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Song of the Day 5/5: Rage Against the Machine, “Guerrilla Radio”
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame released its list of honorees for 2023 the other day and, as usual, the headliners don’t scream rock and roll. Nobody begrudges Willie Nelson any honor that comes his way, but he just turned 90 and he’s been a country music legend longer than most modern hitmakers have […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, May 5, 2023
If you read only one Open Thread today, make it this one! Because the tides are turning (in one case, literally), and it’s beginning to feel like Watergate Summer. As in drip, drip, drip. Starting with the rusty orange drip: A New ‘Deep Throat’ Threatens Trump On Hiding Of Classified Documents: Federal prosecutors investigating former […]
Hope fades that Buckson will be normal as he jokes about Kenco/Suxco Secession
Buckson claims his remarks were intended to be funny, but like nearly all conservative “humor”, it is lacking most of the elements that make things funny such as wit, cleverness, surprise, etc. Greg Layton If you haven’t seen the video Calvin Sparks posted yesterday of state Senator Eric Buckson advocating southern Delaware secede from northern […]
General Assembly Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show: Thursday, May 4, 2023
Two disappointing, but not entirely unexpected, committee results headline today’s wrap-up. HB 104 (Bush), which yet again expands the ability of developers to avoid most oversight, cleared the Senate Housing & Land Use Committee. When the Chamber and the Building Trades join forces, there’s not much you can do. HB 96 (Morrison), which would enable […]
DL Open Thread: Thursday, May 4, 2023
The Family That Rules Montana. As in, the man who chairs the Senate Judiciary Committee; his daughter, who chairs the House Judiciary Committee; and his son, who is the Speaker of the House. They are Christian conservatives with decidedly un-Christian views: During a legislative hearing in 2011 that was a prelude to Montana’s debates on abortion, State […]
The Impeach Biden Movement Gathers Momentum, if by “momentum” you mean Ted Cruz nodding like a dummy while Sean Hannity tries to get a rise out of his 11 remaining viewers
lmao Cruz and Hannity are talking about impeaching Biden for allegations the substance of which they don't even know pic.twitter.com/RsnUTO3Jhg — Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 4, 2023
The Cook Report Casts Its Eyes On–Sarah McBride
While we’ve written about most of these scenarios here, the fact that a major national political news source reports this is damned exciting. Especially since everybody in Washington reads this. It’s a piece looking at the at-large Congressional seat in Delaware: DE-AL: Lisa Blunt Rochester (D) – Entire state Solid Democrat. First elected in 2016, Blunt Rochester […]
Song of the Day 5/3: Kiss, “Love Gun”
Apparently every American citizen is now required to voice a position on transgendered youth. Paul Stanley, lead singer and rhythm guitarist of glam rockers Kiss, went public the other day with his take — he thinks it’s a “sad and dangerous fad” — which brought him praise from conservatives and charges of laughable hypocrisy from […]
The New York Times Strains Mightily to Turn the Debt Ceiling into a “Both Sides” Story
The Gray Lady’s David Leonhardt give us a view of the media’s indestructible “both sides” narrative A 90 percent story The hardest political stories for reporters to cover and pundits to analyze can be those that are neither 100 percent stories nor 50 percent stories. A 100 percent story is one in which reality is […]
General Assembly Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show: Weds., May 3, 2023
Thumbs-up to the General Assembly’s work yesterday. SS1/SB 2(Lockman) passed the Senate on a straight party line vote of 15-6. Meaning, both Kyra Hoffner and Russ Huxtable voted for it. With a seemingly exponential increase in gun violence, the NRA’s wilful mangling of what the Second Amendment means is becoming less popular by the day. […]
DL Open Thread Wednesday May 3 2023
An Open Letter to Bethany Hall-Long
Dear Bethany,
I am writing to you today as a concerned citizen who believes in the importance of protecting the healthcare benefits of retirees. As you know, there is an ongoing controversy regarding the future of retiree health insurance, specifically the adoption of “Medicare Advantage” which is not Medicare, but an expensive, low-quality, privatized, fraudulently named, inferior product.
I wanted to reach out to you personally and ask if you would be willing to make a commitment to not privatize retiree health insurance if you are elected and become the 75th Governor of Delaware. On May 9th at 1:00pm many retirees and advocates in our state who believe that privatizing Medicare would be a disservice will be rallying at Leg Hall. Would you be willing to show your support for those who have earned and paid for their healthcare benefits?
As a candidate for office, I believe it is important for you to take a clear stance on this issue and let voters know where you stand. Will you commit to protecting the rights of retirees to have access to Original Medicare ? Will you stand up against Governor John Carney’s attempts to privatize Medicare and ensure that retirees have access to the healthcare benefits they have earned?
I look forward to hearing your thoughts on this matter and hope that you will join me in supporting the healthcare needs of our retirees.
Sincerely,
Jason330
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An Open Letter to Matt Meyer
Matt,
I know you just read all that. What the fuck dude? This is a layup.
Sincerely,
Jason330
Little Ronny Pudding Fingers deliberately targeted Disney for political retaliation. Just ask him
Florida will be paying, and it will be expensive. I hope owning the Libs is rewarding in non-monetary ways. (DeSantis continuously and loudly testifying against himself) is unusual, says Scott Wilkens, senior counsel at the Knight First Amendment Institute. In such lawsuits, Wilkens notes, you “often have to make inferences” about the motives driving government […]
Song of the Day 5/2: Gordon Lightfoot, “If You Could Read My Mind”
Flags in Canada should be at half-staff today — singer-songwriter Gordon Lightfoot, considered the nation’s troubadour, died yesterday at age 84. Lightfoot, who came out of the same Toronto folk scene that nurtured Joni Mitchell, Neil Young and Leonard Cohen, first reached the Canadian charts in 1962. But he was little known in the US […]
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