Archive for March, 2009
More Possibly Erroneous Ed Begley Trivia
In 1997 Ed Begely Jr. played Dr. Chris Vanderkamp on one episode of “The Drew Carey Show.”
22Mar2009 | jason330 | 4 comments | Continued
A Stunning Thing To Face
To all you 2nd Amendment extremists, it’s time to shut up and do something about the guns in our streets. If you don’t, one can only assume you hate the police.
22Mar2009 | nemski | 104 comments | Continued
Read All About It in the Sunday Papers-March 22 Edition
LEAD STORY: Philadelphia Inquirer: HOW THE FEDS GOT FUMO.
Somebody’s got to say it. There is not a newspaper in the country doing better investigative work than the Philadelphia Inquirer. Today’s ‘howtheydunit’ is a definitive analysis of how the best the Federal government has working for them can take down even the most powerful lowlife. While [...]
Symbolic
I snapped this picture with my phone yesterday while on RT13. It’s a picture of the HUMMER Store out of business. What you can’t see to the left is that TOYOTA is expanding and buying up more land to showcase their cars.
22Mar2009 | Donvictimiti | 10 comments | Continued
Can the FDIC survive the Obama/Geithner Plan?
I’m no financial genius like Tim Geithner, but it seems to me that the current Obama/Geithner plan puts the FDIC under a hell of a lot of stress.
And if people think that their CD’s and meager savings are not safe in Wilmington Trust and other “healthy” banks – then we are talking full blown, [...]
Wanna Get Depressed?
Read the last 15 or so posts at Eschaton about the Obama administration’s new plan to throw ever more money in the money furnace.
They are short.
Krugman:
This plan will produce big gains for banks that didn’t actually need any help; it will, however, do little to reassure the public about banks that are [...]
BSG Goes to the UN
I’ve never seen the new show, but I know people really love it. Edward James Olmos makes an appearance at the UN deconstructing the social construction of the idea of race:
21Mar2009 | cassandra_m | 2 comments | Continued
‘Bulo’s Music for the Masses
The Beast Who Slumbers likes this weekend trend of sharing favorite music and other cultural touchstones with the blognoscenti. It enables ‘bulo and others to take time to savor life’s pleasures and perhaps consign the political slings and barbs to the corner of the e-closet.
Today, El Somnambulo offers up a couple of his current favorites.
First [...]
Around the Horn Friday, er ah, Saturday…er ah..
You will all have to forgive me, but I am on a mini vacation to Las Vegas right now, so Around the Horn Friday will be delayed until Monday.
21Mar2009 | Delaware Dem | 7 comments | Continued
Visit The DelawareLiberal Booth at the Great Green Expo
I’ll be manning the DelawareLiberal.net booth* today at the Great Green Expo from about 11:00.
*In the interest of sustainability, DelawareLiberal.net does not have a “booth” per se.
In the same way that this broadsheet is not printed on paper, our booth occupies a mental space rather than a physical space. Anyway, say hello if you see me [...]
QOM
Which one the bigger fairy tale? The Easter Bunny, Jesus, “The Traditional Marriage”, Lawmakers care about you
21Mar2009 | Donvictimiti | 9 comments | Continued
Late Night Oddity: Koyaanisqatsi
This is the complete theatrical release of Koyaanisqatsi (1982), music by Phillip Glass.
Update:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sps6C9u7ras
FYI:Gmail users
If you have Gmail, now you can find out which mailing list is selling your address to spammers!
h/t suburbanguerrilla
Quote of the Day
Paul Krugman writes:
Life is easy if you’re a conservative. Even if conservatives fail completely while in power, they can turn around and say, “See — that proves our point. Government doesn’t work!”
Bracket of Evil
More March Madness from CREDO:
“Use the bracket below to vote for the most malevolent forces in American politics – we’ll let you know when the results are in for each round so that you can see your evil favorites all the way through to the championship. Just click on the people/corporations you want to vote [...]
Electronic Voter Fraud in Kentucky
I just came across this story in my travels. The story is about indictments in KY of election officials for changing electronic votes at the voting machine.
Basically, the voters would cast their votes and press the “VOTE” button at the bottom of the ballot. Then they would walk out. The vote button actually was programmed [...]
What’s In The Water At CNBC?
Talk about being out of touch.
On CNBC this morning, host Mark Haines — who is catching heat this morning for arguing that Wall Street can’t “be run well” by anyone making under $250,000 — was at it again defending the need for high executive bonuses in order to keep Wall Street running.
When I hear comments [...]
Fixing A Mistake
Admitting that hiring Tim Geithner was a mistake and fixing that mistake would demonstrate to me that President Obama really wants to break away from the bad habits of the Bush administration.
Geithner and Bernanke supported bonuses at AIG
Chris in Paris · 3/20/2009 10:14:00 AM ET · Link
Show them both the door. Maybe [...]
20Mar2009 | jason330 | 19 comments | Continued
Friday Job Bank
I had this idea that DL could help find jobs for people. So I’m hoping that if you have a friend (or yourself, Donviti) that needs a job, throw up a quick description of their skills.
And if you see a person that fits your needs, let us know and we can connect you.
I’ll go first [...]
The Morning After
March 19, 2009 will forever be remembered as the date that Delaware’s Gilded Age officially ended. An age that was literally ‘built on a house of (credit) cards’ is no more. The same institutions that buttressed Delaware’s financial strength, compliments of the usurious interest rates that Delaware had legalized, imploded and helped lead what in [...]
20Mar2009 | El Somnambulo | 29 comments | Continued
QOD
Would you let your 16 year old daughter get a tattoo? Would you turn it into a nice father/daughter or mother/daughter experience? If you were divorced would you tell or ask for the father/mother’s opinion?
(Purely hypothetical, never in a million years could this happen to me)
Homelessness is Hard
I have not given much of an update on the homeless man that I have been helping. This is more of a reflection of my laziness than a lack of things happening.
Thanks to the Friendship House, he was able to get his birth certificate from New York. This took 2 months. Since then, we have [...]
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