Archive for May, 2009

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Poll: Should Michael Vick Be Allowed Back in the NFL?

Discuss

20May2009 | nemski | 49 comments | Continued
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Republicans Are Stupid, and Democrats Are Stupid Too

For weeks, the Republicans have been united in one thing – fear-mongering about closing the prison at Guantanamo Bay. The Obama administration had requested $80M in funding in the supplemental war funding to close the prison and relocate the prisoners to federal prisons. The Republicans have never had a shortage of talking points [...]

20May2009 | Unstable Isotope | 17 comments | Continued
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Email to IC’s Office Re “Management Consultant” RFP

Michael.Gould@state.de.us
Dear Mr Gould,
My firm has a few quick questions that we need answers to prior to making a bid on bid number: 04-02-09-MG  (Please see attached).  
After you read the questions, I hope you will agree that it would be impossible for anyone to make an informed, honest proposal to offer consulting services given the [...]

20May2009 | jason330 | 21 comments | Continued
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Donviti Interview Tip #57

When interviewing during Spring and Summer months take into account construction

20May2009 | Donvictimiti | 4 comments | Continued
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Secret Government in Session-Day 2

The News-Journal is all over Joint Finance Committee secrecy this year:
DOVER — The budget-writing Joint Finance Committee spent Tuesday locked in closed-door session and adjourned for the day without taking any formal action.
…The 12-member JFC, made up of House and Senate members, goes into closed-door “orientation” and then opens the doors to announce the decisions [...]

20May2009 | El Somnambulo | 14 comments | Continued
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QOD Special Edition

If you didn’t know already Delawareliberal is sponsoring a Summer Concert at the Twin Lakes Brewery in Greenville on 8/15 2-6pm.  This is not a partisan event.  We are going to be holding this event for Charity only.  A cancer charity that has yet to be named.  (if you know a charity that would like [...]

20May2009 | Donvictimiti | 43 comments | Continued
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Quote of the Day

Vietnam teaches several lessons, the first of which is that the United States can have normal relations with countries whose political systems and ideologies it rejects. That is as true of Cuba and Iran today as it was of Vietnam or China.
— Roger Cohen

20May2009 | nemski | 1 comment | Continued
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RNC Voting Today!

The meeting of the Republican National Committee ends today with votes on resolutions. If you remember, party activists forced a resolution to change the name of the Democratic party to the “Democrat Socialist Party,” despite the opposition of the Republican Party Chairman Michael Steele. The resolution would have forced Steele to refer to [...]

20May2009 | Unstable Isotope | 3 comments | Continued
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Countdown

12 days To go until Mike Castle tells everyone that he is not running for the US Senate.

20May2009 | jason330 | 5 comments | Continued
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Anatomy of a Smackdown: Barney Frank schools Bachman

This is brutal man…brutal
Frank uses his seniority on Bachman and I can only imagine how it goes over that a guy like Barney schooled her.

19May2009 | Donvictimiti | 10 comments | Continued
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“This Change Comes In A Teabag!”

Michael Steele gave a speech at the RNC meeting today. (Full text available at this link.)
Some excerpts…
The era of apologizing for Republican mistakes of the past is now officially over. It is done. The time for trying to fix or focus on the past has ended. The era of Republican navel gazing is over. [...]

19May2009 | Unstable Isotope | 12 comments | Continued
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Do you like Bourbon?

If so, I know a guy that is hosting a top shelf bourbon tasting at the Christina River Tower Condo’s on June 13th.
If you are interested or know someone who is go HERE TO GET MORE INFO AND TO GET ON THE MAILING LIST for more information as it becomes available
The event is going [...]

19May2009 | Donvictimiti | 12 comments | Continued
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Attention, You’se Rat Bastids at Comcast…

Uh, has anyone checked out their Comcast channels today? If you have digital cable on all your sets, you will not be affected.
However, if you don’t have the digital cable or, in the case of Casa di Somnambulo, you have the big screen in the living room with the digital cable, and the other TV’s, [...]

