Around the Horn Friday: Watermelon of Doom Edition
As one of our commenters pointed out, this weekend is the annual Watermelon of Doom fundraiser [shitty music warning] held by Vance Phillips. At this fundraiser crabs are served, watermelon is consumed, and one lucky politician will eat the “lucky watermelon” thereby sealing his doom. Last year it was a pre-macaca George Allen. This year…Who knows. I wonder if Protack is showing up?
There has been some pop psychology running around the political spheres lately. Does Rove fear an Obama candidacy? Does he fear Edwards? Personally, I care not one whit what Rove thinks, but the right-wing in Delaware seems intent on stinking up Markell with the crap that Minner’s administration has pulled at DHSS. I must admit that I am happy overjoyed that Kilroy didn’t bust out the photoshop for his headline “Jack Markell Blows it Out His Ass.” It’s the little things that make me happy. Over at FSP, Dave is sweating a Markell win by trying to paint Markell with the Minner brush. Good luck on that bro. Girlie-man Levin is in for a whooping and maybe Protack will sue him, too.
Speaking of Protack (hopefully for the last time this week) Dana cuts him some slack with a smackdown on Fulcher. Fulcher seems to be convinced of Protack’s complicity in the whole postcard issue.
Another of the GOP talking points this week seemed to be the concept of “Sanctuary Cities.” This is the xenophobic right, not the pro-business right. Duffy has an insulting post about it, whereas Hube just seems to want all crime reports to have an immigration angle.
If you missed it, JttR was a lefty blog for a week. It was like opposites day over there. Nice job over there Mike McKain. I bet you need one hell of a shower to get the conservative off of you. Check out Mike’s Education post or wander over to his blog.
Speaking of changes, FSP has added Frank Knotts to their roster of crazed lunatics (I mean that in the nicest way…). Sadly, they are still no match for the team here at delawareliberal.net.
Let’s close out the Right-wing nuts with an innocuous sports post by Paul Smith. I can’t wait until LOST comes back on and I can highlight his posts on it. I still feel dirty.
Here’s one for the record books, Duffy has something nice to say about the Clintons. Specifically Chelsea and Bill and Hill’s ability to keep their marriage together. Hmmm…Does Duffy want Hillary to be the nominee so that the Republicans have a chance… ?
This week saw the penultimate event of the Iraq Summer Campaign during a sermon and Rally with Christopher Bullock. Nancy promoted it and talked about the potential challenge to Castle that Bullock poses. But Tommywonk scoops the sermon and posts it along with analysis. Dana had one of the more entertaining posts about it with pharmacological consequences for Castle.
Another event this week was the Markell Pizza bash that Jason and Mike Matthews attended.
On to more serious matters, Kavips has a post about the evil that Dick Cheneys 1% doctrine was doing before there was a 1% doctrine. At least once a week, I read a Kavips post and say, My God, these guys really are as dangerous as I had feared.
Mat Marshall has been admittedly lazy (we’ve all been there) but he is editing a video due to be shown at the rally on Monday for the final installment of the Iraq Summer Campaign. Hopefully he’ll put it on youtube and we can post it here.
It’s back to school time, and Mike Mahaffie has a post up about the high cost of school supplies to parents and teachers alike. The difference, as a parent of two kids in elementary school, is that for parents, it is worth every penny…
And that concludes my broadcast day. This weekend I have a book club meeting where we just read Silent Spring by Rachael Carson. I think I’ll blog a little about it next week. The topic is just as hot today as it was 40 years ago.
If you are going to eat Vance Phillips’ crabs this weekend, remember that Republicans like him that support George Bush’s failed Iraq war has cost the lives of 3,724 American soldiers and a bare minimum of 70,000 (very likely a significant number more) Iraqi lives. It is considered a blessing in Iraq to die of natural causes these days. Think about that when you are picking the gills off of that crab.
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What a selective listing — you left out Carney’s royal thumping of Markell in your little poll thingy.
And earlier in the day Jason330 was all giddy and talking about a press release. Please do post that to your blog when you get a sec won’t you.
Cheers!
For Immediate Release:
According to a Delaware Liberal online poll, Mike Protack and Al Levin are in a dead heat for the race to become the guy who gets his ass kicked by either Jack Markell or John Carney.
