Archive for March, 2015
Sunday Open Thread [3.8.15]
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Emily’s List President Stephanie Schriock tells some truths. Here is a transcript of her remarks about your and your father’s Republican Party.
“This is your father’s Republican Party. This is the exact same trans-vaginal ultrasound, all white-guy committee chair, aspirin between your knees Republican Party we have been fighting for thirty years. Shame on them. They are trying to fool women. And shame on us if we let them get away with it. They don’t support women. They don’t trust women. They don’t respect women so don’t tell me that there is no war on women. And don’t bother asking for a truce. We didn’t start this fight but mark my words. We are going to win it.
“But if we don’t show up for this battle in 2016, we will pay the price for a generation to come. Just imagine what a Republican president and a Republican Congress would do. Actually, you don’t have to imagine. Just look at what Republican governors and Republican legislatures have already done. They will raise taxes on middle-class families and cut funding for public schools to fund more tax breaks for the wealthy. And we know they will do it because they’ve already done it in Kansas. And they will strip away basic bargaining rights that help working men and women secure fair treatment in the workplace. And we know they’ll do it because they’ve already done that in Wisconsin. And they will mandate that a woman seeking an abortion undergo an invasive ultrasound against her will. And we know they’ll do it because they’ve already done it in Texas and in North Carolina.
“So we’ve already seen what Republicans would do when they have full control over our states. What do you think they will do when they get full control of Washington? What do you think will happen if they get their hands on Medicare or Social Security, or the Environmental Protection Agency, or the Department of Justice, or the courts? A Republican president and a Republican Congress would mean the end of the Affordable Care Act. The end of Roe v. Wade, the end of every right we have won through struggle and sacrifice. Every opportunity we have fought so hard to earn so we could pass it on to our own daughters and sons as their birthright. Give them a chance and they will destroy generations of hard work just like that. We can’t give them that chance.”
This is the probably one of the best speeches President Obama has ever given
…and that is saying something. It is also the honest speech on race that pundits have wanted the President to give.
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Saturday Open Thread [3.7.15]
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Delaware’s unemployment rate dropped at even 5 percent.
Over the past year, Delaware has added more than 8,000 net jobs outside of agriculture. Much of that growth comes from professional and financial services, as well as transportation. […] Delawareans’ take home pay every week continues to grow slowly, standing at just under $740 per week. That’s still well below January 2009 when weekly earnings totaled about $770 every week.
The Weekly Addresses
President Obama discusses education for adolescent girls around the world.
Governor Markell talks about Delaware’s efforts to combat climate change, and he encourages Delawareans to take action by providing input and ideas to recommendations released earlier this week by the Committee on Climate and Resiliency.
Speaker Schwartzkopf speaks on the Lyme Disease Prevention Task Force that is working to spread awareness about the disease and formulate ways to improve diagnosis and treatment statewide.
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Friday Open Thread [3.6.15]
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Rep. Don Young (R-AK) offered a way to solve homelessness in his colleagues’ congressional districts: wolves.
Young, speaking at a hearing of the House Natural Resources Committee on Thursday, made the comments while he was arguing that gray wolves should be taken off the endangered species list.
“How many of you have got wolves in your district? None. None. Not one,” Young said. He called the gray wolf a “predator.”
“We’ve got 79 congressmen sending you a letter, they haven’t got a damn wolf in their whole district,” Young said. “I’d like to introduce them in your district. If I introduced them in your district, you wouldn’t have a homeless problem anymore.”
I guess because the homeless would then be killed and consumed by the wolves. Ah, Republican solutions. They are finally being honest about them.
‘Bulo’s Fave New Tunes: February, 2015
Two great months of music in a row featuring both quality and quantity. This month features an almost-certain end-of-the-year Top 10 song, and several worthy contenders.
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Thursday Open Thread [3.5.15]
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Hillary Clinton last night said she wants all her email released. Said Clinton: “I want the public to see my email. I asked State to release them. They said they will review them for release as soon as possible.”
Have you noticed how silent the Republicans have been on this issue, all except for new subpoenas for her email from the BENGHAZI!!! committee interminably investigating it, even though of course this committee and its GOP members knew about the private email address from the beginning and even though they already have her emails. Why are Republican candidates for President silent? Well, they are being smart, since they know that people in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones.
“If it seems like the GOP presidential field has been unusually silent this week as scrutiny mounts over Hillary Clinton’s email practices, there’s a logical explanation: Many of them are tormented by their own email demons. At least a half-dozen 2016 Republican prospects have felt the sting of sustained negative press coverage over their email practices, with the common denominator being an attempt to sidestep public scrutiny attached to official government accounts. While the scope and scale of the controversies range widely — and they’re not comparable to the Clinton circumstances — their histories with electronic communications have left them with their own unique vulnerabilities on the issue.”
The actual public response to the controversy is likely to be a combination of apathy and partisanship. Few Americans are paying attention to any aspect of the campaign at this point. Those who do notice will most likely divide largely along partisan lines, with Democrats interpreting her actions more charitably, especially once they see Republicans attacking Mrs. Clinton on the issue.
Politicos missed the Clintons it seems. For me, so long as the emails are preserved, disclosed and not destroyed, I really don’t care if Hillary or any politician uses a private email address or a public one. I have read several articles this week that say that using a private server is actually better if you actually physically own the server (as in the Clinton and Bush case), as it protects from hacking. So the issue here is transparency, and if the emails are disclosed (as it seems they are going to be through the State Department), then there is no issue.
“Free Range” Parents Found Responsible For “Unsubstantiated” Child Neglect
Is it just me, or is this crazy?
Remember the Maryland parents who let their two kids walk home from a park alone and then had to deal with police and child protective services? They heard from the state today. The couple was found responsible for “unsubstantiated” child neglect, a confusing charge that resolved nothing and left the couple possibly more nervous and paranoid than ever.
In December, Danielle and Alexander Meitiv let their 10-year-old son, Rafi, and his 6-year-old sister, Dvorah, walk 1 mile home through Silver Spring, Maryland, alone. The kids got picked up by the police, who then turned the case over to child protective services. The Meitivs, as it happens, are “free-range parents” who have a very coherent philosophy about giving children more independence. They had let their children walk home alone that day only after practicing and felt the kids were ready.
Thursday Daily Delawhere [3.5.15]
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Klondike Kate’s on Main Street in Newark in light snow, by the Flying Inn on Flickr.
Wednesday Open Thread [3.4.15]
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Like Jason330, I enjoy reading RedState during these moments of Democratic victory and Republican defeat. Their tears sustain me. From the New York Times:
The fight over funding the Department of Homeland Security that began with Republicans thundering about a lawless president abusing power to change immigration policy ended with a quiet capitulation Tuesday when the House voted to fund the agency and avert a partial shutdown.
In the end, Speaker John A. Boehner was forced to build a majority on Democratic votes to pass the bill, 257 to 167, with just 75 Republican supporters. But although the uprising among conservatives burned hot into the week, there was no suggestion that Mr. Boehner’s leadership was imperiled. Instead, many Republicans expressed a sense of resigned relief.
During every shutdown / hostage-taking episode we have endured since 2011, the outcome was always entirely predictable: Republican capitulation. Let they keep doing it. Best proof yet that they are all insane.
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