Thursday – August 31, 2023

THIS DAY IN HISTORY

1742 – A plague of grasshoppers destroys crops in Pennsylvania
1888 – Jack the Ripper’s first victim is killed
1900 – Coca-Cola goes on sale in England for the first time — at Spence’s Department store
1919 – The Communist Labor Party is founded in Chicago with the motto “Workers of the World Unite’
1961 – A concrete wall replaced the barbed wire separating East & West Berlin
1980 – Poland is forced to sign an agreement with shipyard workers in Gdansk

1990 – East & West Germany signed a reunification treaty
1997 – Princess Diana dies in a car crash in Paris (Dodi Fayed and their driver died too)
2006 – Munch’s “The Scream” stolen just over two years earlier, is recovered by Norwegian police

News and The Politics out of D.C.

MITCH? MITCH?? MITCH??? (YES, IT HAPPENED AGAIN)

 ONCE AGAIN, HERE’S WHAT HAPPENS TO HIS SEAT IF McCONNELL LEAVES

KJP –  LABELS DISTURBING CLAIMS FROM BOOK ON BIDEN TO BE ‘RIDICULOUS’

    – KJP MADNESS PART 2 – BIDEN IS STOPPING ILLEGALS AT THE BORDER

ANOTHER DAY, ANOTHER HUNTER BIDEN/CHINA STORY THAT SHOULD BE PRETTY DAMNING

– COMER WANTS JOE’S TRAVEL RECORDS — BELIEVES IT WAS AN ABUSE TO HAVE HUNTER ON THE TRIPS

RFK JR PROPOSES 3% GOV’T BACK MORTGAGES

TRUMP POSTS A FLURRY OF VIDEOS ON TRUTH SOCIAL — 31 VIDEOS IN JUST FOUR HOURS

DeSANTIS CAMPAIGN EXEC AMBUSHED AT HOME BY THE FAR LEFT

VIVEK ISN’T FINISHED WITH ANDREA MITCHELL

 – VIVEK’S POLLING TAKES A HIT POST-DEBATE

CORNELL WEST SAYS DEMS ARE ‘BEYOND REDEMPTION

SQUAD MEMBER CORI BUSH MAY HAVE A CRIMINAL PROBLEM WITH THE MONEY SHE PAYS HER BOYFRIEND

BLAKE MASTERS SAYS HE’S RUNNING FOR KYRSTEN SINEMA’S SENATE SEAT

REMEMBER DEMOCRAT PARTY SAVIOR MICHAEL AVENATTI?  HE’S STILL A LOSER, BIGLY

RUDY GIULIANI LOSES A BIG ONE IN GEORGIA DEFAMATION SUIT

General News

IDALIA SMASHES FLORIDA

DeSANTIS WARNS LOOTERS… DON’T EVEN THINK ABOUT IT

 – IDALIA DROPPED A 100-YR-OLD TREE ON THE GOVERNOR’S MANSION WHILE THE FAMILY WAS HOME

‘FLORIDA MAN’ SHOWED UP DURING A CNN LIVE HIT AND IT WAS FABULOUS

SEA COW (MANATEE) SPOTTED GRAZING ON LAWN IN FLORIDA AFTER HURRICANE PASSED

REMEMBER MAUI? HAWAIIAN ELECTRIC HAS FINALLY RESPONDED TO LAWSUIT ABOUT FIRES

CALIFORNIA COUNCIL PERSON GETS HELD UP

ANOTHER CALIFORNIA SMASH AND GRAB AT A JEWELRY STORE GETS AWAY WITH 1/2 A MIL IN MERCH

MAJOR CHESAPEAKE BAY TUNNEL PROJECT DERAILED AFTER MACHINE STRIKE AN OLD ANCHOR

HIGH-SPEED RAIL IN AMERICA? (I’M FOR IT. AS LONG AS IT’S NOT A GOV’T PROJECT)

YOU FIND $5000 CASH IN A BAG IN A PARKING LOT AND YOU KEEP IT — THEN YOU GET ARRESTED

WOKE

HERE ARE ALL THE STATES BANNING PUBERTY BLOCKERS AND GENDER SURGERIES ON CHILDREN

A WIN FOR PARENTS — CA SCHOOL DISTRICT SETTLES WITH MOM AFTER SECRETLY TRANSITIONING HER CHILD

MAJOR OFFSHORE WIND COMPANY TAKES HUGE LOSSES

STATEMENTS FROM  LIBRARY ASSN PRESIDENT WILL STUN YOU

FINNISH MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT ARRESTED FOR PUTTING BIBLE VERSES ON SOCIAL MEDIA

Other News Catching My Eye

WHAT DOES IT TAKE TO SURVIVE AS A SINGLE PERSON IN EVERY STATE?

DINERS ENJOYED THEIR MEAL UNTIL THEY NOTICED THE $15 ‘YOU’RE AN ASSHOLE’ CHARGE

WOULD YOU EAT FISH FROM THE WATERS OF FUKUSHIMA? THE JAPANESE PM JUST DID

MEET GERMANY’S RADIOACTIVE BOARS (NOT A BAND NAME, EITHER)

THAT LADY WHO FREAKED OUT ON A PLANE IS SPOTTED BACK AT THE AIRPORT

POLICE ARREST TWO WOMEN WHO TWERKED AND DANCES ON FALLEN SOLDIERS’ GRAVES