World Kidney Day (Would you give one to a friend or relative?)
– World Glaucoma Day
– National Girl Scout Day
– National Baked Scallops Day
– Alfred Hitchcock Day (Favorite ‘Hitch’ film? I’m torn between ‘North by Northwest’ and ‘Lifeboat’)
Meme Du Jour
THIS DAY IN HISTORY
1789 – The United States Post Office is established
1894 – Coca-Cola is sold in glass bottles for the first time (It was only a fountain drink before this)
1933 – FDR broadcasts his first ‘Fireside Chat’ during the Great Depression
1938 – Germany decides, ‘Austria looks good, let’s annex it’
1945 – Anne Frank dies in a German concentration camp
1959 – The House joined the Senate in approving statehood for Hawaii
1968 – Oil discovered in Alaska’s Prudhoe Bay — a game changer for the state
1969 – London police conduct a raid on George Harrison’s home — they were looking for drugs
1994 – The Church of England ordains women priests
2003 – The Dixie Chicks (Now just The Chicks) feel the wrath of angry Conservatives
2020 – Broadway goes dark – thanks to COVID-19
H/T Rosemarie in FL
News and The Politics out of D.C.
CLIPS
– THE PRESIDENT WAS ASKED — IS IT A WAR OR AN EXCURSION?
– TRUMP MESSAGE TO VOTERS — DEMS WILL ELIMINATE ‘NO TAX ON OVERTIME’ IF THEY GET CONTROL AGAIN
– THE PRESIDENT ADDRESSED BARACK OBAMA’S POLITICIZATION OF THE JESSE JACKSON FUNERAL
– DR OZ JUMPED IN TO HELP A WOMAN WHO WAS HAVING A MEDICAL EMERGENCY AT TRUMP’S RALLY
– JAKE PAUL JUMPED ON STAGE AT THE TRUMP EVENT TOO
– TRUMP SUPPORTS A CHALLENGER TO THOMAS MASSIE — AND GAVE HIM TIME ON STAGE
– PRESIDENT TRUMP ANNOUNCES A RELEASE OF PETROLEUM RESERVES
– TRUMP RESPONDS WHEN ASKED ABOUT SEN LEADER THUNE AND THE ‘SAVE AMERICA ACT’
– SAVE AMERICA ACT? LISA MURKOWSKI IS A NO
– DEM SEN ALEX PADILLA SAYS HE’LL DIE ON THE HILL TO STOP THE ‘SAVE AMERICA ACT’
– SEN CORNYN IS NOW SUPPORTING THE ‘SAVE AMERICA ACT’
– SEN TUBERVILLE IS READY FOR THE BATTLE TO PUSH THE ‘SAVE AMERICA ACT’
– IRAN THREATENS TO SEND DRONE ATTACKS TO CALIFORNIA? DON’T WORRY, GAVIN’S GOT THIS
– SEC KENNEDY – WE’RE NOT GETTING RID OF PROCESSED FOOD — WE’RE JUST EDUCATING CONSUMERS
– WAR PORN: CENTCOM RELEASES IMAGES OF IRAN’S AIR FORCE — WHAT’S LEFT OF IT — IN FLAMES
– FAFO MOMENT — IF YOU CALL FOR PEOPLE WEARING MAGA HATS TO BE SHOT, YOU MIGHT END UP IN PRISON
– CNN’S ABBY PHILLIP WAS SO WRONG THAT SHE HAD TO MAKE AN ON-AIR APOLOGY
– A CNN MONTAGE SHOWING THE NETWORK’S HISTORY OF MIS/DISINFORMATION
– ARE YOU LIKE ME? YA CAN’T WAIT FOR JILL BIDEN’S NEW MEMOIR! RAYMOND ARROYO PREVIEWS IT
More News From DC
– FBI WARNS CALIFORNIA MAY BE A TARGET FOR IRAN’S DRONES
– IS IRAN TARGETING CALIFORNIA FOR A DRONE STRIKE? IT MIGHT NOT BE THAT MUCH OF A STRETCH
– IRAN APPEARS TO BE BETTING EVERYTHING IT HAS LEFT ON THE STRAIT OF HORMUZ
– LOBSTER-GATE! — THE MILITARY’S BEEN FEEDING LOBSTER/CRAB/STEAK TO WAR-BOUND TROOPS FOREVER
– IT’S NOT JUST A RANDOM THING EITHER — H/T TO SELENA ZITO FOR FINDING THESE
– PAUL BEGALA WAS CNN SPEWING MORE MISINFORMATION ON THIS ONE DEM HOT TOPIC
– COREY LEWANDOWSKI REPORTEDLY ACTED SO ‘CONFIDENT’ BECAUSE HE BELIEVED TRUMP WOULD PARDON HIM
General News
– REMEMBER THE NANCY GUTHRIE STORY? ARE WE CLOSE TO AN ARREST?
– HERO NYPD CHIEF FROM VIRAL IMAGE OF HIM LEAPING TO ACTION IS SPEAKING (MAYOR? MAYBE A MEETING?)
– NYC’s BUDGET DIRECTOR CAN’T TESTIFY ABOUT THE CITY’S AWFUL FINANCES BECAUSE OF RAMADAN?
– FLORIDA IS PUTTING UP STATUES OF THE FOUNDING FATHERS (JUST WHEN YOU THOUGHT FL COULDN’T GET BETTER)
– MONTHS AGO, DR OZ SAW HOSPICE FRAUD IN CALI — NEWSOM CALLED IT RACIST (IT WASN’T)
– MN SENIORS ARE FIGHTING FOR THE RIGHT TO HAVE HAPPY HOURS IN NURSING HOMES
– NY GOV HOCHUL MOCKS CONSERVATIVE FOR CARING ABOUT DEAD WHALES AND DOLPHINS
– ANOTHER DAY, ANOTHER CRINGEY CLIP FROM DEM SENATE CANDIDATE JAMES TALARICO
– MORE EPSTEIN FILES FALLOUT: GIANTS CO-OWNER TRANSFERS HIS SHARES TO A TRUST AFTER LATEST NEWS
– A HIGH SCHOOL HOCKEY STORY THAT DESERVE NATIONAL ATTENTION
Science!
Other News Catching My Eye
– THE UK IS PULLING WINSTON CHURCHILL FROM ITS CURRENCY (HE’S BEING REPLACED BY WILDLIFE IMAGES)
– BALLSY MOVE? KICKBOXER PULLS A CAR USING ONLY HIS TESTICLES
– NBA CANCELS ATLANTA HAWKS’ TRIBUTE TO A FAMOUS LOCAL TITTY BAR (WAS THE WNBA JEALOUS?)
– IT’S FUN TO WATCH LIBERALS WAKE UP — WHITNEY CUMMINGS EXPLAINS HER PIVOT ON LIBERAL HYPOCRISY
