(C) Daily Kos This story was originally published by Daily Kos and is unaltered. . . . . . . . . . . Cheers and Jeers: Monday [1] ['This Content Is Not Subject To Review Daily Kos Staff Prior To Publication.'] Date: 2024-09-23 The Week Ahead Monday The Harris-Walz campaign continues running on all cylinders. The Weird-Weirder campaign continues running on fumes. The Boeing strike continues into its second week when union representatives turn down management’s latest offer of a second bag of pretzels. Tuesday The 79th annual session of the U.N. General Assembly begins. On the agenda: action items on refugee rights, the climate crisis, global hunger, world peace and, if none of those succeed, escape pods. Mark Robinson becomes the first sitting Lt. Governor to be nominated for a coveted Adult Video News Award in the category of Best Discussion Of The Merits Of Being A Black Nazi In The Comments Section Of A Porn Site. (Or, for that matter, in any AVN Award category.) And here’s Chet’s five-day forecast. Wednesday The Mortgage Bankers Association releases the results of the latest mortgage purchase applications index, right after they sign here…and here…and here...and then initial here, here...and here. Lots of facepalming among the conservative evangelical movement today as it realizes it’s gone almost a week without remembering to blame a weather event on the gays, feminists and pagans. Thursday The gross domestic product for the 2nd quarter is released. As usual, Grandma’s spam and liver casserole tops the list. To everyone’s relief, scientists reveal that global warming isn’t happening 20 times faster than their most pessimistic predictions, but only 18.7 times faster. Exxon-Mobil celebrates the news with a colorful methane emission the size of Texas in the shape of a smiley face. Friday The University of Michigan announces its latest consumer sentiment index survey results. In a sign that things are indeed getting better, Americans' sentiment goes from rebarbative to effulgent. JD Vance suffers a brief pang of conscience. It quickly passes and his campaign staff cancels the 911 call. And according to the Mayan calendar, the world will not end this week. Please plan your lives accordingly. And now, our feature presentation... Cheers and Jeers for Monday, September 23, 2024 Note: Oh no!!! I forgot that I signed up to teach a crisis management class on Monday mornings and I'm late! What'll I do??? WHAT'LL I DO?????!!! - 4 days!!! By the Numbers: Days 'til the Walz-Vance debate: 8 Days 'til GreekFest 24 in Westfield, New Jersey: 4 Rank of halting school shootings on the list of issues Hispanic voters polled by Global Strategy Group care most about: #1 Percent of Hispanics in the same poll who support universal background checks and mandatory safe-storage laws: 91% Length of the contract for Microsoft to get energy from Three Mile Island's Unit 1 reactor for its AI data centers: 20 years Percent chance the Three Mile Island reactor is being renamed the Crane Clean Energy Center by its owner, which is investing $1.6 billion to restart it: 100% Major league baseball players besides the L.A. Dodgers' Shohei Ohtani who have ever hit 50 home runs and stolen 50 bases in a single season, a milestone he reached last week: 0 - Puppy Pic of the Day: Easy peasy… - CHEERS to Kamalamentum. As we saddle up to charge once more unto the breach, here's a quick Monday look at how the Harris-Walz campaign is shaping up with just 43 days before the election: ☆ Superior campaign fundraising: $257 million in August vs. Trump's $85 million ☆ Polls continue showing near-universal leads for Harris in swing states ☆ Packed rallies continue to be packed ☆ Voter registrations are off the charts, as is early voting in Virginia and Minnesota ☆ Beloved running mate ☆ Harris has accepted CNN's offer of an October debate while her opponent did not on account of his bone spurs ☆ Scandal-free. No indictments. No pending sentences for fraud. ☆ No Nazis...including self-proclaimed Black Nazis! All leading to one inescapable conclusion: I'd rather be us than them. CHEERS to world peace...or a semi-close approximation thereof. If it's autumn in New York, that means it's General Assembly time! All the leaders of the universe are assembling at the United Nations this week for the 79th time in the annual contest to see which one can be the biggest public nuisance. True Fact: The land for the United Nations building was donated by me without regard for its net worth. Also I paid for the third flagpole from the left. This year's event likely won’t be nearly as looney-toons as it was back when we had some real unstable goofballs wandering the hallways: Hugo Chavez (dead), Muammar Ghaddafi (dead), Mahmud Ahmadinejahd (now working the fry vat at the Tehran McDonald's), Donald Trump (out of power and rapidly unraveling), and that Bolsonaro fella from Brazil (now powerless and forbidden from seeking office again until 2030). The closest we’ll come this year is if Israeli war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu and Argentina’s oddball Javier Milei show up. But at least two rock-ribbed freedom fighters will be there to advocate for truth and justice this week: President Joe Biden and Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who will also meet in Washington to discuss the continued clobberization of the Russian aggressors. Then, as custom now dictates, the General Assembly will close the session later this week with their