Friday Open Thread [6.1.12]

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I got nothing today, how about you?

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  1. Jason330 says:
    June 1, 2012 at 1:13 pm

    If you like ermine, jewels and class distinctions, there is this…

  2. Dorian Gray says:
    June 1, 2012 at 2:22 pm

    Diamond jubilee, dawg!

  3. JJ says:
    June 1, 2012 at 8:13 pm

    Heard Wilm City Councilman Steve Martelli resigned and took a foreign service job? Whats up with that? Did he just pull a Sarah Palin and quit? He was supposed to take on Harris McDowell or be the future Mayor….guess that was all HYPE.

  4. John Prickinson says:
    June 1, 2012 at 8:44 pm

    The last episode of “Game of Thrones” was awesome. Dudes getting shot by arrows, hand-to-hand combat, and great explosions of green fire. FIRE! FIRE!

  5. Aoine says:
    June 1, 2012 at 10:32 pm

    hmmm – go see SNOW_WHITE

    The young woman from Twilight gets some backbone – better role model

  6. MJ says:
    June 1, 2012 at 10:43 pm

    G-D save the Queen, Queen Elizabeth the Second, by the Grace of G-D Queen of this Realm and of Her other Realms and Territories, Head of the Commonwealth, Defender of the Faith.

  7. Roland D. LeBay says:
    June 1, 2012 at 11:05 pm

    MJ–

    G-D means GOD DAMN.

    GOD DAMN save the Queen makes no sense.

    By the way, there is no god.

  8. MJ says:
    June 1, 2012 at 11:28 pm

    Roland, no it doesn’t. I am Jewish and I do not write the name of G-D. Learn something before you show everyone how stupid you are.

  9. Roland D. LeBay says:
    June 1, 2012 at 11:34 pm

    I know, MJ.

    I believe in no god or g-d or however you choose to spell it. I have relatives who are jews. They have no problem writing, typing or saying the word “god”.

    What writing or teaching prevents you from writing/typing “GOD”?

  10. Baba Louie says:
    June 2, 2012 at 8:15 am

    It’s fascinating how some people think God’s name is “God”.

    So in the sentence, “Zeus was a Greek god,” do these people write, “Zeus was a Greek g-d”?

    The God of Abraham, as I understand it, doesn’t speak English as His first language anyway. Transferring the treatment of the Hebrew Tetragrammaton to the Englihs word “god”, which is a generic noun, is a silly cultural affectation.

  11. MJ says:
    June 2, 2012 at 8:54 am

    Roland, go back and do some reading of past posts over the past 3 years. No need to start this debate again. I really don’t give a rats ass who your relatives are or what they do. Just don’t try to interpret what I write to satisfy your pointy-headed bigoted beliefs.

    And Baba – how do you know?

  12. SussexWatcher says:
    June 2, 2012 at 9:01 am

    It’s fascinating how some people think they know everything important about a stranger’s personal religious beliefs just because they have friends of that faith and have skimmed a Wikipedia article. Why does it bother you two douchebags so much what MJ writes? Desist, ignoramii.

  13. Digby says:
    June 2, 2012 at 9:25 am

    How about those recent job numbers, huh? Keep up the great work, Barry! This is the really, really real recovery summer, right? 70,000 jobs? Really?

  14. cassandra_m says:
    June 2, 2012 at 9:44 am

    Martelli is going to work for the State Department. Sarah Palin quit her job halfway through to get her grift on. Steve is quitting his council seat at the end of his term to take a real job — unlike Palin.

    Edit: Steve is resigning this week, and the end of his term is the end of this year. Which still makes the Palin comparison silly.

  15. SussexWatcher says:
    June 2, 2012 at 10:12 am

    If Palin had quit to take a better-paying, better-for-her-family job, that would have been one thing. You can’t fault someone for doing what’s best for their family. But she just up and quit.

  16. JJ says:
    June 2, 2012 at 10:18 am

    Cassandra- Looks like he up and quit as well for more money, leaving it vacant for over 7 months and forcing the other council members to pick up his constituent work. Looks more like Sarah Palin than you want to admit, my dear friend. Sorry.

  17. cassandra_m says:
    June 2, 2012 at 10:31 am

    That vacancy is basically all campaigning until 9/11 and even then, there isn’t much work for Council until the budget cycle starts. Did you know that the Wilmington City Council is a part time job? Thought not. If he could keep the council job and work at the State Department, don’t you think he would do that?

    And as long as he isn’t grifting people who should know better, he’s never going to get to Palin territory.

  18. Will McVay says:
    June 2, 2012 at 5:29 pm

    I’m more curious why the people of the UK and the commonwealth still give any of their money to support the royal family. I’d make every last one of them find real work if it were up to me.

