Archive for March, 2022
Song of the Day 3/23: Dead Kennedys, “Police Truck”
There’s a reason police act above the law: They are. The so-called “police bill of rights” is a list of special privileges that place them outside the laws that govern the rest of us, supposedly (we all know being white and rich makes you nearly as immune as a police badge). Anyway, here’s Jello Biafra’s […]
DL Open Thread Wednesday March 23rd 2022
Look at this FEMA flood zone map for Ft Dupont. It would be funny if it were not so transparently corrupt and sickening.
Also check out the Delaware Call’s reporting on the Fort DuPont robbery.
No due diligence. No oversight. No workable business plan. No shame. Just a bunch of well connected people converting public assets into money and shoving that money into their pockets at a furious clip.
One can only conclude that Longhurst and Poore simply don’t give a fuck about looking corrupt as hell. Here is Cato the Elder on the topic, once more for good measure.
“Thieves of private property pass their lives in chains; thieves of public property in riches and luxury.”
Meaningful LEOBOR Reform Was Dead As Soon As Sen. Lockman Took Charge
Talk about not learning from history. Tizzy Lockman chose the same failed path that Val Longhurst, for example, tried with the NRA and the Delaware Sportsmen’s Association. You know, involve ‘all the stakeholders’ in the conversation. As if you can negotiate with legislative hostage takers. Riddle me this, Batman. How many ‘stakeholders’, including community activists, […]
Tucker Carlson Tells His Millions of Viewers that Transgender is Not Real
Listen to Tucker Carlson intentionally misgender a Biden administration official and in so doing provide a hateful transgender-denying script to his millions of idiot viewers like Rick Jensen. TUCKER CARLSON (HOST): Rachel Levine is a biological man who has lived life as a biological man — married, kids, the whole thing, and then, at some point, fairly recently, decided, […]
Song of the Day 3/22: Bobby Bloom, “Montego Bay”
Before Bob Marley, Caribbean music in the U.S. mostly had a Latin flavor and beats that favored ballroom-style dancing. But every once in a while a bit of calypso and its Jamaican cousin, mento, would slip through, as in 1970, when two Brooklynites — former doo-wop singer and jingle writer Bobby Bloom and tunesmith Jeff […]
Delaware General Assembly Pre-Game Show: Tuesday, March 22, 2022
We’re in a legislative holding pattern. ‘Some’ would call it a slog. Passing nothing of any real importance while waiting (in vain) for them to consider something of importance. Anybody remember police reform? It likely won’t happen. This session may well have peaked when Medical And Family Leave passed. Ho-kay. I’ll try to make this […]
DL Open Thread Tuesday March 22st 2022
Here we go again. A very popular progressive is beating a centrist corporate lickspittle. You know the rest. A super PAC backing Pennsylvania Senate candidate Conor Lamb is warning prospective donors that he is trailing frontrunner John Fetterman by 30 percentage points in the Democratic primary — and that the public’s perception of his opponent’s […]
Townhouses Of Russian Oligarch Traced To Delaware Shell Corporations
One of Putin’s most notorious oligarchs–Oleg Derispaka. He owns two Manhattan townhouses, or, more accurately, they are owned by two separate Delaware shell corporations. Betcha they aren’t the only entanglements. Is everybody OK with that? Shouldn’t the General Assembly at least call the Secretary of State and its corporate enablers before a panel and ask […]
The Onion (Via Atrios) on the NYT Editorial Board
As usual, The Onion nails it. Also this preamble… just read it. There Is A Natural Order To Things Lots of things can be said about the “cancel culture” nonsense from the most privileged people with giant microphone sinecures, but one simple way to see it is as a contest between those who think normal […]
The Most Blatantly-Corrupt Bill Of The Session
Of many sessions, actually. For all involved, if you didn’t want your names besmirched in this piece, you never should have gotten involved, and stayed involved, in this grab of state land and money in order to line the pockets of some of the most unethical practitioners of the Delaware Way. At the beginning, we’re […]
DL Open Thread Monday March 21 2022
With regard to Viet Nam, one of the sickest psychos to ever wield power in the United States, Henry Kissinger, once noted “The guerrilla wins if he does not lose. The conventional army loses if it does not win.” By that maxim – Putin is losing in Ukraine. Lots of “statement” talk in the news […]
Song of the Day 3/21: Бетон (Beton), “Kyiv Calling”
You know how musicians can avoid being sued for copyright infringement? Ask the copyright holders for permission. That’s what Ukrainian punk band Бетон, transliterated as Beton (“concrete” in Ukrainian), did before they repurposed The Clash’s 1979 cri de coeur as an anthem of resistance against the Russian invasion of their country. It was quickly granted. […]
DL Open Thread: Sunday, March 20, 2022
Putin’s Placing Blame. Arresting advisors for failing to successfully carry out his war. More from the NYTimes: Signs of Russia’s challenges abound. Late last week, Russian news sources reported that Mr. Putin had put two of his top intelligence officials under house arrest. The officials, who run the Fifth Service of Russia’s main intelligence service, […]
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