Around the Horn Labor Day
Around the Horn will be back to its regular schedule next week as summer has finally come to a close. I have taken the last two weekends off for vacation. In the meantime, please feel free to post links to local stories in the Delaware blogosphere that deserve more attention. And if you have found a new Delaware political blog that we are missing from the list below, please link to it in the comments.
Yes, part of this Labor Day edition of Around the Horn is to make you all do the work. Hahahaha.
The Palmer Lyceum
On Transmigration
Delaware Business Blog
Kilroy
Lt. Governor Matt Denn’s Blog
Delmarva Dealings
Delaware Liberal
By the Numbers
Delaware Politics
Mike Musings
Redwaterlily’s Ramblings
Delaware Libertarian
Delaware Watch
Tommywonk
The Mourning Constitution
Lower Slower Delaware
Resolute Determination
Kavips
Delaware Way
The award-winning documentary, Keeping the Peace, will make its Delaware premiere at the Newark Film Festival next weekend! The festival is being held at the Cinema Center 3 theater in Newark, DE. Showtime is Saturday September 12, 2009 at 7pm.
Get more info from the official festival website: http://www.newarkfilm.com (tix can be purchased online or at the theater)
SYNOPSIS:
Michael Berg was thrust into the media spotlight in May 2004, when his son, Nick, was abducted and beheaded by terrorists in Iraq, reportedly in retaliation for the torture of Iraqis in the Abu Ghraib prison. The video of Nick’s murder was released on the internet and broadcast all over the cable news networks. As a life-long peace activist, Michael publicly blamed “the sins of George W Bush and Donald Rumsfeld” for his son’s death.
Saddened by the war and disgusted with the actions of the government, Michael decided to run for congress in 2006 to end the war in Iraq. With very limited funds to run a successful campaign against his more organized and wealthier opponents, Berg’s grassroots campaign was in for an uphill battle.
Keeping the Peace is the new independent documentary that followed his journey.
http://www.keepingthepeacefilm.com
I keep watching for someone to say something about Van Jones. Guess everyone is taking the day off.
OK: Anyone stupid enought to care should check his or her colon for polyps, since their heads are already up there and all.
June,
Van Jones was discussed here.
Also in the comment section on this thread.
June, I am not sympathetic to Van Jones. If we on the left are going to be critical of the Birthers and the Deathers and classify them as radical conspiracy theorists, then we must do the same to the radical conspiracy theorists on the left. Endorsing the belief that the government had something to do with 9/11 makes you a Truther, a radical conspiracy theorist with more in common with the Birthers and the Deathers than anyone else.
I am sorry, but I echo Geezer’s sentiment, and only say that I am sorry that Glenn Beck can now say that he got him fired.
Deathers?
Deathers are anyone who believes that Healthcare reform will establish Death Panels. Notable members are Sarah Palin and Chuck Grassley.
Baratunde Thurston on Van Jones here:
Digby also has an excellent response on the new hissy purges that apparently DD is endorsing here:
It is worth reading them both. And while DD seems delighted accept the terms of the debate set — I would have vastly preferred that Obama tell these guys that the day that all of the Senators and Congresspeople who talked about the President of the United States not being a citizen of this country; who told their constituents that Obama wanted to kill their grandparents or handicapped kids; who told their constituents that there are FEMA camps they’ll be rounded up to; who tell their constituents that the Census workers should not be cooperated with; who tell their constituents that the Government is taking over the economy; or that the government will take their guns — resign themselves for their own piece of the tin foil hattery, then he’d talk about Van Jones.
And while I think that 9/11 trutherism is despicable on every level, what is true is that Jones certainly was not using his office to further any of that business. Everything else is the usual Democratic spinelessness in the face of wingnut freakouts.
This is a witch hunt and it’s quite depressing because Jones is a truly inspirational, exciting thinker and speaker….who actually believes that 9-1-1 was a Bush plot. And you think Beck is crazy.
Oh well, luckily for Jones, tin foil hats don’t stand-out so much in Oakland.
Going have to disagree with you on this one. Just as every Birther and Deather will forever have to be disregarded as a serious intelligent honest person for as long as they live and denied any place in politics or government, so must the Truthers.
denied any place in politics or government,
They are in government NOW and there is no one calling for them to be gone. No.One.
