Eric Florack on June 20th, 2005

Steven Coffman mentions a need for a 12v fridge for under $100.

I have found the Thermo-electric Coleman cooler, (http://www.avidoutdoors.com/co40quthco.html) to be very useful. It’s a shade over $100 list, add the 110v power supply and you go to

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Eric Florack on June 20th, 2005

Mark Steyn joins the throngs nailing Dick Durban… only he does it better.. in this morning’s WaTi.

Update:
Some wise-guy left a suggestin for bumper-stickers for Durbin’s next election in my mailbox:

Wear a Turban?
Vote Durbin!!

(Chuckle, shake of

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Eric Florack on June 20th, 2005

Fathers day was yesterday. I wrote somethng for Bit’s Bits, on Father’s day morning, and then never posted what I wrote because it needed some serious touching up. And given the events of Father’s day itself…(A road trip, and some

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Eric Florack on June 19th, 2005

It’s been nearly five years my father’s been gone, now. Actually, I’m surprised by the length of time. Like an unwatched pot… “Oh, that’s boiling already?”

I’ve always considered it something of a cruel, ironic joke, that he should have

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Eric Florack on June 17th, 2005

The Jawa Report notes the latest Kos idiocy, this time about Durbin.
Jawa makes a serious attempt to help Kos get his cranium out of his rectum. I doubt it’ll work, but it was a good try, Jawa.

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Eric Florack on June 17th, 2005

TTLB looks nice now that the bandages are off. Check it out

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Eric Florack on June 17th, 2005

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Will someone please explain to me why I should give a hot steaming crap about Tom Cruise proposing to a girl half his age, much less the degree of coverage I’m seeing in the press this morning?

I certainly

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Eric Florack on June 16th, 2005

You may recall I made mention last week of a couple who had been maried 80 years..

Sad news today from the wirse, that the male half of this couple has just died… two weeks after the anniversary.

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Eric Florack on June 16th, 2005

Boing Boing has some details.

Yeah, I know… bad pic. Well, (shrug) it’s fast, anyway.

You know, I still have a few of the cheat books on that one. Earned a lot of beer with those books. I also have

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Eric Florack on June 16th, 2005

Media Blog on National Review Online makes note of a lot of chatter about global warming again.

Which, of course, is a lot of chatter about somehting that quite simply doesn’t exist.

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Eric Florack on June 16th, 2005

The culture of death this morning is having a party, based on the autopsy of Terri Shaivo, screaming that they were right all along. Well, personally, I never put a lot of weight on the autopsy. Look though this blog,

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I think we now have on record, an example of what is it for a Senator’s comments to go over the line far enough to where the Senator is actually in support of the enemy.This one.

Mr. Durbin, I

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Eric Florack on June 15th, 2005

Clearly, this case is one of ‘Dress Down Fridays’ run amok.

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Eric Florack on June 15th, 2005

Kind of a slow news day. So, I toss caution to the wind….

Here’s your chance to link your blog, or anything else that moves you, in the comments.

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Eric Florack on June 15th, 2005

Jeff Quinton got his pinger working… a bit of news that will excite women everywhere, until they figure out what he’s talking about.

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