Cheers and Jeers: Rum and Coke FRIDAY!

I instructed that the colleges on this nation are crowded, academics underpaid, and that there’s a scarcity of academics. One among our biggest nationwide wants is extra and higher colleges. I urged Congress to supply $300 million to help the States within the current academic disaster. Congress did nothing about it

Repeatedly I’ve really helpful enhancements within the Social Safety regulation, together with extending safety to these not now lined, and growing the quantity of advantages, to scale back the eligibility age of girls from 65 to 60 years. Congress studied the matter for two years, however could not discover time to increase or enhance the advantages. However they did discover the time to take Social Safety advantages away from 750,000 folks, they usually handed that over my veto.

I’ve repeatedly requested the Congress to move a well being program. The Nation suffers from lack of medical care. That scenario might be remedied any time the Congress needs to behave upon it.

The GOP: grand previous pricks since eternally.

And now, our function presentation…

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Cheers and Jeers for Friday, July 15, 2022

Notice: 88888888888888888888888888888  Sorry about that. Needed to clear some nacho cheese off my 8 key. All higher now. —Mgt.

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By the Numbers:

Days ’til House Exploration Day: 5

Days ’til the Summer time Brewfest in Denver: 8

% by which the variety of filings for union elections is up this fiscal yr in comparison with 2021, in accordance with the NLRB: 56%

Common fuel value, down from $5.01 a month in the past: $4.62

Quantity of his fortune Invoice Gates is donating to his basis to “fund improvements and causes that stop pandemics, scale back childhood deaths, eradicate ailments, deal with local weather change and obtain gender equality”: $20 billion

Variety of TV reveals eligible for Emmys this yr: 754

Minimal variety of mushroom species that glow at midnight: 70

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Pet Pic of the Day: Weekend plans…

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CHEERS to placing the gun makers over a barrel. If Republicans can deputize abnormal residents to go after abortion seekers in purple states, then Democrats ought to be capable of use comparable measures to go after the firearms business in blue states. And in California, that is what they’re doing:

[Gov. Gavin Newsom] signed a invoice that establishes a brand new code of conduct for gun producers and distributors and permits personal residents―in addition to the state and native governments―to sue the firearms companies in the event that they’ve induced them hurt.

“It’s well-known that almost each business is held to account when their merchandise trigger hurt or harm, besides one: the gun business,” Newsom mentioned upon signing the invoice. “California goes to alter that. […]

Underneath [the] guidelines, business gamers should set up “cheap controls” that hold weapons out of the palms of individuals almost certainly to trigger hurt. Such controls embody enacting protocols to forestall the sale of firearms to straw purchasers, gun traffickers, anybody legally prohibited from proudly owning a firearm and anybody whom the enterprise has an affordable concern would possibly unlawfully hurt themselves or others.

Fascinating: no response from the gun firms. Solely from the NRA. Or because it’s higher recognized: the gun firms.

CHEERS to frame household values. Something that reins in America’s Gestapo—the jackbooted thugs often known as ICE—will get a gold star in my guide. So file this, but once more, in our burgeoning cupboard labeled “Elections Have Penalties.” Typically good ones:

Immigration and Customs Enforcement brokers had been instructed Thursday to start taking extra steps to make sure that they don’t seem to be unintentionally separating dad and mom from their kids on the southern border or when making arrests contained in the nation.

The brand new procedures are the most recent in a collection of steps the Biden administration has taken to make sure that the separation of migrant households, which was carried out systematically by the Trump administration in 2017 and 2018, doesn’t occur once more.

Over 5,000 dad and mom had been separated from their kids underneath then-President Donald Trump’s 2018 “zero tolerance” coverage.

Sadly, government department selections might be undone the subsequent time a MAGA cultist turns into president. So this requires rapid and complete immigration reform by the Senate. [Long pause.] That was the punchline.

JEERS to Vatican vitriol.  817 years in the past this week, in 1205, Pope Harmless III stood up and decreed that Jews could be doomed to perpetual servitude and subjugation as a result of they killed Jesus. His pronouncement was instantly adopted by: “Ow! Who threw that?!!”

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BRIEF SANITY BREAK

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CHEERS to lighting one helluva candle. As we speak is the 53rd anniversary of the liftoff of Apollo 11, after we despatched three biologically-active baggage of water into the chilly and unforgiving void often known as “area” in a tin can stuffed with blinking lights and Tang for every week or two. Cronkite’s understatement: “Oh, boy, What a second.”  Watch it on the best way again machine…

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The mission would fulfill a imaginative and prescient set forth by President John F. Kennedy eight years earlier to place a person on the moon earlier than decade’s finish, and would climax with Neil Armstrong’s immortal phrases 4 days later: “That is one small step for a person, one large leap for… Mmmm! Hey guys, it’s cheddar!”

