The Daily Dose/April 19, 2020
By Gaylon Kent
America’s Funniest Guy
The Sunday Bottom 5
The very best of the very worst of the week that was.
1. COVID-19 – Hot, new pandemic up with the big boys now, killing more people per day than historic heavyweights cancer and heart disease, though still trailing automobile deaths…First pandemic to hold Sunday Bottom 5 top spot for consecutive, multiple weeks since Plague of Athens in 430 BC.
2. Gaylon for US Senate – Campaign staffers busily finalizing Non-Resident Voter program to allow friends in other states to vote in June 30th Libertarian US Senate primary…Gaylon so popular with Colorado libertarians, this is second primary he’s been obliged to run in…Click here to contribute.
3. US Electorate – Now inside of 200 days until American voters herald to the world – and themselves, frankly – whether they’re happy with country scheduled to collapse before half-century is out or whether they are ready to make some changes.
4. US Drone Strikes – Acts of war continuing in Somalia, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Yemen despite fact US Congress hasn’t declared war since 1942…While exact figures difficult to determine, Sunday Bottom 5 pollsters remain “pretty sure” virtually all deaths military in nature.
5. President Trump Fact Check – Click here for latest misinformation from the lying sexual predator who believes the moon is part of Mars.
Today At The Site
Writing worth reading. Usually.
The Diary of a Nobody: Sparrow takes a personal call. Today’s Diary.
This was the first personal call I’d had in years…Like Pa Sparrow, I am not the type people call just to say howdy…Ma Sparrow, a true Mexican, yapped constantly, fielded calls regularly and called her BFF, sisters, anyone with a dial tone, really, left and right…If the phone wasn’t producing chat she’d talk to the furniture.
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On This Date
Great moments in us.
In 1995 – The Alfred P Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City is bombed via explosives loaded into a rental truck that was parked in front of the building. Timothy McVeigh was arrested within an hour-and-a-half on a weapons charge after being stopped for driving without a license plate and later Terry Nichols was arrested as an accomplice. McVeigh was executed in 2001 while Nichols is serving a life sentence at the federal supermax prison in Colorado.
In 1897 – The first Boston Marathon is held, with John McDermott of New York City beating 14 other runners, winning the 24.5-mile race, then the international standard, in 2 hours, 55 minutes and 10 seconds. The marathon distance was adjusted to 26-miles, 385 yards at the 1908 Olympics so King Edward VII and Queen Alexandria could view the start at Windsor Castle while having the race end in front of the royal box at Olympic Stadium, and the Boston Marathon became a 26-mile, 385-yard race in 1924. The 2020 Boston Marathon has been moved to Sept 14.
In 1980 – Blondie is at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 for the first of six consecutive weeks with Call Me. It was the group’s fourth Top 40 hit and their second of four #1 songs. It was Billboard’s biggest song of the year, the eighth biggest of the decade and ranked 57th on Billboard’s 60th anniversary Hot 100 in 2018. The song, from the movie American Gigolo, also went to #1 in Canada in Great Britain and was written by Debbie Harry and Giorgio Moroder only after Stevie Nicks had declined to contribute to the soundtrack.
Quotebook
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.
…a man does what the situation demands. …we do not have heroes, only people doing what is necessary at the time. – Louis L’Amour, The Lonesome Gods
Answer To The Last Trivia Question
It’s not who you know, but what you know.
The longest game in major league history lasted 26 innings, a 1-1 tie between the Brooklyn Robins and the Boston Braves on May 1, 1920.
Today’s Stumper
Cheaper than Trivia Night at the bar.
What was Giorgio Moroder’s biggest hit as an artist on the Billboard Hot 100? – Answer next time!
