Archive for March, 2009
NCCo Budget Address
NCCo Executive Chris Coons rolls out his budget for FY 2010 tomorrow night, Tuesday 17 March 2009 in the Council Chambers of the Redding City/County Building in Wilmington. No idea how well attended this will be, but this room isn’t all that big, so I imagine that if you want a seat you will need […]
Ho Hum, More Crazy Steele Talk
Steele channels Beck in his latest wacky word play. (Emphasis mine) “I love this battle because what I see right now is leading to the ultimate political Armageddon between conservatism and liberalism,” Steele declared at one point. “And the idea that free enterprise, free markets, free people are going to battle an oppressive, repressive, domineering […]
HB 1 Bill Up for Vote in House This Week
This is from Rebecca at Progressive Dems of Delaware: House Bill 01 of the 145th General Assembly is scheduled to come to the floor for a vote on Thursday, March 19th. An actual floor vote! Wow! That’s as close as we’ve come in over five years. We need to be there to support Speaker Gilligan […]
Health Care and The Economy Go Hand In Hand
I’ve been saying this for years, but maybe hearing it from Business Roundtable will add credibility to my liberal opinion. Let’s look at the findings (emphasis mine). Lead Health Care Messages In many important respects, the American health care system is among the best in the world. When it comes to scientific advances, medical technology […]
Municipal Funding of Solar Panels
Now this is innovative and interesting thinking: The goal behind municipal financing is to eliminate perhaps the largest disincentive to installing solar power systems: the enormous initial cost. Although private financing is available through solar companies, homeowners often balk because they worry that they will not stay in the house long enough to have the […]
Waiting
Waiting. It isn’t easy. It’s harder when what you are waiting on is hope. Your life raft. Your families life raft. Your new born sons life raft. Your only chance at potentially saving you, your wife and kids. Waiting is hard, when the minutes become hours and hours become days. Trying to waste time without […]
Revisiting Reserve Requirements
I wrote to highlight a blog post redwaterlily wrote over at her blog discussing the current rule change by KWS to reduce the reserve requirements by life insurers — reserves intended to try to ensure that these companies are adequately funded to pay policyholder claims. The conversation continued over at that post on a number […]
Were Delaware Municipalities at Risk From AIG for $260 Mill?
Delaware municipalities appear to have been at serious risk of losing millions without the initial bailout of AIG, according to a press release from AIG itself. In somewhat of a surprise, AIG listed institutions that essentially were remunerated with the rescue funds, and it appears that Delaware institutions could have lost $260 million without Federal […]
Irony Example 1,208,921,246
Isn’t it ironic? Don’t you think? Good thing for these Republican voters that the bleeding heart liberals are in charge now, huh. Today’s losers losing their homes are Republican districts. At least according to the Center for Responsible Lending, who has just issued a new report that shows nine of the top ten districts with […]
Late Nite Oddity: “Sexy” is Subjective
Sexy Girls Shooting Guns – For more amazing video clips, click here
When Words Selectively Matter
Pandora wrote a great post on Friday, looking at Steve Newton’s efforts to minimize concerns that liberals (especially those on this blog) might have about the Hannitys and Becks and whoever of the US airwaves who use their broad reach to try to legitimatize (and manipulate) their listeners’ fears and anxieties and resentments by invoking […]
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