Thursday – July 16, 2020

National Corn Fritters Day (seriously)

Countdown to the 2020 Election — 110 days to go!

Meme du Jour

The BUY-COTT continues to fill food banks — keep it going!

THIS DAY IN HISTORY

1439 – In an effort to stop the spread of disease, England banned kissing

1790 – The District of Columbia is established as the seat of the US Gov’t

1918 – The end of the Romanovs — Czar Nicholas II and his family were executed

1945 – The first atomic bomb is tested in Alamogordo, NM

1951 – JD Salinger published “Catcher in the Rye”

1969 – Apollo 11 lifts off — destination, the moon!

1999 – JFK Jr, his wife Carolyn and her sister Lauren are killed in a plane crash off Martha’s Vineyard

News and The Politics out of D.C.

CAMPAIGN SHAKE UP — TRUMP REPLACES PARSCALE WITH 110 DAYS TO GO

ENDORSEMENT FLIP – NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF POLICE ORGS FLIPS TO TRUMP (In 2008 and 2012, they endorsed Obama-Biden)

PENCE: GOP CONSIDERING MOVING CONVENTION OUTDOORS

SEC OF STATE POMPEO SAYS CHINA WILL ‘ABSOLUTELY’ PAY A PRICE FOR PANDEMIC

U.S. TROOPS EXITING FIVE BASES IN AFGHANISTAN UNDER TALIBAN PEACE DEAL

WHAAAT? SMITHSONIAN MUSEUM SAY OBJECTIVE THINKING IS A SIGN OF ‘WHITENESS’

CNN SAYS WH PULLED THE PLUG ON PETER NAVARRO INTERVIEW

JUSTICE GINSBERG IS RELEASED FROM THE HOSPITAL – DOING WELL

General News

VIRUS UPDATE: FAUCI EXPECTS VACCINE BY YEARS END, HOSPITALIZATIONS RISE

OKLAHOMA’S GOV KEVIN STITT HAS THE ‘RONA

MICHIGAN GOV EXTENDS EMERGENCY UNTIL AUGUST 12

GA GOV OVERRIDES LOCAL MASK MANDATES BUT ENCOURAGES WEARING THEM

THE VIRUS HAS ALSO KILLED THE ROSE PARADE – FIRST TIME IN 76 YEARS

NYPD CHIEF WHO KNELT WITH PROTESTERS IS BLOODIED BY THEM

HELLO KARMA: MAN ALLEGEDLY SETS FIRE TO POLICE CAR OUTSIDE SUPREME COURT, BURNS HIMSELF, GETS ARRESTED

MAYOR OF PORTLAND TELLS FEDERAL POLICE TO STAY INSIDE OR GO HOME

PORTLAND ANTIFA SETS UP ‘CLAT’ – ‘OCCUPIED ZONE’ OUTSIDE COURTHOUSE

BLACK LIVES MATTER IN ENGLAND REPLACED A STATUE WITH ONE OF THEIR OWN

RADIO HOST CHARLAMAGNE THA GOD SAYS NICK CANNON’S FIRING PROVES ‘JEWS HAVE THE POWER’

EX NBA STAR TELLS NICK CANNON TO ‘KEEP LEADING’ — TRIED TO CLARIFY IT

NICK CANNON (FINALLY) APOLOGIZED FOR HIS ANTI-SEMITIC STATEMENTS

KAREEM ABDUL-JABBAR: YOU CAN’T BE BOTH ANTI-RACIST AND ANTI-SEMITIC

FAMILY OF GEORGE FLOYD SUES MINNEAPOLIS, FOUR OFFICERS INVOLVED

CHUCK TODD CLAIMS MSNBC HAS NO EDITORIAL BIAS (STOP LAUGHING)

TWITTER HACKED — OBAMA, BIDEN, ELON MUSK, APPLE ACCOUNTS ALL TAKEN OVER IN BITCOIN SCAM

TWITTER LOCKED ACCOUNTS OF “BLUE CHECK MARKS” AFTER HACKING

Other News Catching My Eye

6-YR-OLD BOY RISKED HIS LIFE TO SAVE HIS SISTER FROM A BRUTAL DOG ATTACK

TOW TRUCK DRIVER JUMPS IN THE OCEAN TO SAVE DROWNING WOMAN

SCIENCE KNOWS: HOW MANY HOT DOGS CAN A PERSON EAT IN ONE SITTING?

GHISLAINE MAXWELL IS SECRETLY MARRIED, WON’T IDENTIFY HUSBAND