RADIO: Live 6a-9a eastern on 92-5 – Daybreak with Mike Opelka (you can & should listen)
Fettucine Alfredo Day
– Bubble Gum Day
– National Wear Red Day / National Women’s Heart Day
Meme Du Jour
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Love the Bee
THIS DAY IN HISTORY
1775 – Ben Franklin (allegedly) published ‘An Imaginary Speech’ in London
1817 – The first gas street light is lit in the U.S. — in Baltimore, MD
1926 – ‘Negro History Week’ is observed for the first time
1943 – The U.S. begins wartime shoe rationing (only 3 pairs per year)
1956 – Supreme Court rules racial segregation on school buses is unconstitutional
1963 – The Mona Lisa is on display in New York at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
1964 – The Beatles arrive at JFK Airport in NYC – greeted by 25,000 screaming fans
1974 – Mel Brooks’ ‘Blazing Saddles’ premieres with audience on horseback
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News and The Politics out of D.C.
CLIPS
– POTUS AT THE SMALLER PRAYER BREAKFAST – ONE NATION UNDER GOD
– TRUMP AT BIG PRAYER BREAKFAST – SLAMS POLITICO, PRAISES DOGE
– ELON ON DOGE AND SPENDING AND WHAT THEY ARE FINDING
– WHAT’S ELON DOING? EVERYTHING TRUMP PROMISED ON THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL
– PRESS SEC: DOGE IS GOING THRU EVERYTHING ‘LINE BY LINE’
– TREASURY SEC SETS THE RECORD STRAIGHT ON DOGE’S ACCESS TO YOUR DATA
– SPEAKING OF DOGE, DID YOU KNOW ‘BIG BALLS’ WORKS THERE? (THANK YOU CNN)
– SEN BLACKBURN BELIEVES THE EPSTEIN FILES WILL BE RELEASED WHEN KASH IS IN
– DEM REP GREG CASAR IS VERY UPSET WITH ELON MUSK (HE BREAKS EVERYTHING)
– CNN KNOWS BANNING MEN IN WOMEN’S SPORTS IS POPULAR WITH THE PEOPLE
– STEPHEN A. SMITH JUMPS ON THE ANTI-TRANS ATHLETES BANDWAGON
– I DO LOVE THIS CHORUS OF SCREECHING DEMS
– DEM ACTIVIST CLAIMS SHE’S LOST 50LBS BECAUSE SHE CAN’T AFFORD FOOD NOW
– ANOTHER GREAT WH VIDEO — ‘THEY FOUGHT FOR US’
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AS SEEN ON CNN – ‘BIG BALLS’ WORKS AT DOGE
More News From DC
– DON’T BE SHOCKED, FETTERMAN IS A ‘NO’ ON TULSI AND RFK JR
– GOP HOUSE PASSES FENTANYL BILL WITH BIPARTISAN SUPPORT
– THERE’S A SHRINKAGE PROBLEM AT USAID — FROM A STAFF OF 10,000 TO UNDER 300
– OF COURSE, THE UNIONS ARE SUING OVER USAID SHUTDOWN
– DO YOU BELIEVE POLITICO? I’M A SOLID, ‘NO.’
– THE BEAGLE-TORTURING WHITE LAB COAT WASTE PROJECT NANCY MACE MENTIONED
– REP WASSERMAN SCHULTZ IS SPREADING LIES ABOUT CHRISTIE NOEM
– DEPT OF AGRICULTURE IS TEACHING WHAT I’M CALLING D-E-I- FARMING IN NYC
– WINNER OF THE ‘MOST WOKE’ DEM
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General News
NCAA CHANGES TUNE ON TRANS-ATHLETES AFTER TRUMP EXECUTIVE ORDER
– WOKE UNIVERSITIES MAY FACE THE WRATH OF TRUMP’S DOJ
GOV DeSANTIS BREAKS DOWN FL VS NY — ECONOMICALLY
PLANE WITH 10 ABOARD GOES MISSING OVER NOME, ALASKA
GREAT NEWS ON SPORTSCASTER DICK VITALE
CT WOMAN IS INCENSED OVER HER MASSIVE UTILITY BILL (WITH GOOD REASON)
– ALSO CT — THE STATE IS TRYING TO FORCE MOVIE THEATERS TO DO THIS
ARE ‘SEAT SQUATTERS’ REALLY A THING ON FLIGHTS???
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Sooooo, the US GOV’T sent me a form yesterday — telling me they can’t send forms due to COVID
Other News Catching My Eye
NASA IS WARNING US ABOUT THIS ASTEROID HEADED OUR WAY IN 2032
IF THERE IS A HELL (AND I BELIEVE THERE IS) THIS IS WHAT’S PLAYING 24-7
COLOMBIA’S PRESIDENT WANTS COCAINE TO BE LEGAL
HAVE YOU SEEN SCOTT BAIO’s ‘DIDDY LIST?’
– I’M NOT SAYING DIDDY’S GUILTY – BUT, WE SHOULD LOOK INTO THIS, NO?
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