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Last Fortnight’s Poll Results & This Fortnight’s Poll
It was supposed to run for a week, but I don’t think keeping it open for a fortnight changed the results much. Rochester is the person most of us think is going to be the next Jr Senator from Delaware. That makes sense. She is next in line and there is a depressing predictability to […]
DL Open Thread Monday May 15 2023
Remember the migrant caravan from 2018 that turned out to be nothing? Migrants crossing the border without documentation dropped on Friday, the first day after Title 42 was lifted, two U.S. Department of Homeland Security officials told NBC News. U.S. Customs and Border Protection stopped just over 6,200 undocumented migrants on Friday compared with roughly 11,000 on […]
Song of the Day 5/14: Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention, “Sofa No. 1” and “Sofa No. 2”
Happy Mother’s Day. Get off your feet and onto a couple of sofas. From “One Size Fits All,” the 1975 LP that was the last one credited to the Mothers of Invention, who would have been the Mothers until record company execs balked.
DL Open Thread: Sunday, May 14,2023
Rethugs Fundraise, Pocket All The $$’s For Themselves: A group of conservative operatives using sophisticated robocalls raised millions of dollars from donors using pro-police and pro-veteran messages. But instead of using the money to promote issues and candidates, an analysis by The New York Times shows, nearly all the money went to pay the firms […]
The fallacy of Debt Limit “Brinksmanship”
The media continues to cover the “debt ceiling / budget negotiations” as if there are two sides trying to win concessions for their side. As if the Republicans are simply using the threat of financial disaster as bargaining leverage. It’s all bullshit. The GOP wants to destroy the world economy to own the libs and […]
Contract Bridge Players Overrun Rehoboth
Read this and answer a quick non-political question below the fold.
Bridge players from up and down the Eastern Seaboard recently competed in the second annual Rehoboth Beach Regional.
Tournament co-chair Kim Holm said about 600 players from Nova Scotia to Florida participated in the weeklong District 4 regional hosted by the American Contract Bridge League. Primarily, the players were from Virginia, Washington, D.C.,
DL Open Thread: Saturday, May 13, 2023
About That Proposed Truth Social Merger…man, there’s always some shady outfit ready to do business (aka launder money) with Trump: An obscure financial entity with connections to a Caribbean-island bank that bills itself as a top payment service for adult entertainment sites would gain a sizable stake in former president Donald Trump’s media company if […]
McGuiness asks for new trial in Supreme Court appeal
An appeal filed by former State Auditor Kathleen McGuiness over her misdemeanor convictions in 2022 is winding its way through Delaware Supreme Court.
In an opening brief filed in March, McGuiness asks for a new trial largely based on Brady violations she says were made by the prosecution. A Brady violation occurs when a prosecutor fails to provide a defendant or criminal defense attorneys with any evidence that is favorable or helpful to a defendant’s case.
McGuiness’ legal team argues in a brief that the prosecution failed to provide exculpatory evidence in a timely manner that would show McGuiness is not guilty of the conflict of interest and official misconduct misdemeanors of which a jury found her guilty. She was sentenced in October 2022 to one year level 5 incarceration, which was suspended for one year of probation for both convictions. She was also fined $10,000 and ordered to serve 500 hours of community service.
Are Tizzy Lockman and Bryan Townsend Sellouts?
Delaware most valuable progressive & REV take up that question in this week’s Highlands Bunker. Also, what about WFP endorsed people who voted for Pete to be speaker? Sellouts? Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men? The Stomberg knows.
It’s just Karl and Rob in the bunker today as they talk about Karl’s new piece on why legislators sell out and how we can fix it.
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Song of the Day 5/12: Bob Marley, “Could You Be Loved (demo)”
Before Bob Marley recorded this song with the Wailers for his last LP, “Uprising,” he recorded a series of demos, experimenting with its key and tempo. Some of them sound better than the more slickly produced original. This early version, played to a beat box, is a little faster and in a higher key than […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, May 12, 2023
First, a Very Special Crossover from yesterday’s Post-Game Wrap-up/Pre-game Show. The LLC’s And Corporations In Seaford Are People bill was not worked. Which doesn’t mean it’s dead. Four reps were absent yesterday (there have been quite a few absences this week), so maybe there weren’t enough yes votes to meet the 2/3rds requirement for the […]
A Clockwork Trumpage
@paulwaldman1 1. One thing last night made clear is that not only doesn’t “fact-checking in real time” work on Trump, it’s actually JUST WHAT HE WANTS. Allow me to explain… 2. When he says “The election was rigged” or “I did complete the wall,” gets corrected and then says the lie again, steamrolling over the […]
Song of the Day 5/11: Imagine Dragons, “Crushed”
Imagine Dragons, in case you don’t keep up with such things, is about as corporate as rock bands get these days, selling out arenas with a generic sound that has earned them as much scorn today as Nickelback and Creed did in theirs. So I don’t know whether it’s a surprise or not that they’ve […]
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