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DL Open Thread: Sunday, March 26, 2023

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DL Open Thread: Sunday, March 26, 2023

The Assault Weapons Ban Worked. Dubya And The Rethugs Did Away With It.  Lawrence O’Donnell: https://www.msnbc.com/the-last-word/watch/lawrence-police-were-afraid-of-the-uvalde-gunman-s-ar-15-166823493564 The blood of the Uvalde students is on their hands.  Where the fuck was that ‘well-regulated militia’? Afroman Victim Of Police Home Invasion. Cops End Up In Music Vid. Cops Sue For ‘Emotional Distress’.  I can’t make this stuff […]

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DL Open Thread: Saturday, March 25, 2023

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‘The Second Amendment Grants You The Right To Have Your Gun Stolen’.  Because you have the freedom to not lock your car and/or your glove gun compartment: In a country awash with guns, with more firearms than people, the parked car, or in many cases the parked pickup truck, has become a new flashpoint in the […]

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DL Open Thread: Friday, March 24, 2023

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Marcus Henry Vs. Karen Hartley-Nagle:  Looks like one of them will be our Next County Executive.  Henry is already campaigning, KHN put out an announcement yesterday: “I’m good at what I do, (being sued?) and experience matters,” she says. “And I believe that my experience is what sets me apart. As the president of New […]

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DL Open Thread: Thursday, March 23, 2023

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JOE BIDEN VS. Carney/DeMatteis/Geisenberger.  The topic?:  Medicare Advantage: The multimillion dollar ad buy is part of an aggressive campaign by the health insurance industry and its allies to stop the Biden proposal. It would significantly lower payments — by billions of dollars a year — to Medicare Advantage, the private plans that now cover about […]

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DL Open Thread: Sunday, March 19, 2023

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Rethugs Sabotaged Jimmy Carter’s Reelection Bid–Cut Deal With Iran To Hold Prisoners Until After Reagan’s Election.  We’d always suspected it, but now we have close-to-incontrovertible proof: It has been more than four decades, but Ben Barnes said he remembers it vividly. His longtime political mentor invited him on a mission to the Middle East. What […]

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DL Open Thread: Saturday, March 18, 2023

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Conventional Wisdom: DeSantis Is Flaming Out Already: But the DeSantis salad days appear to be over. Perhaps Republican voters have already forgotten that Trump almost singlehandedly doomed their Senate takeover last cycle—they do tend to like alternative realities. Or maybe Trump’s unchallenged broadsides have truly begun to take effect. Whatever the case, DeSantis’ star has […]

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DL Open Thread: Friday, March 17, 2023

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“What do ye call a wee Irish person who’s always complainin’ of their aches and pains?” “A leprechaundriac.” Santos Plans Reelection Bid!  The exclamation point is meant to be ironic. Here’s why he has filed: The filing with the Federal Election Commission does not necessarily mean that Santos will run for a second term, but […]

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DL Open Thread: Thursday, March 16, 2023

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How AI Algorithms Routinely Reject Medicare Advantage Claims:  Just something else that the intellectually-incurious John Carney will never read: The STAT investigation found artificial intelligence is increasingly driving denials by health insurance companies for medical claims in Medicare Advantage. As health insurance companies expand their use of algorithms to predict a patient’s health care journey […]

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DL Open Thread: Sunday, March 12, 2023

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‘I Got Your Oil Slick Right Here’.  Biden to Alaska: The Biden administration has decided to authorize a mammoth ConocoPhillips oil project in northwest Alaska, despite arguments by opponents that it will exacerbate climate change, according to people familiar with the matter. The project is enormous by almost any measure. Its $8 billion price tag […]

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DL Open Thread: Saturday, March 11, 2023

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Flooding Ravages Merle Haggard’s California. Much of the rest of Cali as well.  Haggard was born and raised in Oilville, which is in Tulare County.  Both Tulare and Kern Counties were hit especially hard by the floods.  Time for a musical interlude, both songs written by Merle: From ‘Cactus Artist’ To Fox Election Fraud ‘Source’. […]

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DL Open Thread: Friday, March 10, 2023

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Rep. Connolly Exposes The Jim Jordan Klown Show.  Just skip down and watch the video of Connolly’s destruction of two so-called ‘independent journalists’.  You’re welcome. More Fun With Matt Taibbi: That’s when Wasserman Schultz went to Taibbi’s own past words. “I ask you this because, before you became Elon Musk’s hand-picked journalist, and pardon the […]

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DL Open Thread: Thursday, March 9, 2023

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DL Open Thread: Thursday, March 9, 2023

Cali To Walgreen’s: “Drop Dead”.  I’m with Cali.  Walgreen’s corporate has bowed to threats from Red State assholes and has unilaterally decided not to distribute abortion pills in 20 states: “California will not stand by as corporations cave to extremists and cut off critical access to reproductive care and freedom,” Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) said […]

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DL Open Thread Monday March 6 2023

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DL Open Thread Monday March 6 2023

The Delaware Court of Chancery is a bunch of milquetoast pussies who will never bop the fuck out Fox News like it needs bopping.  (And I know that all you milquetoast pussies read this blog, so now I’ve called you milquetoast pussies to your face twice, so you basically have to bop the fuck out […]

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