National Video Game Day (For everyone but me… not a fan.)
– National Freezer Pop Day
– National Blueberry Day
– National Be A Kid Again Day
Meme Du Jour
THIS DAY IN HISTORY
1758 – The French help us turn back a British attack on Fort Carillon at Ticonderoga, NY
1776 – The first public reading of the Declaration of Independence in Philadelphia
1835 – The Liberty Bell cracks (again)
1865 – Four of the co-conspirators in Lincoln’s assassination are hanged
1905 – The mutineers on the battleship Potemkin surrender to Romanians
1913 – Alfred Gilbert gets a patent for his ‘Erector Set’ (Did you have one of these legendary toys?)
1918 – Ernest Hemingway is wounded in battle on the Italian Front in WWI
1923 – Warren G. Harding is the first sitting president to visit Alaska
1947 – Reports of a UFO crash near Roswell, NM
1951 – Paris celebrated its 2000th birthday (So, now Paris is 2075 years old.)
1960 – The USSR charges American pilot Francis Gary Powers with espionage
1963 – The US bans all cash transactions with Cuba
1988 – Stevie Wonder announced he will run for mayor of Detroit in 1992 (he did not)
1994 – NoKo’s dictator and ‘Great Leader’ Kim Il Sung dies at 82
1996 – ‘Wannabe’ by the Spice Girls hit #1 (It was a very sad time for music.)
2000 – Venus Williams wins Wimbledon for the first time
News and The Politics out of D.C.
CLIPS
– PRESIDENT TRUMP SAYS ‘IT’S OVER’ WITH IRAN, ‘THEY’RE SICK PEOPLE…’
– ‘WE ATTACKED VERY POWERFULLY LAST NIGHT’
– PRESIDENT TRUMP IS PULLING NO PUNCHES WITH NATO — SPAIN IS LIKELY NOT HAPPY
– THE SUBJECT OF GREENLAND CAME UP
– SCOTT JENNINGS ON MITCH McCONNELL (SCOTT SAYS MITCH CALLED HIM)
– AN UPDATE FROM THE MAINE DEM PARTY ON WHAT’S HAPPENING WITH PLATNER’S REPLACEMENT
– DEM’S COLORADO COMMIE CANDIDATE IS ALL IN FOR REPARATIONS
– MS-13 NOW’s MIKA B. SPENDS 5 MIN GRILLING POLITICO REPORTER OVER HIS STORY ON PLATNER
– KARA SWISHER & SCOTT GALLOWAY WERE OK WITH PLATNER’S BACKGROUND
– DANA PERINO GETS IT — DEMS ONLY CARED ABOUT PLATNER PROBLEM WHEN THEY WERE LOSING
– SUNNY HOSTIN CAN’T QUIT GRAHAM PLATNER
– ‘THE VIEW’ TROTS OUT M-T-G AGAIN (She’s still not over Trump.)
– AND, M-T-G WENT ALL IN ON CLAIMING ISRAEL IS COMMITTING GENOCIDE
– SUNNY AND MS GREENE WENT TOE-TO-TOE
– THE IRONICALLY-NAMED JOY BEHAR AND M-T-G OBVIOUSLY DON’T LIKE EACH OTHER
– JASMINE CROCKETT TELLING CRAZY STORIES, SHOWING A LOT OF LEG AT THE GLOBAL BLACK ECONOMIC FORUM
– CHUCK TODD IS STILL RANTING ABOUT TRUMP AND ‘AMERICA 250’ (He’s confusing clicks with love,)
More News From DC
– U.S. HITS IRAN AGAIN (AFTER THE IRANIANS FIRED ON SHIPS IN THE STRAIT)
– IRAN ALSO LOST ITS ABILITY TO SELL OIL (THEY HAD A 60 DAY PASS, NO MORE)
– EVEN IF PLATNER DROPS OUT, POLYMARKET STILL HAS DEMS WINNING THAT SEAT
– DID WE REALLY NEED TO KNOW GRAHAM PLATNER (ALLEGEDLY) DID THIS DURING SEX???
– SO, WHO IS MITCH McCONNELL ACTUALLY TALKING TO???
General News
– YIKES! MIDTOWN MELTDOWN – BUILDING IS BUCKLING, EVACUATIONS EVERYWHERE
– CASES OF EXPLOSIVE DIARRHEA ARE STILL RISING IN MICHIGAN, NY, TX AND MORE STATES
– MICHIGAN APPEARS TO BE GROUND ZERO IN THIS OUTBREAK
– WHY ARE YOU PAYING SO MUCH FOR AIRLINE TICKETS? PLANE FUEL IS UP 84% IN A YEAR
– SHOULD A TN TRAM OPERATOR HAVE LOST HIS JOB OVER THIS JULY 4 TH COMMENT?
– THE AVERAGE MONTHLY PAYMENT FOR A NEW CAR JUST HIT A RECORD… (GULP) HOW MUCH?
– JAMES TAYLOR WAS INVITED TO TAYLOR SWIFT/JASON KELCE’S WEDDING – BUT, HE WAS BUSY
– THE ‘NEE-DOH CHALLENGE’ IS SWEEPING TIKTOK AND HAS COPS AND FIRE DEPTS NERVOUS
– TO MOW OR NOT TO MOW — IF YOU CUT THE GRASS, YOU’RE KILL A WHOLE BUNCH OF INSECTS
Graphic of the Day? I think so.
Other News Catching My Eye
– RARE COPY OF THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE FOUND IN ENGLAND
– HOW LONG YOU SIT WITHOUT MOVING MAKES YOU MORE LIKELY TO GET CANCER
