Archive for June, 2019
Song of the Day 6/26: John Prine, “Lake Marie”
This isn’t John Prine’s most famous song, but it’s the one that many of his fans — including Bob Dylan — consider his greatest. Unlike most of his story songs, this one has an inscrutable plot — each of the three verses seems unrelated to the others. The first is about how the Twin Lakes, […]
General Assembly Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show: Weds., June 26, 2019
Whoa. Talk about lack of notice. Check this out from Legislative Council: The Joint Finance Committee will meet Sunday, June 30 in the JFC Hearing room to draft the grant-in-aid bill. Sunday, June 30? The last day of session? That means that the public will not see what goodies are being tucked into this bill […]
DL Open Thread: Weds., June 26, 2019
The ‘She’s Not My Type’ Defense, Deconstructed. Democratic Socialist Next Queens DA? Probably. Tiffany Caban leads by 1100 votes with 3400 absentee ballots left to count. With six candidates on the ballot, her lead will likely hold. AOC and Liz and Bernie supported her. Armed And Misogynistic: The link between toxic masculinity and mass shootings. […]
Russian GRU and GOP Prep for Dem Debates
While the Democratic candidates are getting ready to try to distinguish themselves from an enormous field in tomorrow’s first debate, the Russian Intelligence Directorate (GRU) and the Republican National Committee will be preparing to unleash their coordinated opposition research and send out a stream of attacks on the candidates and policies. RNC Chair Ronna McDaniel […]
Song of the Day 6/25: George Harrison, “Wah Wah”
Here’s another song that, for reasons I can’t fathom, has never been employed for its obvious calling as a TV commercial. It’s Hoagiefest time at the region’s favorite convenience store, and though the chain has in the past used Beatles-esque music and Peter Max-style visuals, it has never made the no-brainer decision to use the […]
Delaware General Assembly Pre-Game Show: Tues., June 25, 2019
Let’s see…our spies report that Our PAL Val and Nicole ‘No Longer’ Poore have snuck (sneaked?) $6 mill into (presumably) the Bond Bill for a levee to protect the Underground City At Ft. DuPont. And our spies report that Pistol Pete has ordered that the ‘Do Your Fucking Job’ bill aimed at Kathy Kramedas McGuiness […]
Things I’m hoping to see at tomorrow night’s debate watching party
At Autumn Arch Brewery tomorrow, I’d be looking for two things. 1) Some DL peeps I’ve never met face to face.
2) All the Democratic candidates spending 100% of their time on camera bashing Trump and calling for unprecedented Democratic unity.
Is that too much to ask? I don’t think so. This is a Code Red situation, folks.
Lisa Blunt Rochester Utterly Ignores Trump and Children in Concentration Camps, but Wants You to Know That She is Working Hard for Veterans
“The funding we approved yesterday will improve the health and stability of our communities, help our brave men and women who have kept our country safe, and ensure we support our allies and alleviate poverty worldwide.” said Congresswoman Blunt Rochester. Huzzah!
DL Open Thread: Tues., June 25, 2019
Our Last Military Standoff With Iran: Not What Trump Said It Was. It was a Navy screw-up, pure and simple. US Subjecting Immigrant Children To Torture. The most disgraceful of all the acts of this administration. Oh, And The Jailers Don’t Take Donations Either. ‘Concentration camps’ sounds exactly right to me. Odyssey Charter On Thin […]
Don’t worry. Probably only the bad people will die in the climate holocaust
LONDON (Reuters) – Permafrost at outposts in the Canadian Arctic is thawing 70 years earlier than predicted, an expedition has discovered, in the latest sign that the global climate crisis is accelerating even faster than scientists had feared. General view of a landscape of partially thawed Arctic permafrost near Mould Bay, Canada, in this handout […]
When Knitters Have More Guts that Lisa Blunt Rochester
Our mute member of Congress could learn something from the knitting community. A popular knitting social media website has banned support for President Donald Trump on its platform, accusing his administration of propagating “open white supremacy.” Ravelry, a community site that allows users to share ideas about knitting and textile projects, said in a blog […]
Whip Count – A Podcast by Delaware House Democrats Ep. 4
If you can stomach it…In this episode, Delaware Democratic Legislators break their arms off patting each other on the back for passing LGBT protections 10 YEARS AGO. If you can’t stomach it simply know that Pete Schwarzkopf is the Dr Martin Luther King of LGBT rights, also celebrate John Carney for not being Governor ten years ago…Huzzah!!
Song of the Day 6/24: Blue Swede, “Hooked on a Feeling”
“Hooked on a Feeling” had been a hit twice and been recorded by several artists before it hit No. 1 in America in 1974 with this version by a group of Swedes, who reached the top by doing a cover of a cover. The song was written by Mark James, best known for writing “Suspicious […]
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