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Delaware Political Weekly: July 8-14, 2022
1. Withdrawal Deadline Today If You Want Your Filing Fee Back. 4:30 p.m., to be precise. And… 2. We Already Have A Taker. Richard Harpster, who had filed as the R challenger to D State Rep. Sean Lynn (RD 31), dropped out on Wednesday. While the R’s could still file someone to take his place, […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, July 14, 2022
“Here he comes, That’s Kathy’s Klown.” Hmmm, just might make this my daily Open Thread musical grace note until/unless the Kowardly Kop at least komments about Kathy. Already got a great one picked out for tomorrow. Gary Trudeau might well have been writing about Speaker Pete when he alluded to a certain President as having […]
DL Open Thread: Thursday, July 14, 2022
Speaker Pete & Delaware Media: Both Derelict In Their Duties. Speaker Pete finally surfaced. Just long enough to speak to a friendly group of D’s about legislation and emphatically not about KMG. Nobody from what passes for the press in Delaware bothered to cover his appearance. Speaker Pete’s ongoing silence and failure to take action […]
Song of the Day 7/13: Graham Gouldman and Brian May, “Floating in Heaven”
NASA has released the first batch of images captured by the Webb space telescope, and rock’s top astrophysicist, Brian May, has teamed up with 10cc songwriter Graham Gouldman on a new tune to celebrate the occasion. You’ve probably seen this widely reproduced image showing scores of galaxies. What you might not have seen is how […]
Speaker Pete ‘Unavailable For Comment’ Watch: Day 13
Today’s the day he’s scheduled to resurface. At a Party event to discuss, and I quote, ‘one of the most monumental legislative sessions in recent memory.’ He is scheduled to speak at 6 pm, with a meeting of the 14th RD Committee to follow at 6:30: I suppose that, in the post-Trump era, nothing seems […]
DL Open Thread July 13 2022
I kinda wanted Biden as the nominee again, but I realize that was out of discomfort around the idea of replacing him as the nominee. Now I’m not sure we have a choice. Erik Loomis at LGM gets to the heart of it: Biden is so massively out of touch with the nation. (See Biden […]
Carper Emerges From Cryogenic Chamber As A Tool Of The Buccinis
Always get fascinating stuff in my inbox from my spies. Take, for example, this. Please: This drooling drone is now completely depend(s)ent on his corporate fixers. Lisa, either step up or step aside.
Song of the Day 7/12: Bob Dylan, “Blowin’ in the Wind”
Joseph Henry “T Bone” Burnett is probably best known for producing the soundtracks to the Coen brothers’ movies, particularly “O Brother, Where Art Thou?” and “Inside Llewyn Davis,” but he’s also got a side line: Designing new analog sound recording/playback systems. Back in 2008 he announced something called CODE, which purported to reproduce master-tape sound […]
Delaware Political Weekly: Filing Deadline Edition-July 12, 2022
The filing deadline is today at noon. The Department Of Elections generally does a real good job of providing updates on Deadline Day. We generally have all filings and withdrawals complete by around 2 p. m. Here’s what has taken place since Friday’s Delaware Political Weekly: 1. State Sen. Darius Brown (SD 2) Files For […]
DL Open Thread July12 2022
The Onion called Steve Bannon “Trump’s most encrusted advisor”. I also learned an arsonist targeted Dover’s Target. On the whole, that’s not much news for a political blogger. Wait…There is this one good news/bad news item in the New York Times. The good news: Half of G.O.P. Voters Ready to Leave Trump Behind, Poll […]
DL Open Thread Monday, July 11, 2022
Why must we amend the Constitution to ban religion’s exalted place among non-rational belief sytems: The lobbying outfit called the Family Research Council is now considered a religion by the Internal Revenue Service. So is Scientology. So basically religion is nothing but a tax dodge and an opportunity to put bigotry into practice under cover […]
Speaker Pete ‘Unavailable For Comment’ Watch: Day 11
Did what I usually do–scoured all the local news sources for Pete sightings. None reported. So, here’s where that leaves us: On July 1, 2022 State Auditor Kathy McGuiness is convicted on three counts of her indictment. Every Democratic legislator in leadership calls for her resignation. Except for Pete Schwartzkopf, who is unavailable for comment. […]
Song of the Day 7/10: The Heimatdamisch, “Highway to Hell”
It’s not showing up on the GPS, but I’m pretty sure we’re rolling down the highway to hell, which gets us there a lot faster than that old ferry boat ever could. As my dad used to say, we’re making good time. The Heimatdamisch is a Bavarian band in the New Folk movement — what, […]
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