From the GREAT STATE OF MAINE…
Oh! More Things I Know:
> John McCain chose as his running mate a mama grizzly. Mitt Romney chose as his running mate a papa weasel.
> Congressman Todd Akin never sits and wonders why Congress is at 10 percent approval.
Seen on many a Maine bumper
> Number of Romney bumper stickers I've seen in Maine so far: zero. (Obama stickers? Lots.)
> If it's a legitimate discussion of abortion with facts and thoughtful arguments, the conservative body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down.
> I'm so old I remember when a third party was going to spring up and capture the public's imagination on its way to a landslide victory in 2012.
> Actually, lots of people have "gone Galt." They currently occupy rooms in America's psychiatric wards.
> This might be a good time to do something about the economy. Sorry if that sounds pushy, I'm just tryin' to help.
> Saying Paul Ryan has improved Mitt Romney's performance is like saying a cassette player has improved your car's performance.
> If you gathered all the Republicans together and placed them end to end, you'd be hailed as a hero for distracting them long enough so Democrats could actually get some work done.
> I hope we never find out what a Ryan-Romney Medicare Voucher would look like, but I can guarantee this: they'll damn well make sure it has a big ol' picture of Reagan on it.
> What do you say to a yawning two-by-four walking up a gangway? "Welcome aboard, bored board."
Cheers and Jeers starts below the fold... [Swoosh!!] RIGHTNOW! [Gong!!]
Cheers and Jeers for Thursday, August 23, 2012
Note: A reminder to keep your eyes on the Recent Diaries list for today's entries in the Climate Change SOS blogathon entries. They're all carbon-neutral so rec 'em up!
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The 355lb wedding cake
Days 'til Rosh Hashanah:
25
Days 'til the
Minnesota State Fair:
0!!!
Number of House co-sponsors, including Reps. Paul Ryan and Todd Akin, of the "Sanctity of Human Rights Act" which would give all rights of personhood to a fertilized egg:
62
Average cost in 2012 of a wedding cake:
$486
(Source: Brides Magazine via
USA Today)
Height and weight of Tricia Nixon's cake in 1971, the last time a wedding took place at the White House:
7 Feet, 355 Pounds
Expected number of Americans who plan to travel more than 50 miles over the Labor Day weekend:
33 million
(Source: AAA)
Year in which "Internet use disorder" will be listed for the first time in the appendix of the
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders:
2013
(Source:
The Week)
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Your Thursday Molly Ivins Moment:
Should you be suffering a fear shortage despite the administration's best efforts, consider the paralyzing news of the defeat of Joe Lieberman. According to none other than our very own Veep Dick Cheney, Lieberman's defeat helps the terrorists. Yes! How can this be, you ask? Well, you know Joe Lieberman has been supporting Bush's war in Iraq, and we are at war with Iraq because Saddam Hussein was allied to al-Qaida and had weapons of mass destruction, see? He wasn't? He didn't? Gee, maybe that's why the Democrats were upset with Lieberman!
---August 15, 2006
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Puppy Pic of the Day: Winner of the Wooftathalon
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Wait a minute. Red people?
Why, them's COMMUNISTS!
to Charlotte's Angels. Yesterday we learned that another dozen-plus women have been announced as speakers at the
Democratic National Convention, which starts in a dozen days. In addition to Elizabeth Warren and California AG Kamala Harris,
they are:
Lily Ledbetter, Rep. Tammy Baldwin, Sandra Fluke, Carolina Kennedy, Tammy Duckworth and Eva Longoria, Denise Juneau, state superintendent of public instruction (Montana), NARAL pro-Choice head Nancy Keenan, Cecile Richards, president of Planned Parenthood Action Fund, and the women of the U.S. Senate.
But don’t worry, men. You'll have plenty to do. Here's a broom. Ha Ha Ha! Just kidding. You'll be clapping a lot, too.
P.S. Tuesday the president's campaign introduced a group called Rabbis for Obama. Together with Priests for Obama and Ministers for Obama, they'll walk into a bar. Hijinks will follow.
JEERS to signs from above? I seem to remember that a hurricane---Gustav---threw the 2008 GOP convention into chaos. And now, four years later, Hurricane Isaac is threatening to dump buckets of rain outside while the GOP convention rains buckets of confetti inside. Is Angry God punishing them for their systematic oppression of minorities, women, and voters, their rampant lying and their cozy relationship with the moneychangers and disdain for the poor? I don’t know. But I do know this: Isaac is a Biblical figure from the Old Testament. That's the one that stars Angry God. Nah. It must be the gays, feminists and pagans, as usual. Yeah. That makes more sense.
JEERS to burning up the record books. Says here that 2012 is on pace to be the worst year ever for fires. To give you an idea of the damage: so far they've destroyed 7 million acres, 1,859 homes, and 1 political party.
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Gong! Gong!! BuddaBuddaBudda… GONG!!!
This is another edition of The One Word Answer Man. Meghan Holohan of BodyOdd asks: Could you go 10 weeks without lying?
Yes. No. Maybe?
Now back to Cheers and Jeers.
Gong! Gong!! BuddaBuddaBudda… GONG!!!
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CHEERS to America's favorite game show as of---[looks at watch]---two seconds ago! Hey, everybody, welcome to Guess Which Party That Idiot Belongs To! [ClapClapClapClapClap!!!] It's easy to play and easy to win! All you have to do is guess which party this idiot belongs to:
A New Hampshire businessman running for sheriff of Hillsborough County says he would arrest doctors who perform abortions and would not rule out the use of deadly force to halt an abortion from taking place.
You win!!! Join us next time for another edition of
Guess Which Party That Idiot Belongs To! Buh bye! [
ClapClapClapClapClap!!!]
The King who says "Nee!"
to pissing off the man in curlers. On this date in 1775, King George III got all pissy and accused the colonies of being in
"an open and avowed rebellion" and asked "our obedient and loyal subjects to use their utmost endeavours to withstand and suppress such rebellion, and to disclose and make known all treasons and traitorous conspiracies which they shall know to be against us." And we were all, like, "Huh? Are you referring to little old us? Why, we’re just grubby li'l old farmers and fussy old shopkeepers---we wouldn’t hurt a fly!" Then we declared independence and kicked his ass.
Psych!
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Five years ago in C&J: August 23, 2007
CHEERS to the green party. This is nice---freshman Dems are out-fundraising their Republican counterparts by a factor of two-to-one. The Rothenberg Report's Nathan Gonzales says "Democrats are energized and organized, and that's leading to big fundraising." And in other news, officials are investigating a sudden nationwide epidemic of panhandlers wearing wingtips and elephant pins.
JEERS to the wicked wicked ways of the White House. See, here's how it works: they can look through your emails (and financial records and medical history and phone calls and bedroom window) without telling you...but even if you go through the proper channels and fill out the proper paperwork, you can't look at theirs. You must've done something pretty awful to get on their bad side like that. Bad citizen! Bad!
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And just one more…
JEERS to foodie fubars. Whoops! A meat plant accidentally sent mislabeled dog food to an East Texas jail and it ended up in the bellies of some of the inmates. Everybody's hoppin' mad about it. The Justice Department fined the company $400,000. And Governor Rick Perry condemned the company for wasting perfectly good dog food on inmates.
Have a Thursday full of pivotal moments. Floor's open...What are you cheering and jeering about today?
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Today's Shameless C&J Testimonial:
Obviously, CNN is terrified of Bill in Portland Maine. Which is just sad. Bill couldn't hate them any more than he already does.
---Digby
8/21/12
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