BACK FROM VACATION – Monday – July 15, 2024

RNC Kickoff, Gummi Worm Day, 

Meme Du Jour

A Tale of Two Tabloids — The Daily News avoids mentioning “assassination” and the flag

THIS DAY IN HISTORY

1099 – Jerusalem is captured and plundered the Christians in the first Crusade
1806 – Zebulon Pike begins his exploration of the American Southwest
1901 – 74,000 Pittsburgh steel workers go on strike
1934 – Continental Airlines began operations (‘memba them?)
1960 – JFK accepts the Dems’ nomination to run for President
1964 – The GOP nominates Barry Goldwater as their candidate
1968 – ‘One Life To Live’ (a soap opera) premiered
1979 – President Carter speaks about a “national crisis of confidence”
1997 – Designer Gianni Versace is murdered by Andrew Cunnan 
2006 – This thing called TWITTER launches (Can we call it Twitter again?)

News and The Politics out of D.C.

BIDEN SPEAKS TO THE NATION FOLLOWING ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION OF TRUMP

    – LOOK OUT FOR THOSE ‘BATTLE BOXES’

    –TRUMP’S LATEST STATEMENT – ‘WE WILL FEAR NOT’

– FORMER FIRST LADY MELANIA TRUMP’S STATEMENT AFTER THE SHOOTING

 – FIREFIGHTERS REMEMBER FALLEN HERO COREY COMPERATORE

 – GOFUNDME FOR COREY’S DAUGHTER — OVER $800K THIS MORNING

– E.R. DOC TRIED TO SAVE THE LIFE OF ONE MAN SHOT AT THE TRUMP RALLY

– LAWRENCE JONES YESTERDAY MORNING ON FOX, WITH A MESSAGE FROM DONALD TRUMP

– SOME OF THE MOST OBVIOUS, AGENDA-DRIVEN MSM REACTIONS TO THE TRUMP SHOOTING

– REMEMBER WHEN BIDEN WANTED A BULLSEYE ON TRUMP? THE MEDIA EXPLAINS WHAT YOU MISSED

REP SWALWELL’S TWEET POLITICIZING THE SHOOTING IS SLAMMED BY MANY

REP BENNIE THOMPSON STAFFER FIRED AFTER POST ABOUT TRUMP’S WOULD-BE ASSASSIN

COLORADO REP STEVEN WOODROW’S TASTELESS TWEET HAS PEOPLE CALLING FOR HIM TO RESIGN

SECRET SERVICE?

 – PEOPLE SAW THE SHOOTER ON A ROOF AND WERE TRYING TO ALERT POLICE

 – SECRET SERVICE SEEMS TO BE BLAMING LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT

– WERE SS RESOURCES DIVERTED TO COVER JILL BIDEN CAMPAIGNING IN PITTSBURGH?

 – LOCAL COP CONFRONTED SHOOTER JUST BEFORE HE OPENED FIRE

– SPEAKER JOHNSON VOWS FULL INVESTIGATION INTO TRUMP ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT

– NO CHANGES PLANNED FOR RNC CONVENTION SECURITY? SERIOUSLY?

– LOTS OF CALLS FOR THE SECRET SERVICE DIRECTOR TO RESIGN – SHE’S DIVERSITY FOCUSED

CONVENTION

DONALD TRUMP’S CONVENTION SPEECH WILL BE TAKING A NEW DIRECTION — UNITY!

NIKKI HALEY ACCEPTS MR TRUMP’S INVITATION TO SPEAK ON TUESDAY AT THE RNC

PROTESTERS ARE ARRIVING IN WISCONSIN TOO

GOOGLE TRENDS NOTES A HUGE SPIKE IN “DONATE TO TRUMP’ AFTER ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT

ELON MUSK DELIVERS HIS FULL ENDORSEMENT TO DONALD TRUMP

BILL MAHER: ‘BIDEN CAN’T GET THRU A DEBATE AND A BULLET CAN’T STOP DONALD TRUMP’

BEFORE THE SHOOTING, BIDEN TALKED WITH ELECTED DEMS ABOUT HIS CAMPAIGN

‘BIDEN MUST STEP ASIDE’ LIVE TRACKER NOW COUNTS 23 ELECTED DEMS

MEANWHILE… CHINA AND RUSSIA START NAVAL MILITARY DRILLS

IDF CLAIMS IT TOOK OUT A BUNCH OF HAMAS LEADERS HIDING IN A SCHOOL

“Worst Person In The World? — Olbermann owns his old title

General News

NYPD RELEASES ‘SIGNIFICANT INCIDENT REPORT’ FROM INTEL & COUNTERTERRORISM BUREAU

VERY REAL ‘ANGRY BIRDS’ ARE FIGHTING WITH DRONES LOOKING FOR SHARKS NEAR NYC BEACHES

Woke News

SACRAMENTO THREATENS TO FINE TARGET STORES FOR REPORTING RETAIL THEFT

WATCHDOG: ARMY BASE TAUGHT SOLDIERS PRO-LIFE SUPPORTERS ARE TERRORISTS

R-I-P Richard Simmons

Other News Catching My Eye

CELEBRITY DEATHS HAPPEN IN ‘THREES’

    – DR RUTH GONE AT 96

    – RICHARD SIMMONS DIES THE DAY AFTER HE TURNED 76

    – SHANNON DOHERTY LOSSES HER BATTLE WITH CANCER