Wednesday – March 27, 2024

Intl Whisk(e)y Day, Spanish Paella Day

Meme Du Jour

(Too soon?)   Nope. Never. 

THIS DAY IN HISTORY
1512 – Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de Leon spotted Florida

1866 – President Jackson vetoed the Civil Rights Bill (it became the 14th Amendment)
1912 – Japanese cherry trees are planted along the Potomac
1929 – Herbert Hoover has a telephone installed in the Oval Office
1939 – The NCAA crowned it’s first “March Madness” champion (Oregon over Ohio St)
1973 – Marlon Brando rejects “Best Actor” Oscar
1976 – Washington DC’s Metro (subway system) opened 
1998 – The FDA approved Viagra
2001 – China reports its population hit 1.2 billion
2020 – Restaurants begin mass closings, 10 cruise ships with 10,000 people on board refuse to dock

News and The Politics out of D.C.

LATEST NPR / MARIST POLLING – (RFK TAKES VOTES FROM BOTH BIDEN & TRUMP)

 – IS BIDEN MOUNTING A COMEBACK IN SWING STATES?

BIDEN MAKES MORE BIZARRE CLAIMS IN STATEMENT ABOUT BALTIMORE TRAGEDY

KJP HANGS UP ON NC RADIO HOST WHO ASKED ABOUT BIDEN AND DEMENTIA

RFK’S RUNNING MATE — GAME CHANGER? FOR WHO?

 – ROBERT KENNEDY’S SISTER IS PANICKING!

 – DEMS START UNLEASHING ATTACKS ON RFK JR

SEN KENNEDY REVEALS WHAT DEMS SAID TO HIM AFTER HE DESTROYED THEIR CLIMATE WITNESS

TONY BOBULINSKI’S LAWYERS HAVE SOMETHING TO SAY TO REP DAN GOLDMAN

GOT $100K BURNING A HOLE IN YOUR POCKET? GET A PIC WITH OBAMA, BIDEN & CLINTON

TRUMP’S TRUTH SOCIAL  / MEDIA COMPANY STOCK IS CONFOUNDING EXPERTS

ALABAMA STATE HOUSE SEAT FLIPPED FROM RED TO BLUE USING ABORTION AND IVF

I WONDER HOW MUCH NBC WILL HAVE TO PAY RONNA AFTER BOWING TO STAFF PRESSURE TO FIRE HER?

HEADS UP – THE U.N. IS GETTING CLOSER TO ITS ‘GLOBAL EMISSIONS’ TAX BECOMING A REALITY

General News

SIX PRESUMED DEAD IN BALTIMORE BRIDGE CRASH WERE ALL WORKING ON THE BRIDGE

 – THE HEROES WHO JUMP AND STOPPED A BIGGER TRAGEDY FROM HAPPENING

 – WHAT WE KNOW HAPPENED (SO FAR)

HOME PRICES RISE AT FASTEST RATE IN A YEAR

 – EVEN WITH THE PRICE INCREASES, FLIPPING HOMES LOSES LUSTER AS A BUSINESS

DISNEY ANNOUNCES REBOOT OF ‘PIRATES’ FRANCHISE (CAN IT TURN DISNEY AROUND?)

EV MAKER FISKER DE-LISTED BY NYSE OVER ‘ABNORMALLY LOW’ STOCK PRICE

THE RICHEST COUNTRIES? (WE BARELY GOT THE BRONZE MEDAL HERE)

SOMEONE IN NJ HAS THE $1.2 BILLION DOLLAR WINNING LOTTERY TICKET

WOKE

THE ‘ALPHA-MALE BOOT CAMP’ ONLY COSTS $18,000 FOR THREE DAYS

PERHAPS THIS STUDY ON THE EFFECTS ON WIND TURBINES ON BIODIVERSITY WILL KILL THEM

WATCH: THIS CLEVER BIT OF COMEDY POSTED BY DOMINIC FRISBY

Other News Catching My Eye

DANA CARVEY APOLOGIZES TO SHARON STONE FOR A 1992 SNL SKETCH

UH-OH — PRINCE HARRY’S NAME IS IN THE P. DIDDY PAPERS

WHOOPI STOPS PANEL DISCUSSION ON ‘THE VIEW’ TO SCOLD AUDIENCE MEMBER

NIKKI MINAJ HAS  WARDROBE MALFUNCTION DURING SHOW AND GOT PISSED NOBODY TOLD HER

FROM THE ‘WHO KNEW’ DEPT – THERE’S A FRANCHISE BIZ FOR PENIS ENLARGEMENTS