Eric Florack on July 8th, 2007

From IMDB, we are reminded that the script from the movie about Patton, ran something like this:

Patton: What’s the matter with you?
Soldier Who Gets Slapped: Well, I… I guess I… I can’t take it anymore.
Patton

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davidl on July 8th, 2007

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An accident has been described as when a politician accidently speaks the truth.   Has Mrs. Sheehan accidentlly spoken the truth:

“Democrats and Americans feel betrayed by the Democratic leadership,”

A big tip of the hat to Jiim Lynch, Bright

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Eric Florack on July 8th, 2007

To say the response to “Live Earth” was a bust, would be like saying Sir Laurence Olivier did a little acting, sometimes.  The London Times:

With the exception of the closing act Madonna – who played next door at Wembley

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Eric Florack on July 8th, 2007

I have often been asked, (as was again in this morning’s email), why I make conversational reference to the point being made on someone else’s blog, without making a full explanation of what it is the other writer is talking

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John Venlet over at Improved Clinch:

Schools’ zero tolerance rules have a tendency to relieve teachers and administrators from utilizing their reasoning skills, and their common sense.

While I understand your response, John, and I am sympathetic, I’m going to

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Eric Florack on July 8th, 2007

As promised, here’s a series of photos of last night’s happening. For the fourth itself, we went west of here to a little berg called Lyndonville. Those pics are here.

For this trip, we went a bit east… a town

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Eric Florack on July 8th, 2007

Asked, a while ago, What are the real consequences of FDR? 

I pointed to an article by Amity Shales in the Wall Street Journal subtitled “Reconsidering our reverence for FDR.”

I suspect that that particular article in the Journal  started

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davidl on July 8th, 2007

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Pinch Sulzberger, a.k.a. the New York Times, in reference to Fred Thompson, is asking, “Is America ready for a president with a trophy wife?” 

To which, Paul Mirengoff, Powerline, says:

I don’t see why not. In 2004, America

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Eric Florack on July 8th, 2007

Joyner at OTB:

The big news overnight is the claim by a pro abortion group that it hired Fred Thompson to lobby the first President Bush to soften his stance on a gag rule.
Michael Finnegan broke the story

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