Eric Florack on April 13th, 2004

The Galvin Opinion seems to be the one to come up with extensive research on the bigger stories. This time, Tom’s come up with a very extensive telling of the links between the UN and the Oil for Food Scandal…

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Eric Florack on April 13th, 2004

Found while looking up soemthing else; Kerry Waffles – Home of the Waffle Newsletter and Blog

Worth a look!

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Eric Florack on April 13th, 2004

The Command Post has a post up saying:

“The U.S. troops arrested radical Shiite Imam Muktada al-Sadr in Baghdad on Tuesday. The report came from Hazem al-Araj, his closest associate, who is the head of the Baghdad bureau of the

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Eric Florack on April 13th, 2004

WASHINGTON (Reuters) — Shoppers turned out in force in March, a Commerce Department report Tuesday showed, pushing retail sales to their strongest gain in a year.

The Commerce Department said retail sales rose an unexpectedly sharp 1.8% in March to

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John Kerry and his fellow Democrats are being forced further and further out of the realm of reality, as the reality of the Bush record of success becomes more apparent to the American people. Kerry’s band of wandering liars have

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Eric Florack on April 12th, 2004

protein wisdom seems to have come to the same conclusion as I regards who got in more words while Condi Rice was in the hotseat.

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Eric Florack on April 12th, 2004

Ron Brownstein passes along some interesting news in the world of election ads, in his LA TIMES column today: (No, I won’t link it; they require registration, and I won’t link registration-demanding sites)

“One leading Democratic interest group recently asked

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Eric Florack on April 12th, 2004

Rasmussen Polling is reporting the results of their reseach following the Rice testimony of the other day.:

“April 8, 2004–In the wake of Condoleezza Rice’s testimony before a national television audience, 50% of American voters have a favorable view

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Eric Florack on April 12th, 2004

drowning at 2 feet sea levelis runing an E-mail, which says in part:

“On March 26 we lost a 21 yr old Marine from the Houston area in Iraq. On Saturday March 27 the Chronicle sent a reporter –

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Eric Florack on April 12th, 2004

If you’re looking for an RSS ‘clean’ feed of BitsBlog, you can try Bloglines .

And of course there’s an ATOM feed as well…

I’m reviewing ATOM readers just now.

They’re both rather cool. If I have any objection to

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Eric Florack on April 12th, 2004

Winds of Change is suggesting this morning that all of it, or nearly so is coming from outside Iraq.

Iran, for example has pumped upwards of $80million US into Sadr’s insurgency.  THey’re now linking The Sunday Herald, who claims that

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Eric Florack on April 12th, 2004

I’ve been getting an incredible amount of mail of late. Sorry for not responding to you all but I just can’t handle it. Trust me when I say I do read it, and it’s appreciated. Even the ones calling me

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Eric Florack on April 12th, 2004

My Latest BIT is up. It discusses an angle on the 9/11 hearings that I’ll bet you’ve not considered…

Find it here.

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Eric Florack on April 11th, 2004

South Byron, NY—

I’m doing some railfanning outside South Byron NY, which is a bit west of Rochester. Because of the Easter holiday, rail traffic is light. Just as well; I’m getting a lot of reading done, from various news

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Eric Florack on April 9th, 2004

Hollywoodreporter.com:

“Sony Pictures has optioned film rights to Richard Clarke’s nonfiction best seller ‘Against All Enemies: Inside America’s War on Terror’ for producer John Calley.”

Anyone want to bet this is to be released in October?
I smell Soros.

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