Friday – January 12, 2023

National Curried Chicken Day (and hot tea day)

Meme Du Jour

H/T Simon Conway

THIS DAY IN HISTORY
1906 – The Dow Jones closed about 100 for the first time (it closed at 37,711 yesterday)
1932 – Oliver Wendell Holmes retired from the Supreme Court at age 90
1969 – The NY Jets shock the world and win the Super Bowl
1981 – “Dynasty'” premiered on ABC TV (Still haven’t seen an episode)
1991 – Congress gives the OK for military action in Iraq
1998 – Nineteen nations agreed that human cloning was a bad idea
2010 – An earthquake hits Haiti, kills more than 300K, makes the Clintons richer (allegedly)

News and The Politics out of D.C.

U.S., UK, (WITH SUPPORT FROM CANADA AND OTHERS) LAUNCH ATTACKS ON HOUTHIS

 – INJURY REPORTS FROM YEMEN

 – SAUDI ARABIA IS CONCERNED

 – MANY DEMS MAD THAT JOE DID NOT GET PERMISSION FROM THEM

 – AND THEN THERE’S REP TLAIB’S TWEET ABOUT ‘ENDLESS WARS’

 – HOUTHIS WARN U.S. AND UK WILL ‘PAY A PRICE’

 – P.S. — IT’S NOT LIKE THE STRIKES WERE A SECRET…

JILL BIDEN WANTS YOU TO KNOW JOE IS WORKING HARD, WE JUST DON’T SEE IT

TRUMP ALLOWED TO SPEAK AT TRIAL, THEN WARNS HIS ATTORNEY TO “CONTROL YOUR CLIENT”

RATINGS: TRUMP TOWN HALL DESTROYED THE CNN DEBATE

RASMUSSEN POLL: TRUMP WOULD BEAT BIDEN, DeSANTIS WOULD TOO, HALEY- NOT SO MUCH

REPORT: IOWA GOV USING OBSCURE TWITTER ACCOUNT TO BASH TRUMP, PRAISE DeSANTIS

CNN POLITICAL COMMENTATOR TELLS THE STONE COLD TRUTH ABOUT NY CASE AGAINST TRUMP

HEAD OF CO GROUP BEHIND TRUMP REMOVAL FROM BALLOT VISITED THE WHITE HOUSE MANY TIMES

HUNTER BIDEN’S DAUGHTER IS MAD AT MTG FOR ‘LYING’ ABOUT HER DAD

U.S. DEBT SOARS BY 50% IN DECEMBER — CONCERNS GROW OVER LOOMING FINANCIAL CRISIS

 – DEBT IS ALSO A HUGE AND GROWINNG PROBLEM FOR A MAJORITY OF THE WORLD

SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE AVOIDS A GOP REVOLT — FOR NOW

DR BIRX “THE SCARF” IS BACK — SAYS LONG COVID IS SIMILAR TO HIV

SECOND LARGEST FOREIGN OWNER OF LAND IN THE U.S. IS A MEMBER OF CCP

General News

TEX GOV MOVES TO TAKE CONTROL OF BORDER IN EAGLE PASS, TX

 – A SOLID BREAKDOWN OF WHAT TEXAS DID

NYC IS LOOKING AT CURFEWS FOR MIGRANTS AS PANHANDLING COMPLAINTS RISE

MAP IN BROOKLYN HIGH SCHOOL OMITS ISRAEL (IT WAS FUNDED BY QATAR)

ALL WASHINGTON SCHOOLS GET OVERDOSE KITS AS FENTANYL PROBLEM IS GROWING

INFLATION RAISES ITS HEAD AS THE CONSUMER PRIC INDEX RISES

ANYONE NOTICING LAYOFFS ARE HAPPENING… BIG LAYOFFS

FROM CES – HERE ARE THE ‘WORST IN SHOW’ PRODUCTS (FROM PRIVACY ADVOCATES)

WOKE

BIDEN POURS ALMOST $700K INTO PROGRAM TO PREVENT TRANSBOYS FROM GETTING PREGNANT

SCOTLAND CONTEMPLATES PRISON TIME FOR PARENTS WHO REFUSE TO ‘TRANS’ THEIR KIDS

GENDER DYSPHORIA DIAGNOSES RISE IN EVERY STATE BUT ONE

Other News Catching My Eye

YIKES! EXTREME BATHROOM MAKEOVER REVEALS RATTLESNAKE DEN

SHED A TEAR… FRUIT STRIPE GUM IS DISCONTINUED

GEORGE CARLIN AI STAND-UP IS NOT GETTING MANY GOOD REVIEWS

WHAT’S THE ‘NOSE COVER’ AND WHY ARE TEENS DOING IT IN FAMILY PHOTOS