STAR WARS DAY! (May the fourth be with you.)(Blame the UK lawmaker who wrote that pun in 1994.)

Intl Firefighters Day
Kent State Shootings Remembrance Day (1970 – Immortalized by CSNY’s “OHIO”)
Dave Brubeck Day (The ‘Take Five’ guy gets celebrated on the 4th?)
National Orange Juice Day
Meme Du Jour

THIS DAY IN HISTORY
1776 – Rhode Island is the first colony to renounce allegiance to King George III
1865 – President Lincoln is buried in Springfield, IL
1904 – The U.S. acquires the Panama Canal, official takes over the construction too
1932 – Al Capone goes to prison
1959 – The first Grammy Awards were handed out (Sinatra won one, the Chipmunks grabbed three.)
1970 – National Guard Shoots and kills four student protesters
1979 – Margaret Thatcher becomes England’s first female Prime Minister
1998 – A federal judge sentenced the Unabomber Ted Kaczynski to four consecutive life sentences
2023 – The WHO declares COVID is over as a global health emergency

News and The Politics out of D.C.
CLIPS
– THE PRESIDENT ANNOUNCING ‘PROJECT FREEDOM’ TO ESCORT SHIPS THRU THE STRAIT OF HORMUZ
– WILL POTUS ORDER THE MILITARY TO STRIKE IRAN AGAIN?
– WHAT ABOUT IRAN’S REMAINING MILITARY MANUFACTURING? (TRUMP WOULD LIKE TO CRUSH THAT TOO)
– WHAT DOES TRUMP THINK ABOUT IRAN’S NEW PROPOSAL? (HE’LL READ IT ON THE PLANE)
– TRUMP AT THE VILLAGES — WITH SOME THOUGHTS ON ILHAN OMAR
– MELANIA (REPORTEDLY) HATES THE TRUMP DANCE — THE PRESIDENT DID IT AT THE VILLAGES
– DOES DR PHIL LIVE AT THE VILLAGES? (HE BROUGHT TRUMP OUT TO CELEBRATE NO TAX ON SOCIAL SECURITY)
– IT SURE SOUNDS LIKE RON DeSANTIS MAY BE NOMINATED FOR A CABINET POST VERY SOON
– DEM HOUSE CANDIDATE MC MORROW WAS STILL VOTING IN CALIFORNIA TWO YEARS AFTER MOVING TO MICHIGAN
– ADAM SCHIFF IS MAD ABOUT DOJ INVESTIGATIONS HE DOESN’T LIKE
– US ATTNY JEANINE PIRRO ON WHICH BULLET HIT THE SECRET SERVICE AGENT (IT WAS THE ALLEGED SHOOTER’S)
– HAS ANYONE CHECKED ON GAVIN NEWSOM? THIS VIDEO SEEMS TO BE TROUBLING MANY PEOPLE
– BIDEN-MAYOR PETE- LIZ WARREN ALL WORKED TO KILL MERGER THAT WOULD HAVE SAVED SPIRIT AIR
– SCOTT BESSENT THROWS SHADE ON LIZ WARREN FOR KILLING SPIRIT AIR MERGER YEARS AGO
– ONE WOMAN SHARES THE STORY OF 170 PEOPLE WHO THOUGHT THEY WERE FLYING HOME TO OHIO
– OBAMA WINGMAN ERIC HOLDER WANTS DEMS/PROGRESSIVES TO START PLAYING HARDBALL
– DEM WITH HOPES TO WINNING FETTERMAN’S SEAT TURNS OUT TO BE A VIOLENT NUT
– HE ALSO HAD A ‘BE KIND’ PENNANT ON THE WAL BEHIND HIM
– SW AIRLINES FLIGHT ATTENDANT WANTS PRESIDENT TRUMP DEAD
– CHRIS MURPHY SAYS THE NAZI TATTOO ON THEIR DEM CANDIDATE IN MAINE IS JUST AN ‘INNOCENT MISTAKE’
– FORMER CNN STAR JIM ACOSTA SAYS SCOTT JENNINGS NEEDS TO BE FIRED
– SCOTT JENNINGS FACES OFF WITH KASEY HUNT (THIS MAY HAVE INSPIRED MR ACOSTA)
– IF YOU LOOK CLOSELY AT THIS CARVILLE VIDEO, I THINK YOU CAN SEE HIS MOUTH AND THE FROTHING
– AM I THE ONLY ONE WHO THINKS JENNIFER WELCH IS TALKING TO HER STUNT DOUBLE?

More News From DC
– TRUMP ANNOUNCED ‘PROJECT FREEDOM’ TO ESCOT SHIPS THRU THE STRAIT OF HORMUZ
– POLL: EVEN A MAORITY OF DEMOCRATS BELIEVE WE’RE WINNING THE WAR WITH IRAN
– KALSHI PREDICTION MARKETS SAYS 2028 LOOKS LIKE A TIE BETWEEN THESE THREE CANDIDATES
– KALSHI IS ALSO SEEING RISKS OF A RECESSION FALLING FROM 40% TO 17%
– RANDY FINE SAYS – NO DUAL CITIZENSHIPS SERVING IN CONGRESS (I’M OK WITH THIS)
– DEMS CLAIM VOTER FRAUD AIN’T HAPPENING – HOWEVER, WHEN THEY ARE THE ONES DOING IT, SO IT’S OK
– A SCOTUS DECISION WE ARE WORRIED ABOUT — CAN POLICE TRACK / SEARCH YOUR PHONE?
– IT SURE LOOKS LIKE MANUFACTURING IS MAKING A COMEBACK IN AMERICA — FOUR MONTHS OF GROWTH
– INVASION? 50 MIL MUSLIMS LIVE IN EUROPE NOW — IN 2000 THAT NUMBER WAS UNDER 500K
– RUDY GIULIANI REPORTED TO BE HOSPITALIZED IN CRITICAL CONDITION

General News
– CHICAGO F-O-P LEADER IS FED UP WITH THE ACTIONS OF HIS LOCAL AND STATE GOV’T
– CRAZY! PLANE FROM VENICE TO NEWARK, NJ CLIPS A LIGHT POLE AND A TRUCK
– MANY OF US ARE SURPRISED THIS DOESN’T HAPPEN EVER DAMN DAY
– FL GOV DeSANTIS REVEALS HIS ‘CHEAT CODE’ FOR MAKING THE STATE SUCCESSFUL
– THIS IS BRUTAL — PHILLY STUDENT EXPOSES JUST HOW ILLITERATE HER CLASSMATES ARE
– UH-OH, GLP-1 DRUGS TIED TO HAIR LOSS AS WELL AS WEIGHT LOSS?
– SAY GOOD-BYE TO SELF-SERVE SODAS/DRINKS AT MC DONALDS

Other News Catching My Eye
– MARK CUBAN IS TRYING TO START SOME SHIT WITH ELON MUSK
– FLASHBACK: DONALD TRUMP AND MELANIA KNAUSS AT THE KENTUCKY DERBY IN 1999
– FAREWELL SPIRIT AIRLINES — MONTAGE MAY NEED A BEEP OR TWO FOR AIR