Monday – August 26, 2024

Radio today: I’m guest hosting for Rich Zeoli all week on WPHT in Philly – listen via Audacity app

National Cherry Popsicle Day! (and, US Open Opening Day – Let’s go Reilly Opelka!)

Meme Du Jour

THIS DAY IN HISTORY

1429 – Joan of Arc made her triumphant entrance into Paris
1883 – Krakatoa began erupting  (the big stuff happened the next day)
1930 – Philo Farnsworth got a patent for his ‘television apparatus and process’
1939 – MLB’s first televised game 
1946 – Orwell’s ‘Animal Farm’ is published
1964 – LBJ wins the Democrats’ nomination 
1968 – The Beatles released ‘Hey Jude’ 
2016 – NFL QB Colin Kaepernick sits during the National Anthem
2021 – 13 American service personnel are killed in Kabul (Their names are here)

News and The Politics out of D.C.

POLLS

 – 538’s COLLECTION OF POLLS / OPINIONS

 – HARRIS HAS TRUMP UP BY 7 OVER HARRIS

 – TRAFALGAR GROUP’S PRESIDENTIAL POLL

 – POLYMARKET’S LATEST SHOWS A VIRTUAL TIE (WITHIN THE MARGIN OF ERROR)

 – FDU POLL SHOWS RACE AND GENDER ARE BIG FACTORS FOR KAMALA’S SURGE

BIDEN GOES FROM VACATION TO VACATION (WILL HE VACATE THE OFFICE SOON?)

VARIOUS CLIPS

 ABC NOTICED KAMALA IS USING TRUMP’S BORDER WALL IN ITS ADS

 ABBEY GATE GOLD STAR PARENTS SAY BIDEN/HARRIS HAVE YET TO REACH OUT TO THEM

 CNN HAS BEEN IN FULL ATTACK MODE ON RFK JR SINCE HE ENDORSED TRUMP

 THE ABC INTERVIEW WHEN KAMALA CALLED FOR THE END OF PRIVATE INSURANCE

 WILL KAMALA DO AN INTERVIEW WITH THE MSM THIS WEEK? WHO KNOWS?

 ONE YEAR AGO, CNN AND PELOSI HAD AWFUL THINGS TO SAY ABOUT HARRIS

 MSM GASLIGHTING ON KAMALA HARRIS’ PAST EXPOSED — MSNBC

 – CONNECTED TO THE ABOVE CLIP – PROVING THE POINT

 IN 2020, KAMALA WAS ON THE VIEW PUSHING THE DEFUNDING OF POLICE

 REMEMBER, IF YOU MISPRONOUNCE ‘KAMALA’ – YOU’RE THE RACIST, UNLESS…

 PANDERING KAMALA — PUSHING HERSELF AS A ‘DAUGHTER OF INDIA’

THERE WAS A SURPRISE GUEST AT THE DNC — COVID 19!

COULD FALLING GAS PRICES BE A BENEFIT TO HARRIS AND HER CAMPAIGN?

ISRAEL LAUNCHES PRE-EMPTIVE STRIKE AGAINST HEZBOLLAH

– SEN GRAHAM WANTS ISRAEL TO THREATEN IRAN’S OIL FIELDS

– CHAIR OF THE U.S. JOINT CHIEFS OF STAFF IS IN THE MIDDLE EAST

UKRAINE IS DEPLOYING ROBOT DOGS (LOTS OF THEM) TO FIGHT RUSSIA

 – RUSSIA UNLEASHES DRONE AND MISSLE ATTACKS ON UKRAINE

General News

CONGRATS TO LITTLE MARY, FL — WINNERS OF THE LITTLE LEAGUE WORLD SERIES

IF YOU BOUGHT APPLE JUICE AT WALMART, DON’T DRINK IT JUST YET

RARE, MOSQUITO-BORNE VIRUS TRIGGERS CURFEW IN FOUR MASS. TOWNS

 – MA STATE HEALTH OFFICIALS ANNOUNCE FIRST HUMAN CASE OF ‘EEE’

FEDERAL JUDGE CLEARS TWO COPS OF KEY CHARGES IN BREONNA TAYLOR CASE

BOEING’S STARLINER ROCKET IS COMING BACK TO EARTH – BUT WITH NO CREW – EMPTY

 – EMPLOYEES AT BOEING AIN’T PROUD OF THIS MOMENT (HOW COULD YOU BE?)

GOOD TRY, BUT, WE GOTCHA — METH DISGUISED AS WATERMELONS SIEZED AT BORDER

IS AMERICA THE FATTEST COUNTRY? (SPOILER: WE’RE NOT EVEN TOP 10)

– WHICH STATES ARE THE FATTEST?

CAN YOU AVOID THE BOSS’S CALL AFTER HOURS? (IN AUSTRALIA YOU CAN!)

ARE U.S. TREASURIES STILL THE BEST BONDS OUT THERE???

FRANCE ARRESTS PAVEL DUROV, CEO OF TELEGRAM – VARIOUS CHARGES

Woke News

SHOCKER: NOBODY WANTS TO PLAY QUEER ACTIVIST VIDEO GAME

U OF TAMPA RA TRAINING USES MAGA FLAG AS ‘TRIGGERING’ EXAMPLE

Other News Catching My Eye

BABE RUTH’S ‘CALLED SHOT’ JERSEY SELLS FOR A RIDICULOUS AMOUNT OF MONEY

WOMAN USED APPLE AIR TAGS TO CATCH PEOPLE STEALING HER MAIL

NO, FRENCH FILM STAR ALAIN DELON’S DOG WILL NOT BE KILLED AND BURIED WITH HIM