Final C&J Annual Fundraiser Pitch
Many thanks to everyone who contributed this week to keep Cheers & Jeers alive and kickin'. The way I see it, it's win-win: you get C&J for another year and I get to relinquish my soul for another year, which frees up valuable storage space in my chest cavity for candy corn. Oh, and it also pays the rent. The one-time and monthly donation options are...
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Snail mail address and thrilling conclusion below the fold...
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Bill Harnsberger, 16 Pitt Street, Portland, ME, 04103.
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Together, we can keep the kiddie pool inflated for America and freedom. This concludes our annual fundraiser. We will now turn the oxygen back on.
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Cheers and Jeers for Friday, June 17, 2022
Note: Yesterday's C&J is being recalled. Please return it to your local authorized C&J dealer for a free comma replacement. We sincerely regret contributing to your unwillingness to handle this inconvenience with the appropriate grace and dignity. What is wrong with you? —Mgt.
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By the Numbers:
Days 'til Independence Day: 17
Days 'til the 42nd Annual Irvine Greek Fest in California: 7
Percent of Americans who believe that the DOJ should file charges against elected officials who attempted to overturn the 2020 election: 67%
Number of Black women who were nominated to a U.S. Court of Appeals in the 200+ years before Joe Biden became president: 8
Number of Black women Joe Biden has nominated to a Court of Appeals in the last 1½ years: 11
Year through which Maine expects to continue having a single area code (207): 2025
Current value of my Non-Fungible Token—a crayon drawing of a stick figure holding a bottle of Bacardi 151—on the crypto market as of five minutes ago, down from $4.2 billion six minutes ago: $0
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Puppy Pic of the Day, starring C&J's rescue lab mix Haley:
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CHEERS to Day 3. More remarkable testimony yesterday at the House Jan. 6 Subcommittee hearings. Here's the upshot of what we learned: Trump and his inner circle knew beyond all doubt that everything they did regarding the attempted January 6, 2021 terrorist insurrection—up to and including pre-planning it and then egging on the crowd that day—was a criminal act…and Vice President Mike Pence came within 40 feet of the rabid Republican mob that wanted to hang him…and when it all fell apart everyone said oh shit I need to get on Trump's pardon list. As for what happened on Days of Our Lives, which was preempted by the hearings, we can report the following:
» Every character at some point pulled a gun or knife on another character.
» The devil is still body-swapping.
» Salem has the most incompetent law enforcement institutions in the country and this is beyond dispute.
» He's having her baby, she's having his baby, they're all having each other's baby, and the rest of the town is scheming to kidnap all the babies, including the secret twins who will be separated at birth and end up as rivals at Titan Publishing.
» Bill Hayes (Doug) is still an active cast member at 97.
» Sami Brady has been quiet. Too quiet.
» The secret to Alice Horton's yummy cherry pie remains a mystery.
The next subcommittee hearing is Tuesday. The next Days character getting buried alive is five minutes from now.
CHEERS to the beginning of the end. Speaking of scandals that go all the way to the top, 50 years ago today, five burglars were arrested inside DNC headquarters at the Watergate complex:
They possessed burglary tools, cameras, film and pen-size tear gas guns.
In rooms the men had rented at a motel across Virginia Avenue from the burglary scene, police found electronic bugging equipment.
Three of those arrested were Cuban exiles and one was a Cuban-American. Their leader was James McCord, a former CIA agent and a security coordinator for President Richard Nixon’s Committee for the Reelection of the President.
Prosecutors also charged E. Howard Hunt Jr., a former White House aide, and G. Gordon Liddy, a CREEP finance counsel, as accomplices.
It was the start of a chain of events that led to Nixon's resignation, punctuated by the now-shocking notion that prominent members of Nixon's own party would help drag the scandal into the sunlight instead of burying it in the backyard under a smokescreen of spin and faux-outrage at Democrats. When the crisis had passed, Republicans paused a moment to reflect on the fact that they'd done something right and honorable...and vowed to never make that mistake again.
