1. Happy 3rd Monday of October. The month continues to move away at seemingly light speed. There is one Monday remaining in October and ten Mondays remaining in the year.
3. Family NFL Report. The NFL season continues to be a disaster for the family teams which are a combined (16-23-1). The Ravens and Dolphins remain especially dismal.
Ravens (1-5) were thankfully on a bye.
Cowboys (3-3-1) scalped Commanders (3-4), 44-22
Dolphins (1-6) drowned by Browns (2-5), 6-31
Steelers (4-2) came up short against Bengals (3-4), 31-33
Chiefs (4-3) blanked Raiders (2-5), 31-0
4. Wouldn't it be nice to have a president for all Americans? It appears we have a president who fancies himself as a crown wearing fighter pilot dropping feces on the American public. I found the video, which was attached to a longer story about No Kings Day, at Sky News. We are truly scraping the bottom of the barrel.
5. Looking for answers. Why are we preparing to go to war with Venezuela? Worse, why is there so little transparency to support the potentially illegal actions that have been taken by blowing ups shipping in international waters? Would the republicans accept any of that from a democratic president?
6. Today in History. On October 20, 1947, the notorious Red Scare kicks into high gear in Washington, as a Congressional committee begins investigating communist influence in one of the world’s richest and most glamorous communities: Hollywood.
After World War II, the Cold War began to heat up between the world’s two superpowers—the United States and the communist-controlled Soviet Union. In Washington, conservative watchdogs worked to out communists in government before setting their sights on alleged “Reds” in the famously liberal movie industry. In an investigation that began in October 1947, the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) grilled a number of prominent witnesses, asking bluntly “Are you or have you ever been a member of the Communist Party?” Whether out of patriotism or fear, some witnesses—including director Elia Kazan, actors Gary Cooper and Robert Taylor and studio honchos Walt Disney and Jack Warner—gave the committee names of colleagues they suspected of being communists.
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