From WGMD….
There was a great deal of speculation about whether or not State Representative John Atkins would run in the special election to fill the vacancy left by his own resignation. However Atkins has now confirmed that he will not enter the race. Atkins had stated on WGMD that the 41st district sent him there to do a job, and that there was a lot of people in support of him going back to finish that job, however Atkins reconsidered that possibility. Atkins resigned earlier this week after months of controversy surrounding the incidents that took place back in October, in which he was stopped by Ocean City Maryland police for suspected drunk driving and then involved in a domestic incident at his home
God. He’s such a swinger, on this issue.
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This should prove to be some very entertaining (and frighteningly prophetic) reading for your Friday.
By happenstance we ran across this article from Celia Cohen’s Grapevine, circa May 2003.
Some key excerpts:
Not only was the mood giggly, but Atkins already had gotten himself a reputation in Legislative Hall as having what was typically described as “a lot of puppy in him.”
He makes his living in the trash business — which meant that his political inexperience was compounded by his unfamiliarity with the subject matter of his legislation.
“Where I come from in Sussex County, a Saturday Night Special is a hot woman and a six-pack of beer.”
Charming.
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While not generally the cultural sphere that DWA most often inhabits, we feel it necessary to, every once in a while, whet your intellectual appetites. Much like Oprah, Laura Bush, and Aleister Crowley - we love books and felt it appropriate to bring a choice book for your perusing pleasure oer the weekend.
This week’s pick, the famed Babysitter’s Club series.
This series is about a group of middle school students living in the fictional town of Stoneybrook, Connecticut. They run a business called The Baby-sitters Club, in which parents call during their club meetings (which take place M-W-F, 5:30-6:00pm) and schedule a babysitter for a certain day/time. The club runs financially on dues and fundraising, and the babysitters write diaries of their jobs, to help each other. The club are also best friends, although they go through many conflicts throughout the series.
Babysitters often find themselves in the midst of conflict. They must routinely cope with the rigors of physically and emotionally draining situations involving the swinging emotions of parents. They often resign themselves to nights of homework at home before quickly concluding that algebra isn’t a currency commonly accepted and thus are relegated back to daily grind of generally assembling children’s evening activities. This occurs often times only mere days after their initial decision. Babysitters are generally immature, indecisive, impressionable children - susceptible to flights of fit and fancy. They exist without the coping mechanisms grown adults often have accrued over decades of professional and personal experience. The Babysitter’s Club does a wonderful job of exploring the naive nature of youth and how the less mature in our society often react to situations that most adults would find relatively commonplace.
For more information, visit the publisher.
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In honor of American patriot Stephen Colbert’s popular segment, Better Know a District, we felt it apt to explore Delaware’s 41st representative district in light of John Atkins’ recent pronouncement of a very possible write-in candidacy.
We will begin our engagement with this shining gem of Delaware’s deep south by familiarizing ourselves with its major metropolitan outpost: Millsboro, Delaware.
Ahh Millsboro, what other municipality in the state could claim such intellectual luminaries as…. John Atkins.
Indeed, Millsboro has always been known for its mistakes. In fact, its very origins are “an accident of geography.” Many, many other boring things happened after that, including, but not limited to: white settlers, strawberries, dams, rockfish, Indian massacres, cypress swamps, tanneries, Civil War, tomatoes, holly wreaths, chickens, and, ironically, mills. Indeed the town was originally formed as a conglomeration between two local villages in 1837 and originally named Millsborough. The local townspeople, noticing this was the correct spelling of the word, “borough”, quickly changed the name to “Millsboro” thus saving many of the residents the embarassment of continually pronouncing the silent “gh”. (Carter)
As the town approaches its 4th century, this is essentially everything noteworthy that has occurred thus far.
FUN MILLSBORO FACT!
On July 21, 1930, the temperature in Millsboro rose to 110°F (43°C), the highest temperature ever recorded in Delaware. However, on January 17, 1893, the temperature fell to -17°F (-27°C), the coldest temperature ever seen in Delaware. Thus, it is only one of two cities in the United States to record both its state’s extreme temperatures. [Wikipedia]
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“There is a ground-swell of support here for John Atkins.” -John Atkins
If there was any question as to whether or not John Atkins was certifiably insane, please take note, he’s now referring to himself in the third person. Yes, that little “knucklehead” who has “never had an issue with alcohol” until that “one bad night”, is seriously exploring a write-in candidacy for the upcoming special election. The special election for the seat he just vacated…
WGMD has the story here [link unstable but the audio is precious]
We suppose his logic is this:
1) Leadership in Dover despises John Atkins and wants him to leave.
2) John Atkins doesn’t want John Atkins to leave.
3) Public tells John Atkins that he’s shaming his poisition.
