Freaky Friday News Flashes

Welcome to Friday, as we spring board into the weekend..Today Is June 26th, there are only 188 days left in the year, even less when you are looking toward Christmas, and If you are wanting a General Lee car as a memento, forget that, its not being sold in stores, and the Rebel battle flag (Confederate flag--out of luck there) SC working on banning it, as well as other states. According to the Liberals-its about racism (tieing that to the Stars & Bars) and not about the heritage of the Confederacy. Meanwhile...This is Friday---TGIF...

News Flash in the Pan: President Obama was heckled during an LGBT pride event...and he told the heckler, no no no no no, nah nah nah nah...hey hey goodbye---later on President Heckled.

Some history stuff years ago, as we turn back the pages to June 25...In 1963, President Kennedy visited West Berlin, where he delivered his famous speech expressing solidarity with its residents, declaring: ‘‘Ich bin ein Berliner’’ (I am a Berliner).

In 1973, former White House counsel John W. Dean told the Senate Watergate Committee about an ‘‘enemies list’’ kept by the Nixon White House.

In 1974, the supermarket price scanner made its debut in Troy, Ohio, as a 10-pack of Wrigley’s Juicy Fruit chewing gum costing 67 cents and bearing a Uniform Product Code was scanned by a Marsh Supermarket cashier.

In 2014 , the Supreme Court unanimously struck down the 35-foot protest-free zone outside abortion clinics in Massachusetts, declaring it an unconstitutional restraint on the free-speech rights of protesters.

And happy Birthday wishes to Chris Issak, who is 59, Patty Smyth is 58, Actor Chris Odonnell of NCIS: Los Angeles, blowing out 45 candles on his cake.

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Highway to Technilogical Hell:

Two driversless cars almost collide, one operated by Google Inc and the other by Delphi Automotive Plc, had a close call on a Silicon Valley street earlier this week, a Delphi executive told Reuters on Thursday.

It was believed to be the first such incident involving two vehicles specially equipped for automated driving.