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From the GREAT STATE OF MAINE…
Today’s List of Things By Which White House Chief of Staff John Kelly Will be “Stunned, Stunned”:
Fidget spinners
Soups that eat like a meal
The earth is curved but the horizon is flat
Accidentally witnessing his boss getting his
morning application of skull latex
Detergent that softens hands while you do dishes
That Jeff Sessions doesn’t actually live in a tree
The physical exertion involved in doing the Hokey Pokey
Dogs playing poker
The infinity of pi
How the Good Doctor came up with the brilliant idea to remove that lady’s kidney to get at and take out her tumor
Ego is Star-Lord’s father
Wheels on the bus going ‘round and ‘round
The statue in Brussels of that naked kid taking a leak
His sacred wife burned his toast
Socks that get lost while doing laundry
All the wads of Sean Spicer gum under his desk
Tree rings
The size of Newt Gingrich’s head when you
really stop and look at it
Earlobe hairs
Fighting going on in the war room
He’s very sensitive, you know.
Cheers and Jeers starts below the fold... [Swoosh!!] RIGHTNOW! [Gong!!]
Cheers and Jeers for Wednesday, October 25, 2017
Note: A reminder that there's a New England Daily Kos Meetup happening on Saturday, November 4 starting at noon. The place: The Farm Bar And Grille at 57 State Street in Kittery (Maine's southern-most town). To RSVP or get more info, email Kossack nhox42 at nhox42 [at] yahoo.com. On the agenda: accidentally flushing the agenda down the toilet. And then pie!
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By the Numbers:
Days 'til the new JFK assassination files are released: 1
Days 'til the Short Run Comix and Arts Festival in Seattle: 10
Number of new beds that will be installed in B-52 bombers now that they’re being scrambled 24/7: 100
Amount billionaire Tom Steyer is sinking into his “Impeach Trump” campaign: $10 million
Number of states that have sent proposals to Amazon.com to become home to the company’s new “H2Q” complex that would allegedly employ up to 50,000 people: 43
Date that the disassembled-and-reassembled Detroit home where Rosa Parks lived after sparking the Montgomery bus boycott will be put on display for three months in Providence, Rhode Island: 3/1/18
Age of David Letterman, who was just awarded the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor: 70
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World Series
The Dodgers lead the Astros 1 game to 0.
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Mid-week Rapture Index: 185 (including 5 Global Turmoils and 1 TOTALLY MAD AT GOD BILL O’REILLY SMASH!!!). Soul Protection Factor 24 lotion is recommended if you’ll be walking amongst the heathen today.
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Puppy Pic of the Day: Oh look, it’s dog humiliation day...
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JEERS to great moments in political whiplash. Some recent examples of flippy-floppy finger-in-the-wind indecision to make your head spin:
Flip Maine Gov. Paul LePage unexpectedly withdraws renominations of 5 Maine judges
Flop LePage reverses course and rescinds request to withdraw judicial nominations
Flip Lindsey Graham: "You know how you make America great again? Tell Donald Trump to go to hell."
Flop Lindsey Graham: “We’re so close that I’m Trump’s favorite golfing buddy!”
Flip John McCain: Trump is a draft dodger.
Flop John McCain: Trump is not a draft dodger.
And, of course, the utterly predictable…
Flip Republicans 2009-2016: Deficits bad!
Flop Republicans 2017: Deficits good!
The message is clear, people: Democrats don’t stand for anything!
CHEERS to Sunday’s best. Whether it’s health care, immigration or international agreements, Donald Trump always acts like he’s right in the thick of policy discussions. In reality he could care less---he just wants Mike Pence to shove executive orders and bills under his food-sucking hole so he can sign them IN LETTERS THIS BIG. His latest charade is pretending to know anything about tax reform, which is the Republicans’ secret code phrase for “Rich people, start your vacuum cleaners and prepare to Hoover up the Treasury.” Sunday morning on A.M. Joy the great Charlie Pierce of Esquire summed up Trump’s attention to policy detail perfectly…
But in fairness, they’d be “the greatest dumplings ever made by the finest Orientals in America, believe me, all thanks to the magnificent job I’ve done bringing all the dumpling manufacturing jobs back to the United States. That I can tell you.” Just ask him.
