Eric Florack on July 22nd, 2007

As you may or may not already be aware, members of the Watcher’s Council hold a vote every week on what they consider to be the most link-worthy pieces of writing around…  per the Watcher’s instructions, I am submitting

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Eric Florack on July 22nd, 2007
  • Good lord, is this weekend a slow one. I’ve seen more traffic in the graveyard at 2am in the dead of winter. Not unexpected, given we’re in high summer, and we’re in a big movie release cycle…  and I’ve

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davidl on July 22nd, 2007

George C. Scott as George S. Patton

Mike Kaminski has posted a great video.  Ok it is a parody, and fiction.   However it is pointed and relevant.

Mike, I am a vet and I thank you.

Hat tip:  Allah Pundit, Hot Air.

Hat photo:  IMDB

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Eric Florack on July 22nd, 2007

Just a few shots that struck me as interesting. As always, drill the pics for the full view.

This was taken at Selkirk Shores, NY, from the base of the light house, there.  Something about the anticipation of going into

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Eric Florack on July 22nd, 2007

Steyn, today:

How do you feel about the American hostages in Iran?

No, not the guys back in the Seventies, the ones being held right now.

What? You haven’t heard about them?

Odd that, isn’t it? But they’re there. For

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Eric Florack on July 22nd, 2007

From Fox’s Political Grapevine:

John MurthaA follow-up on Thursday’s item about that so-called “mystery” earmark request from John Murtha: the Pennsylvania Democrat was awarded $1 million for the Center for Instrumented Critical Infrastructure — which it turns out does not

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Eric Florack on July 22nd, 2007

messner.jpgRALEIGH, North Carolina -AP—

Tammy Faye Messner, who as Tammy Faye Bakker helped her husband, Jim, build a multimillion- dollar evangelism empire and then watched it collapse in disgrace, has died. She was 65.

Elsewhere, stocks in mascara and lipstick

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davidl on July 22nd, 2007

hillarysm.jpgWould the election of democrat, Mrs. Clinton, Barack Obama or John Edwards, mean the destruction of the State of Israel?  Paul Mirengoff, Powerline, seems to making that suggestion.

It follows that if Iran is hell bent on acquiring nuclear

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davidl on July 22nd, 2007
Don Surber writes, in the Charleston Daily Mail
WHEN I looked at the numbers last month, the Gallup Poll showed President Bush’s job approval was at 32 percent, and Congress was at 24 percent. Could things get any worse?

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