Monday – August 30, 2021

From the PureOpelka Podcast

THIS DAY IN HISTORY

1617 – Rosa de Lima of Peru becomes the first American saint to be canonized

1918 – Vladimir Lenin is shot and wounded by a Socialist Revolutionary (he survived)

1939 – The first live commercial for Wheaties aired during a Brooklyn Dodgers game

1963 – The Red Phone is connected — a hotline between Washington, DC and Moscow

1967 – Thurgood Marshall is confirmed at the first African American Supreme Court justice

1979 – President Jimmy Carter was in a canoe when a swimming rabbit reportedly attacked him… Carter allegedly beat the bunny back with a paddle

News and The Politics out of D.C.

THIS MORNING — U.S. INTERCEPTS SOME OF THE FIVE ROCKETS AIMED AT KABUL AIRPORT

U.S. DRONE STRIKE IN KABUL REPORTEDLY KILLS SEVERAL CHILDREN, NOT ISIS-K

U.S. MILITARY STRIKES CAR WITH MULTIPLE SUICIDE BOMBERS HEADED TO THE KABUL AIRPORT

US CENTRAL COMMAND ISSUES A STATEMENT ON SUNDAY’S DRONE STRIKE

ARMED TALIBAN MEMBERS STAND BEHIND NEWS ANCHOR AS HE TELLS VIEWERS TO, ‘COOPERATE WITH IT AND DO NOT BE AFRAID’

“PINO” BIDEN TURNS HIS BACK ON REPORTER ASKING ABOUT AFGHANISTAN

BLINKEN SAYS THE U.S. NEVER GAVE THE TALIBAN A LIST OF NAMES AND THEN PROCEEDED TO SHARE THE NAMES WE GAVE TO THE TALIBAN

THE SEC OF STATE ALSO TOOK SERIOUS FIRE FROM ABC’S MARTHA RADDATZ  AFTER HE SAID AMERICANS SHOULD ‘TRUST’ THE TALIBAN

WAS JOE CAUGHT LOOKING AT HIS WATCHING DURING TRANSFER OF THE REMAINS OF THE 13 DEAD U.S. SERVICE MEMBERS?

MOTHER OF SLAIN MARINE: ‘ALL YOU DEMOCRATS WHO VOTED FOR (BIDEN), YOU KILLED MY SON’

MARINE LTC WHO RAILED AGAINST THE MILITARY OVER AFGHAN MESS IS RESIGNING

THE MEMBERS OF THE U.S. MILITARY KILLED IN KABUL LAST WEEK

General News

IDA SLAMMED THE GULF COAST – ALL OF NEW ORLEANS IN THE DARK, MOST OF LOUISIANA TOO

WATCH AL ROKER VS IDA (PEOPLE ARE ACTUALLY GROUSING ABOUT THIS ON SOCIAL MEDIA)

JUST IN TIME FOR THE RECALL, CALIFORNIANS TO GET ANOTHER STIMULUS CHECK!

IS THIS BIZARRO WORLD? PUTIN IS AGAINST VACCINE MANDATES… BUT, IN AMERICA, WELL, UM

FORMER OBAMA OFFICIAL SAYS ANTI-MASKERS ARE LIKE SUICIDE BOMBERS

JAPAN HALTS MODERNA VACCINE IN OKINAWA AFTER CONTAMINATION IS DISCOVERED

TODAY’S INSANE AUSTRALIA STORY… GET VACCINATED, GET AN HOUR OF TIME OUTSIDE

TWITTER PERMANENTLY BANS SCIENTIST FOR REPORTING ON SCIENTIFIC STUDY ABOUT NATURAL IMMUNITY BEING MORE POWERFUL THAN THE VACCINES

PATRICIA HEATON (AND MANY OTHERS) SLAM TEACHER POSTING AN ANTI-PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE VIDEO THAT HAS GONE VIRAL

VIRGINIA DEPT OF ED TELLS TEACHERS TO AVOID TEACHING ABOUT MUSLIM EXTREMISM ON 9/11

Other News Catching My Eye

REST-IN=PEACE ED ASNER — GONE AT 91

IS IT SHARK WEEK? (IS IT EVER NOT?) — WATCH THE VIDEO OF A SHARK EATING A WHALE

APPLE CEO GETS A $750 MIL PAYDAY (BETTER CASH OUT BEFORE BIDEN TAXES IT)

UFC STAR ON MARXISM AND FAITH: “I KNOW WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU MAKE THE GOV’T GOD”

JOE EXOTIC’S “ZOO” IS SOLD BY CAROLE BASKIN

THE U.S. OPEN KICKS OFF TODAY… ONE AMERICAN PLAYER GETTING SOME LOVE, REILLY OPELKA