DL Open Thread Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2024
There’s unquestionably something wrong with these people. Once again a right-wing loonjob is in the news for killing a dog. This time it’s an excrescence on the body politic named Kevin Roberts. He’s now the head of the Heritage Foundation, but 20 years ago he was just an undistinguished assistant professor of history at highly prestigious (checks notes) New Mexico State University. He told several people at a dinner party, including his boss at the time, that a neighbor’s dog wouldn’t stop barking, so he killed it with a shovel. I’m starting to think the MAGA project’s true aim is to make Nazis look not so bad by comparison.
Florida is America’s fastest-growing state, and I’ll never understand the appeal. Sure, sunshine and no snow, I get it, but its Gulf Coast is about to get slammed by yet another hurricane. Yet Floridians complain endlessly when their property insurance rates soar, as if they couldn’t have foreseen that. The sunshine is just a come-on, folks. Buy now, pay later.
Donald Trump’s Bile and Brimstone tour visited Pennsyltucky again, where The Dotard ragged on today’s late-night talk show hosts and wondered,
“Where’s Johnny Carson?” and called for his return. A WaPo columnist pointed out that polls show Carson remains the most popular host in the field, and I have to wonder, why the fuck are they wasting people’s time asking them nonsense like that? No wonder nobody wants to talk to pollsters.
Trump campaign spokesman Oddjob Steven Cheung said the FBI told them the Iranians are trying to assassinate Trump, to which I say, hey, you buttinskis, get in line. It doesn’t say much for the Iranian black ops people if they can’t even get as close as a couple of random American gun nuts.
The floor’s yours.
Growing up on Long Island many saw Florida as the promised land, both for vacations and retirement. I didn’t get it then and see it as a fools paradise now, as in come on hurricanes! As for the slayers of dogs it’s murder, and a sign of a much deeper problem. That they seems inclined to brag about it in particular.
https://spotlightdelaware.org/2024/09/25/congo-opioid-foreclosure/
You could not make this stuff up.
This is exactly what we knew was going on with BHL slush fund. AG or someone has to put a hold on this pot of money. Conartistgo should never been given $500K. Congo family has been doing this for years. Thanks to Spotlight for the reporting
Jesus H Christ. and you dont need to make this stuff up becuase this is exactly what happens in the delaware way.
So let me get this straight.
BHL gave the Congos $500k of opioid fund money to…. renovate their own property?
no, bhl gave them 500k over three installments to A) renovate B) open for business c) hire a program manager. that was the original agreement. BHL then gave them all the funds upfront and they used 500k to paint and do vinyl flooring and some windows? I’d love to see who the contactors were – im guess relatives of congo and the potters
Here’s the crux of the problem, in a statement from BHL’s office:
“[T]he project will serve youth and their families by providing educational information and activities to prevent and decrease opioid use disorder in high-risk communities.”
Right. Like that’s going to reduce opioid deaths, or like any such program would ever be able to measure its impact on the community.
A neighborhood center might be a valuable asset, but it has fuck-all to do with preventing opioid deaths. Too many of the grants look the same.
Treatment beds, motherfuckers. Treatment beds. Address the real issue or get the fuck out of the way.
if this deal was on the up and up why has ownership passed through 3 LLCs
and the funny thing is the congos are so bad at corruption (but lets be honest, in DE do you have to be good at it to benefit?) all three llcs are tied directly to them instead of disappearing into other shells
Is Eric Hansen the smarmiest weasel-faced fucker to ever run for office in Delaware or what?
EVER to run for office? I’m not sure he’s the smarmiest weasel-faced fucker in this election, let alone for all time.
Haven’t been paying attention. But smarmy weasel-faced fuckers are what keep this blog a must-read.
(Memo to self: Pay attention to Eric Hansen.)
Sam Spade LLC.
At least Congo has a perverse sense of humor.
Nice of the City to wait until after the primary to foreclose.
Giving money to the Congos might be the most Delaware Way thing possible now that they can’t give it to Herman Jr.
Yeah but a Holloway gave the Congos the money so it all comes full circle.
Do we really want this woman to be pretend Governor for two weeks? Feels like a bad idea.
BTW, Orville Peck is Da Bomb!
There’s nobody like him on the music scene today.
That concert was awesome.
No funds should be disbursed from the Opiod fund under current “leadership”.The “fill in” guv can not be throwing money at Funeral home operators and train station developers and other random friends of hers!
Sean Combs has been placed in the same cell of a Brooklyn jail with convicted crypto fraudster Sam Bankman-Fried, The New York Times reports.
This sounds like the beginning of a Batman story arc. The supervillains are somehow cellmates in Arkham Asylum and, after engineering their escape, combine their powers to unleash a series of devastating blockchain sex orgies on Gotham City.