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DL Open Thread: Saturday, March 11, 2023
Flooding Ravages Merle Haggard’s California. Much of the rest of Cali as well. Haggard was born and raised in Oilville, which is in Tulare County. Both Tulare and Kern Counties were hit especially hard by the floods. Time for a musical interlude, both songs written by Merle: From ‘Cactus Artist’ To Fox Election Fraud ‘Source’. […]
Memo To The Following: Return The BobbyByrd/Norfolk Southern Blood Money
I’m occasionally a reasonable person. I will assume that Bobby Byrd delivered these checks along with all the other checks he bundled from his clients, and that you didn’t discern the difference. Until proven otherwise. Besides, you received these checks before the recent spate of derailments. So, no harm/no foul. Unless you don’t return the […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, March 10, 2023
Rep. Connolly Exposes The Jim Jordan Klown Show. Just skip down and watch the video of Connolly’s destruction of two so-called ‘independent journalists’. You’re welcome. More Fun With Matt Taibbi: That’s when Wasserman Schultz went to Taibbi’s own past words. “I ask you this because, before you became Elon Musk’s hand-picked journalist, and pardon the […]
General Assembly Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show: Thursday, March 9, 2023
“This amendment makes technical corrections and clarifications requested by the Office of the Governor.” Yeah (you’re asking)? So what? The ‘so what’ is that this is HA2/HB 2. HB 2 ‘regulates and taxes marijuana for recreational use in much the same manner as alcohol. It creates a framework for production, manufacture, and sale in a […]
DL Open Thread: Thursday, March 9, 2023
Cali To Walgreen’s: “Drop Dead”. I’m with Cali. Walgreen’s corporate has bowed to threats from Red State assholes and has unilaterally decided not to distribute abortion pills in 20 states: “California will not stand by as corporations cave to extremists and cut off critical access to reproductive care and freedom,” Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) said […]
General Assembly Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show: Weds., March 8, 2023
Hate to be THAT guy, but I told you that yesterday’s pot legalization bill vote was a freebie. Far too many Pete acolytes voted for the bill. There’s hope only if you don’t think that Lumpy Carson, Bill Bush, Stephanie Bolden, Mike Ramone, Michael Smith, Sean Matthews, and/or others will revert to form and bow […]
Delaware General Assembly Pre-Game Show: Tuesday, March 7, 2023
It’s ba-a-a-ck. Polished to a diamond gleam by Rep. Osienski. We’re talking HB 1, which: …removes all penalties for use or possession of a personal use quantity of marijuana and marijuana accessories. It further specifies that the adult sharing of a personal use quantity or less of marijuana is legal activity for those 21 years […]
DL Open Thread: Sunday, March 5, 2023
Florida vs. Education: Florida legislators have proposed a spate of new laws that would reshape K-12 and higher education in the state, from requiring teachers to use pronouns matching children’s sex as assigned at birth to establishing a universal school choice voucher program. The half-dozen bills, filed by a cast of GOP state representatives and […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, March 4, 2023
Biden Chooses Reelection Over DC Self-Rule. Once a politician…: President Joe Biden changed course on Thursday, informing Democrats that he will not veto a Republican-sponsored resolution overturning a new Washington, D.C., criminal-sentencing law. It’s a decision that annoyed many D.C. statehood and home-rule advocates, as well as their House Democratic allies, while relieving electorally vulnerable […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, March 3, 2023
Medicaid Expansion Comes To–North Carolina! Heretofore only one of 11 states to not embrace the Affordable Care Act. A rare bipartisan political deal that’s worth embracing: The agreement from Senate leader Phil Berger and House Speaker Tim Moore won praise from Democrats and advocates alike, who argue it’s long past time for North Carolina to […]
DL Open Thread: Thursday, March 2, 2023
‘Woke’ Banks Fight Back–And Win. The good news?: Even in conservative states, the proposals went down. The bad news?: It’s because the banks did the fighting back: Conservatives have long held that the government should avoid interfering with private business decisions. But over the last two years, Republican state treasurers and attorneys general in Texas, […]
‘Bulo’s Fave Tunes: February 2023
Experience the thrill of discovering new (at least to me) artists. This month has ’em. This band is not new, but they’re always relevant: My kind of country: Not sold on the song yet, but I like the lyric. And, it’s Jason Isbell: Discoveries like THIS is why I keep listening: One more, since I […]
Rupert Murdoch: We Lied About The Stolen Election
Hard to see how Dominion doesn’t win their civil suit against Fox now: Rupert Murdoch, chairman of the conservative media empire that owns Fox News, acknowledged in a deposition that several hosts for his networks promoted the false narrative that the election in 2020 was stolen from former President Donald J. Trump, court documents released […]
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