Cheers and Jeers for Friday, December 14, 2018
Note: But enough about you…let's talk about me. Me me me me me. Little old me is getting another infusion of fabulous sparkling chemotherapy champagne on Monday, so that will affect our C&J posting a bit. We'll be here Monday morning as usual, then return in all likelihood on Wednesday, and definitely show up on Thursday and Friday. In our absence, please lean on the caregivers in the Abbreviated Pundit Roundup, the Good News Roundup, and the Daily Kos Elections Roundup. Then round up the usual suspects and throw them in jail for allowing gambling in this establishment. The nerve. ---Mgt.
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By the Numbers:
Days 'til Martin Luther King Jr. Day: 38
Days 'til the San Francisco Tape Music Festival[1]: 21
Number of residential and commercial property insurance claims, respectively, from the most recent California wildfires: 28,000 / 2,000
Total value of those claims: $9 billion
Number of real and artificial War on Christmas trees sold last year, respectively: 27 million / 21 million
Speed at which the Australian Dracula ant can move its pincers, making it the fastest animal movement on earth if you don’t count how fast Paul Ryan can steal candy from a baby: 0.000015 seconds[2]
Cost of securing all of the gifts in The Twelve Days of Christmas this year, up $450 from last year according to the annual PNC Wealth Management Index: $39,094.93[3]
Number of Beatles who never
