Gun rights advocates target Delaware’s high-capacity magazine buyback in latest court filing
“High capacity magazines and military machine guns must be freely available for purchase by deranged psychos because it says so in the Constitution.”
Archive for November, 2022
“The Menu” Starring Ralph Nathaniel Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes
If I had to summarize this move in a sentence: A member of the proletariate is provisionally accepted by the ruling class, but can’t assimilate because he sees them too clearly.
Song of the Day 11/23: Thin Lizzy, “Fight or Fall”
Fans of Irish rockers Thin Lizzy all have the same lament: If you went by classic rock radio you’d think the band only released three songs. Their breakthrough hit, at least in the British Isles, was a rocked-out cover of the folk song “Whiskey in the Jar,” released in 1972. It was another four years […]
ExPat Opportunities Update
Presicce Italy is offering newcomers more than $30,000 to become homeowners. With 70% of voting age “gen Z” voters voting for Democrats, this doesn’t seem to be as pressing as it did prior to the mid-terms, but If you’ve ever had your eye on making Italy your home—and don’t want to have to fight your […]
Investigate Hunter Biden? Have At It, Fellas
Right-wing trolls who visit the site all make the same mistake — they think we’re cheering for our football team vs. their football team, and so we must love the players on our football team the way they love their players, no matter how vile. Trolls should do an archive search on how this blog […]
Dl Open Thread Wednesday November 23 2022
Another day, another act of domestic terrorism. Chesapeake VA Walmart mass shooting: 7 dead, including the shooter Over 40,000 Americans die from being shot each year. One died from being shot in my neighborhood recently. It was a suicide. 3,000 died on 9/11 and a panicked nation was led by the nose into a […]
The New DE House Minority Leader Is Ramone
Mike Ramone selected last night to lead the super-minority amid significant drama. Lyndon Yearick is the new whip. The pair beat out Danny Short and Timothy Dukes who apparently spent all of their energy fighting off Ruth Briggs King. Rumor is Ramone pledged to fight like a Republican (?) and thereby signaled that he is […]
Song of the Day 11/22: The Electric Prunes, “I Had Too Much to Dream (Last Night)”
Garage rock wasn’t called that when bands were actually playing it in the mid-’60s — the name came a few years later, when the “Nuggets” collection was released in 1972 to collect what were by then forgotten tracks. (Yes, kids, that’s how quickly popular music evolved back then.) The name referred to music that critics […]
DL Open Thread Tuesday November 22 2022
Will she recuse herself? The Federalist Society magic 8 Ball says, “We didn’t put you there to recuse yourself.” Amy Coney Barrett urged to step away from gay rights case because of faith affiliation Former members of Amy Coney Barrett’s secretive faith group, the People of Praise, are calling on the US supreme court justice […]
Who Are DL’s MVP’s Of 2022?
The floor is officially open for nominations! Who were those who were the most valuable to the progressive cause in Delaware in 2022? They can be people, they can be organizations, they can even be pot-bellied pigs. It could be someone who in no way is progressive. Christine O’Donnell won one year for handing the […]
Meet NCC’s #1 Collector Of Development $$’s
As you will find out at the reveal down below (no peeking!), this is all the more remarkable when one considers the short period of time it took to collect all this lucre (I’ll even tell you why). Oh, the donors of the lucre itself, all of whom have had business before NCC?: 11/10/2021 A. […]
Song of the Day 11/20: The Undisputed Truth, “Papa Was a Rollin’ Stone”
This song won a Grammy for the Temptations in 1972 and is considered one of their greatest tracks. But it was first recorded and released earlier that year by a different Motown act, the Undisputed Truth. Producer Norman Whitfield and Barrett Strong wrote the tune to exploit the socially conscious “psychedelic soul” genre that by […]
Ladeez And Gentlemen: The Lobbyists Who Have Bought YOUR New Castle County Council
There are absolutely no checks-and-balances on unfettered development–except perhaps for where the developers themselves live. Before we get into this legalized bribery, let’s first define exactly who are those doing the bribing. These are the names I’ve come across who generally appear before Council and/or their committees and/or before County departments on land use issues. […]
DL Open Thread Monday November 21 2022
The Low Background Hum of American Anti-GOPism
For many Americans it is too taxing to get outraged anew each week, so a low background hum of outrage has settled on the country. And the Secret Blue Wave (or the Red Wave That Wasn’t) was in part due to the fact that voters – even the non-political weirdos – understand the fact that one party is in favor of weekly gun mayhem and mass shootings and one party basically isn’t.
Even people who have never touched a protest sign understand the fact that one party is in favor of burning the planet to a cinder and one party basically isn’t. And even people who don’t like using “they and them” understand the fact that one party is in favor of making non-whites, women, gays and transpeople second class citizens and one party basically isn’t.
That’s an attractive gun nut philosophy because it makes gun mayhem un-fixable by laying the blame for mass shootings where they think it belongs – at the feet of James Madison. I don’t happen to believe this Madisonian spin. Targeting the patrons of LGBTQ nightclubs, and children in schools for mass murder is not the work “lone wolf” nut jobs exploiting an anachronistic quirk in the bill of rights.
stochastic terrorism
the public demonization of a person or group resulting in the incitement of a violent act, which is statistically probable but whose specifics cannot be predicted
I have no opinion on the appointment of a special counsel to specially counsel Trump’s myriad of crimes, other than to say that this take from a 2017 issue of the New Yorker somehow still rings true:
MAR-A-LAGO BATHROOM, Fla.—According to current and former and probably also future U.S. officials, President Trump is guilty of yet another Very Illegal Thing. It is similar to all the previous Very Illegal Things, but somehow Even Worse. No former President has committed anything like this, let alone within the first term of the Presidency.
This Illegal Action threatens our national security, as well as our relationships with our allies, and will most likely result in nuclear warfare. According to the Constitution, which Trump has “totally read, of course, obviously,” the Commander-in-Chief is not allowed to perform the act that Trump actually performed just now, in the fifteen minutes before his next round of golf. It has been five months since President Trump, who at one point wanted to impress Billy Bush on a bus, took office.
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