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Plus: Farewell to Barbaro...33 global crises you’re ignoring...the duck that wouldn’t die...YouTube to become YouMakeMoney...Cheney’s a “half glass full” kind of guy...and which celeb is being charged with manslaughter? It’s Tuesday, January 30 and everything you could possibly need to know is right inside Mic Check. This thing is so on.

Celebration Excuse

The New Deal, a New Name for the Foggy City, and a New Arrogant Bridge in New Jersey, Here’s why we’re huge in Branson:

1806

The Lower Trenton Bridge (also known as the “Trenton Makes The World Takes Bridge”) is built and Trenton’s ego grows three sizes.

1847

Yerba Buena, California is renamed San Francisco. Glad to know we never had to hear Tony Bennett sing “I Left My Heart in Yerba Buena.”

1891

Liliuokalani is proclaimed Queen of Hawaii. In history classes around the world, scores of children mispronounce her name.

1980

Stamp featuring the face of W.C. Fields is issued. Postal workers report that the stamp makes their envelopes smell like cheap gin.

2007

Microsoft releases its Windows Vista. Cough, Mac OS copy, cough.

And two very political birthdays:

Franklin D. Roosevelt, father of the New Deal.
Dick Cheney, evil-Stepfather of the “Bargain of the Century”

Daybook

PEOPLE

Former Governor Mike Huckabee travels to Iowa.
Former Gov. Mitt Romney meets local residents in Columbia, SC

SENATE

9AM

Senate in Session

9:30AM

Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on Adm. Fallon’s reappointment.

10AM

Judiciary Committee hearing on Congress’s powers to End War

10AM

Senate Budget Committee hearing on Long-Term Fiscal Challenges

2PM

Foreign Relations Committee hearing with Lee Hamilton and James Baker on Alternative Plans for Iraq

2:30PM

Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee holds a hearing with Auto Industry executives on Fuel Efficiency

HOUSE

10AM

House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing on allegations of political interference with the work of climate change scientists.

10:30AM

House in Session

2PM

House Armed Services Committee Hearing on the Future of Afghanistan

10AM

House Budget Committee Hearing on the Congressional Budget and Economic Outlook

 

Popularity Contest

GET PAID

  • YouTube is going to start paying for your videos! [RedHerring]
  • It’s true! The viral video powerhouse has announced it will start paying call of you who’ve painstakingly edited together funny, snarky clips.
  • It will take the form of ad profit-sharing — creators will upload ad content of their own choosing and YouTube will share some of the money love.
  • That’s all we know so far — no word on exactly how this will work, how much people will be paid or when it will start.

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