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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DelCOG Meeting — The State of FOIA Activity
Charles Davis, Executive Director of the National Freedom of Information Coalition spoke to the DelCOG group on Thursday and delivered a very interesting talk about the state of FOIA activity in the US and the increasing push by governments at all levels in the US to try to build a wall around their actions and […]
Recovery Deal
According to the NYT (and the BBC who is reporting this now), the Dem leadership plus the so-called moderate group reached a deal on the recovery package. As of now, there aren’t many details and no clear info on when a vote will be taken. Senator Kennedy has returned to DC to vote on this, […]
More Like This Please!
President Obama gives a rousing reminder of what the Congress should be doing and what the stakes are: (in two parts) [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJDwbfbpRnQ[/youtube]
Talking Point Smackdown — Honeybees!
One of the resident wingnuts brought up a portion of the recovery package that is supposed to support honeybees — of course, you consider the source and presume that you are dealing with more manufactured outrage over something silly. Little did I know. Yesterday evening, I found out exactly what she was talking about (column […]
Justice Ginsberg Had Surgery for Cancer Today
Via NPR Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the only woman currently serving on the nation’s highest court, underwent surgery Thursday for removal of a cancerous tumor from her pancreas. Ginsburg, 75, is being treated at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York. Pancreatic cancer is one of the very tough ones, but Justice Ginsberg […]
Meet the Clowns Getting Your Tax Dollars
No, this is not another bank post. This is about Derek Dye — Abstinence Clown. Mr. Dye apparently hauls his clown shoes all over Ohio to tell kids that pre-marital sex will destroy your dreams and that pre-marital sex is just like juggling machetes. I.Kid.You.Not. This guy is part of the failed abstinence-only program, which, […]
Good Bank, Bad Bank
There’s no quick and easy way for me to copy this masterpiece to this blog, but just click here to read the story of American Banks if Dr. Seuss was telling it. Very creative…
Keepin’ It Real with the Young Republicans
Get ready to party: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8IPaj91cQE&feature=player_embedded[/youtube]
JFC Says: Pay No Attention to the Little Man Behind the Curtain
If you read this NJ article, you read a bunch of legislators on the JFC who are clearly supportive of HB1 — but not when it comes to them and the workings of the JFC: JFC co-leaders Sen. Nancy Cook, D-Kenton, and Rep. Dennis P. Williams, D-Wilmington North, said they hope the JFC will continue […]
A Center Right Nation No More
Gallup mines all of the data they collected over the past year to provide various analyses of the state of the political nation and looks at political party affiliation: Open Left slices and dices this data further, highlighting the real disconnect between the apparent media stance that mostly Republicans get to sound off on the […]
Different Day…
…same bullshit. Take a look: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpRK42W9st4[/youtube] If you could mask the time markers here, you’d swear you were listening to CNN this week. It is the same GOP script, with many of the same hacks, saying exactly the same things — and they were spectacularly wrong then. And the new hacks haven’t found anything new […]
Memorial Tribute for Andrew Wyeth This Weekend
The Brandywine River Museum in Chadds Ford is hosting a memorial tribute to Wyeth this weekend, showing for the his last painting. MOMA has lent “Christina’s World” especially for the tribute. It doesn’t seem to be a formal service, but a chance for people to visit the works again (and get a chance to see […]
Delaware Coalition For Open Government Meeting 5 February
From my email, notice of a DelCOG meeting next week — Thursday, 5 February, to be exact. They do want you to try to RSVP so they can have enough seats. Let us know if you are planning to go…. ******************************************************************** You are cordially invited: THE DELAWARE COALITION FOR OPEN GOVERNMENT PRESENTS Freedom of Information: […]
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