19May2009 | El Somnambulo | 25 comments | Continued
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Kennedy’s Brain Cancer Is In Remission

Good news:
Sen. Edward Kennedy’s brain cancer is in remission and he is expected back in the Senate after the Memorial Day recess to spearhead healthcare reform, according to Democratic colleagues.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) said Tuesday that he spoke with Kennedy’s wife, Vicki, in the past few days and was told the 77-year-old lawmaker [...]

19May2009 | Unstable Isotope | 4 comments | Continued
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Republicans Lose Another One

Kilroy is now a Democrat.  Gird your loins… and your spell-checker!
Humor aside, here’s another example of Republicans losing a moderate voice.  Kilroy’s own words…
Dear Maria Evans what the hell should I do? Is the party so fractured that I must decide to remain a Republicans or not? It kinds of sucks that people in the [...]

19May2009 | pandora | 29 comments | Continued
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QOD

Is Dick Cheney more worried about his legacy than the country’s safety?

19May2009 | Donvictimiti | 4 comments | Continued
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Michael Steele Threatens to Pull a Thurman Adams

Suggests he’ll quit if he is forced to serve merely as a figurehead.
“Yo, yo, yo, Mr. Hip-Hop Nation
Whitey took your checkbook
much to your consternation
Your shooting from the lip
will be your ruination
So keep your piehole zipped
and let Rush do the oration.”

19May2009 | El Somnambulo | 9 comments | Continued
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The Conservative Male Animal Is A Dodo Bird

A book written for men by a man who has no clue about women.
h/t Pandagon

What ever happened to

American manhood?
Dear Fellow Conservative:
Today’s weak and pusillanimous Nanny State is anything but hospitable to true manhood.
And that’s why we need real men more than ever.
But our society today offers no clear rite of passage for young men. [...]

19May2009 | pandora | 18 comments | Continued
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Bell to Bell

I’ve been trying to write a post about the Delaware Education Association’s Bell to Bell Week and I’ve been stimied. Teachers throughout Delaware (except Delmar — thanks News Journal) are only working from the start of classes to the end of classes — bell to bell — to protest Gov. Markell’s proposed pay cut for [...]

19May2009 | nemski | 58 comments | Continued
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Donviti Interview Tip #11

Do not shave with a NEW razor the morning of said interview

19May2009 | Donvictimiti | 5 comments | Continued
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Recession FYI

Once the banks start making a profit again.  The country is fixed.
There, there (patting baby Uncle Sam’s head) it’s all better.

19May2009 | Donvictimiti | 6 comments | Continued
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A PSA For Our Friends In Pennsylvania

Today is primary election day in Pennsylvania. I know some of our readers are from Pennsylvania, so here is information from the Philadelphia Inquirer:
Here’s some basic information on balloting, and where to turn for help:
* Polls open at 7 a.m. and close at 8 p.m. Anyone in line at 8 p.m. will be allowed [...]

19May2009 | Unstable Isotope | 1 comment | Continued
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Gallup: Republicans Are Tanking

There are new poll results out from Gallup about partisan identification, and it’s not good news for Republicans.
The decline in Republican Party affiliation among Americans in recent years is well documented, but a Gallup analysis now shows that this movement away from the GOP has occurred among nearly every major demographic subgroup. Since the first [...]

19May2009 | Unstable Isotope | 49 comments | Continued
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Secret Government in Session in Dover

Nancy Cook and the Joint Finance Committee began its budget markup yesterday, free, for hopefully the last time, from the disinfectant of sunshine.
Virtually all of it took place behind closed doors, according to the News-Journal’s J. L. Miller.
Allegedly an ‘Orientation’ session, as if 12 veteran legislators with decades of JFC experience required any orientation whatsoever, [...]

19May2009 | El Somnambulo | 36 comments | Continued
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Remember when #208

Remember when we were buying duct tape and tarps to seal our windows and protect us from a dirty bomb?

19May2009 | Donvictimiti | 3 comments | Continued

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