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National Vanilla Ice Cream Day (YAWN)
Meme Du Jour
THIS DAY IN HISTORY
1868 – The 14th Amendment is ratified – granting citizenship to Black Americans
1885 – Former President Grant dies of throat cancer
1973 – President Nixon refuses to hand over 3700+ hours of secretly recorded tapes
1984 – Miss America, Vanessa Williams resigns over a scandal – nude photos
1995 – Two astronomers, one in NM (Mr. Hale), the other in AZ (Mr. Bopp) discover a new comet
1996 – The US Women’s Gymnastics team takes home Olympic Gold (a first team gold for the US)
2011 – Singer Amy Winehouse is found dead in her London apartment – she was just 27
News and The Politics out of D.C.
CLIPS
– PRESIDENT CALLS OUT OBAMA FROM THE OVAL OFFICE – ‘THEY HAVE HIM STONE COLD’
– DNI GABBARD RESPONDS TO OBAMA RESPONDING TO TRUMP
– WILL OBAMA’S 2020 COMMENTS COME BACK TO HAUNT HIM?
– TRUMP SAYS HE’S CONSIDERING DROPPING CAPITAL GAINS TAXES ON HOME SALES
– BORDER CZAR HOMAN HAS A MESSAGE FOR HUNTER BIDEN (AND SANCTUARY CITIES)
– SEN ALEX PADILLA IS NOT A SERIOUS PERSON
– JEFF DANIELS IS KEEPING HOLLYWOOD’S RECORD STRONG (HE’S STILL THINKING ABOUT KAMALA)
– LET’S NOT FORGET COLBERT’S ROLE IN THE RUSSIAN COLLUSION HOAX
– FLASHBACK: REMEMBER BIDEN’S ‘DISINFORMATION BOARD’ & NINA JANKOWITZ? (NEVER FORGET)
More News From DC
– TRUMP SECURES A MAJOR TRADE DEAL WITH JAPAN
– DERSHOWITZ PREDICTS MAXWELL WILL MAKE A DEAL — WHAT INFO MIGHT SHE HAVE TO TRADE?
– PANEL OF FEDERAL JUDGES BOOTS ALAINA HABBA, AG BONDI SAYS, ‘HOLD ON’
– MOLLY HEMMINGWAY ON INTEL OFFICIALS CONTRADICTING BRENNAN
– MAYOR PETE SPENT $7.4 B OF YOUR MONEY ON FEWER THAN 400 CHARGING STATIONS
– CNN’s DOCTOR USED TO COMMENT ON TRUMP’S HEALTH HAS NOT PRACTICED IN YEARS
– (NOT SO) SUNNY HOSTIN SAYS COLBERT’S FIRING IS THE ‘DISMANTLING OF OUR DEMOCRACY’
– (THE IRONICALLY NAMED) JOY BEHAR SAYS, ‘WE WILL LSTAND BY THE COMEDIANS’
General News
– THAT TIME THE OSBOURNES TALKED ABOUT TRUMP
– R-I-P OZZY — PERHAPS MY FAVORITE TRIBUTE CAME FROM PAT BOONE
– US OLYMPICS AND PARALYMPICS BAN TRANSGENDER ATHLETES
– JESSE WATTERS IS ASKING, ‘WHAT HAPPENED TO THE $100MIL’ RAISED FOR ‘FIREAID?’
– COKE ANNOUNCES IT’S GONNA MAKE ITS COLA WITH CANE SUGAR (CALLING IT COKE-CANE?)
– GROCERY CHAIN IS STRUGGLING, CLOSES STORES IN A FEW LOCATIONS
– HERSHEY’S ANNOUNCES PRICE HIKES COMING TO CHOCOLATE
Other News Catching My Eye
– GREAT CLIP: VENUS WILLIAMS ON WHAT INSPIRED HER RETURN TO TENNIS — INSURANCE!
– VENUS WILLIAMS WON HER FIRST PRO MATCH IN 1994 WHEN SHE WAS JUST 14
– BTW, VENUS ALSO CONFIRMED SHE’S ENGAGED
– WHICH COUNTRY HAS THE STRONGEST PASSPORT ON THE PLANET? (IT’S NOT THE U.S.)
