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DL Open Thread: Saturday, April 24, 2021
Maryland To Review Cases Handled By Ex-Medical Examiner Who Testified For Chauvin’s Defense. Including this case: In 2018, a 19-year-old college student named Anton Black died after interacting with a Greensboro officer responding to a call of a possible kidnapping on Maryland’s Eastern Shore. “Anton Black died because police employed excessive force, laying him out […]
Song of the Day 4/23: Bay City Rollers, “Rock ‘n’ Roll Love Letter”
You know rock is over the hill when the lead singer of the first boy band dies at age 65. Les McKeown, the lead singer for the Bay City Rollers in their heyday, died suddenly on April 20, cause still unknown. He was with the band for only five years, from 1973-78, but that included […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, April 23, 2021
First, a personal note: I’ve been binge-watching BoJack Horseman. That show’s incredible. But, I digress. NZ PM: ‘Stop Subsidies For Drilling’. Quote that makes sense to me: “We cannot take money from emitters paying for their carbon emissions and then give them money back in subsidies.” The emitters are getting about $500 billion annually in […]
Bumfight
Newsmax host accuses Fox News of being in league with China
GRANT STINCHFIELD (HOST): Fox News continues to disappoint conservatives across America. I want to know, why did Fox News can Lou Dobbs?
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I have come to the conclusion Fox News no longer supports President Trump’s America first principles, which is why they couldn’t stand Lou Dobbs on their air.
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Maybe Fox News banishing Dobbs from their network is more sinister. Maybe it’s about China. The Murdochs’ investments and business ties to that rogue nation, maybe that’s what this is about.
Here are some of them — did you know Fox News helped China’s leading state broadcaster build its website years ago? Rupert Murdoch’s third wife is a mainland Chinese. She was well-known for managing elite connections in China…
Song of the Day 4/22: Ennio Morricone, “For a Few Dollars More”
The proposal to increase Delaware’s minimum raise to $15 an hour over the next several years got a House committee hearing longer than a Sergio Leone spaghetti western yesterday. It could have used a theme song from Ennio Morricone, the Italian composer most famous for scoring Leone’s “Dollars” trilogy. Morricone’s scores were one reason those […]
General Assembly Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show: Thursday, April 22, 2021
Looks like Mike Ramone’s gonna have to stock up on Robot Lifeguards. That’s the inescapable conclusion following yesterday’s surreal meeting of the Business Lapdog Committee, where the sheer idiocy of arguments against a $15 minimum wage made it impossible for even the Chamber-leaning D’s to justify burying the bill in committee. Matt Bittle, as usual, […]
DL Open Thread Thursday, April 22, 2021
Republican officials in Georgia are getting scared because they can’t convince Trump’s hardcore fans to move on, and Trumpism disgusts the suburban voters the party needs to win elections. Ironic, isn’t it, that a party that wants to rule from a minority position is itself ruled by a minority within? That brings up the latest […]
General Assembly Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show: Weds., April 21, 2021
The Cop Cabal is in survival mode. All three of the leaders voted to release the anti-democratic HB 30 (Bolden), which would have the effect of severely limiting primary challenges, from committee. Should the bill get a vote in the House, which it likely will, pay attention: Every D legislator who votes ‘yes’ will reveal […]
DL Open Thread Wed April 21st 2021
Lots of “is this a watershed moment for police reform?” stuff in today’s internenet web tubes. One hopes. My reform suggestion is simply – HEY COPS, STOP FUCKING MURDERING PEOPLE.
Listen to Highlands Bunker: E123 – No Confidence (w/Crystal Womack)
BREAKING: Verdict Is Reached In Chauvin Trial: Guilty. Guilty. Guilty!!!
No way they’re acquitting him this quickly. Chauvin is already in the courthouse. Verdict announcement likely within 30 minutes. Back with the verdict as soon as it happens…
Song of the Day 4/20: Peter Tosh, “Legalize It”
Peter Tosh once told an interviewer that ganja would someday be as legal as cigarettes. That’s still years off, but as this handy map shows, in only six U.S. states, all of them deep red, does weed remain entirely illegal. Weigh that against 16 states (17 if you count D.C.) containing 43% of the population […]
Delaware General Assembly Pre-Game Show: Tuesday, April 20, 2021
The prelims are out of the way. We’re in the ‘Put Up Or Shut Up’ phase of the legislative calendar. Starting with Wednesday’s committee consideration of the $15 minimum wage bill. Lest you’ve forgotten, SB 15 passed in the Senate with every single Democrat voting for it. Three putative House Democrats–Andria Bennett, Bill Bush, and […]
DL Open Thread Tuesday April 20th 2021
In today’s Open Thread….The nation holds its breath. Will one stupid fucking Trumper try to nullify the jury? I think “yes” is a safe bet.
OK. Everyone share your favorite Walter Mondale story. I kid, Walter Mondale’s wife doesn’t have a favorite Walter Mondale story.
Chinese President Xi Jinping has had it up to here with the American century.
The best way to fight poverty is direct payments to everybody. Are we brave enough to support this popular, effective, relatively inexpensive policy?
But first… cancel culture comes to Bethany Beach Delaware.
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