Welcome to today's edition of Cheers & Jeers, coming to you from the beeyoootiful state of Ohio. I'm your hostess, histopresto, and I will be pinch-hitting today for the real Cheers & Jeers, since Bill in Portland Maine has abandoned us all to live in Key West with a really buff cabana boy who owns a kennel full of chocolate labs and has his own rum factory...oh wait, was I not supposed to mention that yet? Dammit!
Today's bootleg edition of Cheers and Jeers starts after the jump!
THWOCK!
[Sorry kids, but they took the official C & J gong to Chicago to open Friday's roundtable sessions. I had to smack a butter knife against the monitor instead.]
Cheers and Jeers for Wednesday, August 1, 2007
By the Numbers:
Number of Registrations still available for YearlyKos 07: Bupkis! But you may be able to trade for one here
Number of Events Listed in YearlyKos 07 Schedule: 163, not including the Second Annual Caber Toss at Lieberman
Cost of Early Bird Registration for YearlyKos 07: $175
Number of people smacking their heads because they missed an opportunity to scalp those registrations like they were floor tix to the Final Four: A whole #$@!-load
On This Day in History:
The Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour debuted on TV in 1971, which precipitated many crimes in fashion that endure to this very day. Would Lil' Kim ever have worn her star outfit to the VMA and gotten fluffed by Diana Ross if Cher hadn't led the way? I think not.
CHEERS to the newest member of my extended family, my fur-niece Gabby:
A former resident of the Cleveland Animal Protective League's foster kitten program, she has fully mastered the arts of pouncing, prancing and pottying. Bonus cheers to her proud mama for making Gabby her 7th straight rescue adoption.
JEERS to being technologically challenged. Due to the age of my home computer, aka the TomyTutor:
I will be unable to fully participate in this week's Chicago blog-orgy, unless C-Span puts a whole lot more YearlyKos into their viewing schedule. Those of you who are attending, please remember that liveblogs of the really hot sessions would be very welcome, as would your thoughtful retrospective pieces. Pictures of people looking really goofy would be good too, especially from the pajama parties. However- anyone posting a picture of BIPM's tuckus will be banned- BANNED, I say!
CHEERS to the volunteers at IMOM- In Memory of Magic, a non-profit dedicated to the idea that no companion animal should be euthanized simply because their caretaker is financially challenged. Since 1998, they have helped fund veterinary care totalling nearly a million dollars. They're currently in financial distress that severely limits their ability to continue supporting the care of pets with chronic and acute health problems. If you can spare a few bucks, take a look at their financial history and their current Pets in Need list to see some pets who really need some help. Helping get a cat into chemo or seeing somebody's puppy walk again is a great way to feel good about yourself, even on the most craptacular of days.
JEERS to the Founders, who left a big stinking hole in the Constitution when they didn't say what people shouldn't do. Where the hell IS the missing Article VIII- On Not Sticking Beans Up Your Nose, or the draft Article XIII- Powers Not Explicitly Granted to Powermongers? Because of the rank stupidity of the old school bloggers (posting under the group UID of Publius), we are now stuck with an Administration that comes up with stuff like signing statements, unlimited executive privilege and pretty ponies who will now be racing competing bills over to the White House for signature.
Whoever gets their competing bills to the White House by pony first, the House or the Senate, wins.
What? You hadn't heard about that? Hmpf! That's what you get for not paying attention. Nancy Pelosi is trying on her new racing silks as we speak.
CHEERS to the newly formed Fighting Pooties Squadron, who will be taking their special brand of four pawed action to Iraq in September:
According to the Joint Chiefs, the Fighting Pooties Squadron are really the missing ingredient in the great Surge. The sight of flying cats with guns, proudly riding on the backs of bald eagles, along with the Spying Squirrels currently infiltrating the borders of Iran, will surely win the GWOT by September. Really.
JEERS to the new Iced Coffee line from MickeyD's, which is just yummy-licious and features the following tasty ingredients:
Premium Roast Coffee (heh). Light Cream: Milk, cream, sodium phosphate, sodium polyphosphate, DATEM, sodium stearoyl lactylate, tetra sodium pyrophosphate, sodium hexametaphosphate, sodium citrate, carrageenan. CONTAINS: MILK. Vanilla Syrup: Sugar, water, fructose, natural (plant source) and artificial flavor, caramel color (with sulfites), potassium sorbate (preservative), citric acid, malic acid. Ice.
The Large Iced Vanilla Cream Coffee has 270 calories and 11g of fat, which is NOT how I need to be starting my mornings. It's just pure drive-thru evil.
CHEERS to my new online gift-shopping addiction Etsy. You can cruise through their online vendors by a couple of different user interfaces- like time or geography or even just the color of the stuff, which is a totally irrelevant way to shop. Today, I will only be shopping for things in the color of aquamarine.
Scheduling note (I feel so C-Span right now):
Thursday's Cheers and Jeers will be brought to you by ssundstoel.
On Friday, AnotherMassachussetsLiberal is on the schedule. Y'all make sure to report in down below so we know that the gigs are covered. If you can't make it, Texas Tiger also volunteered to help out. For next week, Aabshier will do Monday, as usual, then next Tuesday will be Predictor's day. BIPM will resume his normal frontpage posts next Wednesday.
UPDATED!
- Yearly Kos in Second Life is another option for folks to virtually hook up this week with the kool kos kids in Chicago.
- The poll has gone insane. It comes, it goes...
Floor's open, kids. What are you cheering and jeering today?