Posts by jason330

Displaying the apartheid era flag of South Africa and the Colonial Rhodesia flag is simple free speech. Depriving this man of guns, or even making him wait for his guns…

Note: These are the actual words of LaPierre after the Newtown Connecticut shootings where 20-year-old Adam Lanza fatally shot 20 children and 6 adult staff members. I've lightly edited the original sickening statement, and changed references from schools to churches, and changed an "us" reference (meaning the NRA) to Second Amendment enthusiasts.

One day that headline is going to be true. If you are around me when Cheney kicks the bucket, the PARTY IS ON! I'm buying. That's all. I just wanted to make that offer official. Carry on.

Blogger Kevin Ohlandt of Exceptional Delaware posted a GoFundMe campaign for $1875 to cover the Delaware Department of Education’s demand for fulfilling Kevin’s FOIA request. The request is for contracts and emails related to Delaware’s relationship with AIR and DRC, who are respectively the testing and scoring vendor for Delaware’e Smarter Balanced Assessment test. www.gofundme.com Kevin has asked repeatedly for this information, and has followed up with DOJ do reduce DOE’s demands from an even more ridicuous $8000-something. Kevin is blessed with the time, the energy, and the integrity go make the most of the information. We need to fill the GoFundMe campaign TODAY to send DOE and the Senate a message, on this day when HB 50 (Opt Out) is on the Senate agenda, and Governor Markell has his veto pen ready. So put in a few bucks, or even a few hundred to make the message loud and clear today.

Hmm... A Jeb Bush campaign centerpiece that reminds people of Dubya's failures and Bill Clinton's successes? Brilliant!!

The centerpiece of Jeb Bush’s campaign is a promise to restore 4 percent growth. This goal has already been claimed by the guy Bush is trying to make people forget — his brother, Dubya, whose post-presidential center has also made “4% growth” its primary theme. Borrowing your theme from a failed ex-president brother you’re trying not to be associated with seems like a questionable strategy.

But wait... it gets better. So much better.

This is a straight pickup from Dkos.  I'm reposting it here to atone for my last gun nut post that implied that open carry activists are merely nuts.  They are,…

For Republicans who have said, "It isn't a clown car, these are serious candidates." When Donald Trump emerges from the door, it is a clown car. Case closed. The good news...? Nobody picked him, so for our purposes, he doesn't exists. Oh yeah... also Jeb! announced yesterday. He actually has a shot at the nomination as the GOP typically goes through a lot of hyperventilating and spastic gyrations then picks with the guy the big money tells them to pick. (See: Romney, McCain, & Dole)

This, from The National Review in 2014, is fairly amusing given how things played out:

Sam Brownback might not be a household name yet, but Grover Norquist says that’s going to change in 2015. The Kansas governor, who ran a short presidential bid in 2008 and served in the Senate for a decade and a half, has a big fan in the Americans for Tax Reform head. Norquist tells National Review Online that Brownback is strategically positioned for a 2016 presidential bid, and that he’ll be a competitive candidate.

They don't get that they've won. Guns are America. America is guns. "Bang, bang!... Ye haw, motherfuckers!!" That you can't take your gun to a zoo, amusement park, or state house is a little thing. Let it go.

A judge on Friday granted the St. Louis Zoo a restraining order against a gun rights activist planning a march at the zoo on Saturday, according to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Jeffry Smith, who organized an open carry march in downtown St. Louis last year, said he planned on carrying firearms into the zoo on Saturday in order to protest the zoo's policy banning weapons.

A Freedom of Information Act lawsuit has extracted emails between corporate lobbyists and US Trade Rep officials working on the secretive, corrupt Trans Pacific Partnership treaty. No one is allowed…

"A man," wrote an Irish poet, "is original when he speaks the truth that has always been known to all good men." Beau Biden was an original. He was a…

If the GOP justices on the Supreme Court get their partisan way, and rule to overturn key provisions of the ACA on completely bogus and trumped up grounds, Delaware will be ready.

The last Rick Perry reality show ended with a nail-biting cliffhanger. What will be the third federal agency closed on "day 1" of Perry's first term in the White House? Speculation ran rampant. Would it be Agriculture? Probably not. Farmer's need their welfare checks. Defense? Doubtful. Energy? There was a brief surge of support for that one. Health and Human Services? That was my guess. It just sounds liberal.