Matt Meyer Can Kiss My Ass
He's already begging for $$'s for his 2024 run for Governor. I've gotten two pleas in the past 24 hours. Not only is he not getting my money, he's lost…
Song of the Day 9/30: The Zombies, “Time of the Season”
Guest post by Nathan Arizona You could say the Zombies saved their best song for the end. Actually, past the end. The British band had already broken up when "Time…
DL Open Thread: Friday, September 30, 2022
'Congressman DeSantis Opposed Federal Aid For Victims Of Hurricane Sandy.' Claimed it was fiscally irresponsible: As a freshman congressman in 2013, Ron DeSantis was unambiguous: A federal bailout for the…
Highlands Bunker – Nationalize (or whatever) the Poultry Industry
I rate this podcast 4 out of 5 Chick-fil-A Chicken Sandwiches.
Food and Water Watch activist Greg Layton joins Rob in the bunker to give an update on the planned biogas plant in Seaford and what still needs to be done to fight for environmental justice in Sussex.
Show Notes:
I just copied and pasted the whole thing from Boing Boing because it cracked me the heck up.
Britain's new prime minister has a 15% approval rating ROB BESCHIZZA 12:54 PM THU SEP 29, 2022 Liz Truss enjoys her victory in a screengrab from the BBC News feed…
But don’t mention climate change because that would be political
A very bad storm: President Joe Biden said officials are hearing early reports of what may be a substantial loss of life due to Hurricane Ian, he said at a…
“If I press this button, the economy goes ka-plooey!”
Whenever we happen to have a Not-Republican President the GOP brings a big hammer out of the closet. The hammer is called "debt limit brinksmanship", and they use it to…
Song of the Day 9/29: Bob Dylan, “High Water (For Charley Patton)”
I know people in Naples, Fla. I feel even sorrier for them than usual today. Most blues songs about high water trace back to the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927,…
DL Open Thread: Thursday, Sept. 29, 2022
Lee County Apparently Hardest Hit By Hurricane Ian: FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell has told CNN that Lee County, home to Fort Myers, was the area hit hardest by Hurricane Ian.…
Rally to Oppose Privatization of State Retirees Medicare
RALLY TO OPPOSE PRIVATIZATION OF DEL STATE RETIREES MEDICARE SET FOR TUESDAY OCT. 4 - CARAVEL BUILDING/WILM RiseDelaware, a group formed to assist Delaware’s State retirees in their fight against…
Bryan Shupe (36th RD) is NOT a MAGA Extremist
This project is about removing the grey area and discovering if the Republicans in the Delaware legislature are MAGA Extremists or Regular Republicans. The complexities of life don't typically favor binary sorting, so I tried to write the questions as simply as possible and in a way that could only illicit simple yes or no responses.
Rep Bryan Shupe replied "yes" to all of the questions and is therefor, judged to be NOT a MAGA extremists. He thinks Biden was lawfully elected. He thinks that the Jan 6th people are criminals and he thinks that it is a crime for an ex-president to posses top secret documents. His responses are at odds with MAGA extremist orthodoxy. That's great.
And yet, he couldn't resist carving out a little unique space for himself in an attached comment (see below). I'll leave it to you to decide if you think Shupe's carved out space means that he is MAGA Lite. My verdict is...
Song of the Day 9/28: Michael Martin Murphey, “Geronimo’s Cadillac”
As the link in today's open thread illustrates, we never do right by native Americans, even though we've admitted the injustices for a long time now. For example, it was…
DLOpen Thread Wednesday September 28 2022
It is hard to imagine an end to the Russian invasion of Ukraine that doesn't include Putin being deposed and killed.
Russian conscription still not popular.
Satellite photos show 10-mile-long traffic jam at Russian border
Lot's of bad news for Russia, but here is a little ray of sunshine.
Orthodox Church leader says Russian soldiers dying in Ukraine will be cleansed of sin
Did you know that the Cherokee Nation agreed to relocate to Oklahoma (the trail of tears) in exchange for representation in congress that they never got? Now you do.