Thursday – October 12, 2023

Radio Today: I’ll be in for Joe Pags all across America from 6-9pm eastern – Listen via WOAI

National Gumbo Day, Pulled Pork Day too

Meme Du Jour

THIS DAY IN HISTORY

1492 – Columbus reaches the “New World”
1810 – The origins of Oktoberfest (it was a horse race event in Munich)
1920 – Construction of the Holland Tunnel begins (It opened 7 years later)
1933 – Alcatraz Island becomes a maximum security federal prison

1960 – Khrushchev brandishes his shoe at the UN, warning, (He didn’t say, “We will bury you.”)
1964 – The USSR launched Vokshod 1 – the first multi-person space flight2000 – Suicide bombers damage the USS Cole in Yemen – killing 17, over 35 wounded
2007 – Al Gore wins Nobel Prize (for fiction) for “An Inconvenient Truth”

News and The Politics out of D.C.

ISRAEL… 

 NBC NEWS UPDATE

 BIDEN CLAIMED HE SAW PICS OF DECAPITATED BABIES… WH CORRECTS THIS LIE

 NETANYAHU — ‘EVERY HAMAS OPERATIVE WILL DIE’

 HAMAS OFFICIAL CITES U.S. GIVING IRAN $6B AS REASON FOR TAKING HOSTAGES

 – TWO GOP SENATORS INTRODUCE BILL TO IMMEDIATELY RE-FREEZE THE $6B

 BRUTAL PHOTOS OF WHAT HAMAS HAS DONE HAVE BEEN RELEASED

 AFGHANISTAN FLASHBACK? BIDEN ADMIN FACING CRITICISM FOR LACK OF EVACUATION ACTION

 TURKISH PRESIDENT ERDOGAN CALLS ISRAEL’S RESPONSE A ‘MASSACRE’

 ISRAEL DIPLOMAT DRAWS CLEAR LINE TO IRAN’S INVOLVEMENT IN HAMAS’ ATTACK

 UPENN FACES DONOR CRISIS FOR SILENCE ON HAMAS ATTACK OF ISRAEL

 F AROUND AND FIND OUT — CEOS DON’T WANT TO HIRE PEOPLE WHO BLAME ISRAEL

 NYPD WANTS EVERY OFFICER IN UNIFORM AND ON THE STREETS TOMORROW

 – TWO NYC JUVENILES WERE POINTING FAKE GUNS AT A SYNAGOGUE

 BOXER FLOYD MAYWEATHER LOADED UP HIS JET AND SEND AID TO ISRAEL

GOP PICKS SCALISE AS IT’S NOMINEE FOR SPEAKER, CAN THEY GET ENOUGH VOTES TO ELECT HIM?

 – MTG EXPLAINS WHY SHE’S VOTING FOR JIM JORDAN

PRESS ROOM TENSION: NY POST CONFRONTS KJP FOR ALMOST NEVER CALLING ON HIM

BIDEN CLASSIFIED DOCS INVESTIGATION IS GETTING BIGGER

GAVIN NEWSOM APPEARS TO BE DRIFTING TOWARDS THE MIDDLE (IS HE GETTING READY?)

WAIT, WHAT? MITT ROMNEY IS RECRUITING DEM SENATORS TO PRIMARY JOE BIDEN

    – DELUSIONAL: ‘YOUNG TURKS’ CENK UGYUR IS GOING TO PRIMARY JOE BIDEN

General News

SOMEONE ELSE WON THE POWERBALL JACKPOT

MAJOR FORD TRUCK PLANT HIS WITH STRIKE 8700 WORKERS WALK OFF THE JOB

NEW CALIFORNIA LAW COULD FORCE MENTALLY ILL PEOPLE TO GET TREATMENT

COLLEGE ADMISSIONS TEST SCORES ARE FALLING (MEDIA WANTS TO BLAME COVID)

REMEMBER THE LADY WHO FAKED HER KIDNAPPING IN ALABAMA? SHE WAS FOUND GUILTY

WOKE

OFFSHORE WIND FARMS ARE BAD FOR THE ECONOMY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY STUDENTS DEMAND SCHOOL CUT TIES WITH ISRAEL

Other News Catching My Eye

A NEW ‘BANKSY’ WORK APPEARS IN LONDON (AND IT’S REALLY COOL)

THE RISE IN ONLINE GAMBLING IS CAUSING A SURGE IN TEEN GAMBLING PROBLEMS

HERE COME THE ‘KILLER CLOWNS’ WALKING AROUND NEIGHBORHOODS

DIDJA SEE PHILLIES STAR BRYCE HARPER “LOOK F**K’ ATLANTA BRAVES STAR AFTER HIS HOMER?