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Big News! Rebecca Cotto To Challenge Rep. Deb Heffernan!!
Blue Delaware broke the story right here. This is huge for the progressive cause. She has been so active in progressive campaigns, and she works like a demon. Both Chris Johnson and Larry Lambert can attest to that. She is smart, she is down-to-earth, and she will not be outworked. Her progressive credentials are second-to-none. […]
Kathy McGuiness Perp-Walked Down to Baylor Women’s Correctional Institution (figuratively speaking)
It looks like they have her stone cold busted. If guilty – she should get the 13 year max, but I doubt she’ll see the inside of a prison cell. Jails are for black people found with $5.00 worth of pot on them. This is the thread for the “major public trust indictment” coming […]
“Send In The Mapses…
…to fry my synapses (hey, I never claimed to be Sondheim) Well, maybe next week.” Well, maybe this week. Here’s the lede: The House and Senate have scheduled public hearings to review, and to comment upon, the proposed redistricting maps. Here is that schedule: Public Hearing Schedule(s) House Redistricting Hearing: 6 p.m., Monday, Oct. 18 […]
Song of the Day 10/11: Dave Clark Five, “Any Way You Want It”
Unless you were alive at the time, it’s almost impossible to believe that the Dave Clark Five weren’t just the first British band to follow the Beatles in the British Invasion — they played the Ed Sullivan Show twice in March 1964, the month after the Beatles debuted there — they actually rivaled the Fab […]
Flag of the Day#5 – Lewes Delaware
The Lewes Delaware town flag is a for profit, commercial venture. The flag was designed by Alan Keffer, a Lewes resident, in 1991 (note the copyright notice on most online images). As far as municipal flags go it is ok. It is 1000 times better than the City of Mesa Arizona’s flag but it […]
DL Open Thread Monday October 11th 2021
The good, reasonable and sane Democratic Party is continually stabbed in the back by lefty Dems who are rude and strident. They turn the 5% of “persuadable” voters in the middle off and thereby swing elections to the Republicans by being unpleasant and uncompromising.
Are you familiar with that fairytale? Or worse, did that nonsense speak to you?
In that fairytale, so popular in the American media, the heroes are the moderate Democrats. They are very high-minded and guided by dispassionate logic and cold reason. They would be doing great if not for the progressives tripping them up.
That is all bullshit, of course. It is the moderates who are stabbing the party in the back.
The moderate’s treachery is two-pronged. They stab the party in the back by constantly forcing Dems to water down very popular policies* and they stab it in the back when they simply stay home and don’t vote in mid-terms at the same rate that liberals do.
That’s right. It is the salt of the earth centrist democratic voters who don’t turn out during mid-term elections. Yes, you dummy. Here – read this.
Other stuff probably happened. Tomorrow I am going to reveal the identity of the next Delaware Governor. So if this open thread wasn’t your cup of tea, you may find some Earl Grey waiting for you tomorrow. Who the fuck knows?
Happy Indigenous Peoples Day.
*Sinema Wants to Cut $100 Billion in Climate Funds, meanwhile six Arizona counties are at risk of being uninhabitable in the near future due to climate change. But whatev’s. Moderation must be served.
Kathy McGuiness Indicted: Open Thread
Might as well morph this thread into an indictment thread now that the State Auditor has been indicted. That press conference by AG Jennings was something. She didn’t hold back about the public trust being violated. As you scroll through this existing thread, you will see all the particulars about the charges. But here’s the […]
Song of the Day 10/10: Marvin Gaye, “Too Busy Thinking About My Baby”
This was Marvin Gaye’s follow-up single to his No. 1 smash “Heard It Through the Grapevine,” and like that song it was written by Norman Whitfield and Barrett Strong — but not for that purpose. The tune was first released on a 1966 Temptation album, but was never released as a single. Whitfield retooled it […]
DL Open Thread Sunday, October 10, 2021
Sit down for this one: Donald Trump lied about how much money his DC hotel brought in. It ran in the red, of course — this is a guy who figured out how to lose money running casinos — and lost $70 million, despite L’il Donnie Two Scoops accepting $3.7 million from foreign governments. This […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, October 9, 2021
Rabbi Joins Proud Boys, Hands Out ‘Religious Exemptions’ From Covid Vaccinations. ‘Backwards reeled the mind’. Who can quote the original sentence, and who wrote it? No, it wasn’t Sondheim. WH: Trump Docs Can Go To Congress. No doubt Trump will appeal. Sometimes, you (meaning me) have to wonder how Trump can afford to pay all […]
Song of the Day 10/9: Alan Kalter, “Send in the Clowns” [Updated]
OK, I can take a hint. Until I play some Sondheim I won’t be forgiven for polluting the blog with Andrew Lloyd Webber. So, in the spirit of El Som’s “stealth Sondheim,” here’s his best-known tune performed by someone you wouldn’t expect — Alan Kalter, the announcer on David Letterman’s late-night show for 20 years, […]
Song of the Day 10/8: Laurie Anderson, “Language Is a Virus”
The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington wanted to mount a Laurie Anderson career retrospective. She wasn’t interested, but she agreed to put together a new multi-media show instead. So through next July 31, you can see “The Weather,” billed as her largest-ever U.S. installation. The Hirshhorn is part of the Smithsonian, so admission […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, October 8, 2021
Two From The Times: Optimist. Pessimist. Would it surprise you to learn that Krugman is (sorta) the optimist? Yeah, me too. The Ezra Klein piece is must-reading, and it’s not (all) gloom-and-doom. Elon Musk Heads To Anti-Choice Country. Here’s a prediction worthy of being cut-and-saved: “We’re going to create an ecological paradise here because we’re […]
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