Eric Florack on November 22nd, 2007

I always said it would happen. Noel Sheppard at Newsbusters:

As irrefutable evidence mounts that Nobel Laureate Al Gore’s climate alarmism is about nothing other than lining his supposedly green pockets with green currency, manmade global warming skeptics around the

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Eric Florack on November 22nd, 2007

SIX KILLED, 10 DETAINED AS COALITION FORCES TARGET AL-QAEDA LEADERSHIP, FOREIGN TERRORIST FACILITATORS

Posted: 21 Nov 2007 07:09 AM CST

SIX KILLED, 10 DETAINED AS COALITION FORCES TARGET AL-QAEDA LEADERSHIP, FOREIGN TERRORIST FACILITATORS

‘AWAKENING’ IN IRAQ SIGNALS CITIZENS’ RISE AGAINST

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Eric Florack on November 22nd, 2007

Just a concept I want to capture. Think of this what you will;

With all the progress that’s been happening in Iraq of late, the last refuge of the left is to complain that the Iraqi federal government there doesn’t

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Eric Florack on November 22nd, 2007

A little old man shuffled slowly into an ice cream parlor and pulled himself slowly, painfully, up onto a stool.. After catching his breath, he ordered a banana split.

The waitress asked kindly, “Crushed nuts?”

“No,” he replied, “Arthritis.”

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Eric Florack on November 22nd, 2007

McQ at Q&O:

I have to say, this is an unexpected development.

In a rare attack on Iran’s president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, a hardline newspaper has accused him of behaving immorally towards his political rivals.

The Islamic Republic daily, close to

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Eric Florack on November 22nd, 2007

The Daily Mail

Heather Mills McCartney claimed she is being treated worse than a paedophile and murderer by the media.

She also insisted the wealthy elite are either snobs or stingy but maintained it was necessary to move in their

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Eric Florack on November 22nd, 2007

Anyone have any idea why both the third world countries I just visited offered excellent airport baggage service, while JFK took over an hour to offload my bag?

Oh, come on, Megan…  

I mean, look, I’m a fan of your

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Eric Florack on November 22nd, 2007

SanDiego Fires, as viewed from the USS Ronald Reagan
Sent along by a reader, who says this was taken from the deck of the USS Ronald Reagan.

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Eric Florack on November 22nd, 2007

An amusing article, from Gene Lyons, which was reprinted in the Northwest Arkansas News this morning…

It’s no exaggeration to say that the establishment media’s initial response to the blogosphere was panic. The idea of mere citizens talking back to

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Eric Florack on November 22nd, 2007

Happy Turkey Day

BBCT: Bob Wallace in the “We The People” mailgroup

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Eric Florack on November 22nd, 2007

Being a railfan this one caught my interest:

PARIS, Nov. 21 — As a national transit strike stretched into its second week, arsonists disrupted high-speed train service on four main routes on Wednesday. Government officials called the fires a “coordinated

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davidl on November 22nd, 2007

Eliot Spitzer

From Eliot Spitzer’s Never-Never Land:

Nov. 20 (Bloomberg) — The base fare for New York City’s subways and buses will stay at $2 through 2009 after the state authority that operates the network found $220 million in additional

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davidl on November 22nd, 2007

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I don’t see what Maggie is so surprised about. Europe is the continent that brought you papal infallibility, the divine right of kings, nationalism, fascism, communism, and so on and so on. Europe’s faith in big solutions by big institutions

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davidl on November 22nd, 2007

Caprice Hollins, is called, for some strange reason,  director of Equity, Race & Learning Support, for Seatttle schools.   Yet Hollins has some strange ideas about equality.   Hollins sent home with Seattlle’s students her ‘Myths of ‘The First Thanksgiving.'”‘ 

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Eric Florack on November 22nd, 2007

Just some thoughts on this Thanksgiving day.

Perhaps some of you are unaware of the origins of this day being set aside as a national day of Thanksgiving.

Also, you may not know that Ol’ Ben Franklin wanted to make

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