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Historical Note of The Day
1927- Lindbergh arrived in Paris
19320 Amelia Earhart arrived in Ireland
Both having flown solo over the Atlantic
Ron Isley turns 79 today. Might be a good time to re-visit the Isley Brothers mid 70's hit...
The NBA is in serious discussions with the Walt Disney World
complex in Orlando to serve as the playing site for when the league
resumes its season, according to The Athletic. The report states
that Orlando has an advantage over other neutral sites under
consideration such as Las Vegas and Houston because it can restrict
access due to the complex being private property. The NBA is
believed to be targeting a mid-July return to the season, with ESPN
reporting that the league plans to issue guidelines to teams for
recalling players who have left the area around June 1. Players
returning to their team's market are expected to be placed in
quarantine for two weeks, with individual workouts and training
camps to take place following the quarantine period.
Wissports.net posted the guidelines from the National Association of High Schools for which high school sports could return. If this is what they are going to follow, there is no way for any high school sport to return anytime soon. Read it here
Road America at Elkhart Lake will host an IndyCar doubleheader this summer. RACER reports the scenic road course will be the host track for a Saturday/Sunday twinbill the weekend of July 10th through the 12th. The June 21st date for Road America has been moved to Toronto's original weekend.
Covers Of The Day (a couple I had on the turntable last night)
Trump's mouth is the gift that keeps on giving
If there is anything Virginia is known for in the 21st century, it's our brutal potato wars.
https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/126277819464360...
Mike Pompeo, the latest victim of the Trump Cult...read it here
Quotes Of The Day
"A private email account at the state department? Sounds like a big story. "-Matthew Yglesias
https://twitter.com/jmartNYT/status/12629339137915...
"SCOOP: Source: The ousted State Department inspector general had recently wrapped up a probe into another top aide to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, determining that she had likely failed to report allegations of workplace violence."-Nahal Toosi
https://politico.com/news/2020/05/20/fired-state-d...
"Pompeo's successful plot to fire the inspector general he knew was investigating him is corruption of the highest order."-Evan McMullin
"Truthfully, it's not much of a mystery what happened with the Saudi arms sale. Pompeo made up a fake "emergency" so Congress wouldn't have the chance to vote down a deal that we knew was bad for the country. Pompeo violated the law. Period. Stop."-Chris Murphy
https://nytimes.com/2020/05/19/us/politics/mike-po...
"Remember when we thought Rex Tillerson was bad?"-Steve Morawetz
"In the middle of a pandemic, and during a massive flood in Michigan, @realDonaldTrump wants to cut funding to the state because voters were legally sent applications to vote by mail by a Republican Secretary of State. Donald Trump is unfit to be President.-Ted Lieu
"Trump is threatening to withhold aid from states that help people vote by mail. Americans voting safely shouldn’t be a political issue. But as I’ve said: You can’t trust Donald Trump to do what’s right for the country. You can trust he will do what’s right for Donald Trump."-Adam Schiff
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1263094...
"This is why so many of us thought it was imperative that Trump be removed from office. We warned that if he got away with using his office to try to rig an election, he would do it again."-Chris Murphy
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1263074...
"Trump says he's a germaphobe but I've never heard of a germaphobe that would go out during a pandemic without a mask"-Dave Matt
"I’ll bet no future President will ever hang Trump’s portrait in the White House. It will be impossible to shower even false praise on the most vile of men. His Presidency will be like Chernobyl. Something to be sealed off. A poison to be contained"-Steve Schmidt
"There are so many people in Washington media who treat a black president doing the right thing as a criminal and a white president who’s committed lots of crimes as just the way it is."-Adam Parkamenko
BAKERY: We refuse to serve gay people. CONSERVATIVES: That is their right! BAKERY: We refuse to serve anyone not wearing a mask. CONSERVATIVES: You’re violating our rights!
"100,000 people are dead from COVID-19, but this is the priority. Almost daily, Trump, Betsy DeVos, Lindsay Graham and Mitch McConnell do whatever they can to remind everybody that they are truly terrible human beings."-Jemele Hill
https://twitter.com/thehill/status/126278578986548...