Year: 2011

Last night, we had a great turnout at the PDD event for Sen. Coons. Unfortunately, at the same time, an important meeting was taking place down in Dover. The Public Service Commision was holding a hearing on Bloom Energy's plan for turning the old Chrysler plant into a factory making fuel cells and "Bloom Boxes." The hearing also concerned Delmarva's plans to place two clusters of Bloom Boxes on two sites in New Castle County adjacent to Delmarva electrical substaions. These clusters themselves will generate approximately 30 megawatts of power for the electrical grid, which is enough to power approximately 25,000 homes. And guess what? The hearing room was filled with 9/12 Teabaggers, who all probably said Bloom Boxes were Boxes full of Socialism, or some such tripe, and that global warming is a hoax, and they we should drill baby drill off Rehoboth. Yes, that is what our public officials on the Commissions heard last night. The News Journal was there last night. They won't be coming to the meeting tonight in Wilmington, because they have their story: Bloom Boxes are evil. So tonight and tomorrow, progressives get their second chance, not to sway public opinion through the News Journal, but to buck up our public officials that the plan does have support, and that some of their public, if not most of their public, wants renewable and alternative energy. The meeting is tonight at 7 pm at the Carvel State Office Building Auditorium, Mezzanine Level, 820 N. French Street, Wilmington, Delaware. Tomorrow, our great Progressive neighbors in Sussex County get their chance, with a meeting at the Del Tech Community College, Owens Campus, Arts and Sciences Building, Theater, Georgetown, DE 19930. And if can't make either of these meetings, then you simply must send a written comment to the Commission supporting the Bloom Energy plan. Email your comments by Friday, September 30, 2011 to Kevin Neilson, Regulatory Policy Administrator for the PSC at kevin.neilson@state.de.us

Yeah, Sarah Palin isn't running.

"Does a title shackle a person? Are they -- someone like me, maverick, you know, I do go rogue, and I call it like I see it, and I don't mind stirring it up.... is a title and is a campaign too shackling? Does that prohibit me from being out there, out of the box, not allowing handlers to shape me?"

President Barack Obama’s $447 billion jobs plan would help avoid a return to recession by maintaining growth and pushing down the unemployment rate next year, according to economists surveyed by Bloomberg News. Meanwhile, Republican plans would contract the GDP by 1.7%.

So last night Governor Christie gave a speech and took questions from the parishioners at the Cathedral of Saint Ronald, otherwise known as the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library. Instead of giving Shermanesque statements denying any run for President this year, which he has given in the past, this time he was more deflective and coy. Especially after one questioner basically got down on his knees and offered his firstborn daughter as sacrifice.

In one of the more idiotic statements offered by a politician in some time, North Carolina Governor Beverly Perdue said suspend congressional elections for two years "so that Congress can focus on economic recovery and not the next election," the Raleigh News and Observer reports.

The Deltones, a cappela group from the University of Delaware that was chosen to compete with 15 other groups on a new reality show on NBC called "The Sing-off," were a hit among the judges last night. They have advanced forward to the next round. The Deltones have 15 members, 10 alumni and five current UD students. The winners of “The Sing-Off” will get $200,000 and a recording contract.

If you can't make PDD's meeting with Senator Coons in New Castle tonight, then perhaps you can attend the Public Service Commission's hearings on Bloom Energy this week. The PSC hearings this week are tonight at the Cannon Building Hearing Room, 861 Silver Lake Boulevard, Dover, Delaware at 7 p.m. and tomorrow at the Carvel State Office Building Auditorium, Mezzanine Level, 820 N. French Street, Wilmington, Delaware, also at 7 p.m.

One of the issues we will be discussing with Senator Coons tonight is the American Jobs Act, the DADT repeal and the prospect for the repeal of DOMA in the future, and his opinions on the budget and the horribly named Super Congress. If you can't make it tonight, what questions do you have. If you can make it, please join us at the special meeting of the Progressive Democrats for Delaware at 6:30 p.m. at the Delaware Democratic Party Headquarters, located at 19 E. Commons Blvd, in New Castle. PDD meetings are open to all like-minded voters.

In addition to endorsing the racist ravings of a Sussex County disk jockey, DE GOP Chair John Sigler promoted the gathering on the GOP state website as a Republican event. It was in fact a fundraiser for an ultra-conservative PAC. How "ulta-conservative" is the PAC in question? So conservative that Joe Booth is too liberal for them.