New Blog In Town – Steve Newton Whiskey

New Blog In Town – Steve Newton Whiskey

Steve Newton has started a new blog.  Go read! What's interesting is this:
I'd rather have a system of ethics than an ideology. So I'm starting over here, in a sense.  As a historian I know that all phenomena involve both continuity and change.  I'm still the same person, with the same background, the same interests, the same flaws, and the same leanings, that I was about seven years ago when I first started publishing The Delaware Libertarian.  I'm just unwilling to confine my ideas, my observations, or my potential solutions to that framework any more.
RIP: Jimmy Ruffin (1936-2014)

RIP: Jimmy Ruffin (1936-2014)

The older brother of the Temptations' David Ruffin (one of the greatest soul singers of all time), Jimmy Ruffin  recorded one of Motown's most unforgettable hits.  When I saw "Standing In the Shadows of Motown" at Theatre N, this was the song that closed the movie, and this was the song that we ALL sang as we left the theatre...
Keystone XL the root of all DC dysfunction according to Carper

Keystone XL the root of all DC dysfunction according to Carper

In an attempt to justify his execrable vote in favor of the environmental catastrophe known as the Keystone XL pipeline, Tom Carper's office released a statement which blames the Keystone pipeline for Congressional gridlock. That's right. It is the Keystone Pipeline, and not the whack-ass GOP that is fucking up everything in DC, according to Carper.

Wednesday Open Thread [11.19.14]

From Politico:
“Republican leaders have intensified their planning to prevent a government funding showdown, weighing legislative options that would redirect GOP anger at Barack Obama’s expected action on immigration and stave off a political disaster. Speaker John Boehner, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and their top aides and deputies are mulling several options that would give Capitol Hill Republicans the opportunity to vent their frustration with what they view as an unconstitutional power grab by the White House — without jeopardizing the government financing bill.”
These people sound like insane sociopaths. A need to vent? Really? Jonathan Chait: “That a shutdown gives Republicans any actual leverage, as opposed to imagined leverage, is another right-wing fantasy. It is now fairly well-established that the sole impact of a government shutdown is to make the public hate the party that controls Congress. The gun the conservatives are holding is pointed at their own head.”
UPDATED: “Coons still a no”

UPDATED: “Coons still a no”

This from Reuters:
Senate staffers pressured Democrats including Chris Coons of Delaware to reverse their opposition to the pipeline. But Coons had used a similar line to King's in saying Congress should not issue permits when he said last week he would vote no. "He's still a no," a Coons aide said Tuesday afternoon.
Who ‘Killed’ Sean Matthews?

Who ‘Killed’ Sean Matthews?

No, this is not one of those comic book 'dream' issues. Somebody 'killed' Sean Matthews. And apparently 200 or more of his supporters. The 'deceased' did not know of their demise until someone from the Democratic Party caught wind of the massive tragedy.  And subsequently raised them from the dead. Here's the unbelievable story: Both Sean Matthews and Dennis E. Williams had access to the Democratic Party Voter File...until the 10th R. D. officially endorsed Dennis Williams. At that point, only the endorsed candidate had access to the file.  Until after the primary, that is.  You will recall that Matthews defeated the incumbent D Williams.  Which meant that, as of September 10, Matthews was able to access the file. Only, something had happened in the interim. Someone had gone into the Voter File and marked over 200 voters as 'deceased', including Sean Matthews. Only the Williams people had access to the file, and someone or some someones had to actively go in and change the status of these voters to deceased.  It wasn't the Party. They were the ones who spotted the mischief-making and alerted Matthews right away. BTW, virtually none of the alleged deceased were in fact deceased, if any.
Carper Changes His Reason For Voting in Favor of Keystone in the 11th Hour

Carper Changes His Reason For Voting in Favor of Keystone in the 11th Hour

Because his prior pretext (that this show of bipartisanship will usher in a golden age of bipartisan peace and prosperity) was patently ludicrous and <a href="http://delawareliberal.net//2014/11/13/i-cant-let-it-go-somebody-talk-me-down/">every bit of it was a cynical lie,</a> Carper has updated his reason for voting in favor of the environment catastrophe known as the Keystone pipeline. Now he says he is voting for this flaming peice of toxic shit because Mary Landreiu begged him to. <blockquote> "Senator Landrieu has been cajoling, pleading with her colleagues—mostly Democrats—to provide an up or down vote on this," Carper said in a recent interview with Bloomberg Politics. "I think the time has come." </blockquote> That's some fucking bullshit. As late as yesterday, we was still trying to slide by on the cynical lie that Republicans would "reciprocate" and a golden age of bipartisan work on climate change would commence.