Archive for November, 2013

I’m not going to be caught flatfooted this Thanksgiving

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I jotted down all the things I’m thankful for. I probably forgot some: Mrs. Liberal and my immediate family (I wrote out each name on the original list) All my other extended family including my caveman ancestors of 200,000 years ago Saturday night live Fred Amrison Paul Simon Simon and Garfunkle Music in general An […]

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Thanksgiving Daily Delawhere [11.28.13]

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Thanksgiving Daily Delawhere [11.28.13]

Happy Thanksgiving to all. And Happy Hanukkah to our Jewish friends.

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Late Night Video — A Very Cosby Thanksgiving

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Bill Cosby on Thanksgiving origins (2:23):

Happy Thanksgiving to everyone at DL!

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Wednesday Open Thread [11.27.13]

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Wednesday Open Thread [11.27.13]

So how’s the last minute Thanksgiving prep going?

In keeping with the spirit of the seaon (i’m just guessing), Richard Land (a leader in the Southern Baptist church) says that single mothers should always give up their babies for adoption. I’m guessing the Land’s aren’t rushing right out to signup for some more mouths to feed — they are just in the business of making more women feel guilty and undermine the family values they only give lip service too.

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Delaware’s Own, The Spinto Band

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Suck it “Dr” John E. Stapleford, you fraud

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Suck it “Dr” John E. Stapleford, you fraud

Oh how I am going to enjoy the day when CRI has to drop its phony non-profit status and reveal that this phoney-baloney “grassroots” operation is funded by two big checks (one from Foster Stephen Friess and one from the Koch Brothers).

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Time for Chip Flowers to Get Serious and Work with the CMPB

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Time for Chip Flowers to Get Serious and Work with the CMPB

So let’s start with a serious question — if Sheriff Christopher is the Sheriff of Nuttingham, what character would we assign to Chip Flowers?

Today, the Attorney General’s office rendered an opinion based on questions that the Cash Management Policy Board asked the AG to weigh in on. Those questions are:

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Wednesday Daily Delawhere [11.27.13]

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Wednesday Daily Delawhere [11.27.13]

From Mike Mahaffie on Flickr.

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Why Is Delaware Risking Faulty Elections?

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Why Is Delaware Risking Faulty Elections?

I was thrilled last spring to move to a Blue state. Still am, except for one major deficiency here. Our voting machine systems. Most of the rest of the free world, at least here in the good old U.S. of A., has discovered the flaws and huge risks present with DRE voting machines.

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I’m loving this new Pope

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I’m loving this new Pope

I love that whenever he interprets the ministry of Jesus for the world’s 1.1 billion Catholics, Antonin Scalia can be heard saying, “Fuck this guy.”

In this context, some people continue to defend trickle-down theories which assume that economic growth, encouraged by a free market, will inevitably succeed in bringing about greater justice and inclusiveness in the world. This opinion, which has never been confirmed by the facts, expresses a crude and naïve trust in the goodness of those wielding economic power and in the sacralized workings of the prevailing economic system. Meanwhile, the excluded are still waiting. To sustain a lifestyle which excludes others, or to sustain enthusiasm for that selfish ideal, a globalization of indifference has developed. Almost without being aware of it, we end up being incapable of feeling compassion at the outcry of the poor, weeping for other people’s pain, and feeling a need to help them, as though all this were someone else’s responsibility and not our own. The culture of prosperity deadens us; we are thrilled if the market offers us something new to purchase; and in the meantime all those lives stunted for lack of opportunity seem a mere spectacle; they fail to move us.

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Time To Level With Us, Beau

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Time To Level With Us, Beau

Beau Biden apparently wants to have it both ways. According to this article at WDEL.com,   Biden states that he plans to run for reelection in 2014, but refuses to give any update on his health. Although the ‘…long, curving scar stretching from his left ear to the top of his head’ provides a clue. However, Biden “is still refusing to discuss details about a recent health scare that sent him to a Texas cancer center.” This in the same interview where he says he’ll run for reelection.

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Could This Story Lead To Restricting A Pregnant Woman’s Movements?

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First, let me say, that no one in this story comes off looking good, but if you had to pick the biggest jerk it would be Olympic skier, Bode Miller. Here’s a rough timeline: Early 2012: Miller and McKenna meet through a matchmaking service. They fall into a relationship, occasionally hanging out on the yacht […]

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State Chamber, CRI (and therefor) the Koch Bros trying to buy Newark Mayoral?

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Whenever someone takes money from these shadowy “pro-business” pacs, you have to think that they are getting third hand Koch brother’s money, right? ‘Polly’s Plan’ PAC funded by group supporting data center, documents show Documents released late Monday afternoon reveal that the political action committee supporting Polly Sierer is funded by Delaware Jobs Now, the […]

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