Archive for February 17th, 2009
59% of Americans Want National Health Insurance
From a recent CBS/NYT poll: HEALTH INSURANCE: PRIVATE ENTERPRISE VS. GOVERNMENT? CBS/NYT Now CBS/NYT 1/1979 Private enterprise 32% 48% Government – all problems 49 28 Government – emergencies 10 12 Don’t know 9 12 Are Democrats listening? This represents a 37% swing in opinion on an item that Americans routinely put at the top of […]
Deep Old Man Thought
These days college basketball players look like clowns in their oversized shorts. Especially Kentucky.
Dubai DuBusted
Here is another one for the Schedenfreud file from Boing Boing. Short of opening a Radio Shack in an Amish town, Dubai is the world’s worst business idea, and there isn’t even any oil. Imagine proposing to build Vegas in a place where sex and drugs and rock and roll are an anathema. This is […]
GOP Stimulus Myths Exposed
Media Matters: It does a body good. $220,000 per job? Try $70,000. $30 million for the salt marsh harvest mouse? Not in the bill. The Congressional Budget Office estimated that full cost will reach $3.2 trillion by 2019? No, their estimate was $787,242,000. $2/$4 billion for ACORN? Nope. $2 billion for ACORN-elligible community block grants? […]
Enviro-QOD
Why isn’t big business getting behind better development practices? Atrios notes: It costs a lot of money to own and operate a car. AAA pegs it at about 7 grand per year (.pdf). That’s close to $600 per month. Living in a place where you can reduce the number of cars per household provides significant […]
Politico-QOD
How does someone like Jamie Moulthrop get the idea that he should run for office? I mean, he might be a nice guy and all, but if his resume was any thinner it would go from transparent to invisible. A “Tax preparer for Jackson-Hewitt” means that he takes people’s w-2s and enters them into a […]
President’s Day Redux
Best & Worst Presidents of the last 50 Years Let’s just look at our “lifetime” and leave the discussion of weather Lincoln would have been disgusted by George Bush aside. (PS. Lincoln would have been disgusted by Bush, Nixon and Reagan.) Here is the definitive “Best to Worst” list of Presidents over the last 50 […]
John Carney for Congress
John Carney is running for Congress. Yes, you heard it hear first. Whoops, I forgot the BREAKINGS NEWS!!!! and the flashing sirens, but yes, John Carney is running for Congress. It does not matter if Castle runs for reelection or not. However, Tom Carper still has some sway over Mr. Carney, for some unknown reason. […]
Probability Table For Mike Castle’s Future
There are only a few things that can happen and not many variables to contend with, so it is easy to build a probability table for the outcomes regarding Mike Castle. Then we can quibble over the probability of each outcome, but the short version is there is only a slim chance that Mike Castle […]
Cantor Sees Into The Future and Decides The Future is Cantor
Is it possible to wait until President Obama unveils his housing plan before coming out against it? If Republicans want to know why most Americans aren’t taking them seriously then they need look no further than Eric Cantor. Cantor’s ambition to be the new voice of the GOP is transparent, deeply lacking in both patience […]
The Consolation Race
Feroce makes this point: We are an incumbent driven state, so there are few opportunities (of a candidate doing well against an incumbent or challenger simply because he or she ran against the opponent’s national party) to cite. Even when we have open seats it’s an incumbent rotation. Having said that, Dennis Spivak is a […]
A New Delaware State Quarter and a New DL Logo.
In a few weeks, months, years, centuries, milleniums, or epochs (Geek and Nemski-willing), Delaware Liberal 3.0 will be launched. With it, a new Delaware Liberal logo, which I am still working on (so Geek and Nemski can make the same jokes on me). So no longer with the Delaware State Quarter greet you every morning. […]
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