Archive for October, 2011
Debunking Sunday Part I: Climate Change
So Republicans have been paying people to “cloud” the issue of Climate Change for decades now. University of California-Berkeley physicist is one of those people. But when he actually tried to disprove climate change, the results he reached were not to the liking of his benefactors.
23Oct2011 | Delaware Dem | 3 comments | Continued
Cain’s Secret Plan….
…. In responding to criticism that his tax plan would hurt working families, Cain said yesterday he has a secret plan to “fix” his policy that he hasn’t “told the public” about yet. That reminded me of this scene from the West Wing.
23Oct2011 | Delaware Dem | 2 comments | Continued
What’s A Governor to Do?
Arizona governor Jan Brewer’s lawsuit against the Obama administration over the security of the border with Mexico has been tossed by the courts. Brewer’s suit was a counter-claim against the Administration’s suit over Arizona’s draconian immigration enforcement law.
22Oct2011 | MJ | 7 comments | Continued
Koch-style Big Money Now in School Board Races
I always like to check in on politics in Denver and Colorado, since that is where I cut my teeth in the political world. I’m still good friends with a number of elected officials out there and some of the Democratic Party officials. So I was surprised to read this today. My brother, who is a Denver Democratic Party officer sent it to me. It seems as though Koch-style big money has trickled down to the school board races.
22Oct2011 | MJ | 42 comments | Continued
Saturday Open Thread [10.22.11]
The DCCC outraises the RNCC 2 to 1. Rasmussen has Cain up big in Iowa. Obama leads all comers nationally. And self driving cars are here. I want one.
22Oct2011 | Delaware Dem | 12 comments | Continued
Perfect ‘Autumn Song’(s) from Van the Man
Open the windows, relax, savor the season, and let this waft over you:
Click through for more.
22Oct2011 | El Somnambulo | 1 comment | Continued
Looks Like There’s A New Blog In Town
Steve Newton brings us Civil But Disobedient.
I hadn’t realized Steve had started his own blog until I surfed over his name in the comments, and what do I find when I visit? A post calling out Delaware Liberal. Just like the good old days!
The Iraq War is finally over.
Sources tell ABC News that President Obama will announce today that U.S. troops in Iraq will draw down to zero by the end of the year.
21Oct2011 | Delaware Dem | 16 comments | Continued
What kind of blackmail material does Nancy Cook have?
Markell will appoint former State Senator Nancy Cook to serve out the remainder of Thomas Weyant’s four-year term, which expires in December of next year. Weyant announced last month that he would retire on November 1.
21Oct2011 | Delaware Dem | 6 comments | Continued
Friday Open Thread [10.21.11]
Coons seeks to ban bath salts. Hillary has a laugh with Karzai about the hillarity that is Herman Cain. Uncanny similarities between 2012 and 2004. Obama on Mt. Rushmore? He would be there already if he were a Republican.
21Oct2011 | Delaware Dem | 4 comments | Continued
Everyone Wants to Raise Taxes….
… the difference is the Republicans want to raise them on the middle class and the poor. The Democrats want to raise them on the rich who can afford it.
21Oct2011 | Delaware Dem | 5 comments | Continued
“Never vote for a party that wants to prevent you from voting.”
So a news story came out analyzing South Carolina’s new voter photo identification law. The analysis by the Associated Press finds that the law would hit black precincts the hardest, disenfranchising nearly half of the black voters at the historically black college in Columbia, South Carolina. And Republicans celebrated.
21Oct2011 | Delaware Dem | 1 comment | Continued
Georgetown Elementrary Needs Sweatpants.
“Our nurse is in desperate need of sweatpants in sizes 5 – 6, 7- 8, 10 -12 in unisex colors. Any assistance will be greatly appreciated as our needs continue to grow at Georgetown Elementary.”
21Oct2011 | Delaware Dem | Comments Off | Continued
The Birthers Have a New Angle, and a New Target
Well, they haven’t given up on their paranoid conspiracy theory that somehow one day old Barack Obama traveled to Hawaii from Kenya in 1961 to plant newspaper announcements in the local island papers, but they are taking employing a new strategy to prevent brown and black people from assuming offices of power, and they are going after a Republican darling, probably only because he is brown, but also probably to garner some bipartisan or nonpartisan cred.
21Oct2011 | Delaware Dem | 9 comments | Continued
Markell Issues Executive Order on FOIA Requests
Governor Markell signed an executive order today that marks a step forward to a more open and transparent state government. He also signed legislation creating a universal FOIA form.
20Oct2011 | Delaware Dem | 20 comments | Continued
Question of the Day
So now that DADT has been repealed for some time now, and now that we have gone some time with gay soldiers serving our nation openly and honorably without the apocalypse occuring or mass defections of straight homophobic soldiers, can all the right wing Christianist freaks like David Anderson admit that they are so very very hysterically wrong?
Hey, I am not asking the question. A Major on active duty is.
20Oct2011 | Delaware Dem | 1 comment | Continued
This is Pretty Cool….
…. but I think I would freak out, flip the kayak and be mistakenly eaten by the whale… if I were in the same situation. Thank god there are no whales in the Indian River and Assawoman Bays.
20Oct2011 | Delaware Dem | Comments Off | Continued
Thursday Open Thread [10.20.11]
New polling on that anti-worker and anti-union evil Republican bill in Ohio: it looks like it will be repealed by the voters. Oh yes, and you can literally have mind blowing sex! No, Delaware Liberal is not becoming a porn site. Click through for the explanation.
20Oct2011 | Delaware Dem | 13 comments | Continued
Well, Herman Cain is Over….
He is pro-choice. Seriously. Click through for the video.
20Oct2011 | Delaware Dem | 16 comments | Continued
Congratulations to Cherelyn Homlish
Ms. Homlish will be recognized as a Champion of Changeat the White House today for her efforts in helping victims of domestic violence, which include chairing the Delaware Coalition Against Domestic Violence. She will join 13 other professionals in the field in a discussion on the problem of domestic violence.
20Oct2011 | Delaware Dem | Comments Off | Continued
Dear Mr. Limbaugh…
Dear Mr. Limbaugh: Evelyn’s Appeal from Strongheart on Vimeo.
20Oct2011 | Delaware Dem | 2 comments | Continued
Gadhafi Dead?
Conflicting reports from various sources has former Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi either injured and captured or killed outright. Reports from Libya’s Interim Transitional National Council indicate that Moammar Gadhafi has been killed.
20Oct2011 | Delaware Dem | 8 comments | ContinuedSocial Media
