An Early Saturday Cheers and Jeers

The Day After Friday the Thirteenth in Central Carolina Stealth Edition

Just for the hell of it. Or a place to comment on the news dumped Friday. Or for the Left Coasters to play while the Easterners sleep. Or to make irrelevant snark. Just don't tell the grown-ups.
Well maybe because I missed all of the Rum and Cokes Friday©³

So I figure if you can't have fun with your friends when they are playing in the Pool, you sneak in after hours and make your own fun. (And far be it for me to criticize, but this place is a mess! Towels and various suit pieces everywhere, furballs underfoot, paper cups strewn about. What is that sticky stuff floating in the shallow end and why are the filters clogged?! What do you people do when the lifeguard is on break?)

By the way, the Rum Cabinet was not locked. Really, I swear.

No wonder Bill takes Mondays off.

Cheers to Hastert and his boyfriend not being gay. I was worried there for a while.
Cheers to the week being over.
Cheers to the sound of Repub heads exploding.

Happy Damn Birthday to:

1996 Lourdes Marie Ciccone Leon
1979 Coty Strickler, Miss Montana Teen USA 1997
1958 Thomas Dolby, She Blinded Me With Science
1952 Harry Anderson, Judge Harry Stone
1946 Justin Hayward, Moody Blues-Nights in White Satin
1944 Udo Kier, Germany, actress, Warhol Dracula, Warhol Frankenstein
1939 Ralph Lauren, fashion designer, Chaps
1927 Roger Moore, Maverick, Saint, Bond
1916 C Everett Koop, surgeon general
1910 John Wooden
1894 e. e. cummings, Tulips and Chimneys
1890 Dwight D Eisenhower, 34th President
1734 Francis Lightfoot Lee, U.S. farmer/signer, Decl of Independence
1644 William Penn, English Quaker and founder of PA

These people did not have a good day in history:

1998 Cleveland Amory, writer, The Compleat Cat, dies at 81
1997 Harold Robbins, salacious novelist, dies at 81
1990 Leonard Bernstein, composer, dies of heart attack at 72
1977 Bing Crosby, singer and actor (Going My Way), dies of a heart attack at 74
1959 Errol Flynn, U.S. actor (Captain Blood), dies of heart attack at 50
1906 Paul Cezanne, French painter/water colors painter, dies at 67
1790 William Hooper, U.S. attorney/signer (Decl of Ind), dies at 48

There was a strange symetry to the Historical Events chosen for today. Maybe it's just me.

1994 Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Yasser Arafat, Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon Peres
1986 Concentration camp survivor Elie Wiesel wins Nobel Peace Prize
1982 6,000 Unification church couples wed in Korea
1982 President Reagan proclaims war against drugs
1980 Bob Marley's last concert
1971 John and Yoko appear on "Dick Cavett Show"
1968 Beatles "White Album" completed
1964 Martin Luther King, Jr. wins Nobel Peace Prize
1960 Peace Corps 1st suggested by John F. Kennedy
1865 Cheyennes and Arapaho's sign "peaces treaty" then are chased out Colorado

You play on Saturday with the C&J you have, not the C&J you wish you had.

•  Anybody awake?

  Tips, free advice etc.

  by teeb on Fri Oct 13, 2006 at 10:57:08 PM PDT

•  Of course I'm awake

  It's 3:03 Saturday Afternoon here in beautiful downtown Japan: Cheers!

  by Mishima on Fri Oct 13, 2006 at 10:59:06 PM PDT

  •  Time warp

    It's 2:03AM here in North Carolina.

    Any weird news coming out of Peaceful Serene Japan?

    by teeb on Fri Oct 13, 2006 at 11:01:42 PM PDT

    •  Even if your alive your dead.

      The Metropolitan Police Department said Friday it misidentified a dead man as another, still alive, last year and had the living man registered as being dead.

      The mistake related to a man who was found unconscious on a street in Suginami Ward Tokyo, on Sept. 27 last year and taken to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead

      by Mishima on Fri Oct 13, 2006 at 11:09:41 PM PDT

      •  I have had days like that

        Being hung over is a bitch

        by sara seattle on Fri Oct 13, 2006 at 11:11:19 PM PDT

        •  Good one!

