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December 6, 2024 – National Gazpacho Day!
– Microwave Oven Day
National Bartender Appreciation Day
Meme Du Jour
Yeah, Trump’s got two pictures (So does Cleveland. But, he got two different images)
THIS DAY IN HISTORY
1790 – The US Congress moves from NYC to Phildelphia
1865 – The Thirteenth Amendment is ratified, abolishing slavery
1877 – Edison makes his first sound recording on his “phonograph” device
– The Washington Post publishes its very first edition
1884 – The Washington Monument is completed (Civil War delayed things a bit)
1917 – The Bolsheviks imprison Czar Nicholas II and his family
1938 – France and Germany sign a treaty of friendship (I think that qualifies as a FAIL.)
1947 – Florida’s Everglades National Park is established (Thanks, President Truman)
1956 – Nelson Mandela and 156 others are arrested for political activities in South Africa
1969 – “Altamont” — At a Stones concert in California – Hell’s Angels beat to death a concert-goer named Meredith Hunter
1973 – The House confirms Gerald Ford as VP (replacing the resigned Spiro Agnew)
2006 – Water on Mars? NASA says it has photos that appear to prove it
News and The Politics out of D.C.
CLIPS
– FROM LAST NIGHT’S PATRIOT AWARDS – DONALD TRUMP
– DIDYA SEE DONALD TRUMP DOING HIS DANCE ON THE FOX NEWS PATRIOT AWARDS?
– NY TIMES’ WRITER WANTS BIDEN TO PARDON EVERYONE DOGE IS INVESTIGATING
– IN 2020, MARY TRUMP WAS AGAINST DONALD PARDONING FAMLY MEMBERS
– DEM SEN MARK WARNER WAS AGAINST PARDONS WHEN TRUMP WAS PRESIDENT
– RUSSIA’S FOREIGN MINISTER TALKS ABOUTT DONALD TRUMP WITH TUCKER
– IT GOT TENSE IN A HOUSE HEARING ABOUT THAT SECRET SERVICE & TRUMP ASSASSINATION ATTEMPTS
– HEGSETH HAD A GOOD DAY, APPEARS TO BE GAINING STRENGTH AHEAD OF HEARINGS
– SEN RICK SCOTT IS ALL IN FOR PETE HEGSETH
– MARK HALPERIN SAYS HIS SOURCES INDICATE DeSANTIS WILL REPLACE HEGSETH
– PETE’S FAITH IS FRONT AND CENTER WITH THE PRESS
– ANOTHER SENATOR JOINS THE HEGSETH TEAM
– SEN FETTERMAN SPITS THE TRUTH TO JOY BEHAR ON ‘THE VIEW’
– IS REP JASMINE CROCKETT PITCHING HERSELF FOR A SPOT ON ‘THE VIEW?’
– LARRY KUDLOW UNDERSTANDS THE POWER AND INTENT OF DOGE AND EXPLAINS IT
– CATHERINE HERRIDGE REVEALS WHY CBS DIDN’T WANT HER TO INTERVIEW ELON MUSK
– THE GUY WHO WROTE ‘YMCA’ ON ALLOWING TRUMP TO USE IT
H/T – MAREA
More News From DC
– TRUMP TO ATTEND THE ARMY-NAVY GAME
– HOUSE REJECTS DEM EFFORTS TO RELEASE GAETZ ETHICS REPORT
– MEETING IN THE LADIES ROOM – TRANS ACTIVISTS TAKEOVER WOMEN’S CAPITOL BATHROOM
– WHITE HOUSE SAYS CHINA-LINKED HACKERS HIT 8 AMERICAN TELECOMS
– WSJ OP-ED SAYS KASH PATEL IS THE MAN FOR THE FBI JOB
– FRANCE APPEARS TO BE WAKING UP TO THE PROBLEMS OF UNBRIDLED IMMIGRATION
Amish Christmas Lights!
H/T Michael Filipelli
General News
THE NYC MANHUNT CONTINUES – WHAT’S THE LATEST?
– MEANWHILE, TAYLOR LORENZ SAYS ‘WE WANT THESE EXECUTIVES DEAD’
– REPORT: CEO WAS SEPARATED FROM HIS WIFE WELL AHEAD OF HIS MURDER
ANTHEM BLUE CROSS REVERSES COURSE ON PROPOSED ANESTHESIA COVERAGE CUTS
YESTERDAY’S 7.0 EARTHQUAKE IN CALIFORNIA AND THE TSUNAMI WARNING
FASCINATING BREAKDOWN OF WHAT AMERICANS EAT IN A YEAR AND WHAT IT COSTS
NO VERDICT IN DANIEL PENNY CASE – BUT, THE DEAD MAN’S DAD IS SUING PENNY
CNN AND MSNBC RATINGS ARE STILL SLIDING
HOW BIG IS AMERICA’S ‘MIDDLE CLASS?’
TRANS GOLFER RESPONDS TO LPGA’s NEW RULE THAT WILL KEEP “THEM” OFF THE COURSE
Other News Catching My Eye
FBI, CISA WARN USERS TO AVOID SENDING TEXTS ACROSS APPLE/ANDROID PLATFORMS
THE MOST POPULAR BOYS NAME IN ENGLAND AND WALES IS NOT CHARLES OR WILLIAM
WORLD’S OLDEST WILD BIRD LAYS AN EGG AT THE AGE OF 74
WHAT THE HECK IS GOING ON WITH THESE BIG DRONES OVER NJ???
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