Random News: August 30, 2022

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Good morning. It’s August 30, 2022, and it’s a Tuesday. Let’s talk of things…

• Yesterday, the judge handling FPOTUS’s “special master” request granted the DOJ’s counter-request to file a 40 page response to Trump’s complaint.
• Just a quick side note: the DOJ has a 99.6% conviction rate on people they indict.
• Yup.
• Remember awhile back when Cassidy Hutchinson testified before the January 6 committee and spoke of the actions of Secret Service assistant director Tony Ornato, who had told her about Trump lunging for the wheel of the limo and so on?
• Ornato is also still under scrutiny for the missing texts from his department around January 6, 2021.
• Ornato suddenly left the agency yesterday. He retired. At age 48.
• Hmm.
• I try not to dwell on mass shootings that happen almost every day in the USA, but I need to recognize someone here. On Sunday, when some punk-ass 20-year-old went into a Safeway grocery store in Bend, OR with an AR-style rifle and a shotgun and started shooting, 66-year-old employee Donald Surrett Jr. could have easily just run away.
• Instead, he confronted the shooter and tried to disarm him.
• Had he not done this, the shooter could have killed many more people. Surrett was killed while trying to save others, which included families shopping with your kids. His selfless act saved lives. Celebrate Don Surrett as a hero.
• Three died in the attack: Surrett, an 84-year-old shopper, and the little prick who killed himself as cops arrived.
• But yeah, keep making sure that every unhinged piece of shit can buy semi-automatic weapons and large capacity magazines with no background checks. That’s the American way, isn’t it? That’s what the ammosexuals jack off to every night.
• Jackson, MS has a state of emergency after being left without enough water to flush toilets or fight fires. Massive flooding, ironically, disabled the city’s water treatment plant. They also can’t drink the untreated water going through the pipes.
• President Biden will be addressing the country on Thursday night during primetime. The topic is “the continued battle for the soul of the nation”. I’m interested.
• From the Sports Desk… today’s the day for NFL teams to cut down to their final 53-man roster for the upcoming season. Related note: just because someone is cut from a roster doesn’t mean they might not a) get picked up by another team, or b) join that team’s practice squad and eventually get signed to replace another player later in the year. Most of the guys getting released are rookies and undrafted free agents, though sometimes it’s also veterans whose time has come to retire. Either way, by tomorrow morning you’ll know who plays for your NFL team.
• And now, The Weather: “One of These” by Wombo.
• Today in history… Guru Ram Das becomes the Fourth Sikh Guru/Master (1574). HMS Pandora sinks after having run aground on the Great Barrier Reef (1791). Melbourne, Victoria, Australia is founded (1835). The city of Houston,TX is founded (1836). Germans defeat the Russians in the WWI Battle of Tannenberg (1914). The Queen Mary wins the Blue Riband with the fastest transatlantic crossing (1936). The Moscow–Washington hotline between the leaders of the U.S. and the Soviet Union goes into operation (1963). Thurgood Marshall is confirmed as the first African American Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (1967). President Mohammad-Ali Rajai and Prime Minister Mohammad-Javad Bahonar of Iran are assassinated in a bombing (1981). Space Shuttle Discovery takes off on its maiden voyage (1984). The 11-day Ruby Ridge standoff ends with Randy Weaver surrendering to federal authorities (1992). The last remaining American troops leave Afghanistan, ending U.S. involvement in the war (2021).
• August 30 is the birthday of novelist Mary Shelley (1797), physicist Ernest Rutherford (1871), politician Huey Long (1893), actress Shirley Booth (1898), actor Fred McMurray (1908), MLB great Ted Williams (1918), musician Kitty Wells (1919), actor Bill Daily (1927), rich guy Warren Buffett (1930), musician John Phillips (1935), race car designer Bruce McLaren (1937), radio host John Peel (1939), illustrator Robert Crumb (1943), model/actress Peggy Lipton (1946), musician Dave Brockie (1963), musician Lars Frederiksen (1971), and model/actress Cameron Diaz (1972). 

Well, I suppose that’s it for now, or at least that’s all I have before 7:30am when I try and wrap this shit up. Enjoy your day.