Archive for August 24th, 2009
Late Night Video — Inspiration Edition
Weird, but you can’t look away: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6wRkzCW5qI[/youtube]
Michael Jackson’s Death Ruled A Homicide
A new chapter in the unhappy and tragic life of Michael Jackson – the LA County coroner has ruled that Michael Jackson’s death is a homicide. Eight weeks after the King of Pop was found unconscious, a search warrant of his doctor’s office revealed Monday what had long been suspected – that Jackson was given […]
Breaking: AG to Appoint Special Prosecutor to Investigate Torture
About bleeping time! From the Washington Post: Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. has decided to appoint a prosecutor to examine nearly a dozen cases in which CIA interrogators and contractors may have violated anti-torture laws and other statutes when they allegedly threatened terrorism suspects, according to two sources familiar with the move. Holder is poised to […]
UPDATE 3: Sports Betting Appeal Hearing
Most of you know that today is the day that the State of Delaware and the NFL, et al show up in the 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals to try again to roll back the State’s plan to parley bets only until the court case is settled in December or so.
Why The News Journal Sucks!
I don’t know if you missed it, but DelawareLiberal has been mentioned in the News Journal twice in the past two weeks. Both times, we were trotted out to smack us around. The most egregious was the mention on Sunday about our recent change in personnel.
The other mention seems trivial, but it is a little more insidious. Smitty saw it and pointed it out to us. The discussion of DL was that we were trading in baseless rumors.
A Witty Saying Proves Nothing
When the Prince of Darkness died, I commented, “Good riddance. Don’t let the door hit you in the ass on your way to Hell.” It was Chilon of Sparta who once said that one should not speak ill of the dead, but I’m pretty sure that he wasn’t speaking of people like Robert Novak. With […]
The New Wingnut Lie — Death Books for Vets
Have you heard about this one? An ex-Bush appointee, Jim Towey — one in charge of the White House Office of Faith-Based Initiatives under BushCo (!) — writes an op-ed in the WSJ painting a booklet that provides some guidance on end-of-life planning and claims that it deliberately steers vets towards death.
This would be, of course, wrong. The HuffPo has some great info on this, but the first thing you should know about Mr.Jim Towey and this current jihad of lies is this:
Screw Joe Lieberman!
Is anyone else as sick as I am of all these guys with gold-plated government insurance plans telling everyone else they can’t have insurance? Joe Lieberman doesn’t mind spending money for an unnecessary war in Iraq but actually helping people right here in the U.S. is just too expensive. Never mind that reform is supposed […]
Absence of Journalism
One of our frequent targets of derision is The News Journal — from their inexplicable and often wrong keeper of the Delaware Way Mr. Ron Williams, to some of their very shallow reporting of local politics — this is a paper that doesn’t seem to know from the “paper of record”
Early Morning Oddity
You decide – brilliant back-up plan or just plain insane? They start their meetings with a recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance, the nation’s unofficial loyalty oath. And so it was last week when Republican Party leaders met at a Springfield hotel prior to attending Republican Day at the Illinois State Fair. Republican county chairmen […]
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