Friday – April 17, 2026

National Ford Mustang Day

– National Clean Out Your Medicine Cabinet Day (Don’t flush’em. Especially if they are prescriptions.)

– National Crawfish Day! (Paired with a bucket of Dixie Beer and we’ve got a weekend.)

– National Cheeseball Day (The food. Not the people you know in this category.)

– Second Amendment Day

Meme Du Jour

THIS DAY IN HISTORY
1492 – Columbus signs with Ferdinand & Isabella to find the ‘Indies’ and convert people to Catholicism
1629 – The first horses arrived in America – delivered to the Mass Bay Colony
1790 – Ben Franklin died in Philly at the age of 84

1937 – Daffy Duck makes his appearance in ‘Porky’s Duck Hunt’
1947 – Jackie Robinson gets his first MLB hit
 (It was a bunt.)
1961 – The Bay of Pigs Invasion begins as 1400 exiled Cubans attempt to overthrow Castro
1964 – The Ford Mustang debuts at the World’s Fair
 (Hence, today is MUSTANG DAY.)
1969 – Sirhan Sirhan is convicted of killing Robert Kennedy
1970 – Apollo 13 returns to Earth 
(And the idea for a great movie script was sparked.)
1976 – After trailing 21-1, the Phillies beat the Cubs 18-16 in 10 innings (Mike Schmidt hit 4 consecutive homers)
1989 – Chinese students start protesting the oppressive government — by June it was filling Tiananmen Sq

2002 – ‘General Hospital’ airs its 10,000th episode
2011 – ‘Game of Thrones’ premieres
 (Still have not seen an episode. And, I’m not planning to do so.)
2020 – Land O Lakes announces it is removing the Indian Princess on the boxes of butter

News and The Politics out of D.C.

CLIPS

– RESPONSE OF THE DAY: TRUMP TOLD IRAN IS EXECUTING PROTESTERS — AND HE FIRED BACK INSTANTLY

  – THE PRESIDENT HAS NOTHING AGAINST THE POPE — HE’S ALL ABOUT THE GOSPEL

– BEFORE HEADING TO LAS VEGAS — TRUMP TALKED ABOUT THE SUCCESS OF THE BLOCKADE

– THE PRESIDENT WANTS A BIG DEAL (HE COULD GET A SMALL ONE, BUT WHY BOTHER)

– IF THERE IS NO DEAL, THE FIGHTING RETURNS

– TRUMP RETURNS TO THE PLACE WHERE ‘NO TAX ON TIPS’ STARTED — LAS VEGAS

– THE PRESIDENT ADMITS DOOR DASH STUNT WAS CREEPY

– THE PRESIDENT MAY HAVE POPE PROBLEMS — BUT HE’S STILL GOT FRANKLIN GRAHAM ON HIS SIDE

– SEC OF WAR HEGSETH IS FED UP WITH THE MSM AND TELLS THEM SO

– EXTENDING THE POWERS OF THE FISA WARRANT? THE 5-YEAR EXTENSION IS ON HOLD FOR NOW

– REPORTERS ASK TOUGH QUESTIONS OF RFK JR — TELL US ABOUT THE RACCOON PENIS (WE ALL WOULD ASK, RIGHT?)

– AOC IS STILL BUTTHURT BY ELON MUSK

– WE HAVEN’T HAD A CRAZY RANT FROM THE CURIOUSLY COIFFED ROSA DE LAURO IN A WHILE(THE MILK MELTDOWN)

– HARRY ENTEN SURPRISED BY TRUMP’S STRONG NUMBERS WITH SENIORS

– DEMS’ SENATE CANDIDATE IN MAINE WANTS A WEALTH TAX (I WONDER IF STEPHEN KING HAS ENDORSED HIM YET?)

– WATCH THE LESSER CUOMO ADMIT HE WAS WRONG ABOUT MANY THINGS (‘LESSER CUOMO’ IS A RICH ZEOLI CREATION)

– ROSIE O’DONNELL’S LATEST CRY FOR ATTENTION (IS ANYONE ELSE DISTURBED BY THE SNOWMAN SWEATER?)

– ANOTHER GREAT ARTEMIS II MOMENT – CREW MEMBER REID WISEMAN PROVES HE IS A WISE MAN

  – WISEMAN ALSO SHARED SOME OF THE NASTY DETAILS OF LIFE IN SPACE WITH A FAULTY TOILET

– WHAT MIGHT THE 250TH CELEBRATION IN DC LOOK LIKE? — LIKE A MASSIVE STATE FAIR?

More News From DC

– KALSHI SAYS DEMS CHANCE TO RETAKE THE WHITE HOUSE ARE AT AN ALL TIME HIGH

– CBS SHOWS TRUMP DOESN’T HAVE A BIG PROBLEM WITH CATHOLICS WHO ATTEND MASS

– TONE DEAF AWARD: LAUREN BOEBERT WONDERS, ‘WHY IS EVERYONE SO HORNY HERE?’ (IS HER MEMORY GONE?)

– FAR LEFT DEM WINS NJ HOUSE SEAT SPECIAL ELECTION

General News

– CA GOV NEWSOM CANCELS LONG BEACH JULY 4TH FIREWORKS — SAYS THEY POLLUTE, DESPITE TEST DATA

– LA MAYOR BASS’ NUMBERS ARE NOT GOOD (I’M SURPRISED THEY ARE THIS HIGH)

– BOSTON’S WOKE MAYOR GIVING $250-500 GIFT CARDS TO IMMIGRANTS AND LGBTQ FOR MAKEOVERS

– ‘BIG FOOD’ WOULDN’T TRY AND PUT ‘INSECT PROTEINS’ IN OUR FOODS WOULD THEY??? (THEY ALREADY ARE)

– SALES OF CYBERTRUCKS HAVE BEEN SPIKING (ELON IS BUYING THEM FOR SPACE X)

– OVER 1/3RD OF GEN-Z HOMEBUYERS ARE SINGLE WOMEN

– REPORT: EUROPE ONLY HAS SIX WEEKS OF JET FUEL LEFT

– AIRLINE WITH LONGEST COMMERCIAL FLIGHT ADDS BUNK BEDS, BUT BANS SNACKS AND CUDDLING

Other News Catching My Eye

– TPUSA ASKS, ‘WHAT IS THE WEIRDEST THING ABOUT CONSERVATIVES?’ (THE VIDEO IS GOLD, JERRY, GOLD)

– 5 YEARS, 70,000 POSTS ABOUT SIDE EFFECTS OF THE FAT SHOT — A FEW FOR YOUR INFORMATION

– GETTING UNWOKE — DISNEY RETURNS ‘LADIES AND GENTLEMEN’ ANNOUNCEMENT TO THE THEME PARKS

– GUILTY PLEA IN CA INSURANCE FRAUD CASE WITH GUY IN BEAR SUIT ATTACKING EXPENSIVE CARS

– BRILLIANT CHILD PROVES, ‘THREE THINGS THAT DON’T LIE – DRUNKS, YOGA PANTS AND LITTLE KIDS!’

WATCH: ROBOT CHASING WILD PIGS IN POLAND (I GOT NOTHING…BUT, I’VE WATCHED IT FIVE TIMES)

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