On May 18 Jason at Delaware Liberal is hosting a fundraiser for Jack Markell, our best hope for sanity in Delaware government. Using a small portion of your tax stimulus to invest in putting a competent leader, Mr. Markell, in the highest State office will guarantee a return to better lives for Delaware citizens. Essentially, attending the fundraiser will provide an ROI (”return on investment”) far exceeding the small donation asked.
Details of the party are below:
Jason Scott and Peter Schaeffer
cordially invite you to:
The 2nd Annual Markell Pizza Party
in honor of
Jack Markell
Delaware State Treasurer
&
Candidate for Governor
Sunday, May 18th, 2008 11am to 3pm
Pleasanton Abbey
1548 Persimmontree Lane
Dover, DE 19901
Menu
Real Brick Oven Pizza
Tandor Shish Kabobs
Saffron Rice
Salads & Heavy Hors d’oeuvres
Beverages
Suggested Donation: $50 per person or $60 per family (Hay Rides)
To RSVP, please email to Ken at Kennedy@markell.org
Under Delaware law, we are allowed to accept personal, PAC, partnership and
corporate contributions not to exceed $1,200 per person.
Posted by Discourse in General at 9:43 AM PDT
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The corporation that has made “$60 million” from the Insurance Commissioner, according to the Wilmington News Journal, has donated tons of money to Gene Reed, who, if elected, has the power to keep giving this corporation money. Mr. Reed responded that they are friends of his, he has been to picnics with the officers and directors, and they like him a lot. LINK.
For $60 million, I’d like Mr. Reed a lot too.
Posted by Discourse in General at 7:58 AM PDT
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All construction in Kent County requires a drainage pond; you know, one of those mosquito infested, algae covered, stinking puddles in front of just about every construction project that has more than two buildings.
The Dover Downs racetrack, covering a hundred plus acres of asphalt, doesn’t have one drainage pond.
Posted by Discourse in General at 7:47 PM PDT
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It was heavily rumored that at the end of the Nixon reign when Dick was being pressured to step down, the ‘inner circle’ disconnected the Red Button on the President’s desk. They were getting a little worried about his sanity.l
Based on this blog at Delaware Liberal, LINK, I think its time to uplug the communications devices in the Oval Office and replace the ‘football’ with a Genuine James Bond Agent Briefcase with Camera and Plastic Gun.
Posted by Discourse in General at 8:14 AM PDT
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I’m sure most of us have seen the Prince Harry recall from the front after having been ‘outed’. I actually admire that British leaders put their own children in with their committment to foreign policy (leaving aside whether the policy is or was a good/bad move in the first place).
I forget: how many of our Federal leaders and elected representatives who were gung-ho for the war have children who went nowhere near Iran or Afghanistan?
Posted by Discourse in General at 9:20 AM PST
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The OCPD arrested a state prosecutor (elected) for DUI and a handgun charge. LINK.
Why didn’t the drunk SOB waive his elected official club badge?
Posted by Discourse in General at 8:04 PM PST
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I haven’t heard a word about torture in the Presidential platforms or debates. If there is any one word that sums up the basis on which our country was founded, that sums up the protections we should have to protect our basic right to life discussed in The Federalist Papers, or embodies the attempt in our Constitution to prevent the strong from taking unfair advantage of the weak, it is torture: the abuse of power over another human being. Death is the penultimate abuse of another human being; it is torture, or the ability to make another human being wish for death, that is the ultimate abuse of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
Posted by Discourse in General at 10:35 AM PST
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There’s a saying that any idiot can handle a crisis because you have no choice; its the day-to-day grind that gets most of us. Conversely, its the crisis that magnifies and illuminates one’s true character.
Atkins got pulled over knowing he was in the crapper. Instead of taking a justifiable hit, he pulled rank, he used his office for purely personal and disreputable advantage, and, after ‘missing the bullet’, he continued the behavior that showed rather comtemptable character in the first place.
My question to the incumbent public servants who condemned Dave for his condemnation of Atkins is, “Uh, and how do you two characterize the moral character of Atkins’ behavior during his crisis with breaking the law, especially in light of the fact that he was a public servant at the time and acting in that role by using his credentials to avoid public sanction?”
The follow up question is to the Maryland MADD organization who showed its character in its response to this incident.
The problem here is not Dave; its those who by condemning Dave, i.e., two Delaware legislators and the Maryland MADD, object to “one of their own” being punished in the same manner that the average Joe or Jane would have been punished in the same situation.
Posted by Discourse in General at 7:50 AM PST
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Someone named Kirk Albertson has a theory that the Levy Court has ruined the real estate and construction industry in Delaware: LINK.
It seems to me that the real estate and construction industry is suffering because of a nation-wide bust caused by too much being built and too much being loaned and no one funding this development fever actually had the money to pay for it. The banks can’t support the loans both commercial and residential and we’re left with construction firms, real estate investors, and over-extended mortgagees with a lot of debt and no where to go but bankruptcy (unless the government bails them out with our tax dollars). Kirk’s theory is that we should borrow more and build more and this will make it all better. Unfortunately, the banks are a little gun-shy about lending any more money which means that building more houses that no one is able to buy will not offer Kirk the cure he promises.