          Almost choked to death from laughing just now :-)

          by slksfca on Fri Oct 13, 2006 at 11:27:40 PM PDT

        •  Prednisone is the closest i've come n/t

          by raines on Sat Oct 14, 2006 at 05:26:47 AM PDT

  •  Me too - `11:09PM in Seattle

    Still smiling - just came back after a swing through FreeRepublic - and yes - you are right

    Their heads are exploding !!

    The number of people responding to posts are dwindling down down and down the drain

    I think the Kool-Aid is finally making them throw up !!

    by sara seattle on Fri Oct 13, 2006 at 11:08:23 PM PDT

    •  Redecorating...

      the country is gonna be a real chore. The cleaning bill to get the little cerebro-bits the NeoCons leave on the ceiling alone will mean the repeal of the Paris Hilton law.

      Oh, the humanity!

      by teeb on Fri Oct 13, 2006 at 11:13:44 PM PDT

      •  Honestly

        What makes me smile the most - is the very thought that after November elections

        Bush will have 2 years of having to deal with the Democrats in power

        Just imagine the language he will be using to his cabinet -- or rather who will be left after the November elections - I am guessing that most will be jumping out of the windows like lemmings to get away --

        and even worse - who would accept a new job with the Bush administration - imagine that on your resume afterwards ??

        by sara seattle on Fri Oct 13, 2006 at 11:28:27 PM PDT

        •  One Option

          Make former Bush Cabinet members and high level advisors regester with the police so we'll always know where they are.

          by teeb on Fri Oct 13, 2006 at 11:34:41 PM PDT

          •  perfect - - GOP

            now stands for Good Old Perverts

            by sara seattle on Fri Oct 13, 2006 at 11:41:46 PM PDT

  •  Konnichi wa, Mishima and Aloha!! n/t

    by dolphin777 on Sat Oct 14, 2006 at 03:30:14 AM PDT

    •  Aloha Dolphin77 and

      こんばは

      by Mishima on Sat Oct 14, 2006 at 03:45:20 AM PDT

•  Cheers to laughter

  and those who cause it. And jeers to sudden, probably-gonna-be-real-costly sewer/plumbing problems.

  And cheers to the occasional west coast advantage - whoo hoo.

  by blueteam on Fri Oct 13, 2006 at 11:08:30 PM PDT

•  That's an impressive bunch of people

  and events there. I sometimes have to remember that somebody actually got to be Paul Cezanne or ...

  by Mother Mags on Fri Oct 13, 2006 at 11:12:03 PM PDT

•  My grandmother

  born in 1910 says that Eisenhower was our best President.

  I am increasingly inclined to agree.

  by BooMan23 on Fri Oct 13, 2006 at 11:13:40 PM PDT

  •  Are you serious?! n/t

    by PsiFighter37 on Fri Oct 13, 2006 at 11:15:29 PM PDT

  •  I was two..

    when Ike got the job.

    My parents said that Eisenhower proved that the USA did not need a president and could exist nicely without one.

    by teeb on Fri Oct 13, 2006 at 11:16:31 PM PDT

  •  DDE was running the show...

    ...when the newly-minted CIA overthrew the democraticly elected president of Guatemala.

    Fuck 'im.

    by turnover on Fri Oct 13, 2006 at 11:20:02 PM PDT

    •  I don't even know how I managed this:

      democraticly

      What the fuck is that?

      by turnover on Fri Oct 13, 2006 at 11:22:30 PM PDT

      •  Are you the one that drank all the liquor?

