(C) Daily Kos This story was originally published by Daily Kos and is unaltered. . . . . . . . . . . Cheers and Jeers: Rum and Coke FRIDAY! [1] ['Backgroundurl Avatar_Large', 'Nickname', 'Joined', 'Created_At', 'Story Count', 'N_Stories', 'Comment Count', 'N_Comments', 'Popular Tags', 'Showtags Popular_Tags'] Date: 2023-02-17 You are now below the fold, where our balloons are filled with Bacardi. "This morning Nikki Haley announced that she is running for president. Of course, any campaign veteran will tell you there is no better time to drop the biggest political news of your life than on Valentine's Day at 6:48am. Yeah—a day everyone's thinking of something else at a time no one is awake." —Stephen Colbert "Surprisingly, Trump did not lash out at Nikki Haley. He was busy incriminating himself on Truth Social today. He posted: 'Many of the so-called 'documents' that the 'Gestapo' took in the raid of Mar-a-Lago…' The FBI is the 'Gestapo' now. By the way, if the FBI was the Gestapo he would've invited them over for dinner." —Jimmy Kimmel Click here... x Who is @SarahKSilverman? Let conservatives explain... pic.twitter.com/b5jdP9hqtf — The Daily Show (@TheDailyShow) February 14, 2023 She’s top of my current list to be permanent Daily Show host. - Conan O'Brien: "There's such an arrogance when people think, well it's 2023 and we know most of what mankind needs to know. And we don’t know anything . A hundred years from now they will laugh at what we thought now." Guest Jane Fonda: If we're even around in a hundred years, because of our ignorance. Conan: I'll be here. —Conan Needs A Friend podcast "Recently I told you about Louisiana becoming the first state to require ID to access pornography online. So now in Louisiana if you don’t have an ID the only way to see nudity is to throw plastic beads in any direction." —Stephen Colbert "An owl was recently removed from a college library in Georgia. And this is annoying: now it's saying, ‘Whom!’ ” —Seth Meyers And now, our feature presentation… - Cheers and Jeers for Friday, February 17, 2023 Note: Just to blaze a new and exciting crypto trail, instead of a non-fungible token, I’m putting up for auction a non-tokenable fungus. Its name is "Precious." Starting bid: $1 million . Virtual petri dish included. We suggest you never, ever open it. Bid now! —C&J Dept. of Let’s See If I Can Get Away With This - By the Numbers: 8 days!!! Days 'til Easter: 51 Days 'til the annual Santa Cruz Clam Chowder Cook-Off in California: 8 Percent increase in consumer spending last month, more than expected: 3% National Association of Home Builders/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index for February, up 7 points and the highest monthly gain in single-family homebuilder confidence since June of 2013: 42 Percent of Americans polled by Monmouth University who believe Artificial intelligence will be more beneficial to humankind than detrimental: 9% Age of Raquel Welch when she died this week: 82 Percent of Americans polled by Gallup in 1939 who approved of First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt's resignation from Daughters of the American Revolution because they wouldn't allow Black opera singer Marian Anderson to perform in their building (Roosevelt invited Anderson to sing at the Lincoln memorial instead): 57% - Puppy Pic of the Day: Weekend plans… - CHEERS to throwing the bum out. In the pantheon of political blunders, New York Governor Kathy Hochul's climb out onto a limb for her anti-abortion, anti-union state Supreme Court nominee Hector LaSalle will go down as a big one worthy of a plaque in the "self-own" wing. New York's state Senate on Wednesday rejected Governor Kathy Hochul's choice to become the state's highest-ranking judge, a defeat for the state's top Democrat who failed to overcome opposition from her own party to the nomination. … The 39-20 vote came after a Republican senator had sued last week to force a floor vote, which the Senate Judiciary Committee had blocked in January. Mission accomplished. Good job, folks. According to published reports, senators voted almost entirely along party lines, with Democrats opposing and Republicans supporting LaSalle's nomination. Governor Hochul says she'll pick someone new for the chief justice position. If she has any brains, she'll make amends by nominating a solid liberal. We'll even chip in for the confetti when she takes her victory lap. JEERS to the sound of silence. You may have heard (it was in all the papers…eventually) that there was a major chemical-train derailment in the tiny Ohio town of East Palestine, nestled between Youngstown and Pittsburgh. 38 cars containing chloride this and acrylate jumped the tracks and were later seen in mushroom-cloud form over the town—usually not a good sign. The result: lots of confusion, lots of unanswered health and safety questions, and lots of dead fish. So let's check in and see what Norfolk Southern Railroad officials had to say after they promised to be at Wednesday night's town hall meeting that was called to calm residents' nerves: Of course. They didn’t show up because of what they called "the growing physical threat to our employees and members of the community." And, doggone it, it’s too bad videoconferencing won’t be widely available until—[checks notes]—1970, so they were up the proverbial contaminated creek without a paddle. Or, apparently, a shred of decency. CHEERS to stalling for America's future. 