From beautiful Cuyahoga County, Ohio
Welcome to C&J Humpday Edition - The Last Sub Standing. Twenty-four more hours and daddy will be home, kiddies!
Disclaimer: I am not BiPM. I do not play BiPM on television or in SL. I do not look like BiPM. I do not smell like BiPM - OK, so maybe I can't know that for a fact. I have heard, however, that I giggle like BiPM. I'll have to get back to you on that one. Therefore, the use of "Cheers & Jeers" is an overt act of bogarting and should not be considered to be anything resembling the real C&J, as written and published by said BiPM...which is not me, like I said.
Happy March 12th poolies. On this, the 72nd day of 2008, it's a balmy 34 F here on the Shores of the Great Lake Erie, with not a snowflake in sight, nor a wind to blow your coat open at the bus stop. Gee, can Spring be far behind? I'd check on my crocuses but they're currently buried under 2 feet of snow.
CHEERS to the Great State of Mississippi for bringing home a clearly defined result in their state's primary yesterday. No caucuses, no smoke signals, no messing around - just a good old primary vote. If you haven't heard, Obama won. You da' man Barack, you da' man!
JEERS to Geraldine Ferraro. You just can't spin "...he wouldn't be in this position if he weren't a black man..." or some such, to be anything but racist. Stop talking. Apologize. Go away. From one boomer woman to another - get over yourself, you should be embarassed.
CHEERS to everything you ever wanted to know about your bowel movements. Inquiring minds want to know, what is your poop trying to tell you? I just love Salon.
JEERS to the asshat proponents of abstinence-only sex education. Per the CDC, 1 in 4 American teenage girls and young women have a sexually transmitted disease.. Human pappilomavirus (HPV)is the leading STD, with a greater percentage of African-American teens being affected versus their white counterparts. Can we go back to teaching our kids about condoms now?
CHEERS to Hawaii. On this date in 1959, the House voted 323-89 to admit Hawaii as a state. The Senate confirmed, and Dwight Eisenhower made it official on August 21, 1959. Aloha, mahalo, and tiny bubbles!
JEERS to the 40-cents per gallon hike in gas prices in less than 6 hours here in NE Ohio. We're at about $3.60 now and expect to hit $4.00 plus by summer.
CHEERS to really stupid stuff on morning talk shows that makes me laugh. A study (name never cited) has shown that spanking your child could result in sexual dysfunction and risk taking, as well as aggresiveness in later years. Wonder why you like those fuzzy handcuffs so much? Blame it on the grownups! As if you had to guess, it was a Faux network program.
JEERS to the great winger rape of the American treasury. Per the National Priorities Project to date, the Iraq war has cost:
$275 million per day
$11,458,333.00 per hour
$190,972.00 per minute
$3,183.00 per second
Check out their site. You can find out what your state's portion is and how it could be used elsewise, say for schools, housing, healthcare, college tuitions - you know, the kind of stuff we actually need our tax dollars for?
CHEERS to the Girl Scouts, founded on this day in 1912 by Juliette Gordon Low, a deaf woman, in Savannah, GA. The program was "developed from the concerns of the progressive movement in the United States and aimed to promote the social welfare of young ladies." (wikipedia.com)
In 1991, the Girl Scouts of America took a stand against sexuality-based bigotry by releasing the following statement: As a private organization, Girl Scouts of the U.S.A. respects the values and beliefs of each of its members and does not intrude into personal matters. Therefore, there are no membership policies on sexual preference. However, Girl Scouts of the U.S.A. has firm standards relating to the appropriate conduct of adult volunteers and staff. The Girl Scout organization does not condone or permit sexual displays of any sort by its members during Girl Scout activities, nor does it permit the advocacy or promotion of a personal lifestyle or sexual preference. These are private matters for girls and their families to address.
Yeah, it's essentially DADT, but it's a whole hell of a lot better than what the BSA has done.
This day in history:
1773 - Jeanne Baptiste Pointe de Sable found settlement now known as Chicago
1789 - US Post Office established
1850 - First US $20 gold piece issued
1884 - Mississippi establishes 1st US state college for women
1903 - New York Highlander (Yankees) approved as members of AL
1933 - FDR gives his 1st Fireside Chat
1945 - New York is the 1st to prohibit discrimination by race or creed in employment
1969 - Paul McCartney marries Linda Louise Eastman in London
1969 - 120 joints found in George and Patti Harrison's home
1970 - US lowers the voting age from 21 to 18
March 12th Birthdays:
♥ 1940: Al Jarreau, jazz musician
♥1942: Sammy "the Bull" Gravano, mobster, testified against Gotti
♥1946: Liza Minnelli,
♥1948: James Taylor
♥1962: Darryl Strawberry right fielder for the Mets, Dodgers, Yankees
♥ 1931: William "Buckwheat" Thomas, actor, "The Little Rascals"
♥ 1832: Captain Charles Cunningham Boycott, whose name was adopted to describe
non-violent non-co-operation protests.
CHEERS last, but not least, to James and Elizabeth C., who welcomed their 3rd child, a bouncing baby girl, on this day in 1953. That would be me and today I'm 55. Gee, when did that happen?
Hence, it's time for a party. Let's make it interesting. Combine the name of your first pet with the name of the first street you lived on - that's your porn star/stripper name. Tell us who you really are and what you're cheering and jeering about today!
Irish coffee & Humming Bird cake in the kitchen - help yourself.