Sunday Daily Delawhere [8.3.14]
Delaware River shore from Kristopher Arnold on Flickr.
Flowers winning the twitter primary?
From reformed GOPer, Mike Stafford's FB Page:
Is the size of a candidate's Twitter following a good gauge of their electability? If so, as of right now Flowers has more than 800, Barney just passed 400, and Ken Simpler, well, at 73 I'm not really feeling the whole populist groundswell thing. Meanwhile, Sher Valenzuela's Twitter strategy is to be invisible- I guess that makes her the stealth candidate.Obviously an incumbent is going to have a built in twitter base. So this isn't exactly scientific, but primaries are all about turnout, so if a candidate is having trouble attracting people to their twitter account, how much harder will it be to attract them to the polls?
The Weekly Addresses
President Obama:
Governor Markell:
Saturday Open Thread [8.2.14]
It's August, y'all, and the southbound portion of I-495 is OPEN for traffic, one month early. Thank DelDOT and union workers today.
Mrs. Betty Bowers Explains How You Know If You Should Join the GOP
Mrs. Betty Bowers is America's Best Christian, and today she provides you with the road map for deciding if you should join the GOP or not. Put down any liquids before watching -- this is hilarious and dead on correct.
The I’m Back Saturday Daily Delawhere [8.2.14]
I would like to profusely thank everyone here who picked up the slack as I dealt with some health issues that required a prolonged visit to the best trauma center…
USDA Approves Poultry Industry Self Inspections – Get ready for the diarrhea
Diarrhea will actually be one of the milder outcomes, because all of the evidence provided by the history of capitalism says that this is going to fail, and fail catastrophically.
Poultry inspection, prepare to modernized. Or, if you prefer, privatized. The USDA late Thursday released its revamped poultry inspection rules, an overhaul to the 60-year-old system which, by allowing plants to self-inspect, it claims will simultaneously reduce the number of federal inspectors on site and incidences of foodborne illness.No Tax revenue, no problem. Ultimately, you'll pay one way or another.