Archive for November, 2018
Very high levels of intelligence
One of the problems that a lot of people like myself, we have very high levels of intelligence, but we’re not necessarily such believers. You look at our air and our water and it’s right now at a record clean. But when you look at China and you look at parts of Asia and when […]
Song Of The Day: Nov. 30, 2018
I scour the internets so that you don’t have to. Sometimes I come up with something as mind-blowing as this: 28 trombonists performing the following:
Song Of The Day: Nov. 29, 2018
This collaboration with the N’awlins ‘Indian’ tribe, The Wild Tchoupitoulas, helped convince Neville Brothers to become a band on their own. This is the America that I love:
Trump’s Tweets
I’ve said from the beginning that the press should not call them “tweets” but “statements.” We’ve given Trump’s statements through twitter a special status. Because they mostly seem like nonsense, and because they tumble out like jazz improvisations, they don’t get any real scrutiny from the press and public. As a result, they shield the President from the outrage that they should produce.
We’ve laughed at a shrugged off the most appalling changes in our democracy that Trump has made because they were made through Twitter.
Now Trump states on Twitter that he reserves the right to obstruct justice and use the power of Presidential pardon to free Paul Manafort if Manafort continues to obstruct the investigation into Russian interference in the election.
Trump reserves the right to obstruct justice by pardoning Paul Manafort. He said it on Twitter.
When voters have a legitimate choice – we win
The last unresolved House Race Of 2018 was won by the Democrat. The Dems flipped 40 seats. A huge wave. The aggregate Democratic House vote this year is 90.6% of the total votes cast for Hillary Clinton in 2016. See collaborationist Democrats? When voters actually have something to vote for during the midterms, we win. […]
Carney’s Pitiful Uselessness Laid Bare
This is some good blogging by Delaware Dem.
For me, it tends to support El Som’s assertion that Carney may be a dead man walking.
Read the whole thing, but this is where Carney gets his ass beaten raw by Vice Chancellor J. Travis Laster:
Nov. 28 Open Thread: We Are All Mr. Jones
We know something is happening but we don’t yet know what it is. Dominoes are falling in the Mueller probe, but even the most plugged-in pundits are struggling with what it all means. The consensus seems to be that Mueller played Manafort, perhaps to spring one of his infamous perjury traps on Trump. Rather than […]
A Half-Good/Half Bad Idea From NCC
Karen Hartley-Nagle’s absence from last night’s County Council meeting reminded me that I wanted to talk about this. I’ve come around to agreeing with Councilman Smiley that the members of County Council should elect their own Council president. Not just because we’ve had some horrible Council presidents, including the current embarrassment. But also b/c, as […]
Coons lends his empty “hopes and prayers” to the nation
Coons just got a chance to promote his prayer breakfast on Morning Joe. The MSNBC panel ate it up, of course.
Nobody seemed to recognize the irony of Coons extolling the value of praying with his GOP buddies every week just after stating that he is “puzzled” by why Mitch McConnell continues to block all efforts to protect the Special Counsel.
Coons…Puzzled
BTW – I missed most of Coons’ segment. I’m sure his commitment to bipartisanship is fixing many problems because… reasons.
Nov. 27 Open Thread: Tear Gas Si, Lettuce No
Welcome to Donald Trump’s Festung Amerika, where a salad can make you sick but you can put tear gas on your nachos. There’s no smoking gun linking the latest e. coli outbreak to Trump-relaxed water regulations — signers of the California Leafy Green Products Handler Marketing Agreement meets Obama-era standards — but it’s not welcome […]
Let’s Talk Delaware Governor’s Race For 2020, Shall We?
I’ve been thinking about this race. A lot. So many questions. Let’s ask (and try to answer) a few: Will John Carney run for reelection? On one hand, he seems totally bored with being Governor. He has yet to put his stamp on the office, and he doesn’t appear to have anything approaching a direction […]
Song Of The Day: Nov. 27, 2018
There was a time, IMHO, when this was the greatest touring band in America. Caught ’em live at the Chestnut Cabaret in the late ’80’s. Just great American music:
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