Everybody is laying smootches on Ruthie.

Republican congressman Michael Castle, who like Minner was a two-term governor, said she had risen from humble roots to lead Delaware “with great passion and pride” as the state’s first female governor. He also noted that as a state lawmaker, Minner could be a tough negotiator and knew how to get things done.

“If anyone here thinks that a lone state senator can’t thwart a governor, I can tell you that you’re wrong,” Castle said.

Wha…?

Either the AP reporter got the quote wrong, or Castle’s stroke addled brain is showing.

During today’s swearing in ceremony from the floor of the U.S. Senate, there will be one man who really doesn’t need the job. Vice President-elect Joe Biden, having been reelected to his seventh term as the Senator from Delaware, will be sworn in with the rest of the incoming class. And with the 111th Congress planning to move swiftly on the economic stimulus bill…

His hand-picked replacement could not be ready to vote for the package?

WTF Joe? You needed another free trip to India?

It is Jan 6th 2009 and I weigh 188 pounds.

I want to get back to 168 pounds for a bit and settle at 170 pounds (12.14 stone)

Everyone may feel free to mock me mercilessly beginning on Jan 6th of 2010 if I fail in this endeavor.

Is the Burger King Whopper Virgin ad campaign a fantastic display American Capitalism?

Okay.

There is this…

Wicks is the president of the Northeast Association of State Transportation Officials, which is playing a leading role in representing states’ interests to the federal government as the stimulus plan is being designed. The package will generate tens of millions of dollars’ worth of needed infrastructure improvements and is expected to create needed jobs.

“Given the huge financial challenges we must overcome, it is absolutely critical that Delaware be ready to roll in a few weeks to take full advantage of the federal stimulus bill,” Markell said. “We need a seamless transition in this department and Carolann’s experience and leadership to ensure that happens.

Not much to say about it. Anyone?

UPDATE: I just thought of something.  Since the “T” in DelDot stands for “transportation” I would hope that under Markell, the agency could concern itself with more than just moving cars around expeditiously.

Does murdering innocent people win over the hearts and minds of the people you don’t want to kill you?

The Jews lived in Libya and historically got along for centuries with the Libyans.  Then all hell broke loose when the Italians (that had a presence in Libya) sided with Germany.

April 3, 1941 the Italians and the Germans unleashed hell on the jews that lived in Libya for taking sides with the British.

In March of 43 the Jews had been put in an interment camp in Benghazi, Libya

Within a year of Israel founding Jews fled or were EXPELLED from their Arab countries and headed for Israel

1951 Libya gained independence which was under the influence of Egypt.

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While this Panetta appointment is a glaring example of the rootsgap, I am comforted by the fact that the most craven of craven politicos like Tom Carper will soon be trying to “out liberal” their Senate colleagues.

Dianne Feinstein and Jay Rockefeller - two of Bush’s most ardent enablers - came out against him.  Now, just like Glenn Greenwald, I’m lovin’ the pick.

 Spencer Ackerman reports that Sen. Dianne Feinstein is upset with the selection of Panetta, petulantly complaining that she wasn’t consulted in advance and that it would be best to have an “intelligence professional” in that position.  CQ’s Tim Starks reports that Sen. Jay Rockefeller is making very similar noises about this selection.  Few things could reflect better on Panetta’s selection than the fact that Feinstein and Rockefeller — two of the most Bush-enabling Senators — are unhappy with it.

And it’s ironic that after eight years of giving a Republican President everything he wanted, these two suddenly find their tongues.  Lest we forget Feinstein voted for all of Bush’s nominees to run the CIA, including Porter Goss, and General Michael Hayden.  Not to mention she loves her some Patriot Act.  Amending the Constitution to outlaw flag burning is on her greatest hits playlist, as well.

Ryeland of Kos digs up this little nugget:

When it was President Bush appointing an idiot like Goss, here’s what Feinstein thought:
I believe the President should have the prerogative to appoint who he wants to be the DCI, or for any other senior position, subject only to the requirement that the person be qualified for the job.

Feinstein needs to sit down and shut up, which shouldn’t be too difficult since she’s had eight years of practice.

Yes, it is the return of the imaginary GOP magical unicorn. The GOP hopes that this mythical beast will help solve our the country’s economic mess and their failed ideology.

Over the past ten years Ireland was able to attracted a bunch of low life human and corporate weasels from the EU and America who think rich people (and rich corporations) should not pay their fair share of taxes.

Well, the party is over and Ireland is busted, but Steve Forbes still thinks everybody should make like Ireland and “Tryckl” the GOP magical unicorn will descend from heaven. Confronting that GOP lunacy, Sadly No! says…

Ireland’s bubbleburst, from my equally-as-inexpert-as-Steyn’s opinion, will be worse than ours. It’s true their economy boomed, but only because of a sort of Cayman Islands effect by which so many wealthy jackasses moved money from lands of higher tax rates. Cumulative incidental investment from a mass of weasels shirking their responsibility did the trick, not ‘higher returns’ because of the alleged infallibility of the Laffer theory.

Ireland was like the Delaware of the Western World: it only worked not because it was right or because its particular structure was better or even sound, but because it was such an outlier. (The Times piece implies the relationship between Ireland and America and the EU was symbiotic; I think the better word is parasitic.) In effect it cheated its neighbors; now it’s ended up cheating itself. It too will get drastically Keynesian as it surveys the rubble, and the wealthy criminal class will then move like locusts to some other country whose government it can bribe or co-opt, unless… everybody gets together and agrees not to tax the bastards at any rate less than a certain amount.

In your face Governors Carper, Castle & DuPont.

In light of our local moronic windbag’s migration to twitter, this made me laugh: 

The key to electoral success for the GOP is not an elite strike force of blithering idiots spamming everyone’s email with bullshit about Obama’s birth certificate. The nation doesn’t need a trillion twitters about William Ayers, they need a Republican party that isn’t batshit insane.

I like the commenter on John Cole’s blog who compares the GOP to a teenage garage band that spends a lot of time talking about how they are going to run away from screaming fans, but no time learning how to play their instruments.

Unfortunately though, the fish happen to be baby and mommy fish and the shooters are using shotguns.  

Can anyone tell me what other country bombed the living shit out of an Arab country killing tens of thousands if not hundreds of thousands of civilians and excusing it every step of the way?

A worried bookie knows that this Superbowl bet will be the last from this dependable douchebag for a while.  The guy, Bernie,  can not pick a football game or a prop bet right to save his life and the bookie is worried about the loss of this dependable revenue stream.

“Bernie” he says, “You know with football season over, I can take whatever hockey bets you want to make.”

Bernie says…

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Ron Williams’ unbridled assholery killed print journalism.

That’s my theory anyway.