American Perseverance Triumphant
I mentioned earlier today that I was nearly overwhelmed by happiness that America has a President again. I was happy for myself, but deep down I was happy for the…
Comment Rescue: Support Lisa Diller For NCC Council
I think John Tobin can forgiven for breaking his self-imposed blog-policy of not endorsing candidates for office. http://www.lisadiller.com/ From her website: “Lisa has been endorsed by Representative Terry Schooley of…
Bush Using His Words
Watch this then watch Obama's speech below. Three more days.
Obama’s Weekly Video Address
Here is Obama’s last weekly video address as President-Elect.
Transcript below the fold.
Matt Taibbi Exit Interviews Bush
Let's talk about August 6th, 2001. That's the day you got a memo warning about plans for possible attacks by Osama bin Laden and Al Qaeda. What were you doing…
Deep Obama Thought
Just heard the Wilmington Train Station event on WDEL and I'm overwhelmed by happiness that this country has a President again.
QotD: Are Birds The New Terrorists?
A flock of birds took down a US airliner. What is Bush 43 planning on doing about it?
A donviti FYI
A black dude is taking over Tuesday
Science vs Frank Knotts
Over at Delaware Politics, Frank Knotts has issued an Al Gore suicide watch. Why? Because it's cold outside. I am not kidding. Never mind that 2008 was the eighth warmest…
NCC Council Opening – Developers Wanted
Since Stephanie McClellen is leaving her position as a county councilwoman to work for the Markell administration there is a void in Newark. Apparently, there are three people vying for…
Watching Delaware State Government with Requests
Or more precisely, the Legislature.
I’ve been looking at ways to keep track of what goes on in Dover, which means looking beyond the NJ. The State’s website actually provides some useful tools that were new to me, so I thought I would share some of these for the (probably very few of you) who didn’t know, either (note, RSS links prompt you to add feed to a reader):
- RSS feed for Introduced Legislation (for both houses)
- RSS feed for House Passed Legislation
- RSS feed for Senate Passed Legislation
- RSS feed for Signed Legislation
- MyLis by which you can indicate legislation you want to track and you will get email notice of changes in status. This you have to register for.
- Delaware Legislative Actions Notice which is another subscription service to get notice of legislative actions. Some of you may already be signed up to this service for school closings or school announcements.
Memories of Bush III
Remember when Bush said that one of the great accomplishment of his administration was his record of keeping the country safe from terrorists attacks, provided you ignored his obvious failure?…
News Journal Deathwatch: Gannett In The Onion
Gannett Forces Employees To Take Unpaid Week Off The Gannett Company, publisher of 85 daily newspapers across the United States, is making all its employees take a weeklong unpaid furlough…