The Absurdities of the Self-Contradicting Left

Hello and welcome to the next day of your life, Friday, April 24, 2026. Today is National Arbor Day. Today is also National Pigs in a Blanket Day and National Hairball Awareness Day. Those of you who are owned by cats will be quite aware of them, especially given the reminders left overnight by your owner on the bedroom carpet.

Today In History:

1184 BC: The Greeks enter Troy using the Trojan Horse (traditional date).

1704: First continuously published newspaper in America, The Boston News-Letter, is published in Boston.

1800: The Library of Congress is established with a $5,000 allocation.

1888: George Eastman founds Eastman Kodak.

1913: Frank Winfield Woolworth opens the Woolworth Building in New York City at a cost of $13.5 million, at 792 feet, then the world's tallest building. It’s now apartments.

1916: Easter Rising of Irish republicans against British occupation begins in Dublin.

1925: 88°F highest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in April.

1953: Queen Elizabeth II knights Winston Churchill.

1961: JFK accepts "sole responsibility" following the Bay of Pigs.

1962: Massachusetts Institute of Technology sends a TV signal by satellite for the first time from California to Massachusetts.

1964: Gene Roddenberry registers his Star Trek series with the Writers Guild of America.

1969: Paul McCartney says there is no truth to rumors that he is dead

1979: Georgia designates Ray Charles' rendition of "Georgia On My Mind" as its official state song.

1980: U.S. military operation to rescue 52 hostages in Iran fails, eight die.

1982: 150 Khomeini followers assault student dormitory in West Germany.

1986: Film Crocodile Dundee starring Paul Hogan and Linda Kozlowski premieres in Australia

1990: Junk bond king Michael Milken pleads guilty to six felonies related to securities fraud.

2023: Fox News fires Tucker Carlson, its most popular prime-time host.

Birthdays today include: St. Vincent de Paul; Robert Harron, American actor (Birth of a Nation, Intolerance); William Joyce, American-born Irish Fascist politician and Nazi propagandist; Irven Spence, American animator (Tom and Jerry); Ruth White, American actress (To Kill a Mockingbird, Up the Down Staircase); Richard Donner, American television and film director (Twilight Zone; The Omen, Superman; Lethal Weapon; Scrooged); Shirley MacLaine, American actress and mystic; Barbra Streisand, American pop singer; Richard M. Daley, American politician, 43rd Mayor of Chicago; (Bernard) St. Clair Lee and Ann Kelley, American pop singers (The Hues Corporation); Doug Clifford, American rock drummer (Creedence Clearwater Revival) and Rick Beato, American audio engineer, record producer, musician, songwriter, and educator, YouTube contributor.

If today is your day, we celebrate with you.

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• Here are some things worth considering about where things have been going in America over the last 40 years. I found this collection of absurdities hiding in my archive drive, dated 2020. I’ll pass it on to you.
• If a dude pretends to be a woman, you are required to pretend with him.
• Somehow it’s un-American for the census to count how many Americans are in America.
• Russians influencing our elections are bad, but illegals voting in our elections are good.
• It was cool for Joe Biden to “blackmail” the President of Ukraine, but it’s an impeachable offense if Donald Trump inquires about it.
• Twenty is too young to drink a beer, but eighteen is old enough to vote and register for the draft so you can die for your country that won’t let you drink .
• People who have never owned slaves should pay slavery reparations to people who have never been slaves.
• Inflammatory rhetoric is outrageous, but harassing people in restaurants is virtuous.
• People who have never been to college should pay the debts of college students who took out huge loans for their degrees.
• Immigrants with tuberculosis and polio are welcome, but you’d better be able to prove your dog is vaccinated.
• Irish doctors and German engineers who want to immigrate must go through a rigorous vetting process, but any illiterate gang-bangers and drug dealers who jump the southern fence are welcome.
• $5 billion for border security is too expensive, but $1.5 trillion for “free” health care is not.
• If you cheat to get into college you go to prison, but if you cheat to get into the country you go to college for free.
• People who say there is no such thing as gender are demanding a female president.
• We see other countries going socialist and collapsing, but it seems like a great plan to us.
• Some people are held responsible for things that happened before they were born, and other people are not held responsible for what they are doing right now.
• Criminals are catch-and-released to hurt more people, but stopping them is bad because it’s a violation of THEIR rights.
• And pointing out all this hypocrisy somehow makes us “racists”?

And I'll add a couple off the top of my head:

• Presidents and presidential candidates have been gravely intoning since 1979 that Iran was a threat and needed to be dealt with. After 47 years of posturing, we have a president who actually takes that threat seriously and moves to eliminate it. He gets labeled as "the problem."
• The Southern Poverty Law Center, which supposedly is about fighting racism, is funding the KKK.  
• Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) and her brother husband ran a winery, when the Quran explicitly prohibits alcohol. 
• Time was, we used to ensure people coming to live in America were free from illness. Now we see your California Gov. Gavin Newsom funding an NGO tasked with bringing in HIV immigrants. 
• Government-run school students cannot read, but they can make signs and carry them to "No Kings" protests. 

Thought for the day: If you think you’re too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito.

Take care today, if for no other reason than tomorrow.

I'll see you then.

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