Archive for February, 2019
Always a Delaware Connection
Here are just a couple of companies that are located in the DELLE DONNE CORPORATE CENTER on Center Rd.
- Balfour Beatty plc*
- Baird Mandalas Brockstedt LLC
- Deutsche Bank Trust Company**
*Balfour Beatty plc is a multinational infrastructure group based in the United Kingdom.
** Deutsche Bank is a giant German lender that in 2017 was hit with $630 million in penalties over a $10 billion Russian money-laundering scheme and is currently under investigation for laundering money for Donald Trump.
Dems launch probe into whether the NRA helped Chris Coons’ Prayer Partners funnel money to Republicans
Via ABC News “We are disturbed by the lack of transparency the NRA has demonstrated surrounding the December 2015 trip to Moscow,” Democratic Reps. Ted Lieu of California and Kathleen Rice of New York write in a letter obtained by ABC News. But that is just the tip of the iceberg. Democratic lawmakers are launching […]
Song of the Day, 2/18: The Nazz, “Open My Eyes”
It’s hard for those who didn’t live through the ’60s to appreciate how large the Beatles loomed over pop culture. Not only did their music spawn entire new genres, they also starred in films that influenced how bands presented themselves. In the case of “Open Your Eyes,” the Nazz ripped off the Who’s “Can’t Explain” […]
“Shareholder Primacy” aka, THE WORLD’s DUMBEST IDEA – Revisited
Groveling to corporations, throwing tax abatements at them and begging them in your city was not the norm prior to the hegemony of “Shareholder Primacy”
Before THE WORLD’s DUMBEST IDEA became business school orthodoxy, many companies had a healthy interest in their country, their communities, and their workers.
In 1970 that was all swept away, and replaced with what we have now – a shitmess.
Trump asked Japanese Prime Minister to nominate Trump for a Nobel Peace Prize
Jesus Christ, Trump. Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe nominated U.S. President Donald Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize last autumn after receiving a request from the U.S. government to do so, the Asahi newspaper reported on Sunday. Trump requested that the Japanese Prime Minister nominate Trump for a Nobel Peace Prize, because all the peace […]
Song of the Day 2/17: Paul Anka, “Wonderwall”
That Ryan Adams cover of Oasis’ “Wonderwall” is great, but it’s so gloomy. Paul Anka, on his album of rock covers, gave it a much more upbeat, ring-a-ding-ding reading that gets my foot tapping every time.
Bubbles Gotta Pop
When China’s real estate bubble pops, it ain’t going to be pretty. China’s real-estate bubble is the largest in human history, and despite years of warning signs, it has grown and grown, spilling over into the rest of the world. It’s hard to overstate just how crazy China’s real-estate market is: 25% of the country’s […]
Song of the Day 2/16: Ryan Adams, “Wonderwall”
Ryan Adams has found himself in a world of trouble for something rock stars used to consider one of the perks of the job: Smutting around with underage girls. The New York Times gave Adams the full #metoo treatment this, interviewing several aspiring young musicians plus Adams’ ex-wife, actress Mandy Moore, who all painted pretty […]
Weld Launches Trump Primary Challenge
Stating that there should be at least one non-professional-liar-criminally-corrupt-lazy-fat-mentally-ill-idiot in the race for the Republican nomination, former Massachusetts Gov. Bill Weld launched a presidential exploratory committee to run in 2020 as a Republican.
Is Trump on heavy pain killers?
It is a serious question. I forced myself to listen to the Rose Garden address and it was flat out nuts. Every news outlet should be leading with “is Trump fit to serve?” stories. He sounded wobbly and hanging onto a semblance of coherence by a thread.
Song of the Day 2/15: Ten Years After, “I’d Love to Change the World”
This song, the highlight of the band’s 1971 album “A Space in Time,” was by critical consensus the pinnacle of British blues guitarist Alvin Lee’s career, though I have to agree with Robert Christgau about the empty philosophy Lee espouses — “Fellow seems to believe that if you ‘tax the rich to feed the poor’ […]
Pssst…Tom Carper, The Pentagon has $Billions for the taking
If the “Trump Emergency” has a silver lining it may turn out to be the news that the Pentagon is just a huge piggy bank stuffed with unobligated billions. That will be handy when Tom Caper returns to trying to cut Social Security.
While Delaware’s congressional delegation slept
Trump to declare a “national emergency”. President Trump plans to sign a border deal that will avoid a partial government shutdown, and at the same time declare a national emergency, as he has threatened to do, in order secure more funding to build a border wall. The White House confirmed Trump’s decision, which was first […]
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