Archive for July, 2009
Late Night Video: Fight The Socialist Takeover
Comedian Lee Camp shows us the socialist nightmare that our country has become.
21Jul2009 | Unstable Isotope | 4 comments | Continued
Teen Pregnancy and Syphilis Increase Under “Abstinence Only” Bush, Or… Duh
Like we didn’t see this one coming.
Teenage pregnancies and syphilis have risen sharply among a generation of American school girls who were urged to avoid sex before marriage under George Bush’s evangelically-driven education policy, according to a new report by the US’s major public health body.
In a report that will surprise few of Bush’s critics [...]
Rachel Maddow Corrects Pat Buchanan
Rachel Maddow addresses the errors in Pat Buchanan’s remarks on Sotomayor from last week.
21Jul2009 | Unstable Isotope | 3 comments | Continued
Sarah Palin In New Ethics Scandal – I Know You’re Shocked
Chris Cillizza at the Washington Post reports on the newest Sarah Palin ethics scandal. Sarah Palin failed to report donations to a legal defense fund.
21Jul2009 | Unstable Isotope | 14 comments | Continued
Hey Lady in Georgetown, Sit Down and Shut Up
Obama’s birth certificate.
21Jul2009 | nemski | 34 comments | Continued
A Musical Salute to the Scopes Monkey Trial
On July 21, 1925, the ”monkey trial” ended in Dayton, Tenn., with John T. Scopes convicted of violating state law for teaching Darwin’s theory of evolution. The conviction was later overturned.
84 years to the day later, it is once again time to ponder those eternal verities:
Chris Smither- “Origin of Species”
Elvis Costello- “Monkey to Man”
Major Lance- [...]
We’re Back! (All of Delaware Breaths a Sigh of Relief)
We’ll have to check to see if some wingnuts tried to bring us down or what.
21Jul2009 | jason330 | 21 comments | Continued
Early Morning Open Thread
Sarah Palin’s resignation speech is copy edited by Vanity Fair.
Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. is arrested for breaking into his own home.
Atwater City Councilman Gary Frago (California) sent racist emails about the Obamas to staff and community members.
President Obama fights back against Senator DeMint’s “waterloo” comment.
News Journal Gets Around to Admitting That The Sainted Mike Castle Got Booed
Around 8:00 last night (56 hours after I broke the story here in Delaware) the NJ decided to acknowledge the video clip of Castle getting booed by Republicans and being forced to prove that he knows the “pledge of alliegience.”
21Jul2009 | jason330 | 5 comments | Continued
Another Bloodthirsty Fox Pundit
Fox News Pundit Lt. Col. Ralph Peters hopes that the Taliban will just execute the American soldier they captured to save the U.S. the trouble of putting him on trial.
20Jul2009 | Unstable Isotope | 2 comments | Continued
Comment Rescue: Polly Adams Mervine Fails to Impress DL Commenter
grunk says:
“She showed, gave an opening statement, then left. Took no questions.”
Georgetown Delaware Wingnut Birther Lady Now Officially Famous
Rush Limbaugh (link) used her on his radio show today to illustrate his claim that “there’s (birther anger) bubbling up out there.”
RUSH: State of Delaware, Mike Castle, town meeting, woman wants to know why nobody’s interested in the fact that he hasn’t shown anybody his birth certificate. If you couldn’t [...]
Gov. Markell on C-SPAN This Morning
Governor Markell is at the National Governor’s Association meeting in Mississippi this week and appeared on C-SPAN this AM to talk about a number of topics.
20Jul2009 | cassandra_m | 3 comments | Continued
Breaking: Markell to Veto ‘Bottle Bill’
The Office of the Governor has just released a statement announcing that Gov. Markell will veto the ‘Bottle Bill’, which would have rolled back the nickel deposits on certain bottles and cans. Here is the text from the Governor’s office:
DOVER – Gov. Jack Markell said Monday he will veto House Bill 201, which would have repealed [...]
What Are Our Favorite Republicans Up To?
Michael Steele doesn’t know what an individual mandate is, Mark Sanford is thankful to God for his affair and a former head of the NRCC decides that the Bush doctrine isn’t so great after all.
20Jul2009 | Unstable Isotope | 3 comments | Continued
40 Years Ago Today
Forty years ago, on July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first humans to land on the moon.
20Jul2009 | Unstable Isotope | 12 comments | Continued
DE GOP Leader, Mike Protack Breaks W/ Mike Castle
It looks like Protack has his issue: Mike Castle sucks. (Who didn’t see that coming?)
Protack now has his own blog topping a video of him trashing Castle and someone set up this site bootmikecastle.com in late june with most posts coming in the last few days.
Bonus Morning Castle Conjecture: George reads the ogre’s body [...]
Washington Independent Picks Up Castle v. “Birthers”
The clip is viewed as proof that the “birthers” movement will dog Republicans.
20Jul2009 | jason330 | 11 comments | Continued
Mike Castle’s Electorial Conundrum
It seems to me that the Castle videos we were looking at from the townhall downstate captured this split between the old school conservative elite (Castle) and the so-called grassroots looking for their populist due.
19Jul2009 | cassandra_m | 4 comments | Continued
Carney’s Fundraising Garners ‘Pleasant Surprise’ Nod from DKos
Steve Singiser’s Daily Kos featured blog on candidate fundraising gives props to John Carney’s efforts for the quarter ending June 3o:
4. John Carney (Democrat/DE-AL)–$262K Raised, $235K On Hand
Carney is potentially a challenger to longtime Republican incumbent Mike Castle. Carney more than doubled Castle’s modest ($125K) take, leading many to now speculate that Castle is on [...]
Science Explains The Difference Between Conservatives and Liberals
I would like to point you to this really interesting article at Gawker of all places, called Scientists Explain Why People Vote For Republicans. The tone of the article is funny and tongue-in-cheek but it points to three real scientific studies, discussed below.
The first was a study by John Alford and published in the [...]
Budget Crisis To Lead the Way to Legalizing Marijuana?
The California Tax Board has told the state that if they legalized marijuana, the state could raise $1.4 billion in revenues. This assessment looks at an actual bill pending before the CA Legislature:
The bill (Assembly Bill 390) by Assemblyman Tom Ammiano, D-San Francisco, is still awaiting its first committee hearing and is likely not [...]
Read All About It In the Sunday Papers-July 19 Edition
Were El Somnambulo El Presidente of the Internet Mundo, he would demand that reader responses be thoughtful and on point. (Of course, by that standard, the Beast Who Slumbers would have to ban himself, but he digresses.) His point is that certain stories deserve much more than boilerplate talking points, and today’s lead story is [...]
19Jul2009 | El Somnambulo | 13 comments | Continued
Your liberal media…edition 1,209,082
It never gets old screaming Liberal Media.
The Charleston Post and Courier has posted online (pdf) all 570 pages of emails obtained from the office of South Carolina governor Mark Sanford.
There’s a bevy of information in there, but one exchange that jumped out at us was the one between Sanford’s press secretary, Joel Sawyer (who [...]
Conservative Uprising Video Going Viral
There is something about the poor widdle Rino Congressman getting his comeuppance that is like cat nip to wingnuts.
“Birthers” love it of course. (and here.)
This head line only post at “giveusliberty1776″ demonstrates the deep thinking going on: MIKE CASTLE – R DELAWARE ANOTHER IGNORNAT (sic) SO-CALLED PUBLIC SERVANT…VOTE THE DIMWIT [...]
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