Year: 2011

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.

Via Mitch Crane's Facebook:

While the media has concentrated on Attorney General Biden's request that BCBSD reserves be used to help provide medical insurance coverage for uninsured Delawareans, attention should be focused on the Attorney General's continued opposition to the proposed merger with Highmark.

Statement from U.S. Rep. Carney marking the 10th anniversary of U.S. operations in Afghanistan When something like this ends up in your in-box on the heels of the fraudulent payroll tax pep-rally/"town hall" conference call, how can anyone not be filled with dread? Well, let's read on shall we..?

So a community of supposed Americans are upset that the Vice President of the United States has stated that he will prevent the early and unwarranted release of a convicted spy for a foreign government who breached America's national security some 25 years ago and endangered all Americans everywhere. In other times and circumstances, those supposed upset Americans might have been labeled traitors. At the very least sympathizers. For a fact, the spy, if he or she is an American citizen, is a traitor to America and deserves at the very least life in prison. But we live in a time where allegiance to Israel is more important than allegiance to America.

Kenton's Treasurer pretended to be the town manager and then sold the rights to a cell phone tower on town property. She pocketed the $50 grand from the sale and lived large until disgraced state auditor, Tom Wagner, was tipped off that a spending spree was in progress. As you'd expect from a Kenton Delaware Treasurer, she used the money to buy some real treasures which are now being auctioned off.

This hasn't happened yet, but I already know what I'm going to write.