        Cause the damn cabinet is dry, and your typing is slurred...hmmm.

        by Squirrel2634 on Fri Oct 13, 2006 at 11:42:43 PM PDT

      •  How about: democratically(adv)? n/t

        by dolphin777 on Sat Oct 14, 2006 at 03:39:11 AM PDT

  •  My Mom:dob 1907 would say FDR!!

    by dolphin777 on Sat Oct 14, 2006 at 03:37:22 AM PDT

•  Who the hell voted for Pierce Brosnan? n/t

  by bustacap on Fri Oct 13, 2006 at 11:16:07 PM PDT

  •  I didn't know...

    there were still any Remington Steele fans out there.

    by turnover on Fri Oct 13, 2006 at 11:17:10 PM PDT

  •  Dunno...

    but he shore got a purty mouth  :-)

    by slksfca on Fri Oct 13, 2006 at 11:21:33 PM PDT

    •  He was ok as Bond

      ... better than Roger Freaking Moore -- who was somehow always barefoot in white linen on a beach in the sounth of France, eating rock lobster and drinking pink champagne with a beautiful woman -- that's for damned sure.  What a fop.  It was

      But Sean Connery was James Bond.  I'm 41 and have read all the Fleming Bond novels a time or two, and whenever I reread them, Connery's face is the star of the movies they make in my head.

      Brosnan was pretty good (though "Die Another Day" was pretty damned bad ... should been called "Watch Another Movie"), but he's no Sean Connery.

      by bustacap on Fri Oct 13, 2006 at 11:32:56 PM PDT

      •  Ms teeb

        always liked Connery because he looked like he could take some serious abuse and still have major "cool" oozing everywhere.

        by teeb on Fri Oct 13, 2006 at 11:39:02 PM PDT

        •  That's as good a description of Connery's Bond

          ...as I think I'll ever hear.  Or read.  Ms. teeb nailed it, IMHO.

          by slksfca on Fri Oct 13, 2006 at 11:50:48 PM PDT

      •  Disagree with you about Moore

        I liked Moore's Bond, but I gotta admit what you have to say about him did make me snicker in recognition...  

        by slksfca on Fri Oct 13, 2006 at 11:48:07 PM PDT

        •  Well, perhaps he wasn't all that bad

          ... I just got on a verbal roll there for a minute.  At least in his first two films, Brosnan was twice the Bond Moore was, but Connery had ten times the "Bond-factor" of both of them combined.

          by bustacap on Sat Oct 14, 2006 at 12:00:49 AM PDT

      •  Quel faux pas! Langouste avec PINK champagne!

        A culinary disaster!  Champagne est un vin blanc-
        s'il vous plait!!   Aloha. . .

        by dolphin777 on Sat Oct 14, 2006 at 03:43:00 AM PDT

  •  I dunno, but Connery...

    I'd still like to spend a night alone with that man at his Scottish castle.

    sshhh...don't tell Mr. Squirrel2634 though.

    by Squirrel2634 on Fri Oct 13, 2006 at 11:37:07 PM PDT

    •  Well...

      Brosnan is the one I'd most want to do it with.  But Sean Connery did (does?) indeed have what my mom's generation called "SA."

      by slksfca on Sat Oct 14, 2006 at 12:05:53 AM PDT

      •  I'm only 26, and I think he has SA...

        it's something about his accent I think. But, no matter, he's hot.

        Brosnan is OK, but he'll never exude sexuality like Connery did/does.

        by Squirrel2634 on Sat Oct 14, 2006 at 12:13:59 AM PDT

        •  Most of the women I know would agree with you.

          Most of the gay men I know would be in line with me :-)

          by slksfca on Sat Oct 14, 2006 at 12:20:43 AM PDT

          •  Ahh..Touche. Point ceded.

            I agree with your assessment.

            by Squirrel2634 on Sat Oct 14, 2006 at 12:23:55 AM PDT

        •  I'm 70, so Connery is my age peer! One of

          the sexiest men alive, IMHO! With or w/o an accent, with or w/o his hair, don't make 'em like that any more!!
          Aloha. . .

          by dolphin777 on Sat Oct 14, 2006 at 03:46:46 AM PDT

        •  One of the women

          he made the Two-Backed Monster with, I think Lana Wood, who was Plenty O'Toole in "Diamonds are Forever," later described him as smellling like the bottom of a lion cage.

          by Vico on Sat Oct 14, 2006 at 06:42:44 AM PDT

•  Roger Smith? :-)

  Roger Moore was a great 007--and I've seen them all, except for this new guy--but I'm old enough to have indelible boyhood memories of the early Bond films, particularly Goldfinger and Thunderball.  Connery will always be James Bond to me.

  by slksfca on Fri Oct 13, 2006 at 11:20:12 PM PDT

  •  I was always partial...

