Random News: September 13, 2022

DISCLAIMER: Zak's Random News is very random and doesn't cover many things, and not everything may be accurate, because I'm just some guy. Go find a real news source.

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Good morning.  It’s September 13, 2022, and it’s a Tuesday. Here’s whatever I happen to notice right now…

• Today in the United States Senate, Republicans are attempting to introduce a national abortion ban.
• Up until now, they’d said not to worry; abortion would be left up to the states. No more.
• The bill is being sponsored by Lindsay Graham (R-SC) and is expected to have full GOP support.
• Remember this when you vote is November. The Republicans cannot wait to exert more and more control over the bodies of your sisters, mothers, wives, and every other person with a uterus.
• Fucking vote.
• Dozens of top officials — some say as many as 40 — from Donald Trump's political fundraising and former campaign operation were subpoenaed for grand jury testimony in recent days.
• Per reports, the subpoenas sought information on the fake elector scheme, Trump's primary fundraising and political vehicle Save America PAC, the organizing of the Trump rally on January 6, and any communications with a broad list of people who worked to overturn the 2020 election results.
• Fuck around. Find out.
• The DoJ has accepted one of FPOTUS’s candidates for a special master in the investigation into his espionage and obstruction. Raymond J. Dearie, a former chief federal judge in New York, could potentially launch the Mar-a-Lago document review if approved by judge Aileen M. Cannon.
• While it might function as a temporary delay tactic, the FPOTUS might not like what his hand-picked special master decides. Just a hunch.
• Meanwhile, yesterday, the FPOTUS visited one of his golf courses. He, his son Eric, and seven other men met out on the course where it was less likely for them to be overheard. They rode around on carts and talked, but didn’t bring any golf clubs.
• Hmm.
• The next session of the January 6 Select Committee hearings will be on Wednesday September 28. Just FYI.
• Today is the final primary day for the 2022 Midterm elections, with primary voting being held in New Hampshire and Rhode Island.
• I guess the Emmys were on last night? I don’t watch TV and definitely don’t watch awards shows, but hopefully you enjoyed them if you watched. I’m not sure I could name one current TV series.
• Speaking of TV, I did find something out. You know those people who get very upset when Hobbits, Vulcans, mermaids, Jedis, elves, dwarfs, and other fictional characters have skin that isn’t white? There’s a name for those people. Those people are called fucking racists. 
• Dumbasses too. I mean, they also think Jesus Christ was white, so… shrug.
• So, this is awful. Some 53-year-old guy in Walled Lake, Michigan went insane due to QAnon conspiracies and killed his wife and shot his daughter (who was in critical condition but expected to live) before cops took him out. 
• Please be very careful around any friends or family members who are deep in the clutches of MAGA beliefs… especially in upcoming times.
• I’m not worried about civil war. I am very, very concerned about a multitude of instances like this one, especially after Trump is indicted. It’s gonna get worse.
• From the Sports Desk… the Seattle Seahawks shockingly upset the Denver Broncos in the season’s first Monday Night Football game. The game marked the return of former Seahawks QB Russell Wilson, who probably really wanted to beat his old team and couldn’t.
• And now, The Weather: “21” by Good Looks.
• Major floods in inland Southern California and Chicago. Major fires in California and Oregon. You know what? I’m just going to say it. September fucking sucks. Also, stop calling it fall. There’s still over a week remaining of this late-summer shittiness.
• Today in history… Michelangelo begins work on his statue of David (1501). After three years of exile, John Calvin returns to Geneva to reform the church under a body of doctrine known as Calvinism (1541). Henry Hudson reaches the river that would later be named after him (1609). Great Britain, Austria and the Kingdom of Sardinia sign the Treaty of Worms (1743). The Philadelphia Convention sets the date for the first presidential election in the United States, and New York City becomes the country's temporary capital (1788). In a turning point in the War of 1812, the British fail to capture Baltimore. During the battle, Francis Scott Key composes his poem "Defence of Fort McHenry", which is later set to music and becomes the United States' national anthem (1814). American troops under General Winfield Scott capture Mexico City in the Mexican–American War (1847). Hannibal Goodwin patents celluloid photographic film (1898). Margaret Chase Smith is elected United States senator, and becomes the first woman to serve in both the U.S. House of Representatives and the United States Senate (1948). Nikita Khrushchev is appointed General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1953). ‘Super Mario Bros.’ is released in Japan for the NES (1985). Hurricane Gilbert is the strongest to-date recorded hurricane in the Western Hemisphere (1988). Largest anti-Apartheid march in South Africa, led by Desmond Tutu (1989). Hurricane Ike makes landfall on the Texas Gulf Coast (1988). 
• September 13 is the birthday of Italian cardinal Cesare Borgia (1475), pianist/composer Clara Schumann (1819), physician Walter Reed (1851), composer Arnold Schoenberg (1874), actress Claudette Colbert (1903), musician Bill Monroe (1911), novelist Roald Dahl (1916), musical god Ray Charles (1918), singer Mel Tormé (1925), animator Don Bluth (1937), actor Richard Kiel (1939), singer/bass player Peter Cetera (1944), producer Don Was (1952), drummer Vinnie Appice (1957), musician Dave Mustaine (1961), drummer Stephen Perkins (1967), fashion designer Stella McCartney (1971), politician Ro Khanna (1976), and musician Fiona Apple (1977).

It’s Tuesday, so I’ll be busy. I’m always busy. I’m never bored, but I’m often work-stressed. And who is my boss? It’s me! So I make myself work too hard and then I get mad at me for doing it. Anyway, I’ll be doing what I do, and so will you. I hope it is productive and brings you some kind of fulfillment, or some kind of money, or love, or whatever it is you seek. Enjoy your day.