Delaware Watch

Goodbye for Now

DanaVGarrett@gmail.com (Delaware Watch) — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 08:53:14 PDT

You might have noticed that lately I have only been sporadically active on Delaware Watch. There is a reason for that. I am now employed teaching at a local college. My new duties consume all of...

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The USA Led the World in Weapons Sales in 2008

DanaVGarrett@gmail.com (Delaware Watch) — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 21:48:35 PDT

For a nation that supposedly wants to see peace in the world, we (the USA) certainly love to merchandize the weapons of war: The United States accounted for more than two-thirds of foreign weapons...

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Working and in Need of Food Stamps

DanaVGarrett@gmail.com (Delaware Watch) — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 13:52:03 PDT

In the USA you can be employed and still be very poor: The number of working Americans turning to free government food stamps has surged as their hours and wages erode, in a stark sign that the...

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Seeing Through a Glass Darkly: Our Coming Muted Glimpse into the Obama White House

DanaVGarrett@gmail.com (Delaware Watch) — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 22:56:22 PDT

They hemmed and hawed and hedged, but it seems that mostly the Obama administration is coming through on one of its campaign promises: President Barack Obama said Friday that his administration will...

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Major Medical Fraud Case and the Economic Right Wing is Silent

DanaVGarrett@gmail.com (Delaware Watch) — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 22:03:57 PDT

Yea, trust the private sector all right: Drug maker Pfizer Inc. will pay a record fine to settle a federal investigation into illegal marketing practices, as the Obama administration signaled its...

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The Republicans Want to End Medicare

DanaVGarrett@gmail.com (Delaware Watch) — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 15:49:43 PDT

Paybacks are a bitch, Republicans! clipped from www.huffingtonpost.comRepublican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele penned an op-ed in the Washington Post on Monday accusing Democrats of...

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Recalculating the USA’s Poverty Rate

DanaVGarrett@gmail.com (Delaware Watch) — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 15:39:06 PDT

If we use a scalpel instead of an ax in dissecting the poverty rate in the USA, we get a different but, sadly, grimmer picture: The poverty rate among older Americans could be nearly twice as high as...

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The Little Guy is Violated and the Economic Right Wing is Silent

DanaVGarrett@gmail.com (Delaware Watch) — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 07:09:07 PDT

Where is the economic right-wing outrage for this violation of the "little guy?" Low-wage workers are routinely denied proper overtime pay and are often paid less than the minimum wage, according...

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It's Coming Soon

DanaVGarrett@gmail.com (Delaware Watch) — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 17:45:09 PDT

Capitalism: A Love Story will appear in movie theaters on October 2, 2009.

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Cash for Clunkers: A Stellar Success

DanaVGarrett@gmail.com (Delaware Watch) — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 14:43:43 PDT

It's enough to make an economic conservative gnash his teeth in anger, but the truth must be said: the cash for clunkers program was a stellar success: The popular Cash for Clunkers program generated...

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Ted Kennedy is Dead

DanaVGarrett@gmail.com (Delaware Watch) — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 23:21:05 PDT

He lived too long to receive the mythologizing that his older brothers received and, so, strode among us more like a man than a demigod. Of course, the mythologizing of Jack and Bobby placed them at...

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Limbaugh: American Penises Endangered by Obama

DanaVGarrett@gmail.com (Delaware Watch) — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 15:55:33 PDT

We've had evocations of "death panels," government run "reeducation camps," "death books," (the standard) socialism, Nazism, (locally) fascism and so on. But now Rush Limbaugh has come up with a new...

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Losing Expensively: Delaware’s Awful Day in Court

DanaVGarrett@gmail.com (Delaware Watch) — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 20:12:31 PDT

I should have saved the article about it, but the state of Delaware is paying private attorneys from two law firms a lot of money to represent the state in a lawsuit filed by the USA's major...

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Leon Panetta Should Be Fired

DanaVGarrett@gmail.com (Delaware Watch) — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 20:14:34 PDT

If CIA Director Leon Panetta cannot accept that it's a proper role of the Department of Justice to investigate and, if necessary, prosecute anyone in the CIA for possibly breaking federal laws...

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Rand Paul: A Chip Off the Same Lunatic Block

DanaVGarrett@gmail.com (Delaware Watch) — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 16:31:56 PDT

Like his father Ron Paul, who sponsored the American Sovereignty Restoration Act (ASRA), which would withdraw the US from the United Nations, Rand Paul (who is running for the US Senate for the state...

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The Torturers Were Not Prosecuted

DanaVGarrett@gmail.com (Delaware Watch) — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 07:55:48 PDT

Guess what happened to the CIA officer who threatened a terror suspect with a gun? He got a slap on the wrist. That's all. A CIA officer who allegedly used a gun to intimidate a captured al-Qaeda...

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Mock Executions and Power Drills

DanaVGarrett@gmail.com (Delaware Watch) — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 11:13:54 PDT

Is there anything that interrogators didn't do to terrorist suspects in USA custody? A long-suppressed report by the Central Intelligence Agency's inspector general to be released next week reveals...

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An Idiot Rich Man

DanaVGarrett@gmail.com (Delaware Watch) — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 15:39:24 PDT

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg is well known for his business acumen and philanthropy, but when it comes to understanding wealth disparity in the USA, apparently he is an idiot: Billionaire...

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Anonymous Blogger Unmasked by Court

DanaVGarrett@gmail.com (Delaware Watch) — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 15:10:25 PDT

Anonymous blogging is supposed to give the blogger a level of protection that the self-identified blogger lacks: freedom from the repercussions that come from self disclosure. But the veil of...

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That's Telling Them, Barney

DanaVGarrett@gmail.com (Delaware Watch) — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 07:46:09 PDT

The contempt of the kooks, cranks, crackpots, red- and Nazi-baiters deserve to be met with contempt, the more condescending the better.

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House Democrats and Unions Revolt Over Public Option

DanaVGarrett@gmail.com (Delaware Watch) — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 17:46:56 PDT

If President Barack Obama won't stand up for the public option in health care reform, some liberal and progressive members of Congress will. They pledge not to vote for any health care reform that...

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Richard Korn Announces Run for Delaware State Auditor

DanaVGarrett@gmail.com (Delaware Watch) — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 14:21:15 PDT

Citizen advocate Richard Korn has announced his run for Delaware State Auditor. Presumably, his opponent will be the long-time incumbent Tom Wagner. (I am not certain if Wagner has yet announced...

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Is Obama Trying to Have It Both Ways on DOMA?

DanaVGarrett@gmail.com (Delaware Watch) — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 19:19:55 PDT

Is President Barack Obama trying to have it both ways on the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA)? President Obama made clear Monday that he favors the repeal of the Defense of Marriage Act, and intends...

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It's Likely That Cocaine is on Your Dollar Bill

DanaVGarrett@gmail.com (Delaware Watch) — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 12:35:38 PDT

This is a shocker. There is a 90% chance that traces of cocaine can be found on your folding money. I would have never thought the percentage would be so--not to pun--high. clipped from...

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Did Kathleen Sebelius Misspeak, Really?

DanaVGarrett@gmail.com (Delaware Watch) — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 20:42:37 PDT

Did Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius misspeak when she said earlier today that the Obama administration was willing to drop the public option in favor health insurance co-ops? ...

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