Tag: Delaware

Comment Rescue: Will The Real Jack Markell Please Stand Up?

Filed in Delaware by on December 5, 2008 25 Comments

Alan Muller has a point…. OK. I haven’t heard a peep, really, about how Markell’s administration is looking more and more like a fat-cat Republican event. Not a word about social justice, the environment … just the kissing of corporate ass with some token gestures like the “Weekend of Service” instead of the “Inaug Ball.” […]

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Hube’s Racism Is Showing Again

Filed in National by on December 5, 2008 81 Comments
Hube’s Racism Is Showing Again

Hube spews his racist venom on the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committe’s report, Report on Hate Crimes and Discrimination Against Arab Americans. First off, Hube’s little racist rant is hat-tipped to News Busters which is basically run by Brent Bozell, one of the infamous smear-taticians of the Radical Right. The Times of India photo above was included in the hat-tipped […]

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Don’t Go To Lowes. Go To Buckworth’s Hardware

Filed in Delaware by on December 5, 2008 31 Comments

With the economic downturn everywhere, we want to know about the great “local merchant’, you’ll be doing business with during the upcoming holiday shopping season. There are the real local folks, who will be front-line for survival this season. And since many DL’ers hate the big boxes, and malls– we would love to compile a […]

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Some Lazy Radical Right Blogging

Filed in National by on December 4, 2008 9 Comments

Sharon, over at Common Sense Political Thought, asks whether Democrats are being hypocritical since we did not criticize Sen. Feinstein about an interview she did with The New York Times? In the interview regarding torture, Feinstein said the following, “I think that you have to use the noncoercive standard to the greatest extent possible.” Yes, that’s […]

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Breaking: Adams to lose race with father time

Filed in Delaware by on December 3, 2008 61 Comments

Adams will stop being the President Pro Tem of the Delaware Senate when G. Reaper says so.

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Nepotistic success…Glenn Greenwald

Filed in Delaware by on December 3, 2008 1 Comment

Salon’s Glenn Greenwald ….In Delaware, it was widely speculated that Joe Biden would be replaced by his son, Beau, and after Beau took his name out of the running because he’s now serving in Iraq, the naming of the actual replacement — lone-time (Joe) Biden aide Ted Kaufmann — “upset local Democrats who believe the […]

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Familiar Name on Tax Scofflaw List

Filed in Delaware, National by on November 21, 2008 20 Comments

A reader tipped us off to the fact that the Delaware Division of Revenue has released their annual list of top tax delinquents.  On the list is an interesting name, James D Guckert.  Mr. Guckert is also known as Jeff Gannon. Gannon/Guckert became famous when he posed as a real reporter and made his way […]

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Breaking: Manlove Says Primary Too Close to General

Filed in Delaware by on November 11, 2008 15 Comments

Elaine Manlove, Delaware’s commissioner of elections, said that screw ups in recent elections arise from the fact that our primary is too close to the general election. It has been my opinion that we need to move our primary date, and Manlove just made the case for moving it very well on WDEL. Update: I […]

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Comment Rescue: Guy Nobody Knows Says Stupid Shit on News Nobody Watches

Filed in Delaware by on November 10, 2008 20 Comments

(video courtesy of Mike “M-Dawg” Matthews) Oh my… Would it be possible for Chip Flowers to be a worse spokesperson for Democrats on WHYY’s Delaware Tonight? Nobody talks to him, so he has no idea. And he compared Jack Markell’s Blueprint for a Better Delaware with Hitler’s Mein Kampf tonight. Dear WHYY Guys, You are […]

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DEwind: The Week That Changed History

Filed in Delaware by on November 10, 2008 1 Comment
DEwind: The Week That Changed History

There is no reason for me to do an election recap, because it has already been done along with the best headline of the week, More Analysis on Pamela Thonrburg’s “Snatch”. Damn you kavips, damn you! While I’m reading kavips, one would have to be blind regarding the Paradee-Thornburg “re-count” fiasco, However I’m with Al Mascitti on […]

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Scenes From Election Night

Filed in National by on November 9, 2008 2 Comments

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jp7G5eFMZ-s[/youtube]

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Our Next Senator: The Timing.

Filed in Delaware by on November 5, 2008 17 Comments

I keep hearing it bandied about that Jack Markell could be the one to appoint the next Senator.   This must be wishful thinking, because I can forsee no possible that he makes the appointment.  It all has to do with timing.  Joe Biden’s term as Vice President of the United States begins on January 20, […]

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DEwind: The Week That Was October 27th

Filed in Delaware by on November 3, 2008 11 Comments
DEwind: The Week That Was October 27th

Make sure you put in your picks for our Election Contest. The biggest news is in the Delaware blogosphere is quite simply the Insurance Commissioner contest between Karen Weldin Stewart, John Brady and Tom Savage. As Kavips wrote: Anyone who remembers Donna Lee Williams, must understand what an improvement these last four years have been. […]

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