Archive for April 8th, 2009

Late Night Music Video: Artificial Joy Club – Sick and Beautiful

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[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-J5jA4SOwg&feature=related[/youtube] you’re napalm with novocaine; a kite in a hurricane.

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Breaking! ‘Real’ People in Nat’l Org. for Marriage Spot Are Actors. And Here are the Auditions…

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Pandora ran a ‘Pointless/Counterpoint’ thread below featuring ‘real’ people reallyreally concerned about the so-called homosexual agenda. Well, yes, they’re real people as long as actors are considered real people (Alfred Hitchcock on actors: “I never said they were cattle. I said they should be treated like cattle”). You doubt the Beast Who Slumbers? Allow ‘bulo […]

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Women Should Not Have This Fear

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As a man, sometimes I forget how tough it is to be a woman. Seriously, no joke here. Stop Street Harassment, a blog for women about the constant harassment they face on America’s streets, blogs about a Delaware woman who was followed by a man in a pickup who was subsequently arrested. Men, think about […]

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Pointless vs Counterpoint

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Pointless… Must everything be the end of the world?  Conservatives need to learn that less is more. vs Counterpoint…

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Did you know?

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I had no idea of this one.  Did you know that Nixon on August 15, 1971 “closed the gold window and devalued the dollar.” It was one of the rules or agreements of the Bretton Woods System that came out of the Bretton Woods Conference right after WWII in New Hampshire. The chief features of […]

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Breaking: Markell’s Education Agenda Unveiled

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From the Office of the Governor: DOVER — Governor Jack Markell and Lieutenant Governor Matthew Denn joined Senate Education Committee Chair David Sokola and House Education Committee Chair Terry Schooley today to unveil legislation designed to dramatically improve Delaware’s public schools and qualify Delaware for federal dollars that President Obama’s administration will be awarding to […]

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Quote of the Day

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We [representatives of Pakistan and the United States] did talk about drones, and let me be very frank: there is a gap between us. The bottom line is the question of trust. – Shah Mehmood Qureshi Foreign Minister of Pakistan

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Wednesday’s Open Thread

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Yesterday, we had our first successful open thread with some good discussion and links from our readers. Well done, people, well done. For a starting point, some posts yesterday that you might have missed are that a Republican actually stood up to Rush Limbaugh, Kris Kristofferson is kind of cool and Vermont legalizes it (gay […]

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2012 Here we co…..not…

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The train wreck that is the Alaskan Governor keeps getting better and better. I can’t think of a better example of hypocrisy when it comes to representing Christian values. Watch CBS Videos Online

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Finish this Sentence

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If I had a dollar for every time I heard …

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Column Rescue: Mike Matthews Live-Blog on HB 100

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Wow. Mike Matthews’ live-blogging on HB 100 is not to be missed. He really captures the clusterbleep that took place yesterday. Essential reading both for the trainwreck nature of what happened as well as for gaining an insight into what typically happens during committee meetings. Plus, guest appearances! To paraphrase George Orwell, “All bills are […]

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Happy Passover

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To all our Jewish friends here at Delaware Liberal and elsewhere, we want to wish them all a Happy Passover. This year’s Passover is rather historic. In Delaware, the first Passover Seder will be celebrated at Woodburn by Governor Markell, Delaware’s first Jewish Governor. And President Obama is set to become the first President to […]

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Poll: Do you and your spouse pool finances or keep them separate?

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And if you don’t have a significant other, what would you want to do? Discuss.

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