Energize An Ally Tuesday
The midterms aren’t over until this U.S. senator from Georgia makes it over the finish line in 14 days with more runoff-election votes than his MAGA opponent—the, um, vampire-slaying secret-abortion-funding werewolf with a fake police badge who has an obsession with gay sheep. (Long story.)
Read more here about the urgency of the moment from Daily Kos Elections Team director David Nir Here. And if you can help out financially, the ActBlue link is here. Rev. Warnock needs urgent help to avoid a worst-case scenario: electing an incompetent GOP doofus in need of serious help.
Cheers and Jeers for Tuesday, November 22, 2022
Note: Here’s what you can expect C&J-wise for the rest of the week: regular C&J tomorrow, special Thanksgiving edition Thursday morning, Who Won The Week poll Friday, off Monday, back Tuesday, dogs and cats living together, mass hysteria, and Grandma’s olive and sour-apple marshmallow jello which you will eat because she worked on it over two consecutive weekends. Thank you. —Mgt.
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By the Numbers:
11 days!!!
Days 'til the start of Hanukkah: 26
Days `til the Valley Forge Beer & Cider Festival: 11
Amount by which employers are planning to increase their salary budgets on average in 2023, according to a Willis Watson Towers survey: 4.6%
The last year salary budgets jumped by that much: 2007
Age of the Amazon Kindle as of last Saturday: 15
Estimated number of pumpkin pies served on Thanksgiving: 50 million
Number of turkeys who will slay their captors this week and escape on motorcycles: 22
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Puppy Pic of the Day: In Tonawanda, New York, puppy's first snowfall…
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CHEERS to House cleaning. Republicans in Pennsylvania are feeling the sadz this morning. Their majority in the state House, which they assumed they'd be able to use for evil 'til the end of time, suddenly and unexpectedly slipped from their slimy mitts over the weekend. Yet another victim of the midterm elections:
Adding to the significance of the moment: Rep. Joanna McClinton is expected to become the first Black woman to be Speaker of the chamber. Now that's what I call Democrats opening up a can of “whu-PA-ss!” (I gotta start writing down more of these ideas that come to me at 3am. That's pure gold right there.)
P.S. Meanwhile, at the federal level...
CHEERS to a cherished holiday tradition: taking your life in your hands. Thanksgiving is looming like a 20-pound platter of mashed potatoes, and AAA predicts that with Joe Biden still at the helm, everyone’s in a better mood this year, vaccinations and boosters are going into arms, and that means there’ll be a lot more travelers screaming, cursing and smelling kinda gamey between now and next Tuesday:
If you'll be among the road-trippers, please be safe, wear a mask, and practice common-sense driving etiquette: your right hand is for texting and your left hand is for flipping the bird.
CHEERS to Saving Our Souls. On November 22, 1906, "S-O-S" was adopted as a distress signal at the International Radio Telegraphic Convention in Berlin. Of course, today there's an alternative signal that means the same thing: "G-O-P."
JEERS to today's edition of And THAT'S How You Know He Absolutely, Positively, Totally Did It. Courtesy of NBC News:
This has been today's edition of And THAT'S How You Know He Absolutely, Positively, Totally Did It.
Happy birthday, Denver.
CHEERS to November 22. Lots of good things happened on this date in history: pirate Blackbeard's reign of terror ended when he was caught. (The government Terror Threat Alert Level was lowered from "Skull and Crossbones" to "Peg Leg and Pint of Grog"); Ravel's ravishing Bolero was performed for the first time; the Germans were surrounded at Stalingrad; Margaret Thatcher retired; Billy Jean King, Rodney Dangerfield, Hoagy Carmichael, Mark Ruffalo, Terry Gilliam and Jamie Lee Curtis were born; the Humane Society set up shop on behalf of pooties and woozles everywhere; Denver was founded; The Beatles released The White Album; steel-shaft golf clubs were patented; and Toy Story premiered. Nothing else happened on November 22, according to Selective Amnesiapedia. And y’know what? I'm inclined to go along with it.
