(C) Daily Kos This story was originally published by Daily Kos and is unaltered. . . . . . . . . . . Cheers and Jeers: Monday [1] ['Backgroundurl Avatar_Large', 'Nickname', 'Joined', 'Created_At', 'Story Count', 'N_Stories', 'Comment Count', 'N_Comments', 'Popular Tags', 'Showtags Popular_Tags'] Date: 2022-11-07 Cheers and Jeers for Monday, November 7, 2022 Note: Vote! - By the Numbers: 5 days!!! Days 'til voting ends in the midterm elections: 1!!!! Days 'til the San Francisco Coffee Festival: 5 Percent of Americans polled for Axios who believe the federal government is controlled by a "secret cabal" including one-third of Democrats: 44% Number of days warning prior to a mass layoff that Elon Musk is required to give his employees at Twitter according to federal and California employment laws: 60 Number of days of warning Musk is actually giving them, resulting in a class-action lawsuit against him: 0 Most common price at the pump this morning: $3.19 Percent chance that Virginia's MAGA Governor Glenn Munchkin dismantled his public schools-related "Critical Race Theory Tip Line" because nobody left any tips because CRITICAL RACE THEORY ISN’T A THING IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS: 100% World Series Update! Sorry, I was watching reruns of Teletubbies. I’ll take care of this tomorrow. - Puppy Pic of the Day: Important Monday morning meeting… - CHEERS to more noses to the grindstone. President Biden's Labor Department delivered a lovely gift with a big bow on top to Democratic candidates running in the midterms: jobs, jobs, jobs, jobs, jobs! 261,000 new pairs of hands helping build America, and an unemployment rate at a low 3.7 percent, continuing one of the fastest and most spectacular employment recoveries in our history. My go-to guy for all things economic, Bill McBride, has more at the indispensable Calculated Risk blog: The headline jobs number in the October employment report was above expectations, and employment for the previous two months was revised up by 29,000, combined. […] Bill McBride’s famous employment recession chart. Helluva recovery, Joe. The 25 to 54 participation rate [and] the 25 to 54 employment population ratio…are close to the pre-pandemic levels and indicate almost all of the prime age workers have returned to the labor force. […] Overall, this was another solid employment report. Or as CNN calls it: a mixed bag. The traditional media: nothin’ but a bunch o' damn "but" heads. CHEERS to cautious optimism in Vacationland. As you may have heard, tomorrow is election day in America. Midterms. Here in Maine, our marquee contests are the governor's race and the 2nd district congressional contest. Both are rematches. In the former, Democratic incumbent Gov. Janet Mills is squaring off against former two-term MAGA waste of space Paul LePage…and in the latter, incumbent Democratic blue dog Rep. Jared Golden—now in his second term—faces the seat's previous occupant, the smarmy multi-millionaire Bruce Poliquin. Unlike LePage, Mills has run a competent, optimistic, scandal-free administration. Unlike Poliquin, Golden has voted for federal legislation that saved a lot of his constituents' bacon. So it's nice to see a new poll that shows voters here appear ready to re-hire them: The survey, conducted by SurveyUSA for the electoral reform group Fair Vote and shared exclusively with the Bangor Daily News, found Mills with 49 percent support to 43 percent for former Republican Gov. Paul LePage and 4 percent for independent longshot Sam Hunkler. Only 5 percent of voters were undecided. She drove Paul LePage crazy by thwarting his every MAGA move when she was our attorney general and he was governor. Tuesday she vanquishes him again in the governor’s race. Ranked-choice voting will not be used in that race, but it will be used in the 2nd District, where Golden [has] 43 percent support…to 40 percent for his Republican predecessor and 8 percent for independent Tiffany Bond. … In this survey, roughly two-thirds of Bond’s voters ranked a second choice. Golden gained 80percent of them. Michael and I sent in our absentee ballots via U.S. Mail over a week ago, and they've been received, processed, and certified bamboo fiber-free. I don’t know who will be more disappointed to hear that: postmaster Louis DeJoy or the Cyber