Archive for October, 2009
Wingnut Alert: Obama Golfs More Than Bush
Yesterday, President Obama went out golfing. Two things made this news worthy. This outing was the first time as Presdient that Obama has golfed with a woman reports The Washington Post. The second item, and the most scandalous from the wingnut point of view (sadly I know), President Obama has now tied President George W. [...]
26Oct2009 | nemski | 25 comments | Continued
High-Risk Energy Grants Awarded To Delaware
Over $150 million in grants were awarded to 37 different “radical” energy research projects reports The New York Times. Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E), that received its initial funding of $400 million through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, is distributing the monies in 17 states. ARPA-E breaks down the distribution further:
Of the lead recipients, [...]
Monday Open Thread
Are you ready for Monday? Are you ready for Thursday’s Drinking Liberally at the Homegrown Cafe?
Let’s talk about Faux News, since they can’t seem to stop talking about themselves. Faux deployed the blondes to whine about Faux News victimhood. There was the inexplicably popular Laura Ingraham on ABC’s This Week With George [...]
Psst… Anyone Notice Something Missing?
Question: Why don’t we have a Surgeon General?
Answer: Here, in this excellent rant.
Good thing we don’t have a global flu pandemic.
Newt’s Ego 3x Larger Than His Heart
Newt Gingrich said on C-SPAN that he and his wife will decide by February 2011 on whether or not he will run for President reports Political Wire.
Callista and I are going to think about this in February 2011. And we are going to reach out to all of our friends around the country. And we’ll [...]
How the Army Corps of Engineers Stays in Business
It comes up with loony projects, has them embraced by pork-loving congress critters, develops phony economic benefits analysis, and then plays hardball, using people like Pennsylvania’s amoral governor as its cheerleaders. Michael Grunwald wrote a brilliant 5-piece series for the Washington Post back in 2000 chronicling how, in one Corps survey, the Chessie ran east [...]
26Oct2009 | El Somnambulo | 2 comments | Continued
Looking Ahead: What Are The Next Big Congressional Fights?
Health care reform is now entering the final phases of becoming a law – negotiation. Right now the big fight is what kind of public option we’ll get – triggered, opt out, robust (Medicare + 5) or level playing field. It’s certainly no reason to relax but let’s look ahead to what’s next [...]
26Oct2009 | Unstable Isotope | 7 comments | Continued
QotD: World Series
Who will run the 2010 World Series: Philadelphia Phillies or the dreaded Yankees?
26Oct2009 | nemski | 6 comments | Continued
World Upside Down: wRong Williams Right
Ron Williams wrote in his column Sunday that Beau Biden will be running for Senate in 2010. Given that Williams was correct regarding Castle’s run and a Delaware Liberal writer was wrong regarding Castle, should we not take Biden’s run as a done deal? Can we take Williams comment, “Those close to the family insist [...]
26Oct2009 | nemski | 32 comments | Continued
Late Night Video — Burying Goldfish
Put down all liquids before you watch:
25Oct2009 | cassandra_m | Comments Off | Continued
The GOP Plan Is?
Here is a really clever web ad put together by the DSCC spoofing the Mac vs. PC ads:
The GOP plan is block everything, root for failure and ridicule success.
25Oct2009 | Unstable Isotope | 13 comments | Continued
Hatching Absurdity
Politicians will say the obtuse things things and Senator Orrin Hatch is a politician. Hatch on CNN said President Obama may be waiting till after the November election to increase troops in Afghanistan reports Politico.
Some people have suggesting he’s waiting until after the election because they have some tough governorships up for election.
Some people? Seriously, [...]
Sunday Papers: How ‘Fast’ Eddie Rendell Made Sure Budget Avoided Natural Gas Pains
We all heard Gov. Ed Rendell’s (D-Comcast) lament that everyone had to share in Pa.’s budgetary pain, including the arts community, which was decimated by budget cuts while the big sports teams and movie theatres remained untouched. His lips were moving, so everyone knew that he was lying. When it comes to the natural gas [...]
25Oct2009 | El Somnambulo | 16 comments | Continued
Obama Approval Rating Up
Politico is reporting that President Obama’s approval rating is up to 56% from 50% in September according to a AP-GfK poll.
25Oct2009 | nemski | 6 comments | Continued
No Hablas Inglés? Ticket For You!
There is a federal law that states drivers of commercial vehicles must be able to converse in English. However, in Dallas, Texas, a few officers have decided to apply this law to drivers of private vehicles.
The federal law, 49 CFR 391.11, states that a driver
Can read and speak the English language sufficiently to converse with [...]
Prosecutors Go After Innocence Project Students
Northwestern University has become famous for its journalism class in the Innocence Project, where students research old crimes. Their work actually led to a moratorium on the death penalty in Illinois when they showed a significant number of inmates on death row were actually innocent of the crimes they had committed. Now prosecutors [...]
25Oct2009 | Unstable Isotope | 8 comments | Continued
Late Night Video — When Twitter Says Good Morning
Fascinating visualization of data from blprt, this video’s creator:
24Oct2009 | cassandra_m | 4 comments | Continued
The GOP and Health Care
Everyone that reads Delaware Liberal can probably agree that health insurance is a huge strain on Americans, businesses (big and small) and the government. For instance, according to the New York Times, small businesses are looking forward to a sharp increase in health insurance costs.
Insurance brokers and benefits consultants say their small business clients are [...]
Weekend Open Thread
Thread it up!
LOL! Another Republican push poll fail.
So Faux News is the queen of whining victimhood. They are a real news station, they are! Maybe not so much…
Friends and associates have encouraged him [Fox News founder and CEO Roger Ailes] to run, POLITICO reported earlier Friday.
“Ailes knows how to frame an issue better [...]
Left vs. Right
Gorgeous graphic with plenty to think about:
24Oct2009 | cassandra_m | 1 comment | Continued
Obama Details Help to Small Businesses
All across America, even today, on a Saturday, millions of Americans are hard at work. They’re running the mom and pop stores and neighborhood restaurants we know and love. They’re building tiny startups with big ideas that could revolutionize an industry, maybe even transform our economy. They are the more than half of all Americans [...]
24Oct2009 | nemski | 1 comment | Continued
Delaware Liberal Is Good For You
We at Delaware Liberal like to believe that we bring you a public service:
Adults with little Internet experience show changes in their brain activity after just one week online, a new study finds.
The results suggest Internet training can stimulate neural activation patterns and could potentially enhance brain function and cognition in older adults.
As the [...]
To Run or Not To Run, That Is The Question
As Beau Biden, the State Attorney General, gets back to work after serving his country in Iraq, the Delaware Democratic Party and the National Democratic Party await Biden’s decision on whether he will throw his hat into the race for his father’s old Senate seat.
The Washington Post is the latest news outlet to chime in [...]
The 3% Quandry
According to The News Journal, the state of Delaware has been allocated some 520,000 vaccines, but as of October 23, the Blue Hen state has only been shipped 15,700 vaccines — 3 percent of our allocation. The number of vaccines Delaware has been shipped is “less than Wyoming or Washington, D.C., whose populations are less [...]
24Oct2009 | nemski | 1 comment | Continued
Late Night Video: Public Option Singers
Via Americablog, the Billionaires For Wealthcare interrupt a meeting of insurance industry lobbyists with a song:
23Oct2009 | Unstable Isotope | 3 comments | ContinuedSocial Media
