Eric Florack on December 9th, 2004

Hobbs makes an argument that at least a few of my readers will find of interest. He notes on a fairly new blog called “Witting Shire” a post, which says in part:

“If you believe that man is nothing but

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Eric Florack on December 9th, 2004

Gunman Kills 4 at Ohio Heavy Metal Show

I’m watching this one develop.
Lots of details, but what interests me is motivation, and I’m not getting a clear picture, yet. Comments as they occurr to me.

Update: Fox News has

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Eric Florack on December 9th, 2004

Lt. Smash has posted An Open Letter to Pablo Paredes. Required reading.

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Eric Florack on December 9th, 2004

Boortz found him, this morning. Here, my freinds is a typical middle of the road moderate Democrat. Or at least what passes for one. Boortz picks it up from there:

Polite is upset because of David Stoltzfus who runs a

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Eric Florack on December 9th, 2004

An extention of my long form on the Basketball game/fight of week befrore last;Sports Inebriated is reporting today that

PONTIAC, Mich. (AP) — After weeks of pouring over videotape from one of the worst fights in U.S. sports history,

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Eric Florack on December 8th, 2004

A hat tip to Ace of Spades HQ who reminds us that it was 24 years ago tonight that John Lennon was killed.

OK, so his politics were downright abysmal. (A fact that Ace also notes) but it was about

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Eric Florack on December 8th, 2004

What do you know… ABC and the EU are both starting to understand what we’ve been saying here for years…Radical Islam is a problem

Now, it’ll only take them another 4 years to figure out what to do about

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Eric Florack on December 8th, 2004

Beckwith, over at Southern Appeal brings up a topic I heard about last night in the chat room. I’ll post the whole thing here, as well, since, given the message, I’m pretty confident he won’t mind.

Operation Phone Card

On

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Eric Florack on December 8th, 2004

Bob Lonsberry is a local talkshow host. He and I have our disagreements, but this column of his today is spot on.

Just read it.

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Eric Florack on December 8th, 2004

Happy Birthday, Gennie.

Here’s a hint; 27 looks REALLY good, 20 years later.

Gennie says she shares a birthday with..

– Sinead O’Connor

I dunno how many people I’d admit that to, Gen.

– Terri Hatcher
– Eli Whitney

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Eric Florack on December 8th, 2004

LONDONReuters Church leaders condemned on Wednesday a Christmas nativity tableau depicting English soccer star David Beckham as Joseph and his pop singer wife Victoria as the Virgin Mary.

Well, I must say, this is a new low, if perhaps

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Eric Florack on December 8th, 2004

The London Times Online has a story this morning raising the same questions I did over a month ago.

“”This is no longer a question for discussion,” Dr Korpan said. “We are now sure that we can confirm which substance

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Eric Florack on December 7th, 2004

Hey, Terry McAuliffe!!! You pounded on republicans, falsely, for using a national tragedy in the form of the 9/11 attacks, as a political wedge issue. So, what the beep isThis?

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Eric Florack on December 7th, 2004

Hobbs is doing his homework, as usual.

Today he’s posted a list of who gave to what campaign… under the heading Shop the way you vote . You want to check it out.

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Eric Florack on December 7th, 2004

It was just now, all those years ago.National Geographic has a pretty good overview of the event. It’s worth a visit.

I’m just now taken with the comparison of Pearl to the WTC. Since they’re the only serious attacks

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