Eric Florack on January 23rd, 2004

Power Line dismantles the article inn today’s Washington Post in fine style. :

“The Washington Post’s election-year advocacy continues this morning with a news article–not an opinion piece–by staunch Democrats Dana Milbank and Walter Pincus. The article is an attack

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Eric Florack on January 23rd, 2004

I’ve decided to join BITSBLOG to the MILBLOGS webring for a while. 

I want to make something clear to my readers up front; I’m not military, nor was I.  My brother’s a 20 year man, but even exclusive of that

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Eric Florack on January 23rd, 2004

AP is reporting:

“PASADENA, Calif. (AP) – NASA received data from the Spirit rover Friday morning for the first time in two days, easing scientists’ anxiety that the Mars mission had come to a calamitous halt.

The six-wheeled rover

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Eric Florack on January 23rd, 2004

I’m suddenly, within the last hour, getting outright clobbered with links about Bob Keeshan, the gent who played Captain Kangaroo, having died. (sigh)

Ya know, it’s too bad that so much of what he did on air was live, and

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Eric Florack on January 23rd, 2004

New York Post in today’s Online Edition says: :

“January 22, 2004 — WASHINGTON – The large number of Muslim deaths caused by al Qaeda terrorist attacks in Iraq has created p.r. problems for Osama bin Laden, who now appears

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Transcript: Democratic Presidential Debate in N.H. (washingtonpost.com)

The line of the night comes from Lieberman:

“They can’t say I flip-flop because I don’t. They can’t say I’m weak on defense because I’m not. They can’t say I’m weak on values

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Eric Florack on January 23rd, 2004

Byron York suggests that Kerry is not the moderate he claims:

“Kerry’s liberalism, when he is present for votes, matches or even exceeds Kennedy’s and those of other liberal icons in the Senate. For example, Kerry has earned a

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Eric Florack on January 23rd, 2004

Am I the only one starting to wonder about this guy?

Sorry, gang, but the more I read him, the more I’ve got to wonder if it all isn’t just getting to be a bit much for Sullivan. He’s

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Eric Florack on January 23rd, 2004

Bill Gertz and Rowan Scarborough in the Washoington Times this morning:

” A senior Defense Department official tells us one of the alarming after-action intelligence reports that reached the Pentagon is that the communist government of Cuba shared intelligence

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Eric Florack on January 22nd, 2004

No, I couldn’t bring myself to watch the thing. Trying to convince myself these people (?) are American and sane doesn’t work and only serves to make my butt hurt.  I’ll skim the text files when they show up in

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Eric Florack on January 22nd, 2004

One of the things I’ve been looking at is my page stats, because I’m looking at putting these pages on a commercial site. I’m trying to calculate bandwidth needed. I’ve been noting a lot of bloggers using SITEMETER, and since

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Eric Florack on January 22nd, 2004

The Washington Shaft is finally getting around to the conclusion I’ve been saying here for years, now:

“The last recession may have started in the last months of the Clinton administration rather than at the beginning of the Bush

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Eric Florack on January 22nd, 2004

A few days ago, I made reference to the idea that the states were no longer in the financial problems that they once were.
HobbsOnline has the details of one of those states… Tennesee, which at the moment comes out

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Eric Florack on January 22nd, 2004

Anyone who doesn’t understand that Dr. King’s call for racial equality is being twisted, need look no further than the reaction of the idiots running WestSide High in Omaha, as depicted at Omaha.com:

“A small group of Westside High

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Eric Florack on January 22nd, 2004

As an owner of about 25,000 LP’s and a similar number of 45’s, along with all the digital stuff (MP3’s and CD’s), you can imagine this one tweaked my interest a bit.

ELP Laser Turntable: plays vinyl records without a

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