Thursday – August 15, 2024

Last day of ‘Air Conditioner Appreciation Day’

National Lemon Meringue Pie Day

Meme Du Jour

Details coming tomorrow – from Kamala herself

THIS DAY IN HISTORY
1911 – Proctor & Gamble patent Crisco (hydrogenated shortening)
1914 – The Panama Canal opened
1935 – Will Rogers and Wiley Post die in a plane crash
1939 – “The Wizard of Oz” premiered at Grauman’s Chinese Theater
1945 – Gasoline and fuel oil rationing ends
1969 – Woodstock opened in Bethel, NY
1971 – President Nixon announced a 90-day freeze on wages and prices to stop inflation
1979 – “Apocalypse Now” opens in movie theaters
2021 – Kabul falls to the Taliban after US withdrawal

News and The Politics out of D.C.

NEW FOX POLL GIVES TRUMP A SMALL LEAD

 – PUGH HAS HARRIS AHEAD BY ONE — ‘A VIRTUAL TIE’

 – 538’s LATEST 

 – POLYMARKET STILL HAS KAMALA AHEAD

RFK JR OFFERED TO TRADE HIS CAMPAIGN FOR A CABINET POST WITH KAMALA

 – REMEMBER WHEN RFK JR TRIED THE SAME SCAM WITH TRUMP?

TRUMP VOWS TO CUT ENERGY PRICES IN HALF

 – TRUMP WANTS KAMALA TO EXPLAIN THE ECONOMIC SUFFERING SHE’S CAUSED

WATCH JD VANCE TAKE A NY TIMES REPORTER APART AFTER INFLATION QUESTION

TIM WALZ IS A HUNTER, A GUN HUNTER (YOUR GUNS)

CBS GETS THE VP DEBATE – OCTOBER 1 — WALZ IS IN (VANCE SAYS MAYBE)

    – VANCE SIGNALS HE GOOD TO GO, IF CBS DOESN’T PLAY GAMES

JIM ACOSTA ASKS HARRIS SPOX, ‘WOULD IT KILL YOU GUYS TO HAVE A PRESS CONFERENCE?’

DOOCY ASKED KJP WHEN KAMALA DECIDED TO DISTANCE HERSELF FROM ‘BIDENOMICS’

 – KJP ALSO PRESSED (BY CBS) ON LATEST HUNTER BIDEN DOCUMENTS

PRO-TRUMP SHERIFF IS PISSED HIS IMAGE IS IN A HARRIS COMMERCIAL

JUDGE MERCHAN’S DAUGHTER MADE A FORTUNE OFF DEMS THIS YEAR

TRUCKERS & HUNTERS & AMISH, OH MY! THE GOP IS LOOKING FOR VOTES EVERYWHERE

THREE YEARS LATER — TALIBAN SHOWS OFF ALL THE MILITARY EQUIPMENT WE LEFT THEM

General News

PRO-PALESTINE PROTESTERS WRECK KAMALA CAMPAIGN EVENT IN NYC

INFLATION IS DOWN TO ITS LOWEST POINT IN THREE YEARS, BUUUUT

 – COST OF HOUSING IS NOT GOING DOWN

 – INFLATION COOLS — HERE’S WHY PRICES AIN’T DROPPING

THERE ARE SIX-FIGURE JOBS IN TECH THAT DON’T REQUIRE A FOUR YEAR DEGREE

KAEPERNICK BACK IN THE NFL? (AS A COACH, MAYBE)

R-I-P WALLY ‘FAMOUS’ AMOS — GONE AAT 88

Woke News

REGISTERED NURSE SOUNDS THE ALARM ON GENDER IDEOLOGY DECEPTION

FINALLY. COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PRES RESIGNS AFTER ANTI-SEMITIC PROTESTS RAGED

Other News Catching My Eye

CAROLE BURNETT ON COMEDY TODAY, ‘IT’S NOT FUNNY’

FIRST CLASS PASSENGER ON DELTA MOCKED FOR WHINING ABOUT THE WINES BEING SERVED

MILWAUKEE BREWERS OWNER IS UNDER FIRE FOR STEALING SAND FROM THE BEACH

WHEN IN INDIA (OR ANYWHERE), PLEASE DO NOT COOK AND EAT THE PEACOCKS

61-YR-OLD BRIT JAILED FOR 18 MOS FOR SHOUTING, ‘WHO THE F*CK IS ALLAH?’