Wednesday – December 22, 2021

From the Podcast

THIS DAY IN HISTORY

1808 – Beethoven’s 5th symphony debuted in Vienna (it’s 4 hours long)

1829 – The first passenger railway, the B&O Railway opened

1956 – The first gorilla is born in captivity in Ohio

1966 – The US sends almost a million tons of grain to India to fight famine

1984 – Bernhard Goetz shoots four young men trying to rob him on a NYC subway

1989 – The Romanian communist government of Ceausescu is overthrown

2001 – Remember the “shoe bomber?” Richard Reid failed in his attempt to bring down an American Airlines flight from Paris

2010 – Barack Obama signs a law repealing Bill Clinton’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy for gays in the US military

News and The Politics out of D.C.

BIDEN’S ADDRESS EXPLAINS OUR PIVOT TO TESTING

BIDEN SCOLDS CABLE TV’S ‘PURVEYORS OF LIES’ DURING HIS ADDRESS

ANYONE ELSE NOTICE BIDEN COUGHING THROUGH HIS ADDRESS?

CNN POLL SAYS BIDEN’S ECONOMIC RATING IS BELOW JIMMY CARTER’S… THAT’S LOW

HOW DESPERATE IS JOE BIDEN? HE PRAISED TRUMP FOR THE VACCINE AND GETTING BOOSTED

JUDGE BLOCKS BIDEN’S VAX MANDATE FOR FEDERAL CONTRACTORS IN 10 STATES

DOE LOOKS AT THE UNVAXXED AT A NUCLEAR SITE AS AN ‘INSIDER THREAT’

SECRET SERVICE SAYS NEARLY $100 BILLION IN PANDEMIC RELIEF FUNDS WERE STOLEN

General News

DR FAUCI WANTS FOX NEWS’ JESSE WATTERS FIRED — FOX NEWS ISSUES A STRONG RESPONSE

CHICAGO’S MAYOR TELLS THE UNVAXXED, YOU TIME’S UP

BILL GATES CHANGES HIS HOLIDAY PLANS OVER OMICRON SURGE

CNN’S MEDICAL ANALYST SAYS MASKS ARE ‘LITTLE MORE THAN FACIAL DECORATIONS’

COVID SEEMS TO HAVE PUT THE KIBOSH ON AMERICA’S POPULATION GROWTH

CHICAGO MAYOR ONCE DEFUNDED THE POLICE BY $80MIL, NOW SHE’S BEGGING FOR HELP

MILWAUKEE COUNTY RESIDENTS WANT DA FIRED OVER WAUKESHA TERROR ATTACK

CHRIS NOTH’S MARRIAGE IS REPORTEDLY IN TROUBLE (SEXUAL ASSAULT CHARGES WILL DO THAT)

THOSE U.S. MISSIONARIES IN HAITI WERE NOT RELEASED, THEY ESCAPED!

AMAZON CAVED TO CHINA’S DEMANDS TO REMOVE BAD REVIEWS OF PRESIDENT Xi’s BOOK

NHL IS WITHDRAWING FROM THE BEIJING GAMES DUE TO LATEST COVID SURGE (NOT SLAVERY?)

Other News Catching My Eye

SQUIRRELS FORCE ST PAUL PARK TO SCALE BACK CHRISTMAS LIGHTS

REMEMBER THE CEO WHO SIMULTANEOUSLY FIRED 900 PEOPLE ON ZOOM? WAIT TIL YOU HEAR THE SEVERANCE HE OFFERED THEM

STOLEN GOOSE STATUE TURNS UP AT RECYCLING CENTER

NYC MAN’S TEENY TINY APARTMENT HAS PEOPLE ONLINE LOSING THEIR MINDS