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General Assembly Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show: Thursday, May 11, 2023
Will The House Of Representatives vote to recognize LLC’s, corporations, and trusts as people? We will likely find out today. The House Administration Committee (all five members of leadership) voted to release HB 121(D. Short) to the floor and it has been placed on today’s House Agenda. The bill, which is a Charter change for […]
DelawareLiberal Style Guide VOL 1
I’m starting a list of preferred uses. Free free to add to the list with your favorites.
Socialized Medicine:
Use “socialized medicine” in place of medicare/medicaid. Eg. I can’t wait until I qualify for socialized medicine. My mother in law loves her socialized medicine. The Governor wants to take away the socialized medicine that state pensioners paid into and were promised with a fraudulent, expensive, substitute. (see below)
Disgusting:
Whenever using the name “trump” also try to use the word “disgusting” in the same sentence. It sounds a little trite, but this really pushes the MAGATs buttons. Polling confirms that they have strong reactions to disgust and disgusting. Eg. A disgusting blob, Trump slumped visibly in his chair. & Even his ardent supporters view Trump as disgusting.
DL Open Thread: Thursday, May 11, 2023
Delaware House Administration Committee: LLC’s Are People. Release bill that will enable business owners who don’t reside in Seaford to vote in Seaford elections. Southern Baptist Churches Losing Members In Droves. Catering to old angry white dudes and trafficking in COVID denialism turned out to be a losing strategy: Membership in the Southern Baptist Convention […]
Song of the Day 5/10: Bill Withers, “Lovely Day”
Been waiting for months for a day like this, and I don’t mean just the weather. This 1977 smooth soul classic was Bill Withers’ last Top 40 solo single. Though it only reached No. 30 on the Hot 100, it scored much better on the R&B chart (No. 6) and marked Withers’ first appearance in […]
General Assembly Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show: Weds., May 10, 2023
It’s official: Eric Buckson is the wannabe leader of the Rethuglican Party. Either that, or he just can’t get enough of his own stentorian stylings. Or both. It’s like he’s channeling John Wilkes Booth who, lest we forget, was an AC-tor. A self-important strutting peacock. Yesterday, he voted against the so-called Consent Agenda in the […]
DL Open Thread Wednesday May 10 2023
The DEGOP tries to cover its tracks by deleting its School Board endorsements page. https://delawaregop.com/school-board-candidates/ I should have taken a screenshot of that page when I first saw it. Anyway, here is the Town Square article from April 22nd discussing the DEGOP brazen partisan efforts in these non-partisan elections. Conservatives marshal forces as school board […]
School Board Election Results Thread
Re Jose Matthews, but true all over. Steve Newton “comfortable enough margin” true … for today … but I can still remember the days when Jose’s vote total exceeded the standard total for two candidates in a close race. Celebrate, but realize they are mobilizing as fast as they can, and will undoubtedly learn from their […]
BREAKING: Jury In Trump/E. Jean Carroll Case Returns Verdict Of…
No On Rape (Intercourse). Yes On Sexual Assault. $2 Mill Damages For That. More to come, but the jury has awarded Carroll around $5 mill due to various findings of defamation in addition to the sexual assault finding.
The Democratic Party is an absurd anachronism, run by absurd, doddering anachronisms
VIA LGM It is sometimes said in defense of Dick Durbin’s maintenance of the blue slip rule that Republicans did not (completely) kill the rule when they were in charge of the Judiciary Committee. The very obvious answer is that Republicans had no reason to because Democrats frequently returned blue slips, a favor that needless to […]
Song of the Day 5/9: Fine Young Cannibals, “Don’t Look Back”
Fine Young Cannibals burned brightly but briefly. Their year was 1989, when their second album, “The Raw & the Cooked,” went double platinum and spawned two No. 1 singles. Their overnight success, five years in the making, ended a lot quicker than that — though there was no acrimonious breakup, they never recorded another LP. […]
Delaware General Assembly Pre-Game Show: Tuesday, May 9, 2023
Looks like another ‘low-hanging fruit’ day in Dover. Meaning, little of consequence with virtually no conflict. Although–every week brings us closer to the end of Speaker Pete’s reign, assuming he is true to his word. Anybody with some inside skinny is welcome to hit up our tip line. Time for me to start asking around. […]
DL Open Thread Tuesday, May 9, 2023
Delaware holds school board elections today. The News Journal ran a useful voters’ guide, but I don’t know if it’s behind the paywall. Meanwhile, RISE Delaware, the group fighting Gov. Carney’s proposed downgrade to state retirees’ health care, has scheduled a rally at Legislative Hall from 1 to 2:30 p.m. The never-ending legal problems of […]
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