The Daily Dose/June 7, 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. USA! USA! – More violence as – hardly for the first time – 400 years of oppression meets 400 years of dominance….Sunday Bottom 5 pollsters “pretty sure” nation got off easy this time, too.
2. President Trump’s George Floyd Great Day Crack – Our president is an idiot as Sunday Bottom 5 pollsters “pretty sure” even most diehard KKK grand wizard shaking head over president’s tasteless remark…The hard question: should we be expecting better from man who believes moon is part of Mars???
3. President Trump’s George Floyd Great Day Crack – Here’s the quote…The president was talking about a jobs report that wasn’t as bad as everyone expected: “Hopefully George is looking down right now and saying this a great thing that’s happening for our country,” Trump said. “There’s a great day for him. It’s a great day for everybody.”..First quote to occupy two Sunday Bottom 5 spots “slavery is a good, a positive good” line in 1837.
4. American Sports – Despite fact this season will end right about when next season would normally begin, NHL, NBA forging ahead with plans to conduct playoffs…With quality of play likely to be low due to layoff and no one in stands, American males might decide talking to wife, kids, preferable to watching this on TV…Maybe not, though…America is in third generation of TV being focal point of American life and, like riots after white cops kill black suspects, good luck changing that.
5. President Trump Fact Check – From the Associated Press…Click here for the latest lies, untruths and misinformation from the Liar-in-Chief.
Today At The Site
Writing worth reading. Usually.
The Diary of a Nobody: Sparrow bought a chair at an estate sale on Friday. Today’s Diary.
At first, I started in on the books…The selection was modest and dull and it was one of those rare times I could find nothing that even remotely interested me…Then I saw the chair…I’m not smart enuff to know the type offhand – nor interested enuff to look into it – but it was old, came with a matching ottoman and it was plain it was probably pretty elegant in its time…They were looking to move product, too, and immediately an heir to the estate was on me, extolling its virtues and advising an immediate test sit…It was an older lady and she all but pushed me into the seat.
Backstairs at the Monte Carlo: D-Dawg and I talk about him dating every single woman at the Monte Carlo.
We agreed that sooner or later he is going to die because all three of them get off work at 0700. These problems are mitigated right now to some extent because Maria, as a non-uniformed employee, is not required to utilize the employee entrance, which is good because currently D-Dawg and Heidi, who are, walk to their cars together.
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On This Date
History’s long march to today
In 1776 – Richard Henry Lee of Virginia presents what history refers to as the Lee Resolution to the Second Continental Congress in Philadelphia. The resolution read, in part, that “…these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States, that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British Crown…”. The Continental Congress would approve the resolution and declare its independence from Great Britain on July 2 and approve and sign the Declaration of Independence on July 4.
In 1997 – The Detroit Red Wings win the Stanley Cup, defeating the Philadelphia Flyers 2-1 in Game 4 of the Finals. It’s the eighth Stanley Cup title for the Red Wings and their first since 1955. Detroit would win the Stanley Cup again the following year, and again in 2002 and 2008.
In 1975 – John Denver is at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 for the only week with Thank God I’m a Country Boy. It was the seventh of 15 Top 40 hits for Denver and his third of four #1 songs. The song also went to #1 in Canada and Yugoslavia and earlier had spent a week at #1 on Billboard’s country chart. The song had been recorded live the previous year and was written by John Martin Sommers, a member of Denver’s back-up band. A version by Billy Dean peaked at #27 on Billboard’s country chart in 2004.
Quotebook
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.
In Profiles in Courage, he had been the one delivering the verdict, praising eight senators for possessing ”…the breadth of a man above party or section…and, above all, a deep-seated belief in themselves…“. – Thurston Clarke, JFK’s Last Hundred Days
Answer To The Last Trivia Question
It’s not who you know, but what you know.
The first foreign team to win the Little League World Series was from Neuvo Leon, Mexico, in 1957.
Today’s Stumper
Cheaper than Trivia Night at the bar.
Who seconded the Lee Resolution when it was introduced in the Second Continental Congress? – Answer next time!
