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We have some polling goodness and pumpkin badness to report....

Inevitably, whenever contributors and commenters talk about about a candidate for one of our local offices in positive terms, or when contributors and/or commenters make negative comments about another candidate;…

Steve Newton over at Outside the Machine asked all Delaware bloggers for help, and I am happy to oblige. A general lack of empathy exists in our society (generally more so on side of the aisle, but I digress), and there are times when those with empathy have to slap unsympathetic assholes back.

If two people of such divergent ideological opinions such as myself and David Anderson can agree that Troy Davis must not be executed because the evidence against is plainly fabricated or false, then why can't the Governor of Georgia?

Mark your calendars. Senator Chris Coons will be speaking and taking questions at a special meeting of the Progressive Democrats for Delaware this coming Tuesday, September 27th, at 6:30 p.m. at the Delaware Democratic Party Headquarters, located at 19 E. Commons Blvd, in New Castle. PDD meetings are open to all like-minded voters.

The House passed a looney-tunes appropriations bill that includes looney tunes teabaggy disaster relief provision which require additional funding for FEMA for disaster relief to be offset with direct payments to oil companies ....cuz, you know... job creators. Harry Reid said, ...

Representative Mike Barbieri (D-18th) has been appointed Vice Chairman of the National Conference of State Legislatures' Human Services and Welfare Committee. This committee oversee's the NCSL's policy work in social services, income security, nutrition and immigration. Good work and best of luck, Mike!

Yesterday I had to drop off some refuse at DSWA's Pine Tree Corner transfer station and the whole experience gave me a warm feeling about civilization and how nice it is to live in a civilized society. As I paid my meager $8.00 for the drop off, I started to think about how I will one day bounce my grandchildren on my knee and they will marvel at my stories about life in America prior to the Tea Party takeover.

If you are in the area tonight and in the mood for a Happy Hour, stop by the Iron Hill Brewery on Main Street in Newark, from 5:30 to 8 p.m. The 23rd, 24th and 25th RD Committees are hosting the event, and this is a good opportunity to meet your fellow area liberals, progressives and Democrats.

A public viewing for the New Castle County Police officer Joe Szczerba, who was killed last week in the line of duty, will be held on Friday, September 23, at 9 a.m. at the Chase Center on the Riverfront in Wilmington. A Mass of Christian Burial will follow at 1 p.m. The burial will be private.

Today, September 20, 2011, marks the end of the discriminatory “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” (DADT) policy, which had banned lesbian, gay, and bisexual men and women from serving openly in our armed services. President Obama, the Secretary of Defense and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs certified the repeal two months ago as per the provisions of the legislation repealing DADT, and now that the waiting period is over, the law is officially history.