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Open Thread For June 9, 2017
PM May’s Roll of the Dice Comes Up Snake Eyes. She’s still likely to be able to form a minority government with support from a Northern Ireland party though. But the election weakened her instead of making her Brexit initiative easier to accomplish. House Rethugs Vote To Gut Dodd-Frank. Not even the bankers think it’s […]
General Assembly Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show: Thurs., June 8 2017
After some 45 years as accepted law and practice in Delaware, the Delaware Coastal Zone Act appears to be on the fast track to being compromised as this bill cleared its House Committee yesterday. I think it’s disgraceful that the cynics in and around the General Assembly are trying to push this bill through before […]
Open Thread For June 8, 2017
Rethugs Rope-A-Dope D’s On Obamacare Repeal: The Senate is gonna pass a bill while everybody’s focused on Russia. Keep in mind that the Republican Party is now a criminal enterprise largely controlled by the Koch Brothers. Then ask yourself, “Why wouldn’t they pass such a bill?” They will. Russian Hookers? Like, what’s that all about? […]
Open Thread For June 7, 2017
Trump Nominates Christopher Wray as FBI Director. Timing purely coincidental, of course. BTW, Chris Christie was Wray’s biggest cheerleader for the post. Why Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross Found No Protesters in Saudi Arabia. If you guessed that protesters face execution for protesting, you’d be correct. Ross liked the fact that there were no protesters. John […]
General Assembly Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show: Weds., June 7, 2017
A woman’s reproductive rights will be protected in Delaware, regardless of what the US Supreme Court does. The House (barely) passed SS1/SB5 (Townsend), which protects those rights. The vote was 22Y, 16N, 3A. Not a single R voted for the bill. Not one. Maybe Deborah Hudson would have, but she was absent. 2 D’s voted […]
General Assembly Pre-Game Show For Tues., June 6, 2017
Let’s try to figure out what’s going on with this shutdown of JFC. Whether or not the Joint Finance Committee intended it as such, I think the result was the Kabuki Theatre we now see. By announcing these draconian cuts, JFC wittingly or unwittingly created the firestorm of public outcry that resulted. Which led to […]
Open Thread For June 6, 2017
NSA Director Rogers Might Drop a Bomb During Wednesday Testimony: Might not have to wait for Comey on Thursday. Trump Complains That Dems Refuse To Confirm Nominees He, Uh, Hasn’t Nominated Yet. Part 1: Defense appointees. Trump Complains That Dems Refuse To Confirm Nominees He, Uh, Hasn’t Nominated Yet. Part 2: Diplomacy and everything else. […]
Open Thread For June 5, 2017
That Russian Bank Is ‘Not A Bank’: It’s a government agency. No wonder Trump was in such a hurry to lift sanctions. Kushner might just have needed their money. It was always about the money. Must-read story of the day. Trump’s Gonna Trump. Tweets shade at London’s Mayor. Arab Alliance In Crisis: The sword dance […]
Open Thread For June 4, 2017
How Climate Change Deniers Won Over the Rethugs: Start with Citizens United and the Koch Brothers and move on from there. Fake facts abound. Great piece in the NY Times. The Tax-Exempt ‘Charities’ That Promote Propaganda and Fueled Trump: The REAL fake facts, often funded by the taxpayers. Goldman Sachs D Targeted in New Jersey […]
Open Thread For June 3, 2017
Prisons Report Consigned to the Friday News Dump. Bottom line: Yeah, the prisons suck, we know why, but we’ve got that $400 K deficit. You can go back to sleep now, John. I smell lawsuits. But, John, you might want to look at the recommendations from 2005 that were never implemented. That was during your […]
Open Thread For June 2, 2017
Trump Cites Fake Facts To Justify Exit From Paris Accords. What R will stand up to this nut? How To Fight Climate Change W/O Trump? Wonder if Trump will try to shut down this gambit. Leadership w/o the putative leader. ‘Patriotic Hacking’: Putin knows that he’s been caught. Time to put some distance between him […]
‘Bulo’s Fave Tunes: May, 2017
A really good month!: This one features the great Mavis Staples: Featuring the great Curtis Mayfield, one of my heroes: We close with Jason Isbell, who may be our most empathetic singer-songwriter today. This one gives me the chills:
Mo’ Better Dems: Everybody Into the Primary Pool…RD 1
The incumbent: Charles Potter. District Registration: 12,665 D; 1,444 R; 2,626 I. Those are not misprints. OK, why should Charles Potter be primaried? First, he and his family have fed at the public trough for far too long. And, yes, by ‘family’ I also include disgraced ex-Mayor Dennis P. Williams, who is Potter’s cousin. The […]
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