(C) Daily Kos This story was originally published by Daily Kos and is unaltered. . . . . . . . . . . Cheers and Jeers: Rum and Summertime FRIDAY! [1] ['This Content Is Not Subject To Review Daily Kos Staff Prior To Publication.'] Date: 2023-06-23 Cheers and Jeers is a weekday post from the great state of Maine. Freaky Flashback Friday The late-nighters are still on hiatus due to the writers strike, so C&J reaches into the archives to find out what the punchlines were ten years ago in June of 2013. Good times… “According to a new survey, white Americans are more likely to see President Obama as angry than black Americans. After hearing about it, Obama got really angry, according to white Americans.” —Conan O'Brien "Sarah Palin has been hired back by Fox News, and she only left five months ago. She has now effectively quit quitting. She can't even commit to being uncommitted." —John Oliver "[Iranian president] Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is the guy who made Death to America a popular slogan. Now his successor, a moderate guy named Rohani, doesn't believe in death to America. He believes in lingering illness to America." —David Letterman Continued... You are now below the fold. Yes: you are now human origami. "Syrian President Assad crossed a red line. He used chemical weapons. Using harmful chemicals to hurt your own people? Who does he think he is, Monsanto?" —Bill Maher Barack and Joe, 2013. "Verizon's business services division was ordered by the FBI to deliver millions of customers' "telephony metadata." That's a lot of jargon so let me break it down for you: Metadata means information about a call's length, location and participants. Telephony is what a two-year-old calls a telephone." —Stephen Colbert "NASA is challenging Americans to help them figure out a better way to find threatening asteroids. Americans said: what do we get if you pick our idea? And NASA said: to live." —Jimmy Fallon "A man in California received eleven pounds of marijuana in the mail by mistake. At least he did the right thing—he called the police and told them someone accidentally mailed him five pounds of marijuana." —Craig Ferguson And now, our feature presentation… - Cheers and Jeers for Friday, June 23, 2023 Note: There will be no C&J on Monday. Instead, please enjoy the giant gaping hole that our absence will leave in the very heart of Daily Kos. Bring binoculars—that's one deep chasm. Back Tuesday with a defibrillator and lots of first-aid cream. - By the Numbers: Big Pride weekend ahead. Days 'til Meteor Watch Day: 7 Days 'til Pride weekends in San Francisco, Seattle, Denver, and Oklahoma City: 1 Prison sentence for the MAGA idiot who tasered D.C. Police officer Michael Fanone during Donald Trump's 2021 Insurrection: 12 years Average cost of gas in Washington state, now 7 cents above California to make it the most expensive state for gas at the moment: $4.93 Average price of gas nationwide: $3.58 Privately-owned housing starts in May, nearly six percent above May of last year: 1,631,000 Decade the Good Humor Toasted Almond Bar, which is discontinued starting this year, was first introduced: 1960s - Puppy Pic of the Day: Weekend plans… - JEERS to the "grown-up" party of “personal responsibility" and "family values." Let's check in and see how the spittle-flinging, hair-pulling, mascara-smearing public feud between Republican leaders of Congress Marjorie Taylor-Greene and Lauren Boebert is going. Parental discretion is advised: [Expletive deleted] [Another expletive deleted] [Kick to groin] [Bowling pin to head] [Five-minute string of expletives deleted] [Pause for brief moment of unity to give Kevin McCarthy a swirlie] [[Double "expletive deleted" brackets because the expletives are so explicit they keep leaking through single brackets]] [Threat to steal the other's boyfriend] [Throws packet of SlimFast at head] Next week: out come the wet noodles! CHEERS to 1-900-CLARENCETHOMAS. Who's up for some SCOTUS hilarity? On this date in 1989, the Supreme Court refused to shut down the dial-a-porn industry, saying that indecent speech isn’t the same thing as obscenity, and is therefore protected. Interestingly, all the justices in the majority had one cauliflower ear. Coincidence, I'm sure. P.S. Billionaire Harlan Crow’s pet justice Clarence Thomas (not to be confused with billionaire Paul Singer’s pet justice Samuel Alito) turns 75 today. I hope he enjoyed the little, um, "present" we left on his Coke can this morning. We all chipped in, sir. CHEERS to a fabulous quintet. Just a pure unadulterated good news story: the 46th Kennedy Center Honorees have been announced. As usual, the wealth of talent has a liberal bias: Tony and Emmy Award–winning comedian, actor, producer, writer, and director Billy Crystal is known around the world as the star of such feature films as When Harry Met Sally…, City Slickers, and Analyze This; as a cast member of NBC’s Saturday Night Live, which earned him his first Emmy nomination; and as the acclaimed nine-time host of the Academy Awards Renée Fleming is one of the most highly acclaimed singers of our time, performing on the stages of the world’s great opera houses and concert halls. Honored with five Grammy Awards and the U.S. National Medal of Arts, she has sung for momentous occasions from the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony to the Diamond Jubilee Concert for Queen Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace. In May, Fleming was appointed a Goodwill Ambassador for Arts and Health for the World Health Organization. The Class of ‘23 Barry Gibb rates among the most prolific, influential, and acclaimed musicians ever to have lived. Guinness World Records and Billboard list him alongside only Paul McCartney as one of the two most successful popular songwriters of all time. As a member of the Bee Gees with his brothers Robin and Maurice, the trio sold over 220 million records, while writing 