Tuesday – April 9, 2024

Natl / Intl Gin & Tonic Day

Meme Du Jour

THIS DAY IN HISTORY
1770 – Captain James Cook discovered Botany Bay  (Australia)
1865 – Robert E. Lee surrenders to Grant at Appomattox in VA – ending the Civil War
1866 – Grant arrested for speeding in his horse-drawn buggy
1945 – Anti-Nazi theologian Dietrich Bonhoffer is hanged 
1959 – NASA introduces America’s first astronauts
1965 – The entire cast of “Peanuts” was on the cover of TIME
1968 – MLK Jr is buried 
1970 – Paul McCartney announced the formal breakup of The Beatles
2003 – Baghdad falls to US forces
2005 – Prince Charles and Camilla Parker Bowles get married

News and The Politics out of D.C.

LATEST RCP POLLING – IT’S GETTING TIGHTER BY THE WEEK

 – BETTING ODDS ARE NOW TRENDING BIDEN’S WAY

SERIOUSLY, DID YOU THINK THE DOJ WOULD TURN OVER BIDEN-HUR AUDIO?

JACK SMITH URGES SCOTUS TO REJECT TRUMP’S IMMUNITY CLAIM

APPEALS COURT REJECTS TRUMP’S REQUEST TO DELAY / MOVE TRIAL

 – HERE ARE THE JURY SCREENING QUESTIONS AHEAD OF MONDAY’S TRIAL

AT LEAST THE WH SLAMMED THE ‘DEATH TO AMERICA’ CHANTS HEARD AT DEARBORN RALLY

MITCH McCONNELL IS ONBOARD TO BAN CHINESE OWNERSHIP OF TIKTOK

HYPOCRISY MUCH? MEET THE HOUSE DEMS WHO VOTE AGAINST TIKTOK WHILE STILL USING IT

ICYMI – HERE’S THE VIDEO OF TRUMP’S ANNOUNCEMENT ON ABORTION

 – OF COURSE, ‘THE VIEW’ USED THE 10 COMMANDMENTS TO DEFEND ABORTION

YOU KNOW TRUMP HAS SHARES IN HIS MEDIA COMPANY — WHO ELSE WAS GRANTED SOME?

NETANYAHU SAYS THE RAFA INVASION TO END HAMAS IS ON THE CALENDAR

 – THE IDF ELIMINATED A HEZBOLLAH SPECIAL FORCES COMMANDER WITH AN AIR STRIKE

General News

ECLIPSE OVER — BUT, DID YOU HURT YOUR EYES? HERE’S HOW TO TELL

 ANNNNND – HERE’S WHAT TO DO WITH THOSE GLASSES YOU BOUGHT

 – ‘THE VIEW’ ALSO EXPLAINED THE SCIENCE BEHIND THE ECLIPSE

FORMER WORST MAYOR HIRED (AT $400/HOUR) TO INVESTIGATE CURRENT LEADING CANDIDATE FOR HER OLD TITLE

CONTAINERS ARE FINALLY BEING REMOVED FROM THE CRASHED BALTIMORE SHIP

$1.3B POWERBALL WINNER HAS COME FORWARD IN OREGON (THAT’S $621M BEFORE TAXES)

WA JUDGE RULES HIGH-CAPACITY MAGAZINE BAN IS UNCONSTITUTIONAL

NJ DEMS WILL LIKELY NOMINATE ANDY KIM TO RUN FOR MENENDEZ’S SEAT

NJ BEACHES — WHAT’S WASHING UP ON SHORE? (IT USED TO BE SYRINGES & BODY PARTS)

SAN FRAN’S ‘WEED WEEK’ SEEMS LIKE THE MOST SAN FRANCISCO THING EVER

GALLUP: MOST AMERICANS DON’T WANT TO BUY AN EV

VIDEO REPORTEDLY SHOWS MORGAN WALLEN TOSSING CHAIR OFF BUILDING

 – WHY WOULD MORGAN WALLEN DO SUCH A THING? (LIKE A GOOD COUNTRY SONG…)

WOKE

NAIA BANS TRANS ATHLETES — THE VOTE WAS UNANIMOUS

BRAVO! VATICAN DECRIES SO-CALLED ‘GENDER AFFIRMING’ SURGERIES

ASU PROF SUES SCHOOL FOR MANDATORY DEI, ANTI-WHITE TRAINING

Other News Catching My Eye

I HOPE YOU DIDN’T BUY A TESLA CYBERTRUCK — REPORTS OF MAJOR QUALITY ISSUES

YOU CAN’T BLAME THIS MID-FLIGHT NIGHTMARE ON PEOPLE, BOEING OR UNITED

 – ALSO AIRLINE MADNESS — PASSENGER FINED FOR PEEING IN A CUP

WHAT WAS THAT? NASA CATCHES IMAGE OF SOMETHING CIRCLING THE MOON