3) John Atkins gives in to leadership and submits John Atkins’ resignation.
4) John Atkins decides to give a big F.U. to leadership by running again, thusly reestablishing lost legitimacy if he indeed is given the nod by the voters of his district.
He’s not exactly far off…
If the voters of the 41st do indeed vote for him again, they will have made it loud and clear that they want John Atkins’ leadership. He will take his seat again and other than being a total social pariah in the General Assembly, he will have, theoretically, out-manuevered everyone by not only getting his seat back but also by avoiding any official punishment. And therein, my friend, lies the rub.
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John Atkins has resigned his position. Post-mortem comments go below.
We’re pretty sure the wake will be at Smitty McGee’s tonight, it’s Team Trivia!
In honor of John Atkins, DWA presents the official John Atkins shot:
1/2 oz JagermeisterŽ herbal liqueur
1/2 oz MalibuŽ coconut rum
1/2 oz pineapple juice
In context:
Legislator: “Can I have two John Atkins’?”
Bartender: “Coming up!”
The Lobby House should have these on special sometime soon.
Please drink responsibly.
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The big day has arrived and many of you are eagerly awaiting what will happen in the General Assembly today. Weeks of back door discussions, political manueverings, and a hell of a lot of political intrigue have led us to what may be one of the most explosive debates ever pursued by the Delaware House of Representatives.
House Bill 66: AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 21 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO STOPPING FOR SCHOOL BUSES.
Synopsis: The bill requires the driver of any vehicle that approaches a school bus from the front or rear to stop at least 100 feet away from the bus when the red lights on the bus are flashing. A person who fails to do so must complete a mandatory driver training course in addition to the other penalties already in the penalty subsection of 21 Del. C. §4166.
Riveting.
Unfortunately, our legislators may not get to HB 66 today. Rather, I’ve heard word of some sort of resolution involving jager shots and betrayal. John Atkins (not of the acclaimed diet family) is going to have some ’splainin to do.
These are the options, as we see them, in order of possibility:
1) Censure.
They censure him under the currently drafted resolution. No one is happy. We complain for weeks. Atkins gets his pension and is never heard of again until his blockbuster new book, “If I Did It…”, is released shortly before his liver explodes.
2) Expulsion
Some courageous soul stands up and offers a resolution to have him expelled from the House. The world’s polarity is shifted by the sudden rise of every House Democrat to second the motion. In revenge, Atkins tells the world about the seedy Delaware political underground… then throws up, claims he’s really not drunk, hugs someone he doesn’t know, cries, begins to sing Journey’s “Don’t Stop Believin”, throws up again, tells you he loves you and that you guys should really hang out more, buys a round of Jameson shots, drives home.
3) Jesus returns.
We hear Representative Hocker has an “in”.
4) Resignation.
A sudden sense of moral responsibility envelopes him and he breaks down on the House floor. Nancy Wagner cleaves him to her bosom and a hearty sob session ensues. His tell-all book, “How to Make Make Love Like a Porn Star: A Cautionary Tale” is never published due to alleged copyright violations.
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An interesting article on one of my biggest Delaware pet peeve: the fucking black and white license plate assholes. And now, the whole country knows how retarded we are…
Most people outside Rhode Island don’t understand John Raiche’s fascination with low-numbered license plates. After all, a license plate is just a license plate.
Unless that plate is from Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Illinois, Delaware or Washington, D.C., that is. In those states, low-numbered plates - four digits or fewer - have a mysterious allure, making them so desirable that drivers bequest them to relatives, pay large sums of money for them and jump at every opportunity to get them.
In Rhode Island and Delaware, registration rules allowed people to keep plates for years and even will them to family members.
In 1994, a Delaware resident paid $182,500 for plate number 9.
Tom Gordon needs to be checking the vehicle registration on the douchebag with the number 9 license plate. I mean, there’s nothing else that that amount of money could have gone towards…
Guilt trip? Yes. True? Absolutely.
I hope you know, you’re going to hell.
Low-Numbered License Plates A Sign Of Status [Hartford Courant]
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Now, Cormier, here is a real beach story you should be blogging…
Taken from, I swear to God, “WasteNews.com”….
“The city of Lewes, Del., will pay $55,000 to settle alleged clean water violations at its wastewater treatment plant.
The EPA cited the plant for allegedly exceeding permit discharge limits for several pollutants, including fecal coliform, total suspended solids, total residual chlorine and biochemical oxygen demand. The plant also allegedly illegally bypassed its treatment system allowing the discharge of some sewage not fully treated.”
