cassandra_m

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Wednesday Open Thread [6/6/12]

Filed in Open Thread by on June 6, 2012 9 Comments

Your Wednesday Open Thread. Sorry this is late.

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Bad Triangulation Theatre Starring John Carney

Filed in National by on May 29, 2012 28 Comments

WDEL did an interview with John Carney yesterday and they put a snippet of it up on their website. It is worth it to go over there to hear the whole thing. Our lone Representative in the House tries to have it both ways on the critique of Bain Capital and ends up looking pretty insensible in the end.

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Late Night Video — How Bain Capital Destroyed Jobs

Filed in National by on May 14, 2012 115 Comments

This is round one from the Obama Camp, working at defining Romney. This is being played in a handful of swing states — not a big ad buy, but if the cable news is an indicator, this is a big deal and nicely played.

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Late Night Video — Lat the Oval Office Take Care of *Your* Oval Office

Filed in National by on May 7, 2012 0 Comments

And seriously, I couldn’t think of any title that wasn’t NSFW for this hilarious video. Did I say this video is NSFW? OK then:

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Pastor D Disqualified From Mayor’s Race

Filed in Delaware, National by on May 4, 2012 45 Comments
Pastor D Disqualified From Mayor’s Race

Reporting by the NJ this afternoon — the NCCo Department of Elections has made its ruling that Pastor D is not a qualified candidate for Mayor of Wilmington.

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Breaking: Victory for Occupy Delaware

Filed in National by on May 4, 2012 2 Comments

They have a trial scheduled for August, according to the NJ. Since the city has said they won’t remove them without a court order, it looks like they can stay in Spencer Plaza til then.

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Truthsquadding the Lies

Filed in National by on May 4, 2012 4 Comments
Truthsquadding the Lies

Team Obama has a Truth Squad and they are responding the the Romney Campaign lies. This one pushes back against the Koch Brothers Big Oil ad buy — all $6.1M dollars of that buy. So they can keep their tax breaks. Watch, it’s good:

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Taking Time Out From Damaging Their Environment to Dis Delaware And Our Governor

Filed in National by on May 3, 2012 9 Comments
Taking Time Out From Damaging Their Environment to Dis Delaware And Our Governor

This is from Pennsylvania, whose governing agenda now includes environmental destruction, undermining their schools, disenfranchising voters, transvaginal ultrasounds for women and whatever else they can do undermine their citizens. This week, though, one of them spent part of a meeting running his mouth, showing parts of their real agenda. The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection Secretary, Michael Krancer, made some remarks the other day that took a jab at Governor Markell and a really big jab at Delaware:

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Deregulating Pit Bulls

Filed in National by on May 3, 2012 19 Comments
Deregulating Pit Bulls

The City of Wilmington instituted a set of laws aimed at regulating the burgeoning and sometimes dangerous pit bull breed. I don’t remember the exact circumstances, but these regulations were instituted after a couple of serious attacks on people and kids by these dogs in the city.

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National Day of Reason

Filed in National by on May 3, 2012 4 Comments

Today’s news will be filled with events commemorating the National Day of Prayer, but I wonder how many of us know about the National Day of Reason?

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Occupy Delaware May Day Event — General Strike

Filed in National by on May 1, 2012 4 Comments
Occupy Delaware May Day Event — General Strike

May 1st is the day that the City of Wilmington has decided that Occupy Delaware must leave Spencer Plaza. Starting at noon today, they are gathering with as many people as possible to stand against this eviction.

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A Tale of Two Budgets

Filed in National by on April 30, 2012 4 Comments
A Tale of Two Budgets

The National Priorities Project is a government sunshine project — making the complexities of the Federal budget and budget process easily comprehensible. If you haven’t been to their website before, you should click through and bookmark this great resource. One of their efforts is a series of explainers using You Tube on various budget and policy issues. This one compares the Ryan/Romney/GOP Budget with that proposed by the Congressional Progressive Caucus:

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The Rejection of ‘Both Sides Do It’ — Washington Post Edition

Filed in National by on April 27, 2012 11 Comments

There is a remarkable op-ed in today’s Washington Post, with the even more remarkable title: Let’s just say it: The Republicans are the problem. You might want to stop and just mark the day you read that from one of the bastions of beltway common wisdom.

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