During the summer, Capital One bought out and took over ING Direct and HSBC’s credit card business. In a deal with the State of Delaware, Capital One will get more than $5.5 million from Delaware’s Strategic Fund and a tax rebate up to $1.5 million for creating 500 jobs in the state by 2013. I guess I can live with that.

“Has anybody been watching the debates lately? You’ve got a governor whose state is on fire denying climate change. It’s true. You’ve got audiences cheering at the prospect of somebody dying because they don’t have health care and booing a service member in Iraq because they’re gay.”– President Obama, quoted at a Sunday night fundraiser, slamming Rick Perry and the Republican debates audiences.

“The alternative I think is an approach to government that would fundamentally cripple America in meeting the challenges of the 21st Century and that’s not the kind of society that I want to bequeath to Malia and Sasha, and your children and your grandchildren.”– President Obama, quoted by the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, saying that electing a Republican president in 2012 “would deeply hurt the country.”

A new Roanoke College poll in Virginia finds the U.S. Senate race is a statistical dead heat with George Allen (R) edging Tim Kaine (D) by three points, 42% to 39% with 19% undecided.

Beau Biden??? Who would have thunk it?

Attorney General Beau Biden says he will oppose the merger of Blue Cross Blue Shield of Delaware and Pittsburgh-based Highmark Inc. unless regulators require Blue Cross to set aside $45 million to pay for programs that support uninsured Delawareans.

Biden’s office acknowledges that it does not have veto power over the deal. It will push for the condition at public hearings scheduled for next month.

Still, Biden’s demand, which has irked insurance regulators charged with approving or denying the deal, comes after earlier failed attempts to set up a foundation for uninsured Delawareans as a part of the deal. This time around, Biden expressed his position in a letter last week to lawyers for Blue Cross and Highmark.
“For more than 75 years, Delawareans have invested in BCBSD by granting it the tax favorable status of a not-for-profit corporation,” Biden wrote. The deal, which will result in Highmark controlling Blue Cross, “places the public investment at risk of being diverted for other purposes,” he added.

Couple this with his stand against the proposed settlement with banks over dubious foreclosure practices without adequate investigation, where he and New York AG Schneiderman have formed a coalition of prosecutors ready to take on the big banks, and I think Beau Biden is overdue for some respect.

One problem with progressives and why we are not more successful is that our instinct is not to reward good behavior but to punish impurity and past transgressions.

Details are still emerging, but in the face of strident objections by Delaware’s remaining sane Republicans, state GOP Chairman John Sigler attended a “Take Back Our State event” hosted by the racist WGMD radio personality Bill Colley. As of now we are not sure if this “Take Back Our State event” was a full blown KKK meeting, or some subsidiary group affiliated with more mainstream Republican racists.

If it turns out to be true that Sigler shared a stage with Sussex County’s preeminent hate mongers and race baiters, the GOP Chair should face some difficult questions from the press and from Delaware’s Democratic State Party Chair.

It would seem to be incumbent on John Daniello to discern the DE GOP’s official stance on Bill Colley’s shockingly racists statements. Particularly his recent statements about the President of the United States’ mother having sex with African “savages” in order to civilize them. More as this develops.

You might be able to know where this is, but tell us anyway. But do you know who that statue is of?

Now the Republicans, you know, when I talked about this earlier in the week, they said, well, this is class warfare. You know what? If asking a billionaire to pay their fair share of taxes, to pay the same tax rate as plumber or teacher is class warfare, then you know what? I’m a warrior for the middle class. I’m happy to fight for the middle class. I’m happy to fight for working people, ‘cause the only warfare I’ve seen is the battle that’s been waged against the middle class over the last 10, 15 years.” – President Barack Obama, September 22, 2011

Here is a link to Alec Baldwin as Rick Perry on SNL:

http://www.buzzfeed.com/mattw/snls-fox-news-debate-cold-open-arl

Yeah, yeah, this is a picture of a boardwalk at the beach. But which beach?

“No. It was the worst 15 minutes of my life.”– Rep. Thaddeus McCotter (R-MI), quoted by the Detroit News, on whether he enjoyed his time as a presidential candidate.

I think that it is a well established fact that CRI’s “Dr” John Stapleford is a lowlife and scumbag of the first order. But do you want more proof? Who else but a pretend academic, lowlife, scumbag would use the millons given to him by old school polluting dirty coal energy interest to try dupe teabagging morons into creating a “grassroots” response to Bloom Energy fuel cell deal?

Here’s the deal with Bloom Energy proposal according to Colin O’Meara:

Bloom Energy’s solid oxide fuel cell, or “Bloom Box,” that could soon be manufactured by Delawareans, advances Delaware’s energy strategy because it offers the best of two important worlds: It’s both reliable and clean.

The technology provides a reliable source of electricity at a performance that exceeds traditional fossil fuel base-load generation.

In addition, Bloom is a distributed technology, which means that it can be located near load centers and avoid the typical 7 percent to 10 percent transmission and distribution losses associated with centralized generation.

So the power can be located at a business or a load pocket where it is most needed, which will help improve the resiliency of the electrical grid.

