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Song of the Day 1/17: The Ting Tings, “That’s Not My Name”
Hats off to the programming whizzes who lined up the entertainment by our new Congress. Not only are we treated to lots of scary stories about the new Republican House of Horrors, we get the George Santos saga for comic relief. Sure, we can fault the New York Democratic Party for Santos — losing to […]
Delaware General Assembly Pre-Game Show: Tuesday, January 17, 2023
We’ve got some really bad bills coming up in committee this week. Unfortunately, for today’s report, most of them are due to be considered on Wednesday. A couple of them are mind-numbingly dumb. I can’t wait. You, however, will have to. Perhaps the General Assembly does nothing better, or more consistently, than forming some sort […]
DL Open Thread Tuesday January 17 2023
WHAT ABOUT MAH FREEDOM?!?!
Alt Headline 1: What’s the point of having a gun if you can’t threaten/shoot people with it?
Alt Headline 2: Lewes man charged after pulling gun on woman
Police were called at 11:17 p.m. to a home in the 20000 block of Plantation Road for a report of shots fired; they learned that Timothy Littleton, 33, had argued with a woman, 37, at the home before he took out a handgun and pointed it at her, said Sr. Cpl. Jason Hatchell of the Delaware State Police. There were three children present inside the residence during the incident, he said.
Water ??!? Pfft…we’ll live off bile and memories of Ronald Reagan
Here is the thing, they could only build these houses in Rio Verde (ironically “Green River”) by exploiting a loophole which meant having watered delivered (rather than being connected by pipes to some water supply). Scottsdale was happy to send those trucks to fill everyone’s tank each month. …up until they didn’t have enough water for Scottsdale proper. Anyway, to be pedantic, it is not really accurate to say that water was “turned off”.
Also, “Are these houses here because they are exploiting a loophole?” is a question people who buy houses in the desert should probably ask prior to taking on that mortgage.
RIO VERDE, Ariz. – Joe McCue thought he’d found a desert paradise when he bought one of the new stucco homes springing up in the granite foothills of Rio Verde, Arizona. There were good schools, mountain views, and back door cactus-studded trails.
Then the water was turned off.
Earlier this month, the community’s longtime water utility, the neighboring city of Scottsdale, turned off the faucet to the Rio Verde Foothills, blaming a crushing drought threatening the West’s future. Scottsdale said it needed to focus on conserving water for its own residents and could no longer sell water to about 500 to 700 homes — or about 1,000 people. That meant the unincorporated bevy of $500,000 stucco homes, mansions and horse ranches outside of Scottsdale’s borders would have to fend for themselves and buy water from other suppliers — if homeowners could find them and afford it, much higher ones to pay prices.
Knowing that the phrases “We Fuck Up Social Security!” & “Self-Imposed Government Shutdown Chaos” & “Economic Collapse Caused by GOP Stupidity” didn’t do well in focus groups, the house GOP has another zippy new word for that bundle of policies –prioritization.
Republican lawmakers on Sunday renewed calls for spending concessions from Democrats as a contingency to raising the federal government’s borrowing limit, setting up another round of brinkmanship with the U.S.’s credit rating on the line.
House Republicans have a plan if an agreement can’t be reached, the Washington Post reported. That is to tell the Treasury and the Biden administration to prioritize spending by making only the most critical payments, such as interest on the national debt, as well as Social Security, Medicare,…
Man on the street
Whoever says ‘I will make corporations pay taxes.’ That’s who I’ll vote for.
Someone who isn’t a political weirdo, like you and I, said that to me recently. I take it as an opening for Trump, because he’ll say anything.
Song of the Day 1/16: Stevie Wonder, “Happy Birthday”
This song is a big reason why today is a national holiday. In the late ’70s several states had honored the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. by making his birthday with a holiday, but a bill to establish it nationally went down to defeat in Congress in 1979. Wonder wrote “Happy Birthday” in response and […]
DL Open Thread Monday Jan 16 2023
The PAGOP is spending $100,000 for an election post mortem to figure out why they suck and nobody likes them. I would have taken the job for half that and turned it around in an afternoon. A GOP postmortem: What went so wrong in Pennsylvania? PHILADELPHIA — The Pennsylvania GOP is trying to figure out […]
Song of the Day 1/15: Frank Wilson, “Do I Love You (Indeed I Do)”
On Bruce Springsteen’s LP of soul and Motown songs, “Only the Strong Survive,” the Boss covers a few hits, like the title track and “Someday We’ll Be Together.” But he also features a few songs that flew under the radar when they were released, none more so than Frank Wilson’s “Do I Love You (Indeed […]
DL Open Thread: Sunday, January 15, 2023
Some Fantastic Changes To Medicare. Cap on insulin prices, free vaccinations, and more. Yes, Rethugs want to roll back some of the changes. D’s should be shouting hosannas from the rooftops. The $13 Mill Freshman QB. Well, he WAS until his NIL agreement fell apart. Great article. This is the new Bizarro World of college […]
I’ve been wondering about this.
If this deal happens it could empower Democrats too Surely someone else has thought of this: After a humiliating three-day stretch of 11 consecutive defeats in an election that is now the most protracted such contest since 1859, Mr. McCarthy dispatched his emissaries to hammer out a deal with the ultraconservative rebels, including agreeing to […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, January 14, 2023
Everybody Knew About Santos’ Lies–Except The Democrats: In late 2021, as he prepared to make a second run for a suburban New York City House seat, George Santos gave permission for his campaign to commission a routine background study on him. Campaigns frequently rely on this kind of research, known as vulnerability studies, to identify […]
Briggs King Introduces a bill that doesn’t involve fucking over poor/brown people
This “right to repair” bill is out of character in that it doesn’t try to cut taxes for the obscenely wealthy or indulge in some sort of MAGAt grandstanding. A bill that would limit manufacturer control over repairing phones and other electronics was introduced Jan. 5 and awaits action in committee. Sponsored by Rep. Ruth […]
DeSantis Invokes Governor’s Executive Privilege (which doesn’t exist)
Practicing for his presidency. DeSantis administration wants to keep some things private D.C. ways— Should Florida’s governor have some of the same powers as the president of the United States? Well, attorneys for Gov. Ron DeSantis keep arguing that he should and it appears they are hoping that a judge will eventually go along with […]
Song of the Day 1/13: Laura Nyro, “Hands Off the Man (The Flim-Flam Man)”
It’s hard to choose any one Republicon to dedicate this song to — they’re all flim-flam artists to one extent or another, and always have been. Laura Nyro apparently wrote this for the 1967 film “The Flim-Flam Man,” with George C. Scott in the title role. It wasn’t used in the movie, but it showed […]
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