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DL Open Thread: Saturday, Feb. 10, 2024
Another day, another glitch. I’m thinkin’ solar flares or lunar earthquakes. But, I digress. The press has swarmed on Biden’s age to a degree they rarely have for Trump’s misdeeds. I’m not linking to anything from the pack mentality, which includes beltway Democrats. Suffice it to say that, at some point, the collective press will […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, Feb. 9, 2024
We’re BACK! Didja miss us? So many great conspiracy theories as to what happened: Feckless Joe forgot to pay the service bill. Jason inserted a poison pill into his Super Bowl prediction. Tucker had Vladimir deep-six us. Puck got Mossad to conduct cyber-warfare against us. Bethany Hall-Long–never mind, she can’t afford to take action against […]
DL Open Thread: Thursday, Feb. 8, 2024
Netanyahu To Biden: “Fuck You”. Waits until Blinken has almost completed delicate negotiations, then blows them up: Calling Hamas’ position “delusional,” Netanyahu renewed a pledge to destroy the Islamist movement, saying there was no alternative for Israel but to bring about its collapse. “The day after is the day after Hamas. All of Hamas,” he […]
FINALLY! Federal Appeals Court Rejects Trump’s Claim Of Absolute Immunity
Don’t know what took them so long. However: A federal appeals court has unanimously ruled that Donald Trump can be put on trial for trying to stay in power after losing the 2020 election, rejecting Trump’s sweeping claim of presidential immunity and moving the case one step closer to a jury. “For the purpose of […]
DL Open Thread: Sunday, February 4, 2024
Cause. Effect.: Cause: “The possible consequences of a changing concentration of the CO2 in the atmosphere with reference to climate, rates of photosynthesis, and rates of equilibration with carbonate of the oceans may ultimately prove of considerable significance to civilization,” Epstein, a researcher at the California Institute of Technology (or Caltech), wrote to the group in November […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, Feb. 3, 2024
Cause. Effect.: It is approaching four weeks since a federal appeals court considered Donald Trump’s audacious claim that he should enjoy absolute immunity from criminal prosecution for his actions as president. Under ordinary circumstances, it can take months for appellate judges to produce a ruling. In the current case, this delay borders on unconscionable. It […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, February 2, 2024
Sad: Oregon Senators Refuse To Work, Find Themselves Ineligible To Run For Reelection: The Oregon Supreme Court said Thursday that 10 Republican state senators who staged a record-long walkout last year to stall bills on abortion, transgender health care and gun rights cannot run for reelection. The decision upholds the secretary of state’s decision to […]
Delaware Political Weekly: January 26-February 1, 2024
1. The Congressional Hauls. Sarah McBride, of course, leads the way. The figures: Sarah McBride Q4 Raise – $457k Total Raise – $1.23m On Hand – $850k Eugene Young Q4 Raise – $104k Total Raise – $287k On Hand – $199k Colleen Davis Q4 Raise – $41k Total Raise – $145k On Hand – $76k […]
DL Open Thread: Thursday, February 1, 2024
NFL Broke Promise To Concussed Retired Players. Which is what happens when you have billionaires running the show: Finalized in 2015, the NFL concussion settlement resolved the most serious threat America’s most popular and lucrative sports league hasfaced. While the NFL admitted no wrongdoing, it promised to pay every former player who developed dementia or […]
‘Bulo’s Fave Tunes: January 2024
The songs are more mainstream this month, the artists less diverse. Don’t know why, just worked out that way. The good news?: Some great songs in the mix, not a clunker in the bunch: My daughters first saw Madi Diaz at a Young Friends event. She then opened a really neat Coffee House show at […]
Our PAL Val Screws Up ‘Permit To Purchase’: Incompetence Or Malice?
Longhurst promised to run the bill in January. Longhurst didn’t run the bill in January. From the News-Journal article: Despite Delaware House leadership’s pledge to pass gun safety legislation upon lawmakers’ return to Dover in January, a bill to require training and a permit prior to purchase of a handgun hasn’t made it to a […]
DL Open Thread: Sunday, Jan. 28, 2024
Arizona Rethugs Go Full MAGAt. Because it worked so well for them in 2020: Arizona Republicans chose a new party chair on Saturday, a move that tightened the grip on the state party hierarchy by far-right supporters of former President Donald J. Trump and that came days after a scandal that forced the last chairman […]
DL Open Thread: Sat., January 27, 2024
$83 Mill. With what could well be a $250 mill judgement against Trump by the end of next week. Sure he can appeal. However, he has to either pony up $83 mill in cash or, say, the deed to one of his properties, while the appeals take place. Interest accrues: Mr. Trump can pay the […]
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