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Eagles Pre-Game – Week 4
Eagles vs Jags 1:00pm on CBS.
In sports, as in life, when things are going good we sometimes dwell on the how things might eventually fall apart. Indeed, the entire Fox News media empire is built on keeping the dummies who watch it topped-off to the brim with worries, concerns and portents of looming catastrophe.
Last week my nervous-nellyism focused on whether or not Jalen Hurts was going to run the ball too much. He didn’t. Instead Hurts lit up the Commanders secondary by throwing 35 times for 340 yards.
This week I’ll be lighting the Santo Toribio Romo candle in order to help the Eagles score in the 4th quarter. This is the definition of a imaginary problem. The Eagles 4th quarter scoring “problems” are no doubt related to the fact that they haven’t needed to score any points in the 4th quarter.
They might not need any 4th quarter points this week, so I’ll be either carrying over this concern to next week or I’ll have moved on to worrying about that fact that being the last remaining undefeated team is somehow problematic.
In related NFL news. The last word on Tua Tagovailoa’s concussion comes from the Onion:
NFL Doctors Test Tua Tagovailoa’s Mental Acuity By Seeing If He Can Sign Indemnification Agreement
Song of the Day 10/1: Lizzo, “About Damn Time”
I have to admit that before this latest right-wing freak out I had very little idea of who Lizzo was. I heard her name enough to know she was famous, but what little I’d heard of her music didn’t make a deep impression. I like dance music just fine, but at my age I don’t […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, October 1, 2022
Two Bullet-Headed Racists Use Migrants For Target Practice: Authorities identified the alleged shooter as Michael “Mike” Sheppard, the warden of a privately rundetention center that for years held immigrants facing deportation. His twin brother, Mark Sheppard, allegedly was with him. The two 60-year-olds are facing manslaughter charges and are jailed in El Paso County. The […]
Republicans are MAGA Extremists
I have some emails out to DEGOPers, and next week I’m going to go back to trying to sort the lunatics out from the merely terrible Delaware Republicans. But in the meantime, I noticed this TV ad for Joanna McClinton a PA State Rep from Delco. It closes by urging everyone to vote the Dem […]
Comment Rescue – Why you should care about Delaware Democrats throwing retirees under the bus
Why should you care about this issue?
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1. See Senator Karen Peterson’s comments in this morning’s article in delawareonline. She is dead on about people trading benefits for pay. This is a social contract that is now broken and retirees are being blamed by Carney and his ilk when this problem was first raised in 2005. It’s taken 17 years to get a grip on this problem? By the way, Carney was Lt. Gov. in 2005.
2. How will this affect you? One example–We are already seeing the result of low pay with the large number of teacher vacancies in Delaware. People have no incentive to teach our children when they can drive to other states for higher pay.
3. To DSEA—Thanks for throwing your retirees under the bus! These people taught my daughter and many other Delaware children, and I am appalled at your lack of concern for the welfare of Your retirees. You are dreaming if you think that you will get larger salaries for current teachers in return that will compensate for this betrayal of your retirees.
4. The GA has done nothing. Other than a few brave souls such as Kowalko, Lynne, Wilson Anton, and Ennis, it has been crickets. These folks will be on this plan after they retire so although they were duped by the Carney crew into voting for this, they refuse to do anything about it. They do not deserve your vote in November.
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Matt Meyer Can Kiss My Ass
He’s already begging for $$’s for his 2024 run for Governor. I’ve gotten two pleas in the past 24 hours. Not only is he not getting my money, he’s lost any chance he had for my support. I fully expected to back him in 2024. He at least had some plausible progressive cred, arising mostly […]
Song of the Day 9/30: The Zombies, “Time of the Season”
Guest post by Nathan Arizona You could say the Zombies saved their best song for the end. Actually, past the end. The British band had already broken up when “Time of the Season” came out in 1969. Nobody had paid much attention to the song or the few other tunes that been been released from […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, September 30, 2022
‘Congressman DeSantis Opposed Federal Aid For Victims Of Hurricane Sandy.’ Claimed it was fiscally irresponsible: As a freshman congressman in 2013, Ron DeSantis was unambiguous: A federal bailout for the New York region after Hurricane Sandy was an irresponsible boondoggle, a symbol of the “put it on the credit card mentality” he had come to […]
Highlands Bunker – Nationalize (or whatever) the Poultry Industry
I rate this podcast 4 out of 5 Chick-fil-A Chicken Sandwiches.
Food and Water Watch activist Greg Layton joins Rob in the bunker to give an update on the planned biogas plant in Seaford and what still needs to be done to fight for environmental justice in Sussex.
Show Notes:
I just copied and pasted the whole thing from Boing Boing because it cracked me the heck up.
Britain’s new prime minister has a 15% approval rating ROB BESCHIZZA 12:54 PM THU SEP 29, 2022 Liz Truss enjoys her victory in a screengrab from the BBC News feed Liz Truss became Prime Minister of a nation of 67 million people by winning an internal Conservative party leadership election of 120,000 members. The Queen […]
But don’t mention climate change because that would be political
A very bad storm: President Joe Biden said officials are hearing early reports of what may be a substantial loss of life due to Hurricane Ian, he said at a press conference at Federal Emergency Management Agency headquarters Thursday. “This could be the deadliest storm in Florida history. The numbers we have are still unclear, […]
“If I press this button, the economy goes ka-plooey!”
Whenever we happen to have a Not-Republican President the GOP brings a big hammer out of the closet. The hammer is called “debt limit brinksmanship”, and they use it to threaten to smash the economy. The media plays along because that’s how they make money, and quarterly profits rule their world. The Not-Republican President, in […]
Song of the Day 9/29: Bob Dylan, “High Water (For Charley Patton)”
I know people in Naples, Fla. I feel even sorrier for them than usual today. Most blues songs about high water trace back to the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927, but Bob Dylan has contributed his share to the canon, from “Down in the Flood” on the Basement Tapes to this tune from 2001’s “Love […]
