Day: August 4, 2008

Mike Matthews at Down With Absolutes! has the following blind item: I’ve heard from three independent sources that an awful event has occurred with one member of the family of…

Not done by me, but by fellow Kossack Avila. Check it out. Here is an excerpt: Q: You have written extensively about poverty as a human rights issue. How would…

For all the insults traded between myself and Bitterique, and for all the glee Mike W and his fellow right wingers take in such exchanges, the facts are the party…

Last night I said to Bitterique that I hoped we have heard the last from that evil, racist, wretched disgusting female dog named Geraldine Ferraro.   I. WAS. WRONG.  “If he…

juicy, juicy!

Obama is heading where McCain fears to tread. "What Senator McCain neglected to mention was that during those thirty years, he was in Washington for twenty-six of them," said the…

Some recent news on two political stalwarts, on opposite sides of the ideological spectrum, and their struggles with brain cancer.  First, the honorable Senator Ted Kennedy: A Kennedy spokeswoman said…

But I'm starting to like the idea of Hillary as Obama's VP pick. Let's face it the lady can fight, and Obama - who must stay above the fray -…

Note: This is the 4,000th story on Delaware Liberal, at least according to WordPress.  Congrats all!

This morning’s NJ article has a lot of choice quotes from current and retired lawmakers concerning the power of the President Pro Tempore of the Senate, Thurman Adams.

The article essentialy describes Thurman Adams as a mad dictator, with enough power to rule Delaware according to what pleases or displeases him.   Consider these passages of the article:

The epitaph for open-government legislation read “Jan. 11, 2007 — Introduced and Assigned to Executive Committee in Senate.”

The Senate Executive Committee is better known as Thurman Adams’ desk drawer, a place where controversial legislation goes to die.

Senate Bill 4, filed on the first day of the legislative session and intended to increase public access to governmental meetings and records, spent two years yellowing and crumbling away there.

Adams can kill bills.

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Mr. President, what do you think we should do about Iran? No thinking or acting with out my lucky feather! Given to me by a tribal leader Oh, but Obama…

I remember as a kid stubbing my toe at least once a vacation on the Boards of Rehoboth. OH MAN that was smarts....

Delaware is just in love with it now. From the News Journal: A Frankford company that is promoting turbines as a way to use fast-moving water to generate electricity has…