The All Time, Mostly Indisputable, Top 4 Christmas Covers

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4. "Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)" - U2 (1987) There are tons of great covers on that '87 fundraiser for the Special Olympics, but this one really holds up. Phil Spector meets U2 - what's not to like? 3. "The Little Drummer Boy" - David Bowie and Bing Crosby (1977) The banter is crazy 1970's TV special writing, but the beauty of version rescues an otherwise insipid song. Come inside for the final 2....

CHANGE OF LOCATION – DL’s Holiday Extravaganza

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Did you know that area establishments book up early on December weekends? Who knew? I'm really sorry about this change of plan, and I take full responsibility for the mix up. We are moving the Extravaganza to Timothy's on the Riverfront. Same date, same time.

In keeping with tradition, please bring food for the Food Bank of Delaware. We will be collecting the goodies and necessities and then delivering them the Food Bank. Let’s make someone’s season bright!

Date: Friday, December 14th

Place: Timothy's (Riverfront)

Time: 7:00p.m.

In addition to being wrong about everything,

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...Republicans have to be the most gullible suckers to ever walk the face of the earth.
According to FEC data released December 6, Dick Morris' Super PAC for America paid conservative news outlet Newsmax Media roughly $1.7 million for "fundraising" in October and November. A significant portion of the super PAC's money likely went to renting Morris' own email list, which is operated by Newsmax Media. A Media Matters review found that in the month before the election, Morris sent at least 21 emails to his mailing list featuring fundraising pitches that were "paid for by Super PAC for America." Super PAC also "paid for" at least 25 emails to Newsmax.com's main email list during the same period.
Separating gullible GOP dupes from their money was taken to new heights this year.

Dear Middle Class America,

CONFIDENTIAL Dear Sirs and Madam, Good day and compliments. This letter will definitely come to you as a huge surprise, but I implore you to take the time to go through it carefully as the decision you make will go off a long way to determine the future of your economy, and the continued existence of the entire members of my family. ...

Have You Heard About Delaware Liberal’s Holiday Extravaganza?

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ark your calendars, and get ready for my daily reminders!  All our welcome! In keeping with tradition, please bring food for the Food Bank of Delaware.  We will be collecting the goodies and necessities and then delivering them to the Food Bank.  Let’s make someone’s season bright!

Date:  Friday, December 14th

Place:  Iron Hill Brewery (Riverfront)

Time:  7:00p.m.

If you're able to make it, let us know in the comment section!  Looks like almost all of the DL contributors will be in attendance!

The Polling Report [12.8.12]

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We're back with a new polling report, with new polls on the President's approval rating, on the various options in the fiscal slope manufactured crisis, on the New Jersey gubernatorial race, and on possible Senate races in Georgia, South Carolina, Illinois and New Jersey.

You can’t bargain with malevolent idiots

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The President, Senator Coons, Rep. Carney - these men keep talking about the need for a "bipartisan" solution to the debt crisis. I get why they think it is important to say that they want a bipartisan solution, but I hope that they don't think real bipartisanship is possible. These modern Republicans are people who seriously believe that the government is bloated and what we need is another round of tax cuts to spur the economy and deliver a double dose of character building poverty to the ungrateful poor. They think any public dollar not handed to defense contractors is a dollar wasted on a hopeless parasites. They hate the President with such a white hot passion that they view ANY deal that he would agree to (regardless of how much is sells out Democratic principles) as unacceptable. Looking at these malevolent idiots in action, I've become convinced that the next mid-term election is absolutely essential to returning the county to rationality and normalcy. The GOP needs to be swept from the field. When the GOP is utterly decimated, Democrats can finally stop talking about the importance of "bipartisanship."

In Defense of the Good White People…

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This I could write myself, as it applies to me almost entirely....
To whom it may concern regarding the United States federal elections of 2014, 2016 and beyond: Allow me to introduce myself to you, the existing (or aspiring!) strategist for the Republican Party. My name is Eric Arnold Garland and I am a White Man. Boy, am I ever – you need sunglasses just to look at my photo! If I read the news correctly, I fit a profile that is of extreme importance to the GOP, as I embody the archetype that fits your narrative of Real Americans. [...] [I am] the BREAD AND BUTTER OF THE GRAND OLD PARTY, a Mayflower-descended small business owner, burdened by taxation, looking out for his beautiful White family in the suburbs of a city (St Louis) surrounded by racial tension and urban blight! How can I put this gently? My wife and I are not sensitive to your messaging, nor did we vote for the candidates you proposed for us this past [election]. [...] May I explain why not.....

The Next Fight, the first battle of which was fought yesterday, resulting in McConnell shooting himself in the foot.

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The Fiscal Cliff fight is won. And we won it. Either the Republicans will pass the new Obama Middle Class Tax Cuts before January 1 or after. If they do it before, they will not be politically destroyed. If they do it after, they will be politically destroyed once again, just before the Next Fight begins in earnest. So what happened yesterday? Well, the Senate Minority Leader, Mitch McConnell, ended any doubt at all that there will be filibuster reform this January, at the start of the next Congress. What did he do now, you ask? He did something pretty remarkable. He filibustered himself. Yes. He filibustered his own bill. Here’s the background. As Jason has written about, the next big fight between the Dems and the Rethugs is the coming vote to raise the debt ceiling......