Eric Florack on January 21st, 2007

I’ve been watching a goodly chunk of the hype coming out of Microsoft, of late, over the next generation operating system called “Vista”.  Given the flea circus at the first couple of generations of betas generally are, I haven’t been

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davidl on January 21st, 2007

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Sister Toldjah does a nice compare and contrast between the MSM handling of Mrs. Clinton’s announcement and that of Sam Brownback’s:

The mediots are in full support mode today after Hillary Clinton’s announcement that she will seek the Democratic nomination

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Eric Florack on January 20th, 2007

* My wife has been complaining for several weeks now, that it’s too warm here in Rochester.  “There’s no snow”, she complains, Telling me repeatedly that she likes winter she likes the snow and so on.  She’s been getting our

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davidl on January 20th, 2007

Mrs Clinton wants to have a conversation.

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Why?

Waco

Why?

From Mark Finkelstien, NewsBusters, when and where?   Submit your question for Mrs. Clinton.

Let us hear some answers.

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Eric Florack on January 20th, 2007

Denny Doherty

MISSISSAUGA, Ont. Jan 20, 2007 (AP)—(via ABC) Denny Doherty, one-quarter of the 1960s folk-rock group the Mamas and the Papas, known for their soaring harmony on hits like “California Dreamin'” and “Monday, Monday,” died Friday at 66.  His sister Frances

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Eric Florack on January 20th, 2007

hillarysm.jpgThe wire services, most notably in my reading list the Associated Press, that Hillary Clinton has jumped into the race.  Surely, somewhere in America, someone is saying “damn, I never saw that coming”.  Likely, it would be somebody that

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davidl on January 20th, 2007

cair.jpgRick Moran, Redstate, has evidently had his fill of CAIR whiing and crying:

The sound is grating to the ears. Whenever there is the slightest opportunity to piggyback a grievance – either real or imagined – on a story

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davidl on January 19th, 2007

Bill Bennett, Morning in America, recenty held a contest for the best Sandy Berger parady song. The wiinner:

Sandy Berger Can
(to the tune of “Secret Agent Man”)

Bill and Hillary lookin’ for a legacy
But the national archives

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Eric Florack on January 19th, 2007

I have withheld my commentary on Barack Obama, for quite some time; possibly longer than was necessary.  My reasoning was I wanted time for some of his history to come shaking out.  Most of the edge elation he’s been receiving,

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davidl on January 19th, 2007

Yes everybody know liberalism damages the brain.   However it still fun to examine the evidence every so often.  This peach comes from the blogospheric Mecca of liberalism, via Memeorandum,  [M]cjoan of the Daily Kos,   This brain dead liberal

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davidl on January 18th, 2007

Do you know who Frank D. Hargrove is?   Well neither did I.  Hargrove is a delegate to the Virginia Legislature and Mr. Hargrave has riled up a nest of yellow jackets.   It seems in debating resolution on an apology for

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davidl on January 18th, 2007

Art Buchwald 

 The Associated Press has reported:

WASHINGTON – Columnist Art Buchwald, who chronicled the life and times of Washington with an infectious wit for over four decades and endeared himself to many with his never-say-die battle with failing kidneys, is dead

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davidl on January 18th, 2007

The Perky One, a.k.a, Katie Couric asks:

Don’t more women deserve a place at the table too?

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Oops wrong picture! 

H/T John Hawkins, :  Right Wing News 

H/T photo:  Michele Borba

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Eric Florack on January 18th, 2007
I see that Chris Hedges, the long-time NY Times journalist, has come out with a book entitled American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America, in which he in essence says that the likes of Falwell and

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Eric Florack on January 18th, 2007

noai.jpgLet me put in a word about “American Idol”.

The word is “No”.

Part of my distaste for the show does not rest on the talentless hacks that get paraded through, though that certainly accounts for most of it.

Rather,

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