Archive for March, 2009

Dems Have Nothing To Lose In The Limbaugh War

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Dems have nothing to lose in the Limbaugh War because this fight isn’t about us.  It’s about Republicans. Seriously, we have nothing to lose.  If Rush wins (and he’s clearly winning so far) then he becomes the leader of the Republican Party.  However, if the GOP succeeds in putting Rush in his place then they […]

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What I just read

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What I just read

A while back when I was actually working Nemski had a bunch of you list some books that I should read. I have read quite a few so far or when they aren’t available at the library I have read the books by the authors you suggested.  I recommend you all taking a look at […]

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Teh Awesome

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What you are about to watch and listen to are unrelated Youtube music clips put together and made awesome. Check out more at Thru You. h/t Big Ink

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Read All About It in the Sunday Papers

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El Somnambulo digs up the good stuff so that you don’t have to: President Obama proposes outreach to the Taliban in a wide-ranging NYTimes interview: Mr. Obama pointed to the success in peeling Iraqi insurgents away from more hard-core elements of Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia, a strategy that many credit as much as the increase of […]

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Financial News You May Have Missed This Week

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There is alot of interesting stuff being written by folks who are not exactly part of the cable news shouting match or who are talking about long term effects of this crash that may be useful. These are some of the best I read this week: NYT piece discusses something I’ve been pointing out for […]

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Free Dumb of the Press

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Good thing we have a liberal media, because I’d hate to think what the NYT would find print worthy if it was conservative.

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Geithner Gone by June?

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That is the prediction from Chris Whalen talking to The Street.com. So caution is advised. Whalen is a principal of this place and his newsletter has been full of bailout discussions. What interests me here are two things: 1) that resolving AIG and Lehman rids the system of CDS and 2) Lehman is the model […]

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Deep Home Project/Business Thought

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I think a viable business could be built on a regular youtube show called, “The Half-assed Homeowner” which would show people how to do projects around the house in the ways that people REALLY do them and not the ways they are depicted on HGTV and DIY with all the right tools and planning. There […]

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Domestic Terror Question of the Day

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Where were all these chest thumping domestic terrorists wannabes who are so eager to revolt and break away from the United States when Bush was figuratively wiping his ass with the Constitution and wrecking the economy?

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More Like This Please! — Factchecking Mike Pence

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Rick Sanchez from CNN had on Eric Burns from Media Matters to fact check Mike Pence’s claim that he fought against both earmarks and excessive spending by BushCo and the Congress: Dear Liberal Media: Do way more of this. Thanks!

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Delaware’s Slowness with ARRA

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According to Recovery.org, Delaware is not certified for American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) funds nor do we have a website for transparency of ARRA funds. The following states are ARRA certified: Connecticut, District of Columbia (yes, I know they are not a state), Illinois, Kansas, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, Texas, […]

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Donviti PSA

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If you are reading this then you aren’t outside. GO OUTSIDE!

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House Races to Watch WikiPost: 3/7/09

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Here are the Delaware house races to watch according to the DL contributors. We’ll be updating and reposting this throughout the year as political fortunes rise and fall. Let us know where we’ve screwed up in the comments. STATE REPRESENTATIVE DISTRICT 2 Hazel Plant (D) has held this seat almost forever. Her strongest challenge came […]

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