  19. JJ says:
    June 2, 2012 at 6:38 pm

    Cassandra,
    I know its a part time job Maybe he should go back and re- read his oath of office and think of his constituents?
    Its not all campaigning for the rest of the year, hes being paid to help consituents deal with Baker’s horrible city government bureaucracy, and frankly, that part of the city he represents is very active. I wish he thought of his constituents more than himself and his wallet, thats all. So he pulled a Sarah Palin, okay, his actions speak volumes. and now Bud, Loretta and others are left doing his work for the next 7 months. Speaks for itself.

  20. SussexWatcher says:
    June 2, 2012 at 7:14 pm

    I am having a hard time believing the line that he thought he could do both jobs. He would be a federal employee, meaning the Hatch Act applies. Given both the New Castle County kerfluffle over Hatch and his past federal service, Matelli *can’t* be ignorant of its restrictions. I call B.S.

  21. JJ says:
    June 2, 2012 at 7:16 pm

    He knew he could only do one job . You know he checked it our. Its all about the $$$$$$$$$$. Hes a former cop, so its all about soaking up all the gov’t gravy and pensions you can get.

  22. El Somnambulo says:
    June 2, 2012 at 7:50 pm

    I call BS, JJ. You should know, as much as anyone, how a legislator’s job becomes ‘go into campaign mode’ once the legislative session is over.

    Guy gets a job with the bleeping State Department, for cryin’ out loud, and you, of all people, somehow suggest he broke a sacred trust with his constituents?

    I must have missed where you wrote such harsh criticism of Wayne Smith when he up and left an office that he’d just been reelected to so that he could become the hospitals’ uber-lobbyist, a far less worthy job than working for one’s country. Would you kindly point me to it?

    I can deal with the ‘worry troll’ persona you’ve adopted, but you’re not putting this BS past me.

  23. SussexWatcher says:
    June 2, 2012 at 8:50 pm

    For people like JJ, getting a job with the government isn’t public service, it’s sucking off the taxpayers’ teat.

  24. JJ says:
    June 2, 2012 at 11:40 pm

    No argument here, the criticism goes both ways and to folks of both parties. Wayne Smith’s departure right after his re-election for high paid lobbyist job deserved harsh criticism. The timing was awful- right after election. He should not have filed for the seat if he was out shopping for better paying jobs while running for re-election. Then the state had to unnecessarily spend $ on a special election, and as we saw, Wayne’s choice to fill his seat was badly bruised by the episode.

  25. Paralyzed Vet says:
    June 4, 2012 at 11:43 am

    I used to post on this site, but really don’t anymore. But I am really wanted to post an issue that I hope the democrats on this site will think about..

    First, Obama did keep his promise and funded the VA, but then he relaxed Priority Group 8 restrictions.. Which now made the VA grossly overfunded. So we took 2 steps back. (priority group 8 is basically, the AARP Vets,. no military disabliy, not poor, and have insurance which they can afford the copays.. So they have no business going to the VA in the first place ).

    But the AARP vets have a great lobbying machine, ( all the veterans organizations represent these people, nobody else, which is why young vets don’t join the organization ).

    Now turn to me.. I am a totally disabled veteran, and I am under 65 so no medicare, the disability money takes medicaid off the table. SSDI? technicallity(sp) bars me from that..And private insurance, if I could afford it, I still could not get it ( military and injuries from wartime are not pre-existing conditions, they a legal basis for exclusion).

    See where I am going with this. There was a washington post article which published a study citing 1 out of 10 young veterans don’t have health insurance.).

    So I have no right to health insurance and I am totally disabled due to my military service.

    Very few people in Congress understand this issue, nor the fact that it exists. ( some very basic changes, which not one american would fight against in the laws could fix this. )..

    Yet I cannot get one of the Delaware Senate or Carney to even give me the courtesy of a 5 min phone conversation. Not one.. Coon’s office said I had to talk to their health care expert who advises coons directly. .That idiot, the health care expert. had no idea that ambulances had to take you to the nearest trama center.
    ( my issue is that I fall alot, and the VA will not pay for emergency room visits.. ) She suggested I get the amublance to take me from Long Neck to the VA,, that is his health care expert.

    And my service to this country does not deserve any direct contact at all with our elected democrats.

    You can read my exchange on coon’s facebook.

    Luckily the veterans in delaware, who are mostly not disabled and getting all the care they want are happy. .so they no longer have any real complaints. So they are listening to this issue, and in a few weeks I will take this to the press, and the veterans in delaware will jump on it.

    So the veteran vote will be in play, and this issue will hit hard once people realize the fundamental flaw.

    So I wish the democrats would help me.. Afterall I even did a newspaper interview to help coons with the nutjob odonnell. But it appears that is not the case.

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