Archive for February 1st, 2009

Super Bowl Observations

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The Eagles would have been demolished by Pittsburgh. Philly dodged a bullet. Bruce rocks! Best half-time show ever. It must be nice to have a quarterback who can play for 4 whole quarters. The Budwieser ads were stupid. The Start Trek movie looks awesome. Heck of a catch. Coaches challenges are a horrible addition to […]

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BoA Using Tarp Funds To Lay Off Americans And Hire H1b Visa Holders

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Mike Castle will be meeting with Execs from the ironically named Bank of “America” this Tuesday.   I wonder if he will rebuke them for this?   From today’s AP wire – Via Kos Banks collecting billions of dollars in federal bailout money sought government permission to bring thousands of foreign workers to the U.S. for […]

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Super Bowl Prediction Thread

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I don’t know what the prize will be yet, but it will be valued between $15 and $25. Three factors will be used to judge the winner. The person that picks the winning team Closest to the Final Score The Story Line that best encapsulates the game Bonus points will be given for the person […]

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Cigars, snuff, chew, dip, cigarettes all legal…

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Cigars, snuff, chew, dip, cigarettes all legal…

toking up illegal, yet millions and millions of people do it, even World Class, 14 time Olympic Medalists…hmmmm 14-times Olympic gold medal winner Michael Phelps caught with cannabis pipe

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Comment Rescue: Protackian Clear Thinking (?)

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Mike Says: Take alook around the country, the budget mess in all the states is bi partisan. It is not a matter of D or R although you seem fixated on the R part of the equation. Hmmmm… I wonder why? Oh yeah I know, George W. Bush is responsible for the economic mess the […]

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Tom Carper’s Lil Buddy Makes a Funny!

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Tom Carper’s Lil Buddy Makes a Funny!

From Politco via Eschton… Lieberman jokes about waterboarding at black-tie dinner.» At last night’s black-tie dinner at Washington’s Alfalfa Club, Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT) couldn’t resist cracking a joke about torture. Politico’s Mike Allen reports: More from Senator Lieberman: ‘We had hoped Vice President Cheney would be here tonight. I hope it’s not his back injury […]

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Amazing Republican disconnect

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The disconnect between the people that represent citizens in Washington and the Republican governors is stunning to me.   How is it that even Bonehead R’s like Charlie Crist, Palin and the Action Hero (CA-R) want to pass the recovery package, but people Like Mike Castle don’t? NEW YORK — Most Republican governors have broken with […]

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Funny Haha

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Tale of the Irish Sausage Shamus and Murphy fancied a pint or two but didn’t have a lot of money. Between them, they could only raise the staggering sum of one Euro. Murphy said ‘Hang on, I have an idea.’

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Day 4 of Castle’s Betrayal of the People of Delaware

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Day 4 of Castle’s Betrayal of the People of Delaware

Know this wRong Williams is in agreement with Mike Castle. Hey Williams, put on your journalist hat for a moment, it’s not a stimulous package, it’s called the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act of 2009. You can shorten it by calling in the Recovery Plan or as I like to call it, The Bill That […]

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BONUS: News Journal Deathwatch

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BONUS: News Journal Deathwatch

Sometimes when I wake up on Sunday Morning I check out DelawareOnline just to scan the headlines and see if anything is going on. These days, when I see some like jumbled up garbage like this: I figure that they’ve simply given up. Bonus:  this Ginger Wall photo is interesting.  With the toy van in […]

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COVERING TEEN WOLF: ONE COACH’S GUIDE

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Used to be, the key to beating Teen Wolf’s Beavers was just to play them on any night there wasn’t a full moon. We were unlucky one season in that we met them 28 days apart, both times in their barn, and Teen Wolf destroyed us—64 points in the first game, then a quadruple-double in […]

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