DL Open Thread Wednesday March 23rd 2022

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Look at this FEMA flood zone map for Ft Dupont.   It would be funny if it were not so transparently corrupt and sickening. Also check out the Delaware Call's reporting on the Fort DuPont robbery. No due diligence.  No oversight.  No workable business plan.  No shame.  Just a bunch of well connected people converting public assets into money and shoving that money into their pockets at a furious clip. One can only conclude that Longhurst and Poore simply don't give a fuck about looking corrupt as hell. Here is Cato the Elder on the topic, once more for good measure. “Thieves of private property pass their lives in chains; thieves of public property in riches and luxury.”

Shocked Stammers

Any single senator could have blocked the daylight saving bill from passing but many didn’t know it was even happening. Sen. Rick Scott, a permanent daylight saving time proponent who…

John Kowalko Beats the Holy Shit out of REV

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Heads-up. That headline may be deceptive. I have't listened yet so I don't know if Kowalko and REV get into actual fisticuffs.

E167 - Representative Emeritus (w/John Kowalko)

After an update on the episode from last week, State Rep. John Kowalko joins Rob in the bunker to talk about his retirement, how progress is slowed in the state of Delaware, and some stories from his time in the general assembly. Show Notes:

Zelenskyy Addresses Biden Directly

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In words and images, Volodymyr Zelenskyy made an impassioned case for US intervention in Ukraine by means of a "No Fly" zone.   The images of a happy successful Ukraine prior to Putin's invasion, contrasted with the same views during the invasion with broken and bombed buildings and people were powerful.    The only captions....  "this is a murder" and at the end..."close the sky over Ukraine"