From the Mitt-free Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Hello, everyone! This diary is not intended to replace the many excellent diaries on using Daily Kos -- such as ek hornbeck's excellent New Users diary series. Instead, I thought it might be good to show newer visitors to the blog, and specifically to the Cheers and Jeers feature, what it is and is not about.
Cheers and Jeers (also called C&J for short) is a weekday humor/community feature of Daily Kos, created and written on the front page (except for Mondays and some Tuesdays) by Bill in Portland Maine (BiPM). Aabshier (Andy) usually fills in on Mondays, in the diaries, C&J features relatively brief comments on news events as CHEERS and JEERS, and can include jokes and pictures. NOTE: This is a mainly humorous feature; if you want more serious debate, C&J may not be for you.
Usually, when BiPM does C&J, he either starts off with a satirical piece or commentary on whatever's going on, with quotes and links. Then there's a "By the Numbers" segment, with some statistics, and a silly announcement, followed by the Cheers and Jeers, and a link to a puppy picture. Andy usually has a disclaimer, as well as a really bad joke. Let's go with a note to a member of C&J and Daily Kos:
Note for Tuesday, February 6, 2007:
To a certain Philadelphia-based lawyer/cat hater: You will not be able to use the name "Delaware Dumb" as a new ID; that name is reserved for Joe Biden.
JEERS to bad jokes posing as politics. How weak was that non-binding resolution that Senators Warner and Levin put up against Bush's surge? So weak that Warner voted to block debate with a GOP led filibuster. If you can't even debate the resolution about the surge, how can Congress take on the war? At the rate things are going, we could be call the 535 members of this Congress "Do-Nothing Congress Part II: Electric Boogaloo."
JEERS to Commander Cuckoo Bananas, hater of health care for the poor and elderly. Bush released his
$2.9 trillion budget, and it sucks. If it were a movie, it would have to work to be as bad as "Gigli." More likely, it would be "Manos the hands of fate" bad. Basically, it gives more money to the military, makes the tax cuts permanent, and cuts $78 billion over the next 5 years to Medicare and Medicaid. It makes me sick just thinking about it.
JEERS to Mars,Inc. for using homophobia to advertise on Super Bowl Sunday. Apparently, after some complaints, the company has pulled the ads from its website, but there may still be a boycott of Snickers bars. (By the way, the link here is to BiPM's diary, but there is a diary out there against a boycott. First there were the Pie Wars, now Candy Bar Wars?? Uh oh. I'm with Bill though).
OK, this is too jeery. Here are some highlights from the Puppy Bowl.
And CHEERS to all of you for reading this. Please be sure to hit the "Recommend" button to keep this diary up as long as possible.