Let's start with a little history, shall we? On this day in 1777, during the American Revolution, the Continental Congress adopts a resolution stating that “the flag of the United States be thirteen alternate stripes red and white” and that “the Union be thirteen stars, white in a blue field, representing a new Constellation.” The national flag, which became known as the “Stars and Stripes,” was based on the “Grand Union” flag, a banner carried by the Continental Army in 1776 that also consisted of 13 red and white stripes. According to legend, Philadelphia seamstress Betsy Ross designed the new canton for the Stars and Stripes, which consisted of a circle of 13 stars and a blue background, at the request of General George Washington. Historians have been unable to conclusively prove or disprove this legend.Also-On June 14, 1917, as the soldiers of the American Expeditionary Force (AEF) travel to join the Allies on the battlefields of World War I in France, United States President Woodrow Wilson addresses the nation’s public on the annual celebration of Flag Day. In his Flag Day address on June 14, 1917, barely two months after the American entry into World War I, Wilson spoke strongly of the need to confront an enemy–Germany–that had, as he had said in his April 2 war message to Congress, violated the principles of international democracy and led the world into “the most terrible and disastrous of all wars, civilization itself seeming to be in the balance.” In the June 14 speech, after repeating the distinction he had made in earlier speeches between the German people and their leaders, Wilson absolved the former of guilt and listed the numerous transgressions of the latter–U-boat warfare, espionage, the attempt to build an alliance with Mexico against the U.S.–that had provoked the U.S. into declaring war.And-On June 14, 1951, the U.S. Census Bureau dedicates UNIVAC, the world’s first commercially produced electronic digital computer. UNIVAC, which stood for Universal Automatic Computer, was developed by J. Presper Eckert and John Mauchly, makers of ENIAC, the first general-purpose electronic digital computer. These giant computers, which used thousands of vacuum tubes for computation, were the forerunners of today’s digital computers. Lawyers for several Big Oil firms have urged a federal judge to throw out a lawsuit filed by New York City seeking to hold them financially liable for damages caused by global warming. I am hoping that this does not fuel a debate on global warming. We have had enough of those here. Related tickers: $XOM, $BP, $COP, $CVX.More Tesla news, of course. Elon Musk bought shares. Are there any other stocks out there that could make an occasional appearance on WSB? $TSLA is on here quite a bit, IMO. I get that the CEO buying shares is news, but it seems that anything Tesla does makes the news. $TSLA, Tesla, Inc. / H1 Yahoo’s U.K. unit was fined 250,000 pounds ($334,500) by a British regulator for failing to keep the data of more than half a million users in the country safe from a cyber-attack in 2014. The revelation by Yahoo in 2016 that the personal information of about half a billion people was stolen in a 2014 attack on its accounts, was followed just a few months later by the news of a second major security breach that may have affected more than 1 billion user accounts. Verizon Communications Inc. bought Yahoo last year for about $4.5 billion. The breaches threatened the deal, cost millions of dollars in legal fees and spurred more than 40 lawsuits in the U.S. This is the day The Lord has made. Let us rejoice and be glad in it. Not sure if Bitcoin is an indicator of anything related to the stock market as a whole. Nice to see it along side Gold and Oil. Two stocks to consider:$BIP $BIP, Brookfield Infrastructure Partners LP Limited Partnership / H1 $MO: $MO, Altria Group, Inc. / H1 Where is Jon Corzine and will MF Global be looking to add shares of $TSLA? Where is Marissa Mayer and why wasn't she contacted about the Yahoo! U.K. fine? $AABA, Altaba Inc. / H1 $VZ (bought Yahoo): $VZ, Verizon Communications Inc. / H1 Have a great day everyone. Stay safe, sage, and sane out there. Excelsior!via user deercreekvols