Archive for March, 2008
Jp Morgan Chase to Buy Bear Sterns
NEW YORK – JPMorgan Chase says it will acquire rival Bear Stearns in a deal valued at $236.2 million, or $2 a share After days of denials that it had liquidity problems, Bear was forced into a JPMorgan-led, government-backed bailout on Friday. The arrangement, the first of its kind since the 1930s, resulted in Bear […]
Term of the Day for March 16th & 17th
Republicenomics : An economic system in which business executives that make good decisions and appropriate investments do well and business executives that make terrible decisions and make horrible investments get bailed out by tax payers and do extrodinarily well. There is no downside risk to being an investment banker when Republicans are in charge. Make […]
Roll On Columbia Roll On
Listen to Pete Seeger at about 5:53 in… [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUoh2QSjXAw&feature=related[/youtube] So let’s get Todd Chappelle to write a song about the Off Shore Wind Project. Who’s with me?
Ladies and Gentlemen I Proudly Present Your Delaware GOP…
No. Your eyes are not playing tricks on you. It does say, AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 1 OF THE DELAWARE CODE BY ESTABLISHING A RONALD REAGAN DAY.
The growing Anti-Antiwar movement
This is the kind of article I’d expect to see in the Snooze Journal. None the less, I found it amusing. Chanting such slogans as “surrender is not an option” and waving American flags, a few hundred people from across the country rallied and paraded in downtown Washington yesterday to support the war. “We cannot […]
ATHF (Around The Horn Friday for you newbies)
I’ve always said that Sunday is a good day to read what you should have read on Firday. Spot the TS Eliot allusion in Duffy’s post and win $10 DelawareLiberal bucks! (No cash value. Offer not valid in Alaska, North Dakota, or Guam.)
We’re Number Two! We’re Number Two!
Europe has a bigger economy than us now. Thanks George! NYT link
A Little Advice For Anyone Running Against Mike Castle
This is from December 2007. It holds up with very minor edits. I’m not very optimistic about anybody being able to knock off Castle this year, but someone will be the Democratic nominee eventually and today seems like a good day to give out some unsolicited advice. 1) Castle is going to run as a […]
Delaware Liberal Online Caucus Results Thread & Post Mortem
Three votes. 2 for Bullock and 1 for Hartly-Nagle. Not enough to declare a winner. The caucus is hereby voided. On the plus side, the caucus turned off the trash talk, but let’s face it…the caucus was a flop. It was a good idea, perhaps the best idea I’ve ever had. I’ll leave that to […]
Happy Birthday Iraq War!
“Fixing my car’s gas tank was not going well, but it turned into a real Bushian Debacle when I used a cigarette lighter to get a better view of where the leak might be.”
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