The real estate industry, at least in Kent County, should get down on their knees and thank Levy Court for the foresight they exercised. If building had continued at the pace prior to the election of pro-County Levy Court Commissioners the developers and construction firms would have dug even farther into debt building houses no one can buy.
We know that the real estate developers who have been saved from their own greed want to thank Levy Court, but its hard to do. No one likes admitting they were stupid even to the person(s) who saved them from their own stupidity. It sort of proves the maxim “No good deed goes unpunished”.
Posted by Discourse in General at 6:03 AM PST
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Here shines the essence of Hillary. She stated today that Nader running “is not good for the country.” You know damn well that if Nader subjected the GOP to vote dilution, she’d grab the pompoms and tutu and cheer Nader like he invented husbandless orgasms.
Hillary
Has
No
Soul.
None.
Posted by Discourse in General at 7:56 PM PST
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To be a Republican today you need to believe:
1. Jesus loves you and shares your hatred of homosexuals and Hillary Clinton.
2. Saddam was a good guy when Reagan armed him, a bad guy when Bush’s Daddy made war on him, a good guy when Cheney did business with him, and a bad guy when Bush needed a ‘we-can’t-find-Bin-Laden’ diversion.
3. Trade with Cuba is wrong because the country is Communist, but trade with China and Viet Nam is vital to a spirit of international harmony.
4. The United States should get out of the United Nations, and our highest national priority is enforcing U.N. resolutions against Iraq.
5. A woman can’t be trusted with decisions about her own body, but multinational drug corporations can make decisions affecting all mankind without regulation.
6. The best way to improve military morale is to praise the troops in speeches, while slashing veterans’ benefits and combat pay.
7. If condoms are kept out of schools, adolescents won’t have sex.
8. A good way to fight terrorism is to belittle our longtime allies, then demand their cooperation and money.
9. Providing health care to all Iraqis is sound policy, but providing health care to all Americans is socialism. HMO’s and insurance companies have the best interests of the public at heart.
10. Global warming and tobacco’s link to cancer are junk science, but creationism should be taught in schools.
11. A president lying about an extramarital affair is an impeachable offense, but a president lying to enlist support for a war in which thousands die is solid defense policy.
12. Government should limit itself to the powers named in the Constitution, which include banning gay marriages and censoring the Internet.
13. The public has a right to know about Hillary’s cattle trades, but George Bush’s driving record is none of our business.
14. Being a drug addict is a moral failing and a crime, unless you’re a conservative radio host. Then it’s an illness and you need our prayer for your recovery.
15. Supporting ‘Executive Privilege’ in perpetuity for every Republican ever born, who will be born, or who might be born.
16. What Bill Clinton did in the 1960’s is of vital national interest, but what Bush did in the ’80’s is irrelevant.
17. Support for hunters who shoot their friends and blame them for wearing orange vests similar to those worn by the quail.
Posted by Discourse in General at 6:14 PM PST
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How many state run enterprises are plagued by management problems ignored by the administrative-political-appointee heads?
Health insurance is a highly technical business. Health insurers know what they are doing when it comes to managing care. Maybe this isn’t always good, but the claims managers know what the UCR (usual and customary rates) are and what is necessary and what is ‘bill-padding’.
If the State took over management of health care, and implemented a budget based on the annual amount of money spent on insurance and on payments directly to medical care providers, this budget would be spent in less than three months, leaving no one with health insurance. The State has neither the personnel nor the skills to manage health care.
So how about baby steps? How about screening programs? After the hurricane in New Orleans, many of the populace were screened for basic health problems. Huge numbers of problems discoverable by relatively inexpensive procedures were disclosed: high blood pressure, high blood sugar, high cholesterol. Why can’t we start with these cheap tests? Complete public take-over of an incredibly technical business will simply not work.
Posted by Discourse in General at 2:53 PM PST
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Senator Rose Henry is holding hearings in order to design regulations and monitoring of cemeteries. So there will be someone in charge of observing and enforcing “cemetery regulations”. With our tax dollars. Jesus wept. LINK
And this is the woman who said the torture at the State mental hospital was a bunch of made-up BS?
Posted by Discourse in General at 7:52 AM PST
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Levy Court denied permission for another huge development near Cheswold. The reason for denial was that there are no roads, traffic lights, electricity, sewage, drainage, police, firemen, etc. to handle a huge development on a big piece of soggy ground. The cost to the County for infrastructure (i.e., our tax dollars) would have been enormous.
The developers sued. Their basic position was that the ordinance involved said they were allowed one house per acre, and by God, that means they can build on any acre in existence, no matter how poorly suited or expensive to the county. There’s profit in them swamps, and the developers mean to get it.
Well, the judge agreed with Levy Court. The ordinance might allow a house per acre, but that doesn’t mean that all other considerations, such as sensible planning, must be ignored.
Word is, the developers are going to spend a lot more money in the Supreme Court to wrestle their tax-dollar-funded profits away from the common sense of Levy Court.
To the Democrat Commissioners, and the one good Republican Commissioner: Good on ya’, boys.
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