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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Late Night Video — TDS Rips the Media a New One
Jon Stewart is running his show from Tampa this week covering the RNC convention with their own theme — The Road to Jeb Bush 2016. In this clip — he calls to task the media talking heads lamenting how bad Hurricane Issac might be for Republicans in some of the dumbest horserace commentary ever:
Wilmington Mayor’s Race — Gloves Coming Off Edition
There is a crazy amount of campaign material that is coming in my mail on a daily basis and I probably shouldn’t admit that I look at all of it. Mainly to assess campaign strategies and wonder at the fact that I sometimes hear more from candidates who are supposed to represent me via these crazy mailings than I do in RL (*cough* Bob Marshall *cough*). Anyway, yesterday’s mail produced the first real hit piece I’ve seen for the Mayor’s race — there may be others that I don’t get, but this one made me chuckle.
The IC’s Office Resorts to Pay to Vote
A variation on Pay to Play, to be sure. I don’t know that this got much attention by the NJ, but recently, Insurance Commissioner Karen Weldin Stewart claimed that the Captive Insurance section was suddenly generating a “surplus” AND that she was having that “surplus” returned to the General Fund to be specifically directed to the City of Wilmington. This is a pretty sweet deal and interesting that suddenly this program has a surplus. It is even more interesting that she just sends a big chunk of that “surplus” to the City of Wilmington, which is the source of one of the few Party endorsements she received.
Homegrown Terrorists Caught in a Plot to Assassinate President Obama
…. in addition to planning and carrying out lots of other mayhem. I haven’t heard this on the news, but saw it online. Information still seems to be coming in, but the short story is that Army soldiers at Ft. Stewart in Georgia bought about $87K in guns and bomb-making materials, killed two people who looked like they were going to talk about the group and were working out a plan to overthrow the government and assassinate President Obama.
Late Night Video — Republican Convention Breakdown
These guys will be following the convention and producing content via You Tube for the duration of this thing, which could certainly be more amusing than what the networks have planned for you:
She Didn’t Build That! Now on Reddit…
This made the first page of Reddit:
On Tuesday night, small business owner Sher Valenzuela will address the nation at the RNC on how she “built it herself”. Unfortunately, she forgot to build www.firststatemanufacturing.com. So, I built it for her! (firststatemanufacturing.com)
Tough Campaign Messaging
Am looking for alot of opinions from DL readers on this one. The sticker shown below is from the Alex Pires campaign and was on the Sunday NJ as delivered (I think delivered) to one of our favorite commenters yesterday. Since this individual knows that some of us do not see the dead tree version of the paper, this was sent in to share. I’m not sure if this was on all of the papers statewide, but take a look and tell us if you think this is effective or not:
Late Night Video — The Renegade Raging Grannies
The Renegade Raging Grannies sing everything you need to know about Legitimate Rape. Love these ladies and want to be one of them one day!
Open Thread [8.26.12]
Another Sunday and it’s another weekend where I haven’t gotten my own projects or errands done. Time for the primaries to get here!
Open Thread [8.25.12]
How’s your Saturday going? Looks like the editors here have all been busy today, including me. So I’m stopping in here for abit to put up an Open Thread.
Shooting at the Empire State Building
Another day and another shooting — this time at the Empire State Building where it looks right now several people have been shot — at least one killed — by someone who was fired by a firm in the building a year or so ago. The NYPD appears to have shot and killed the shooter.
Not Buying the Most Dangerous City in America Label
You know by now that Parenting Magazine put out a piece yesterday that states that Wilmington is the most violent city in America, ahead of places like St. Louis, Baltimore and New Orleans:
Who’s Responsible for the Decline of the American Middle Class?
The folks over at the Pew Research Center asked self-identified Middle Class Americans who they thought was responsible for the fact that they have has an especially tough go of it over the last decade or so. Here is what they said
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