Open Thread
DL Open Thread: Friday, December 17, 2021
Top HS Football Player Signs With–Jackson State. Big $$ Cheater Schools Go Apoplectic: Players, coaches and administrators from Florida’s state universities have for months encouraged him and other legislators to amend portions of the state’s NIL law that puts them at a disadvantage when recruiting against other schools located in states with either no state […]
DL Open Thread: Thurs., December 16, 2021
Face It, Joe. Manchin’s Playing You And All The Democrats. He’s never gonna support the package. He is a Republican. He’s loving every second of his slo-mo betrayal, and the on-screen facetime he gets. Time to offer Murkowski whatever Alaska wants in exchange for her vote. The standoff nonetheless evinced the political divide between Biden […]
DL Open Thread: Sunday, December 12, 2021
Trump ‘Orders’ Underling To Boycott Jan. 6 Hearings. Underling ‘Complies’. Huh, didn’t think the Last Guy could issue such orders. Or, didn’t think he had the power to issue such orders: Peter Navarro, who served as trade adviser to former President Donald J. Trump and who fought with government scientists while helping to orchestrate the administration’s […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, December 11, 2021
Trump Supporters Face Little Opposition As They Move To Steal Elections: Mr. Lindemuth’s victory in November in this conservative rural community is a milestone of sorts in American politics: the arrival of the first class of political activists who, galvanized by Donald J. Trump’s false claim of a stolen election in 2020, have begun seeking […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, December 10, 2021
Some Good (Temporary) Drought Relief News? I’ve recently found myself scanning the weather maps in hopes of seeing some relief from the west/mountain west’s ongoing drought. Looks like we’re finally getting some: Over the next week, three storms should bring substantial precipitation to California and then head east into the Rockies. The first storm is […]
DL Open Thread: Thursday, December 9, 2021
TransPerfect Music City Bowl, Anyone? No, we’re not talking an enlightened LGBTQ sponsor tie-in. We’re talking the batshit-crazy company that seems to exist only to lament their fate in front of Delaware’s Court Of Chancery. Matt Bittle alerted me to this. BTW, some other sponsor tie-ins to meaningless bowl games this year: Famous Idaho Potato […]
DL Open Thread: Tuesday, December 7, 2021
Does This Have The Faint Aroma Of Kathleen McGuiness Stench To It? No, it has complete and total McG stench affixed to it. A PAC was registered with the Delaware Department Of Elections yesterday. The PAC is called the ‘Prescription For Change’ PAC. Its stated purpose is ‘to support candidates who make a positive impact […]
DL Open Thread: Monday, December 6, 2021
Bloody Rethug Primary Set For Georgia: The looming Republican primary opens a new front in the Georgia GOP’s civil war, which traces back to Trump’s loss in Georgia in November. Those divisions played a role in the twin defeats of both of the state’s Republican senators, Perdue and Kelly Loeffler, two months later in January […]
DL Open Thread: Sunday, December 5, 2021
C’mon, folks, get your nominees for 2021 MVP’s (Most Valuable to the Progressive Cause in Delaware) in. Time’s running short. The thread’s a little late this morning. Last night’s Twisted Pine concert was so awesome. Not to mention, as the producer, I’m more than a little worn-out today. Those steps at the Gild Hall aren’t […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, December 4, 2021
‘Her Snowless Mountains Majesty Above The Barren Plains’. Snowless mountains (literally) loom large in Mountain West: A new study provides a glimpse into the future of Western U.S. snow and the picture is far from rosy: In about 35 to 60 years, mountainous states are projected to be nearly snowless for years at a time […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, December 3, 2021
Rethugs Will Pay The Price When Roe v Wade Is Overturned. Here’s why the Democratic ‘gloom-‘n-doom’ narrative perpetuated by Politico and (oxymoron alert) centrist think-tanks can be obsolete almost overnight: What’s clear is that Republicans are already ducking for cover on abortion. But GOP wishful thinking aside, if the Supreme deals a major blow to […]
DL Open Thread: Thursday, December 2, 2021
BREAKING: Auditor’s Office Has Spent $262,000 On Attorney’s Fees Since 2019: Nobody’s Talking. Articles like this are why I subscribe. From Xerxes Wilson’s piece: In the same time period during which Delaware state Auditor Kathy McGuiness is accused of a felony for intimidating employees under her leadership, public documents show taxpayers have spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on outside […]
DL Open Thread: Sunday, November 28, 2021
Federal COVID Relief Has Been Unfairly Maligned. It’s doing a lot of good: To date, the federal government has allocated $4.52 trillion in response to Covid-19 — a staggering figure, one that exceeds the entire federal budget in 2019. Most of that funding comes from just two bills: the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security, […]
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