2014: The Good, The Bad, The Ridiculous.

2014: The Good, The Bad, The Ridiculous.

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly in politics and government in Delaware in 2014. Here is a peak inside: The Good. 6. Matt Denn elected AG. Didja notice that he plans to be inaugurated at the PAL site on N. Market Street?  I think that gives us a clue as to what's at the top of his priority list. The Bad. 5. We learn that connected DuPont heir received no jail time after pleading guilty for raping his three-year-old daughter back in 2008. Per usual, no comment from the Beaudhisatva. The Ridiculous. 10. Bethany Hall Long's husband caught stealing signs.
A Festivus Miracle: The Airing of Grievances, by Donviti.

A Festivus Miracle: The Airing of Grievances, by Donviti.

Hi I got a lot of freaking grievances and I’m not going to lie (even though I hate that expression), this is going to be as wildly incoherent as Honey Boo Boo’s fame or how John Atkins (D?, R?, U/E?) was able to get elected multiple times in slower lower. But, these are the times we live in, train wrecks get a voice, and now I give you mine. Choo-fucking-choo bitches. This list is in no particular order and I will attempt to keep it relevant to 2014. 1. That I (we) may never know how John Atkins’ feels about a drunken Ray Rice beating his wife. 3. I was taken out of my father’s will this year after I called him a racist. I blame Obama for this, he has done nothing but divide this country since taking office. He has so clearly shined the light on racists, bigots and ignorant people that when relatives tell me in passing conversation we should just “lock em all up”, “give them all birth control”, “not let those animals breed,” I get upset. I liked it better when I didn’t know that was racism. Thanks Obama. Come inside for more...
Please Sign The Petition – Let’s Make Priority Schools A Real PRIORITY

Please Sign The Petition – Let’s Make Priority Schools A Real PRIORITY

Via Exceptional Delaware:
A group of like-minded individuals who are against the priority schools initiative has created an iPetition to give to Governor Markell, Delaware Secretary of Education Mark Murphy and the Delaware Department of Education.  Please take a minute or two during the busy holiday season and make a difference!  The timing is crucial on this petition.
If you agree... please sign the petition then help spread the word by sharing the petition with your friends on Facebook, Twitter, email, etc.. I'm counting on my DL community - you guys haven't let me down before.  Let's knock this out of the park! Come inside for the Petition Link.
Screw It… It’s Time For Some Holiday Cheer

Screw It… It’s Time For Some Holiday Cheer

My gift to you is some really easy recipes!  Lemon Tea Cookies and Sugared Pecans! Not kidding, these recipes are super easy and delicious! Both of these recipes are extremely easy.  I've made mine, and will probably have to make more!  Then again, I am not cooking on Christmas Eve.  Merry Christmas to me!
Monday Open Thread [12.22.14]

Monday Open Thread [12.22.14]

Kevin Drum takes a look at what the President's recent moves mean for next year:
All of these things are worthwhile in their own right, of course, but there's a political angle to all of them as well: they seriously mess with Republican heads. GOP leaders had plans for January, but now they may or may not be able to do much about them. Instead, they're going to have to deal with enraged tea partiers insisting that they spend time trying to repeal Obama's actions. They can't, of course, but they have to show that they're trying. So there's a good chance that they'll spend their first few months in semi-chaos, responding to Obama's provocations instead of working on their own agenda. Case in point: Congressional Republicans are now going to have to spend significant time and energy in a Cold War battle with Obama over Cuba policy--one that is likely to end in failure, and that appeals only to a sliver of the U.S. population. After all the interminable stuff we heard in 2014 about the Great Big Adult Republicans getting control over the unruly Tea Folk, I think we'll find that Boehner and McConnell aren't going to easily restrain conservatives with so much chum in the water. The provocation to a feeding frenzy is just becoming way too overpowering.
Greg Sargent also makes the case that Obama's actions are laying the groundwork for a 2016 campaign that places the Democratic candidate (Hillary Clinton) on the right side of history and looking toward the future, and the Republican candidates on the wrong side and stuck in the past.

If there are no bad cops, then there are no good ones either.

They want to pretend that all the protests against police brutality and police murder were directed at all police, calling for the death of police officers in response to the murder of two black men in Missouri and New York. They want to pretend that Mayor De Blasio and President Obama, in legitimatizing the concerns of the protesters by speaking to their concerns, also called for the death of police. The have to pretend all that because they never want to be questioned or criticized, even when one of them does wrong. And any and all questions or criticism of bad cop behavior is taken as a direct attack on all cops, the good ones and the bad. Perhaps because in their mind there is no good or bad behavior. There is only police behavior, and that cannot be good or bad. Perhaps whatever they do is to be considered right and just for the simple reason that it was a police officer doing it. That is fascism. And it is the only thing I can think of to explain the outrageous overreaction of a few on the right to the horrible and evil murder of two police officers in Brooklyn this weekend.
Coming Tuesday: “The Good, the Bad, and the Ridiculous of 2014”.

Coming Tuesday: “The Good, the Bad, and the Ridiculous of 2014”.

Both here and on the Al Mascitti Show at 10 am.  Definitely worth following along on DL as I've linked to all kinds of stuff, including some of the best work by our contributors, highlighting and lowlighting the 'winners'. Per usual, 'the good' was the list with the least number of possibilities, no such problems with 'the bad' or 'the ridiculous'. I always have fun putting this together b/c, when I go back and scroll through our entire year, it's amazing the stuff that I forgot that was well worth remembering. Although some wish you would forget. Seeya at 10 on Tuesday..
Saturday Open Thread [12.20.14]

Saturday Open Thread [12.20.14]

Politico: “Obama’s turnaround in recent weeks – he’s seized the offensive with a series of controversial executive actions and challenges to leaders in his own party on the budget — can be attributed to a fundamental change in his political mindset, according to current and former aides. He’s gone from thinking of himself as a sitting (lame) duck, they tell me, to a president diving headlong into what amounts to a final campaign – this one to preserve his legacy, add policy points to the scoreboard, and – last but definitely not least – to inflict the same kind of punishment on his newly empowered Republican enemies, who delighted in tormenting him when he was on top.” I am going to take much pleasure in that.