Read the whole thing. There is a lot to recommend the deal. Economic development, “99 percent less nitrogen oxides, only trace amounts of sulfur dioxide, 66 percent less carbon dioxide than coal-fired plants, and 17 percent less carbon dioxide than combined-cycle natural-gas plants.” Think of the health savings associated with cleaning up our electricity production? Sounds good right? Bloom Energy setting up shop in the old Chrysler site will bring in 900 workers, attract an estimated 600 jobs from support industries and make Delaware a leader in clean energy manufacturing. It is a clear “win” for Delaware on a number of levels. Who could be against it?

Only coal burners and the low life lackey pretend academics paid to muddy the water and confuse easily confused wingnuts. This is what coal energy producers sound like when speaking to idiot teabags through the filter of pretend academics:

Instead, the proposed fuel cells cost at least 2 to 3 times more than combined cycle natural gas. The increased cost of electricity will translate into higher prices for everything and will destroy jobs in other sectors of the economy.

The fuel cells generate electricity by creating a chemical reaction when the cells are exposed to natural gas. Solid oxide fuel cells, using natural gas as fuel, have been reclassified as a “renewable resource”. This enables them to qualify for ratepayer subsides under the Renewable Portfolio Standard that is reflected in the tariff. Further, Bloom expects to receive a special Federal grant, if they receive swift approval. This is paid to them at a time when our country can least afford it.

These crony capitalism deals enable Bloom Energy to be financed and we pay above market rates for the electricity they sell to the grid. Bloom intends to use the money to move ahead with an Initial Public Offering (IPO) of their stock. Because Bloom is a private company, it is difficult to learn much about their finances. However, it seems reasonable to conclude, if Bloom had a viable business plan, they would head directly to Wall Street. Instead, they are using the political system to secure capital which the private sector won’t provide.

I love how it compares fuel cells to natural gas. Beyond that it’s got all the bells and whistles that wingnuts love. I espcailly love the highly ironic appeals to pretend austerity, the free market, and the accusation of “crony captialism.” The PSC is holding three public comment sessions and the CRI is trying to flood the zone by lying to teabags about how this is going to cost jobs by increasing the amount of money “job creators” will need to pay for electricity.

The comment sessions are:

Tuesday, September 27, 2011 at 7:00 PM, Public Service Commission office located at 861 Silver Lake Blvd, Dover, DE 19904

Wednesday, September 28, 2011 at 7:00 PM, Carvel State Office Building, “Auditorium” (Mezzanine Level), 820 North French Street, Wilmington, DE 19801

Thursday, September 29, 2011 at 7:00 PM, Del Tech Community College, Owens Campus, Arts and Sciences Building, Theater, Georgetown, DE 19930

You can also provide written comments, at the session or by mail or e-mail. The deadline is September 30, 2011. Please direct written comments to Kevin Neilson, Regulatory Policy Administrator, Delaware Public Service Commission, 861 Silver Lake Boulevard, Cannon Building, Suite 100, Dover, DE 19904, or electronically to Mr. Neilson at kevin.neilson@state.de.us.

The NRA is so freaking angry. They just know that President has a plan to take away their guns. The very fact that this administration has done nothing on gun control is just proof that they are determined to ban guns. It makes perfect sense if you are a gun nut.

You just can’t please some people.

In the eyes of National Rifle Association (NRA) executive vice president Wayne LaPierre, President Barack Obama’s decision not to pursue gun control legislation is a “massive conspiracy,” and just another reason not to give him a second term.

“[The Obama campaign] will say gun owners — they’ll say they left them alone,” LaPierre told an audience at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) Friday. “In public, he’ll remind us that he’s put off calls from his party to renew the Clinton [assault weapons] ban, he hasn’t pushed for new gun control laws… The president will offer the Second Amendment lip service and hit the campaign trail saying he’s actually been good for the Second Amendment.”

“But it’s a big fat stinking lie!” the NRA leader exclaimed. “It’s all part of a massive Obama conspiracy to deceive voters and destroy the Second Amendment in our country.”

“Obama himself is no fool. So when he got elected, they concocted a scheme to stay away from the gun issue, lull gun owners to sleep and play us for fools in 2012. Well, gun owners are not fools and we are not fooled,” La Pierre declared.

“Sotomayor, Kagan, Fast & Furious, the United Nations, executive orders. Those are the facts we face today… President Obama and his cohorts, yeah, they’re going to deny their conspiracy to fool gun owners. Some in the liberal media, they are already probably blogging about it. But we don’t care because the lying, conniving Obama crowd can kiss our Constitution!”

Gun control advocates have criticized the president for not pushing for new gun control legislation in the wake of a January shooting that left Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ) in serious condition and six others dead.

Now, it gets harder. Do you know where this is, and what is this a picture of. Hint: colonial history.

Apparently this Bill Colley guy works for WGMD in some capacity. If that is true, they might want to install a metal detector at the door, and make sure all the kitchen knives are removed from the break room. I’ve read the work of wingnuts on the edge, but he sounds like a guy who has snapped.