DL Open Thread: Mon., Oct. 28, 2019
Feds Haven’t Acquired Land For Trump’s Vanity Wall. And, wouldn’t you just know it? The land where most of the crossings occur aren’t impacted at all by what’s been built.
Victim Of Revenge Porn Resigns From Congress. I hope she sues the shit out of the malefactors (emphasis on ‘male’) and wins.
Trump Almost Screwed Up The Raid That Killed Al-Baghdadi. It succeeded in spite of Trump, and placed those carrying it out in danger.
Kentucky’s Poorest Residents Get Screwed While Politicians Side With Coal Industry. Not just Kentucky, but West Virginia and Nebraska as well. Of course, state D’s dither. Excellent reporting by Mother Jones and the Center For Public Integrity.
Wilmington The New Las Vegas? This may be the dumbest notion ever floated by Delaware business leaders. Which is saying something. I mean, ask yourselves this question–what does Las Vegas have that Wilmington doesn’t have? Answer: Everything. But, gee, once we build three new hotels at the Riverfront, Wilmington will be magically transformed. Into a…sea of empty hotel rooms. Although, perhaps they could take bus trips to the Underwater City At Ft. DuPont.
Thought I’d leave you with this:
What do you want to talk about?
If you build a sea of empty hotel rooms, they will come?
Why are the people who are supposed to be the hard-nosed, quants alwasy so easily swayed by magical thinking?
Oh, yeah. Because they are going to pocket stacks of money up until the moment that losses are shifted to tax payers. That’s right. Nevermind.
Politicians don’t necessarily believe in “magical thinking”. On some occasions they might not even anticipate “stacks of money” (albeit jobs for relatives and friends and “themselves” can equate to “stacks of money”). But they do and can always rely on that wonderful consolation prize headline: “Governor X, Representative Y, Senator Z announce development project that will create hundreds of jobs and spur massive economic growth”
as opposed to “Elected Officials X, Y and Z question use of taxpayer money for speculative private interests with no proven ROI”. Many of the elected find their reelection gold nugget hiding in plain sight. A vibrantly worded front page reference to a politician beats the hell out of an obituary regurgitation of their failures, insignificance and questionable decision making.
Representative John Kowalko
Like screwing one of your staffers is cool.
CyklonB
Like it never happens, right? Either you think revenge porn should be against the law or you don’t. Given some of your past stances, no surprise if you think it shouldn’t be.
Hotels needed to handle the overflow of parents from kiddie travel team sports events at Delaware Turf Complex.
Or maybe we are considering a law that would require you to stay one night a year in Delaware to qualify for a PO Box “corporate headquarters” at 1209 North Orange Street?
Never happen. Corporate law section of the Delaware Bar would proclaim that legislation designed to fill local hotel rooms would be bad for Delaware’s economy.
“Kentucky’s Poorest Residents” voted for Trump. Elections have consequences. My sympathies are reserved for those who had no hand in his election. The rest can go pound sand.
Kentucky’s middle and upper classes voted for him, too. Not to mention Matt Bevin and Moscow Mitch.
Why is Biden in Russia’s crosshairs? Hint: It ain’t about Hunter.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/ukrainian-oligarch-dmytro-firtash-seethed-about-overlord-joe-biden-for-years?ref=home
The reforms in the Ukrainian gas market pushed by Biden under Obama are costing Firtash a reported $400 million a year.