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Attention, You’se Rat Bastids at Comcast…
Uh, has anyone checked out their Comcast channels today? If you have digital cable on all your sets, you will not be affected. However, if you don’t have the digital cable or, in the case of Casa di Somnambulo, you have the big screen in the living room with the digital cable, and the other […]
Michael Steele Threatens to Pull a Thurman Adams
Suggests he’ll quit if he is forced to serve merely as a figurehead. “Yo, yo, yo, Mr. Hip-Hop Nation Whitey took your checkbook much to your consternation Your shooting from the lip will be your ruination So keep your piehole zipped and let Rush do the oration.”
Secret Government in Session in Dover
Nancy Cook and the Joint Finance Committee began its budget markup yesterday, free, for hopefully the last time, from the disinfectant of sunshine. Virtually all of it took place behind closed doors, according to the News-Journal’s J. L. Miller. Allegedly an ‘Orientation’ session, as if 12 veteran legislators with decades of JFC experience required any […]
Supreme Court Rejects Ban on Medical Marijuana
And who’s to say it’s not for medicinal purposes? The Supreme Court today struck down appeals from two holdout California counties that had opposed the lifting of the state’s ban on medical marijuana. The action likely will clear the way for patients in San Diego and San Bernardino counties to seek county-issued identification cards that […]
Liberal Blogger Gets Big-Time Gig
Congrats to Ezra Klein, whose ‘Tapped’ blog over at The American Prospect has been ‘bulo must-reading for some time now. He will now write for the Washington Post. The Beast Who Slumbers wants to share these inspirational words from Klein’s farewell post. Because it demonstrates the potential and power of the blogosphere: But we’ve also learned […]
Question(s) of the Day
Why is the press focusing more on what Nancy Pelosi might or might not have been briefed on than on what war criminals Cheney, Bush, and their malodorous malefactors might or might not have done when it comes to torture? And, what will it take for the press to focus on what now appear to […]
Read All About It in the Sunday Papers-May 17 Edition
LEAD STORY: The (UK) Guardian: Wingnuts’ Ultimate Fate…To Be Eaten By Liberals? It’s happened once before! Now, it all becomes clearer to El Somnambulo. Vegetarianism is but a sinister plot by the wingnuts to prevent a repeat of what happened to their predecessors, the Neanderthals: One of science’s most puzzling mysteries – the disappearance of the […]
Breaking: Obama to Name Republican Guv as Ambassador to China
If you’re seeking to do away with your potential political rivals, you could do worse than sending them on a long sojourn to China. CNN is reporting that: President Obama has selected Republican Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman Jr. to be his ambassador to China, sources tell CNN. Huntsman, who speaks Mandarin Chinese and has adopted […]
‘Bulo’s Music For the Masses-‘Influenced by the ’80’s’ Edition
The Beast Who Slumbers roused himself from his torpor (don’t ask how, this is a family blog…) to forage for more musical nuggets from the ’80’s. In performing this aural archeology, he unearthed three great artifacts, one from the ’70’s, and two from the early ’90’s, each by artists who had success in the ’80’s. […]
“This Session of New Castle County Council Has Been Bought and Paid For By…”
Just when you think the ethically-challenged members of New Castle County Council can’t look worse than they already do, they prove that you thought wrong. According to Associated Press, WPVI-TV, and WDEL (anyone missing there?), New Castle County has voted to allow paid advertising on the Council website. The story is sketchy. ‘Bulo tried in […]
Carper Does It Again: Chooses Banks Over People
Sen. Bernie Sanders’ attempt to cap usurous interest rates on credit cards fell far short of passage today. The deliberative body that Sen. Richard Durbin referred to as ‘controlled by bankers’ easily beat back Sanders’ attempt to restore sanity to the credit card industry: The effort by Senator Bernie Sanders, the Vermont independent, drew only […]
Only in Delaware: Guess Who’s Handling the Gambling Bill Signing Logistics?
Gov. Markell will sign the Sports Gambling bill into law at Delaware Park (?!) tomorrow at 11:30 a.m. The person handling the logistics from Delaware Park’s side is…Jennifer Oberle, daughter of Rep. Bill Oberle. She is the Director of Advertising and Public Relations at the Park. Jennifer Oberle is an accomplished professional. She may well […]
Obama Orders EPA to Lead Chessy Bay Cleanup
More proof that elections matter. And great news for one of America’s most endangered waterways. From today’s Washington Post: President Obama took a dramatic step to revive faltering efforts to clean up the Chesapeake Bay yesterday, issuing an executive order that could empower the federal Environmental Protection Agency to set a more demanding timetable and […]
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