Archive for January 26th, 2009

Which Republican Blogger/Candidate Will Save the DE GOP?

Filed in Delaware by on January 26, 2009 22 Comments

In the fight to “save the DE GOP” we have two people who have been shadow boxing in the gym for a while, but now seem ready to RUMBLE! In this corner wearing gold trunks with embroidered duckies is the man from Greenville, Charlie “Don’t call me Charles Lamot Dupont” Copeland and in this corner […]

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se fue

Filed in National by on January 26, 2009 9 Comments
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January 2009 has been a great political month for the ol’ nemski. Bush is gone, Obama arrives and now I just read the six sweetest words of the English language in today’s New York Times: This is William Kristol’s last column. Image blatenly borrowed from Progressive Alaska.

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John Carpenter’s The Thing With Stop-Motion Animated GI Joes

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I found this video by the band Zombie Zombie on Boing Boing. Pretty cool

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A Challenger in the NCC 5th

Filed in Delaware by on January 26, 2009 8 Comments

A little birdie (named Rebecca) has told me that the Republican party will be challenging Lisa Diller for Stephanie McClellan’s council seat.  The candidate is James Moulthrop Jr. of Old Post Farm. I hope to conduct an interview of Lisa Diller next week.  If you know anything about Moulthrop, let’s hear it.

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HB 48: Motor Vehicle Document Fee Income Tax Deduction

Filed in Delaware by on January 26, 2009 28 Comments

While Gov. Markell is looking at ways to get us through our current budget crises, State Rep. Charles Bill Oberle (R 24) has sponsored some odd legislation that will take money out of the state budget, HB 48, just when it is needed most. This Act allows for a Personal Income Tax deduction for the […]

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A Deliberate Mess or More Incompetence?

Filed in National by on January 26, 2009 11 Comments

How is this possible? President Obama’s plans to expeditiously determine the fates of about 245 terrorism suspects held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and quickly close the military prison there were set back last week when incoming legal and national security officials — barred until the inauguration from examining classified material on the detainees — discovered […]

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Will Mike Castle Put On The GOP’s Ghost Shirt?

Filed in Delaware, National by on January 26, 2009 7 Comments

Will Mike Castle toe the GOP’s party line again? Who knows, but one thing is sure – You have a call to make… President Obama worked through the weekend to convince skeptics in Congress to quickly pass his economic recovery plan this week. Obama’s stimulus would invest in green jobs, health care, and relief for […]

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Are You A Man?

Filed in National by on January 26, 2009 22 Comments

Check for yourself by measuring yourself against this Popular Mechanics list of 100 skills every man should know. Of course they left out “ability to man-up and apologize when you are proven utterly and disastrously wrong.” So, by that measure – our wingnut readers are mostly frail little wussy-girls even if they can solder a […]

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Tokenism Backfires on Fox

Filed in National by on January 26, 2009 16 Comments

This is an interesting montage that would be funny if it were not so pitiful. Fox had this token man with a brain named Peter Schiff on for financial segments over the past couple of years. He was put on so the other panelists would have somebody to laugh at. h/t bluehampshire.

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Republicanism, Alabama Style

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Here is a name from the not-so-recent past, Judge Roy Moore and he is thinking about running for governor of Alabama, reports countrycat in Left in Alabama. Moore?  You might remember him as the Chief Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court and the battle over the Ten Commandments Memorial in the Alabama state courthouse. There […]

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