Monday – May 6, 2024

Crepe Suzette Day, International No Diet Day

Meme Du Jour

THIS DAY IN HISTORY

1833 – John Deere developed the first steel plow
1861 – Arkansas becomes the 9th state to secede from the Union
1935 – FDR creates the Works Progress Administration (WPA)
1937 – The Hindenburg explodes in flames in Lakehurst, NJ
1954 – Roger Bannister breaks the four-minute mile
1960 – President Eisenhower signed the 1960 Civil Rights Act
1994 – Paula Jones accuses Bill Clinton of sexual harassment
1994 – The Channel Tunnel (the “Chunnel”) linking France and England opened
2004 – The final, original episode of “Friends” aired (I still haven’t watched a full show)

News and The Politics out of D.C.

BIDEN KEEPS MAKING CLAIMS ABAOUT HIS SUPPORT FROM WOMEN – IS HE RIGHT?

NEW ABC NEWS POLL HAS BIDEN AND TRUMP IN A VIRTUAL TIE

 – INSIDE THE ABC POLL – SOME TROUBLING ‘SOFTNESS’ AMONG USUAL DEM VOTERS

 – WHAT ABOUT CRITICAL ISSUES? WHO LEADS THERE? (TRUMP)

BIDEN LOSES TO THE TELEPROMPTER (YET AGAIN)

 – ‘PRESIDENTIAL FREEDOM OF MEDAL’ AWARDS???

 – OOF… THIS ONE WAS BAD, REALLY BAD

 – BIDEN THINKS KATY LEDECKY IS COMPETING IN THE PARAOLYMPICS?

THE ONLY PERSON MAKING JOE SOUND SMART IS JARED BERNSTEIN

 – A SECOND BERNSTEIN CLIP PROVES MY POINT

TRUMP SURROUNDS HIMSELF WITH LOADS OF VP / CABINET POSSIBILITIES

DONALD TRUMP GOT A LOT OF LOVE FROM LAW ENFORCEMENT AT THE MIAMI GRAND PRIX

BIDEN’S HANDLERS TO SHORTEN HIS SPEECHES (BUT, THERE’S NO BRAIN ISSUE)

SEN TOM COTTON WON’T LET ABC NEWS HOST MOVE ON FROM CAMPUS PROTEST STORY

ONCE AGAIN, BILL MAHER CRITICIZES JOE BIDEN – THIS TIME ON STUDENT LOANS

OOF – ANOTHER SELF-INFLICTED WOUND HITS KRISTI NOEM’S POLITICAL DREAMS

U.S. REPORTEDLY PUTS A HOLD ON AMMO SHIPMENTS TO ISRAEL

JAPAN RESPONDS TO BIDEN CALLING OUR ALLY AND PARTNER ‘XENOPHOBIC’

ISRAEL REPORTEDLY BRIEFED THE U.S. ON PLANS TO INVADE RAFAH

HAMAS ROCKET BARRAGE KILLS THREE IDF SOLDIERS

AL JAZEERA IS PISSED THAT ISRAEL SHUT DOWN ITS LOCAL OFFICES

YEAH – STAR WARS’ MARK HAMMILL WAS AT THE WHITE HOUSE WITH BIDEN

General News

CAMPUS CHAOS

 – STUDENTS SHOUT ‘SHUT THE F**K UP’ AT GRADUATION PROTESTERS

 – MIT PROTESTERS CHANT ‘DEATH TO JEWS’ IN ARABIC, CLEAN IT UP IN ENGLISH

 – ASU SENIOR LEARNS HER ARREST AT PRO-HAMAS PROTEST HAS CONSEQUENCES

 – MORE EVIDENCE THAT RADICAL LEFTIST GROUPS WERE TRAINING COLLEGE KIDS

 – NO SHOCK HERE – GUESS WHO IS FUNDING THE PROTESTS? SOME BIG BIDEN DONORS

GANG FIGHTS KILL CHICAGO’S CINCO DE MAYO PARADE

CHICAGO TEACHERS WANT HOMELESS DORMS IN CITY SCHOOLS

WHERE IN THE WORLD ARE THE FASTEST GROWING / EMERGING MARKETS?

LUXURY AIRLINE TO OFFER FLIGHTS FROM NYC TO LONDON FOR PEOPLE AND THEIR PETS

WHICH STATES HAVE THE HIGHEST MINIMUM WAGE IN AMERICA

WOKE

MORE ON THE RIDICULOUS ‘MAN VS BEAR’ DEBATE

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA NOW DISCRIMINATES BASED ON PARENTAL INCOME

THANK GOD OUR DEPT OF INTERIOR IS FOCUSED ON ‘SUSTAINABLE RECREATION’

Other News Catching My Eye

A WHOLE LOT OF PEOPLE SHOWED UP ON THE BEACH IN BRAZIL TO SEE MADONNA

SEINFELD RIPS ‘FRIENDS’ FOR STEALING ‘SEINFELD’ CHARACTERS

JEFF GOLDBLUM HAS MONEY — HE’S NOT LEAVING IT TO HIS KIDS

IS IT REALLY NEWS WHEN AN 80’s ROCKER ADMITS TO HAVING SEX WITH LOTS OF WOMEN?