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Monday Daily Delawhere [1.7.13]

By Delaware Dem January 7, 20135 Comments

Where on the border was this sign taken?

Sunday Daily Delawhere [1.6.13]

By Delaware Dem January 6, 20131 Comment

The Winterthur Country Estate and Museum, on Kennett Pike near Montchanin, is known as the premier museum for American decorative arts.

Outrage in Milford (Update: The Signs are coming down)

By Delaware Dem January 5, 2013144 Comments

Click through for a larger version I saw this picture on Facebook, from a liberal friend downstate, who was sharing it via an original posting of the very nonliberal Dan Gaffney. It is nice to know that the outrage concerning this photo is bipartisan. And what is so outrageous about it, you ask? Well, you can read what it says in English. In Spanish it says "You have to have a permit to play here or you will be arrested." So if you are a white English speaking "American," you can play here at your own risk so long as you have a parent or guardian watching. If you are brown, if you dare play here without a permit we will arrest your immigrant ass. That is the fucking height of racism, and I will see to it that who ever is responsible for this sign will have their public careers ended immediately.

Saturday Daily Delawhere [1.5.13]

By Delaware Dem January 5, 2013

A snowy scene along 2nd Street in New Castle. I love the colonial flag.

Oh Joe.

By Delaware Dem January 4, 20136 Comments

This video captures all aspects of the Schmoozer in Chief. Sometimes he is funny. Sometimes he is charming. And then there are sometimes he is a little creepy.

Friday Daily Delawhere [1.4.13]

By Delaware Dem January 4, 20134 Comments

Kelly's Logan House bar and restaurant in the Trolley Square neighborhood of Wilmington. Who was this establishment named for?

Carper’s Gone Rogue. Make That Rogue-er.

By El Somnambulo January 3, 201325 Comments

Poor despairing Tom Carper. Forced to sit in his Senate Democratic Caucus and see his dreams of 'entitlement reform', aka gut the New Deal and the Great Society, go down the drain. From today's unbelievable (but true) News-Journal piece:

Carper said he “sat there in despair” during meetings with fellow Democrats to discuss the deal brokered by Vice President Joe Biden and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky. Carper had been telling colleagues for months this was their chance to do something meaningful about tax and entitlement reforms. The deal ultimately passed by Congress does neither, he said.

Don't believe that Carper is going after Social Security? Read this illogic in all its Carperesque rationalization, then read what Sen. Bernie Sanders has to say about it:

Thursday Daily Delawhere [1.3.13]

By Delaware Dem January 3, 20132 Comments

The Milton Theatre, on Union Street in Milton.

So Tom Carper voted against the Deal?

By Delaware Dem January 1, 201334 Comments

Of the the 8 Senators voting against the Biden-McConnell deal, one of them was our own, very special Tom Carper. What was his chief complaint? It raised taxes on the rich? The deal did not cut spending? The deal did not eliminate or cut Medicare or Social Security. He hates the unemployed and wants to cut all unemployment insurance. I am very curious to hear his reasoning. In the grand scheme and in context, and considering that I want the sequester cuts to go into affect (because it cuts 500 billion from the Defense budget and unless we let those cuts go into affect automatically, we will never get that much cut from the Pentagon budget ever), it is not a bad deal. It is not a good deal either, as the Democrats caved on indexing the Estate Tax to inflation. Going from 250k to 400k? Meh, I can live with that. Payroll tax holiday not preserved? That's the bad part of this deal, in my opinion, along with the estate tax indexing.