National Take Your Dog To Work Day
– National Food Truck Day
– National Bar Code Day
– Drive Your Corvette To Work Day
– National Beauticians Day
– National Canoe Day
Meme Du Jour
THIS DAY IN HISTORY
1870 – Christmas is declared to be a federal holiday
1917 – General Pershing and the first U.S. troops arrived in France to fight in WWI
1945 – The UN Charter is signed in San Francisco (Why isn’t it still there?)
1948 – The US begins ‘Operation Vittles’ (aka the Berlin Airlift)
1959 – President Eisenhower and Queen Elizabeth II open the St Lawrence Seaway
1963 – JFK makes his famous speech in front of the Berlin Wall (‘I am a jelly donut!’)
1968 – The U.S. returns Iwo Jima (and another island) to Japan
1974 – The first bar code is scanned — on a pack of gum
1975. – Sonny & Cher’s divorce becomes final
1985 – Umpire ejected from a minor league game for playing ‘Three Blind Mice’ after a bad call
1997 – Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone is published (JK Rowling’s first in the series)
2008 – The Supreme Court rules for gun owners in the ‘Heller’ case (should be a holiday)
News and The Politics out of D.C.
CLIPS
– THE PRESIDENT IS READY TO TAKE ON THE COMMUNISTS SURGING IN DEM PRIMARIES
– TRUMP DOESN’T LIKE A LOUD, ‘STUPID MACHINE’
– THE PRESIDENT VOWS TO SUPPORT FARMERS
– SHANNON BREAM REPORTS ON THE SCOTUS DECISION ON TEMP PROTECTED STATUS
– TOM HOMAN BRINGS THE FACTS ON ASYLUM SEEKERS
– MAYOR OF NYC WILL PROTECT HAITIANS AND SYRIANS LOSING PROTECTED STATUS
– SEC MARKWAYNE MULLIN FACED OFF WITH REP ROSA DeLAURO — IT GOT TESTY
– REP BRANDON GILL WANTS TO KNOW IF SUGARY DRINKS SHOULD BE BOUGHT WITH SNAP MONEY
– PA DEM REP CLAIMS 50% OF THEIR VOTERS WOULD BE DISENFRANCHISED BY SAVE AMERICA ACT
– GOP REP BYRON DONALDS GOES NUCLEAR ON THE SENATE FOR NOT PASSING ‘SAVE AMERICA’
– JUSTICE ALITO ASKS ACLU TO DEFINE WHAT IT MEANS TO BE A BOY OR A GIRL (Olympic stammering)
– DR OZ WILL INFURIATE YOU WITH HIS DETAILS ON ANOTHER FRAUDSTER
– WHAT THE HELL IS HAPPENING? SCOTT PRESLER IS NOT ALLOWED IN A SOUTH DAKOTA GOP EVENT
– AT THE OBAMA CENTER: PEOPLE ARE ASKED — WHAT IS OBAMA’S GREATEST ACCOMPLISHMENT
– CHRIS CUOMO REALLY HAS A PROBLEM WITH STEPHEN MILLER’S LOOKS (AND I’M NO MILLER FAN)
– HERE’S THE LATEST DEM CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTION FROM WHOOPI AND THE VIEW
More News From DC
– SUPREME COURT MADE NEWS — HERE’S THE HILL’S FIVE TAKEAWAYS
– IRAN DOESN’T REALLY BELIEVE IN THE WHOLE CEASE-FIRE THING — SHOT AT A SHIP
– PARK POLICE SAY IT WAS A RAZOR OR VERY SHARP KNIFE THAT CUT THE POOL LINER
General News
– NO FREE BUSES FOR NYC, BUT MAMDANI IS FREEZING RENT FOR A MILLION APTS
– BUMMER — TEAM USA LOSES TO TURKEY ON FINAL KICK
– FINANCIAL WIZ SUZE ORMAN SAYS DON’T TAKE SOCIAL SECURITY EARLY!
– THE ATTACKS ON WNBA STAR CAITLIN CLARK FINALLY GENERATE A ONE-GAME SUSPENSION
– THE WNBA LEFT CLARK OF THE POSTER CELEBRATING THE LEAGUE’S 30TH YEAR
– R-I-P DAVID CLAYTON THOMAS — GONE AT 84. (BLOOD, SWEAT AND TEARS)
Other News Catching My Eye
– TRAILER FOR ‘CITIZEN JUSTICE’ FILM THAT IS BANNED IN GERMAN (BUT IT’S FREE ON ‘X’)
– BUC-EES IS SLOWLY CREEPING INTO MORE AND MORE STATES
– HAS ANYONE FOUND GRACIE THE MISSING GIRAFFE?
– A DATA CENTER IN MICHIGAN WITH 142,000 CHINESE ROBOTS? WHAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG?
