From the GREAT STATE OF MAINE…
"Hey. Love Yer Sig."
Kossack "signature lines"---you can create your own in your profile page and it appears every time you post a comment---are a way to draw attention to a favorite quote, cause or opinion. Here are some we like from tooling around the Kososphere over the weekend:
"It’s easy to confuse what is with what ought to be, especially when ‘what is’ has worked out in your favor." ---Tyrion Lannister (Doubleupagus)
The cold passion for truth hunts in no pack. -Robinson Jeffers (Laurence Lewis)
Trump supporters = Rancor Babies (paz3)
If Lassie had been a Sheltie, Timmy wouldn't have fallen in the well. (koosah)
Jeb!: It connotes excitement. (joe from Lowell)
"Who is John Galt?" A two dimensional character in a third rate novel. (Inventor)
I firmly believe that no matter the epoch, no matter the continent, no matter the country, 20% of any population is just barking mad. (smileycreek)
Rivers are horses and kayaks are their saddles (River Rover)
I dream of a world where chickens can cross the road without having their motives questioned. (broths)
"Compassion is not weakness, and concern for the unfortunate is not socialism." --Hubert H. Humphrey (nomandates)
And this round's winner by Chango:
I got this.
Thank god someone does.
Cheers and Jeers starts below the fold... [Swoosh!!] RIGHTNOW! [Gong!!]
Cheers and Jeers for Monday, October 5, 2015
Note: Pope Francis announces he's done meeting anyone privately during trips because "it's getting so gosh-darn confusing and I just can't keep track of who's who and who's from where and and who do I kiss and who do I hug and---argh!---look, just send me a text, okay?!! I'll bless that and we'll call it good." Film at 11.
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4 days!!!
By the Numbers:
Days 'til the first Democratic candidates debate arranged by Debbie Wasserman-Schultz, broadcast from a broom closet at Caesar's Palace at 3am:
8
Days 'til the
Richmond Folk Festival in Virginny:
4
Percent increase in mass shootings over the last decade:
26%
(Source: AP)
Number of original Obama cabinet members who will still be serving when Education Secretary Arne Duncan steps down in December:
1 (Ag Sec. Tom Vilsack)
Number of T-Mobile wireless customers whose personal data was stolen by hackers:
15 million
Increase in car sales from Sept. 2014 to Sept. 2015:
15.8%
Rank of the Ford F-Series among top sellers last month:
#1
(Source: AP)
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Puppy Pic of the Day: Yes, will I! Yes,will I!
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CHEERS to the sardine-can candidate. Bernie Sanders did it again over the weekend. This time it was Boston where his followers packed themselves in so tightly that they could barely move:
Boston feels the Bern.
Sanders addressed a near-capacity crowd of 20,000 at the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center, with a few thousand more watching a feed of his address while on Lawn on D. Hoping to secure a good spot at the event, people formed a line that stretched a half-mile down Summer Street, nearly reaching South Station two hours before the event began.
It was the third-largest rally Sanders has held this year, smaller only than events in Portland, Ore., and Los Angeles in August. To put it in context, the number of people who showed up to see Sanders at the convention center was nearly three times the population of Montpelier, the capital of the US senator’s home state of Vermont.
Meanwhile on
Saturday Night Live Hillary Clinton was terrific in a skit during which
she played a bartender. Or as Sanders calls it: an excellent new career path she should pursue.
CHEERS to the nerds who walk among us. Big big big---some might even say yooj and beautiful and classy---week ahead for the brightest bulbs in humanity's marquee. The Nobel Prizes will be awarded this week. Here's the schedule:
"You can call me Al."
Today: Physiology or Medicine
Tomorrow: Physics
Wednesday: Chemistry
Thursday: Outstanding blogger with candy corn addiction
Friday: Peace
Next Monday: Economics
I'm really excited about my prospects on Thursday. I totally aced the swimsuit portion.
CHEERS to Quayle hunting. Twenty-seven years ago today, in 1988, Democrat Lloyd Bentsen opened a can of whupass on Dan Quayle during their vice-presidential debate in an exchange political junkies no know by heart:
It was one of the great zingers in campaign lore, and today it's a staple of debate-highlight montages. Four years later, of course, came the famous potato"e" gaffe, thus proving Quayle wasn't a very smart vice president. But he was a terrific warm-up act for George W. Bush.
Police the world? Ha! We
can't even police ourselves.
JEERS to terrorism on campus. What happens in the wake of the massacre in
Newtown Aurora Binghamton Tucson Santa Barbara Charleston Lafayette, Louisiana Roseburg Oregon (
9 killed, 9 wounded at Umpqua Community College) is depressingly predictable: gun control advocates will wisely suggest that this might be a good time to review our federal and state firearms policies so that our nation's shameful record of gun violence might be improved upon. The president will publicly pop a few more veins in his forehead, balanced out by the NRA which will respond by scaring politicians into looking the other way by informing them that, "We'll be scoring you on your response." Meanwhile right-wing bloggers and numbskull pundits will insist that if only more students and faculty had been packing Glocks (it was, after all,
not a gun-free zone), they would've been able to return fire Rambo-style and no one but the gunman would've been harmed. Like I said, predictable. Depressingly.
CHEERS to sacrificing for the common good. On October 5, 1947, Harry Truman became the first president to use TV to address the nation. He requested that Americans not eat beef on Tuesdays, poultry on Thursdays, and a slice of bread each day to save on feed grains as a way of helping folks starving in Europe in the wake of World War II. If President Obama tried that today, he'd be accused by the crybaby wing of the GOP of being a Food Nazi trying to starve Grandma of protein and fiber in order to appease whiny foreigners and give an unfair advantage to the arugula growers lobby. I don’t know what's scarier: that I'm such an accurate predictor...or that they're such easy predictees.
CHEERS to the bloom coming off the exclamation point. Oh! Jeb! What! Happened! To! Your! Campaign!
Watching Jeb Bush turn into the Liz Cheney of 2016 is enough to make you believe that even a few Republicans remember 2001-2008.
A new YouGov poll shows the former governor of Florida receiving 4 percent support in the GOP primary. When Mitt Romney struggled with being a unsurprising establishment favorite in 2012, he never dropped below 14 percent. In terms of poll numbers, Bush isn’t this year’s Romney. He’s this year’s Michele Bachmann.
At this point he'll be lucky to make it to the Dick-Cheney-Picking-Himself-For-Vice-President stage.
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Ten years ago in C&J: October 5, 2005
JEERS to minor misunderestimastandings. At yesterday's press conference, President Bush said there were 80...no, wait, make that 30...battalions of Iraqi military ready to rumble against the evildoers. But General George Casey said earlier that the number of functional battalions was...um...one. We're sure the general regrets the error...unless he'd like to see the interior walls of Leavenworth for a few decades.
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And just one more…
CHEERS to a Monday morning jolt of adrenaline. Just in case you need a little something to make you feel shaken and stirred, the final trailer for SPECTRE:
Opens in 32 days. I'll bring the Dramamine.
Have a tolerable Monday. Floor's open...What are you cheering and jeering about today?
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