Monday – October 19, 2026

Intl Gin & Tonic Day

– Evaluate Your Life Day

– National Seafood Bisque Day

– Clean Up Your Virtual Desktop Day

Meme Du Jour

THIS DAY IN HISTORY

1781 – The Americans defeat the British at Yorktown
1812 – Napoleon retreats from Moscow
1873 – Yale, Princeton, Columbia and Rutgers draw up the rules for football
1917 – The Salvation Army fries its first doughnut for the US Troops in France in WWI

1949 – The People’s Republic of China is formally proclaimed
1953 – Bradbury’s ‘Fahrenheit 451’ is published in the U.S.
1960 – The U.S. begins embargoing exports to Cuba
 (Over the Soviet missiles)

1973 – President Nixon tells the Appeals Court to pound sand – not turning over the tapes
1982 – John Delorean is arrested for conspiring to distribute cocaine
1985 – The first Blockbuster Video store opened in Dallas, TX

2003 – Mother Theresa is beatified by Pope John Paul II
2019 – AOC endorsed Bernie Sanders for President

News and The Politics out of D.C.

CLIPS

– TRUMP IN KS THIS WEEKEND: AMERICA DOES NOT BELONG TO THOSE WHO HATE IT

– THE PRES WAS IN GEORGIA ON FRIDAY – WARNING WHAT DEMS WILL DO WITH POWER

– WILL JD VANCE RUN IN 2028?

– VP VANCE TO VOTER: WE’RE  WORKING TO FIX PROBLEMS DEMS CREATED

     – MORE VANCE: DATA CENTERS HAVE TO BE GOOD CITIZENS

– BORDER CZAR HOMAN’S COMMENTS SHOULD MAKE ILHAN OMAR VERY NERVOUS

– SEC BESSENT BRINGS MORE CLARITY ON THE ZELENSKYY / STARLINK ISSUE

– SEN. ELISSA SLOTKIN IS NOT A MODERATE DEMOCRAT AND PROVES IT HERE

– GA SEN WARNOCK IS NOT HIDING DEM’S AGENDA – SAYING TRUMP’S GOTTA GO

– FL DEM ANGIE NIXON IS ALSO ALL-IN ON ARRESTING, JAILING POLITICAL OPPONENTS

– DEM SEN CHRIS MURPHY WANTS THE INTERNET REGULATED AND MORE GOV’T

– ME DEM DOESN’T KNOW MUCH (HE SHOWS HIS IGNORANCE ON CNN)

    – HE DOESN’T REGRET TELLING SUSAN COLLINS TO ‘SHUT UP’

– FRENCH PRESIDENT MACRON IS NOT REALLY TAKING A TOUGH STAND ON RIOTERS

     – MACRON WONDERS, ‘HOW CAN FRENCH PEOPLE DO THIS TO FRANCE?’

     – THANK GOD – GRETA THUNBERG HAS SHOWN UP IN FRANCE TO UNITE EVERYONE

– POLLSTER FRANK LUNTZ (AND HIS TOUPEE) DON’T SEE A BLUE TSUNAMI

– CBS POLLING ON TIGHT TEXAS SENATE RACE

– JANE FONDA IS SPREADING FEAR

– STEPHEN A. SMITH IS TELLING BILL O’REILLY WHY HE’S PIVOTED TO POLITICS

– COOL MIDTERMS AD (AND, IT AINT BECAUSE THE GUY’S NAME IS ‘MICHAEL’)

More News From DC

– THE PRES AND VP SCHEDULES

– SUMMIT TO END RUSSIA / UKRAINE WAR? (MAYBE. ZELENSKYY NOT INVITED)

– COINCIDENCE? ZELENSKYY UNLEASHES 1000 DRONE ATTACK ON RUSSIA

– MEANWHILE, THERE’S GROWING BACKLASH AGAINST TRUMP’S DIESEL DEAL

– THE BBC REPORTING ON FRANCE’S ‘PEACEFUL PROTESTS’

– WATCH: MILAN, ITALY IS SEEING SOME RIOTERS TAKING TO THE STREETS

– CANADA LOSES FOUR MILITARY MEMBERS IN MYSTERIOUS FIRE ON ALBERTA BASE

– LIKE MOST OF US, KATIE ZACHARIA REMEMBERS EXACTLY WHEN SHE WAS FIRED

– POPE LEO IS UP AND ABOUT, LEADING SUNDAY PRAYER AFTER CANCER SURGERY

– U.S. CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ENDORSES PAXTON OVER TALARICO

– THIS PAST WEEKEND’S ‘NO KINGS’ PROTESTS SEEMED MORE ANEMIC THAN USUAL

– IF YOU FOLLOW ‘DATA REPUBLICAN’ (AND I DO) YOU’VE LIKELY SEEN THIS

General News

– DRIVER RELEASED AFTER DEADLY WRECK AT KANSAS YOUTH SOCCER EVENT

– WHAT A SHOCKER — ILLEGALS ON MOPEDS ARE ROBBING PEOPLE IN NYC

– MID-ATLANTIC SET TO BE HIT BY ANOTHER NOR’EASTER

– SEX-CRAZED DEER HAVE NJ DRIVERS ON EDGE

– ‘FLORIDA MAN’ EATEN BY 12 FOOT GATOR

– SERIOUSLY? A NEW, SECRET INFORMANT HAS STEPPED FOR IN THE OJ CASE?

– CAN YOU MAKE A LIVING IN FARMING? MAYBE. IF YOU’RE A PUMPKIN FARMER

– ELON MUSK TO GIVE EVERY CHILD IN AMERICA A SHARE OF SPACEX STOCK

(YA HAVE TO WONDER IF ILHAN OMAR WILL FILE TO GET HER SHARE?)

Other News Catching My Eye

– YIKES! PRIEST KILLED BY FALLING CROSS AS HE WAS SAYING MASS IN ECUADOR

– NEED A LAUGH OR TEN? CHECK THE COMMENTS TO THIS X POST

– AN A-I GENERATED FAKE GIRLFRIEND GOT THIS GUY TO TRAVEL 1200 MILES

– DO YOU KNOW THE HISTORY OF THOSE CLASSIC CHINESE TAKE OUT CONTAINERS?

COMING UP THIS WEEK

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