National Peach Cobbler Day
National Thomas Jefferson Day
National Scrabble Day
Meme Du Jour
H/T Bev Zaslow
THIS DAY IN HISTORY
1742 – Handel’s ‘Messiah’ is debuted in Dublin
1743 – Thomas Jefferson is born
1796 – The first elephant arrived in the U.S. brought from Bengal
1870 – The Metropolitan Museum of Art (The Met) opened in NYC
1902 – J.C. Penny opened his first store in Wyoming (Are there any left?)
1943 – FDR dedicates the Jefferson Memorial
1964 – Sidney Poitier wins Best Oscar for his work in ‘Lillies of the Field’ (First Black winner of Best Actor Oscar)
1970 – An oxygen tank explodes on Apollo 13 — scuttling their planned trip to the Moon
1976 – The never-popular $2 bill is re-introduced (I wonder if it will get a makeover for the 250th?)
1978 – Yankees game is delayed after fans throw free ‘Reggie’ candy bars on the field after Reggie Jackson homers
1997 – Tiger Woods wins The Masters for the first time
2017 – U.S. Military drops the MOAB (Mother of All Bombs) on an ISIS tunnel network
2020 – All 50 states are under emergency Presidential Disaster Declarations due to COVID
News and The Politics out of D.C.
CLIPS
– PRESIDENT TRUMP IS NOT HAPPY WITH NATO’S LACK OF SUPPORT FOR OUR IRAN ACTION
– POPE LEO IS ALSO ON PRESIDENT TRUMP’S ‘NICE’ LIST — ‘I’M NOT A FAN OF POPE LEO’
– TRUMP: ‘IRAN IS IN VERY BAD SHAPE’ (AND THEY WILL NOT HAVE A NUCLEAR WEAPON)
– THE PRESIDENT RESPONDS TO, ‘IS THE CEASE-FIRE HOLDING?’
– TRUMP TALKS ABOUT THE WORLD FILLING UP ON OIL FROM THE USA
– THE PRESIDENT TOLD FOX NEWS THAT CHINA CAN OIL FROM US
– MARIA BARTIROMO ASKED TRUMP ABOUT CHINA SENDING WEAPONS TO IRAN
– BARTIROMO ALSO ASKED IF THIS NAVAL BLOCKADE WILL BRING DOWN THE PRICE OF OIL
– THE LIVE QUOTE ON OIL PRICES
– SEN MARK KELLY PANDERS TO SHARPTON’S CONVENTION
– AFTER YOU HEAR KELLY’S COMMENTS ON RACE — CHECK OUT THIS PHOTO FROM HIS SHUTTLE MISSION
– I ENJOYED WATCHING CNN HAVE TO REPORT ON SWALWELL SUSPENDING HIS CAMPAIGN
– FLASHBACK TO A COUPLE OF MONTHS AGO WHEN SCHIFF WAS ENDORSING ERIC SWALWELL
– REMEMBER WHEN SWALWELL TOLD EVERYONE HOW HE LEARNED TO WEILD POWER FROM NANCY PELOSI
– LAST FALL, SWALWELL WARNED PRESIDENT TRUMP THAT THE TRUTH WILL EVENTUALLY COME OUT
– SWALWELL ALSO TOLD CHARLAMAGNE THA GOD THAT THE FANG-FANG THING WAS B.S.
– PRESIDENT TRUMP HAS THE CLOUT TO SHAPE THE WHITE HOUSE UFC FIGHT CARD
– THERE WAS A LOT OF KAMALA CLIPPAGE OUT THERE THIS WEEKEND — SO, HERE’S A CLASIC KAMALA MONTAGE
– TDS IS EVERYWHERE — THE LEFT IS TRYING TO CANCEL A TACO SHOP OVER A TRUMP PIC FROM 2020
– CARVILLE’S DECLINE CONTINUES — ANY NETWORK THAT PUTS THIS GHOUL ON TV SHOULD BE ASHAMED
More News From DC
– WHERE ARE THE NEGOTIATIONS WITH IRAN AFTER THE TEAM LEFT PAKISTAN?
– IRAN IS THREATENING OTHER PORTS IN THE MIDDLE EAST
– THE BLOCKADE IS STARTING THIS MORNING
– SEN WARNER DOESN’T UNDERSTAND THE NAVAL BLOCKADE OF THE STRAIT OF HORMUZ
– SWALWELL — SUSPENDING HIS CAMPAIGN FOR GOV (BUT, HE’S STILL IN CONGRESS?)
– WHO SAW THIS COMING? BARRON TRUMP IS STARTING A BEVERAGE BUSINESS
No, I do not own one…yet.
General News
– NY GOV HOCHUL IS SUING NUNS WHO RUN A FREE HOSPICE — OVER PRONOUNS, SERIOUSLY
– WELL, LOOKIE HERE – CALIFORNIA THINKS THEY FOUND SOME FRAUD (NICK SHIRLEY FOUND IT FIRST)
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– THE UNVEILING OF ICHIRO SUZUKI’S STATUE WAS MY SCHADENFREUDE MOMENT OF THE WEEKEND
– BRITNEY SPEARS IS BACK IN REHAB FOLLOWING HER LATEST BRUSH WITH THE LAW
– SHRINKFLATION IS EVERYWHERE — EVEN IN DEODORANT
– SERGIO GARCIA PROVES THAT PROFESSIONAL GOLFERS CAN BE JUST AS STUPID AS AMATEURS
– THE MASTERS PRIZE MONEY — WHAT EACH GOLFER MADE LAST WEEK
We need goals.
Other News Catching My Eye
– NEW HEALTH INITIATIVE WANTS MEN TO DO THIS AT LEAST 21 TIMES A MONTH (IT DOES NOT CAUSE BLINDNESS)
– I WONDER IF BILL MAHER WILL HAVE A FATWA PUT ON HIM AFTER HE SAID THIS ABOUT ISLAM?
– MAHER ALSO NOTICED THAT THE GERMAN PHRASE FOR ‘WE’RE HIRING’ IS NOT APPROPRIATE HERE
– ARE YOU PRACTICING ‘FAT DEFIANCE?’ (AND WHO INVENTED THIS MADNESS)
