Archive for April, 2014

General Assembly Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show: Weds., April 30, 2014

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General Assembly Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show: Weds., April 30, 2014

A particularly-sketchy ‘redevelopment’ project headlines today’s House Committee meetings.

HB 310(Longhurst) essentially enables the ethically-bankrupt Dick Cathcart to be at the center of what looks like a deal that will put $$’s in connected people’s pockets far from the view of the public. You may remember that Cathcart awarded no-bid contracts to friends of his while ‘working’ as contract administrator at Delaware State University; had his clear involvement in awarding these contracts whitewashed by Republican crony pal Auditor Tom Wagner; and even had Wagner recommend him for the position of City Manager of Delaware City as the scandal-scarred Cathcart beat a hasty retreat from elective office before the voters did it for him. Under HB 310, which, by the way just happens to be in the House Administration Committee chaired by…sponsor Valerie Longhurst, this is what would happen….

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Wednesday Daily Delawhere [4.30.14]

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Wednesday Daily Delawhere [4.30.14]

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Tim Carpenter, PDA Co-Founder, Has Died

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Tim Carpenter, PDA Co-Founder, Has Died

Tim Carpenter, Co-Founder of Progressive Democrats of America (PDA), has died at 55. He suffered terminal cancer but I read he worked up to the very end this week leading PDA. He leaves a huge legacy and both a wife and two daughters to carry on his work.

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Delaware General Assembly Pre-Game Show: Tues., April 29, 2014

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Delaware General Assembly Pre-Game Show: Tues., April 29, 2014

‘Money, That’s What I Want’: Barrett Strong

That’s what the Governor wants, that’s what the General Assembly wants, and that’s what they will talk about. I don’t know what kind of negotiations went on over the Easter break, but state government is facing a budget shortfall, largely due to revenue from ‘abandoned property’ (escheats) coming in lower than projected. BTW, you can’t spell ‘escheats’ with out ‘cheats’.  If you think you’ve started to notice a pattern of how much of our budget is built on gimmickry, you are not imagining things. Especially when an alternative is to make the wealthy pay their fair share.

Not to mention that we’ve seen no movement on either the gas tax or proposed water assessment. Unless you count the Rethugs’ putting up signs reading ‘No New Gas Taxes’ all over the New Castle County landscape. Might I suggest perhaps a more constructive project for Rethugs with time on their hands? Maybe fix bridges or fill potholes? You know, the types of repairs that will not be done if Dover denizens do not come to their respective senses? For the umpteenth time:

Governor: Stop talking about castor oil. Start talking about the jobs this would create and the projects that would get done. Then go out there and sell it. If it’s not too late.

Democrats (and whatever Valerie Longhurst passes for this week): Do the same bleeping thing. You do want to create jobs, don’t you? If so, govern like Democrats. If  you can’t sell jobs and bridges that won’t fall down, get outta town.

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Tuesday Daily Delawhere [4.29.14]

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Tuesday Daily Delawhere [4.29.14]

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Monday Open Thread [4.28.14]

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“Usually when I get up this early, I get up to kill something.” — Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI), at an early morning church service to a congregation not familiar with his passion for bowhunting. Yes, such a Christian thing to say. So is Sarah Palin’s statement that that “Waterboarding is how we baptize terrorists.” Out of all the dumb and offensive and idiotic things she has said since bursting onto the scene in 2008, this is the most outrageous.

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Monday Daily Delawhere [4.28.14]

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Monday Daily Delawhere [4.28.14]

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Sunday Daily Delawhere [4.27.14]

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Sunday Daily Delawhere [4.27.14]

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Vladimir, Stop It. Just Friggin’ Stop It !

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Vladimir, Stop It.  Just Friggin’ Stop It !

Ok, Vladimir. Enough of the belligerence. Crimea was an outrage and eastern Ukraine doubly so. So was Georgia. Speaking for myself and possibly millions of my fellow Americans, we don’t want a renewal of one of our worst mutual eras, the Cold War.

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Saturday Open Thread [4.26.14]

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Crystal Wright:

“The entire Bundy affair just makes the Republican Party look bad. Are all Republicans racist? Absolutely not. But many overwhelmingly came out in support of this lunatic. I think it’s an awful day for conservatives. I think we need serious reflection because we’re not going to win 2016 with this attitude, keep doing things the same old way. We have old white men saying offensive things to women and minorities, and I’m tired of it.”

These old white men just need to die off over the next two decades, then the Republican Party can win again once they are cleansed of their poison. Unless of course some unwise young white men get infected…

But there is some hope, because here is a conservative old white man, Charles Krauthammer:

“It isn’t enough to say I don’t agree with what he said. This is a despicable statement. It’s not the statement, you have to disassociate yourself entirely from the man. It’s not like the words exist here and the man exists here. And why conservatives, or some conservatives end up in bed with people who, you know, he makes an anti-government statement, he takes an anti-government stand, he wears a nice big hat and he rides a horse, and all of a sudden he is a champion of democracy …

Look, do I have the right to go in to graze sheep in Central Park? I think not. You have to have some respect for the federal government, some respect for our system. And to say you don’t and you don’t recognize it and that makes you a conservative hero, to me, is completely contradictory, and rather appalling. And he has now proved it.”

Maybe most conservatives are just dumb. Not evil, just stupid as f*ck.

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The Weekly Addresses

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President Obama:

I don’t know if this is because of last week’s holidays of Easter and Passover, but Governor Markell published his weekly message on Monday, April 21. So it may be that Markell is now publishing his message at the beginning of the week. Here is the message from April 21:

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Saturday Daily Delawhere [4.26.14]

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Saturday Daily Delawhere [4.26.14]

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Cliven Bundy is Jeff Christopher, and vice versa.

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Rachel explains….

Harry Reid is right. They are domestic terrorists.

Our Constitutional framework is structured such that Federal law, or laws passed by the Congress of the United States and signed into law by the President of United States, and the U.S. Supreme Court’s rulings on said laws and the laws of the 50 states and local governments, are the fucking SUPREME law of the land. Nothing trumps it. Nothing. If you disagree with this notion, you are opposed to the Constitution of the United States, much less the Government of the United States. These sheriffs, including Jeff Christopher, are obligated to enforce the laws of the United States. If they do not, they are derelict in their duties and must be removed from office. They would not be patriots. They would be traitors.

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