Archive for December, 2018
Dec. 24 Open Thread: NBC Promotes Bernie vs. Beto
If Beto O’Rourke were black, we could blame opposition to his popularity on racism. If he were female, we could blame it on misogyny. As it is, the mainstream Democrats who loved Hillary are going to have to face the fact that the Berniecrats have no such reasons to oppose Beto O’Rourke, yet they’re against […]
Song of the Day 12/23: Alison Krauss and Robert Plant, “The Light of Christmas Day”
I thought I had heard every Christmas song worth hearing until yesterday, when a Spotify search for “Alison Krauss” and “Christmas” introduced me (eventually, well down the play list) to this duet with Robert Plant, “The Light of Christmas Day,” that I didn’t even know existed. Krauss and Plant teamed up for their album of […]
Dec. 22 Open Thread: The Building Beto-mentum
I’m sure this will upset a number of readers, but facts are facts: Beto-mentum continues to build. A straw poll from the progressive group MoveOn.org released last week revealed Beto O’Rourke is the leading Democratic contender for the 2020 presidential race, with 15.6 percent of responders supporting his candidacy. He was followed by former Biden […]
The Christiana Mall Shooter That Wasn’t
Where were you when you heard? I got a phone call from my son at 9:11pm He asked if Mom was okay.
“Yeah, she is right here, why?”
“She mentioned that she was going to the mall and I couldn’t get her, so I was nervous with the shooter.”
“What shooter?”
What shooter, indeed. There was apparently a fight and a loud bang. That’s all it took. After that, one billion tweets and texts were launched the “news” that there was a shooter in the mall took off and it spread like Orson Welles’ “news” of the Martian invasion.
With so many guns in circulation, we have passed through the point where we think there might be a mass shooting in Delaware to thinking that there must be a mass shooting in Delaware.
So why not now? Why not at the mall? Why not on Christmas?
Happy Birthday, Jesus!
We are at 9,969,409 views
On this platform, DL is closing in on its 10 millionth view. And many of them were not me re-reading my own stuff and giggling my ass off. Anyhoo… I feel like the 10 millionth viewer should get something. A case of car wax or some such other old-timey consolation prize.
Colleen Davis is Bad at Driving – Epilogue
Delaware treasurer-elect Colleen Davis pleaded guilty to a reduced speeding offense Thursday morning as part of a plea agreement that saw several other more serious traffic charges, including driving on suspended license, dropped. The Treasurer job comes with a driver, so all good. Wait, what? It doesn’t come with a driver. Oh well. There is […]
Dec. 21 Open Thread: Trump Collapse Approaches Exit Velocity
Look, I didn’t say Trump’s collapse would be pleasant. I just said it was coming, and now it’s here. Remember that story a year or two ago about the broken sewer main out in Christiana, a 7-foot-diameter pipe completely full of shit? That’s roughly how much of Trump’s output hit the fan yesterday — and […]
President Rush Limbaugh
Conservative blow-hard, Rush Limbaugh is now calling the shots in the White House. (No doubt in consultation with Putin.)
President Trump appears far more concerned with Rush Limbaugh’s opinion of the government shutdown than that of congressional Republicans.
The conservative commentator said on his radio show Thursday that Trump got in contact with him to promise he will not pass any spending bill that doesn’t have border wall funding in it. “The president got word to me 20 minutes ago that if it comes back to him without money, if whatever happens in the House and Senate comes back to him with no allocation of $5 billion for the wall, then he’s going to veto it,” Limbaugh said, per Chris Stigall and Breitbart‘s Charlie Spiering.
Why the Long Faces?
Sometimes I think progressivism and depression must be linked characteristics, carried on the same gene or something. How else to explain those poll results to your right, which show that more than half the participants think the Republican Senate will never turn on Trump? (Had it been an option, I would have picked “when it’s […]
Trump’s Master Agrees With Syria Withdrawal
I don’t know enough about our situation in Syria to say whether pulling out is “good” for the US or “bad” for us in the long run. I do know that Putin is a fan of Trump’s move, so there is that
From the New York Times:
Mr. Trump said on Wednesday that he was ordering the withdrawal because the United States military had achieved its goal of defeating the Islamic State militant group in Syria. But the move caught many by surprise, including some of his military and diplomatic advisers.
It has also drawn criticism, even among Republicans, for abandoning Kurdish allies in the fight against the Islamic State and for aiding the geopolitical ambitions of Iran and Russia in the Middle East. Speaking at his annual news conference, which typically runs for several hours, Mr. Putin said he broadly agreed that the Islamic State had been defeated in Syria.
“Donald’s right, and I agree with him,” Mr. Putin said.
I love this idea
As President Donald Trump threatened to allow a government shutdown if Congress did not provide funding for his proposed wall along the Mexican border, a Republican congressman from Ohio offered up alternative routes to getting the wall built: through Internet crowdfunding or through an initial coin offering. During an interview with NPR’s Morning Edition on […]
Former Wilmington Trust bank president sentenced to 6 years in federal prison for fraud
That’s a headline I thought I’d never read…and yet there it is.
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