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DL Open Thread: Thursday, November 25, 2021

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Happy Thanksgiving!  Best holiday of the year by far, at least for us. Let me just emphasize how disgraceful giving the Kathleen McGuiness the Pharmacist Of The Year Award is.  With one move, that professional association has lost all credibility.  Especially when there are real pharmacists making real differences out there–like Dr. TaQuina Warren: Dr. […]

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Song of the Day 11/25: The Cranberries, “Ode to My Family”

Filed in Arts and Entertainment by on November 25, 2021 0 Comments

Happy Thanksgiving! Or, as they call it à Paris, jeudi. American culture is consumed everywhere, so Parisians are aware of Thanksgiving, but only expat Americans celebrate it. In some regards, this makes preparing the meal simple — the butcher down the street understood right away why we ordered a fresh whole turkey, yet it was […]

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McGuiness Used States Funds to Pay Firststateupdate.com to Publish a Glowing Press Release?

Filed in National by on November 24, 2021 13 Comments
McGuiness Used States Funds to Pay Firststateupdate.com to Publish a Glowing Press Release?

It sure seems like she did. See the “Source” below. Also note that the “article” makes no mention of the brazen criminality the “auditor” will stand trial for. BTW – I’m just putting the whole thing here because, being a press release that they posted verbatim, it is not the intellectual property of any website. […]

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BREAKING: All Three Defendants In Killing Of Ahmaud Arbery Found Guilty On Multiple Accounts…

Filed in National by on November 24, 2021 3 Comments

..including felony murder.  Finally, something to give thanks for.  In this case, we give thanks that the three killers weren’t cops: https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/11/24/us/ahmaud-arbery-murder-trial

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Song of the Day 11/24: Dire Straits, “So Far Away”

Filed in Arts and Entertainment by on November 24, 2021 0 Comments

Mark Knopfler wrote this song, which appeared on his band’s 1985 mega-hit album “Brothers in Arms,” about the difficulty of conducting long-distance relationships by telephone. Speaking from experience, even 35 years later, in the age of What’s App and Skype, it remains difficult, though at least the phone bills are lower. To illustrate how long […]

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PLeAsE PESTER & AbUsE YOUr L0CAl SKollBOrED!!!!

Filed in National by on November 24, 2021 0 Comments
PLeAsE PESTER & AbUsE YOUr L0CAl SKollBOrED!!!!

Some dumb fucking conservative idiots have gotten into the habit of circulating “shocking” bullshit among themselves, then pretending that the shocking bullshit came from a school in the Caesar Rodney School District. The social media posts bout the “shocking things they are teaching in school” typically include calls to respond to the outrage, and “JAM […]

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Whoa. Brian Pettyjohn Isn’t Going Anywhere.

Filed in Delaware, Featured by on November 23, 2021 12 Comments

DD has the story over at Blue Delaware, and I gotta admit, I didn’t see this coming. He wanted to go somewhere (Deputy Director For Sussex County Department of Elections).  Ruth Briggs King wanted him to go somewhere.  But it was kiboshed by: Only the GOP members of the Board of Elections could vote on […]

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Hey, put this on your “to do” list then make sure to do it.

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Song Of The Day 11/23: The Drifters, ‘Up On The Roof’

Filed in Arts and Entertainment, Featured by on November 23, 2021 2 Comments

I retired from Trader Joe’s on Sunday.  My right hip and my right leg made the decision for me.  A fantastic 12-plus year run. The perfect post-career gig.  Anyway, at least in part as a salute, they had on my fave satellite music station, ‘Mo-Soul’, during my shift.  Nothing but soul and r & b […]

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Darius Brown’s Latest ‘Woman Problem’

Filed in Delaware, Featured by on November 23, 2021 2 Comments

There’s more, perhaps much more, than meets the eye when it comes to his latest indefensible outburst.  But first, for those of you who haven’t paid attention, here’s the story: The senator got into a heated verbal altercation with Rep. Melissa Minor-Brown, a New Castle Democrat, during a press event on Nov. 8 when Gov. […]

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DL Open Thread Tuesday November 24 2021

Filed in National by on November 23, 2021 1 Comment

State Sen. McBride begins renewed push for paid leave in Delaware McBride says she’s confident the measure will pass next year, despite not having the support of the state’s largest business groups like the Delaware State Chamber of Commerce. She said she’s working to address their concerns. Based on those discussions, she plans to file […]

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Song of the Day 11/22: Bennett Wilson Poole, “Soon Enough”

Filed in Arts and Entertainment by on November 22, 2021 1 Comment

Guest post by Nathan Arizona UK Americana sounds like a contradiction, but don’t tell the British. A lot of fans and websites there are devoted to both contemporary and classic Americana (aka alt-country). Hovering over all this is the sound of the Byrds, who some would call the best or at least most important American […]

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Empty Headed Journalistic Bothersiderism Isn’t Just for Democrats vs Republicans Anymore

Filed in National by on November 22, 2021 0 Comments

In “Joe Biden Vs The Democrats” Jonathan Chait returns to the tired “both sides are at fault” trope. The twist is that by both sides he means progressive Democrats and Centerist Democrats – blaming them both equally for Biden’s failure to pass his agenda. For anyone paying attention, that is obviously nonsense.  1) It is […]

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