Ash Wednesday – March 5, 2025

Cheese Doodle Day

National Absinthe Day

Meme Du Jour

The Hitchcock…. 

THIS DAY IN HISTORY
1770 – Crispus Attucks and four others die in the ‘Boston Massacre’
1918 – The Soviets move the capitol from Petrograd to Moscow
1933 – Newly inaugurated President Roosevelt, halts trading of gold
1936 – ‘Mutiny on the Bounty’ wins Best Picture at the 8th Oscars
1946 – Churchill delivers his ‘Iron Curtain’ speech (in Fulton, MO)

1956 – Brown v Board of Education is affirmed – no more segregation in schools

1963 – Patsy Cline dies in an airplane accident
 (Did she “fall to pieces?”)
1966 – Staff Sgt Barry Sadler hits #1 with ‘Ballad of the Green Berets’
1971 – Led Zeppelin plays ‘Stairway to Heaven’ live for the first time in Belfast

1984 – The Supreme Court rules cities can display Nativity scenes

News and The Politics out of D.C.

CLIPS

– PRESIDENT TRUMP’S SPEECH 1:39:37 – LOADS OF STANDING OVATIONS, ANGRY DEMS

– ‘NOTHING I COULD DO OR SAY TO THE DEMOCRATS’

– THE CLOSE: ‘THIS WILL BE OUR GREATEST ERA’

– DEMS STAYED SEATED AS PRESIDENT TALKED ABOUT RESTORING LAW & ORDER

– INFLATION FIGHT IS TIED TO ENERGY — DRILL BABY DRILL

– PRESIDENT TRUMP REPORTED ON ZELENSKYY’S NOTE

– THE ‘POCAHONTAS’ MOMENT

– 3 MINS OF WASTE DISCOVERED BY DOGE – SO FAR

– SECURE THE BORDER? ALL WE NEEDED WAS A NEW PRESIDENT

– ONE OF THE AD LIBS – ABOUT OLD PEOPLE ON SOCIAL SECURITY ROLLS

– DEM REP AL GREEN GOT TOSSED AND TALKED WITH THE PRESS

– CNN MOCKED DEMS FOR NOT ENGAGING THE PRESIDENT’S CABINET

– CNN TALKED WITH VOTERS AFTER THE SPEECH — (SPOILER – VOTERS LIKED IT)

– CNN’s POLLING BACKED UP WHAT THEIR FOCUS GROUP TOLD THEM

– AXELROD: DEMS SHOULD HAVE STOOD, WHAT AL GREEN DID WAS DESPICABLE

– SCOTT JENNINGS SUMMED IT UP IN UNDER A MINUTE

– MADDOW WAS PISSED ABOUT THE 13 YR OLD CANCER SURVIVOR MOMENT

– NICOLE WALLACE ON MSNBC – SHE’S JUST BROKEN

– ONE DEM REP FROM CALIFORNIA DELIVERED THE BEST FREUDIAN SLIP EVER

– BEFORE THE SPEECH, A DEMOCRAT UNICORN SPOKE WELL OF TRUMP ON THE BORDER

– MEET THE 13 YR OLD CANCER FIGHTER, DJ — THIS KID IS JUST INSPIRATIONAL

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–  2028 DEM CANDIDATE STEPHEN A SMITH PUTS JOY BEHAR IN A BODY BAG, LIVE ON ABC

 – ‘CRINGE’ ALSO JOINED THE VIEW FOR SOME NONSENSE

– ‘SH*T HEARD ON DAY ONE’ VIDEO SHOWS DEMS REPEATING THE EXACT SAME MESSAGE

    – AS OF 5:30PM TUESDAY, THE COUNT WAS 23 DEMS REPEATING THIS STUNT

    – CORY BOOKER CLAIMED TO BE THE BRAIN CHILD OF THE IDEA, REJECTED CYBERTRUCK

– SEN KENNEDY TALKING ABOUT WHAT DOGE IS DOING

– JAKE TAPPER ADMITS THE EU IS SPENDING MORE ON RUSSIAN OIL & GAS THAN ON UKRAINE

More News From DC

– FBI, DOJ HEADQUARTERS MAY BE SOLD OFF IN DC REAL ESTATE PURGE

– MUSK SAYS ALL GOV’T AGENCIES COOPERATING WITH DOGE

– IS ZELENSKYY CAVING???

– LIVE UPDATES ON THE TARIFFS

– BLACKROCK MAKES DEAL TO CONTROL PORTS ON BOTH SIDES OF THE PANAMA CANAL

– POLLSTER FRANK LUNTZ SAYS DEMS’ NEW ATTACK STRATEGY IS NOT GOING TO WORK

– MAXINE WATERS KEEPS TRYING TO GET INTO DC BUILDINGS (AND FAILING)

– OUCH! DOW DROPS AGAIN ON ‘TARIFF TUESDAY’ BUUUUUUT

General News

– POPE FRANCIS MARKS ASH WEDNESDAY WITH HIS 20TH DAY IN THE HOSPITAL

– HOME PRICES ARE SET TO FALL IN SOME STATES — HERE’S WHERE

– WEATHER-SCHMEATHER, NEW ORLEANS STILL CELEBRATES MARDI GRAS

– GOV DeSANTIS MOCKEED CANADA IN HIS STATE OF THE STATE ADDRESS

– GENDER AFFIRMING SURGERY DATA SHOWS LINK TO MENTAL HEALTH ISSUES

– TESLA CHARGING STATIONS SET ON FIRE???

Other News Catching My Eye

– CONGRATS TO VINCE COGLIANESE – HE’S REPLACING DAN BONGINO

– LOOKING FOR LOVE? GERMANS CHOOSE TIMBER OVER TINDER

– MEGHAN MARKLE’S NETFLIX COOKING SHOW IS SAVAGED BY CRITICS

– CRAZY TWIST IN THE GENE HACKMAN STORY — THE DOG WAS MISIDENTIFIED?

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