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Delaware town hit with fine for wastewater violations [WasteNews.com]
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And now, an article to show us, in a very clear picture - what fucking losers and whores truly prance around Dewey Beach. Maybe someday, Mommy won’t even have to sign the house lease…
Did I mention that… I despise Dewey Beach? Spoiled crackers and assholes… the whole lot of them. Now, when Jesus comes back… it’s the first place to go….
Shout-outs to Ryan Cormier for taking a break from commenting on the latest Justin Timberlake developments, to actually write a real newspaper article.
DMX: “How many times I gotta tell you ****** I have no friends…”
Policing Party Town [NJ]
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The News Journal makes broad, sweeping statements on serious issues of international affairs. They solve them in one editorial. They’re smarter than you. We make what they’re really saying, a bit clearer.
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Finally, the beleaguered negotiators framing Iraq’s new constitution exhaled. [And they were really high] And it’s a good thing too. [They never pass the piece.] The Aug. 15 deadline that the Bush administration was riding them toward [Bush is a cowboy.] risked cementing untenable conflicts into a government compact only to fracture or explode later. [Explode like an Arab with a British subway token.]
Even with another week to work [of which, Bush is vacationing], the decisions to be resolved are huge: the degree of autonomy of ethnic provinces, the role of Islamic religious law, women’s rights and distribution of oil wealth. [What? They’re Islamic? Let’s put #4 at the top please.]
Even with answers on paper [rolling paper], these matters will test civil administrators and courts, as they surely have other more stable nations. [Like the Netherlands, or perhaps, Belgium] The fact that Iraq’s entire civic order is being reconstituted makes consensus and legitimacy now, at the origin, of primary importance. [We need to marry Iraq and make it an honest woman. It’s baby-daddy ran out… illegitimate babies everywhere.]
The American-imposed political time line [Bush is an imperialist bastard] from the national election held in January to select a parliament, then this constitutional draft, then another election in December is meant to vest Iraqis in their own future [and not even a cool vest, a Richard Simmons one], apart from and beyond the foreign occupation that incites insurgents [Please. Save us Cindy Sheehan]. This pressure has asked a lot of Iraq’s disparate politicians treading the labyrinth of ethnic, religious and economic interests, even the risk of assassination. [Pshaw.. death? in Iraq? Get the fuck out of here.]
The United States’ parallel interest has been moving Iraq’s stabilization and reconstruction well enough along so that American troops eventually can pull out. [Because God knows, any other contraceptive method would get the conservatives pissy.] President Bush is a late convert to the efficacy of diplomacy. [Bush is a fucking moron] The American representatives that have airlifted in, including the secretaries of state and defense, did keep up momentum on the constitution. But now push has come to shove. [What? Who is shoving? They have fucking bombs and shit. There’s no shoving there.] The Iraqis cannot be dictated to without confirming suspicions of American intent. [America is evil.]
It would seem that a federalist government among the provinces, recognizing their ethnic or religious differences, is one way forward. [Not treading, but moving now… I see.] Iraqi women accustomed to secular freedom even under dictator Saddam Hussein have few high-level advocates now. [Saddam loved the ladies.] But it would be regrettable if women’s rights to participate in the new society were sacrificed, when all hands and minds are needed to rebuild. [And I’d like an Iraqi woman’s hands on me right now.] The economic importance of the oil fields in the northern Kurdish and southern Shiite areas ideally should benefit the nation as a whole, rather than leverage local power. [Gas prices are high. I want to get drunk off of sweet, sweet petroleum.]
But whatever form is chosen, Iraqis have to do it for themselves, and they obviously need more time. [It’s always harder to do it by yourself.] As for our interests, President Bush has said repeatedly that he will not set a timetable for withdrawing troops. [He likes to wait til just before climax.] He should back off from a political timetable for whipping up an Iraqi government within weeks as well, so long as the work goes on. [Iraqi government is like quiche.]
Iraqis’ timeout avoids signing off constitution fractured with flaws [NJ]
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Lower Delaware never ceases to amaze me… neither does the local newspaper’s softcore erotica.
“I think she has a very wide esophagus, a large mouth and huge capacity (for food),” he said. (Please note, the ellipses added by the paper - so you didn’t think it was… ya know…)
“At first, it was hard,” Ms. Thomas said. “I learned that I had to swallow fast and not chew all the way. I chew as little as possible.”
Thank you for watching those teeth.
Success not hard to swallow [State News]
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Rehoboth voters go to the polls - they do love poles [NJ]
“Little Delaware” has a Hollywood moment [NY Times]
DelDOT can’t get their shit together
Irene might smack us, but we like it rough [State News]
7-11 agrees to tobacco settlement with Delaware [The Advocate]
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Oh man, it’s like… these people knew I was guest writing this week.
Holla back to Will Bunch at Attytood for this gem.