Santorum also ate the Watermelon of Doom. They are running out of wingnut senators who know where Delaware is.
This is the xenophobic right
Once again you prove what a bunch of absolute dopes you all are. How in the hell is it “xenophobic” to want an end unlawful sanctuary cities? Oh, and are you married to a Latina as I am? So, educate me — how am I xenophobic again? Is my wife xenophobic for agreeing w/me about sanctuary cities, you putz?
Hube just seems to want all crime reports to have an immigration angle.
“All.” Take a look at the name of Mike Matthews’ blog, you microcephalic ninny.
This weekend I have a book club meeting where we just read Silent Spring by Rachael Carson. I think I’ll blog a little about it next week.
Next week? How? It’ll take you at least two months to read it after you finish looking up all those big words in the dictionary.
When you do eventually blog about it, be sure to bring up how Carson inadvertently killed tens of millions with her scare tactics.
VoteGuy,
it has been my policy to not cover DelawareLiberal in our own Around the Horn edition. If you scroll down, you will see the results and the can comment on them to your hearts content.
Hube – I know that your wife is latina, but not every story needs to identify the perpetrator’s immigration status. Shall we identify all criminals as American-born low-lifes, naturalized lowlifes and illegal aliens?
As for Silent Spring, I suspect that you have not read it, but only read Monsanto’s review of it. Read it and get back to me about who the inadvertant killers are/were.
but not every story needs to identify the perpetrator’s immigration status.
And where did I advocate that such stories do just this? When it is clearly relevant — as it was in the NJ case, yes.
Are you seriously going to argue that outright banning DDT hasn’t contributed to millions of [3rd World] deaths? Even when a consensus of scientists (remember, “consensus” is what it’s all about when it comes to [liberal] belief in science) say that sparingly used around houses, it deters/kills malaria-carrying mosquitos?
Well a) DDT is not banned throughout the wold. b) Carson never advocated that there wasn’t a role for insecticides and c) end-users frequently overuse insecticides. So 3 strikes and you’re out. Go crack a book, teach.
“Shall we identify all criminals as American-born low-lifes, naturalized lowlifes and illegal aliens?”
Seems logical to me. And if they are illegal alien lowlifes ship them back immediately. Illegal aliens will think twice about committing a crime if they KNOW they will be detected and shipped back. Even ones that will just sneak back over usually spend a great sum to do so. We already ask about race and gender when arresting someone, why should immigration status be off the table? We should stop asking about their race long before we stop asking about immigration status.
Do you ever read your own stuff? Try a little logic once in a while.
Carson went over the top as most advocates do. I just wish we could get a reasonable policy from our politicians a little more often. Yes, overspraying of DDT was harming the eagle population and others. We got rid of DDT and they made a comeback. But we did not need to entirely eliminate DDT to get these results.
Politics is imperfect.
BTW: I participated in the eagle release at Tri-State Bird Rescue last weekend. What a grand sight to see such a majestic bird fly free!
How, exactly did Carson go over the top? She talked about legal limits, tolerances and observations. She showed what the effects on the environment had been. She was infuriated by the political power that chemical companies had used to force government to use as much DDT as possible.
Keep a few things in mind. When Carson wrote this there was no environmental protection. There was a Forest Service and an Ag Department. This book is credited with prompting Kennedy to propose the EPA.
Unfortunately Carson was unable to explain her research further or adjust her findings as the research developed because she was already dead when the EPA was formed. She died of breast cancer shortly after completing the book.
I am sure that the fact that she was terminally ill while she was writing the book had some effect on her tone (many of the chemicals that she discussed were carcinogens) her finding were not presented as definitive, but just facts that were hidden from the public. To consider her over the top, leads me to think that you haven’t read it in a while. Her findings sound downright sane and perhaps overly charitable, at times.
Try The Sheep Look Up for a fictional account of a polluted dystopia. I read it long ago but a few scenes are memorable and have stuck with me.
From the post on this on Digital Federalist: “She certainly scared the hell out of a lot of people and as a direct result we quit spraying DDT.”
I give her all credit for setting us on the path to EPA, Endangered Species et cetera.
I wrote in a hurry though. The movement she started went a bit over the top in banning the pesticides completely. Maybe that was necessary, but what I point out is that we tend to have pendulum politics in this country.