Posts by jason330

A woman charged with shooting and killing her ex-husband and stepdaughter has strong connections to groups advocating for expanding open carry gun laws in Texas. Veronica Dunnachie was arrested and charged with shooting and killing her ex-husband and step daughter. Dunnachie's Facebook page includes photos of her engaged in open carry firearm advocacy activities.

Tom Carper spent a lot of time campaigning form Mary Landrieu. Has his hard work purchased any goodwill? I doubt it. My bet is that Carper was duped, but that appears to be his thing.

“Senate Democrats plan to squeeze every last drop out of their majority, threatening to extend the lame duck to approve key nominees of President Barack Obama before turning over Senate control to Republicans in January. If they hold their caucus together, Democrats can unilaterally prevail and approve Vivek Murthy to be surgeon general, Sarah Saldana to lead Immigrations and Customs Enforcement and Carolyn Colvin to be Social Security administrator, as well as nine judicial nominees … Democrats may need all their members to stick around to win tough votes, including Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.), who lost her seat on Saturday and has missed all of this week’s votes so far.”

Because the Keystone XL pipeline failed to pass, and because contraception is now the same thing as abortion in the deranged minds of Republicans, House GOPers pushed to attach a provision to the government funding bill that would let some employers opt out of covering contraception for employees. Senator for Life, Tom Carper took this move as a positive step toward Republican "reciprocity" and a demonstration of the GOP's willingness to be bipartisan.

From TEDDY WAYNE:

Paradoxes Contradictions Voting against your own self-interest

US employers added 321,000 new jobs in November and the the DJIA and SP500 both smashed records. So what?

We can do this. It will not stop all incidences of undue and unlawful police violence, but it will make violent and unhinged cops think twice before they start blasting away. It will also provide future grand juries with some objective evidence with which to evaluate police claims of being in life or death situations. You can also make the case that is will help honest and decent police (and I'm sure there are some out there) defend themselves against spurious charges.

Robert V. Stachnik, age 67, of Newark, DE, passed away on November 29, 2014. Bob was a founding member of the Howard Dean meetup in Newark. A member of the original core of 8 to 10, Bob saw early on that the Dean campaign was about more than simply promoting Howard Dean for the Democratic nomination. It was about reinvigorating and refocusing a political party around a simple ideal; that being a Democrat means you look out for the little guy. Later a founding member of Progressive Democrats for Delaware, Bob provided quiet but determined leadership as we attempted to get the Delaware Democratic Party to try and claw back some of its historic identity. This blog, in fact, is a testament to, and artifact of his leadership style. As the Dean campaign built momentum and the meetups grew from week to week, Bob spread the word, "If you have an idea, do it." We all did whatever suited our personalities and as spastic, loud and obnoxious as I was (am), Bob was diplomatic and calm. You could even say that he was thoughtful, scientific and plodding to a fault at times. I once made fun of him at a meeting by putting together a parody power point presentation called. "What to Have for Dinner." The comic pretense was that he used no fewer than 30 slides to convince his wife that roasted chicken and green beans would be a good choice for dinner. It was fun. Changing the Democratic Party seemed possible back then. We were insurgents. Now we are all scattered a bit. Demoralized, no doubt, by these times and this untimely loss. I miss him. His kind nature and full on nerdyness. I don't know now what I can do to honor this man whose loss will be felt by people who never knew him or never knew he ever lived. I'll have to think of something though.

What stupid shit did Senator for Life, Tom Carper, say today? Well, while campaigning for "dead woman walking" Mary Landrieu, a fake Republican about to lose to a real Republican, Carper said that he still expects his show of bipartisanship to be "reciprocated" by grateful Republicans. Also, the Keystone Pipeline is still the root cause of all DC dysfunction (in-case you were wondering).