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Ten years ago in C&J: November 22, 2012
JEERS to much ado about nothing. I haven't written a whole lot about the Susan Rice/Benghazi/White House "scandal" because I had this CRAZY IDEA of letting the investigation run its course, whereupon the inevitable conclusion would present itself: the Republicans who slimed Susan Rice and the White House would be revealed as completely clueless, soulless, and shameless. Well, that moment has arrived:
And now even John McCain has been forced to back off and slink away in defeat. I don't know where, exactly, he'll slink off to, but I have a pretty good idea: not the White House.
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And just one more…
CHEERS to hot wheels. The Oscars of the auto world were announced last week, and Motor Trend has bestowed its 2023 Car of the Year award to…a classy little day-spa on wheels with a classy little $100,000 price tag:
Plus this car actually comes with an engine that's got tubes and wires and spinny things and suchlike. The brochure boasts that it goes from 0 to 60 in only 5.4 seconds. Big deal. I once had a beat-up old Chevy Chevette that could do it in 2.4. Once we found a decent cliff to push it off of.
Have a tolerable Tuesday. Floor's open...What are you cheering and jeering about today?
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The midterms aren’t over until this U.S. senator from Georgia makes it over the finish line in 14 days with more runoff-election votes than his MAGA opponent—the, um, vampire-slaying secret-abortion-funding werewolf with a fake police badge who has an obsession with gay sheep. (Long story.)
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Read more here about the urgency of the moment from Daily Kos Elections Team director David Nir Here. And if you can help out financially, the ActBlue link is here. Rev. Warnock needs urgent help to avoid a worst-case scenario: electing an incompetent GOP doofus in need of serious help.
Cheers and Jeers for Tuesday, November 22, 2022
Note: Here’s what you can expect C&J-wise for the rest of the week: regular C&J tomorrow, special Thanksgiving edition Thursday morning, Who Won The Week poll Friday, off Monday, back Tuesday, dogs and cats living together, mass hysteria, and Grandma’s olive and sour-apple marshmallow jello which you will eat because she worked on it over two consecutive weekends. Thank you. —Mgt.
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By the Numbers:
11 days!!!
Days 'til the start of Hanukkah: 26
Days `til the Valley Forge Beer & Cider Festival: 11
Amount by which employers are planning to increase their salary budgets on average in 2023, according to a Willis Watson Towers survey: 4.6%
The last year salary budgets jumped by that much: 2007
Age of the Amazon Kindle as of last Saturday: 15
Estimated number of pumpkin pies served on Thanksgiving: 50 million
Number of turkeys who will slay their captors this week and escape on motorcycles: 22
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Puppy Pic of the Day: In Tonawanda, New York, puppy's first snowfall…
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CHEERS to House cleaning. Republicans in Pennsylvania are feeling the sadz this morning. Their majority in the state House, which they assumed they'd be able to use for evil 'til the end of time, suddenly and unexpectedly slipped from their slimy mitts over the weekend. Yet another victim of the midterm elections:
Democrats have flipped the Pennsylvania state House of Representatives, unexpectedly gaining control of the legislative chamber for the first time in a decade.
Joanna McClinton: Pennsylvania’s next House speaker.
The Associated Press confirmed that Democrats had flipped 12 seats, enough to hold a narrow majority in the state House, on Saturday, when it called a final outstanding race for Democratic candidate Melissa Cerrato. […]
Democrats will still have to compromise with Pennsylvania’s GOP-controlled state Senate, but they could use the House to advance major priorities, including efforts to expand voting rights and protect abortion access.
Adding to the significance of the moment: Rep. Joanna McClinton is expected to become the first Black woman to be Speaker of the chamber. Now that's what I call Democrats opening up a can of “whu-PA-ss!” (I gotta start writing down more of these ideas that come to me at 3am. That's pure gold right there.)
P.S. Meanwhile, at the federal level...
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CHEERS to a cherished holiday tradition: taking your life in your hands. Thanksgiving is looming like a 20-pound platter of mashed potatoes, and AAA predicts that with Joe Biden still at the helm, everyone’s in a better mood this year, vaccinations and boosters are going into arms, and that means there’ll be a lot more travelers screaming, cursing and smelling kinda gamey between now and next Tuesday:
AAA predicts 54.6 million people will travel 50 miles or more from home this Thanksgiving. That’s a 1.5% increase over 2021 and 98% of pre-pandemic volumes. This year is projected to be the third busiest for Thanksgiving travel since AAA started tracking in 2000
Most travelers will drive to their destinations, much like last year. Nearly 49 million people are expected to travel by car. While Thanksgiving road trips have slightly risen—up 0.4% from 2021—car travel remains 2.5% below 2019 levels.