JEERS to everything else. Sorry to break it to ya, but there was no progress this week on gun control, climate change, immigration, LGBTQ rights, union building, women's rights, voting rights, or the giant asteroid heading right for us. And I don’t know which of "you people" pissed off Mother Nature, but we almost lost one of Daily Kos's most treasured members because of you…
Look at that. What an ash hole.
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BRIEF SANITY BREAK
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END BRIEF SANITY BREAK
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CHEERS to William's Words of Warfare Wisdom. The Battle of Bunker Hill was fought 247 years ago today. (Yes, yes, we know—it was actually Breed’s Hill.) Many lessons of warfare were learned that fateful day ending in y. For instance, the colonial minutemen learned that their steely-eyed resolve and unconventional tactics could do real damage to the British. And what did the British learn? Mostly that bright red uniforms are a really, really bad idea.
CHEERS to home vegetation. A quick roundup of stuff that might show up on the tube this weekend, starting with Chris Hayes and the evening lineup doing their Friday night doings they do on MSNBC. At 8:30 Sen. Raphael Warnock discusses the pressing issues of the day with Margaret Hoover on PBS’s Firing Line, while his Republican challenger Herschel Walker debuts his new reality series Am I Your Daddy, Too? And at 9 CBS airs a two-hour special on the 50th anniversary of the Watergate scandal.
The most popular movies and home videos, new and old, are all reviewed here at Rotten Tomatoes. Sports schedules: MLB here, the NHL here (Colorado leads Tampa Bay 1 game to 0 in the Stanley Cup Finals), and WNBA here. If you’re a fan of the spoon and the mashie, the U.S. Open golf tourney is on NBC, minus Phil Mickelson and the other American goobers who chose Saudi Arabia’s money over ours.
Ballet icon Mikhail Baryshnikov, now 75, takes aim at Vladimir Putin’s campaign of genocide in Ukraine on CBS News Sunday Morning. There are two hours of 60 Minutes Sunday evening, including encores of stories they did on Britain’s sick love affair with Russian oligarchs and profiles of Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, Trevor Noah, and Michael Keaton. Then at 11 John Oliver ties everything up in a snarky bow with a new edition of HBO’s Last Week Tonight.
Now here's your Sunday morning lineup:
This Week: Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen; Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL); former Sen. Heidi Heitkamp (D-ND).
Meet the Press: TBA
Face the Nation: White House director of the National Economic Council Brian Deese; Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-CA); Former FDA commissioner and Pfizer board member Scott Gottlieb; CBS News racial justice contributor Dr. Ibram X. Kendi.
CNN's State of the Union: Rep. Sheila Jackson-Lee (D-TX); Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm; and for reasons that are simple inexplicable, former Sen. Scott Brown 9The Cult-MA).
Fox GOP Talking Points Sunday: Brian Deese; Sen. Mike lee (The Cult-UT).
Happy viewing!
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Ten years ago in C&J: June 17, 2012
CHEERS to a match made in Heaven…if by Heaven you mean a fast-food test lab where chemists spend their days figuring out how to bring taste buds to orgasm faster than you can say, "Maybe I'll have a salad instead." Yes, it's true: Burger King is introducing a new summer treat called the Bacon Sundae, containing over 500 calories and 18 grams of fat. The dessert includes ice cream, caramel, fudge, a bacon strip, bacon bits, and complimentary defibrillation.
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And just one more…
CHEERS to remembering the great terrorist attack of 6/17. On June 17, 2009, President Barack Hussein Obama—after less than five months in office—single-handedly stopped an invasion on American soil. In fact, he stopped an attack on the very heart of our government. Remember? The culprit was an intruder who flew in under the cover of darkness while the Secret Service was off drinking and whoring—a grotesque, hairy, devious, foul-mouthed creature intent on sucking the life out of our homeland’s inhabitants. But Obama was onto the plan, and slapped it down with ruthless speed and efficiency. In fact, it was caught on tape…
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Thanks to his patriotism and quick thinking, the republic endures.
Have a great weekend. Floor's open...What are you cheering and jeering about today?
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