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Friday Open Thread [10.3.14]

By Delaware Dem October 3, 20145 Comments

The Bureau of Labor Statistics released September’s employment figures on Friday and it was almost entirely good news. The economy added 248,000 new jobs during the month and the unemployment rate dropped to 5.9%. This is the lowest level the jobless rate has been since July 2008. The BLS also revised jobs numbers upwards for the months of August and July, revealing that we actually added 61,000 more jobs than previously estimated during those two months.

Punkin Chunkin Sunken

By jason330 October 3, 201467 Comments

I just posted this so I could claim that headline.

The marquee Delaware event since 1986 won't be held this year. The pumpkins will not be flying this year after logistical problems in moving the annual Punkin Chunkin event to Dover International Speedway. Earlier this summer, World Championship Punkin Chunkin leaders announced a deal to move the event from its traditional home in Bridgeville to Dover. Organizers were forced to find a new home after the property it had been held on was unable to host it anymore.

“Delaware millionaire gets prison sentence”

By jason330 October 2, 20145 Comments

I think we can all agree that it is pretty rare for an actual 1%er to get jail time. So rare, in fact, that I think the NJ headline writer did a good job capturing the essence of this surprising story.

Delaware millionaire gets prison sentence PHILADELPHIA – Former eBay executive Christopher Saridakis of Greenville, Delaware, was sentenced to 15 months in prison for insider trading Wednesday by a U.S. District Court judge.

I Guess He is Back from Massachusetts…

By Delaware Dem October 1, 201413 Comments

Treasurer Chip Flowers (D), who withdrew from running for reelection back in August, has announced that he will be announcing his endorsement of a potential successor tomorrow. I wonder if there is any Delaware precedent for a refusal of an endorsement.

Wednesday Open Thread [10.1.14]

By Delaware Dem October 1, 20142 Comments

"You women don't understand -- guns are for men what jewelry is for women." -- Rep. Steve King (R-IA), oh so popular with the ladies. And Mr. King, I, as a man, do not view a gun as a fashion accessory to be worn for display only. I, as a man, view a gun as a tool, a weapon that kills. Like a child, you view guns as a play thing.

Wednesday Daily Delawhere [10.1.14]

By Delaware Dem October 1, 20145 Comments

This is on my bucket list next year. The Lums Pond Zipline by Flying Inn on Flickr.

Bonini now Copeland’s failure sponge

By jason330 September 30, 201414 Comments

In his ongoing attempt to prevent any of his DNA from being found on the DEGOP's utter failure this fall, Copeland has appointed Colin Bonini to stand in front of the shit fan.

Dear Republican Friend, I am tremendously excited to announce that I have appointed Senator Colin Bonini as Chairman of the Delaware GOP’s Victory Program! The final weeks of the campaign are the most critical, and there’s no one I’d trust more with this operation than Colin.

That's how it reads to me anyway.

Matlusky Endorses Mayrack

By Delaware Dem September 30, 20141 Comment

“I ran for the Auditor’s office because I wanted to see the office work for Delawareans and protect their interests instead of special interests. Brenda wants to see the same improvements made to the office. She is overwhelmingly qualified to run the Auditor’s office,” Matlusky said. “She has established her own solo law firm where she has focused on doing exactly what the current State Auditor’s office has not effectively done—auditing.”

That is a very nice and welcome statement from Ken Matlusky, who is also a very nice guy. I am surprised though that the statement was released today. And I will tell you why....

Tuesday Open Thread [9.30.14]

By Delaware Dem September 30, 20149 Comments

This is brilliant: The revisions are out with respect to last quarter's GDP growth (i.e. the second quarter, which lasts from April to the end of June), and the facts are that the economy grew at even a higher rate than originally reported (and the reported rate of 4.2% was pretty damn good). We also have lots of polling results and some good Obamacare news inside...

Crazy Sheriff Not Done Being Crazy

By Delaware Dem September 30, 201417 Comments

Sussex County Sheriff Jeff Christopher, who wasted untold taxpayer dollars trying to sue the state after the state refused to let him set up his own police force, and who embarrassed the citizenry with his sovereign citizen and sovereign sheriff nonsense (i.e. the highest constitutional officer in the land is God and then the Sheriff, and then the President and everyone else), just announced on the Dan Gaffney show downstate (is that still on the air?) that he is running a write-in reelection campaign.

ISIL Recruiting Incentives For Poor Youth

By admin September 29, 201414 Comments

IS (variously ISIS, ISIL) has recruiting centers set up, employing sophisticated social media to lure desperate young people from middle eastern countries with youth unemployment rates as high as 29%.

Monday Open Thread [9.29.14]

By Delaware Dem September 29, 20144 Comments

Ed Kilgore on what a Democratic win in Kansas should mean:

If the Republican governor of a very Republican state loses for undertaking a conservative political and policy revolution, complete with a purge of party "moderates" and reactionary legislation on just about every front imaginable, it may remind Republicans everywhere that there are limits to a meta-strategy of moving to the right, polarizing the electorate, and then winning on money and pure dumb luck. As a huge bonus, among the injured in a Brownback loss would be the Koch Brothers, right there in their Wichita lair.... Brownback has very publicly made his state a conservative "experiment station" and sought to stamp out any dissent in his party, all in the pursuit of a sort of intellectual rogue's gallery of bad ideas, from supply-side economics to the harshest attacks in the country on reproductive rights. He not only deserves to lose, but his regime needs to be remembered with fear and trembling by Republicans everywhere.

I guarantee you, if Republicans lose in Kansas, it will be because they were not conservative enough. Conservatism never fails, it can only be failed.

Sunday Open Thread [9.28.14]

By Delaware Dem September 28, 20147 Comments

Earlier this past week, Ezra Klein wondered why Vice President Joe Biden was trailing Hillary Clinton by 44 points in the latest poll of a potential match up in the 2016 primary. Ezra said that it wasn't the Biden gaffes or the preception that he is a joke; it's that “Biden is an old-school, white, male politician in a party that’s increasingly young, multicultural, and female.” Seth Masket at the Monkey Cage has a different take, and it is the right one.