El Somnambulo's Latest Posts
DL Open Thread: Thurs., June 6, 2019
Barclays Moves 500 Jobs Out Of Delaware. What’s the matter, wouldn’t the ‘non-public agency’ that doles out your state dollars for blackmail, extortion and bribery payments to companies meet Barclays latest ransom demands? Wouldn’t you like to know? I’d like to know. But, hey, they’re exempt from FOIA. State money being paid out to already obscenely-successful […]
General Assembly Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show: Weds., June 5, 2019
With very little fanfare, legislation legalizing and regulating the sale of marijuana has been scheduled for its committee hearing today. The House Revenue & Finance Committee will meet at 2:30 in the House Chamber to consider the bill. The opponents, aka the self-styled grownups like the Chamber and the Medical Society will be out in […]
DL Open Thread: Weds., June 5, 2019
Oops, He Did It Again: Parts Of Biden’s Green Plan Borrowed Word-For-Word–Without Attribution. Hey, when ya gotta come up with a plan in a hurry about something you’ve never thought about, proper citations are often the first thing to go. So much for learning from your mistakes. Rethugs Demand Disaster Relief–Vote Against Disaster Relief Bill. […]
Breaking: Carney Nominates Claire DeMatteis To Be Correction Head
Here’s the story from the Delaware State News. She’s got quite the job ahead of her. I’m pretty sure that Carney wanted her to replace Phelps ASAP even before Phelps announced his ‘retirement’.
Delaware General Assembly Pre-Game Show: Tues., June 4, 2019
After a pretty successful election in 2018, the last thing I expected was that progressives would go into June playing defense. But that’s where we are as this abysmal legislative session grinds toward its close. Of all issues, reinstituting the death penalty has become a top priority of all the ex-cops and cop bootlickers who […]
DL Open Thread: Tues., June 4, 2019
How Trump’s Lies–And The Repeating Of Them–Leads To Totalitarianism: Why? “The ideal subject of totalitarian rule,” wrote Hannah Arendt in her 1951 classic “The Origins of Totalitarianism,” “is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction (i.e., the reality of experience) and the distinction between […]
DL Open Thread: Mon., June 3, 2019
Theologians Ponder The Existential Excremental Question: Did Jesus Poop? I’ve long theorized that he did, but that they were the VERY BEST poops, poops to which all human beings should aspire. Trump Creates International Incident Before Touching Down In England. Calls London Mayor a ‘loser’: Sadiq Khan, who by all accounts has done a terrible […]
DL Open Thread: Sun., June 2, 2019
Trump’s Pressure Tactics Are Failing. He’s a one-trick paunchy pony, and the rest of the world has figured him out. Only the D’s still fear his bluster. BTW, India’s Next. Because he can. ‘Radiative’ Wood Could Cut Energy Costs In Half. Hey, we’re looking to expand our scientist demographic. If you ARE a scientist, and […]
DL Open Thread: Sat., June 1, 2019
Trump Ignored Everybody, Imposed Tariffs. Pretty much his entire ‘administration’ counseled against it. Didn’t matter. Biden Launched ‘Tirade’ Against Obamacare. Because he ‘knows people’, he ‘knows politics’. He’s ‘been doing this for 36 years’. Genius. The Debtors’ Prison Of Ferguson, MO. How poor people’s constitutional rights get slow-walked. Photos From The Darkest Corners Of The […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Recent Comments