Air travel is up nearly 8% over 2021, with 4.5 million Americans flying to their Thanksgiving destinations this year. That’s an increase of more than 330,000 travelers and nearly 99% of the 2019 volume. […] Americans are also ramping up travel by other modes of transportation. More than 1.4 million travelers are going out of town for Thanksgiving by bus, train, or cruise ship. That’s an increase of 23% from 2021 and 96% of the 2019 volume.
If you'll be among the road-trippers, please be safe, wear a mask, and practice common-sense driving etiquette: your right hand is for texting and your left hand is for flipping the bird.
CHEERS to Saving Our Souls. On November 22, 1906, "S-O-S" was adopted as a distress signal at the International Radio Telegraphic Convention in Berlin. Of course, today there's an alternative signal that means the same thing: "G-O-P."
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JEERS to today's edition of And THAT'S How You Know He Absolutely, Positively, Totally Did It. Courtesy of NBC News:
This has been today's edition of And THAT'S How You Know He Absolutely, Positively, Totally Did It.
Happy birthday, Denver.
CHEERS to November 22. Lots of good things happened on this date in history: pirate Blackbeard's reign of terror ended when he was caught. (The government Terror Threat Alert Level was lowered from "Skull and Crossbones" to "Peg Leg and Pint of Grog"); Ravel's ravishing Bolero was performed for the first time; the Germans were surrounded at Stalingrad; Margaret Thatcher retired; Billy Jean King, Rodney Dangerfield, Hoagy Carmichael, Mark Ruffalo, Terry Gilliam and Jamie Lee Curtis were born; the Humane Society set up shop on behalf of pooties and woozles everywhere; Denver was founded; The Beatles released The White Album; steel-shaft golf clubs were patented; and Toy Story premiered. Nothing else happened on November 22, according to Selective Amnesiapedia. And y’know what? I'm inclined to go along with it.
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Ten years ago in C&J: November 22, 2012
JEERS to much ado about nothing. I haven't written a whole lot about the Susan Rice/Benghazi/White House "scandal" because I had this CRAZY IDEA of letting the investigation run its course, whereupon the inevitable conclusion would present itself: the Republicans who slimed Susan Rice and the White House would be revealed as completely clueless, soulless, and shameless. Well, that moment has arrived:
And now even John McCain has been forced to back off and slink away in defeat. I don't know where, exactly, he'll slink off to, but I have a pretty good idea: not the White House.
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And just one more…
CHEERS to hot wheels. The Oscars of the auto world were announced last week, and Motor Trend has bestowed its 2023 Car of the Year award to…a classy little day-spa on wheels with a classy little $100,000 price tag:
The 2023 Genesis G90 takes careful aim at industry stalwarts like the Mercedes-Benz S-Class, the BMW 7 Series, and the Audi A8 and very nearly strikes a bull's-eye. This created a sense of déjà vu in our older judges, who vividly recall the similar splash made more than 30 years ago by another disruptive newcomer: the Lexus LS400. […]
Yosemite Sam mud flaps sold separately.
You can adjust surround sound or simply choose from three preset ambient environments: Boston Symphony Hall, Bang &Olufsen Home, or Reference. The seats offer a choice off our massage programs at three intensity levels and three session lengths.[…]
The Mood Curator offers four programs that tailor ambient lighting, HVAC, sunroof and rear-window screen positions, seat massage, sound, and scent selections to suit in a way that manages not to feel contrived or hokey. And where others offer a single scent, Genesis provides two, one that's more vitalizing and the other more relaxing.
Plus this car actually comes with an engine that's got tubes and wires and spinny things and suchlike. The brochure boasts that it goes from 0 to 60 in only 5.4 seconds. Big deal. I once had a beat-up old Chevy Chevette that could do it in 2.4. Once we found a decent cliff to push it off of.
Have a tolerable Tuesday. Floor's open...What are you cheering and jeering about today?
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