182 years ago tomorrow, on February 18, 1841, the first continuous filibuster in the U.S. Senate began. It lasted until March 11. Before you read about the details below, you might want to whip up a li’l Filibuster cocktail. Good—let us proceed: Until the late 1830s, the filibuster remained a solely theoretical option, never actually exercised. The first Senate filibuster occurred in 1837. Your filibuster is served. In 1841, a defining moment came during debate on a bill to charter the Second Bank of the United States. Senator Henry Clay tried to end the debate via majority vote, and Senator William R. King threatened a filibuster, saying that Clay "may make his arrangements at his boarding house for the winter." Other senators sided with King, and Clay backed down. The word “filibuster” was derived from the Dutch word meaning “pirate.” In modern parlance, of course, the word filibuster is derived from the conservative Democrats’ words meaning “stab your own party in the back.” - BRIEF SANITY BREAK - x This sweet husband still asks his beautiful wife of 64 years to be his Valentine ❤️ 🔊 SOUND UP attitudehype pic.twitter.com/DkH2CJirFI — Jessi 💫 (@its_jessi_grace) February 13, 2023 - END BRIEF SANITY BREAK - CHEERS to legal libations. On this date in 1933, the U.S. Senate passed the Blaine Act, which effectively ended prohibition. Who says Christmas comes in December? CHEERS to home vegetation. The big TV news of the weekend is John Oliver's triumphant return for another season (his 10th already?) of Last Week Tonight on HBO. God only knows where he’ll plant his shovel first. But first, things get started tonight with Chris Hayes and Alex Wagner on MSNBC. There’s a new episode of Whose Line Is It Anyway? at 9 on the CW. Then at 10, HBO's Real Time features Oscar winner Christoph Waltz, MSNBC’s Ari Melber, and Sarah Isgur of The Dispatch and ABC News. Season 10 starts Sunday night. The new movies and streaming options are all reviewed here at Rotten Tomatoes. The NBA schedule is here (just the All-Star Game Sunday night at 7:30 on TBS and TNT) and the NHL schedule is here. On 60 Minutes: a profile of Finnish Prime Minister Sanna Marin, an update on the war in Ukraine, and how an organization is creating an expansive digital archive of first-person accounts of the Black experience. Ned Flanders falls on hard times and Fat Tony makes him an offer he can’t refuse on The Simpsons, and the guys help Mayor Wild West reconnect with his estranged father on Family Guy. And finally, as we mentioned, John Oliver wraps up the weekend with pinky extended. Now here's your Sunday morning lineup: Meet the Press: Secretary of State Abe Lincoln...oops, I mean A. Blinken; former Gov. Larry Hogan (R-MD). This Week: Secretary of State Antony Blinken; Sen. Lindsey Graham (The Cult-SC). The roundtable on ABC is all pundits with lady parts. Not so long ago this would’ve been considered unpossible. CNN's State of the Union: Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) talks about the latest on East Palestine, Ohio chemical train derailment; U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Linda Thomas-Greenfield; Reps. Mike Turner (The Cult-OH) and Michael McCaul (The Cult-TX). Face the Nation: Blinken again; Poland’s prime minister Mateusz Morawiecki; former U.S. Ambassador to Russia John Sullivan; Former senior director for European and Russian affairs on the National Security Council Fiona Hill; Director of the National Institute of Mental Health Dr. Joshua Gordon. Fox MAGA Sunday: NSC Communications Coordinator John Kirby; Lady who announced her bid this week to be Trump’s VP Nikki Haley. Happy viewing! - Ten years ago in C&J: February 17, 2013 CHEERS to Senator No-nonsense. First the banksters ignored Elizabeth Warren's prospects of winning a senate seat. Then they laughed at Elizabeth Warren's prospects of winning a senate seat. Then they viciously fought on behalf of Scott Brown to ensure that Elizabeth Warren didn’t win a Senate seat. Then Elizabeth Warren won a Senate seat. And now she's kicking federal regulators in the seat of the pants to go after the banksters: "Anyone else want to tell me the last time you took a Wall Street Bank to trial? I just want to note on this, there are District Attorneys and U.S. Attorneys who are out there every day squeezing ordinary citizens on sometimes very thin grounds and taking them to trial in order to make an example, as they put it. I am really concerned that Too Big to Fail has become too big for trial. That just seems wrong to me." And now the banksters haz a sad. I do love happy endings. - And just one more… CHEERS to evening calisthenics. This happened nine years ago this weekend, as First Lady Michelle Obama was promoting her “Let’s Move” initiative to get We The People (especially kids) off our asses. This sketch with Jimmy Fallon—The Evolution of Mom Dancing—racked up over 27 million views. It’s too great to let it fall into the cracks of history, so enjoy this encore… - Good luck toppin’ that, Jill. Have a great weekend. 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