    ...to Diamonds Are Forever.

    by turnover on Fri Oct 13, 2006 at 11:21:23 PM PDT

  •  my problem with goldfinger

    is that the character with my name (jill) dies. boo.

    by OrangeClouds115 on Fri Oct 13, 2006 at 11:46:53 PM PDT

•  Japans News of the........ anyway news

  SAITAMA -- A man was arrested for molesting a woman on a train after a passenger filmed him rubbing his crotch against her using his cell phone, police said.
  Police plan to report the case to prosecutors, using the video clip as evidence. On the train

  Kansai's red lights still glowing strong
   It's been five years since Asahi Geino's (10/12) last visit to Tobita Shinchi. The district, a 10-minute walk from Dobutsuen-mae on Osaka's Sakaisuji subway line in Nishinari Ward, stands on the site of the its predecessor, the old Tobita Yukaku (licensed brothel quarters), which was founded in 1918. After the Anti-prostitution Law went into force in April 1958, the old two-story establishments therein officially became "restaurants." But young women still sit by the ground floor windows waiting to escort male customers to rooms upstairs, assisted by businesslike crones
  The light is on

  by Mishima on Fri Oct 13, 2006 at 11:37:15 PM PDT

  •  Fine Dining Only

    The ladies are merely escorting the harmless gentlemen to the private dining rooms upstairs, dontcha know.

    by teeb on Fri Oct 13, 2006 at 11:43:15 PM PDT

    •  Question: At what age does a Japanese

      gentleman become "harmless"?!
      Aloha. . .

      by dolphin777 on Sat Oct 14, 2006 at 03:51:59 AM PDT

      •  In my experience,

        about 40. I blame it on alll the booze they drink, or rather the fact that they can't hold their liquor.

        by Vico on Sat Oct 14, 2006 at 06:45:58 AM PDT

  •  so not surprising

    i heard they have women's only cars in their trains and subways FOR THAT REASON.

    by OrangeClouds115 on Fri Oct 13, 2006 at 11:45:45 PM PDT

    •  That is true

      There women only carriages on such lines as the Yamanote line which makes a loop of Tokyo and the Chuo line which travels to Saitama.

      by Mishima on Sat Oct 14, 2006 at 12:42:39 AM PDT

      •  So why are Japanese males so randy?! n/t

        by dolphin777 on Sat Oct 14, 2006 at 03:57:03 AM PDT

    •  I once had a psych professor from Temple U

      (Philly) who lived and taught women's studies in Japan. She broke up the class several times describing her adventures, esp. on the subways!!
      Aloha. . .

      by dolphin777 on Sat Oct 14, 2006 at 03:55:53 AM PDT

      •  To answer your questions

        At what age do they become harmless? After retirement. A couple of things you should know. One is that the work culture here doesn't just include the office. Especially if your a male. At least 3 times a week your manager will ask you to go out with him after work. Even though it was question there is no way you are going to say no in most situations. Secondly a lot of the holder managers and supervisors though married really don't enter act with their families because of the way they were integrated into the work force. Because of that they see the office and their work as their whole life.  So they see nothing wrong with going to these type of places. As for myself. Even though I'm a guy I've never been to any of these kinds of establishments because I just have to much respect for women and have always thought of them as equals and nothing less.

        by Mishima on Sat Oct 14, 2006 at 04:15:13 AM PDT

        •  I've seen film and read about a sorta

          "Corporate Samurai" culture in modern Japan!
          Your own attitude towards women is commendable!
          Aloha. . .

          by dolphin777 on Sat Oct 14, 2006 at 04:23:42 AM PDT

  •  Now that's a trick

    rubbing his crotch against her using his cell phone

    by bustacap on Sat Oct 14, 2006 at 12:21:04 AM PDT

  •  Mishima, seems like a split infinitive, or

    somethin'! "Rubbbing his crotch ...using his cell phone")?)
    Aloha. . .

    by dolphin777 on Sat Oct 14, 2006 at 03:50:56 AM PDT

  •  "A man was arrested. . ."

