Dr Seuss Day
– Egg McMuffin Day
– World Tennis Day
– National Banana Cream Pie Day
– Texas Independence Day
Meme Du Jour
I DON’T UNDERSTAND HOW THE WASHINGTON POST IS LOSING MONEY?
THIS DAY IN HISTORY
1776 – General Washington orders the bombardment of British troops in Boston
1836 – Texas declares its independence from Mexico (We picked up Texas in the expansion draft of 1845.)
1863 – Congress set the standard width for railroad tracks at 4ft 8 1/2 inches (most of the world uses it too)
1903 – The Martha Washington Hotel opened in NYC (it was the first ‘women only’ hotel)
1933 – ‘King Kong’ premiered at Radio City Music Hall in NYC
1962 – The Twilight Zone episode ‘To Serve Man’ premiered — (IT’S A COOKBOOK!)
– Also 1962 – Wilt Chamberlin scored 100 points in a single NBA game
1974 – A grand jury concludes that President Nixon was involved in the Watergate cover-up
1984 – Ray Kroc’s first McDonald’s franchise (Des Plaines, IL) closes (It opened in 1955)
1989 – Madonna’s ‘Like A Prayer’ debuts in a Pepsi commercial
2021 – On his birthday, six Dr. Seuss books are retired/cancelled over content problems
– MANY HAVE POINTED OUT THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN OBAMA 2016 AND TRUMP 2026
News and The Politics out of D.C.
CLIPS
– PRESIDENT TRUMP’S 6-MIN MESSAGE FROM LAST NIGHT
– U.S. F-15’s REPORTEDLY SHOT DOWN (ALL ON BOARD OK) — WAS IT A ‘FRIENDLY FIRE’ INCIDENT?
– HEZBOLLAH IS FIRING MISSILES INTO ISRAEL — THE ‘IRON BEAM’ IS BEING DEPLOYED
– 10 MINS AFTER HEZBOLLAH JOINED THE FIGHT, THEIR LEADER WAS TAKEN OUT
– REZA PAHLAVI BELIEVES PRESIDENT TRUMP’S ACTIONS AGAINST IRAN HAVE CHANGED THE WORLD
– SEN LINDSEY GRAHAM INSISTS ON M-T-P, THERE WILL BE NO U.S. BOOTS ON THE GROUND’
– SEN ADAM SCHIFF WISHES THE AYATOLLAH WAS STILL ALIVE
– SCOTT JENNINGS UNLEASHES ON CNN – ‘THIS IS A NEW DAY FOR IRAN…’
– SEC OF STATE RUBIO: THE OLD WORLD IS GONE
– TREASURY SEC: IRANIAN LEADERS ARE MOVING THEIR MONEY OUT OF THE COUNTRY
– REP ANNA PAULINA LUNA FACED OFF AGAINST A PANEL ON MS-13 NOW
– REP ILHAN OMAR SEEN ON UBER-LEFT ‘DEMOCRACY NOW’ PRAISING AMERICA… WAIT, THAT’S WRONG, VERY WRONG
– JASMINE CROCKETT HAS A SERIOUS QUESTION FOR HER COLLEAGUES (SHE DOESN’T KNOW WHAT ‘SERIOUS’ MEANS)
– THE SENATOR ALSO STATES HOW HE SUPPORTS THE PRESIDENT’S ACTIONS HERE
– FETTERMAN WAS COOL WITH THE ATTACK AND REMINDED EVERYONE OF A KEY MOTIVATION
– A SUNDAY FAVORITE — CNN AIRED A DEMOCRAT VOTER PRAISING THIS MOVE BY THE TRUMP ADMIN
– CNN ALSO REPORTED ON THE JOYOUS REACTION FROM IRANIANS IN LOS ANGELES
– NO SHOCK DEPT: VALERIE JARRETT’S KID IS AN NBC ANCHOR AND A ‘HELPER’ FOR IRAN’S MESSAGE
– CBS NEWS ACTUALLY REPORTS MANY IN IRAN ARE SAYING ‘THANK YOU’ AND NOT CHANTING ‘DEATH TO AMERICA’
– ANYONE REMEMBER ‘HANOI JANE’ FONDA RANTING ABOUT OBAMA BOMBING 7 COUNTRIES?
