Eric Florack on November 9th, 2007

“Fat and stupid is no way to go through life, Son.” -Dean Wormer

I envision that line being fed to Rosie O’Donnel. It fits so very well.

Fat we know about. Stupid, we know as well, though there seems to

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Eric Florack on November 9th, 2007

SAO PAULO, Brazil: A monster offshore oil discovery and promising fields near the find could help Brazil join the ranks of the world’s major exporters, but full-scale extraction is unlikely until 2013 and will be very expensive.The “ultra-deep” Tupi field

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Fred Lucas and Kevin Mooney at CNS note:

House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) said on Tuesday that the troop surge, which began in June, has had a significant impact on the situation in Iraq and noted that he

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Eric Florack on November 9th, 2007

James Joyner at OTB:

Der Spiegel’s Gabor Steingart has written “The Comeback of a War President,” the first positive piece on President Bush I’ve seen (outside the usual suspects) since roughly since maybe the spring of 2005.

He

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Eric Florack on November 9th, 2007

ISLAMABAD (AFP) — Former Pakistani premier Benazir Bhutto tried to leave her Islamabad home Friday to lead a protest against a state of emergency but was stopped by police, her party said.”She tried to come out of the house. Police

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davidl on November 9th, 2007

Note the author of this post was in a somewhat vile mood this morning.   Alas. 

I am impressed.  Two black men quote Dr. Martin Luther King.    Bill Cosby and Alvin F. Poussaint in Christian Science Monitor:

Martin Luther

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Eric Florack on November 9th, 2007

WASHINGTON – The Senate confirmed retired judge Michael Mukasey as attorney general Thursday night to replace Alberto Gonzales, who was forced from office in a scandal over his handling of the Justice Department.

So at the end of the day,

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Eric Florack on November 9th, 2007

ABC News- A federal grand jury has voted to indict former New York City Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik on charges stemming from the acceptance of free rent and apartment renovations, tax evasion and lying on his application for the job

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