Ninjas. JEERS to promises unkept. Sixty years ago today, back in 1962, Richard Nixon announced that he was leaving politics with the immortal words, "You won't have Nixon to kick around anymore." Relive the smarm… - We did, in fact, have him to kick around some more. Then Ford kicked us by un-kicking him with a pardon. That was mean. - BRIEF SANITY BREAK - x SCIENCE: If you don't make mistakes, you're doing it wrong. If you don't correct those mistakes, you're doing it really wrong. If you can't accept that you're mistaken, you're not doing it at all. — Prof. Feynman (@ProfFeynman) September 26, 2022 - END BRIEF SANITY BREAK - CHEERS to compassionate conservatism. 36 years ago this week, in 1986, mediocre President Ronald Reagan did something decent by signing into law the Immigration Reform and Control Act which, among other things, provided amnesty to 3 million undocumented immigrants. Or as today's Republicans like to say, "Absolutely nothing happened on this date in 1986 so shut up, shut up, and shut up." CHEERS to a moment week of zen. be sure to pause this week to stop, put your brain in neutral, and take some deep cleansing breaths. Why? because November 7-11 is National Stress Awareness Week. Stress awareness is especially important on the road these days, I think we can all agree. To inform motorists around you who might not know this, we suggest you drive up right behind them, honk your horn several times, stick your head out the window and yell, "Hey, jerkface! If you weren’t so stupid and ignorant you might know it's National Stress Awareness Week!" They'll appreciate the reminder and will probably respond with a friendly wave. Thanks for doing your part. Together we can make a difference. - Ten years ago in C&J: November 7, 2012 CHEERS to the official starting gun. The fine folks in Dixville Notch, New Hampshire (motto: "A notch above Hicksville and proud of it!") and Hart's Location (motto: "I found Hart! He's over here!") have the honor of being the first voters in the nation to cast their ballots. The former saw a 5-5 Obama-Romney tie, and the latter saw a 23-9 Obama blowout. Final tally between the two locations: Obama wins in a 28-14 Granite State LANDSLIDE!!! Oh, and just for the record, there was one write-in vote by Old Man McGinley, who as usual voted for McKinley because "It rhymes, sonny. Hee hee hee hic!" - And just one more… CHEERS to departed eye pokers. Remember Jack Palance? One of the great character actors—died in 2006 at 87 after nearly 60 years of memorable performances in Shane, Sudden Fear, Batman, Requiem for a Heavyweight, and dozens of others. In 1992 he won an Oscar at 73 for playing crusty old cattle rancher Curly, and notably did several one-armed pushups during his acceptance speech. Over the weekend I happened to catch a bit of City Slickers and then refreshed myself on Palance's life over at the mighty Wikipedia. I found this incident that happened when Volodymyr Zelenskyy's biggest crisis was a case of acne: Palance, at the time chairman of the Hollywood Trident Foundation, walked out of a Russian Film Festival in Hollywood in 2004. Ukrainian Palance in City Slickers. After being introduced, Palance said, "I feel like I walked into the wrong room by mistake. I think that Russian film is interesting, but I have nothing to do with Russia or Russian film. My parents were born in Ukraine: I'm Ukrainian. I'm not Russian. So, excuse me, but I don't belong here. It's best if we leave." Palance was awarded the title of "People's Artist" by Vladimir Putin, president of Russia; however, Palance refused the title. I like to think that, from the great beyond, Palance is looking down and paraphrasing the words he said about his City Slickers co-star Billy Crystal during his Oscar speech: "Vladimir Putin ... I crap bigger than him." Given how bad he’s losing over there, I think we all do. Have a tolerable Monday. Floor's open...What are you cheering and jeering about today? - Today's Shameless C&J Testimonial Bill in Portland Maine doesn’t splash in the Cheers and Jeers kiddie pool without his rubber ducky or toilet seat: author —The New York Post - [END] --- [1] Url: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/11/7/2133581/-Cheers-and-Jeers-Monday 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/