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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

Cheers and Jeers: Thursday

Only five days to go until Maine voters drop into their gay neighbors' living rooms to either defend or revoke their civil marriage rights. (A 'Yes' vote on Question 1 repeals our currently-in-limbo same-sex marriage law. A 'No' vote extends a middle ...

From BILL IN PORTLAND MAINE, Daily Kos,  29 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Washington Post Company,  Barack Obama,  Joseph Pulitzer,  Matthew Shepard,  Tony Perkins (politician)

Cheers and Jeers: Wednesday

Note:  Nuh uh....  You throw me the idol and then I'll throw you the whip. By the Numbers: Days `til Hannukah/Christmas/Kwanzaa: 44/58/59 Days `til the King Con Comic and Animation Convention in Brooklyn: 10 Price of President Obama's ultrasecure, ...

From BILL IN PORTLAND MAINE, Daily Kos,  28 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Harvard University,  Barack Obama,  Madalyn Murray O'Hair,  Joe Lieberman,  Census Bureau

Cheers and Jeers: Monday

Meanwhile, on the other coast... Most of the gay-rights attention this election year is focused on Maine's "Question 1," which asks citizens to barge into their gay neighbors' living rooms and tell them they're not worthy of the rights and ...

From BILL IN PORTLAND MAINE, Daily Kos,  26 Oct 2009

Related Topics: U.S. Republican Party,  Washington Post Company,  U.S. Democratic Party,  Hillary Rodham Clinton,  U.S. Senate

Cheers and Jeers: Rum and Coke FRIDAY!

Note: Hey Pat Buchanan!  Please go home from MSNBC once in awhile!  Your wife still thinks you're in New Hampshire running for president. And from the Department of Homeland Security: Days the color-coded federal terror alert system has been in place: 2 ...

From BILL IN PORTLAND MAINE, Daily Kos,  23 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Pat Buchanan,  MSNBC,  U.S. Department of Homeland Security,  Matthew Shepard,  U.S. Senate

Cheers and Jeers: Tuesday

Note: Alaska Governor Sean Parnell hasn't held a single press conference in front of a turkey-beheading machine.  Boooooring... By the Numbers: Days 'til Barack Obama's birthday: 7 Days `til the Beach to Beacon 10k Road Race in Cape Elizabeth: ...

From BILL IN PORTLAND MAINE, Daily Kos,  28 Jul 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  Senate Judiciary Committee,  Sean Parnell,  International Monetary Fund,  Howard Dean

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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