Eric Florack on November 5th, 2004

On the PMSNBC site:MSNBC – Trench Warfare

Clearly, they’re hunting around for some place to put the blame for the loss.  Other than where it belongs, of course.

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Eric Florack on November 5th, 2004

WASHINGTON (Reuters): “A surprisingly strong 337,000 jobs were added to payrolls last month — twice the 169,000-job growth that Wall Street economists had forecast and the strongest since March when 353,000 jobs were created, the Labor Department said. “

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Eric Florack on November 4th, 2004

Let’s see,… Bush gets elected Republicans gain seats in Congress and Arafat takes the long dirt nap. Can things get any better? Yeah, they can, but let’s savor the moment.
World Tribune says:

RAMALLAH — Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat

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Eric Florack on November 4th, 2004

Billy Beck quotes Jonah Goldberg:

“I’ve got to say that when people try to convert lions to Christianity (or Budhism, Taoism, whatever) and then they get bit, it’s a sign to me that the universe is humming along properly.”

Bily

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Eric Florack on November 4th, 2004

Sometime today, likely around 4pm, this blog will have passed 22,000 total Blog visits since April… With around 42,000 pages read.

The last few days have been amazing, with the traffic, clearing over 650 page hits yesterday alone.

I never

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Eric Florack on November 4th, 2004

Tom, over at Aldaynet seems to have found indications that CNN is right pissed about Bush being elected.

Update: Apparently, Drudge has now picked up on this one, and is running a link to here

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Eric Florack on November 4th, 2004

AP is reporting:

“WASHINGTON – Elizabeth Edwards, wife of former Democratic vice presidential candidate John Edwards was diagnosed with breast cancer the day her husband and Sen. John Kerry conceded the presidential race. “

A cruddy way to start

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Eric Florack on November 4th, 2004

A restaurant in my neighborhood went out of business recently.  It now stands abandoned. A sad sight, really. The reasons for it’s demise was not the surroundings; the place was actually quite nice. The corner the empty building stands on

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Eric Florack on November 3rd, 2004

Did a lot of cleaning in the template tonight. Given the election’s over, I’ve removed a bunch of things from the right column. Sure hope it doesn’t mess up my TTLB link status somehow.

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Eric Florack on November 3rd, 2004

From USA TODAY by way of Michelle Malkin, we see the answer. Not very. Click the pic to get the full size.

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Eric Florack on November 3rd, 2004

Slant Point makes the excellent point that this win is an educational opportunity.I agree… It’s one we need to grasp.. now.

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Eric Florack on November 3rd, 2004

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Eric Florack on November 3rd, 2004

“Second, gut any Bush hopes for legitimacy. Find the places in Florida and Ohio and every other state where a plausible argument for Republican vote fraud can be made. It doesn’t matter whether it did happen or not. What matters

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Eric Florack on November 3rd, 2004

Kerry in his consession speech just now is calling for ‘unity’.

Memo to Kerry:

Ummm.. John? After four years of you and your fellow Demorats trying to help Usama BinLaden tear this country apart, and hand our soverignty over to

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Eric Florack on November 3rd, 2004

Outside The Beltway says Betty Castor has dropped out of the Florida senate Race.

Castor, in case you didn’t know is connected with Sami Al-Arian, of the Arab-American institute, which is a group which has been fighting our efforts in

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