Year: 2011

Chad Livengood's article in the News Journal this weekend let us know that our Lt. Governor posts comical and witty status updates and blogs on Facebook and his blog. Matt then goes and proves him right.

Amanda Knox is free from those evil Italian courts. I didn't follow the case so closely that I know what evidence pointed to her guilt or exonerated her. I just know she was charged with killing her roommate, so the question is: would you live with her? Would you date her?

"What do our opponents mean when they apply to us the label 'Liberal'? If by 'Liberal' they mean, as they want people to believe, someone who is soft in his policies abroad, who is against local government, and who is unconcerned with the taxpayer’s dollar, then the record of this party and its members demonstrate that we are not that kind of 'Liberal'. But if by a 'Liberal' they mean someone who looks ahead and not behind, someone who welcomes new ideas without rigid reactions, someone who cares about the welfare of the people — their health, their housing, their schools, their jobs, their civil rights, and their civil liberties — someone who believes we can break through the stalemate and suspicions that grip us in our policies abroad, if that is what they mean by a 'Liberal', then I’m proud to say I’m a 'Liberal'" --John F. Kennedy

My gut tells me that Christie just might get in if he thought it was going to be a cake walk to the nomination, like his mere presence would clear the field for him. If it is going to be a struggle to get the nomination, he will stay out of it. Well, a new Washington Post/ABC News shows Christie running in fourth place if he were in the race. Romney leads with 21%, followed by Rick Perry and Herman Cain at 14% and then Christie at 10%.

Congressman John Carney will hold a telephone town hall meeting tonight to answer questions from Delawareans about the issues important to them. You know the teabaggers downstate will flood the phone lines, so be sure to sign up to call in by 4 pm. You have to either call Carney’s Wilmington Office at 691-7333 or his Washington, D.C. Office at 202-225-4165. You will receive a phone call shortly before the start of the town hall that will allow you to participate. The town hall gets underway at 7:25 p.m.

Paul Krugman: "If fear of future regulations and taxes is holding business back, as everyone on the right asserts, why didn’t the Republican victory in the midterms set off a surge in employment?" Damn good question.

This document was accepted by the NYC General Assembly on September 29, 2011 [Posted here in its entirety. My comments will appear in the comments section] As we gather together in solidarity to express a feeling of mass injustice, we must not lose sight of what brought us together. We write so that all people who feel wronged by the corporate forces of the world can know that we are your allies. As one people, united, we acknowledge the reality: that the future of the human race requires the cooperation of its members; that our system must protect our rights, and upon corruption of that system, it is up to the individuals to protect their own rights, and those of their neighbors; that a democratic government derives its just power from the people, but corporations do not seek consent to extract wealth from the people and the Earth; and that no true democracy is attainable when the process is determined by economic power. We come to you at a time when corporations, which place profit over people, self-interest over justice, and oppression over equality, run our governments. We have peaceably assembled here, as is our right, to let these facts be known.

So over the weekend, Rick Perry announced that he wants to invade Mexico, to fight drug cartels I guess. And now it is revealed that his personal hunting lodge in West Texas was called “N*ggerhead” well into his time as governor.

Don Ayotte: "Kovach confirmed that he was running for the US House when he attended the Bull Roast. He’s a good pick and could win.” Take that with a metric ton of salt. Ayotte is the least reliable in DP’s stable of veracity challenged morons. Also, this would not be a special election, so it appears to be outside of Kovach’s wheelhouse. However, if Kovach did use the racist gathering to get the word out about his campaign, I’d be curious to know if Kovach knew about Colley’s on the record comments about the President of the United States’ mother.