Archive for May, 2011
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More birther beatdown:
In a stunning development one day after the release of Where’s the Birth Certificate? The Case that Barack Obama is not Eligible to be President, by Dr. Jerome Corsi, World Net Daily Editor and Chief Executive Officer Joseph Farah has announced plans to recall and pulp the entire 200,000 first printing run of [...]
Republican Senators Help Dem Challengers by Closing Ranks Around Continuing Oil Subsidies
Republicans senators, some of whom had signaled that they would vote to end the absurd tax subsidies for profitable oil companies, voted Tuesday night with their party leadership to keep those subsidies in place.
It is nice to see that Democrats are finally using straightforward votes to put the Republicans in hard to [...]
House R Redistricting Plan Not A Serious Plan
Where was the largest proportion of population growth during the past decade? If you said lower NCC, you’d be correct. The area around Middletown and its environs have exploded. No serious redistricting plan could avoid this development, yet somehow the House Rethug redistricting plan manages to reapportion without even providing one new district in this area, let alone the two that the population shift calls for.
17May2011 | El Somnambulo | 16 comments | Continued
How To Create a Job
This is the title of this week’s This American Life episode, where they turned over the program to NPR’s simply amazing Planet Money Team. What is fantastic about this bit of financial reporting, is that Planet Money listens to the platitudes and Conventional Wisdom about job creation and goes off to see if any of it is true.
17May2011 | cassandra_m | 7 comments | Continued
Quote of the Day 5/17/11
“Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be maintained.” – President James A. Garfield
17May2011 | xstryker | 2 comments | Continued
Mean And Nasty Simply To Be Mean And Nasty
Gov. Scott Walker believes a new law that gives gay couples hospital visitation rights violates the state constitution and has asked a judge to allow the state to stop defending it.
17May2011 | pandora | 8 comments | Continued
Tuesday Open Thread
The Tuesday edition of your semi-daily open thread.
17May2011 | Unstable Isotope | 15 comments | Continued
I Love My Delaware Workplace – Number 1
Go ahead and read it over at TownsquareDelaware.com while I am still not fired. Better yet, read my contribution and leave a comment about how much you love or hate your Delaware workplace.
17May2011 | jason330 | 21 comments | Continued
Uhhhh…Thanks? Donald Trump
Washington Post’s Greg Sargent hypothesizes that Trumop’s humiliation has changed the narrative about Obama and his supposed weakness.
17May2011 | Unstable Isotope | 4 comments | Continued
God Dissed By Wheelchair Bound Egg Head
If you ever wondered why God decided to afflict Stephen Hawking with motor neurone disease, you need wonder no longer.
16May2011 | jason330 | 12 comments | Continued
Q: What do Newt Gingrich’s Health Care Views and His Extra-Marital Sexual Relationships Have in Common?
A: More positions than the Kama Sutra *
Newt Gingrich yesterday:
“I agree that all of us have a responsibility to help pay for health care. And I think that there are ways to do it that make most libertarians relatively happy,” Mr. Gingrich told the host David Gregory. “I’ve said consistently, where there’s some requirement you [...]
Congressman Carney Hosts a Discussion on Nuclear Power Safety
This event is TOMORROW NIGHT (Tuesday, 17 May 2011), so try to make plans to go if you are interested. I don’t have anything to add to this, so will just post the entire press release below:
16May2011 | cassandra_m | Comments Off | Continued
Read TownSquareDelaware.com or Something
I’m not even sure what TSD is, so I’m making no promises about the content. (My contribution, when they get around to posting it, is pretty good.) In addition to being a liberal, I am a business owner and I have co-authored a book on the topic of employee satisfaction. I see employee engagement as the best way for companies to build a durable competitive advantage in the post tech-boom world. Delaware companies that “get it” are going to be the focus of my writerly efforts for as long as TSD can stomach having a liberal on the contributors list.
What’s that? A little snark already? Oh yes.
16May2011 | jason330 | 25 comments | Continued
Trump will not run for President.
Donald Trump has decided not to run for president. His statement: “This decision does not come easily or without regret; especially when my potential candidacy continues to be validated by ranking at the top of the Republican contenders in polls across the country.”
16May2011 | Delaware Dem | 7 comments | Continued
‘Bulo on Al’s Show Tuesday…Will Spend $320 Million…
vicariously. If you’d like to make your voice heard as to how to spend/invest/fritter away the budget surplus, call us tomorrow.
I’ll be on at 10 a.m. , the Al Mascitti Show, WDEL 1150-AM. Al’s show is on every week day from 9-12 noon.
We Hit The Debt Ceiling Today
In case anyone cares.
In the meantime, the hostage strategy will continue to play out — Republicans are threatening to create a recession, on purpose, unless Democrats give them a whole lot of unspecified spending cuts. If Dems fail to comply with the demands, the GOP will refuse to act and on [...]
Monday Open Thread
The Monday edition of your semi-daily open thread.
16May2011 | Unstable Isotope | 1 comment | Continued
COLAGE
The News Journal wrote a story of the group COLAGE, a group that supports the children of gay and lesbian parents.
16May2011 | Unstable Isotope | 1 comment | Continued
El Somnambulo Unveils His Choice for New Castle County Executive
FWIW, this name came to me after eating a delicious India/Pakistani dinner prepared by the Arden Dinner Gild. Several meals later, this name still makes real good sense to me.
16May2011 | El Somnambulo | 14 comments | Continued
The Reason Mike Huckabee Isn’t Running For President…
Mike Huckabee is too busy re-writing history to run for president.
16May2011 | Unstable Isotope | 2 comments | Continued
Real Rapture Fans Are Pissed at Harold-Come-Lately Rapture Predictors
People who have been predicting the rapture for years are mad at Harold Camping. Why? Because when his rapture date comes and goes, people are going to think that the whole movement is populated by loons. Allow me to clear something up for the non-Harold Camping believing rapture-o-philes. Nobody is going to BEGIN thinking that you are loons when Camping’s rapture fizzles.
15May2011 | jason330 | 4 comments | Continued
Blue Hen Rowers Represent – Solid Third Place Finish at Dad Vail Regatta
I don’t know anything about rowing, but Delaware’s finish in the marquee event, “The Heavyweight 8″ and their overall points total gave them a very respectable third place. SUCK IT HARVARD!!
15May2011 | jason330 | 7 comments | Continued
Huckabee Out For 2012
Mike Huckabee announced tonight that he will not seek the GOP presidential nomination in 2012.
14May2011 | Unstable Isotope | 11 comments | Continued
Weekend Open Thread
The weekend edition of your semi-daily open thread.
14May2011 | Unstable Isotope | Comments Off | Continued
Question of the Day 5/14/2011
How is it possible that the same people who think the words of Jesus should be the law of the land also think that billionaires deserve tax cuts and the poor should not be fed?
14May2011 | xstryker | 15 comments | ContinuedSocial Media
