Archive for February, 2008
NOT SATIRE: FDIC Preps for Bank Failures
Does Wilmington Trust have enough dough on hand if everyone suddenly decides they want to convert all those electronic ones and zeros into cash? Hold it. As a country we have a negative savings rate so there can’t be runs on banks. Right? h/t Atrios.
Breaking: Dick Cathcart Calls for Firings Over Lofink Escheat
Unfortunately Cathcart wants to fire Vince Meconi and not anyone directly involved with Lofink-gate. h/t again – Al Mascitti
John Still Passes The Baton
Hutchison takes the baton gingerly, pinching in the manner of someone holding a rotten fish with his arm outstretched and asks, “Does anybody have some Purell?”
Anyone Wanting to Throw Dave Burris Under A Bus, The Line Forms at WGMD
Does Atkins have some connections at WGMD or what?
Allan Loudell Supports McCain?
Dear Allan, I think you are great, but I might have to remove that question mark if I hear more drive time reports like tonights. Now, I didn’t hear the whole drive time news, but what I heard was unsettling. First off, when Rakestraw was asked about her thoughts on the Democratic race he had […]
IRSD Checking into Report of Obama-Smearing Teacher
Selander just told me on the air that the district is checking into the claims in a recent letter to the Cape Gazette which read in part: Last Tuesday, her teacher “taught” her class that Barack Obama is a Muslim and that she would not vote for him because he does not swear on the […]
UPDATED: Top 11 Atkins’ Slogans
11) Endorsed by my kid’s Babysitter! Go ahead and ask her! 10) No More Seacrets! 9) Pissing off Dave Burris Since 2006! 8 ) ALL My robo-calls are to 911! 7) Gilligan is my Little Buddy 6) Yes! This District IS that Dumb! 5) I need that Fucking Gold License plate back! 4) Democrat? Yeah […]
Breaking: McDowell & Copeland To Hold Hearings Into State Auditor/Fin. Dept Screw Ups Related to Lofink Escheat
Now that would be breaking news. Ain’t happening though. Forget about it. Nothing to see here folks. Move along now. Move along. h/t Al Mascitti This comment from Discourse over at DWA is as close as well get to hearings. This story has it all: nepotism, unqualified appointee, lackadaisacal oversight by both state workers and […]
How the Right Wing Smear Machine Works
Make no mistake, right-wing smears of Obama do not get into the mainstream media by accident. I guess we shouldn’t be surprised. Ben Smith, at The Politico, flags that today CNN’s running a ‘online poll’ asking if Barack Obama has enough patriotism to be president. As Ben, with some understatement, put it’s “it’s odd to […]
UPDATED: Blog Vernacular
We get used to a background noise level of bitter invective on the blogs and tend to take it for granted. I suppose someone on the outside looking in could be taken aback. —————————————————————————- In Dave’s Response: he makes a good case that “human garbage” is not hyperbole or bitter invective, but an fair estimation […]
Open Our General Asembly Update: New Castle, Elsmere, Oceanview and Smyrna Pass Open Goverment Resolutions
My petition stunt was fun, but getting transparency in our state government is a marathon, not a sprint. Fortunately we have a people grinding it out, keeping open government on the agenda. With that in mind, I think that this OOGA! report is overly modest. The OOGA/DEFOG group has been quite but busy since the […]
Gross Incompetence II
The News Journal can’t get the simple facts right. As Nemski correctly pointed out, in the online edition of the version of the story called: Someone ‘dropped the ball’ in Lofink case, Sean O’Sullivan turned Vince Lofink into a Democrat. Notice that the “D” appears in both the body of the copy and the caption […]
Gross Incompetence
What else can you call it? Lofink case ‘did not raise red flags’ By SEAN O’SULLIVAN, The News Journal State officials received a tip in January 2007 that an employee in the Division of Revenue was processing false claims for abandoned property and stealing thousands of dollars. Eleven months later, they publicly confirmed a $1.2 […]
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