Archive for May, 2009

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QOD

Who is at fault? Jon or Kate?

27May2009 | Donvictimiti | 15 comments | Continued
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Suck It Protack, You Ass

Recovering from Republican mismanagement of the economy is going to be a tough slog.   And while economists agree that the recovery would have come on faster and stronger if Republicans did not work to gut the stimulus package – what got passed is working.
This is good news on two levels.   Obviously the economy improving is [...]

27May2009 | jason330 | 85 comments | Continued
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The Family That Paved America’s Way for the Obamas

 ’Bulo thinks that, without this family coming into the homes of tens of millions of Americans every week, the embracing of Barack Obama might well have been delayed for many years, and may never have happened at all.
The impact of this family, as a positive influence on the black community, as well as on America [...]

27May2009 | El Somnambulo | 9 comments | Continued
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Hannity Is Still An Idiot

Keith Olbermann interviewed Erich “Mancow” Muller on Countdown last night.

Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy

During the interview, Muller reveals that Hannity still doesn’t believe waterboarding is torture.
Mancow reaffirmed that the practice was indeed torture and said that his “psychological state” going into the experiment was that he was “laughing [...]

27May2009 | Unstable Isotope | 35 comments | Continued
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Sooo I guess Petraeus hates America too?

I wonder when Hannitty and the rest of the GOP will slam the general for his rhetoric to make America less safe:
h/t crooksandliars.com

“With respect to Guantanamo,” Petraeus added, “I think that the closure in a responsible manner, obviously one that is certainly being worked out now by the Department of Justice — I talked to [...]

26May2009 | Donvictimiti | 13 comments | Continued
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Git Chur Anti-gay Agenda Rage On Ya’ll!!

Next Sussex County Community Organized
Regiment meeting is this coming Thursday! 
7:30 pm, Thursday, May 28, 2009
In the Pavillion @ Post 28
Blah blah blah…

This will be our first outside meeting!
The Pavillion is fully equipped with water
and electric. 
Blah blah blah… 

Our main speaker will be Nicole Theis, President
of the Delaware Family Policy Council.
http://delawarefamilies.org/ 
Nicole has been heard on 92.7 FM [...]

26May2009 | jason330 | 22 comments | Continued
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On point

h/t not brian for directing me to this

26May2009 | Donvictimiti | 2 comments | Continued
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Drinking Liberally: Going Rogue

I am the new coordinator for the Delaware chapter of Drinking Liberally.  Unfortunately, the national chapter has not been able to get their act together to give me access to the web interface that will allow me to send a real announcement to all chapter members.  So…
This Thursday evening at 8PM we will be having [...]

26May2009 | liberalgeek | 45 comments | Continued
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My Hero in DE This Friday

The man who (practically) single handedly got the Democrats off the mat and fighting back against Bush Co’s brand idiotic idiocy, Dr. Howard Dean will be here on Friday.

HOWARD DEAN comes to Delaware for Health Care Reform Event !
WHEN:  FRIDAY MAY 29th – 3-5pm
WHERE: Delaware Building Trades Hall
911 New Road Wilmington DE 19805
Governor Dean will [...]

26May2009 | jason330 | 3 comments | Continued
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Deep thoughts

Remember when Harriet Miers was up as a Supreme Court nominee?

26May2009 | Donvictimiti | 8 comments | Continued
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California Prop 8 Upheld

This story is just now breaking. The California Supreme Court has upheld Prop 8. Prop 8 defined marriage as between a man and woman. The 18,000 same-sex marriages performed between the original court decision and the Prop 8 vote will be allowed to stand. The vote was 6-1.
Prepare for more litigation. [...]

26May2009 | Unstable Isotope | 19 comments | Continued
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Oops! RNC Accidentally Releases Their Sotomayor Talking Points To The… Media!

Honestly, can these people walk and chew gum at the same time?  At the very least they should consider banning their members from using technology.
Whoops. The Republican National Committee (RNC) has apparently inadvertently released its list of talking points on the nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court.
Included on the released list were [...]

26May2009 | pandora | 21 comments | Continued
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Donviti Interview Tip #102

Do not break wind or belch and assume that all is forgiven by saying, “My bad, those brown people’s food doesn’t ever sit well with me”

26May2009 | Donvictimiti | 1 comment | Continued
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Donviti Interview Tip #87

When asked, “The last review you had what areas did your management say needed improvement?”
Do not say:
1. Attendance
2. Drug habit
3. Completing work on time
4.  Meeting deadlines
5.  Controlling my temper

26May2009 | Donvictimiti | 5 comments | Continued
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Newt Trivia

What does Newt Gingrich have in common with Saddam Hussein, and Benito Mussolini?
Do you think you know?

26May2009 | jason330 | 9 comments | Continued
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What Is HB 162?

HB 162 is a bill introduced on May 13 and is sponsored by Rep. Mulrooney, Sen. DeLuca and Sen. Sorenson. The text of the bill is the following (link here for all bills of the 145th General Assembly):
AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 7 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO VESSEL TO VESSEL PETROLEUM TRANSFERS.
BE [...]

26May2009 | Unstable Isotope | 78 comments | Continued
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SCOTUS Pick To Be Announced Today

News reports are coming out that Obama plans to announce the pick of Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court of the United States.
U.S. President Barack Obama tapped U.S. Circuit Judge Sonia Sotomayor for the Supreme Court on Tuesday, officials said, making her the first Hispanic in history picked to wear the robes of a justice.
Here’s [...]

26May2009 | Unstable Isotope | 9 comments | Continued
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DOI Wired RFP Episode 4 – The Finale

Like many bloggers, I blog in a stolen five minutes here, a morning off there. On the afternoon of May 18th I found this rather strange RFP on Karen Weldin Stewart’s web site.
Not knowing much about the state RFP process – but knowing that we are having a bit of [...]

26May2009 | jason330 | 34 comments | Continued
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Squat Exercise Dog

This video is hilarious, well-worth the 30 seconds or so it takes to watch it.

26May2009 | Unstable Isotope | Comments Off | Continued
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Program Note

“DOI Wired RFP Saga Episode 4″ will be up at 8:00 am

26May2009 | jason330 | 2 comments | Continued
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Happy Memorial Day 2009

As the resident veteran at DL I can say that I have the authority and the right to speak my mind and add an educated veteran opinion that none of our other DL writers and to be honest many other Delaware blogger can (carpetbagger’s notwithstanding of course).  Sure we have the holy rollers that feel [...]

25May2009 | Donvictimiti | 93 comments | Continued
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Late Night Oddity: My New Haircut

Absolutely NSFW or for home.

24May2009 | nemski | 1 comment | Continued
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Commencement Day Speech Roundup

It’s that time of the year and kids are listening to someone try to give them some final words of wisdom before heading out into the cruel world after graduation.
This post is inspired by Joanne Christian, who heard St. Andrews’ alum Erin Burnett (now a reporter on CNBC) give the commencement address at the school [...]

24May2009 | cassandra_m | Comments Off | Continued
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Someone’s Got Issues

I saw a link to this article on Daily Kos and it’s just too good not to pass on to the folks at Delaware Liberal.
Sam Schulman at The Weekly Standard has an article about opposition to same sex marriage, but it’s not for the reasons you might think. Basically, same sex marriage is just [...]

24May2009 | Unstable Isotope | 5 comments | Continued
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QOTE

Is Karl Rove and the rest of the GOP dumping Powell because he is black?

24May2009 | Donvictimiti | 17 comments | Continued

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