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Cheers and Jeers: Wednesday

Note: As many of you know, my partner Michael and I take a 355-day vacation every year here in Portland, Maine.  But all good things must come to an end, so we've hired Chesley Sullenberger to fly us back to "real life" in Key West tomorrow.  During ...

From BILL IN PORTLAND MAINE, Daily Kos,  24 Feb 2010

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  Chesley Sullenberger,  Apolo Ohno,  Betty White,  White House

Cheers and Jeers: Monday

Joining Dante Atkins and Angry Mouse on the roster of new Daily Kos Featured Writers is the lovely and talented exmearden, who hails from the Seattle area. She says her earliest exposure to politics was during "family dinner discussions at a certain ...

From BILL IN PORTLAND MAINE, Daily Kos,  22 Feb 2010

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  Leonard Cohen,  Citizens United,  Dalai Lama,  Paul Krugman

Cheers and Jeers: Rum and Coke FRIDAY!

Note: Hey, what important lesson did schools in the city where the Winter Olympics are being held teach kids during the Cold War nuclear scare of the 1950s?  "Duck Vancouver!"  Ha Ha Ha Ha!!!! By the Numbers: Days 'til Easter: 44 Days `til the North ...

From BILL IN PORTLAND MAINE, Daily Kos,  19 Feb 2010

Related Topics: U.S. Department of Homeland Security,  Barack Obama,  CPAC, Inc.,  Trader Vic,  Taliban

Cheers and Jeers: Tuesday

Note: The party of the teapot is also the party of Teapot Dome.  Oh, zing!!! By the Numbers: Days 'til Valentine's Day: 5 Days `til Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland comes out: 24 Number of federal bank takeovers this year: 16 Days it took Ryan Waters ...

From BILL IN PORTLAND MAINE, Daily Kos,  9 Feb 2010

Related Topics: John P. Murtha,  George W. Bush,  Tim Burton,  Sarah Palin,  Charles Manson

Cheers and Jeers: Thursday

But which one, Brit? Which one??? Generically urging a Buddhist to convert to Christianity---as the Fox Conservative Opinion Channel's Brit Hume urged Tiger Woods to do Sunday on Fox Conservative Opinion Channel Sunday---is like telling a child to ...

From BILL IN PORTLAND MAINE, Daily Kos,  7 Jan 2010

Related Topics: Tiger Woods,  Brit Hume,  Stephen Colbert,  Glenn Beck,  Calvin Coolidge

Cheers and Jeers: Candy Corn FRIDAY!

This is gonna be fun. First, everybody get naked. Wow, that was fast. Now, to play the game all you have to do is guess which of these comments about Maine's upcoming ballot Question 1 are real---i.e. from letters and opinion columns published in the ...

From BILL IN PORTLAND MAINE, Daily Kos,  30 Oct 2009

Related Topics: U.S. House of Representatives,  Wal-Mart,  U.S. Senate,  Hewitt Associates Inc,  U.S. Department of Homeland Security

Overrated Cheers and Jeers: Thursday

President Obama's got the video bug bad. He releases new online messages almost daily. Not that we're complaining---we love the way he's taking the presidency to the masses in such a newfangled way (by government standards, anyway). But he might be a ...

From BILL IN PORTLAND MAINE, Daily Kos,  19 Feb 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  U.S. Republican Party,  White House,  David Axelrod,  U.S. Congress

Cheers and Jeers: 2008 Flashback, Pt. 2

By the Numbers: C&J poll results from April through June Percent of Kossacks who think Bill Richardson looks better with a beard than without one: 69% Percent who like the idea of rotating regional primaries starting in 2012: 68% Percent who believe we ...

From BILL IN PORTLAND MAINE, Daily Kos,  29 Dec 2008

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  George W. Bush,  U.S. Republican Party,  Dick Cheney,  Hillary Rodham Clinton

Cheers and Jeers: Election Day!

By the Numbers: Days 'til the general election: 0 Days `til inauguration day: 77 Number of U.S. troops killed in Iraq in October: 13 Number killed in Afghanistan: 15 (Source: iCasualties.org) Number of North Carolina license plates issued last year ...

From BILL IN PORTLAND MAINE, Daily Kos,  4 Nov 2008

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  John McCain,  U.S. Democratic Party,  U.S. Republican Party,  Walter Cronkite

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