Today’s featured image is of the West Pierhead lighthouse in Oswego Harbor. The Harbor hosts the largest port facilities on the New York side of Lake Ontario.
The White House has acknowledged a huge data breach involving both the Treasury and Commerce departments. It seems a state actor hacked into those department’s microsoft office 365 and monitored emails for several months.
Lindsey Boylan alleged on Twitter Sunday that New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo “sexually harassed me for years.” Boylan was a top aide for the “love Gov” for several years and recently took to twitter to announce her accusations.
Now, innocent until proven guilty and all that, but frankly Andy is about due for some of the accusations swirling around him to stick.
Charley Pride was born in Sledge, Mississippi on March 18, 1934 to sharecroppers. His father played Country music on the radio as they picked cotton, and Pride developed a love and affinity for the style. He picked up his first guitar at the age of 14, but saw baseball as his way out of the cotton fields. Pride played in the Negro League for the Memphis Red Sox and Birmingham Black Barons. During his baseball career, he met the love of his life Rosine Cohen and they were married until his death. In 1956 he won 14 games, and made the All-Star Team where he went up against major league legends Willie Mays, Hank Aaron and Ernie Banks.
In 1962, a local Montana DJ named Tiny Stokes had Pride audition for Country music hitmakers Red Foley and Red Sovine. They were impressed by his talent and Pride received the honor of playing on stage alongside them. Over his 50 year career, he had 52 top 10 country hits, sold tens of millions of records worldwide, and recorded 497 songs, such as his signature hit, “Kiss An Angel Good Mornin’,” as well as “Is Anybody Goin’ to San Antone,” and “Mountain of Love.” He won the Country Music Association’s Entertainer of the Year award in 1971, its top male vocalist prize in 1971 and 1972, and a Lifetime Achievement Award in 2020.
Charley Pride died yesterday at age 86 from complications of Covid-19. Resquiscat In Pace.
Shootings in New York City are set to be the highest in 14 years despite a record number of gun related arrests. One guess as to why? Police Commissioner Dermot Shea has an idea, and one I agree with.
The New York Times has a report about a real WuFlu super spreader event. It’s just not any of the ones you’re thinking about. Seems biotech firm Biogen held a conference in Boston in February that seeded Chinese Lung AIDS across a large portion of the country and is responsible for between 250,000 and 300,000 cases of the viral infection.
My girl Tulsi keeps making me fall for her. This time it’s a bill she’s introduced last week called the Protect Women’s Sports Act. The bill aims to keep trans males out of female sports. It’s got bipartisan support, but I don’t think it’s going anywhere. The bill seeks to protect “the sex-based intention of Title IX protections by reaffirming the biological sex-based distinctions between men and women in athletics.” The bill would prevent organizations which allow biological males to compete against females from receiving federal funding.
In closing today, (and really this should have been first) Army beat Navy yesterday in Michie Stadium at the Point. The 15-0 score was the first time they had shut out Navy since 1969 and Army’s fourth win in the teams’ last five meetings. It was also the first time since WWII that the game wasn’t played at a neutral site, usually Philadelphia. The first Army-Navy game was held on November 29, 1890, and the teams have met annually since 1930. GO ARMY!
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