The Big Picture Mentions that the “Syrian Accountability Act” that the president mentioned in this years State of the Union speech, is actually a bill crafted by none other than Babs Boxer, a year or so back.

Amazing.

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Eric Florack on February 4th, 2005

E! Online News reports that Ozzie Davis has died at age 87.

That’s three today. They always seem to come in threes, don’t they?

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Eric Florack on February 4th, 2005

Dean’s World advises us that Max Schmeling has died at age 99. (Shoot, I didn’t even know he was still alive!)

Schmeling, as you may recall, was a boxer of some renoun, most infamously, against Joe Louis… and was an

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Eric Florack on February 4th, 2005

The gent who played, among other roles, Dean Wormer in Animal house, and Fletcher in the Outlaw Josey Wales has died at the age of 73.

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Eric Florack on February 4th, 2005

Interesting thread over at OTB; Outside The Beltway : Fascists and Nazis, Democrats and Republicans… and a side comment from me;

“I’m not sure which damages the Democratic Party more… that they’re seriously considering Howard Dean as their leader,

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Eric Florack on February 4th, 2005

Word from the Captain’s Quarters that it’s the first mate’s birthday. Go drop a line.

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Eric Florack on February 4th, 2005

Tomas Kohl is about ready for the Job market. If you can help the man, go drop him a line.

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Eric Florack on February 4th, 2005

The American Indian Movement has a post up you want to see if you’ve been following this nonsense at all… It appears that contrary to his claims, ward Churchill is not a member of the American Indian movement.

By the

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Eric Florack on February 4th, 2005

All well and good. But without the hive, you don’t exist, either. Granted, that it may be an over-abundance of cold meds that cause me to be flippant enough to respond to this at all, but it seems to

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David Limbaugh has a real barn-burner, here.An example:

“Iraq: Boy, have we screwed up here, and the Iraqi elections proved it. Even our lies about Bush’s supposed WMD lies aren’t going to work anymore. So we’re going to change

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There’s been a lot of chatter about this the past 24 or so. Best write up I’ve found so far is the one by Bozel.  Seems there are those on the left who can’t accept the idea that the

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Eric Florack on February 4th, 2005

Robert Burns, who writes about Military affrais for AP says this morning that Rumsfeld tried to resign twice to remove the heat from President Bush and the President wouldn’t accept his resignation. This tosses a wrench into the claims of

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Eric Florack on February 4th, 2005

So, we see the usual suspcts getting all into a lather because A Lt. General mumbled somehting about it being fun to shoot people.

Only thing is, that’s not what he said.

“You go into Afghanistan, you got guys who

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Eric Florack on February 3rd, 2005

DoesTHIS really shock anyone?

Look, I don’t mind someone making a buck. I just didn’t feel the need to be involved OTOH, the kind of funds this guy was raising suggested a certain commitment to his readers.  Of course

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Eric Florack on February 3rd, 2005

I’m in a hospital waiting room, banging away on my laptop, today. Sorry for the dearth of posting. I only had time to grab a quick update of my web server cache and copy it to my laptop before leaving.

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