Archive for June 7th, 2009
Comment Rescue: Who the heck is Mike Protack anyway?
After another Protackian comment in the Don’t Ask Don’t Tell thread, Rod asked Who the heck is Mike Protack anyway? Please use the comments below to fill Rod in.
Oh look, the recession…it’s over
While we were all blowing Obama for his forthright speech in Egypt this week…. The Unemployment numbers were released and they are the highest since 1983. 9.4 percent and most likely going to rise. Man, I’m lucky to have a job. I’m so glad the banks are turning a profit right now. Any day now, […]
Miller Endorsed by American Federation of Government Employees and Plumbers and Pipefitters?
I guess I missed this announcement that Miller was running again. But the thing about perennial candidates like Miller, Protack, and O’Donnell is that they are always running. Indeed, Mike has his campaign site updated for 2010. But here is something interesting. Look closer at the bottom on the site: Is this true? Endorsing Mike […]
Happy Birthday Tetris!
Yesterday, the game Tetris turned 25 years old. I haven’t played Tetris in a long time. For a while I was addicted to Tetris. When I was a young grad student, we had a computer with Tetris on it in the shared grad student organic chemistry T.A. office. We all used to play it and […]
Repeal of DADT, Why Are We Waiting?
A new poll by Gallup shows that 69% of Americans favor repeal of the military Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy. Repeal of the policy is even favored by 58% of people who call themselves conservative and 60% of people who attend church weekly. I think it’s difficult to get 70% of Americans to agree on […]
Burris’ Chagrin
Newt Gingrich: I am not a citizen of the world. I am a citizen of the United States because only in the United States does citizenship start with our creator. […] I think this is one of the most critical moments in American history. We are living in a period where we are surrounded by […]
Read All About It In the Sunday Papers-June 7, 2009
Lead Story-The (UK) Independent: How the Freedom of Information Act and Investigative Journalism Brought Down the British Government And, yes, this is precisely how El Somnambulo hopes that Delaware journalists will use their new access once HB 1 becomes law: Richard Thomas, the Information Commissioner, in his first interview since the staggering scale of the […]
Fios FYI
Verizon FIOS is awesome. The quality is awesome, the widgets are awesome. The number of HD Channels is awesome. Verizon FIOS also sucks. I called off hours to try and get a DVR box. It took me 40 minutes to find out I have to call back during normal hours. The set top boxes are […]
Mayor Baker on CNN at 9 am
He will be a guest along with other two other Mayors from Spring Hill, Tennessee and Flint, Michigan on CNN’s State of the Union program. Baker will not be in studio, but instead will be filmed from the Hare Pavilion down on the Christina Riverfront, about 100 yards from the parking lot of C.W. Harborside […]
This Week’s Votes in Congress
HOUSE Family leave. Voting 258-154, the House passed a bill (HR 626) providing federal employees with additional benefits under the Family and Medical Leave Act. The bill would entitle civil servants to four to eight weeks of paid leave to care for a newly born, adopted, or fostered child. Such leave is now available to […]
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