Fat Tuesday / Mardi Gras
– National Random Acts of Kindness Day
– My Way Day (Nothing to do with Sinatra, unless you count him living his life as doing it ‘My Way’)
– National Cafe Au Lait Dat (Coffee with steamed milk)
– Fasnact Day (I’m having one)
Meme Du Jour

THIS DAY IN HISTORY
1801 – Thomas Jefferson is elected the third President of the United StatesĀ (The House voted to break a tie)
1827 – Chester Stone gets a patent for his washing machine
1865 – Shermaan marches through Columbia, SC and torches the town in his wake
1925 – The first issue of The New Yorker hits stands
1938 – The first color television is demonstrated at the Dominion Theater in London
1958 – Pope Pius XII declares St Clare of Assisi to be the patron saint of television
1960 – Martin Luther King Jr is arrested in the Alabama bus boycott
1968 – The Basketball Hall of Fame opened in Massachusetts
1972 – The Beetle overtakes the Model T as the best selling car
1998 – The US Women’s hockey team wins the first Olympic Gold
2002 – Germany enacts law requiring pig farmers to spend 20 seconds a day with each pig
2015 – The Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon premiered on NBC

News and The Politics out of D.C.
CLIPS
TRUMP ON AF-1
– HILLARY CLINTON GOT SOME ATTENTION FROM THE PRESIDENT TOO
– OF COURSE, THE SAVE AMERICA ACT RECEIVED SOME SUPPORT
– TALKING ABOUT CUBA AND WHAT’S HAPPENING THERE
– AOC ADDED A SCREW UP ON GEORGRAPHY
– NEW FRAUD STORY FROM NICK SHIRLEY — IN CALIFORNIA VOTER FRAUD SEEMS TO BE RAMPANT
– JASMINE CROCKETT CONTINUES TO DELIVER NEW NONSENSE — ALMOST DAILY
– SWALWELL KEEPS TRYING TO SMEAR TRUMP WITH EPSTEIN FILES — CNN CORRECTS HIM
– CARVILLE HAS A MESSAGE FOR LINDSEY GRAHAM — ‘YOU ARE A LOSER!’
– OBAMA — ABOUT THOSE ALIENS, WHAT I MEANT WAS…
– JEN PSAKI IS NOW PUSHING A CRAZIER THEORY ABOUT THE EPSTEIN FILES — IS THIS A PIVOT?
– CIVIL RIGHTS ACTIVIST (POLITICAL GRIFTER) JESSE JACKSON PASSES AWAY AT 84
– JESSE’S APPEARANCE ON SNL, READING ‘GREEN EGGS AND HAM’

More News From DC
– D.C. STINKS AND WILL SMELL EVEN WORSE WHEN IT WARMS UP — THE POTOMAC MESS
– MARYLAND’S MAYOR IS NOT HAPPY WITH PRESIDENT TRUMP’S TAKE ON THIS
– THE U.S. AND IRAN ARE TALKING IN GENEVA
– U.S. REP RANDY FINE LIGHTS UP THE LEFT OVER MUSLIM CALL TO BAN DOGS IN NYC

General News
– PREDICTABLE? SHOOTING AT R.I. YOUTH HOCKEY GAME REPORTEDLY DONE BY ANOTHER TRANSGENDER KILLER
– THE CRAZY VIDEO OF THE RINK AS THE DEADLY INCIDENT UNFOLDED
– HYATT CHAIRMAN THOMAS PRITZKER IS STEPPING DOWN — ANOTHER EPSTEIN-LINKED PERSON
– LOST FACTORY JOBS AT KENTUCKY PLANT — THE PEOPLE BLAME FORD, NOT TRUMP
OLYMPICS
– TEAM USA WOMEN’S HOCKEY — HEADED BACK TO THE GOLD MEDAL GAME AGAINST CANADA
– HOW MUCH DO OLYMPIC ATHLETES MAKE? (PODIUM POSITIONS MATTER)
– LINDSEY VAUGHN RETURNS HOME – SHE CAN’T STAND UP JUST YET
– DID YOU WATCH THE U.S. WIN GOLD IN THE ‘MONOBOB?’ (GREAT FINISH)

Other News Catching My Eye
– ANDERSON COOPER WILL NOT BE COMING BACK TO ’60 MINUTES’
– R-I-P SCREEN LEGEND ROBERT DUVALL – GONE AT 95
– A-I HAS REPLACED HOLLYWOOD — CHECK OUT THIS 3:15 ACTION FILM – TOTALLY A-I
– DO WE REALLY NEED TO RE-OPEN THE KURT COBAIN CASE? (SOMEONE THINKS SO)
– YOU DON’T NEED TO GO TO AUSTRALIA TO GET A GOOD PLATE OF KANGAROO