I am. I am just trying to be consistent. The fact that their radical fringe is actually in office and controls their party is unfortunate, but that doesn’t mean our radical fringe should be in office.
Which is very high-minded of you, I’m sure. Never mind that Jones’ job had nothing to do with the radical fringe, but you keep on working within their terms of the debate and see how far that gets you.
That Mr Jones was supposedly a 9/11 Truther doesn’t bother me quite as much as the ‘explanation,” that he wasn’t really one, but signed his name to support something and didn’t know what he was signing. (Of course, that could qualify him to be a congressman!) But, even more important, he was not just a supporter of but an organizer of a “free Mumia” march.
Mr Jones was also an organizer for a Marxist-Leninist group. I am pleased that he will now be able to exercise his freedom of speech while not on the taxpayer’s dime.
I reject DD’s premise. The problem with Van Jones is that he is a radical in all sorts of ways. I don’t believe that the fact that a person has divergent ideas in an area means that person should be “banned” for life from public service. That is a perfect way to eliminate anyone with original thought. You would eliminate almost every great leader or even most people with great ideas. The people who think out of the box to give us a good idea tend to think out of the box in other ways. We can not be afraid of that.
The normal state of affairs is to be stuck in morass and failure. Only by being different can you get a different result.
A few set of kooky ideas doesn’t make one a kook. A lifestyle of kooky ideas makes one a kook. I don’t know that he is a kook, but he was a true radical. The question is does he represent the administration?
Cassandra wrote:
We should assume then, that when the Republicans return to the White House on January 20, 2013, that you will never complain about any appointees past unless it pertains directly to his government job, right?
Hahahahaha, with Sarah Palin as your standard bearer. It will never happen, Dana.
Never.
No, actually, you shouldn’t assume that.
But you should assume that I will expect Republicans in office to be as high-minded as DD here and be sure to purge themselves of the fringe and crazies you have in government jobs.
If Van Jones were here, he’d suggest that we focus on this bit of neocon claptrap:
http://www.delawareonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2009909060307
It’s a snooty retort to the spreading word about “cheap” food and its unhealthy baggage:
http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1917458,00.html
John,
I saw that article yesterday. How dare we try to influence people to eat healthy foods!
Tim was part of a meeting with Senator Carper on Health Care.
http://www.delawarepolitics.net/senator-carper%E2%80%99s-closed-door-listening-session/
This post includes a video of the Senator. Tim was truly on the cutting edge this past week. I believe those are two must read Around the Horn events.
Cassandra wrote:
We don’t have any of them in government jobs that aren’t career or civil service positions; we lost the last election, remember? And, of course, conservatives cannot be fringe or crazy; we are the standard by which normal is judged.
Actually, Dana…. A number of Republican Congressman and women are birthers. Bill Posey is even sponsoring a bill on the issue. Chuck Grassley and Sarah Palin, one a Senator and the Ranking Member of the Finance Committee and one a Governor until she quit to make money, both are Deathers. They are all government officials. And then look at Michelle Bachmann. She’s so crazy that the terms don’t do her justice. And she is a government official.
Dana, this was your question, right?
We should assume then, that when the Republicans return to the White House on January 20, 2013, that you will never complain about any appointees past unless it pertains directly to his government job, right?
This question already presumes that we both know that repubs are not in office right now. What is it with you people? You have to pretend that the question that you asked doesn’t even exist in order to try to score a pretty damn stupid point. If what you mean to communicate here is that your only reason to be here is for dishonest pettiness, then we get it.
And as for normal — when your leadership changes from being Rush Limbaugh, Glen Beck, Michelle Bachmann and Sarah Palin you might get a glimmer of what normal actually looks like.
Hi,
This week I did two posts about which state representative districts appear to be increasing in population which is of importance as we look to 2012 and reapportionment. I assume the beach area in Sussex County & the MOT area in Southern New Castle County will each get an additional state rep unless this trend reverses. The area between Dover & Smyrna in Kent County is also one to watch.
http://politicsbythenumbersmostlydelaware.blogspot.com/
Last week I did a post on whether Tom Wagner may be more vulnerable than a few years ago as he heads into the 2010 election cycle.
http://politicsbythenumbersmostlydelaware.blogspot.com/2009/08/extended-incumbency-and-bigger-warchest.html
Happy Labor Day!
DL , Keep up the good work!