Eric Florack on March 21st, 2007

Moxie has a Cathy Seipp update.

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Eric Florack on March 21st, 2007

Word of what we’re up against

Insurgents in Iraq detonated an explosives-rigged vehicle with two children in the back seat after US soldiers let it through a Baghdad checkpoint over the weekend, a senior US military official said Tuesday.

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Eric Florack on March 21st, 2007

Billy;

Erb is the kind of person who to my mind exemplifies why I don’t trust anyone from the left, at all anymore, any further than I can throw Jim Nadler. .

 

It’s also why I gave someone else there

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davidl on March 21st, 2007

1984She ought to be.  The ad perfectly captures Mrs. Clinton’s cynical use of the word “conversation.”  View the video.   What do you think??

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davidl on March 21st, 2007

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Liberals are now claiming a strange new theory of executive power — that it’s the bureaucrats, the “experts,” the permanent government in DC, that have almost all of the actual power in the executive branch, and the President is acting

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Eric Florack on March 20th, 2007

BATON ROUGE -Gannett- Gov. Kathleen Blanco has made it official: she will not run for re-election.”I am choosing to do what I believe to be what is best for the state,” the governor said in a statewide television broadcast. “I

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outlaws1.jpg* The Music: The Outlaws first album, 1975. Yes, I seem to be in that neighborhood chronologically, for a couple of weeks now. This one is an old favorite. Probably the most powerful guitar album I am aware of…

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Eric Florack on March 20th, 2007

ASHLAND, Ore. (AP) – John Backus — whose development of the Fortran programming language in the 1950s — paved the way for modern software — has died. He was 82.

If you use a computer, you owe this man a

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davidl on March 20th, 2007

The Daily Mail(UK) reports on extremists’ demands to kill Knut:

At three months old, however, the playful 19lb bundle of fur is at the centre of an impassioned debate over whether he should live or die.

Animal rights activists

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Eric Florack on March 20th, 2007

Among the things I find amazing, this bit of brainlessness from Rosie O’Donnell is not.

What amazes ME is that Boortz finds this kind of thing at all unusual among Democrats.

You need to get out more, Neal.  This is

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davidl on March 20th, 2007

Clarence PageClarence Page is a liberal, but among my more favorite ones.   Page is calm, articulate, well reasoned, polite and respects data.  In short Page is everything, that Al Franken and Keith Olberman,are not.

Elite academic insitutions, life Havard, achieve

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davidl on March 20th, 2007

If A.J. Strata is right, and I sure hope he is, President George W. Bush is about to bitch slap Senators Leahy and Schumer.  I am no fan of Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez, but I am adamantly oppposed to

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Eric Florack on March 19th, 2007

wanderer.jpg* The Music: Tonight, I’m going electronica. Gert Emmens, an album called “Wanderer of Time”. Emmens is a relative unknown in the US, except in the rather esoteric world of electronica. The album reminds me of Tangerine Dream in it’s

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davidl on March 19th, 2007

I blogged about New Orlean’s Mayor, Ray Nagin’s suspicions yesterday.   Apparently I wasn ‘t the only blogger unable to resist the low hanging fruit.  Slate‘s Big Sister, Caren Crockett, has “a flood of ideas..

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Eric Florack on March 19th, 2007

Please spare a prayer today for our friend Cathy Seipp and her family (especially her beloved daughter). Word from L.A. from family and friends is that she’s taken a dire turn for the worse.

So says KJL at The Corner.

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