Archive for April, 2009

Point & Laugh for April 30th

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Yes. Jeb Bush can bring you back.

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Withholding Sex the Key to Political Reform?

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Seems like Kenyan women are recycling a strategy first pioneered in ‘Lysistrata’. In the classic comedy by Aristophanes, first performed in 411 B. C.:  Lysistrata convinces the women of Greece to withhold sexual privileges from their husbands as a means of forcing the men to negotiate a peace, a strategy however that inflames the battle […]

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Chrysler negotiations with creditors collapse – Car maker to file for bankrupcy

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Per CNN I guess this is not so breaking news. It looks like the filing is part of the Fiat takeover deal. Question: How did US executives get so fucking bad?

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Poll Thread

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There does not seem to be very much middle ground. If you drunkenly beat up your spouse, you are really into it. If you don’t, you don’t

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By All Means, Fix the Veterans’ Home, and Fix Every Other Delaware Nursing Home

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While the News-Journal’s recent series chronicling chronic patient care problems at the Delaware Veterans’ Home is invaluable, it misses the most vital point: The same conditions found at the Delaware Veterans’ Home are prevalent at nursing facilities throughout the State of Delaware. Under the willfully-negligent leadership of Vince “The Bulldog” Meconi and Carol “It’s the […]

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Conservative Insiders Scheme Against Steele

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The Washington Times is reporting that a group of conservatives opposed to Steele are pushing for a resolution that would take control of the GOP purse strings away from Steele. The group needs signatures from RNC members from 16 states to force the resolution to the floor for a vote by the full party committee […]

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Deep Thought

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Meeting in Newark cancelled today.  I wonder if  flu worries played a part?   Bonus Deep Thought:  Young Jeezy is performing in Rochester NY on May 2 if you are lamenting his cancelled Newark date.

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Late Night Music Video: The Raveonettes – That Great Love Sound

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These two are from Denmark, with a retro 60’s sound (with a little Jesus & Mary Chain thrown in). [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4AoVaSrfAz0[/youtube] if only you could listen, try to change your mind

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Liveblog the Obama Press Conference.

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Click here, but don’t enter a password.

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Anonone: The Great Arbiter of the Delaware Blogosphere?

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Now, this goes with a very large caveat: is the Anonone who just made a great comment that I am about to highlight and which Steve Newton has already highlighted on Delaware Libertarian the same Anonone that battles with Burris and Dave on Delaware Politics and at other sites and that comments here frequently? I […]

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More Tales from the Lunatic Fringe

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Two more stories you couldn’t make up even on days when you took acid by mistake. From the Moonie (aka Washington) Times: RNC to Vote on Resolution Labeling Democrats ‘Socialists’ The funding fight comes on the heels of another open challenge to Mr. Steele’s authority. Unhappy RNC conservatives secured the signatures to force the committee […]

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Castle Sees Writing On The Wall

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One of the Washington Post articles on Obama’s 100 days focuses on Delaware Congressman Mike Castle and his friend, Republican Michigan Congressman Fred Upton and their vote against Obama’s budget in January. The money shot isn’t until the last two paragraphs when Castle is quoted as saying: I’m not giving the Republicans a lot of […]

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100 Days

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100 Days

I give President Obama an A-. The reason it is a minus is threefold. First, I hate the continuation of the state secrets privilege, but my concern over it is tempered by the fact that Courts will overrule it, as it did today. Second, I am not keen on Giethner’s closeness with Wall Street, and […]

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