– JOE AND MIKA HAD TO WORK THIS WEEKEND — WHAT DID THEY SAY ON SATURDAY?
– SOME HEALTHY WHATABOUTISM — REMEMBER WHEN OBAMA BOMBED THE CRAP OUT OF SEVEN COUNTRIES?
– WAIT, THERE WERE CANADIANS THANKING PRESIDENT TRUMP FOR THE ATTACK ON IRAN?
– THERE WAS A WHOLE BUNCH OF CELEBRATING ABOUT THE IRAN ATTACK — ALL OVER THE WORLD
– HOW DO THE PROTESTS COME TOGETHER SO QUICKLY? WELL, AS EXPECTED, THEY ARE ORGANIZED
– MEDVEDEV IS NOT THE ONLY PRO STUCK IN DUBAI
– SNL OPENED WITH ‘TRUMP’ TELLING EVERYONE HIS ‘BOARD OF PEACE’ WAS BORED WITH PEACE
(CAN’T LIE ABOUT IT – I LAUGHED.)
More News From DC
– PRESIDENT TRUMP INDICATES THE ATTACK COULD LAST FOUR WEEKS
– IRAN CLAIMS THEY HAVE HIT THE USS ABRAHAM LINCOLN — CENTCOM SAYS, NOPE.
– IRAN — THE CONTINUOUSLY UPDATED NEWS
– IRAN – THE UPDATES FOX NEWS FEED
– LIVE UPDATES ON IRAN AND THE REGION FROM THE NY POST
– THEHILL.COM IS DOING LIVE UPDATES ON IRAN AS WELL
– WILL CHEAP GAS BE A VICTIM OF OUR ACTIONS AGAINST IRAN? MAYBE
– THE STOCK MARKETS ARE LOOKING VERY NERVOUS THIS MORNING
– GIRL FIGHT! NANCY MACE TRIGGERS ILHAN OMAR AND RASHIDA TLAIB
– JONATHAN TURLEY TELLS DEMS THEY ARE WRONG ABOUT TRUMP ON THE IRAN STRIKE — HE’S OK TO DO IT
– BILL & HILLARY’S ‘TESTIMONY’ — REMEMBER THAT? DEMS BELIEVE IT WILL BACKFIRE ON THE GOP
– NASA IS SENDING A DIVERSE CREW TO THE MOON (YEAH, WE’RE GOING BACK TO THE MOON – A ‘FLYBY’ )
General News
– SUSPECT IN AUSTIN, TX SHOOTING WORE ‘PROPERTY OF ALLAH’ CLOTHING
– THE MAYOR OF NYC HAS PICKED A SIDE IN THE IRAN CONFLICT (WANNA GUESS WHICH SIDE?)
– NYC HAD A PRO-IRANIAN EVENT WITH SOME TRUMP DANCING TO YMCA
– LESS THAN A WEEK AFTER VA’s NEW GOV BANNED POLICE FROM WORKING WITH ICE — THIS HAPPENED
– ARE YOU A STATE FARM CAR INSURANCE CUSTOMER? EXPECT A REFUND
– SNL TRIED TO MAKE A STATEMENT ABOUT THE HOCKEY CONTROVERSY
– RFK JR SAYS IT WILL BE EASIER TO IDENTIFY ‘ULTRA PROCESSED FOODS’ VERY SOON
– THERE’S BEEN A HUGE SPIKE IN CANNABIS HYPEREMESIS SYNDROME (CHS) WHAT YOU SHOULD KNOW
Other News Catching My Eye
– TOTAL LUNAR ECLIPSE HAPPENING TUESDAY — WILL YOU SEE THE ‘BLOOD MOON?’
– CAN TSA STOP YOU FOR HAVING MARIJUANA IN YOUR LUGGAGE? (IT’S COMPLICATED)
– MICKEY D’s CEO IS MERCILESSLY MOCKED FOR POSTING A VIDEO OF HIS TASTING ‘THE BIG ARCH’
– SO, THE SAG AWARDS WERE HAPPENING LAST NIGHT… DID ANYONE WATCH OR CARE?
