HAVE FLESH-EATING BACTERIA

CHECK YOUR ANDROID PHONE.. A POPULAR APP MAY BE SPYING ON YOU

MORE THAN 300 MEDICAL PAPERS TIED TO COVID HAVE BEEN RETRACTED — FOLLOW THE SCIENCE, MY ASS

WOKE

DODGERS’ SUPERSTAR PITCHER IS NOT PLEASED WITH PRIDE NIGHT INCLUDING ANTI-CATHOLIC HATE GROUP

STUDY CONFIRMS: TRANS-GENDER SURGERY OFFERS NO MENTAL HEALTH BENEFIT

TARGET GETTING BOMB THREATS TIED TO PRIDE DISPLAYS… BUT, IT’S NOT FROM CONSERVATIVES

BENNY JOHNSON REPORTS TARGET IS MAKING HUGE CHANGES IN PRIDE DISPLAYS — SEE THE BEFORE AND AFTER

ALABAMA BANS TRANS-WOMEN IN COLLEGE SPORTS

HOW ARE THOSE BUD LIGHT SALES NUMBERS DOING??? PROBABLY RECOVERING, RIGHT?

CHICK-FIL-A HIRES A VP OF D-E-I TRIGGERING TALK OF A BOYCOTT

Other News Catching My Eye

YIKES! GREAT WHITE SHARK ATTACKS, KILLS DOLPHIN OFF CALIFORNIA COAST

82-YR-OL AL PACINO’S 29 YR-OLD GIRLFRIEND IS EXPECTING A BABY

SCHWARZENEGGER: ‘GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE… NO ONE GIVES A SH*T ABOUT THAT’ BUT, HE’S A CLIMATE WARRIOR

MT EVERST IS STARTING TO LOOK LIKE SAN FRANCISCO