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DL Open Thread Wednesday September 21 2022

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Delawareans: Medicare is great! 

Dems:  Hey guys…Let’s privatize and fuck up Medicare. 

Delaware’s Retirees Utterly Screwed By John Carney 

The change to state pensioners’ health care plan caught both retirees and lawmakers off guard, which led to Democratic Senate leaders asking Gov. John Carney to push the implementation of the new Medicare Advantage plan.

The Carney administration has denied this request, citing contractual obligations among other reasons. Ultimately, according to a letter to lawmakers obtained by Delaware Online/The News Journal, the plan to replace retiree’s Medicare plan is already in motion and it’s too late to stop it.

The plan will go into effect on Jan. 1, 2023.

More Capitalists Behaving Badly

An executive of Beyond Meat is accused of biting a man’s nose. Authorities say …

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DL Open Thread: Friday, September 9, 2022

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Isn’t Charles The Guy Nobody Likes?  Oh well, I’ll always have that commemorative bottle opener.  You know the one that reads, ‘Drink Up, Chuck and Di’.  Say it three times fast. Could Be A Blue Wave In Michigan.  ‘Right To Abortion’ will be on the ballot: The Michigan Supreme Courton Thursday ordereda proposal enshrining the […]

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DL Open Thread: Saturday, August 27, 2022

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Yes, The Feds Had Loads Of ‘Probable Cause’ To Raid Mar-A-Lago: The details contained in a search-warrant affidavit and related memo crystallize much of what was already known about the criminal probe into whether Trump and his aides took secret government papers and did not return all of the material — despite repeated demands from […]

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DL Open Thread: Thursday, August 4, 2022

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Attention, Dem Officeholders:  I don’t care if you just have to reach your fundraising goal–especially when you are either running unopposed or facing negligible opposition–especially when some of the money you’re raising gets passed through to Delaware Way types.  Which reminds me, for those of you considering runs for higher office down the line, selling […]

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DL Open Thread: Friday, July 14, 2022

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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 […]

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DL Open Thread: Thursday, July 7, 2022

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Bye Bye Boris.  He proved Badenov that not even he could survive it: He delivered the address to the nation after he was prompted to resign by a Conservative Party revolt and a list of scandals — including parties that violated his own pandemic lockdown rules and the appointment of a lawmaker to a key […]

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DL Open Thread: Sunday, July 3, 2022

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I hereby grant you temporary dispensation from reading and commenting on DL.  These last few days have been so much fun, with all the news and all the comments from you. Such dispensation, however, does not extend to me.  Let’s see what tickles my fancy today… Secret Service:  Gutsy Heroes Or Trump Yes-Men?  WaPo’s Carol […]

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DL Open Thread: Friday, July 1, 2022

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Democrats Vote Against Renters’ Protection.  Somehow, SS1/SB101 got to the floor. And lost.  Here are those D’s who voted no: Nnamdi Chukwuocha, Stephanie Bolden, Sean Matthews, Peter Schwartzkopf, Franklin Cooke, Ed Osienski, William Carson, William Bush, and Andria Bennett: None of the dissenters spoke on their reason for voting no, with Jeff Spiegelman (R) voicing […]

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DL Open Thread: Thurs., June 23, 2022

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Yep, Ron Johnson Is A Seditionist.  And A Traitor: This week, the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol riot revealed that Johnson’s chief of staff tried to deliver to Vice President Mike Pence a slate of fake electors backing Trump, raising questions about the Wisconsin Republican’s role in a deliberate and coordinated plan to […]

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DL Open Thread: Sunday, June 19, 2022

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DL Open Thread: Sunday, June 19, 2022

SUPER-Worm To The Rescue!  We might end up getting overrun by beetles, but still…: A plump larva the length of a paper clip can survive on the material that makes Styrofoam. The organism, commonly called a “superworm,” could transform the way waste managers dispose of one of the most common components in landfills, researchers said, […]

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DL Open Thread: Thursday, June 16, 2022

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Ginni Thomas Acted As John Eastman’s Cheerleader: The House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol has obtained email correspondence between Virginia “Ginni” Thomas, the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, and lawyer John Eastman, who played a key role in efforts to pressure Vice President Mike Pence to block the […]

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DL Open Thread: Thursday, June 2, 2022

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Drink Coffee. Don’t Die.  My kind of scientific study: That morning cup of coffee may be linked to a lower risk of dying, researchers from a study published Monday in The Annals of Internal Medicine concluded. Those who drank 1.5 to 3.5 cups of coffee per day, even with a teaspoon of sugar, were up […]

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DL Open Thread: Sat., May 21, 2022

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Mastriano Was MAGAt Before MAGAt Was Mainstream.  Wrote of left-wing ‘Hitlerian putsch’ back in 2001: Two decades before he was Republican nominee for Pennsylvania governor, Doug Mastriano warned in a master’s thesis that the United States was vulnerable to a left-wing “Hitlerian Putsch” that would begin with the dismantling of the U.S. military and end […]

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