Archive for May, 2019
Highlands Bunker – E17 – We Have a Boomer Problem
Highlands Bunker – E17 – We Have a Boomer Problem Former News Journal Reporter and WDEL broadcaster Al Mascitti joins RE Vanella in the bunker to talk about Bernie and Biden, America’s Boomer problem, and whether or not Delaware is really moving to the left. Mp3 version
Why Chasing Lost Democrats Is a Fool’s Errand
Simply put, because that’s not where the votes are. Those voters tend to be older, a pool shrinking faster than the Aral Sea. Pew Research Center has released a report that found younger generations outvoted Boomers again in 2018, after doing so for the first time in 2016. Those younger voters were also the reason […]
Song of the Day 5/31: Leon Redbone, “Diddy Wah Diddy”
Leon Redbone died Thursday. As best anyone could tell, he was 69. Most people first saw him on TV in the mid-’70s, maybe on Saturday Night Live or the Tonight Show. He usually came on with the briefest of introductions, sometimes alone, sometimes accompanied by, say, a single clarinet, a droll, mysterious man out of […]
DL Open Thread: Fri., May 31, 2019
How The Forces Of Ee-vil Killed The Gun Bills. The money grafs: It included a growing guns rights group on Facebook flexing its muscles, gun business owners getting more involved, and pro-gun union members threatening to pull campaign dollars from legislators who supported the bills, according to some gun rights advocates and union leaders. “The union pressure […]
‘Bulo’s Fave Tunes: May 2019
A couple of slices of Orbison Noir are but two (or three) of the many standouts in a great month for music. Arranged alphabetically as always. Enjoy this month’s feast for your ears: The band’s name is Goon: He may already be too big for the Gild Hall, but we’re trying: One of our fave […]
Song of the Day 5/30: Wilson Pickett, “Hey Jude”
This is not only one of the best R&B covers of a pop song you’ll ever hear, the guitar by Duane Allman is credited with giving birth to the entire Southern Rock genre. Wilson Pickett recorded it at Fame Studios in Muscle Shoals, where Allman was working as a session guitarist. It was Allman who […]
DL Open Thread: Thurs., May 30, 2019
Climate Change A Hoax? Signs Point To No. The new normal? Could This Be The End Of Bibi? Until the stake gets driven through his black heart, I say no. But he is Israel’s Trump. Or Trump is ‘our’ Netanyahu. State Budget Completed. Rep. Quin Johnson is all in on budget-smoothing: “The main philosophy of […]
Lisa Blunt Rochester Would Like You To Know the She is In Washington DC…”working”
In fact, she is not only working but “leading”
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, Congresswoman Lisa Blunt Rochester (DE-AL), issued the following statement after voting to pass H.R. 1994, the Setting Every Community Up for Retirement Enhancement (SECURE) Act of 2019. The SECURE Act would make significant reforms to help ensure Americans obtain a financially sound retirement. The bill includes the Increasing Access to a Secure Retirement Act, a key provision led by Reps. Blunt Rochester and Tim Walberg that will make it easier for small businesses to offer annuities as part of an employee’s retirement benefits package. Rep. Blunt Rochester is also co-sponsor of the Secure Act, which passed with broad bipartisan support in a 417-3 vote.
Good to know.
Who is your VP pick?
The VP spot should go to the person who comes in 2nd. That campaign has all the juice and enthusiastic supporters, keep them working, right? But nobody listens to me.
So who do you like for the VP spot? I like Mayor Pete, Senator Harris, Senator Warren and Joe Biden could actually make a good VP. I guess if I had to pick one from them, I think Mayor Pete has the go for the jugular instinct a VP needs.
Song of the Day 5/29: The Isley Brothers, “Summer Breeze”
Used to be that R&B acts would cover mainstream pop hits routinely, often improving them in the process. You can’t find a better example than what the Isley Brothers did with this Seals and Crofts hit. They slowed it from mid-tempo to ballad, dressed it in Ron Isley’s passionate vocals and Ernie’s expressive electric guitar […]
DL Open Thread: Wednesday, May 29, 2019
DowDupont Pays Off Congress To Stop Ban Of Poisonous Chemical. And, no, LBR is not a sponsor of the ban. And, yes, DowDupont was her second most generous campaign contributor. Oh, and she received more DowDupont $$’s than all but one opponent of the bill, behind only one Rep. John Moolenaar of Michigan. The only […]
Oh Lord – The Joe Biden campaign is living in a Clintonesque disreality bubble
In 2016 two candidates had impressive attendance numbers at speeches. One of them was Trump, the other wasn’t the eventual Dem nominee. There is no denying that pitiful crowd size is a bad sign, so as Duncan Black noted, you don’t even have to dislike Biden to cringe at this bullshit. To Biden’s campaign, attendance […]
Capitalism Is Now A Legitimate Diagnosis, Says World Health Organization
Capitalism is now classified as “a syndrome conceptualized as resulting from chronic workplace stress that has not been successfully managed,” according to WHO. The stress, depression and lack of feeling in control that comes with capitalism are finally being formally recognized by the medical community: Capitalism is now an official workplace syndrome. The International Classification […]
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