CHEERS to sweet pushback. Sick and tired of hearing all the uninformed self-pity coming from the right-wing wedding bakers (and their grifter-preacher propaganda catapulters) who are in a snit about having to offer their public services to gay couples? Me too. So how nice to see that some non-bigoted bakers are giving the Supreme Court food for thought:
Prominent chefs, bakers and restaurant owners want the Supreme Court to rule against a Colorado baker who wouldn’t make a cake for a same-sex couple’s wedding.
The food makers say that once they open their doors for business, they don’t get to choose their customers. They say that abiding by laws that bar discrimination based on sexual orientation does not strip them of creative control of a dish or a pastry. Celebrity chefs Jose Andres, Elizabeth Falkner and Carla Hall, the owners of a popular Washington, D.C., cupcake shop and a small-town baker from Mississippi are among those who are signing onto a legal brief being written by the Human Rights Campaign.
“It’s not about your art. When you’re open to service to people, you can’t decide who to serve and not serve,” said Falkner, who has owned restaurants in New York and San Francisco and been both a contestant and judge on cooking competitions.
Hopefully the legal brief will end in a ruling that will make those whiny bakers…pardon me…shut their pie hole.
JEERS to the teabaggers of yesteryear. Ninety-four years ago today, a Senate committee began investigating the Teapot Dome scandal. This political cartoon was popular back then:
Third-worst-president-ever (moving down a notch since Dampnut took the oath) Warren Harding's cronies were allowing private companies to lease government oil reserves from public land in Wyoming. As a result of the investigation, Interior Secretary Albert Fall became the first cabinet member to go to jail. He was a Republican. Shocking.
JEERS to the least-credible sales pitch evuh. Unhappiest First Lady since Jane Pierce Melania Trump traveled to the wealthy Detroit suburb of Bloomfield Hills Monday to teach children not to be bullies. And cue the hypocrisy…
As Trump embarks on her anti-bullying crusade, she will likely face critics, those who point to her husband, President Donald Trump, as someone who engages in regular name-calling and other tactics that could be perceived as bullying. [Note: Could be perceived as? CNN, you need to watch your own apple/banana ad again. It’s textbook bullying, period. ---BiPM]
This weekend, for example, the President continued to tweet his derogatory nickname for Florida Democratic Rep. Frederica Wilson, calling her "Wacky." Earlier this month, he mocked Republican Sen. Bob Corker's height, dubbing him "Liddle Bob Corker."
So does the first lady feel the need to reconcile her platform on bullying with the behavior of the man she married? Absolutely not, according to [Trump’s communications director Stephanie] Grisham.
Added Grisham: “And if you ask me about that again you’re gettin’ a swirlie.”
CHEERS to nukin' your dinner. On October 25, 1955, the microwave oven was introduced by Tappan in Mansfield, Ohio(just a stone's throw from my hometown, Mt. Vernon). Cost of the appliance: $1,200. Protection against gremlins: Priceless.
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Ten years ago in C&J: October 25, 2007
JEERS to Reverend Wrongypants. Mike Huckabee, the presidential contender from the Chuck Norris wing of the Republican't party, says that "most" of our founding fathers were clergymen. As a brief spin around The Google reveals, the actual number is...one. Good gravy, just what we need...two historically-challenged presidents in a row.
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And just one more…
CHEERS to letters from the mailbag. You may have noticed this up on the Rec List over the weekend, but if not…WOW. This letter from 2016 is making the rounds on the intertubes. I don’t know if it’s real or not, but either way it’s some Grade-A rebellion:
I hope he threw in a few pounds of sparkle glitter.
Have a happy hump day. Floor's open...What are you cheering and jeering about today?
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---The Washington Post
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