cassandra_m
"You don't make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas." -Shirley Chisholm
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A. Phillip Randolph Institute Legislative Conference
From a Press Release in my email, notice of this interesting Conference this weekend — let us know if you plan on going: A. Philip Randolph Institute of Delaware to Host Legislative Conference Featuring Public Officials, Non-Profit Organizations, the Faith Community and Community Based Organizations Contact: Mark Brunswick, APRI Director of Education 302-691-5816 The A. […]
59% of Americans Want National Health Insurance
From a recent CBS/NYT poll: HEALTH INSURANCE: PRIVATE ENTERPRISE VS. GOVERNMENT? CBS/NYT Now CBS/NYT 1/1979 Private enterprise 32% 48% Government – all problems 49 28 Government – emergencies 10 12 Don’t know 9 12 Are Democrats listening? This represents a 37% swing in opinion on an item that Americans routinely put at the top of […]
Delaware Joins the Climate Prosperity Project
WDEL has audio of Gov. Markell’s announcement here. The effort to grow a greener economy in Delaware stepped up its profile today with Gov. Markell’s announcement that Delaware is the only state to be invited to join the Climate Prosperity Project. According to the NJ, this group: The Climate Prosperity Project, sponsored by the Rockefeller […]
Dominatrix Work Forces Recession to Its Knees
I really, really wish I had made up that title, but it comes from this article over at CNBC. And they got it from the Kinkonomics blog over at The Daily Beast. (Kinkonomics article may be NSFW) Definitely read the Kinkonomics blog post, but this is how CNBC describes it: When the going gets tough, […]
The Making of a Conservative Lie
Steve Benen over at The Washington Monthly points out how a conservative set of lies became “news” this week. It begins with this lie from Betsy McCaughey who works for a wingnut think tank, published in the opinion section of Bloomberg: Specifically, McCaughey insisted that the policy would create a “new bureaucracy” called the National […]
Day 19: Mike Castle’s Betrayal of Delaware
The LTE that I submitted to the News Journal yesterday: With his vote against the Stimulus Package (and against the largest middle class tax cut in history), Congressman Mike Castle definitively demonstrates that his allegiances are no longer with the citizens of Delaware he was elected to represent. Mr. Castle was quick to support every […]
SNL Tried to Parody the GOP
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_iRWukDe4BI[/youtube] This parody from Saturday past is of the current GOP tactic of cheering on the failure of the economy so that they can get some electorial gain out of it. Except this invoked to me the same watching a trainwreck feeling that I get when reading wingnut blogs these days. It seemed just a […]
Kill Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell Now
President Obama, tear down this policy. Amy Brian was in the Kansas National Guard, had served in Iraq and survived an IED blast there. Back in Kansas, she was hard at work trying to bring some order to the local government purchase program, trying to save the government money. Although the fact that she was […]
Fixing the No Fly List
We all know the complete mess this is — millions of names long, many people (including little kids) on it who can’t find a way off of the list, and a government agency who can put your name on it, but has no real way of getting your name off of it. Two pieces of […]
An Accidental Truth
And it is from a repub, so mark this as a Red Letter Day. And show your kids — this is one of the very few times you’ll hear something truthful from these people. You’ll have to sit through more whinging about the Fairness Doctrine in this video, but Steele is really correct about this […]
Open Government Forum
This event is sponsored by the League of Women Voters. Taken directly from their website: The LWVNCC and LWVDE will jointly present a Open Government Forum, on February 17, featuring a presentation by Dr. Margaret McKay and a panel which includes State Senator Karen Peterson, former State Representative Robert Valihura, John Flaherty (Lobbyist, The Greenwatch […]
Chart of the Day
Great graphic depiction of the recovery plan — with the old numbers, though: And once you get the larger image, you can click anywhere on it to see it closer. (h/t creditloan.com)
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