Don’t Cry For This Wolf

PLUS: A compromise on immigration...The melting pot is delicious creamy mocha...Gonzales is doomed...Cure your balding with a knife...Watch out for dorky cops...and when you’re time traveling, try to get herpes. It’s May 18th, all aboard the peace train! Is this thing on?

Celebration Excuse

Slaves go free, a mountain explodes and shorty’s got an empire. It’s May 17th, and we’re definitely buying some garlic and a wooden stake.

1652

An island of reason: Rhode Island passes the first law in America making slavery illegal.

1804

Little French man makes big. Napoleon proclaimed Emperor of France.

1897

Ve vant to suuuck your bloood. Bram Stoker’s “Dracula” is published.

1917

It’s gettin’ drafty in here. Congress passes the Selective Services Act giving the President the power of conscription.

1980

Boom! Mount St. Helens erupts in Washington. Cost: 57 lives and $3 billion of damage.

They say it’s your birthday.

Nobel Prize winner and adamant atheist, philosopher Bertrand Russell (1872).

Our favorite infallible Pole, Pope John Paul II (1920).

Crouching tiger, actor Chow Yun-Fat (1955).

Don’t be fooled by the 30 Rock that she’s got, she’s still Tina from SNL, comedian Tina Fey (1970).

California frat boy acoustic crooner, musician Jack Johnson (1975).

Daybook

PEOPLE

10am

Press briefing on “gun microstamping,” a more effective way to match bullet casings with the guns that fired them. With a demonstration! RayburnHouseOfficeBuilding firing range. (In other news, the House office buildings have their own firing range. Who knew?)

7pm

Former POTUS Bill Clinton gives a speech at a meeting of the South Carolina NAACP. Columbia, SC.

STUMPIN

Sen. John McCain speaks at the Metropolitan Republican Club annual ball. NY, NY

Gov. Mitt Romney shakes hands for 30 minutes with delegates at the Georgia GOP Convention. Duluth, GA

Sen. John McCain raises money in Grand Rapids, Michigan

ON THE HILL

House

10AM

House Transportation SubCom: Hearing on making sure the National Guard is ready for a domestic crisis. Watch For: FEMA chief David Paulison

WATCH MORE TV

Take A TV To Work

Ellen: Mike Myers

Regis & Kelly: Nicolette Sheridan, Tom Selleck

The View: Teri Hatcher

Stay Up Late

Letterman: Teri Hatcher, Elvis Costello

Leno: Jamie Foxx, Jimmy Fallon

Conan: Luke Wilson

Kimmel: Geoffrey Rush, Mary Lynn Rajskub

 

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STEAL THIS AUDIO: CENTER FOR AMERICAN PROGRESS DIRECTOR OF ETHNIC MEDIA VANESSA CARDENAS

Who: Vanessa Cardenas, the Director of Ethnic Media at the Center for American Progress.[Vanessa Cardenas]

What: Cardenas sat down with Mic Check and expressed some reservations with the new Senate immigration reform bill. Here’s what she said:

[Transcripts]

  • Cardenas acknowledges that the bill has the components of comprehensive reform, and that it’s an important step.
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  • But she is concerned about the absence of a path to citizenship for guest workers.
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  • Also, the emphasis on high skilled workers denies that fact that the largest demand is for workers with low skills.
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  • Finally, it’s important that any real reform strive to keep families together and “treat people like people.”
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Popularity Contest

Cool kids sit at the back of the bus.

NYT: In Bid for Better Care, Surgery With a Warranty

WP: Justice Weighed Firing 1 in 4

LAT: Listeners shocked by XM hosts’ suspension

USAT: Groups: Gas costs families $1,000 more a year than in ‘01

WSJ: A $1 Million Retirement Fund: How to Get There From Here

CBS: N.H. Town Divided After Fatal Shooting

ABC: Immigration Burden or Boom for Tax Rolls?

MSNBC: Woman survives ‘internal decapitation’

FOX: Missing Texas College Student Found Dead

CNN: Philadelphia: Teen ‘afraid every day’ as gun violence soars

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