Posts by jason330

Important Reminder: The DL community is going to fill an SUV with donated sleeping bags and/or blankets, yoga mats and tarps* and drive up to New York where we will deliver them on behalf of everyone in Delaware who thinks that the corporate takeover of our democracy requires a response. We'll be picking up donated items in the following locations: * Sussex - The Lewes Library @ 10:00am * Kent - Legislative Hall Main Entrance @ 11:00am, and * New Castle - The Shipyard Shops (the roundabout) @12:00

If “Tiresome and Ponderous Journalistic Meandering” was an Olympic sport, Cohen would be the Bruce Jenner of it. That’s a compliment. I didn’t say that she’d be the John du Pont of it, did I? Anyhoo.. For all the tiresome ponderousness, she gets to talk to people who will not talk to me and sometimes reports something worthwhile. Click through for her latest gem.

Via Mitch Crane's Facebook:

While the media has concentrated on Attorney General Biden's request that BCBSD reserves be used to help provide medical insurance coverage for uninsured Delawareans, attention should be focused on the Attorney General's continued opposition to the proposed merger with Highmark.

Statement from U.S. Rep. Carney marking the 10th anniversary of U.S. operations in Afghanistan When something like this ends up in your in-box on the heels of the fraudulent payroll tax pep-rally/"town hall" conference call, how can anyone not be filled with dread? Well, let's read on shall we..?

Kenton's Treasurer pretended to be the town manager and then sold the rights to a cell phone tower on town property. She pocketed the $50 grand from the sale and lived large until disgraced state auditor, Tom Wagner, was tipped off that a spending spree was in progress. As you'd expect from a Kenton Delaware Treasurer, she used the money to buy some real treasures which are now being auctioned off.

This hasn't happened yet, but I already know what I'm going to write.

I'm rocking out on my iphone. (naturally) Going forward I'll be working hard to put the customer's experience first in everything we do.

Occupy Delaware is having a public meeting tonight to gauge interest in and possible next steps for a Delaware event to support Occupy Wall Street. For info come inside....

Dear Congressman, I listened to your conference call "town hall meeting" and I was amazed by how many times you mentioned the magical effects that a payroll tax cuts could have on our economy. As a small business person, I'd like to disabuse you of this notion that payroll tax cuts stimulate hiring. Unlike you and every member of Congress who is in love with this idea that payroll tax cuts are the most awesome thing in the world, I am someone who pays payroll taxes, and I can assure you that payroll tax cuts are practically invisible to both the employee and the small business employer. The only thing that will stimulate hiring is increased demand. No sane business person is going to hire new employees absent increasing demand for their product or service. I want to like you, but you have been brainwashed and are spouting nonsense. Please stop it. Consider this, if tax cuts are the job creating machine that you make them out to be, where are all the jobs? Since George W. Bush's first term we've been feed a steady diet of magical tax cuts and look at the employment paradise that the tax cuts have created. Stick to talking about infrastructure. You mentioned that in passing. But you mentioned infrastructure spending once for every five times you mentioned payroll tax cuts last night. Flip that ratio around if you want to continue enjoying the support of Delaware's small business community. Sincerely, Jason330 PS. The "Town Hall" Conference Call format is a travesty. Just saying.

This town hall is complete shit. It is right wing frames-a-go-go. He is talking about how much he supports the cat food commission's Medicaid cuts.

This document was accepted by the NYC General Assembly on September 29, 2011 [Posted here in its entirety. My comments will appear in the comments section] As we gather together in solidarity to express a feeling of mass injustice, we must not lose sight of what brought us together. We write so that all people who feel wronged by the corporate forces of the world can know that we are your allies. As one people, united, we acknowledge the reality: that the future of the human race requires the cooperation of its members; that our system must protect our rights, and upon corruption of that system, it is up to the individuals to protect their own rights, and those of their neighbors; that a democratic government derives its just power from the people, but corporations do not seek consent to extract wealth from the people and the Earth; and that no true democracy is attainable when the process is determined by economic power. We come to you at a time when corporations, which place profit over people, self-interest over justice, and oppression over equality, run our governments. We have peaceably assembled here, as is our right, to let these facts be known.

Steve Carell will be playing murder John du Pont in "Foxcatcher" a movie by Moneyball director Bennett Miller. Via Iwatchstuff.com: "In the film, Carell will play John du Pont, a…

I once work along side of a woman who thought that if she rubbed cedar blocks under her arms, she wouldn't have body odor. She thought wrong. Ever since then I guess I've had a visceral distaste for drum circle dancing, ironic sign holding, Ralph Nader voting hippies. This news via boing boing seems like a good thing though.