Archive for September, 2009
Tuesday Open Thread
Get your discussion on right here. Let me add some food for thought. Two posts just appeared about the new rise of Ayn Rand:
Sociopathy on the Right: Ayn Rand and the Triumph of Conservative Cultism
No Compassion
Do you all think this may have something to do with the outbreak of extreme rudeness we’ve seen [...]
Physicians Overwhelmingly Support The Public Option
As Obama pointed out in his speech last week, the U.S. has been attempting to reform its health care for many years. In years past, the opposition of physicians has been partially responsible for failure of reform. If these new poll results are any indication, this year may finally be the year that [...]
15Sep2009 | Unstable Isotope | 13 comments | Continued
Cap and Trade One Year Anniversary and the World Has Not Come To An End
Oh yes — we already have cap and trade!
It is called the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) and it is a year old this month. 10 states in the northeast banded together to try to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from power plants in the region and installed their own version of a cap and trade program. Every power plant in the area needs to buy allowances to emit greenhouse gasses. Allowances are sold on auction quarterly. At some point, the number of allowances on the market get scaled back — increasing the price of the allowance and sending a signal to the plant that it may be cheaper to reduce their emissions.
15Sep2009 | cassandra_m | 5 comments | Continued
The Dumbing Of America Continues
It’s the new political correctness – science is now considered too controversial for America. A movie about the most important scientist of the 19th century and one of the most important scientists ever has failed to find a U.S. distributor.
The film has sparked fierce debate on US Christian websites, with a typical comment dismissing [...]
Late Night Video: Roof Kittehs
This is just cool.
14Sep2009 | Unstable Isotope | 6 comments | Continued
RIP, Patrick Swayze
Patrick Swayze has died. He was 57 years old and had been suffering from pancreatic cancer. I think everyone around my age has seen Dirty Dancing many, many times.
Link to Time of My Life, from the movie Dirty Dancing.
Yikes! The Delaware Blogosphere Has Lost Another
I just surfed over to Delaware Watch and saw that Dana Garrett has posted a goodbye of sorts. He has apparently decided to hang the blog up for a while, as he has a new job. I can relate, as I have been unable to get the inspiration to post lately (other than what we [...]
14Sep2009 | liberalgeek | 6 comments | Continued
The 2002 Reapportionment-Another View
This morning, I wrote that the seeds for defeat for Saturday’s Special Election in the 37th RD were sown with the reapportionment of 2002, and the Republican gerrymandering and Democratic acquiescence that took place in Sussex County and elsewhere. Following that piece, I was contacted by someone with intimate knowledge of the House D’s approach [...]
14Sep2009 | El Somnambulo | 41 comments | Continued
Listen to Jason Scott and Tyler Nixon on WDEL
Jason and Tyler are hosting the Rick Jensen show on WDEL (1150AM) from 1 – 4 today. Listen, call and comment on this thread.
14Sep2009 | liberalgeek | 72 comments | Continued
Monday Open Thread
I’m super busy this morning, but use this thread to chat away. Remember, nothing is off-topic in an open thread!
14Sep2009 | Unstable Isotope | 12 comments | Continued
Some Not So Random Political Thoughts
Just because I was sedated and sadistically eviscerated during my stint in Third Person Rehab, I still had time in between fevered dreams to think about what was going on locally and nationally. Here are a couple of observations:
1. The seeds to defeat in Saturday’s 37th RD Special Election were sown by Bob Gilligan in [...]
Your Pop Culture Minute
Kanye West, the guy who said “George Bush doesn’t care about black people,” interrupted an award speech by very young country/pop star Taylor Swift because he didn’t think she deserved to win the award over Beyonce.
Later in the awards show, Beyonce won for “Video of the Year” and she brought Taylor Swift on stage to [...]
14Sep2009 | Unstable Isotope | 5 comments | Continued
Tina Fey As Sarah Palin Wins An Emmy
Tina Fey’s hilarious and scarily accurate depiction of Sarah Palin has won an Emmy. Congratulations, Tina Fey, this award is well-deserved.
Tina Fey picked up the sixth Emmy of her career Saturday night with her win as guest actress in a comedy series for her portrayal of GOP vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin on” Saturday [...]
SQote
Special Question of the Evening:
When does international law apply? Who applies International Law to the United States?
ABC News To Teabaggers: YOU LIE!
There’s lots of numbers floating around about the attendance for yesterday’s Million Thousand Moron March. One that has been widely reported on conservative blogs is 2 million (ironically or perhaps not the estimated number that attended Obama’s inauguration). Michelle Malkin’s site, linked to by many other conservative sites, used ABC News as the [...]
13Sep2009 | Unstable Isotope | 19 comments | Continued
Around the Horn Sunday
National news dominated the last week, save the special election in the 37th RD won by the new Lobbyist Representative Ruth Briggs King. Please note that if a blog has no story entries this week, it is because they did not have a local Delaware political story this week. Still, [...]
13Sep2009 | Delaware Dem | 9 comments | Continued
Another Clown Enters the Clown Car
A crowded field for 2012 may get even more crowded. Everyone’s favorite crazy ex-Senator is thinking of running for president. Yes, it’s Rick Santorum!
They were not, however, ended permanently. Rick “Man on Dog” Santorum is apparently taking the possibility of a presidential campaign seriously.
Speaking to a room full of prominent US Catholic leaders [...]
Read All About It In the Sunday Papers-First First-Person Edition
I’m back from Clown College rehab. Haven’t had much sleep, as the tortuous techniques inflicted upon me included aversion therapy right out of ‘A Clockwork Orange’. I am now officially totally averse to the ‘Old Ultra Third Person-ness’. I’ll tell my terrifying tale once I’ve gotten the proper perspective on it (I had no idea [...]
13Sep2009 | El Somnambulo | 6 comments | Continued
Sunday’s Open Thread
The NFL season kicks off this morning and Washington DC is still cleaning up all the bull shit left on the streets by the tea baggers.
13Sep2009 | nemski | 27 comments | Continued
The Fundamental Problem for the Teabaggers
… and why they will never be taken seriously.
Andrew Sullivan:
Here’s a test: when you see as many posters lambasting Bush and Cheney and the GOP for getting us into this crisis in the first place, I will take these people seriously as genuine small government non-partisan conservatives and independents. In so far as [...]
Comment Rescue: Jason330 On The Radio
I figured I’d better repost this, since Jason330 put this on the “Delete A Comment” thread. He’s such a tease.
Comment by jason330 on 12 September 2009 at 8:47 pm:
McNubins is a no heart chump. and I;m going to be on the radio.
http://delawarelibertarian.blogspot.com/
So, listen to the Rick Jensen *gag* (sorry, momentary gag reflex kicked in) [...]
RD 37 Special Election Results Thread
We forgot to put up a thread this morning reminding people of the 37th Representative district to vote today. The special election for replace Joe Booth featured 37 year-old public defender Rob Robinson and 50-something lobbyist and realtor Ruth Briggs King. We’ll post results as we see them.
Department of Elections on-line results.
Update 1: [...]
Deep Thought
Do you remember how you felt on 9/12? I remember thinking “I hope we NEVER have health care for every American!”
h/t Oliver Willis
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