CHEERS to house vegetation. A fast roundup of a few of the eyestuff which will finish upon your TV this weekend. Chris Hayes and the gang lead issues off with dwell protection of What The Hell Occurred As we speak on MSNBC. And that is it, actually, for tonight, so that you would possibly wish to dive into one thing streaming by way of no matter appears good at Rotten Tomatoes.

Sports activities: MLB schedule right here and the WNBA schedule right here.  And even should you do not give a caddie’s p’tootey about golf, chances are high you may take an occasional cursory take a look at the chief board for the one hundred and fiftieth British Open (7am tomorrow on NBC, with highlights at 5pm for us sleeper-inners), occurring at St. Andrews, house to the dreaded Welsh rarebit traps and lakes of flaming haggis.

On 60 Minutes: encore studies on Rwanda’s mountain gorillas and a profile of the inventive director at Gucci. And now here is your Sunday morning lineup:

Meet the Press: Hooray! Thanks, British Open, for knocking Chuck Todd and his evil goatee off the airwaves for every week. Platters of flaming haggis for everybody!

This Week: White Home Covid Response Coordinator Dr. Ashish Jha; Home Jan. 6 Committee member Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-CA).

CNN’s State of the Union: Home Jan. 6 Committee member Rep. Elaine Luria (D-VA); National Financial Council director Brian Deese; Paul Begala; Gov. Doug Ducey (The Cult-AZ). 

Face the Nation: Home Jan. 6 Committee member Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL); Mayor Muriel Bowser (D-DC); Senior Advisor for Power Safety on the State Dept. Amos Hochstein; former FDA man Scott Gottlieb; former chair of the White Home Council of Financial Advisers Jason Furman.

Fox GOP Speaking Factors Sunday: Gov. Rick Sssssssscott (The Cult-FL).

Pleased viewing!

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Ten years in the past in C&J: July 15, 2012

JEERS to taking the bait. Final evening a headline appeared on The Drudge Report meant to distract the media from Mitt Romney’s Bain Capital disaster (Baintastrophe?) by suggesting that somebody who has no likelihood of being his working mate is a front-runner to be his working mate. And as of this afternoon, this was the lead sentence of the lead story at Yahoo Information:

The Drudge Report ran a blaring headline late Thursday evening reporting that sources inside Mitt Romney’s presidential marketing campaign say Condoleezza Rice, who served as secretary of state and nationwide safety adviser underneath President George W. Bush, is a “front-runner” for the working mate slot.

Which brings me to right this moment’s analogy: Drudge is to mainstream media as laser pointer is to cat.

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And only one extra…

CHEERS to angels taking part in with seaside balls.  The Emmy nominations for excellence in TV-makin’ expertise had been introduced this week. (No host introduced but for the awards present, which can air on September 12^th.)  A couple of notables:

» Main the pack: HBO’s Succession with 25 nominations, adopted by Ted Lasso and White Lotus with 20.

» Barack Obama is nominated for his narration within the Netflix collection Our Nice Nationwide Parks.

» The most effective musical parodist of the trendy period, Randy Rainbow, notched his 4th Emmy nod, for Greatest Brief-form Comedy or Selection Sequence.

» Final Week Tonight, Jimmy Kimmel Dwell, The Day by day Present, Late Night time with Seth Meyers, and Stephen Colbert’s Late Present—all of whom contributed a few of the greatest political humor and, particularly, cut-to-the-bone MAGA mockery, received nods for Greatest Selection Discuss Sequence. Full Frontal With Samantha Bee received a nod for greatest brief type nonfiction or actuality collection.

» One among Portland, Maine’s most famous college students, Tony Shalhoub (College of Southern Maine), earned his 13^th Emmy nomination, for The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel.

» The World In accordance with Jeff Goldblum ought to win for greatest hosted nonfiction collection or particular due to the a part of the title that claims Jeff Goldblum.

» One Final Time: An Night With Tony Bennett and Woman Gaga ought to win for greatest selection particular due to the a part of the title that claims Tony Bennett and Woman Gaga.

You possibly can take a look at the complete listing right here. Snubbed once more: the 2 native blue-hair women who sing gospel tunes with assistance from a $25 karaoke machine at 3am each weekend on our public entry channel. Might God smite the academy with a nasty case of one thing itchy.

Have an excellent weekend. Ground’s open…What are you cheering and jeering about right this moment?

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