Santorum visited the diamond state earlier this week on his whirlwind book tour. At this point, I’m sure it is available for 59 cents and a free tote bag over at Newsmax. Here are some prime excerpts. According to the Daily News, this is what Santorum said…
How dangerous popular culture is for kids - “You know you wouldn’t send your child into parts of east Wilmington at 11 o’clock at night alone if they’re 5 years old,” Santorum said. “But when you sit a child down at a computer chat room, you’re doing pretty much the same thing to their mind. It’s a very dangerous place. Many parents don’t realize that.”
Bunch’s view…
But that first sentence…the way he said it. We’re not experts on the lay of the land in Wilmington, but it didn’t take too much Googling to confirm that East Wilmington is, ahem, the black neighborhood. And so he tells his audience that “you” wouldn’t send “your” kid there at night. Apparently, he felt pretty confident that no one in his audience, perish the thought, might actually be trying to raise his or her own child there.
Yes, Wilmington has blacks… I never knew East Wilmington had more than other parts, but apparently so. (Note: Bunch’s link goes to pictures of 1930’s Wilmington). Everyone already knew that the West side kicks the east side’s ass (R.I.P TUPAC), and allegedly, Santorum was involved with Biggie’s murder… allegedly. This East-West thing with him, it has deep roots.
Obviously, we have irrefutable evidence that Santorum hates fags and black people. Obviously. If you don’t think so, then, take your Koran-reading, non troop-supporting ass back to France.
The story gets more interesting when examining Santorum’s wife’s book (who, I believe, should be busy “rearin the childrens” and not doing all that book learnin’)…
Notice his wife’s book… are those ghosts? No. They’re that white. Also what kind of conservative Republican lets his son wear fucking capri pants? Uhm. Hello…
Both of the Santorum family’s books are published by the Intercollegiate Studies Institute. That is the conservative think tank run out of Wilmington that hosted Santorum earlier this week. Their staff is diverse. And by that, I mean a few of the women were wearing pant-suits.
Santorum visits Delaware [Newsday]
Out of Africa, into Delaware [NJ]
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Taken from WDEL.com…
A non-traditional high school graduating class gets a special message of sharing in an address from Delaware State Treasurer Jack Markell.
The 27 graduates from the Delaware Correctional Center near Smyrna graduated from the James H. Groves Adult High School.
Markell called the inmates’ graduation an investment in themselves and told them to share what they have learned with other inmates in his speech Thursday night.
The Groves school is a secondary school for adults who haven’t completed their high school education.
Markell says the inmates should use their accomplishment to better their lives and inspire those around them.
… or become Governor.
Perhaps they will “share” with their “fellow inmates”, the meth recipes they perfected in chemistry class. Or AIDS.
Also of note, this graduating class is second only to Cape Henlopen High School for students “Most-Likely to get Ass-Fucked”. Cum Laude takes on a whole different perspective.
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University of Delaware (allegedly) hates Jews. Bloomberg (a Scotch-Irish name, I believe) is on the case. Let’s roll the excerpt…
Alpha Epsilon Pi contends in the Delaware Chancery Court suit that the university has breached its rights to freedom of religion and speech. The Delaware chapter of Alpha Epsilon, started in 1925, was banned five years ago for breaking the school’s code of conduct….
…The university, in its response to the suit, said Alpha Epsilon may be barred until at least 2009 because it held an “unlawful'’ meeting in October. The university doesn’t want to talk to Alpha Epsilon “until at least four additional years have passed during which there have been no improper attempts to recolonize,'’ the school said in a response prepared by lawyers from Pittsburgh-based Klett Rooney Lieber & Shorling….
…Alpha Epsilon, founded in 1913 by Jewish students at New York University, has 120 affiliates in the U.S. and Canada. Alumni include comedian Jerry Lewis, Veg-O-Matic inventor Ron Popeil, singers Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel and actor Gene Wilder, according to the fraternity’s Web site…. 
The last time I checked… getting people fucked up on alcohol during church was a Christian thing. The school is targeting the Jewish students who serve underage kids booze, but what about the thousands of children victimized every Sunday by the blood of Christ. Heil Roselle.
Also, this whole Jewish discrimination thing falls in line with UD’s announcement to replace the famed “Fighting Blue Hen” with the “Swastiska-branded Pig”….
NOTE: Do not confuse RONCO’s “Veg-o-matic” with the more entertaining, but less practical, Vag-O-Matic Part I. (If you’re at work…. or possess any sense of decency, I’d leave that link alone.)
Delaware Fights Jewish Fraternity’s Suit Against Discrimination [Bloomberg]
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Hi. I’m back bitches. More from me later, but before I go…
Trinidad Navarro is muy caliente.
Taylor-Levine gets her bread buttered [NJ]
-Tacit.
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