April 14, 2025 – National Gardening Day
National Pecan Day
Meme Du Jour
THIS DAY IN HISTORY
1775 – The first abolitionist society in America is formed in Philadelphia
1828 – Webster publishes his ‘American Dictionary of the English Language’
1865 – Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Boothe
1910 – President Taft throws out the first pitch at an MLB game (It would become a thing.)
1912 – The Titanic hits an iceberg just before midnight- three hours later, it would sink
1927 – Clarence Birdseye gets a patent for ‘frozen fish fingers’ (fish had fingers back then?)
1969 – Barbara Streisand and Katherine Hepburn tie for ‘Best Oscar’
1989 – ‘She Drives Me Crazy’ from Fine Young Cannibals (‘memba them?) hits #1
1996 – Greg Norman blows a six-stroke lead and loses the Masters
News and The Politics out of D.C.
CLIPS
– TRUMP ON AF-1 AT 2AM – I’M AVAILABLE — BIDEN WAS NOT
– HOPES ON IRAN TALKS — WE WANT THEM TO FLOURISH, BUUUUT
– BEFORE THE MEDICAL REPORT WAS RELEASED – TRUMP TALKED ABOUT HIS PHYSICAL
– TRUMP ENTERS UFC 314 — LIKE A BOSS
– DEMS TOLD, DON’T FORGET TO MENTION ‘CHAOS’
– SEC DEF ON IRAN: IF WE CAN’T SOLVE THIS BY NEGOTIATING, THERE ARE OTHER MEANS
– 2012 FLASHBACK: WHEN OBAMA WAS NOT HAPPY ABOUT CHINA AND RARE EARTHS
– COMMERCE SEC LUTNIK ON THE CONSTITUTIONALITY OF TARIFFS
– HOW MANY YEARS CAN BERNIE SANDERS KEEP USING THE ‘OLIGARCHY’ THREAT
– BERNIE REFERENCES ELON’S TWEET AND OLIGARCHY
– SEN WARREN SAYS DEMS DON’T HATE ALL TARIFFS, JUST TRUMP’S TARIFFS
– SHE BROUGHT THE ‘CHAOS’ CHARGE EARLY ON CNN
– STEPHEN A. SMITH SAYS HE HAS ‘NO CHOICE’ TO SERIOUSLY CONSIDER A 2028 RUN
– PRESS SEC LEAVITT DELIVERS THIS WEEK’S MAGA MINUTE
– BILL MAHER’S ‘BOOK REPORT’ ON HIS VISIT TO THE WHITE HOUSE
More News Out of DC
– TARIFF UPDATE — TRUMP EXEMPTS SMART PHONES AND OTHER ELECTRONICS
– LUTNICK — ALL EXEMPTIONS ARE NOT PERMANENT
– XI HEADS TO VIETNAM, WARNS THERE ARE NO WINNERS IN TARIFF WAR
– CHINA HALTS RARE EARTH MINERALS SHIPMENTS TO THE U.S.
– TRUMP PUTS MILITARY IN CHARGE OF FEDERAL LANDS ALONG THE SOUTHERN BORDER
– REMEMBER TRUMP’S SUIT AGAINST ’60 MINS’ AND CBS? IT’S STILL ON
– RUSSIA HITS UKRAINE WITH DEADLY ATTACK ON PALM SUNDAY
– THIS WILL PISS OFF THE LEFT — TRUMP’S TALKING ABOUT A WHITE HOUSE MAKEOVER
– DECLASSIFIED, COLD WAR ERA FILES WILL STOKE CHATTER ABOUT ALIENS
– PIERS MORGAN MAKES SENSE — ON THIS TOPIC (F-BOMB AT THE END)
General News
– PA POLICE ARREST SUSPECT IN FIREBOMBING OF PA GOV’s MANSION
– TAYLOR LORENZ IS STILL CRAZY — (FOR LUIGI MANGIONE)
– MYSTERY OBJECT FALLS FROM THE SKY, CRASHES THRU NJ CAR REPAIR SHOP
– ARE YOU EATING BROWN RICE? MAYBE YOU SHOULD RECONSIDER THAT MOVE
– RORY McILROY WINS THE MASTERS, COMPLETES HIS CAREER GRAND SLAM
– THE PRIZE MONEY FOR THE MASTERS — A STAGGERING $21 MIL, RORY EARNED $4.2MIL
– YES, YES YOU CAN WATCH THE BLUE ORIGIN LAUNCH LIVE THIS MORNING
– THE DETAILS ON TODAY’S LAUNCH
Other News Catching My Eye
HERE’S WHAT MIGHT HAPPEN WITH YOUR 23 & ME DATA
FLORIDA WOMAN ACCUSED OF SELLING HUMAN BONES (SOME AS CHEAP AT $35)
WE SEND PEOPLE INTO ORBIT, CHINA HAS THEM LIVING UNDER THE SEA
GIANT RATS IN THE RESTAURANT??? THIS FLORIDA JOINT IS PROUD OF THE CREATURES
