DL Open Thread: Wednesday, November 27, 2024
Safe travels, everybody, if you’re traveling. We’re traveling the less than a mile to our daughter’s house in Kingsridge, where I’ll plop myself on a couch and start drinking. Moderately, of course, Even the football games suck this year, but I’ll be with a great group of people, so it won’t matter. Hope you do the same. My favorite holiday, by far.
BREAKING: I-95 Closed At Newport. AYFKM??:
Multiple major roadways were closed early Wednesday morning after a dump truck driving with its bed up on Interstate 95 southbound struck the Route 141 northbound bridge, according to the Delaware Department of Transportation.
As of 8 a.m., I-95 southbound was closed at Route 141. I-295 at Route 141 was also closed due to the crash, DelDOT said.
DelDOT announced that this was an indefinite closure and that there were already major traffic issues as a result.
As of 8:30 a.m., Route 141 reopened across I-95.
If, like no doubt hundreds of others, you’re stuck there while scrolling through the Open Thread, perhaps this appropriate head-banger will provide some succor. Or perhaps not. Just wanted to slip ‘succor’ in there.:
Israel And Hezbollah Reach Cease-Fire. Guess Netanyahu had reached his quota of innocent victims killed. For now:
In the hours leading up to the Israel-Hezbollah ceasefire, which started at 4am local time (02:00 GMT), Israel’s military claims its forces waged a blitz of attacks on Hezbollah sites across Lebanon, hitting dozens of them.
The sites, it said, included command centres, weapons depots and infrastructure used by the Lebanese group’s elite Radwan Force. In one strike in Beirut, Israel’s military claimed it killed an operations officer with Hezbollah’s aerial unit.
In addition, Israel’s military claimed it struck several “smuggling routes” into Syria that it accuses Hezbollah of funnelling its weapons through.
As we reported earlier, Israeli warplanes bombed all three of Lebanon’s border crossings with Syria overnight, in attacks that Syria’s state news agency said killed at least six people, including four civilians.
I’m not gonna link to any of it, but the Washington Post has been ‘celebrating’ 50 Years Of George Will’s Columns. He sucks, he’s always sucked, and he’s done some legit damage in his time. Read his columns on Citizens United, for example. Better yet, don’t. Erudition in service to the moneyed and the powerful. His audience.
John Carney To Spend His First 90 Days Doing Nothing. A ‘dog-bites-man headline if there ever was one. Spotlight Delaware previews the new Wilmington government. Hey, at least Council will be better:
In a statement to Spotlight Delaware, Carney said he will spend his first 90 days hiring key staff and department directors, implementing recommendations from the transition report and engaging with residents by holding town hall meetings in each district and talking to community organizations to understand their priorities.
Because he hasn’t had time in his decades of living in Wilmington to understand the priorities of the people who live there.
Oh, about Council:
Meanwhile, all three of the council’s newest members bring progressive backgrounds, which could create a shift in perspective, particularly on issues that some residents felt were unresolved.
I’m especially psyched that Christian Willauer got elected. Her priorities:
Willauer, who represents parts of the Quaker Hill, Hilltop and Little Italy communities, said she will aim to address homelessness, violence reduction, potholes and sidewalks, and speeding on city streets.
With citywide concerns like affordable housing, she said she will support legislation to require housing developers that receive tax breaks from the city to make a portion of their units affordable for lower-income residents.
Willauer also wants to implement some of the recommendations from the city’s Fines and Fees Report, which examined the city’s parking, towing and water billing system. She sat on the task force that developed the report, and since its approval in March, few of the recommendations that aimed to alter the city’s collection practice have been implemented.
She plans to start with ending water shut-offs for households that include a senior, a person with a disability or a child under 5, and ending the use of foreclosure to collect overdue water bills from homeowners.
In other words, you don’t need to spend three months on a bleeping listening tour if you’ve already been listening.
Food Banks Aren’t Just For Thanksgiving. Always one of the best places to donate money and/or time and labor. Food insecurity is real and widespread in Delaware.
Pity Poor Rudy. No, don’t. Enjoy his descent into Hell instead:
Rudy Giuliani interrupted a routine court hearing Tuesday with a bizarre rant about his dire financial straits as the former New York City mayor faces the ramifications of defaming two Georgia election workers.
Giuliani blurted out “I don’t have a credit card” and “I can’t pay my bills” when questioned about why he had not yet turned over the title to his 1980 Mercedes-Benz convertible to help satisfy the $148 million judgment against him for defamation.
U.S. District Judge Lewis J. Liman scolded the onetime presidential candidate for his explosion and warned him against further eruptions during a touchy hearing in Manhattan federal court.
Giuliani, 80, appeared to take umbrage at Liman’s disbelief that a former U.S. attorney was struggling to get a duplicate title to a vehicle. Giuliani grabbed a microphone and cut him off.
“Your implication that I have been not diligent about this is totally incorrect,” Giuliani snapped, according to Reuters, as he insisted he was “not impoverished” but that “everything I have is tied up,” The Associated Press reported.
“I don’t have a car, I don’t have a credit card, I don’t have cash,“ Giuliani said. “I can’t pay my bills.”
Join the club.
Lose A Rap War, Take It To Court? Look, it’s no disgrace to come in second-best to Kendrick Lamar. Shakespeare would have been hard-pressed to one-up him:
Drake is now taking his epic beef with fellow rapper Kendrick Lamar to the human resources department.
On Tuesday, Drake’s company, Frozen Moments LLC, filed a legal complaint against Universal Music Group ― Drake’s second of the week ― over Lamar’s hit track “Not Like Us.”
In court documents obtained by Billboard, Drake, whose full name is Aubrey Drake Graham, alleged that UMG could have stopped the release of the song, which his lawyers say falsely accused Drake of being a sex offender.
Can you imagine what would happen if rappers went to court over hyperbolic misrepresentations of them in lyrics by other rappers? Quit while you’re behind, Drake.
What do you want to talk about?
You know how you can tell Drake’s not a sex offender? Trump didn’t name him to his cabinet.
I smell LAW SUIT…
Drake is waiting for a recess appointment.
(Matt Gaetz says “I had a recess appointment once.”)
Hezbollah can use this ceasefire to reflect and teach their children about the consequences of attacking your neighbor, and the international community can use this time to support Lebanon in expelling the Hezbollah warlords.
…. Just kidding!! Hezbollah will use the ceasefire to load up an another crapload of Iranian weapons while the UN turns a blind eye.
Don’t you ever bore yourself by repeating the same talking points over and over?
BTW, I-95 reopened around 10.
I wouldn’t want readers to get the idea that liberals are anti-Israel ideologues, so I do my part.
I couldn’t agree more. Hezbollah attacks Israel, then screams “genocide” when Israel responds to protect its own people. Wish Hezbollah and Hamas cared about their own people as much as Israel cares about its own!!! They hide among the populace KNOWING that Israel’s attempts to “take them out” will mean their people will be killed. The “genocide” being committed is by Hezbollah and Hamas against their own people.
I know, I know. You two are the ‘Genocide Twins’.
Neither Netanyahu nor Israel ever do anything wrong.
“You two are the ‘Genocide Twins’.”
You use that word the way Republicans use the word “socialist.”
and the Israelis
Sure they do wrong, but probably no more than Hamas. It’s true Gaza is getting the worst of it, but Hamas either knew that would happen or didn’t care. Neither side seems to give shit about the actual residents of Gaza.