Archive for March, 2008

Good Thing We Are Letting The Iraq War “just grind” on

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Iraq head slapper of the day: It appears that Prime Minister Nouri Maliki’s ultimatum to Shiite Muslim militiamen to surrender to the Iraqi government might not be working precisely as he had intended. When nobody had turned up by Friday, Maliki gave members of radical Shiite cleric Muqtada Sadr’s Mahdi Army militia 10 more days […]

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Obama Girl Mystery Solved

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I heard Al Mascitti talking about how strange it is that “Obama Girl” is popular. Well, at that point I had not seen the Obama Girl video. Having seen it, you don’t have to be Donviti to figure out why it is popular. That’s right. It is funny. The song kind of swings, and Oh…by […]

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Delaware Rap

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Delaware: Not recommended for kids. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rL4rwwsOJDA[/youtube]

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An Interview With a Revenge Voter

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A: Hello, and thank you for being interviewed about this. You’ve said that if Hillary Clinton wins the nomination that you’ll abstain from voting or vote for a third party candidate. Do you stand by that? B: Yes I stand by that. I might even vote for McCain, but I doubt it. One thing is […]

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Four Uncommitted Delaware Delegates

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Tom Noyes mentioned on the radio that Delaware has four uncommitted delegates. I think those four going for Obama would be newsworthy. I’m not sure how the process works, so this is an honest question: Does anyone think that it is time to write some polite letters to these folks reminding them that Delaware resoundingly […]

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Live Blogging “Money & Politics Delaware”

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First half Dace with his Greg Sommerville in the first half hour talking stock markets. “Markets will be down 10% for the year.” So this guy predicted that stock would go down and Dace is treating him like an oracle. “We need a 20% drop…a real purge to set the bottom of the market. The […]

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Love Song

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[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MR5xv3pt7KI[/youtube] Goodmorning starshine! The earth says hello.

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News Journal Death Watch News

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Gannett Posts Lower Revenue Results For January 2/28/2008 9:17:31 AM Gannett Co., Inc. (GCI) said Thursday that its total pro forma operating revenues for January declined 7.5% to $575.4 million from last year’s $622.0 million. Pro forma newspaper advertising revenues fell 9.2% to $371.4 million from $409.03 million in the year-ago period. In the idex […]

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TommyWonk, Shirley Vandever on with Dace Saturday Morning on WILM

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The WILM stream works so you can listen outside of Wilmington. Tom and Shirley Vandever of Delaware Curmudgeon will be joining Dace Blaskovitz tomorrow on his Money and Politics show on WILM, 1450 on your AM dial. The show runs from every Saturday from 10:00 to 11:00. We’ll be on at about 10:30 to give […]

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Deep Thought

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Hillary Clinton’s unwillingness to get out of the race is just like George Bush’s unwillingess to get out of Iraq.

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And She Wants To Be McCain’s VP

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…uhhhm ………… NO! Rice Concedes She Didn’t Think Iraq ‘Would Be This Tough,’ Blames Iraqis For Continued Violence» Speaking to a group of journalists yesterday, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice admitted that she didn’t think the war in Iraq would be as “this tough“: Looking back on the last five years and the war in […]

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Is John Up To Something?

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Is John Up To Something?

  Dear Friend, As you may know, next Friday, April 4, Christiana Care, The News Journal and AstraZeneca are sponsoring a Gubernatorial debate on health care. The debate will take place at the John H. Ammon Medical Education Center on the Christiana Hospital Campus at 10 am (doors open at 9 am). Admission is free, […]

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How Will You Be Stimulated?

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In the next several months most of us will be receiving economic stimulus checks.  The intent is to try to pull this economy out of its recession death-spiral.  So how will you spend your money? Unfortunately for the economy, I plan to spend mine on a cottage rental in Nova Scotia in August.

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