Archive for February 16th, 2009

Burris Is A Liar

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With all of my heart, I hate him. His smugness, his elitism, his holier-than-thou attitude, his inability to apologize. Well, what comes around goes around as  perjury is a thing politicians love.

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Dominatrix Work Forces Recession to Its Knees

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I really, really wish I had made up that title, but it comes from this article over at CNBC. And they got it from the Kinkonomics blog over at The Daily Beast. (Kinkonomics article may be NSFW) Definitely read the Kinkonomics blog post, but this is how CNBC describes it: When the going gets tough, […]

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Drugs of Choice

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Drugs of Choice

(via allhatnocattle.com)

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Exclusive Video

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I will not say how this got sent to me. However, I will say that Mike Matthews sent a video to Christine O’Donnell hoping to court her.  The rest as they say is history…..[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJlPEHL85Ig[/youtube]

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Debunking a Conservative Meme

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The honorable John Feroce posted a picture today which he got from Glenn Beck.  The picture shows a bookshelf with Obama-themed children’s books with a large sign above it saying “Religion” It seemed bizarre to me, so I started doing some research.  Apparently there are at least two versions of this picture on the Internet.  […]

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If the Republicans were smart….

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…they would tap into the populist anger in the country, like the British Tories are doing. David Cameron [, the Leader of the Conservative Party,] has stressed that no cash bonuses over £2,000 should be paid to any employee of a bank which has a significant taxpayer shareholding. Can you imagine the American GOP suggesting […]

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Un-Chartered Waters?

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The recent firing of Principal Ron Russo by the Board of Directors of the Wilmington Charter School has left El Somnambulo with more questions than answers. That’s why he needs your feedback on those questions. But first, a brief history of Wilmington Charter and the current situation. The Delaware General Assembly, as part of Tomas […]

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Republicans Have No Principles.

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You want proof? You need to look no further than the Stimulus Bill. Indeed, Eric Cantor has said that the GOP has rediscovered its footing and principles in the unanimous opposition to the Bill. But watch as all these GOP Representatives say as they return home during the President’s Day Recess: Rep. John Mica was […]

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They Love Mike Milqutoast

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The New DelawareGoatLovers.com mastehead is instructive on so many levels. Look how much they love Mike Castle in spite of his recent pandering to wingnuts. Bill Lee gets even less face time. Also, who knew pedobear was a Republican?

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Updated: You Can’t Make This Stuff Up… Um, on second thought, I guess you can

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Updated: You Can’t Make This Stuff Up… Um, on second thought, I guess you can

What do Republicans have against science?  Is this really just a way to package corporate profits to God-Fearing Christians?  First, we have Fred Barnes making up crap, now George Will. Over the weekend, the Washington Post‘s George Will, got in on the act. And it took us about ten minutes — longer, it appears, than the Post‘s editors […]

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UPDATED: What a F’ing Chickenshit Loser Mike Castle Is

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UPDATE: It really was an egregious slight to women to even suggest that they, as a gender, had anything in common with the utter spineless uselessness that is Mike Castle. I’m sorry. I know I was going to cut down on the profanity, but read this from “The Hill” and tell me that Mike Castle […]

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Literary Delaware

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Literary Delaware

From the Publisher: It is a land of wonders.  It is a land of mystery.  It is a land that time forgot (or chose specifically not to remember). Cut off from the civilized world for untold years by prohibitive interstate tolls at the New Jersey border. This land is called: Delaware. It is into the […]

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The Making of a Conservative Lie

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Steve Benen over at The Washington Monthly points out how a conservative set of lies became “news” this week. It begins with this lie from Betsy McCaughey who works for a wingnut think tank, published in the opinion section of Bloomberg: Specifically, McCaughey insisted that the policy would create a “new bureaucracy” called the National […]

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