Archive for June 11th, 2009

Delaware Liberal’s Official Song

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Some of you newbies might not know that this is the official song of Delaware Liberal and this is the official rendition of the official song. If you don’t like that song, you don’t like life. Oh yeah. puremarkska is the offical singer of Delaware Liberal.

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U of D Football should add 8,000 bleacher seats and join The Big East

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This John guy seems to know his shit. I follow Pitt. Go to any Big east blog, including ESPN.coms Big East blog. All of the fans of all programs are sick of the 3-4 scheduling. They need 1 more team to be able to schedule 4 home and 4 away. If UCONN can move up […]

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Dispatch From An Alternate Reality

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How about this for a follow up to Cassandra’s post “How You Make A Trillion Dollar Deficit” – here is Karl Rove from an interview with Greta Von Susteren. “This is a cosmetic gesture. This guy is going to run up a $1.8 trillion deficit. That’s what it’s projected to be this year,” Rove complained. […]

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Donviti PSA #101-2b

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If you have 2 daughters aged 14 and 17 and one of them gets pregnant via a penis and then months later I make a joke about one of your daughters and the joke has to do with sex.  Odds are I’m talking about the daughter that had sex even if I don’t mention it […]

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The Rise and Demise of the McDonald’s LPGA Tournament

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The McDonald’s LPGA Tournament, one of the crown jewels of the women’s golf tour, will cease to exist following this week’s finale at Bulle Rock C. C. in Maryland. It is not clear whether the tournament, which is one of the LPGA’s four major tournaments, will continue with different sponsorship, will remain a major tourney, […]

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Words Have No Fixed Meaning to Republicans

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Exhibit #3,967 h/t Atrios

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How you tackle the Palins and their BS

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[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-X6FUwBmclo[/youtube] From the Huffington Post article. (Edit:   Fixed, I think, for DV) [youtube]http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/06/11/letterman-responds-to-pal_n_214128.html[/youtube]

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How You Make a Trillion Dollar Deficit

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How You Make a Trillion Dollar Deficit

…and then try to blame Democrats for it. This is simply fantastic analysis from David Leonhardt from the NYT tracing how the US got to trillion dollar deficits, that you should all bookmark and refer to when the usual suspects show up to pretend that the sky just started falling on Jan 20, 2009. Especially […]

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SCCOR and the News Journal

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Steve Newton and the denizens of DL have had their disagreements, but when the man is right, as he is with this morning’s post on the News Journal puff piece on the Sussex County Community Organized Regiment, he’s right. He pans the story for all that it leaves out: 1) The reporter didn’t bother to […]

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QOD

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If you could be any cartoon or comic book superhero which would it be?

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Who Leads Republicans? Apparently They Don’t Know Either

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USAToday covers a Gallup poll in which Americans were asked who speaks for the GOP. A majority of Americans couldn’t name anyone. A 52% majority of those surveyed couldn’t come up with a name when asked to specify “the main person” who speaks for Republicans today. Of those who could, the top response was radio […]

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Legislative Wrapup and Preview-June 11, 2009

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Yesterday’s Activity. As you can see, most of the action was in the committee meetings, both House and Senate. Lots of interesting bills were reported out, including the Presidential Popular Vote Compact Bill discussed here. Also, in the spirit of bipartisanship, and on behalf of gastronomic equality, not only was Gerald Hocker’s (R) bill making […]

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You’re Invited!

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A message from Rebecca Young: Gov. Markell will sign HB01 into law on Friday, June 12, at 2:00 PM at the Old New Castle Courthouse Museum. All DL’ers are invited to attend and wear your green tee-shirts! I’m going to try to attend. Who’s in?

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