– National Pound Cake Day
– World Obesity Day
– National Snack Day (What’s the greatest snack?)
– National Dance The Waltz Day
Meme Du Jour
A few of your sent this… Jennifer Ohman gets the hat tip for being first
THIS DAY IN HISTORY
1776 – American forces occupy Dorchester Heights — just south of Boston
1789 – The first session of Congress under the Constitution!
1918 – The first cases reported in the deadly flu pandemic (We used to call it the Spanish Flu)
1933 – FDR inaugurated — and he would be there a while
1952 – Hemingway finishes ‘The Old Man and the Sea’ (Have you finished it?)
1966 – John Lennon triggers a controversy with his comment about the Beatles popularity
1974 – ‘People’ magazine launched with Mia Farrow on the cover
1994 – John Candy passed away
2005 – Martha Stewart is released from prison camp!
News and The Politics out of D.C.
CLIPS
– ADMIRAL BRAD COOPER DELIVERED A FIVE-MINUTE UPDATE ON ‘OPERATION EPIC FURY’
– PRESIDENT TRUMP WAS ASKED, ‘DID ISRAEL FORCE YOUR HAND TO LAUNCH THESE STRIKES?’
– THE PRESIDENT’S OPINION OF THE IRANIAN LEADERS HAS NOT CHANGED
– TRUMP IN THE OVAL: ‘SOMETHING HAD TO BE DONE’
– RUBIO — LET ME EXPLAIN IT TO YOU – IRAN IS RUN BY LUNATICS
– SCHUMER AFTER THE BRIEFING — HE SCREWED UP AND HAD TO RE-STATE HIS PREPARED STATEMENT
– NATO CONFIRMED THAT IRAN WAS CLOSE TO HAVING A NUKE
– MIKE WALTZ WAS ASKED BY JAKE TAPPER – WAS THE IRAN NUCLEAR PROGRAM OBLITERATED OR NOT?
– BILL MELUGIN FACES OFF WITH HAKEEM EFFRIES OVER DEM HYPOCRISY ON CONGRESSIONAL APPROVAL
– FETTERMAN LOVED THE NEWS ABOUT THE LATEST BUNCH OF IRANIANS WHO WERE KILLED
– REP TIM BURCHETT (IN THE EVER-PRESENT OVERCOAT) CALLS OUT LINDSEY GRAHAM
– SO, IS THIS A ‘WAR?’ – SEN MULLIN CALLED IT WAR AND THEN WAS POUNCED ON BY THE MEDIA
SEC NOEM IN THE HOT SEAT
– THE DHS SEC GAVE DICK DURBIN SOME ATTENTION
– SEN TOM TILLIS WAS NOT PLEASED WITH SEC NOEM — CALLED HER A DISASTER
– SPARTACUS WENT AFTER THE DHS SECRETARY
– SEN ERIC SCHMITT HAS A PERFECT RESPONSE TO SEN BLUMENTHAL’S STUNT IN THE HEARING
– SEN JOHN KENNEDY DOES NOT APPEAR TO BE A FAN OF THE DHS SEC
– YEAH, THERE WAS A POP-UP PROTESTER WHO WAS QUICKLY RUSHED FROM THE ROOM
– DID YOU EVER WONDER HOW IRAN’S DRONE PROGRAM TO BE SO STRONG, SO FAST? ASK OBAMA
– STEPHEN A. SAYS THE IRAN ATTACK HAS BUMPED RUBIO AHEAD OF VANCE
– ANYONE ELSE SHOCKED THAT WHOOPI GOLDBERG DEFENDED BILL CLINTON AGAIN?
– I’M ALSO ENJOYING ELIZABETH HASSELBECK’S STINT ON THE VIEW – DAY TWO YIELDED MORE GOLD
– ICYMI – IRANIAN/AMERICAN JOURNALIST HAS A MESSAGE FOR KAMALA HARRIS
– IRANIAN DJ RELEASES CATCHY NEW TUNE “KAHMENEI IS DEAD’ FEATURING DONALD TRUMP
– A WEDNESDAY BONUS FROM SEN KENNEDY – ENJOY!
More News From DC
IRAN UPDATES
– THE NY POST’S ‘BATTLE FOR IRAN’ PAGE
– TRUMP MAY CUT OFF TRADE WITH SPAIN OVER THAT COUNTRY’S LACK OF HELP WITH IRAN
– AMAZON DATA CENTERS IN THE MIDDLE EAST HIT BY DRONES
– CAN A BEARDED ‘MAYOR PETE’ CONVINCE AMERICA THAT HE’S MOVED FROM BETA TO ALPHA?
– HOWARD LUTNICK HAS OFFERED TO TESTIFY ABOUT HIS INVOLVEMENT WITH JEFFREY EPSTEIN
– BILL GATES HAS BEEN ‘INVITED’ TO TESTIFY BEFORE A HOUSE COMMITTEE ABOUT THE EPSTEIN FILES
General News
– TEXAS PRIMARY DAY
– JAZZY WAS UPSET, CLAIMED THERE WAS CHEATING, BLAMES REPUBLICANS FOR HER LOSS
– FOX NEWS GAVE US A JAZZY MONTAGE TO REMIND US OF WHAT WE’LL BE MISSING
– SCOTT JENNINGS CALLED OUT TALARICO FOR THE COLBERT STUNT
– MS-13 NOW — JAZZY AND TALARICO ARE THE BEST COMMUNICATORS THE DEMS HAVE
– POPPA JOHN’S TO CLOSE HUNDREDS OF OUTLETS
– NYC’s MAYOR ANNOUNCES NEW, FREE CHILD CARE FOR EVERYONE – INCLUDING ILLEGALS
– MACBOOKS ARE GETTING MORE EXPENSIVE (BLAME A-I TECHNOLOGY)
Other News Catching My Eye
– CRIKEY! AUSSIE CATCHES A CROC SOME 1200 MILES AWAY FROM ITS HABITAT
– DOES A WOMAN’S ‘BODY COUNT’ MATTER TO YOU? WHAT IF YOU COULD ‘CHECK HER COUNT?’ WOULD YOU?
