Tuesday – May 13, 2025

World Cocktail Day

– Apple Pie Day

– Fruit Cocktail Day

– International Hummus Day

– Crouton Day

Meme Du Jour

THIS DAY IN HISTORY
1604 – 104 Brits establish the colony of Jamestown in what would become America

1846 – Congress declares war on Mexico
1940 – Churchill offers his “blood, toil, tears and sweat”
1950 – Diner’s Club issued the first credit cards
 (Did you ever have a Diner’s Club card?)
1958 – Velcro is trademarked2020 – California State University cancels all classes in the fall (on 23 campuses)

News and The Politics out of D.C.

CLIPS

– PRESIDENT TRUMP ON HIS E.O. TO STOP PRICE-GOUGING AMERICANS ON DRUGS

– HAS ANYONE FIGURED OUT WHO THE TRUMP FRIEND IS TAKING THE ‘FAT SHOT DRUG?’– DR OZ IN THE OVAL — ON THE FAIRNESS WE SHOULD HAVE IN MEDS

    – 62% OF ALL BANKRUPTCIES CAUSED BY MEDICAL EXPENSES

 – GRAPHIC SHOWING HOW MUCH MORE WE PAY FOR POPULAR DRUGS

    – GETTING OUR ALLIES TO PAY A BIT MORE…

– RFK JR GIVES MORE SPECIFICS ON THE E.O. TO LOWER PHARM PRICES

– MORE CLARITY FROM TRUMP AND THE PLANE FROM QATAR

– TREAS SEC IN RIYADH — TALKING ABOUT BORING, BUT IMPORTANT STUFF

– THE MOMENT WHEN TRUMP TOOK DOWN AN ABC REPORTER

– EVEN CNN HAD TO REPORT ALL OF TRUMP’S ACCOMPLISHMENTS

    – 73 SECONDS OF TRUMP GIVING CNN THE BUSINESS

– PROTESTERS PREVENT AMBULANCES FROM ENTERING NJ ICE DETENTION FACILITY

– EDAN ALEXANDER IS REUNITED WITH THIS MOM AND DAD

– WHEN MEDIA INTERVIEWS THE MEDIA: SCARBOROUGH TALKS TO KIMMEL ON TDS

More News Out of DC

– DEMS REMOVED DAVID HOGG FROM HIS DNC POSITION – NEGATING HIS ELECTION

– RFK JR TAKES A SWIM IN TOXIC WATERS IN DC’S ROCK CREEK

– NEW POLL ON RIGHT DIRECTION / WRONG DIRECTION IS VERY BAD FOR DEMS

– STAND OFF AT THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS

– TRUMP ADMIN TRYING TO FIX / ELIMINATE EVERYONE’S LEAST FAVORITE CAR ‘FEATURE’

– DHS PROBES CALIFORNIA’S GIVEAWAYS TO ILLEGALS – ‘THE GRAVY TRAIN IS OVER’

– STEPHEN A SMITH FIRED BACK AT BARKLEY — ‘I BELIEVE I COULD WIN’

General News

– FLIGHT CHAOS CONTINUES AT NEWARK AND ATL

 – YES, YOU CAN TRACE THIS BACK TO BIDEN AND MAYOR PETE

 – SO, HOW BAD ARE THINGS INSIDE THE NEWARK AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL TOWER???

– IT WAS A GREAT DAY FOR THE STOCK MARKET

– DRUG ALREADY ON MARKET COULD PREVENT A MILLION NEW ALZHEIMER’S CASES A YEAR

– SPORTSCASTER MIKE TIRICO IS A CLASS ACT (IMHO)

– DIDDY TRIAL TESTIMONY MAY NEED A CONTENT WARNING!

– SCHOOL BOARD MEMBER WONDERS, ‘HOW MUCH PRAYER DO YOU NEED?’

– IF YOU SAW THIS IN YOUR TAKE-OUT ORDER, WOULD YOU CALL POLICE?

– LOOKING FOR A 525 HORSEPOWER BATMOBILE? GOT $3MIL?

Other News Catching My Eye

– FORGET THE ‘TIGER KING’ MEET, THE ‘LIVER KING!’

– THE NBA’s GOAT RETURNS! JORDAN TO JOIN NBC’s NBA COVERAGE TEAM

– RICKY GERVAIS — ‘JUST BECAUSE YOU’RE OFFENDED DOESN’T MEAN YOU’RE RIGHT’

– WHEN DID OSCAR WINNER HALLE BERRY BECOME AN INFLUENCER FOR ‘LET’S SPIN’ (LUBE)?