National Skyscraper Day (I can think of two I really miss.)
– US Bowling League Day
– Merchant Navy Day
– National Welsh Rarebit Day
Meme Du Jour

THIS DAY IN HISTORY
1777 – The “Stars & Stripes” flies in battle for the first time (Cooch’s Bridge in DE)
1783 – Treaty of Paris signed
1895 – The first professional football game is played in Latrobe, PA (The Latrobe YMCA beat the Jeanette Athletic Club 12-0.)
1918 – The U.S. recognizes Czechoslovakia
1928 – Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin 1939 – Britain and France declare war on Germany (The beginning of WWII)
1944 – The US Army captures Lyon, France
1969 – Vietnam’s Ho Chi Minh dies
1976 – The unmanned Viking 2 lands on Mars, takes the first close-up, color pics
2004 – Three-day seige at a Russian school ends in a bloodbath – 300+ dead

News and The Politics out of D.C.
CLIPS
– THE PRES IS ASKED IF THE CIA WILL ARM THE IRANIAN PEOPLE?
– AND WHAT ABOUT THE TIGER WOODS’ PLEAS DEAL? (HE REPLIED)
– THE PRES IS HAPPY THE FAKE ROYALS HAVE LEFT THE U.S.
– IS TRUMP LISTENING TO PM CARNEY ABOUT THROWING SHADE AT CANADA? (NO)
– PRESIDENT TRUMP HAS A FRIEND USING THE ‘FAT DRUG’ (DO WE KNOW WHO IT IS?)
– AND THE PRES SHARED SOME JAMES TALARICO ‘KNOWLEDGE’
– FETTERMAN OFFERS EL-SAYED $50K TO RALLY WITH PIKER ON 9-11
– THE PA SENATOR ALSO SAYS TRUMP IS RIGHT ON DATA CENTERS
– EVERY NOW AND THEN SUSAN COLLINS SURPRISES ME (THIS WAS BRUTAL)
– AN EL-SAYED FLASHBACK FROM 2019
– ANOTHER EL-SAYED FLASHBACK FROM 2018 ON OPEN BORDERS
– HASAN PIKER SAYS HE AND EL-SAYED DON’T HATE A AMERICA (BUUUUT)
– AND ANOTHER DOZEN TIMES HASAN SAID HE HATES AMERICA
– HAKEEM JEFFRIES WANTS TO PUNICH DEMS WHO WON’T SLAM SOCIALISM
– FL DEM REP IS ALL IN FOR UNLIMITED HANDOUTS TO ILLEGALS
– BRANDON GILL TROLLS DEMS IN THE HOUSE — THEY TOOK THE BAIT
– ED MARKEY VOWS TO PUSH A ‘TRANS BILL OF RIGHTS’
– HARRY ENTEN NOTICES WHITES W/O COLLEGE DON’T SUPPORT DEMS
– VAN JONES CALLS EL-SAYED ‘INCREDIBLE DANGEROUS’
– TUCKER CARLSON CAN’T VOTE FOR MIKE ROGERS, EVEN OVER EL-SAYED
– GEORGE CLOONEY (A CENTI-MILLIONAIRE) WARNS ABOUT PEOPLE WITH MONEY

More News From DC
– IRAN STRIKE KUWAIT IN RETALIATION FOR RECENT U.S. ATTACK
– THE PRESIDENT IS CONFIDENT FOLLOWING LATEST STRIKES ON IRAN
– VP VANCE TO LEAD PRESS BRIEFING TODDAY (THE FIRST IN OVER 40 DAYS)
– REPUBLICANS APPEAR TO HAVE MOMENTUM IN MIDTERM POLLING
– $1 COINS WITH TRUMP’S FACE ARE FOR SALE AT THE MINT — FOR A PREMIUM
– DEMS SHARE PLAN FOR FIRST 100 DAYS IF MIDTERMS GO THEIR WAY
– $1 COINS WITH TRUMP’S FACE ARE FOR SALE AT THE MINT — FOR A PREMIUM
– BIDEN TO ATTEND 9/11 CEREMONIES IN NYC MAKING 25 YEARS SINCE TERROR ATTACK

General News
– MASS SHOOTING IN MINNEAPOLIS (TWO COPS HIT)
– LINDSAY CLANCY CASE — DEADLOCKED AGAIN
– CANDACE OWENS HAS DECLARED CLANCY TO BE NOT GUILTY
– DID AN IL WOMAN JUST PULL A ‘LINDSAY CLANCY?’
– SOMEHOW, DON LEMON MADE THE CLANCY TRIAL ABOUT RACE
– ENES KANTOR FREEDOM WANTS TO BREAK CHAMBERLAIN’S RECORD IN THE WNBA
– MAYOR MAMDANI BANS GENERATIVE AI USE FOR SOME STUDENTS IN NYC SCHOOLS
– CAN YOU AFFORD STEAK? IF SO, KNOW THIS BEFORE YOU CHOOSE A PIECE OF MEAT
– CAN’T AFFORD STEAK? FOOD ‘EXPERTS’ PICK THE BEST PEANUT BUTTER
– THE LOS ANGELES ANGELS ARE BEING SOLD FOR $4B (WHAT IS EVERY TEAM WORTH?)
– A 12-YR-OLD YOU WATCHED PLAY BASEBALL LAST WEEKEND JUST SIGNED A BIG DEAL
– #1 FEMALE TENNIS PLAYER IS TIRED OF STUPID QUESTIONS FROM THE PRESS

Other News Catching My Eye
– BEST THING IN LONDON YESTERDAY? THE MOUSE FIGHT ON THE SUBWAY PLATFORM
– THIS IS GREAT – A SIMPLE, GRAPHIC EXAMPLE OF THE BERNOULLI PRINCIPLE
– CANADIANS WANT STREET (IN CANADA) NAMED FOR TRUMP TO BE CHANGED