Monday – February 5, 2024

Chocolate Fondue Day

Meme Du Jour

THIS DAY IN HISTORY

1783 – Sweden recognizes U.S. independence
1917 – Congress nullifies President Wilson’s veto of the Immigration Act (literacy tests are required – can you imagine?)
1918 – The Soviets proclaim a separation of church and state
1922 – Reader’s Digest begins publishing in NY
1937 – FDR announced his ‘court-packing’ plan (Dems still like the idea)
1952 – NY adopts three-color traffic lights
1972 – Don McLean’s ‘American Pie’ is #1 

News and The Politics out of D.C.

THE MEDIA CALLS IT THE ‘SENATE BORDER DEAL’ (HOW MUCH $$$ IS FOR THE BORDER?)

 – SPEAKER JOHNSON SAYS THE BILL IS ‘EVEN WORSE THAN WE EXPECTED’

 – JOHNSON ALSO VOWS TO RELEASE ‘STAND ALONE’ BILL TO SUPPORT ISRAEL

 – SENATE BILL HAS ZERO DOLLARS FOR UN AGENCY THAT HELPED HAMAS ON OCT 7

    – REPUBLICAN GOVS AT THE BORDER ‘DOING THE JOB OF THE FEDERAL GOV’T’

 – HOWIE CARR’S OP-ED ON WHAT THE MIGRANTS ARE DOING TO BOSTON

NBC POLL SHOWS MORE BAD NEWS FOR BIDEN — TRUMP’S LEAD IS GROWING

RFK JR IS SCARING BOTH THE DEMS AND THE GOP

TRUMP QUIZZED ABOUT HIS VP PICK AND MORE BY MARIA BARTIROMO 

NIKKI HALEY MAKES AN APPEARANCE ON SNL – TAKES SWINGS AT TRUMP

WATCH: BILL MAHER SHOW GOV SUNUNU SOME TRUTH

DARK MONEY IS FLOWING TO ‘DARK BRANDON’

ICYMI: BIDEN’S CONFUSING STATEMENT ON ABORTION 

ISRAEL / HAMAS / MIDDLE EAST

U.S. STRIKES IN THE MIDDLE EAST DIDN’T DO MUCH (ACCORDING TO SEN GRAHAM)

 – JAKE SULLIVAN WON’T RULE OUT STRIKES INSIDE IRAN

ANNIE LENNOX USES GRAMMY STAGE TO CALL FOR GAZA CEASE-FIRE

NHL ALL-STAR GAME ANTHEM SINGER WAS AN ANTI-ISRAEL ACTIVIST

General News

CALIFORNIA’S GETTING HAMMERED BY ‘ATMOSPHERIC RIVER’

 – SECOND WAVE OF STORM IS WREAKING HAVOC

CT IS THE FIRST STATE TO WIPE AWAY MEDICAL DEBT (SO, WHO’S PAYING FOR IT?)

WHY IS BEEF SO EXPENSIVE? WELL, CATTLE NUMBERS ARE AT A 73-YR LOW

FRIDAY’S JOBS REPORT — WHERE DID THE JOBS COME FROM?

CANCER DEATHS IN THE U.S. ARE DOWN – BUT, INCIDENTS OF CANCER ARE RISING

THE GRAMMYS WINNERS LIST

 – MICHELLE OBAMA WINS HER SECOND GRAMMY

 – KILLER MIKE HAD A GOOD NIGHT AND THEN A BAD NIGHT — WINNING THEN ARRESTED

 – CNN’s FAVORITE MOMENTS FROM THE GRAMMYS

DO YOU HAVE A LONG HANDLED BISSELL VAC? YA MIGHT WANNA STOP USING IT

WOKE

WATCH FOR THE BACKLASH – SHANE GILLIS SET TO HOST ‘SNL’ (BUD LIGHT $$$?)

THE WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM IS PUSHING ‘ECO-CIDE’ (AGAINST FARMING, FISHING, ENERGY)

Other News Catching My Eye

23 & ME TO BE SOLD TO EUROPEAN FIRM? WHAT ABOUT YOUR DATA???

PATRICK MAHOMES DAD NEEDS A DESIGNATED DRIVER (FACES 3RD DUI)

HERE’S THAT PARAMOUNT SUPER BOWL AD — IT IS PRETTY AMAZING

CLASSIC FERRARIS AND PORSCHES UP FOR SALE AFTER EPIC ‘BARN FIND’

DIRE STRAIGHTS’ MARK KNOPFLER AUCTIONS OFF HIS MASSIVE GUITAR COLLECTION