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Song of the Day 7/30: Merle Haggard, “Life in Prison”
Just something for Donald Trump to think about as he stews in his fetid juices over the wrongs he’s done. “Life in Prison” appeared on Merle Haggard’s third album, 1967’s “I’m a Lonesome Fugitive.” The title track was the first of his 38 No. 1 country hits. Haggard’s stretch at San Quentin was far from […]
DL Open Thread: Sunday, July 30, 2023
How Congress Armed The NRA–And America. Worst offender? John Dingell. Investigative reporting at its best: Long before the National Rifle Association tightened its grip on Congress, won over the Supreme Court and prescribed more guns as a solution to gun violence — before all that, Representative John D. Dingell Jr. had a plan. First jotted […]
Trump says Ukraine aid should be paused & deposited in his campaign account for safekeeping until the Lappy! ™ matter is resolved
All LAPPY!(tm) all the time between now and the election. And why not? The media allowed them to chant “Benghazi!” 24/7/365 and it worked. Former President Trump called for a pause on all aid to Ukraine until several federal agencies provide “every scrap” of evidence they have on alleged “corrupt business dealings” from President Biden and his son, Hunter […]
Is Lappy™ a Clone?
According to Rudy Giuliani’s henchman, Lev Parnas, the answer is “Yes.” Parnas, who’s finishing up his sentence of house arrest for campaign finance violations, sent a letter to James Comer (R-Stumpjump) telling a story he got from a guy who was there that Hunter Biden “became incapacitated” during a meeting with some minister in Kazakhstan […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, July 29, 2023
Trump Support Softening. I’m not much of a believer in polls, especially this far out from the election. But I think this one’s worth watching: Republicans and Republican-leaning independents saying they believe Trump has done “nothing wrong” dropped 9 points in the last month, from 50% to 41%. Trump also dropped 6 points in support […]
Lurking Legislators, Please Read This
Connecticut Has Done Something Remarkable With Crime – The state cut incarceration in half, while crime plummeted. BY WAYNE D’ORIO In 1999 Connecticut had so many people in prison that it paid to send 500 of them to be incarcerated in Virginia. Nearly 25 years later, the state has not only sliced its number of imprisoned […]
Wait…Avelo doesn’t suck?
I flew out of New Castle on Frontier once, and it was horrible. Now this… Andrew C says: July 28, 2023 at 3:08 pm Greetings from Myrtle Beach! I’m staying with my parents again for a week down in Trump Country in their Never Trump home. Happy to report that I flew out of Wilmington […]
The Press Breathlessly Reports the Most Recent Trump Indictment
Trump directly directed an employee to destroy evidence of his crimes, which is a crime. GASP!!! Shocking!! By my count this is the 48th time the press has reported THE BIG ONE, that will change everything. The New Evidence Against Donald Trump In The MAL Case Is BRUTAL Surprise! With reporters clustered at the DC federal courthouse […]
Song of the Day 7/28: Randy Meisner, “Hearts on Fire”
Randy Meisner, founding bassist of the Eagles, died Wednesday at age 77. He’d had health problems for many years; his last live gig was in 2008. Meisner had stints in Poco and Rick Nelson’s Stone Canyon Band before joining Linda Ronstadt’s backing band, which morphed into the Eagles in 1971. Meisner’s high harmonies helped define […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, July 28, 2023
Lawrence O’Donnell Explains The Latest Trump Indictment To You. He makes it so easy to understand. This one’s serious b/c it puts the final nail in the coffin of his Mar-A-Lago defense. This was a mob-style conspiracy to cover up criminal behavior. Except one person didn’t go along: https://www.msnbc.com/the-last-word/watch/lawrence-we-now-know-who-the-star-witness-in-the-trump-docs-case-will-be-189451333807 For those of you who don’t […]
Song of the Day 7/27: Sinéad O’Connor, “The Last Day of Our Acquaintance”
I can’t think of a great musician who got less attention for her music than Sinéad O’Connor. Critics raved over her first LP, 1987’s “The Lion and the Cobra,” but the broader public didn’t notice her until her performance of “Mandinka” at the 1989 Grammy Awards. As Rolling Stone put it, ““If there was Twitter […]
Fox News – What heat wave? It is just a deep state temp measuring trick
All these paid liars should be rounded up and eventually hung for their crimes. The people that paid them to lie, as well. It’s not climate change that’s causing heat waves this summer but no one wants to explain why In the 1930s, the government’s Heat Wave Index was four times higher Every summer, heat […]
Innocence Project Delaware Needs YOU!
From The Delaware Innocence Project: Innocence Project Delaware is the local branch of the national Innocence Project and provides pro bono legal work to wrongfully convicted individuals in the state of Delaware. It is estimated that 6% (or 120,000 people) of the incarcerated population is innocent of what they were convicted of. Due to the […]
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