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Late Night Video: What Glenn Beck Hates
For some reason, this video needs you to have a Facebook account in order to view it.
What Glenn Beck Hates
Democrats To Get All Vincent Van Gogh About Earmarks
Ethically speaking it hasn’t been a great year for Democrats in Washington, but with the ouster of Massa and other corrections of mis-steps, Congressional Democrats are continuing down the path of ethics reform. One item ripe for massive reform are earmarks. House Democrat leaders are actively working on ways to reform —even temporarily halt — [...]
10Mar2010 | nemski | 2 comments | Continued
Don’t Let The Door Hit You On The Way Out
Rush Limbaugh, the satirical twit of right-wing hate, is threatening — strike that — promising to leave the United States if health care reform is passed and fully implemented in the next five years.
CALLER: If the health care bill passes, where would you go for health care yourself? And the second part of that is, what [...]
Hitting Our Children; It’s What We Do
Sometimes I wonder why we keep on having the same discussions over and over again. For instance, Scientific American reports on a new study that says parents and caregivers should “eliminate their use of any physical punishment as a disciplinary measure.”
The study by the American Psychological Association task force “found correlations between physical punishment and [...]
Darwin Trumps You, Mr. Freshwater
Meet John Freshwater, an eighth-grade school science teacher from Ohio who likes to play loose with the facts, use the Bible as a scientific resource, and, yes, torture children with electricity.
The New York Times reports that the school district started the procedure to fire Freshwater back on June 2008 because he burned crosses into the [...]
Stars and Bars
Close to 150 years ago, the United States quelled a rebellion which cost the lives of 500,000 men and boys but which also led to the freedom of some 4,000,000 African Americans from the shackles of slavery. (Note that the number of slaves does not include the generations of African Americans who died in slavery’s [...]
20Jan2010 | nemski | 41 comments | Continued
Delaware Beaches Can Go Pound Sand
After watching their beaches wiped out by the Great Nor’Easter of 2009 and wanting the State of Delaware to pay for beach replenishment, Rehoboth Beach now wants to pump treat wastewater into the ocean reports The News Journal.
Each summer, the weekend population of Rehoboth Beach swells from 1,495 to 20,000, most drawn to the city’s [...]
DE Casinos Have A Bad Tell
The three Delaware casinos released a survey in December that states that Delaware voters think three casinos is just about right for the First State reports The News Journal.
Dover Downs, Delaware Park and Harrington Raceway have launched a public relations campaign — including a Web site and a self-commissioned study — condemning the idea of [...]
A Swig and A Miss
The News Journal today covers the attempted resurgence of Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) on the Delmarva peninsula. Or should I say that The News Journal miscovers MADD’s rebirth and history. Back in October of last year, Delaware Liberal posted about Delaware MADD’s financial trouble and we alluded to one of the main reasons why [...]
2Jan2010 | nemski | 5 comments | Continued
Good News To Start New Year
For the first time ever . . . EVAH . . . since the ill conceived Iraq War began, the United States did not suffer any combat deaths in a calendar month reports CNN.
December was the first month since the beginning of the Iraq war in which there were no U.S. combat deaths, the U.S. [...]
2010: Prediction Thread
So, what’s going to happen this year in politics, sports, government, Delaware, etc. Do get things started, here are my predictions.
Politics
The Dems will lose a handful of seats in the House of Representatives and two in the Senate.
There will actually be Tea Party candidates running for several federal offices.
Delaware
Christine O’Donnell will not be able to [...]
The Mighty Blue Hen is Soaring
Ryan Cormier has a great piece in The News Journal today about how Delaware’s stock has risen dramatically in 2009. The article starts off with a joke about Delaware from a Hollywood movie — not Wayne’s World II — and takes off from there.
When it comes to Delaware’s 2009 coming-out party, Biden’s success was the [...]
The White House Smacks Dick Around
After Dick Cheney emerged from Potterville to chime in about the attempted terrorist attack on Flight 253, the White House responded on its blog.