21 different songs to top the U.S. or U.K. charts. Lifetime Grammy music legend Dionne Warwick continues to regale audiences internationally to this day. From the early 1960s on, her iconic sound set the bar in American pop music by earning more than 60 charted hit songs and selling over 100 million records. She has done more than entertain the world; as a humanitarian, she has advocated for global well-being through such efforts as AIDS awareness. Queen Latifah is a Grammy and Emmy Award–winning and Oscar-nominated musician, actress, producer, label president, author, and entrepreneur. She has earned six Grammy Award nominations, as well as a Grammy Award for Best Solo Rap Performance in 1994. In 2004, she was nominated for Best Female Rap Solo Performance for “Go Head.” In 2005, she was nominated for Best Jazz Vocal Album for The Dana Owens Album, and in 2008, she was nominated for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album for Trav’lin Light. The sitting President of the United States will attend the induction festivities at the Kennedy Center, sitting in a balcony seat with the honorees, during the festivities on December 3rd. The previous president snubbed them on orders from his doctor. Apparently he suffers from a severe allergy to the toxic mix of happiness and culture. - BRIEF SANITY BREAK - x Artist Dante Dentoni replaced a wall of this home with LEGO and built in a bunch of hidden rooms, including Omnia, an overwatch room, an alien abduction and more [📹 https://t.co/bTKNtZfVz1] [Dante Dentoni: https://t.co/VI42jXUbQz]pic.twitter.com/AbSp6yCDTF — Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) June 23, 2023 - END BRIEF SANITY BREAK - CHEERS to Things That Go Clackety-Clack. On June 23, 1868, Christopher Latham Sholes received a patent for his "Type-writer," the first to have the famous QWERTY sequence on its upper keys. Today bloggers who can't think of anything for their subject line typically go south for the edgier and more mysterious "asdf." And the day someone decides to drop down to "zxcv"? Well, don’t tell anybody, but I believe that's the day the nukes leave the silos. CHEERS to home vegetation. As far as TV goes, not much on this weekend. The MSNBC crew will be competing with Penn & Teller and the Whose Line cast (8pm, the CW). Or there’s the always dependable The Office marathon on Comedy Central. Oh, and tonight at 8 me and my online Enterprise crewmates are live-tweeting—via hashtag #allstartrek—the classic Who Mourns for Adonis? episode of Star Trek airing on the H&I network. Opens today. Looks good. The most popular movies and streamers, new and old, are all reviewed here at Rotten Tomatoes. (Wes Anderson’s eagerly anticipated all-star Asteroid City leads the pack.) Sports schedules: MLB here and WNBA here. On 60 Minutes: encore reports on film composer Hans Zimmer, Russian attacks on Ukrainian hospitals, and how world leaders use entertainment to distract citizens from real problems. (Really!) Then later Sunday night there’s a new episode of The Righteous Gemstones on HBO, which I only watch because the devil makes me do it. Now here's your Sunday morning lineup: This Week: Secretary of State Antony Blinken; Gov. Roy Cooper (D-NC); former Rep. Will Hurd (The Cult-TX); Reince Priebus provides an update on how his Republican “rebranding” effort is going. Face the Nation: House Intel chair Mike Rogers (The Cult-OH); Rep. veronica Escobar (D-TX); U.N. World Food Programme head Cindy McCain. Or, for bullshit-less analysis and debate, watch Jan Sunday at noon on MSNBC. Meet the Press: Secretary of State Blinken; Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN); Rep. Don Bacon (The Cult-NE). CNN's State of the Union: Secretary of State Blinken; Sen. Klobuchar; that weird governor of North Dakota, Doug Burgum (The Cult) who is running a ton of ads on Maine TV stations for his doomed-from-the-start presidential bid, but only because their signals bleed into New Hampshire and oh my gosh is he creepy. Fox GOP Talking Points Sunday: #1 most nooseworthy Republican vice president Mike Pence; Sen. Ben Cardin (D-MD). Happy viewing! - Ten years ago in C&J: June 23, 2013 JEERS to No-drama Monday. Yesterday the Supreme Court kicked the affirmative action case back down to the lower court with clear instructions to—these are their exact words—"GET YOUR SHIT TOGETHER, YOU FREAKS! YOU MADE US MISS OUR LAWN DART TOURNAMENT FOR THIS?" Otherwise, it was quiet on the marriage-equality and voting rights front. Maybe we'll find out today. Maybe tomorrow. Maybe Thursday or Friday. Refresh key, prepare thyself for more mid-morning punishment. - And just one more… CHEERS to singin’ in church. As gun-control legislation remains elusive in all but a handful of states, we note that eight years ago this week, while eulogizing the recently-murdered Rev. Clementa Pinckney at Charleston, South Carolina's Emanuel A.M.E. Church, President Barack Obama paused for the longest time. You could hear a pin drop, it got so quiet. Was he too choked up to go on? Had he lost his place in his sermon? Had he, after consoling so many other audiences in the wake of gun massacres, simply run out of f*cks to give? Not quite. He was just winding up to deliver an emotional grand finale from his soul that would once again demonstrate why he’ll always be placed in the top ranks of all the presidents. Watch as the faces behind him light up… - His immediate successor, who never bothered to learn the words to the national anthem or God Bless America, let alone Amazing Grace, botched every attempt—I can count the number of times on one hand and still have some fingers left over—to comfort families who lost loved ones to gun violence. (Up to and including slapping his autograph on giant photos of dead victims.) I guess if you want to show you have a heart, you have to…y’know…have a heart. Have an amazing weekend. 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