Friday – April 12, 2024

Grilled Cheese Sandwich Day, Licorice Day (I don’t recommend you combine the two.)
AT THE MASTERS – A PATRIOTIC LESSON FROM GARY PLAYER

Meme Du Jour – Four years makes a big difference.

THIS DAY IN HISTORY

1837 – Bill Proctor and James Gamble started making soap and candles
1861 – Fort Sumter is shelled by the Confederate, launching the Civil War
1945 – FDR dies at Warm Spring, GA — Harry Truman becomes President
1955 – The announcement of Jonas Salk’s polio vaccine
1961 – USSR’s Yuri Gagarin is the first man to orbit the planet
1963 – MLK writes “Letter from a Birmingham Jail” (while in jail)
1981 – The U.S. launched the Space Shuttle Columbia for the first time
1983 – Chicago elects its first Black mayor – Harold Washington
1988 – Harvard got a patent on a genetically engineered mouse

News and The Politics out of D.C.

JOE’S SKED? ASIDE FROM GOING TO THE BEACH, ONLY ONE THING AND IT INVOLVES AL SHARPTON

SPEAKER JOHNSON TO HOLD JOINT PRESSER WITH TRUMP AT MAR-A-LAGO

HOUSE LEADERSHIP EYES ‘PLAN B’ ON FISA AFTER FAILED FLOOR VOTE

 – DEMS WON’T HELP GOP SAVE FISA BILL (SAYS JEFFRIES)

43 GOP SENATORS WRITE LETTER TO SCHUMER DEMANDING MAYORKAS TRIAL

CATHERINE HERRIDGE ACCUSED CBS OF ‘JOURNALISTIC RAPE’ DURING HOUSE HEARING

CORNELL WEST PICKS A RUNNING MATE (DOES HE THINK THIS WILL HELP?)

CAN JOE BIDEN COUNT ON MICHIGAN MUSLIMS? (ITS NOT A SURE THING)

WHILE TRUMP’S TRIAL IS NOT DELAYED, SEN MENENDEZ’S TRIAL WILL LIKELY BE

THE DEBT ALARM IS GETTING LOUDER AND LOUDER

NAVY MOCKED FOR POSTING PIC OF NAVY CAPT SHOOTING RIFLE WITH SCOPE BACKWARDS

REPORT: IRAN WAS SET TO ATTACK ISRAEL AND PAUSED AT THE LAST MINUTE

General News

OJ SIMPSON IS NOW IN HELL LOOKING FOR THE REAL KILLER

 – THE WH REACTION WAS WHAT YOU’D EXPECT

 – ENJOY THE LATE NORM McDONALD BUSTING ON OJ (11+ MINS OF ABSOLUTE GOLD)

 – REMEMBER WHEN OPRAH COVERED THE OJ VERDICT LIVE W/AUDIENCE REACTION?

 – STEPHANIE ELAM ON CNN – ‘PEOPLE WERE HAPPY TO SEE SOMEONE WHO IS RICH, FAMOUS AND BLACK COULD GET AWAY WITH… ERR’

 – HOW DID THE LA TIMES SCREW UP OJ’s OBIT AND BRING TRUMP INTO IT?

IF I WERE LOOKING FOR THE MOST MISLEADING HEADLINE OF THE WEEK – HERE IT IS

 – BODY CAM FOOTAGE FROM THE DEXTER REED CASE TELLS THE STORY

DENVER IS GOING TO DEFUND THE POLICE TO FUND THE ‘NEWCOMERS’

GA’S VOTER VERIFICATION PROCESS TO STAY IN PLACE THROUGH 2024 ELECTION

RITE AID TO CLOSE ANOTHER 53 STORES ACROSS THE COUNTRY

POWER BILLS ARE NOW BECOMING A WORRY FOR AMERICANS AS INFLATION CONTINUES

$12,000 IN PORK STOLEN AS DRIVER SLEEPS

FINANCIAL WARNING LIGHT IS BLINKING — CREDIT CARD DELINQUENCIES SET A RECORD

WOKE

CHICK-FIL-A WANTS TO OPEN IN PALM SPRINGS – SOME LOCALS ARE NOT HAPPY

ANOTHER 180 — HARVARD WILL NOW REQUIRE SAT SCORES AGAIN

WELL, WADDAYA KNOW — THE BRITS ARE PUMPING THE BRAKES ON TRANSMADNESS

Other News Catching My Eye

STUNNING NEW FRESCOES UNEARTHED IN POMPEII

HOW MUCH DO YOU PAY IN TAXES IN YOUR LIFETIME? IT DEPENDS ON YOUR STATE

EUROPE APPEARS TO BE ABANDONING ELECTRIC CARS

 I DID NOT THINK IT POSSIBLE FOR A KARDASHIAN TO GROSS ME OUT AGAIN (I WAS WRONG)