    CHIKAN! I've seen this on the train. I even saw a pornographic film once that had such a scene in it.

    by Vico on Sat Oct 14, 2006 at 06:51:32 AM PDT

•  Cheers to Friday night losers!!!

  Yeah, that's us! But not to worry, while everyone else is out and about or in bed already, we get to raid Bill's stash!!! And oh, what a stash it is...

  ...Wait a minute, all of these damn bottles are empty! teeb, we need more liquor!!! Bill drank all of this, and didn't restock!!!

  by Squirrel2634 on Fri Oct 13, 2006 at 11:40:09 PM PDT

  •  Don't worry.

    by teeb on Fri Oct 13, 2006 at 11:44:20 PM PDT

    •  Dayum.

      (What key is it that posts comments before they're ready?)

      Meanwhile back to the reason not to worry: Bill wrote the number to the liquor store on the bottom of the martini mixer. They deliver after hours and we can use his account. He will never know!

      by teeb on Fri Oct 13, 2006 at 11:48:27 PM PDT

      •  Call 'em up.

        Let's get this kiddie pool to rockin'!!!

        by Squirrel2634 on Fri Oct 13, 2006 at 11:49:16 PM PDT

•  cheers to pooties!

  

  Jeers to bosses, Americas healthcare system, and the following drugs: topamax, celexa, and nortriptyline. Fuck you and you and you.

  by OrangeClouds115 on Fri Oct 13, 2006 at 11:41:32 PM PDT

  •  and yes

    that IS a DailyKos sweatshirt I am wearing in that picture. I took the pic today with my webcam with both kitties crawled in my lap and fell asleep, one on top of the other.

    by OrangeClouds115 on Fri Oct 13, 2006 at 11:42:19 PM PDT

    •  Pootie Pix

      That makes this diary an Official C&J!

      Gotta go to bed now. Ya'll have fun.

      by teeb on Fri Oct 13, 2006 at 11:58:29 PM PDT

  •  I'm pootie-sitting for my neighbor

    I took this earlier today to email to him.  Pootie's on a break from contemplating world domination (see neighbor's weird rug).

    

    by slksfca on Sat Oct 14, 2006 at 12:10:58 AM PDT

    •  here's a similar pic

      http://www.prevensectes.com/...

      by lightnessofbeing on Sat Oct 14, 2006 at 12:26:51 AM PDT

      •  Purr-fect! Thanks! n/t

        by slksfca on Sat Oct 14, 2006 at 12:31:37 AM PDT

•  cheers to the satirists

  I don't have the ability to twist reality in the same fashion that you brilliant folks do.  Thanks for making things a little lighter by providing much needed humor.

  by lightnessofbeing on Sat Oct 14, 2006 at 12:24:17 AM PDT

•  It's High Noon in...

  

  ..North Korea.

  Watch the funny video here:
  http://www.youtube.com/...

  by wonkydonkey on Sat Oct 14, 2006 at 12:30:41 AM PDT

•  It's never too early to think about...

  

  by wonkydonkey on Sat Oct 14, 2006 at 12:32:59 AM PDT

  •  Screw that

    Its never too early to think about YearlyKos - 2008! Will it be merged with the Democratic convention? If not, will it be held before? Will it be held after? How many of us will stubbornly refuse to attend because our "pet" candidate didn't win the Democratic Primary? Will we directly run the campaign by then? How many attack ads will show Markos's face? What city? Should we serve hotdogs? Popcorn?

    The possibilities are endless. Let's get to work, there's so little time to waste!

    by Mikesco on Sat Oct 14, 2006 at 01:11:27 AM PDT

•  Cheers to the top brass of the British Army

  for sticking it to Blair about the fiasco that is Iraq and suggesting the troops should be out pronto.  So raise a snifter to General Sir Richard Dannatt...one month into his job and already telling it like it is!

  by Last Best Chance on Sat Oct 14, 2006 at 01:10:29 AM PDT