Archive for February, 2011
Friday Open Thread
The Friday edition of your semi-daily open thread.
4Feb2011 | Unstable Isotope | 19 comments | Continued
Look Who’s Back – It’s Donald Rumsfeld
Donald Rumsfeld has a new memoir. By Rumsfeld’s account, he’s a hero surrounded by incompetents.
4Feb2011 | Unstable Isotope | 1 comment | Continued
AIG Doesn’t Want Your Business
AIG CEO Robert Benmosche told an audience that their business is better in “red states.”
4Feb2011 | Unstable Isotope | 7 comments | Continued
Conservative Nutbag Blogger Super Angry That Mike Castle Lost To Christine O’Wackjob
The guy has a point. Castle would have voted for that horrendous healthcare repeal bullshit.
You know it. I know it. Castle, when you pump him full of sodium pentathol, knows it.
3Feb2011 | jason330 | 22 comments | Continued
The Achilles Heel(s) of Job Creation in 2011
ADP has released its January payroll data today, showing an estimated addition of 187,000 private sector jobs. The usual suspects are forecasting that this Friday’s Labor Department employment number for January will be 140,000. Neither of these numbers shows anywhere near adequate job growth, but it is some growth.
3Feb2011 | cassandra_m | 1 comment | Continued
Thursday Open Thread
The Thursday edition of your semi-daily open thread.
3Feb2011 | Unstable Isotope | 11 comments | Continued
A Journalist’s Job
Unrest continues to grow in Egypt and journalists are getting caught in the crossfire. For some reason, this made Time’s Jay Newton-Small cranky.
3Feb2011 | Unstable Isotope | 7 comments | Continued
‘Bulo On Al’s Show Today-Thurs., Feb. 3
Sorry for the late notice. I’ll be on the Al Mascitti Show on WDEL-1150 AM at 10 am today. Al’s show, as always, starts at 9.
We’ll likely discuss “The Best of Jack/The Worst of Jack”; questionable budget priorities; the Rte 113 bypass controversy; the Joint Finance Committee hearings; a legislative session wrap-up, and perhaps talk [...]
IC’s Office Still Losing Money
The Insurance Commissioner’s captive insurance initiative is still losing money but it’s losing less than it used to.
3Feb2011 | Unstable Isotope | 2 comments | Continued
February 3 — Call Beau Biden to Demand Tougher Penalties for Mortgage Fraud (EDIT)
If you’ve been following the foreclosure mess, you know that last year, with promises by some AGs that people would go to jail. That effort into large scale investigations seems to be dead in the water, while banks remain free to continue their bad practices.
2Feb2011 | cassandra_m | 7 comments | Continued
Earth-like Planets? Yes. Earth-like Life? Almost Certainly
These days when we have a whole political party that is openly hostile to science, and a decent faction of the nation’s population that is antagonistic to reason and rationality, it is nice when a hard science story breaks through the noise.
Especially nice when the story is inherently hopeful and guiless in it’s [...]
ACA Repeal Stunt Amendment Fails in Senate Tonight
The GOP brought up their amendment to repeal the ACA on a bill meant to reauthorize the FAA. It failed pretty spectacularly — largely because the GOP amendment didn’t propose a way to *pay* the $1+ trillion cost of repeal.
2Feb2011 | cassandra_m | 29 comments | Continued
Not Sure What To Make Of This
Yesterday, my 13 year old daughter told me she had deleted her Facebook account. When I asked her why, she said… It was taking up too much of her time and, while she’d miss it, Facebook was pretty lame.
Needless to say, I was surprised. I check her FaceBook account several times a week – to [...]
Wednesday Open Thread
The Wednesday edition of your semi-daily open thread.
2Feb2011 | Unstable Isotope | 5 comments | Continued
The GOP Healthcare Plan – “Race To The Bottom”
Publius at The Fourth Branch explains the Republican health care plan as “a race to the bottom.”
2Feb2011 | Unstable Isotope | 3 comments | Continued
Criminal Organization Releases Planned Parenthood Video
Live Action, who claims to be an anti-abortion group but admitted to running a prostitution ring to at least 12 Planned Parenthood workers, released a video yesterday,
2Feb2011 | Unstable Isotope | 12 comments | Continued
COURTS WATCH: Delaware Judge, Leo E. Strine, orders compromise in KFC franchisee dispute & finds “Double Down” Sandwich Disgusting
A Delaware judge has ruled that KFC and its franchisees must cooperate on approving advertising strategies and that the “Double Down” sandwich is a “culinary clusterfuck.”
1Feb2011 | jason330 | 1 comment | Continued
Fiscal Conservatism in Action: Republican National Committee Facing $23M Debt
It’s about time the they stopped trying to spend their way to prosperity and tightened their belts, like everyone else.
Oh right, that only applies to poor people.
1Feb2011 | jason330 | 2 comments | Continued
Tuesday Open Thread
The Tuesday edition of your semi-daily open thread.
1Feb2011 | Unstable Isotope | 9 comments | Continued
Mum’s The Word When It Comes To Defining “Forcible Rape”
Earlier this week I wrote about the redefing rape as “forcible rape” in H.R. 3 (No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act). Today we discover that the “Pro-Life” contingency is unusually quiet, which is quite interesting given how much “Pro-Lifers” love to talk about abortion. Talk about jobs? Not so much. Actually… not at all. Now [...]
1Feb2011 | pandora | 9 comments | Continued
Delaware’s Budget Mess
Today’s News Journal takes a look at the hard part of the budget – reducing pension and Medicaid costs.
1Feb2011 | Unstable Isotope | 10 comments | Continued
The Best and Worst of Gov. Jack Markell
It was the Best of Jack. It was the Worst of Jack.
All encompassed in the same week.
The Best of Jack, which should be studied by President Obama, every Democratic governor, and all D legislators, was his calling-out of all the undistinguished Sussex County Rethugs who have been trying to score political points off the travails [...]
The Remarkable Events In Egypt
It’s been one week since mass protests have started in Egypt. What’s the latest?
1Feb2011 | Unstable Isotope | 24 comments | ContinuedSocial Media
