(C) Daily Kos This story was originally published by Daily Kos and is unaltered. . . . . . . . . . . Cheers and Jeers: Tuesday [1] ['Backgroundurl Avatar_Large', 'Nickname', 'Joined', 'Created_At', 'Story Count', 'N_Stories', 'Comment Count', 'N_Comments', 'Popular Tags', 'Showtags Popular_Tags'] Date: 2023-02-28 Cheers and Jeers for Tuesday, February 28, 2023 Note: Due to the current debt ceiling crisis, dental floss will no longer be waxed. We regret the inconvenience. - By the Numbers: 3 days!!! Days 'til spring: 20 Days 'til the National Fiery Foods & BBQ Show in Albuquerque: 3 Percent of Americans who support abortion in all or most cases, according to new polling from PRRI, up from 55% in 2010: 64% Percent of Hispanic Catholics who support abortion in all or most cases, up from 47% one year ago: 61% Number of issues, from health care to Brexit to immigration to education and many more, on which Britain's Conservative party now leads the Labour Party according to a new poll: 0 Salary of Maine Governor Janet Mills, the lowest-paid governor in the country: $70,000 Percent chance that the Michigan Republican party has become so batshit crazy that now 60% of its funding comes from only two people (Ron Weiser and Betsy DeVos): 100% - Puppy Pic of the Day: Home at last… - CHEERS to the growing lavender wave. Clackity clackity clackity clack… Oh, never mind me, I'm just calculating what 7.2 percent of 332 million people is. And…Clackity clackity clack DING!!! It's 23 million, 904 thousand. Keep that in mind as you read this from Ja'han Jones at the Reidout blog: The GOP's shooting itself in the foot on future elections. This poll shows why. […] Gallup found that the percentage of adults who identify as LGBTQ increased slightly from 7.1% in 2021 to 7.2% in 2022. That’s double the percentage of LGBTQ-identifying adults surveyed in 2012. And those percentages are significantly higher among young Americans. Fired up and ready to boot MAGAs from office. A party full of members who obsess over trans people’s bodies, and banning classroom discussions about the experiences of LGBTQ people, and outing LGBTQ students, and probing children’s menstrual cycles, and demonizing drag shows for purported child abuse is likely going to face problems appealing to voters in a country where the share of people identifying as LGBTQ has dramatically increased in recent years. As we know by now, a lot of elections turn on a mere smattering of votes. So keep flapping your vicious gums and passing your pointless laws, MAGA cult. But don’t come bawling to us when you get stiletto'ed out of office by the targets of your bullying and find yourself begging to be hired as the ticket taker drag queen story hour because it's the only job you haven’t been turned down for. Yet. CHEERS to making house calls. Specialists from the Centers for Disease Control's Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry have arrived in East Palestine, Ohio (right across the border from West Israel, Pennsylvania) to assess residents there for ongoing threats to their health in the wake of the most recent disaster there: Some have been diagnosed with bronchitis or reporting otherwise unexplained nausea, rashes, irritated eyes and other symptoms. "I've had a scratchy throat like everybody else," Mike Zelenak, an East Palestine business owner, told NBC News. "I get headaches." […] Stories such as Zelenak's are exactly the kind of information the CDC is there to collect—but on a much larger scale. … Surveys include "questions like demographics, where the residents are living, what type of health effects they might be experiencing, and trying to come up with a timeline of when they might have been in the area when the incident happened," Shugart said. "It's sort of like putting a puzzle together." And once they're done assessing the threat to the town and its people by the sudden arrival last week of Trump Water, they’ll move on to the chemicals that spilled during the train derailment. CHEERS to green-lighting the gals. 101 years ago this week, in 1922, the all-male U.S. Supreme Court unanimously upheld the 19th Amendment that gave women the vote. Shortly after, their wives released them from their chokeholds. - BRIEF SANITY BREAK - x While koalas might look like small bears, they are actually marsupials. They give birth to underdeveloped young that crawl into their mothers' pouches, where they stay for the first 6-7 months of their life [📹 zoo_rascal: https://t.co/qYNXMwpXhU]pic.twitter.com/N7EUpZ3mtP — Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) February 24, 2023 - END BRIEF SANITY BREAK - JEERS to sticky fingers. On February 28, 2007, two Picassos worth some $66 million were swiped from the Paris home of the artist's granddaughter. Three thieves were caught the following August. When asked why they stole the paintings, they said they’d gotten tired of looking at their “Hang in there, it’s almost Friday” cat poster all day. CHEERS to bananas in space. Yes. I said bananas in space. There are bananas in space. We don't know yet if they're green or yellow, alone or in bunches, potassium-rich or potassium-poor…WE JUST DON’T KNOW!!! All we know is the James Webb space telescope just caught some really amazing and mysterious new stuff up there, right where I'm pointing my finger now, and astrophysicist Eric Nelson from Colorado University at Boulder said, and I quote: "It’s bananas." Told ya. - Ten years ago in C&J: February 28, 2013 CHEERS to Tomorrow's news today. I've been a fan of Tom Tomorrow's This Modern World comic strip for at least a decade, and I got fanboy fever when it was announced two years ago that he was going to be posting here at Daily Kos. He classed the joint up, that's for sure. And now he's adding some fresh hardware to the trophy cabinet: Dan Perkins, pen name Tom Tomorrow, was named the winner of the 2013 Herblock Prize for editorial cartooning. Perkins is the creator of the weekly political cartoon, This Modern World, which appears in approximately 80 papers, mostly altweeklies. He is the editor of the comics section he created in April 2011 on Daily Kos. … The prize is awarded annually by The Herb Block Foundation for “distinguished examples of editorial cartooning that exemplify the courageous independent standard set by Herblock.” Congratulations, Tom. It's well-deserved. I wouldn't last long as a cartoonist. About the only thing I'm good at drawing these days is a blank. - And just one more… CHEERS to seeing to a bit of unfinished business. I’ll be damned if I’m going to shirk my sworn duty to say “Happy Birthday, and many blessings on your camels” to all the “Leaplings” born on February 29th, which would be tomorrow if March didn’t muscle its way into the spotlight. Sorry, no leap year Google doodle this year. You’d think that if God was all great and powerful over everything, She would have made leap years unnecessary. But nooooooooooo. She done gave our planet the wibbledy-wobblies, and now there’s an unfortunate group of people on this earth who only get a birthday every four years (2024 brings with it the next February 29th). The list includes Pope Paul III, Jimmy Dorsey, Dinah Shore, grifter Anthony Robbins, Ja Rule, and renowned composer Gioachino Rossini (the Lone Ranger theme guy). But never fear, Leapers, as long as C&J is here we’ll always stuff our faces with cake and ice cream in your honor. Oh, and sometimes historic things happen on the 29th, too. For example, on this date in 1964, Australian swimmer Dawn Fraser set a new world record in the 100-meter freestyle swimming competition. Her time in and out of the pool: 58.9 seconds. The piranhas chasing her: 59.0. Have a tolerable Tuesday. Floor's open...What are you cheering and jeering about today? - Today's Shameless C&J Testimonial "If nothing else, Cheers and Jeers does not try to sell itself as something it is not. There is Bill in Portland Maine. He is addicted to candy corn. He proceeds to splash in a kiddie pool. That’s it. That’s C&J." —Sarah Michelle Fetters - [END] --- [1] Url: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/2/28/2154767/-Cheers-and-Jeers-Tuesday Published and (C) by Daily Kos Content appears here under this condition or license: Site content may be used for any purpose without permission unless otherwise specified. via Magical.Fish Gopher News Feeds: gopher://magical.fish/1/feeds/news/dailykos/