Archive for May, 2010

Weekend Open Thread

Filed in National by on May 8, 2010 26 Comments

The weekend edition of your almost-daily open thread.

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BP Oil Spill – Some Delaware Perspective

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BP Oil Spill – Some Delaware Perspective

What if the BP Oil Spill happened off the coast of Delaware?  This image put Rehoboth Beach in middle of the spill. For more comparisons, go to http://paulrademacher.com/oilspill/

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So-Called Professionals Joke About Co-Worker’s Penis Size

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Do you remember how we were told that we shouldn’t worry about the full-body screening equipment because it didn’t show that much detail? We were also told that the people manning the equipment were professionals and the pictures would be discarded. Perhaps not so much… Rolando Negrin, a TSA employee at Miami International Airport, was […]

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Friday Open Thread

Filed in National by on May 7, 2010 9 Comments

The Friday edition of your daily open thread.

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Morning Round Em Up

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Good morning Delaware Liberals. Deadlock in the UK and chaos on Wall Street. At least the Phillies won, yet again.

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Crybaby Cathcart

Filed in National by on May 7, 2010 37 Comments

What is it about Republicans that makes them think that when they lose election after election, and are the minority in both Houses of the General Assembly, that they are still entitled to write all legislation or at the very least have legislation crafted the way they see fit.

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Kaufman’s Amendment To Break Up “Too Big To Fail” Banks Fails

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Senator Kaufman’s amendment to break up “too big to fail” banks was defeated yesterday.

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Late Night Video – How We’re Wrecked The Ocean

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A TED talk by Jeremy Jackson tells us how we’ve wrecked the ocean.

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Governor-General James T. Kirk?

Filed in National by on May 6, 2010 3 Comments

We are unusual here in the United States in that our head of state and our head of government are the same person: President Barack H. Obama. In the United Kingdom, Israel, Canada, Germany, and many places across the globe, the roles are divided, with the Head of State representing the whole country and its […]

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You Can’t Make this Stuff Up.

Filed in National by on May 6, 2010 3 Comments

If the Teabaggers / Birthers did not exist, only a drugged out Hollywood writer could dream them up, and then no one would buy the script since it would be too fictional, even for Hollywood. And you wonder why I have absolutely NO respect for anyone in anyway associated with the Teabaggers / Birthers, and you also wonder why I say they are all just two bit terrorists in waiting. Check this out.

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More Like This Please

Filed in National by on May 6, 2010 6 Comments

It must be nice to have a functioning media in a state. Look what happened in Illinois: In the race for President Obama’s old Senate seat, Republican candidate Mark Kirk has spent the past couple weeks hammering Democrat Alexi Giannoulias over the failure of his family’s Broadway Bank. On Monday, Ed Marshall of the local […]

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Thursday Open Thread

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The Thursday edition of your daily open thread.

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Shameless Self-Promotion: Concert Edition

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Now that I’ve ‘outed’ myself on the Internets, I can let you know that, in another life, I’m a volunteer concert promoter/producer for the Arden Concert Gild. We have two shows coming up this month, one of which I’m producing. I’d love for DL readers to come to one or both and, as an incentive, […]

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