Archive for November 6th, 2009

Late Night Video — POX News

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The beloved children’s TV show, Sesame Street has its 40th Anniversary this month and they have been rerunning episodes and skits to celebrate that event. After this piece aired, wingnuts got their whine on,complaining that PBS was specifically trying to brainwash the kids:

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Chickenhawk Tom Tancredo Gets Served By Markos

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Today is video pwnage day at DL. Former Republican presidential candidate Tom Tancredo appeared on MSNBC to talk about how veterans hate the VA system. Markos then hurt Tancredo’s feelings by pointing out that Tancredo avoided service in Vietnam, a war that Tancredo claimed to support. Tancredo left the set!

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An EPIC Around the Horn Friday: The Returns

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An EPIC Around the Horn Friday: The Returns

Locally this week, Dave Burris returned to the horror of all, and now we have the battle of the Davids for the soul of the Republican Party locally. We also the return of the evil vile right wing terrorist Frank Knotts, and the rise of Donviti. Oh yes, and the Big Dog is coming to town soon. Hide the women.

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Friday Afternoon Bacon Blogging — Hangover Cures!

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Friday Afternoon Bacon Blogging — Hangover Cures!

Just in time for the holiday party season, just one more reason for bacon — it helps you recover from hangovers:

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Friday Open Thread

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It’s Friday! *happy dance* Let’s get your weekend started out right with some sweet pwnage by Shoshana Johnson: Commenter a. price points us to this video of Jon Stewart mocking Glenn Beck. It’s some of Stewart’s best work. The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c

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Heeee’s Baaaaaacckkkk!

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Let’s welcome the newest addition to the Delaware blogging scene, Donviti, with his new blog The Wage Slave. There are already a number of Donvitisms and some posts. As always, we wish Donviti luck.

Welcome back.

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Double-digit Unemployment

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Double-digit Unemployment

Unemployment hit 10.2% in October which is painful for many especially those without college degrees as they have been hit the hardest. There is no solace for the unemployed in the following fact, but employment always lags behind economic growth. Here is an interesting chart supplied by The White House that shows some light at […]

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Someone Is Confused

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Poor Charlie Crist is under a lot of pressure by the purgers and it’s obviously making him a bit confused: “I didn’t endorse it. I didn’t even have a vote on the darned thing,” Crist told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer in an interview Wednesday on The Situation Room. “But I understood that it was going to […]

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AARP To Receive The “ACORN” Treatment

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Boy, is there anyone left Republicans aren’t declaring war on? Pence and Reichert suggested that support was the result of corruption inside the AARP and not based on the interests of its membership. “What you’ve got here is a backroom deal,” Pence said of reform measures expected to be introduced by Senate Majority Leader Harry […]

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Health Care Reform News

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Yesterday while Michelle Bachmann’s mob gathered at the capital to once again compare health care reform to nazism, the White House announced some key endorsements of the House health care reform bill: the AARP, the American Cancer Society and the AMA. So, will the Blue Dogs listen to these groups that represent millions of Americans […]

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