Archive for January, 2011
The Noise Machine Sputters
The furious spinning on the right isn’t taking hold in the discussion on the Giffords shooting.
10Jan2011 | Unstable Isotope | 23 comments | Continued
This Year’s Eagles Season Was Like…
…an unexpected present. Some crazy doodad from the Brookstone catalog that you would never buy for yourself but when pressed, you admit to lusting after.
9Jan2011 | jason330 | 5 comments | Continued
This Doesn’t Surprise Me
The whacked out pseudo-Christian Westboro Baptist Church plans to protest the funerals of the 6 people who were murdered yesterday during the assassination attempt on Rep. Gabby Giffords. Plus, Bill Colley on WGMD seems to prove our point about talk radio rhetoric.
9Jan2011 | MJ | 24 comments | Continued
Pumping Up The Volume
As our faithful readers are aware I have been warning that Somebody Is Going To Be Hurt for quite a while. What happened yesterday didn’t surprise me. I’d been expecting it. The fact that it happened in Arizona… again, not a surprise.
What is surprising is how quickly everyone moved to define the shooter’s politics – [...]
The Lazy Media
Sarah Palin = random blog commenter
9Jan2011 | Unstable Isotope | 13 comments | Continued
She was Dallas Green’s granddaughter.
The 9 year old girl killed yesterday, was Christina-Taylor Green, the granddaughter of legendary Phillies manager Dallas Green and daughter of Los Angeles Dodgers scout John Green.
Our world is small, physically and philosophically.
Let Us Not Forget
the names of the six souls who lost their lives yesterday just because they participated in democracy.
Gabe Zimmerman, a 30-year-old aide to the congresswoman who was recently engaged.
Christina Taylor Green, a 9-year-old girl who had just been elected to her school’s student council.
U.S. District Court Chief Judge John Roll
Dorothy Morris, 76
Dorwin Stoddard, 76
Phyllis Scheck, 79.
Sarah [...]
The Compilation
Courtesy of the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence, an astonishing compilation of political violence that has taken place in the United States, only over the last two years. You owe it to yourself, as an American, to read it all the way to the end.
July 27, 2008—Jim Adkisson shoots and kills two [...]
The Pledge
Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy
8Jan2011 | Delaware Dem | 2 comments | Continued
Congress on Your Corner
One way to pay tribute to those harmed at Giffords’ “Congress on your corner” event: Attend your congressperson’s next community meeting. Congressman John Carney, meet us next Saturday in Rodney Square. It is time to take our country back from the violence.
Both Sides
Sarah Palin wants to be President of the United States. Now is the time for her to follow my lead. When you are wrong, when you have engaged in violent rhetoric, you apologize. Without qualification or excuse.
If a small state blogger can do it, so can Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh and Sarah Palin.
8Jan2011 | Delaware Dem | 27 comments | Continued
New Rules From Today
1. Just because Sarah Palin says to “reload” and “aim” at Democratic members of Congress, this doesn’t mean you actually SHOULD.
2. And even though Sarah Palin and other right wing commentators and candidates engaged in violent rhetoric during the last two, hell, twenty years, they can never be blamed when killers take encouragement or provocation [...]
Weekend Open Thread
The weekend edition of your semi-daily open thread.
8Jan2011 | Unstable Isotope | 2 comments | Continued
BREAKING: Democratic Congresswoman Giffords Shot in Arizona
Update: There are differing reports that Congresswoman Giffords and 6 others, including some of her staff and a Federal judge, have been killed. Others state that she is still in surgery.
NPR reports that Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ) was shot at a public event at a grocery store in Tucson, Ariz. Peter Michaels of of Arizona [...]
Time For A Blue Hen Truth Bomb
Keeler is a no heart chump who can’t close the deal and win the big one (except once and also a whole bunch of times in the JV championships with South Jersey State Auto Body College.)
Furthermore…
8Jan2011 | jason330 | 12 comments | Continued
Calling Them Frauds Is Accurate
Andrew Sullivan nails it.
First, let’s read Paul Ryan’s quote:
“We’re gonna be reducing all domestic discretionary spending. I can’t tell you by what amount and which program, but all of it is going to be going down, and the aggregate amount will be back to 2008 levels before the spending binge occurred.”
Okay, everybody got that? Take [...]
Friday Open Thread
The Friday edition of your semi-daily open thread.
7Jan2011 | Unstable Isotope | 6 comments | Continued
Republicans’ Big Day
The GOP’s first full session was yesterday – a
recap.
Tom Kovach Wants To Dip County Government In Tea
GOP nominee for NCCo Council President Tom Kovach is
courting the Tea Party vote for the special election.
Just a Great Feel Good Story
I want to see more stories like this. Ted Williams
6Jan2011 | MJ | 6 comments | Continued
Watching the CRI Working Hard for Their Climate Change Denier Merit Badge
Required, apparently, for full participation in the Wingularity.
Again, via Tommywonk, we learn that CRI (and their Director of Center for Energy Competitiveness, David T. Stephenson) have been posting up their promised *discussions* of the so-called flawed foundations of Delaware’s Energy policy. There are three new missives today:
6Jan2011 | cassandra_m | 4 comments | Continued
Thursday Open Thread
The Thursday edition of your semi-daily open thread.
6Jan2011 | Unstable Isotope | 7 comments | Continued
It’s Hard Work Being Scalia
Antonin Scalia not only redefines words, he redefines history in his 14th Amendment revisionism.
6Jan2011 | Unstable Isotope | 3 comments | ContinuedSocial Media
