Month: October 2011

Monday October 10th, - 7:48pm What a day... Huge thank you's to everyone! Too many to list right now. My first reactions... Everything you've heard about the gentle-spiritedness of this is true. I witnessed a bunch of Americans being the civic minded Americans that we are meant to be. Protesters, cops, journalists, all American patriots doing their thing. Everything you heard about this being anti-capitalist is a bunch of hooey. Everyone I saw seemed to be expressing a desire to return to the kind prosperity that was built on the notion that we are all in this together. A prosperity that does not simply materially enrich a few - but on a much deeper level enriches us all. More tomorrow. Thanks again.

Congrats Aaron. I kept waiting for it, but it never came. Fraudulent Academic "Dr" John Stapleford was not quoted in this morning's front page Bloom energy story which concentrated on a recent consultant's report. Markell's front page block quote is a classic: "The surest way to fail is to not pursue the jobs in the first place."

Who didn't see this coming?

“I think Mitt Romney’s a good, moral man, but I think those of us who are born-again followers of Christ should always prefer a competent Christian to a competent - to a competent non-Christian like Mitt Romney,”

A video showing some kids watching The Empire Strikes Back for the first time, at the moment of the reveal. Warning, contains SPOILERS (and if this applies to you, for shame).

Saturday October 8th, 2011 We have our pick up times, and our donation wranglers. We have some donation lined up. We have our wheels and I have my post it note reminding me to bring my easy pass. If I had a hammer, I'd hammer in the morning. What we don't have, is a real clear sense of how this is going to work once we get to Manhattan. In the action oriented spirit of this protest, we are still going for it - but if anybody has any first hand knowledge of what the recieving operation in OWS is like, I'd be eager to hear it. What we still need: 1) Whatever you do, sign this petition: http://www.getmoneyout.com/ Democrats are getting a little spine because they can count. 2) More pledges of supplies. (You know you have an old coat. Bring it to one of the three collection points on Monday morning. (see below)) 3) A little more press(?). I'm not sure about this. We have a call in to Al Mascitti's show lined up, but maybe some local press would be good? Maybe not. I'm not a huge fan of any of the Delaware Newspapers. 4) There is no number four unless you think of something that we are forgetting and want to put in the comments section.

Important Reminder: The DL community is going to fill an SUV with donated sleeping bags and/or blankets, yoga mats and tarps* and drive up to New York where we will deliver them on behalf of everyone in Delaware who thinks that the corporate takeover of our democracy requires a response. We'll be picking up donated items in the following locations: * Sussex - The Lewes Library @ 10:00am * Kent - Legislative Hall Main Entrance @ 11:00am, and * New Castle - The Shipyard Shops (the roundabout) @12:00

Coons said filibuster reform failed because other Democrats said we will be back in the minority at some point in the future, maybe even as soon as 2013, and the filibuster and secret holds are a tool we want to use against President Perry, Speaker Cantor and Majority Leader Corynn as they repeal Obamacare, end Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and the Departments of Labor, Energy, Education, Health and Human Services, and the EPA. But, last night, Harry Reid did something to upset that apple cart, and I say it is a good thing, and Democratic cowards like Carper will say it is a bad thing.

The jobs picture gets a little better. The private sector added 137,000 private sector jobs. The public sector cut 34,000 jobs in the tragically stupid push for austerity. The numbers for July and August are also revised up to reflect 99,000 unreported new private sector jobs. The economy has now created 1,074,000 jobs this year, 1,343,000 jobs in 2010, for a grand total of 2,417,000 since the end of the Great Recession. But we lost 9,079,000 in the Great Recession. So we need to create 6 million more jobs just to get back to where we were in 2007.

If “Tiresome and Ponderous Journalistic Meandering” was an Olympic sport, Cohen would be the Bruce Jenner of it. That’s a compliment. I didn’t say that she’d be the John du Pont of it, did I? Anyhoo.. For all the tiresome ponderousness, she gets to talk to people who will not talk to me and sometimes reports something worthwhile. Click through for her latest gem.