Archive for January, 2011
Tatooine
You know, maybe all this 2012 End Times talk was not far off the mark. So yesterday, I seen an article on the Huffington Post about the Earth getting two suns. One of my favorite “childhood” movies was 2010, the little known sequel to the classic “2001: A Space Odyssey.” [...]
21Jan2011 | Delaware Dem | 8 comments | Continued
Friday Open Thread
The Friday edition of your semi-daily open thread.
21Jan2011 | Unstable Isotope | 2 comments | Continued
More Charter Schools For Delaware
I have mixed feelings about Charter Schools. My main problem centers on the Charter School of Wilmington and its Admission Placement test and the way their success is touted – as if CSW teachers/staff/administrators have accomplished an amazing academic feat, instead of the truth: If you only accept the best and the brightest students the [...]
21Jan2011 | pandora | 46 comments | Continued
Michelle Obama Is Trying To Kill You
Tucker Carlson’s Daily Caller reveals that Michelle Obama’s “Get Moving” campaign is responsible for an increase in pedestrian deaths.
21Jan2011 | Unstable Isotope | 7 comments | Continued
President Obama Has A Primary Opponent!
Anti-abortion activist Randall Terry plans to run against President Obama in the Iowa caucuses. This plan could not possibly fail.
21Jan2011 | Unstable Isotope | 11 comments | Continued
Socialized Health Care Before There Was Socialism
Who would have thought that the Founding Fathers were a bunch of Socialists!
Teabaggers around the country are eating crow tonight. They just found out that our Founding Fathers, those gentlemen who teabaggers place on a pedestal and worship every night before going to sleep, mandated that private citizens purchase health insurance.
In July of 1798, [...]
Governor’s State of the State Address Open Thread
Governor Jack Markell will be delivering the yearly State of the State address from Leg Hall starting at 2pm today.
20Jan2011 | cassandra_m | 20 comments | Continued
Thursday Open Thread
The Thursday edition of your semi-daily open thread.
20Jan2011 | Unstable Isotope | 13 comments | Continued
From The Department Of Inappropriate Analogies
Rick Santorum thinks it’s appropriate to compare being African-American to being a fetus.
20Jan2011 | Unstable Isotope | 62 comments | Continued
Republicans Discover Senate Hate
Rpeublicans are now complaining that their kick kids off insurance and increase the cost of granny’s drugs bill won’t get a vote in the Senate. Bless their hearts.
20Jan2011 | Unstable Isotope | 5 comments | Continued
General Assembly Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show: Thurs., Jan. 20, 2011
If you haven’t guessed the overarching theme of today’s State of the State address by now, then you haven’t been paying attention. At every given opportunity over the past few months, Gov. Markell has stated in numerous permutations that he wakes up thinking about jobs and goes to sleep thinking about jobs. Accordingly, in my [...]
20Jan2011 | El Somnambulo | 6 comments | Continued
Modern Annoyances Vol. 46 – People Who Send An Email, Then Walk Over to the Person They Just Sent the Email to and ask, “Did you get my email?”
Okay. I’m fessing up. I do this. Because I’m old. I’m also lazy. So I just write little emails to jog my memory about crap I need to ask people about.
19Jan2011 | jason330 | 10 comments | Continued
Wednesday Open Thread
The Wednesday edition of your semi-daily open thread.
19Jan2011 | Unstable Isotope | 15 comments | Continued
Children Rarely Want What Their Parents Want
The fact that Generation Y isn’t interested in McMansions is hardly surprising. Strikes me more as human nature, and something the real estate/construction market should have considered. From music to technology we draw generational lines. It’s a given. And this generation’s offspring will probably rediscover the McMansion. Such is life.
The question is: Can the real [...]
ChristinePAC Is Now Official
Christine O’Donnell’s PAC officially filed paperwork with the FEC. ChristinePAC is now a reality.
19Jan2011 | Unstable Isotope | 10 comments | Continued
Bomb Found On Spokane MLK Parade Route
Authorities reported that a bomb was found along the Spokane, Washington MLK Parade route. The bomb was safely defused and the parade was re-routed.
18Jan2011 | Unstable Isotope | 6 comments | Continued
Joe Scarborough Makes The Point
I can’t stop thinking about the Tucson shooting. I have even started talking to myself as I go about my day. In my one-on-one conversations I always come back to the same point about violence and rhetoric. Joe Scarborough, in a letter calling out Palin and Beck by name, puts my thoughts into words:
You weren’t [...]
Politics And Religion
Imagine if something like this was said by a non-Christian governor:
”Now I will have to say that, if we don’t have the same daddy, we’re not brothers and sisters,” he said. “So anybody here today who has not accepted Jesus Christ as their savior, I’m telling you, you’re not my brother and you’re not my [...]
Tuesday Open Thread
The Tuesday edition of your semi-daily open thread.
18Jan2011 | Unstable Isotope | 3 comments | Continued
Forbes Magazine Says the Health Care Act is Actually Working
As Ezra Klein notes this morning, the health care bill is being redebated this morning, not being repealed. Whatever the House does to try to repeal the Act today or tomorrow will definitely die in the Senate, so remember that as you listen to the sound and fury. Sound and fury that is already useless and a waste of tax dollars. And one that doesn’t do anything to create a job, heal the economy or even to reduce the deficit.
18Jan2011 | cassandra_m | 18 comments | Continued
The New Era Of Civility Has Begun!
New civility! John Boehner now describes health care reform as “job destroying” rather than “job killing.”
18Jan2011 | Unstable Isotope | 5 comments | Continued
General Assembly Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show: Tues., Jan. 18 & Weds. Jan. 19, 2011
Is El Somnambulo getting lazy? Maybe yes, maybe no, but that’s not the reason I’m combining these two days into one post.
Even by legislative standards, this has been the quietest opening of a session that I can recall. Very few bills and very little activity.
In fact, judging by the latest Session Activity Report, nothing happened [...]
The War Will Be Digitized
The New York Times has an account of the development of the Stuxnet worm to disrupt Iran’s nuclear program.
18Jan2011 | Unstable Isotope | 2 comments | Continued
Monday Open Thread
The Monday edition of your semi-daily open thread.
17Jan2011 | Unstable Isotope | 11 comments | Continued
Is The Bar This Low?
John McCain wrote an op-ed where he praised Obama’s speech and called Obama patriotic. Apparently, this is news.
17Jan2011 | Unstable Isotope | 13 comments | ContinuedSocial Media
