Archive for December 11th, 2007
Programming Note: Ch-ch-ch-changes!
Hello DL Readers. I just wanted to drop you a note about some upcoming changes to this site. On Friday night/Saturday Morning, this site will have a new home on the server of one of our sponsors AgoraNet. Here is a partial list of changes that you can expect: A new theme – in anticipation […]
UPDATED: Economic Dissonance
I find it funny that when you listen to WDEL the economic news is always good. Today for example, the markets are going to be going like gangbusters since the interest rate was cut. Whoopie!! But when you read actual economists, the bubbly optimism is had to find. http://rs.rgemonitor.com/blog/roubini/231693 “And even the soft-landing optimists […]
Senate Republicans’ HALF-ASSED plan for open government
Senate Republicans’ 5-point plan for more open and accountable government Pass legislation under FOIA (Freedom of Information Act) to define the General Assembly and all its standing and ad hoc committees as “public bodies”. Change Senate Rules to do away with the power of a Senate Committee chair to single-handedly kill legislation by preventing public […]
Eerily similar words?
I will be the first to tell you I’m not smart, but when Bush used this quote today. It stuck in me because I have heard something very, very similar before. My first recollection of whether the tapes existed or whether they were destroyed was when [CIA Director] Michael Hayden briefed me,” Bush said.“There’s a […]
Oh this is too much
Can you believe this? Holding Christine Todd Whitman liable will set a dangerous precedent, leaving public officials to worry that their words to reassure the public after disasters will open them up to personal liability, Justice Department attorney Alisa Klein told the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. “If you speak, you will be potentially held […]
And now a word from your pResident…
“I am a person that recognizes the fallacy of humans.” On Oprah; 9/19/2000
Gary Stockbridge Feels That The Law Should Not Apply to Delmarva Power
Yes. It is that simple. I wish I could be Gary Stockbridge* and pick which laws applied to me. I’d get to work a lot faster everyday. *Some say that Gary Stockbridge is such a horrible person because he was deprived of maternal affection due to the fact that he was born with a full […]
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