Archive for May, 2009
DOI Wired RFP Episode IIIa
UPDATE: I keep forgetting to link to the smoking gun. The actual half-assed RFP that has two closing dates (May 25th and May 26th), does not say what the work is that is being bid out and allows 24 hours between the bids being received and the start of vendor negotiations.
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The response from Gould [...]
RNC’s New “Daisy” Ad
OOGA BOOGA! OOGA BOOGA!
Obama made it clear in his speech that he will close Guantanamo and he’s tired of the fear-mongering. It’s interesting watching the Republicans play the Democrats by arguing about the terrorist supervillians with secret powers that can only be contained in Cuba. Does anyone remember there wasn’t even a [...]
Thwart Rethug Delaying Tactics By…Speed Reading?
Henry Waxman has come up with a novel way to speed up consideration of climate change legislation currently being slow-walked to death by the Rethugs…a speed reader:
According to the Wall Street Journal, here’s why he might be needed:
Committee Republicans, who largely oppose the measure, have said they may force the reading of the entire 946-page [...]
Comment Rescue: The Pew Poll
Anonie comments on the new Pew Poll results:
anonie // May 21, 2009 at 9:40 pm
From a comprehensive Pew Research Report released today.
From 2002 to 2009, voters’ partisan identification has moved from virtual parity — 43 percent Republican and 43 percent Democratic at the height of George W. Bush’s popularity in the immediate aftermath of [...]
Want!
I want this wine!
A close-up of the label:
The chemistry is from actual wine chemists, illustrating some of the conversions that turns grapes into wine.
So, DV, can you hook me up?
Those Nat’l Org. for Marriage Folks Are At It Again–This Time With Kids!!
‘Bulo sincerely hopes you haven’t taken any psychedelics in the last couple of hours.
If you have, then you may want to step away from the screen for awhile as he unveils the most effective deterrent of ‘aberrant behavior’ since “Reefer Madness”:
The Beast Who Slumbers is told that an ‘answer’ satirical commercial has already surfaced. But, [...]
‘Moderate’ Mike Castle Votes to Investigate Nancy Pelosi
After eight years of idly sitting by while Dubya, Cheney and the Rethugs shredded the Constitution, Mike “I Like Puppies and Kids” Castle has returned to his days as a crusader by voting for an investigation into what the CIA may or may not have said to Nancy Pelosi. The Greenville gentleman hasn’t been this [...]
21May2009 | El Somnambulo | 16 comments | Continued
V: The Allegory
When V: The Original Miniseries premiered, it was an excellent smack them over the head allegory about fascism, in the form of classic science fiction. And then it got all crazy when it returned as a regular series.
Here is a clip demonstrating that allegory:
V is now being reimagined just like Battlestar Galactica was [...]
21May2009 | Delaware Dem | 5 comments | Continued
QOTE
I saw that they are remaking “Footloose”. Why? I have no freaking idea. But you know you are getting old when…
So, I was wondering if they remade “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off”, who would the new actors be for the main characters?
Ferris, Sloan, Cameron, Principal, Sister, Parents etc
Reagan Gives Rush A Taste Of His Own Medicine
Via Slog:
Rush Limbaugh—drug addict, Viagra user—isn’t in a position to mock other people’s appearances. But that didn’t stop him from suggesting that posting a photo of Nancy Pelosi in “every cheap hotel room in America” would cut the birth rate—because, hey, no man could get it up with Pelosi’s ugly mug in the room, right? [...]
DOI Wired RFP Saga Episode III
Intro: Let me start by saying that I’m not crazy about the fact that I let myself fall into the DOI’s rabbit hole. Nevertheless, by viewing the RFP I drank from the little bottle labeled “drink me” so there appears to be no turning back now. Anyway, here is the latest in [...]
21May2009 | jason330 | 52 comments | Continued
Carney Campaign Asking for $53 from You
I love teh social media. Yesterday I received an email on my Facebook from the Fan of John Carney for Congress page. The gist of the email (which is below the fold) was to ask John Carney supporters to donate $53 dollars to his campaign for congress at John Carney for Congress. Why $53? Because [...]
21May2009 | nemski | 4 comments | Continued
Donviti Interview Tip #45
During an interview try not to let them know how surprised you were the commute took so long
21May2009 | Donvictimiti | 2 comments | Continued
Question of the Day
Do Republicans have a back-up plan if the economy gets better?
21May2009 | Unstable Isotope | 27 comments | Continued
3 Things About Senator Ted
1) He rocks. I know that I was not the only one in the Dem convetion who was wishing he had not hemmed himself into one truncated term. Who knows though? In politics things change.
2) He isn’t owned by the banks and his Fraud Enforcement and Recovery Act (FERA) which puts the FBI back [...]
Major Screw Up
Actually, as I read this NJ report there were a couple of interlocking screw ups in this DSU murder case.
The police fixed on a suspect based on the fact that there was an argument a few hours prior to the shooting and stopped investigating.
The prosecutor’s office screw up (not telling the defense about a possibly [...]
Products Targeted to Women Generally Tick Me Off
There’s a new candy bar being introduced, and it’s targeted to women. Here are some of the descriptions:
Try it in public.
A chocolate bar that shimmers. Definitely eat it with the lights on.
Finally a chocolate you don’t feel so guilty about eating.
Under 85 calories per finger. That’s a sexy little figure. Just [...]
Good Morning…you are safer
5 Months in and it looks like Obama is reading the memo’s that say people want to attack us.
21May2009 | Donvictimiti | 25 comments | Continued
Pretty Much
From a scientist’s favorite cartoon, xkcd.
21May2009 | Unstable Isotope | 5 comments | Continued
UD to Go ‘Big-Time’ in Football?
The Beast Who Slumbers must have been in hibernation when the News-Journal’s Martin Frank wrote this interesting speculative story on May 12.
But, it appears that the University of Delaware, currently a big fish in the small pond of whatever they’re now calling Division 1-AA football, harbors visions (delusions?) of gridiron grandeur. And that, in part, [...]
Beef Jerky Underwear
Until there is pork-jerky underwear, this will have to suffice.
20May2009 | jason330 | 11 comments | Continued
Daddy’s Little Girl
For years we have understood the importance a father plays in girl’s life. Now, it seems that having a daughter may return the favor.
In remarkable research, the sociologist Rebecca Warner and the economist Ebonya Washington have shown that the gender of a person’s children seems to influence the attitudes and actions of the parent.
Warner (1991) [...]
No Wonder Miss California Hates ‘the Gays’
Turns out that her ‘Christian’ faith may be the only thing keeping her on the home team.
According the award-winning LGBT website Towle Road, quoting from the Star magazine, which likely hasn’t won any awards, Carrie Prejean’s mother is gay, and her dad just may be as well.
Here, Star Magazine tells it as only Star Magazine [...]
Donviti Talking to Rick Jensen Now
Without the ‘Viti, I could not listen to more than 2 minutes.
20May2009 | jason330 | 9 comments | ContinuedSocial Media