To put it simply: this President is not interested in bellicose rhetoric, he is focused on action. Seven years of bellicose rhetoric failed to reduce the threat from al Qaeda and succeeded [...]
Politweets
In general I stay away from Politico as it is the TMZ of political journalism, but it has stayed in my news reader for some reason. And today I learned why. There’s a short little article about the top 10 political tweets of 2009. Here is one from the Iranian Student protests:
It was a nightmare, [...]
The Art of Being Presidential
Political Wire points us to Marc Ambinder’s Why The President Went Golfing Today which covers Obama’s Presidential non-response to the attempted terrorist attack.
Let the authorities do their work. Don’t presume; don’t panic the country; don’t chest-thump, prejudge, interfere, politicize (in an international sense), don’t give Al Qaeda (or whomever) a symbolic victory; resist the urge [...]
Republicans Get Their Stoopid On
Part One: Many of you probably heard about the attempted terrorist attack on an airplane landing in Detroit, but what you might not have heard about was Republican Congressman Pete Hoekstra’s recent inanity. (h/t Eschaton)
“It’s not surprising,” U.S. Rep. Pete Hoekstra, a Holland Republican, said of the alleged terrorist attempt to blow up a Northwest [...]
We’re A Happy Bunch
Good news as 2009 winds down and we head into a brand new year, the citizens of the United States are in a good mood. Ken Huffman writes, “We are, as a country, remarkably happy.”
Last week’s AP-Gfk poll showed that 78 percent of Americans, when asked to “think about how things are going in your [...]
Bearly Political
Nothing much the Teabaggers say or do these days really surprises me anymore. Their actions and words open up glimpses into their thought processes which is always intriguing albeit a touch scary sometimes. The latest teabagging episode was they got in an uproar over Build-a-Bear’s webisodes about globally warming. The LA Times writes:
Conservative bloggers reposted [...]
The Senator of Potterville Is Pissed
Hmm, when small businesses don’t read the fine print and get penalized, Republicans get all medieval about in — in a Senate sort of way. Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley (R) is going to hold up several Treasury Department nominees because he wants leniency on tax evaders and lawbreakers reports CQ Politics.
Grassley and other lawmakers have [...]
Top 10 Celebrity Falls From Grace of the Decade
Yeah, I know this is El Som’s ballywick, but I couldn’t help myself when I cam across this on Heavy.com (not the best site to be viewed while at work).
So which celebrity beat out Chris Brown, Amy Winehouse, Phil Spector, Tom Cruise, Mel Gibson, Michael Vick, Britney Spears, Tiger Woods and Lindsay Lohan?
If you guessed [...]
Breaking: Markell Declares State of Emergency
From the press release:
Markell Declares State of Emergency for Kent and New Castle Counties Effective at 3:00 PM
Motorists In Two Counties Encouraged to Clear Roads as Soon as Possible
Wilmington, DE – Governor Jack Markell declared a State of Emergency for New Castle and Kent counties effective at 3:00 pm today. All non-emergency vehicles are strongly [...]
The GOP Abandons Rhode Island
Rhode Island is gearing up for a governor’s race in 2010. And this is one election result I can predict with certainty, the Republicans will not win this race . . . you can take that to the bank. Political Wire reports that the sole GOP candidate for governor has dropped out of the race. [...]
14Dec2009 | nemski | 2 comments | Continued
60 Minutes Interview with Obama
Here is the 60 Minutes with President Obama and, yes, they asked the most important question — What about the gatecrashers?
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13Dec2009 | nemski | Comments Off | Continued
Houston Loves Teh Gay
The City of Houston becomes the largest city in the Union to elect an openly gay candidate for mayor. Texas, who would have ever guessed it. I mean this is a state that prides itself in executing the mentally handicapped and most likely executed an innocent man. I would be remiss if I did not [...]
13Dec2009 | nemski | 14 comments | ContinuedSocial Media
