Friday – June 19, 2020

National Martini Day 

Countdown to the election – 137 days!

Meme du Jour

H/T Lauren Fix, The Car Coach

THIS DAY IN HISTORY

1846 – The first baseball game is played at Elysian Field in Hoboken, NJ (NY vs NY)

1862 – President Lincoln announced his outline for the Emancipation Proclamation

1934 – The National Archives is established

1951 – President Truman lowered the draft age to 18 and extended it until 1955

1963 – The USSR sent the first woman into space (Valentina Tereshkova)

1987 – Ben & Jerry’s introduced “Cherry Garcia”

News and The Politics out of D.C.

TRUMP IS NOT PLEASED WITH THE SUPREME COURT, HAS A LIST OF NEW JUDGES 

SEN TOM COTTON INVITES CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS “TO RESIGN”

FIRST STATUES, NOW PORTRAITS, PELOSI ORDERS CLEANSING OF THE CAPITOL (AND THEN JAMES WOODS POSED A QUESTION… ONE SIMPLE QUESTION)

PELOSI RIPS BOLTON — NOT FOR HIS BOOK — FOR NOT TESTIFYING

‘I WAS IN THE ROOM TOO’ — SEC OF STATE POMPEO RIPS ‘TRAITOR’ BOLTON

BIDEN VEEPSTAKES UPDATE — KLOBUCHAR BOWS OUT

FACEBOOK PULLS TRUMP AD FOR VIOLATING ‘ORGANIZED HATE’ POLICY

General News

WHAT IS JUNETEETH? WHICH STATES CELEBRATE IT?

BOTH OFFICERS CHARGED IN ATLANTA SHOOTING HAVE SURRENDERED

‘BLACK LIVES MATTER, SO DOES YOURS’ –  STRANGERS PAY FOR COP’S MEAL

NYPD REPORTEDLY MULLING A ‘BLUE FLU’ ON JULY 4TH

WATCH: PROTESTING WOMAN FLAGS DOWN COP — HE SAVED HER CHOKING BABY

VIRUS UPDATE: CALIFORNIA CASES CONTINUE TO RISE

SECOND WAVE? STATS ON HOSPITALIZATIONS CONTRADICTS REPORTS

TEXAS SCHOOLS WILL RE-OPEN — WITHOUT REQUIRING MASKS

AS LOCKDOWN ENDS, MCDONALD’S WILL HIRE 260,000 PEOPLE

OLYMPIA, WA MAYOR CALLS VANDALISM ‘DOMESTIC TERRORISM’

PORTLAND PROTESTERS FAILED AS THEY TRY TO SET UP AN ‘AUTONOMOUS ZONE’

CORONA VIRUS SINKS CRUISE INDUSTRY – CARNIVAL LOST $4.4 BILLION

Other News Catching My Eye

MICKEY D’s IN NO HURRY TO BRING BACK SALADS

NEW READING OF THE MAYAN CALENDAR SAYS IT’S GAME OVER THIS WEEKEND

ELON MUSK, AMBER HEARD & SUPERMODEL CARA DELEVINGNE IN A THREESOME?

(MUSK DENIES IT HAPPENED, THE DAILY MAIL STANDS BY ITS’ REPORTING)