Archive for April, 2009
Mr. Shortcut To Vie For Party Spot
Mike Protack needs a shortcut to political success. The normal political grind of making friends, raising money, being helpful, sitting through committee meetings, and creating value behind the scenes does not seem to appeal to the feisty leatherneck – so this is totally believable.
If you are a delegate to the DE State [...]
What Were They Thinking?
NEW YORK (CNN) — A White House official apologized Monday after a low-flying Boeing 747 spotted above the Manhattan skyline frightened workers and residents into evacuating buildings.
“What were they thinking?” should probably be changed to Were they thinking? Or, are they capable of thinking? Maybe next time they could simulate a mass shooting at [...]
28Apr2009 | pandora | 5 comments | Continued
Goodbye Buick Electra
My first car was a used (but in good shape) 1970 Buick Electra. It was white and a mile long. It probably got 14 miles per gallon. Tops.
I didn’t care about that. I’m not a car guy, but I loved that car. I loved the sofa like front and back [...]
28Apr2009 | jason330 | 5 comments | Continued
The series that made Delaware pee its pants with dread
Every once in a while a blog series comes along that scares the living crap out of the guardians of the status quo and flips on the light switch of truth causing political cockroaches to scurry into their respective corners.
The directness of great blogging has a way of pissing people off. Because, [...]
The Wingnut Freakout Over the Swine Flu
Notwithstanding that this flu business will end up being a smaller deal than the tone of the news would tell you, the wingnuts are in Full Freakout Mode over his thing:
Glenn Beck thinks that Obama is reacting to the swine flu outbreak too fast — fast enough to fully staff the DHS while we’re not [...]
28Apr2009 | cassandra_m | 9 comments | Continued
Poll: Do you have any poll questions that you would like to share?
Nemski’s been sick over the last few days and is unable to get the creative juices flowing for a poll question, so please help me out.
28Apr2009 | nemski | 9 comments | Continued
Showdown
Jack Markell vs. recalcitrant, corrupt, out of touch, bought and paid for, clubby bureaucracy.
28Apr2009 | jason330 | 2 comments | Continued
Final Thought – Most conservative
What president was the most conservative? Now that Dubya is so unpopular, many conservatives are quick to claim that Bush wasn’t really a conservative anyway. But honestly, who can they compare him to? Bush Sr., Reagan, and Ford all passed big tax hikes, as did Hoover. Ford surrendered Vietnam, both Reagan and traveled to Moscow [...]
28Apr2009 | xstryker | 15 comments | Continued
Late Night Music Video: Moby – Shot in the Back of the Head
Directed by David Lynch.
27Apr2009 | nemski | 2 comments | Continued
Yawn, just another lunatic Right Wing Cop Killing Nutjob….
nothing to see here
27Apr2009 | Donvictimiti | 5 comments | Continued
Deep thought
Wouldn’t it be cool if you could waterboard politicians for things like DUI’s, wife beating and abusing their power to get out of a DUI. You could like swoop in at some unknown date after they were found guilty of any of the above and take them away for as long as you wanted. After [...]
27Apr2009 | Donvictimiti | 4 comments | Continued
Media Question of the Evening
A torture related media observation/question from Eric Boehlert:
Does anybody else think it’s odd, albeit telling, that for chunks of the corporate press corps, the emphasis surrounding the release of the Bush era torture memos is now centered on the political problems they’ve created for the Obama administration–how the memos reflect poorly on the current White House–and not, y’know, what the [...]
Worst Slide Story
This is a very clever animation from Newsday — click the picture to go to their site to see the complete animation!
27Apr2009 | cassandra_m | 1 comment | Continued
Monday’s Open Thread
Swine Flu Cases Double Overnight In US (LA Times)
Lesbian Couple Marries in Iowa (Miami Herald)
Earthquake Hits Mexico City (Chicago Tribune)
Paul Krugman writes:
First, there’s no longer any reason to believe that the wizards of Wall Street actually contribute anything positive to society, let alone enough to justify those humongous paychecks.
Apps for America
I heard this report on NPR on Friday — which talked about the winners of the Sunlight Foundation’s Apps for America contest. The goal of this contest was to have developers compete for prizes to create applications that let Internet users have greater visibility into the Federal Congressional process. The results are pretty [...]
27Apr2009 | cassandra_m | 4 comments | Continued
What Could Possibly Happen Next?
First, McCain states that “the fundamentals of our economy are strong” – and the economy tanks.
Then Jindal mocks volcano monitoring – and Mt. Redoubt erupts.
Now, Susan Collins cuts flu pandemic preparedness from the stimulus – and Swine Flu hits.
What next? Will high-speed rail sweep the nation? It’s bad enough being wrong in the past and [...]
Protack Flies Into The Future
The Community News had a piece about Mike Protack and his attempts to try and rebuild Delaware’s Republican Party through the use of web technologies.
Protack says:
I think the electorate sees the Republican Party as elitist or out of touch in a lot of ways. It’s up to us to change that, and any kind of [...]
Verizon Getting iPhone?
The perpetual question gets another boost today via this report from USA Today:
Verizon and Apple are discussing the possible development of an iPhone for Verizon, with the goal of introducing it next year, people familiar with the situation say.
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It would mark the first time Apple has produced a version of the iPhone for a CDMA [...]
Alaska Recap
An ethics complaint was filed last week against Sarah Palin regarding her work with SarahPAC.
An ethics complaint against Alaska Governor Sarah Palin will be filed this afternoon asserting that Palin’s involvement with SarahPAC constitutes “outside employment” and “misuse of official position.” Anchorage resident Sondra Tompkins, child disability advocate and mother of a special needs child, [...]
Commenter QOD
Unstable Isotope: For the financial crisis, what should be the punishment for legal but possible unethical conduct?
27Apr2009 | Donvictimiti | 4 comments | Continued
Olbermann Calls Out Hannity
This is from last week, but still is important.
Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy
27Apr2009 | nemski | 5 comments | Continued
‘Bulo’s Top 10 Targets for 2010-Numero Uno
24th Representative District-Bill Oberle
If the House Republican Caucus of the past 20 years was, as a whole, the Buffalo Springfield (it wasn’t, but bear with ‘bulo), then Bill Oberle was its Neil Young.
A very skilled operator within Legislative Hall, often called upon by longtime friend Speaker of the House Terry Spence to take on difficult [...]
Deep Swine Flu Thought
1) Thank God Barack Obama is the President and not some idiot Republican.
2) As the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) takes steps to deal with this crisis, the DHHS cabinet secretary confirmation is being held up by Republican abortion ideologues.
Thanks Republicans!
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