From the top floor of Cheers and Jeers MONDAY
World Headquarters, in the true-blue state of Illinois.....
With the midterm election drawing ever closer, and nerves drawing ever tighter, let me suggest that you take a trip over to YouTube and watch this music video. It will take you about five minutes. (NOTE: Mere diarists cannot directly link to YouTube videos; only those in the exalted status of front pagers can do so. But hey, your index finger can survive a couple of extra clicks!)
Recorded in 1987 and released in 1988, this song received considerable critical acclaim, and was a nominee for Record Of the Year at the Grammys. In 1988 the song was used as the closing song for presidential candidate Michael Dukakis's campaign appearances. I've always found it inspiring, and I hope you all can take some inspiration from it also.
T minus one week, and counting! Cheers and Jeers MONDAY begins in the extended copy section....(Swooosh.)........Right NOW! (Gong.)
DISCLAIMER: AAbshier's Cheers and Jeers are not affiliated in any way, shape, or form, with Bill in Portland Maine's Cheers and Jeers. The use of the words JEERS and CHEERS , the swoosh/gong device, pie references, lusty wenches, mattress references, insults to Armando (wherever he is), and flicked peas are all used with permission of Bill in Portland Maine and the members of the C&J Café community. Any further resemblances to BiPM`s Cheers and Jeers are deliberately coincidental. So there.
NOTE:Oooh moo moo, a dah dah dah, it's all I want to say to you.
DOC'S BAD CUTE JOKE OF THE WEEK: (In the gray box so you can avoid it and not miss anything else)
This joke is from my girlfriend, so I'm not calling it a bad joke! Hey, I think it's kind of cute, and appropriate to Haloween:
A little boy with a speech impediment goes out trick or treating. He goes to the first door, rings the bell, and a man answers.
The boy says, "Bick or beat?"
The man says, "What?"
He says again, "Bic or beat?"
The man realizes he`s trying to say, `trick or treat`, finally, and gives him some candy. He then asks the little boy, "So, little boy, what are you supposed to be?"
The boy says, "I`m a birate!"
"A what?"
"A birate!"
"Oh, a pirate! Okay! Well good luck to you!"
He goes to the next house and rings the bell. "Bick or beet?", and the same thing happens at the new house.
Finally, they understand and give him his candy.
They ask, "what are you supposed to be?"
The boy answers, again, "I`m a birate!"
This man asks him, "Well, if you`re a pirate, where are your buccaneers?"
The little boy then stamps his foot and says, "Right here on the side of my buckin` head, where`s your buckin` eyes?"
Katherine Harris: Pure. Comedy. Gold.
How apropo. The Princess appeared in the annual Swamp Buggy Parade, held in Naples, Florida. Just over a week from now, her political career is going to be in the swamp:
Do my eyes decieve me, or....is that a whole lotta leg that she's showing? (Not to mention the campaign assets seeming to want to bust out of her blouse. Heh.)
Cheers to the very conservative Jacksonville Times-Union, which went against type and endorsed Bill Nelson yesterday. This is a paper that usually never endorses Democrats, regardless of their worth!
Cheers to the Princess losing an election. In this week's National Journal, the Harris for Senate campaign came in second to George Felix "Macaca" Allen's Senate campaign as worst Senate campaign in the country--and yet our first-place winner isn't 35 points down in the latest polls. Damn.
Cheers to another endorsement for the Princess, from the obscure even by obscure standards without-a-hint-of-irony-named blog Assorted Babble:
Bill Nelson has been running TV ads not identifying himself as a Democrat, wonder why that is? My thoughts are I would be embarrassed to represent such a liberal party that is weak on security, negative, with no solutions or ideas...People are disgusted with Congress, I believe Harris will listen to the people and respresent Florida proudly. Vote Republican.
She's a straight-ticket Republican voter. Must be part of the 27%.
Jeers to living out the operational definition of insanity. Just a couple of weeks after being taken to task for touting a straw poll's results in a press release--and being pounded for it by journalists--the campaign has again touted a straw poll "win", this time from the Melbourne (FL) Chamber of Commerce. (A Jeer within the Jeer for the Chamber of Commerce members themselves, for voting for the Princess.)
The Rest:
Cheers to my new home team, the St. Louis Cardinals, on their great World Series victory, that capped off one of the more improbable playoff runs in modern baseball history. That's a great way to break in the new Busch Stadium!
Cheers to the city of St. Louis and environs, who turned out in force to cheer on the Cards in yesterday's parade--nearly 500,000 fans turned out! (I hope McCaskill's people were working that crowd.)
Holy Shit! to the FL-13 race. The Cook Political Report has now upgraded the race in this previously solid Republican bastion to "leans Democratic"! Cheers to Christine Jennings, who is running a great campaign in my old Congressional district!
Cheers to Dennis Hastert's next toilet. The Great John Toilet Company is offering a super-sized throne capable of bearing 2,000 pounds! (Even still, it may not be big enough to hold all the crap from even a single R!) Plus, since the reach-around may not be as easy for someone of Hastert's, uh, girth, have no fear, the Bottom Buddy is here! (via Dave Barry) (Point of order: I thought "bottom buddy" had a different connotation than this.)
Cheers to John Watson, writer of the Motivator page, where you can make your very own motivational poster, using digital images! This looks like it might be the greatest thing since Chevrolet did their Make Your Own Tahoe Ad promotion some months ago! (You can also make trading cards, movie posters, and other neat things from the same site.) And yes, I've been busy:
Floor's open! What do y'all have to Cheer and Jeer about today?