From the Great Blue State of California and Absolutely Fabulous Blue Blue City of San Francisco!!
Hilltop by Maxfield Parrish - 1926
Cheers and Jeers starts in There's Moreville... [Swoosh!!] RIGHTNOW! [Gong!!]
Disclaimer: Today’s C&J is not brought to you by Bill in Portland Maine because he has a 3 day workweek this summer. Therefore the usual dose of humor and snark are missing. All of the fun will be in the comments. This diary serves merely as an excuse for the comments. Sobermom 7/17/07
Bill will return Tomorrow.
By the Numbers:
Days Until Yearly Kos is over: 0
Days Until BiPM’s next Birthday: 363
Days Until joustchr’s next Birthday: 364
Lighthouses on the California Coast: 45
Days Until San Francisco’s Folsom Street Fair: 53
http://www.folsomstreetfair.com/
State Legislative Seats in Democratic Control: 3985
State Legislative Seats in Repuglican Control:3325
State Legislatures in Democratic Control:55
State Legislatures in Repuglican Control: 41
Tied/Unicameral: 4
Elected Secretarys’ of State,Democrats: 17
Elected Secretarys’ of State,Repuglicans: 18
Those Appointed/Not applicable: 15
Elected Attorneys’ General, Democratic: 26
Elected Attorneys’ General, Republican: 17
Those Appointed/Not applicable:7
August 7th Historically:
1782 - George Washington orders the creation of the Badge of Military Merit to honor soldiers wounded in battle. It is later renamed to the more poetic Purple Heart.
1789 - The United States War Department is established.
1794 - Whiskey Rebellion begins: Farmers in the Monongahela Valley of Pennsylvania rebel against the federal tax on liquor and distilled drinks.
1955 - Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering, the precursor to Sony, begins selling its first Transistor radios in Japan.
1959 - One Cent (United States coin): Lincoln Memorial Design on reverse debuted
1964 - Vietnam War: The U.S. Congress passes the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution giving US President Lyndon B. Johnson broad war powers to deal with North Vietnamese attacks on American forces.
1991 - World Wide Web debuts as a publicly available service on the Internet.
August 7 is the 219th day of the year (220th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 146 days remaining.
The Northern Hemisphere is considered to be halfway through its summer on this day. Wikipedia
Jeers to the War in Iraq, End this Travesty now!!
Jeers to Buscho, worst Presidency in Modern History (if not History period)
Jeers to Abu Gonzales, someone needs to be Impeached.
Cheers to the Progressive Democrats of America (PDA)
http://www.pdamerica.org/
Cheers to Democracy For America (DFA)
http://www.democracyforamerica.com/
Cheers to ActBlue
http://actblue.com/
Cheers to Bill & Michael’s Safe return to Portland, Maine, we We’ve been Missing You!!
Song: Missing (Todd Terry Club Mix)1994
Artist: Everything But The Girl
I step off the train
I'm walking down your street again and past your door
But you don't live there any more
It's years since you've been there
But now you've disappeared somewhere like outer space
You've found some better place
And I miss you - like the deserts miss the rain
And I miss you - like the deserts miss the rain
You always were two steps ahead of everyone
We'd walk behind while you would run
Hope you Enjoy the Music while you are Cheering and Jeering!!!