Archive for June, 2008

Airing my dirty laundry

Filed in National by on June 26, 2008 11 Comments

Well it’s been a while… Just a little background for you.  I am one of a very few men in this country.  I RECIEVED Child Support Payments from my ex wife for one years time.  After taking her to court over the course of 2 years, the judges saw too it to garnish her wages […]

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Pop Quiz: Who Said This?

Filed in National by on June 26, 2008 11 Comments

I love Markell, but if Carney gets this deal done, I may have to vote for him.

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QOD

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Thick? or Thin?

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On Carney’s Credit Taking

Filed in National by on June 26, 2008 21 Comments

Liberalgeek gave props for Bluewater to Carney yesterday, now on my drive in I heard Carney giving himself props. That’s fine and to be expected. That’s what any politician would do. However, what did Carney really get? This is a big construction project and Bluewater Wind was going to have to set up an office […]

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Windpower Deal: Greased Lightning!

Filed in National by on June 25, 2008 16 Comments

Wow.  Just Wow.  The windpower bill passed both houses of the legislature this evening.  Tommywind has the story. To give you a feeling for this bills speed, I called Bluewater yesterday afternoon to get the bill number from them so that I could post a “Call your Senator and Rep” post with the actual bill […]

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Netroots Nation

Filed in National by on June 25, 2008 11 Comments

In three weeks, I will be attending the Netroots Nation Convention in Austin, Texas on behalf of Delaware Liberal.   This convention was formerly called Yearly Kos, and was held previously in 2006 in Las Vegas and in 2007 in Chicago.   It’s title was changed from referencing Daily Kos since the nationwide blogosphere is so much […]

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The 62 District Strategy, Part I

Filed in National by on June 25, 2008 31 Comments

Back in November of last year on Daily Delaware, I wrote about the 62 District Strategy.  Like our presidential nominee, I completely stole that phrase from Howard Dean and modified it.   As someone famous once said, half of life is just showing up.  And in politics, it is three-fourths.  Thus, it is maddening whenever we […]

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Handgun Used To Kill Five Factory Workers After Argument

Filed in National by on June 25, 2008 37 Comments

A 25-year-old employee at a plastics factory in Kentucky shot dead five colleagues and injured another before killing himself, police have said. He opened fire at the Atlantis Plastics factory in Henderson city after arguing with a male supervisor, said police. Using a handgun he got from his car, the employee killed his 30-year-old supervisor, […]

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Breaking: DelawareLiberal Keeps Getting Better

Filed in National by on June 25, 2008 29 Comments

Delaware Liberal is adding “Delaware Dem” from “Daily Delaware” as a regular contributor. Delaware Dem has built a huge readership on Daily Kos where his diaries are uniquely poignant and practical. He is very linked into the national blog scene and will be going to Netroots Nation in mid-July where he will be sitting on […]

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ca..n’…t s…to…ppp la..u..ghi…ng….asaaaahhhhhhhh

Filed in National by on June 25, 2008 7 Comments

Sen. John McCain pledged yesterday that he would make the federal government more environmentally friendly, while Sen. Barack Obama mocked his rival as crafting energy policies that merely pander to voters, in the latest skirmish over which presidential candidate is better prepared to tackle the nation’s energy and environmental problems. I just peed my pants….ahhhhhhhhh.  […]

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I had almost forgotten about Nader

Filed in National by on June 25, 2008 30 Comments

Until he said this about Obama. “He wants to show that he is not a threatening . . . another politically threatening African-American politician. He wants to appeal to white guilt. You appeal to white guilt not by coming on as black is beautiful, black is powerful. Basically he’s coming on as someone who is […]

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Reagan Republicanism is Dead…What’s next?

Filed in National by on June 25, 2008 15 Comments

Reagan used his communication skills and conservative starvation for power to knit-together three groups that have little, if anything, in common. it worked for a while, but McCain’s 70% finishes in five out of the last five primaries are evidence to the fact that the coalition Reagan put together is finished. So what is next […]

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QOD

Filed in National by on June 25, 2008 20 Comments

If you had the chance to represent your blog and the blogosphere in general on a television program, what would be the one theme or message you would want to get out?

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