Eric Florack on March 12th, 2007

ONEIDA, N.Y. —AP- A train carrying propane derailed in upstate New York Monday morning, causing an explosion that sent a huge fireball into the dawn sky. Black smoke poured out for hours as the city’s downtown was evacuated.

Ouch.

CSX,

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davidl on March 12th, 2007

How sweet it is.

Moonbats storm Mrs. Pelosi’s house, via Don Surber.

Dennis Kucinich sounds like a voice of reason, via Sister Toldjah:

AUSTIN (TX) — The cancellation in the past two days of two planned nationally

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Eric Florack on March 12th, 2007

Sunday Telegraph– Scientists who questioned mankind’s impact on climate change have received death threats and claim to have been shunned by the scientific community.

They say the debate on global warming has been “hijacked” by a powerful alliance of

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davidl on March 12th, 2007

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Like a lot of us here have said before, the whole issue of Anthropogenic Global Warming offers so many opportunities for political power that it has long abandoned its exclusive connection to science and gone into the realm of politics.

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Eric Florack on March 12th, 2007

McClatchy Newspapers -WASHINGTON – The White House acknowledged on Sunday that presidential adviser Karl Rove served as a conduit for complaints to the Justice Department about federal prosecutors who were later fired for what critics charge were partisan political reasons.

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davidl on March 11th, 2007

Well first it was that Mrs. Clinton was making ludicrous comparisons to Lady Thatcher.   The Iron Lady never stood for office on her husbands coat tails.

Now either having given up on the comparison to Lady Thatcher, or finding it

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Eric Florack on March 11th, 2007

Captain Ed this morning brings up Kosovo.  He suggests that for the last eight years the United Nations is been doing nothing but shuffling paper and wasting time.  He quotes a WaPo article:

A year of contentious talks on

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Eric Florack on March 11th, 2007

AP-The cameras get turned on Michael Moore for a change at the South by Southwest film festival, where the documentary Manufacturing Dissent will have its world premiere.

The film from directors Rick Caine and Debbie Melnyk, playing March 10

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Eric Florack on March 11th, 2007

snark2.jpgThe snark of the day comes from Don Surber:

I am greatly amused by the whooping and hollering by the lefty blogs over stopping the Nevada Democratic Party from having a presidential debate on Fox News. Taking the Democrats off

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davidl on March 11th, 2007

It is not that I object to the language police.  I do.  It the highly selective nature of their enforcement.   In effect  the crime of speaking while normal.

The PC police have attempted to take certain words out of circulation.  

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davidl on March 10th, 2007

Ann CoulterJohn Edwards would have you believe that he should be president.   Or course Edwards also argued that obstetricians caused celbral palsey.   Yet Edwards was the first candidate to cut and run from the Nevada debates, which were scheduled to coverd

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davidl on March 10th, 2007

The Battle of Thermopylae was fought circa 480 BC.  Ellis L. Knox, provides a good description and summary of the battle: 

The Greeks lost the battle. They had come hoping for a victory and instead had been routed. But Thermopylae

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Eric Florack on March 10th, 2007

Yes, I know, I’m behind in my reading.  In yesterday’s Wall Street Journal Joseph Rago puts up something that certainly wouldn’t get by the sensors over at Dean’s World:

NEW YORK–Ayaan Hirsi Ali is untrammeled and unrepentant: “I am

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davidl on March 10th, 2007

This came as a Scooty Libby to me,  I had forgotten that both Hillary Clinton (House) and Fred Thompson(Senate) had both worked as staff lawyers on Watergate.   As they are potential rivals for the presidency, a comparison their Watergate careers

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Eric Florack on March 10th, 2007

McQ, yesterday does as good a job as anyone showing the split amongst the Democrats over Iraq.

 

 

Rep. Obey: “We’re trying to use the supplemental to end the war. But you can’t end the war if you vote against the

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