DL Open Thread Monday November 8th 2021
Yesterday was the 77th anniversary of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt winning an unprecedented fourth term in office. With the benefit of historical hindsight, we now know that he won by…
Song of the Day 11/8: John Prine, “Long Monday”
It's been a long week. Time for a little John Prine. From "Fair and Square," the 2005 album he released after his bout with cancer. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NO2eI30Qhc
DL Open Thread: Sunday, November 7, 2021
How Cops Justify Killing Those Stopped For Traffic Offenses: 'The Car Was The Weapon': In a New York Times investigation of car stops that left more than 400 similarly unarmed…
Shawn Garvin Brings ‘Teh Weak’.
Yep, we're talking about The Underwater City At Fort DuPont. You will surely recall this letter from Jack Guerin to DNREC Secretary Garvin concerning this boondoggle: Hello Mr. Garvin, I’m…
DL Open Thread: Saturday, November 6, 2021
D's Finally Pass Something, And Send It To Biden. If a $1.2 Trillion Infrastructure program can seem anti-climactic, the D's will make it so. Of course, there was a caveat:…
Save it for the rubes, Coonsie
Coons takes his holy bi-partisanship act to Glasgow Scotland today. His ready to disclose the top secret Republicans traveling with this afternoon at 1:00pm. This show of bipartisanship (if is…
Song of the Day 11/5: Robert Plant and Alison Krauss, “Can’t Let Go”
It took 14 years, but Robert Plant and Alison Krauss have finally recorded a follow-up to their "Raising Sand," the 2007 LP that won both Grammy and Americana awards. "Raise…
DL Open Thread: Friday, November 5, 2021
Big Pharma Breaks Lobbying Spending Records To Fight Drug Pricing Initiatives. They've already got Carper and Coons in their pockets--although maybe they can rustle up some spare change to further…
Election Analysis
The nothing that Biden has accomplished is too far to the left and that scared the white Virginia people. So now he needs to be mean to AOC in public and accomplish even more nothing, so Democrats can run on nothing in the mid-terms and win by not being scary leftists.
Put me on TV! I can do this.
#winning
Is There a Christo-Fascist/White Power Cell Operating Within the Delaware State Police?
Having lost to Chris Coons by 59.4% to 37.9%, Delaware's most prominent Republican and the defacto leader of the DEGOP, Lauren Witzke, now claims to have asked the Delaware State Police…
RIP: Governor Ruth Ann Minner
https://www.delawareonline.com/story/news/2021/11/04/governor-ruth-ann-minner-delaware-dies/6285935001: Delaware's first and only female governor Ruth Ann Minner has died at the age of 86 after living a "truly remarkable story of triumph in the face of adversity,"…
Witzke Needs to Be Locked Up Under DE Code Title11, § 1245A
Where the FUCK is Kathleen Jennings on this? Witzke needs to be charged and locked up...today! So far, can find nothing re: State Police response to the Crazy Lady....however,…
Song of the Day 11/4: Journey, “Don’t Stop Believin”
David Chase, creator of "The Sopranos," has at last cleared up any confusion about the series' controversial final scene, which aired more than 14 years ago. Though he once sort…