Archive for May, 2009

Brandywine School District Elections May 12th

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I’m sure many of you have seen the signs peppered up and down Shipley and Foulk Rd among other places. I reached out to both candidates via email Wednesday evening in the hopes that some very basic questions would be answered. I have not heard back from either candidate. Below are the questions I submitted […]

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Writing Checks

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At some point you have to ask yourself if you’ve had enough.  At what point in life do you stop questioning everything.  At some point you succumb.  You bend over, clench and say ok.  When does that happen for me?  It hasn’t yet and I’m beginning to wonder if I’m ever going to be able […]

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Breakin’ Up Is Hard To Do

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Another sad day for the GOP. “Joe” the “Plumber” says he is leaving the GOP. Samuel Wurzelbacher, better known as Joe the Plumber, tells TIME he’s so outraged by GOP overspending, he’s quitting the party He’s just noticing this now? Anyhoo, I know the GOP will miss this man of great intellectual heft: But he […]

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Sports Betting Bill Passes: Fascinating Story Superbly Reported by Ginger Gibson

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For someone who has not been in Legislative Hall for very long, the News-Journal’s Ginger Gibson perfectly captured the sometimes surreal picture of what goes on there in today’s superb blow-by-blow account of the passage of the sports betting bill. The endlessly-ringing bells that never summon anyone to the chamber, the late-night pizza pigout, the […]

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Ken Salazar to Annex Delaware

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The Daily Show With Jon Stewart M – Th 11p / 10c Ken Salazar thedailyshow.com Daily Show Full Episodes Economic Crisis Political Humor Last night Ken Salazar was on the Daily Show and about 4 minutes in he claims that he wants to make the whole state of Delaware into a national park. Funny stuff. […]

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Funds For Abstinence “Education” Gone

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Funds For Abstinence “Education” Gone

Despite what anyone says “No” is not an education program.  That said… Elections matter. Via Think Progress:

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‘Around the Horn’ Friday

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Busy week. Kavips Kavips reviews the Kowalko-Liberal Geek Plan, the Delaware Libertarian Plan and his own Kavipsian Plan to balance the state budget. Where we are with Wind. Carper’s Own Words Either Put Delaware in Park or Put a National Park in Delaware. Fighting off the Biden Gaffe Merchants. Reviewing SB 59, which will save […]

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Late Night Oddity: Oxygen

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Oxygen from Christopher Hendryx on Vimeo.

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Petition HB5 out of that Bigot’s Desk Drawer

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Mike Matthews reminds us that HB 5 (the equal rights bill) was assigned to the Senate Executive Committee over a month ago. No committee hearings in the Senate. No vote in the Senate. Why you ask? Because of the bigoted homophobe Thurman Adams, whose retirement into his own comfortable world of discrimination cannot come soon […]

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Eeee-heee-heeee! Don’t stop till you get enough of DV!

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[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nniRKNIBr90[/youtube]

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Do you like to laugh?

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If so, listen to Bill O’Reily talk to Ann Coulter about the future of the GOP.   “Goldwater lost because he was too liberal.”

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QOTE

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Is dog gas worse than man-gas?

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Oh Please, Let Rush Get His Wish!

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If Colin Powell leaves the Republican Party drinks are on me! “What Colin Powell needs to do is close the loop and become a Democrat instead of claiming to be a Republican interested in reforming the Republican Party,” Limbaugh said on his radio show Wednesday. Limbaugh also took aim at Powell’s decision to endorse President […]

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