Historybook: First Stanley Cup championship played (1894); Legendary musical theater composer Andrew Lloyd Webber born (1948); Sports broadcaster Bob Costas born (1952); Reese Witherspoon born (1976); Terrorist drives car into crowd in London, killing five and injuring 50 (2017).

"It's important to acknowledge the mistakes you've made in life, because it's really through those that you learn things. I've made hundreds."

- Andrew Lloyd Webber

Me or the man forecasting a bloodbath? Me or the man accusing me of antisemitism? Me or the man calling desperate people animals, denying their humanity? Me or the man quoting Hitler?

This is what he says. He has shown us his cards. He has made clear that he will do what he says. It is not just rhetoric. It is a warning that we dare not ignore, and that the media is wrong to discount. He is, if nothing else, a man of his word.

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https://www.arcamax.com/politics/fromtheleft/susanestrich/s-3169248?fs

Trump gets away with it. It's just Trump. Yes, it's Trump. And he believes it. And he acts on it. He very nearly undermined our democracy. He still rues his failure to succeed in doing it. He tried. He came close. And now the Republicans are setting him up to do it again.

Alarmist? Who is alarmist?

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from Susan Estrich...

Donald Trump is a dangerous man. Words have power, particularly when they are spoken by a man who could be president of the United States.

Imagine what the media would do to Joe Biden if he talked this way. They would crucify him, and rightly so.

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ON this date in 1907 - In Paris, it was reported that male cab drivers dressed as women to attract riders.

Cabbies Bun Man and Mr. Purple started the trend but were caught when both forgot to shave their goatees, so the ruse failed.

The Boyz were drummed out of the force and immigrated to America where they found employ in New Orleans at Madame Lucille's as female impersonators.

Hey, don't knock it, it was good money...and the goatees worked there.

ON this date in 1719 - Frederick William abolished serfdom on crown property in Prussia.

Bun Man and Mr. Purple were incredulous; they had just learned how to serf and had a trip to Costa Rica planned to hone their skills more.

The Boyz changed plans and moved to California where they could serf all they wanted at Malibu.

Boards back then were rather crude, but the Boyz made do.

Wait, that is what serfdom means isn't it?

ON this date in 1997 - Marilyn Manson stopped a show in Honolulu, Hawaii, shortly after falling onstage and severing an artery in his hand.

Bun Man and Mr. Purple, working the lighting for the show, thanked their other Tech buddies and quietly closed up their board.

Mr. P told Bun later..."See that, just proved the existence of God; why else would he force the show's stop other than to save us from ourselves and that Manson thingy..."

ON this date in 1963 - The Beatles' first album, "Please Please Me," was released in the U.K.

This was incredibly poor timing for the Boyz' supergroup, Super Heads in Time (S.H.I.T.), who also released their debut album "Please Use Me Until You Use Me Up..."

With hits 'Shake 3 Times Before Leaving the Bathroom' and 'Love, Love My Stuff', both Bun Man and Mr. Purple thought they were sure to win the Grammy that year, but the Beatles overshadowed S.H.I.T. and the rest is musical history...

Minhowkin Word of the Day

gen·er·os·i·ty

[ˌjenəˈräsədē]

noun

the quality of being kind and generous:
"I was overwhelmed by the generosity of friends and neighbors"

Similar:
liberality
lavishness
magnanimity
munificence
open-handedness

the quality or fact of being plentiful or large:
"diners certainly cannot complain about the generosity of portions"

I AM OVERWHELMED BY THE GENEROSITY OF COSONAUTS WHO EVERYDAY SHARE LOVE.

#minhowkinmoments

Radical Thought...

Provide no retirement for any elected office, we'll weed out those who want to serve democracy from those who only serve themselves...

WHEN WE FOLLOWED PUBLIC HEALTH GUIDANCE

#pups4peace

Ken-Dogger: Morning Little Suzie, why the long face?
Little Suzie: Dude, oh yeah, morning…Waiting for you to go on the beach
KD: The beach is closed.
LS: What you mean Willis? Waves are still crashin’, sun’s still shinin’, girls still showin’
KD: Just makes the mouth water doesn’t it
LS: It does
KD: But we’re not going, Governor closed ‘em and we’re honoring it.
LS: Yep, following guidance will get most of us through this

Morning Peeps,

I've been asleep...

Would some kind Naut please review the last 8 hours of the COSO timeline for me?

Minhowkin Word of the Day

PLEASANT

pleas·ant

[ˈpleznt]

adjective

giving a sense of happy satisfaction or enjoyment:
"a very pleasant evening" · "what a pleasant surprise!"

(of a person or their manner) friendly and considerate; likable:
"they found him pleasant and cooperative"

BE A PLEASANT NAUT

#minhowkinmoments

We made up the one about the tiny coffee shop.

Three Headlines and a Lie

Three of these headlines are real, and one is faker than photos in your Facebook newsfeed.

Can you spot the odd one out?

Blowhole the sled dog became a social media star—but was he a criminal first?

Cambodia cracks down on musical car horns to avoid ‘anarchy in the streets’

1,800-year-old Roman statue discovered in parking lot

World’s smallest coffee shop doesn’t sell iced coffee because ‘ice takes up too much space ‘

CONTROLS...We don't need no stinkin' controls...

Sheesh, what the hell were the Dodgers thinking?

What else is brewing

The Los Angeles Dodgers fired Shohei Ohtani’s interpreter, accusing him of stealing millions from the baseball star.

S: Morning Brew

THE SINS OF THE FATHER...

“On the same day he admitted he’s unable to secure the nearly half-billion-dollar bond he’s been ordered to pay, Donald Trump brought into his campaign Paul Manafort, the felon and alleged Kremlin crony who pleaded guilty to money laundering.”-DB

Cartoon by Darrin Bell for Counterpoint

SALUTING JOHN LEWIS, while also realizing we are failing at doing our part...

Historybook: Pocahontas is buried (1617); Martin Luther King Jr. leads third and ultimately successful march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama (1965); Twitter is founded (2006).

"Freedom is the continuous action we all must take, and each generation must do its part to create an even more fair, more just society."

- John Lewis, one of the leaders of the Selma to Montgomery marches

Their interest is not in your town or quality journalism, but in slashing news coverage to jack up their profits. Such absentee owners have eliminated nearly 60% of America's reporters and other newsroom staff in just 20 years.

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https://www.arcamax.com/politics/fromtheleft/jimhightower/s-3167656

Can you see it? Can you hear it? that's right, it's just G R E E D.

Jim Hightower on corporate ownership of journalism

Not only have hundreds of papers been eliminated, but half of the remaining dailies are now owned by Wall Street predators like SoftBank, the Japanese hedge fund that controls the huge USA Today/Gannett chain.

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