time-honored tradition: the annual shredding of the diplomats' unpaid parking tickets. JEERS to grinding it out in Congress. If you're asking me what the state of the budget of the United States of America—the most powerful, efficient, and got-it-together nation on Earth—is in the House under the leadership of mighty, mighty Mike Johnson, here's the clearest, most concise answer I could find: I'm glad you asked! But I'm gonna go out on a limb and guess that you're not. - BRIEF SANITY BREAK - x The future is now [📹 UB1UB2 West London]pic.twitter.com/gjbt9rejVF — Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) September 20, 2024 - END BRIEF SANITY BREAK - CHEERS to great moments in naval warfare. On September 23, 1779, during our War of Independence, Commodore John Paul George Ringo Jones, aboard the U.S.S. Bonhomme Richard (named as a tribute to Ben Franklin) engaged the British man-of-war Serapis in the North Sea. It was during this battle that Jones uttered the immortal words, "I have not yet begun to fight." Less known was the response from his crew: "Wild guess: you're a Trump." CHEERS to order in the courts. President Biden is adding federal judges to the bench at the fastest pace in half a century, hand to god, no joke, ladies and gentlemen, no joke. And the quality of them, compared to the orcs the previous POTUS and his Senate majority leader lap dog installed, is much higher. Not-so-slowly but very surely, Joe's restoring balance and competence to our highest courts: President Joe Biden secured the record for the highest number of openly LGBTQ judges appointed to the bench by any president when the U.S. Senate on Tuesday voted in favor of a military vet who spent years working as a prosecutor becoming a life-tenured judge in Philadelphia. The Democratic-led Senate voted 52-41 to confirm Mary Kay Costello to serve as a district court judge in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, becoming the 12th openly LGBTQ judicial nominee under Biden to win confirmation. That surpassed Democratic former President Barack Obama's record, who had secured the confirmation of 11 openly LGBTQ judges during his eight years in office. Costello, who is married to a woman, served in the U.S. Air Force from 1986 to 1994. She went on to earn her law degree from Temple University and worked from 2000 to 2008 in private practice as a lawyer at the law firms Saul Ewing and Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld. She has spent the bulk of her career at the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, which she joined in 2008, and where she has prosecuted bribery, health care fraud and other criminal matters. According to Ballotpedia, Costello was rated "Well Qualified" by the American Bar Association. In the plus column: impressive education, well-crafted arguments, and tenacity in the pursuit of justice. In the minus column: propensity for celebrating victories in court by dispensing purple nurples to opposing counsel. (Although some of us consider that an asset. If she can just get close enough to Sam Alito one day...) - Ten years ago in C&J: September 23, 2014 CHEERS to spinnin' round and round. The Space probe Maven successfully inserted itself into Mars's atmosphere Sunday, and NASA says everything is just ducky and green lighty: Following orbit insertion, MAVEN will begin a six-week commissioning phase that includes maneuvering into its final science orbit and testing the instruments and science-mapping commands. MAVEN then will begin its one Earth-year primary mission, taking measurements of the composition, structure and escape of gases in Mars’ upper atmosphere and its interaction with the sun and solar wind. And if things continue to go well following the insertion, nine months later Mars will give birth to a toaster. - And just one more… JEERS to using your pet as a human shield. On September 23, 1952, in perhaps the earliest demonstration of the power of political persuasion via the boob tube, Ike's VP candidate Richard Nixon delivered a milestone in televised ass-covering when he gave his famous Checkers speech on national TV. Talk about laying it on thick: “I should say this, that Pat doesn't have a mink coat. But she does have a respectable Republican cloth coat, and I always tell her she would look good in anything. One other thing I probably should tell you, because if I don't they will probably be saying this about me, too. We did get something, a gift, after the election. “You are not a crook, Dick. Yet.” A man down in Texas heard Pat on the radio mention the fact that our two youngsters would like to have a dog and, believe it or not, the day before we left on this campaign trip we got a message from Union Station in Baltimore, saying they had a package for us. We went down to get it. You know what it was? It was a little cocker spaniel dog, in a crate that he had sent all the way from Texas—black and white, spotted, and our little girl Tricia, the six year old, named it Checkers. And you know, the kids, like all kids, loved the dog, and I just want to say this, right now, that regardless of what they say about it, we are going to keep it.” Noting his blatant disregard for the law, the FEC hauled his ass off to jail, where he languished for 40 years and afterward couldn’t get even elected to the municipal sewer commission... [Poof!!!] Whoa. That was a great dream while it lasted. Have a tolerable Monday. 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