Eric Florack on November 24th, 2007

The San Francisco Chronicle has recently activated a devious system by which it deceives commenters on its website, SFGate.com. Here’s how it works:If you make a comment on an article posted at SFGate, and if the site moderators then subsequently

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Eric Florack on November 24th, 2007

CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has lost his lead eight days before a referendum on ending his term limit, an independent pollster said on Saturday, in a swing in voter sentiment against the Cuba ally. Forty-nine percent of

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Eric Florack on November 24th, 2007
“It’s a dangerous business, Frodo, going out of your door,” he used to say. “You step into the Road, and if you don’t keep your feet, there is no knowing where you might be swept off to.
–J.R.R. Tolkien

No,

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Eric Florack on November 24th, 2007

I note this morning by way of Memeorandum, that Australia has condemned itself to a labor government.  I suspect that by the time they figure out how badly they succeeded and damaging themselves will be too late.  The Belmont Club

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davidl on November 24th, 2007

From Investors Business Daily:

Leaders: Time was, a French leader who dared to defy that nation’s all-powerful unions could end up without a political future. Well, Nicolas Sarkozy stared down the mighty transport workers — and the union blinked.

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Eric Florack on November 23rd, 2007

Scott Fybush is reporting the death of Hy Lit, one of the very first Rock and Roll DJ’s in the country.

Hy Lit died Saturday, almost two weeks after undergoing what was supposed to have been routine knee surgery for

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Eric Florack on November 23rd, 2007

Feedback from an apparently young reader…

Why not link The DrudgeReport?

Tell you what… get him to link BitsBlog, and I’ll consider it. Let me know how you make out.

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Eric Florack on November 23rd, 2007

The Daily Mail:

Had Toni Vernelli gone ahead with her pregnancy ten years ago, she would know at first hand what it is like to cradle her own baby, to have a pair of innocent eyes gazing up at her

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Eric Florack on November 23rd, 2007

COALITION FORCES TARGET AL-QAEDA PROPAGANDA, FOREIGN TERRORIST NETWORKS; ONE KILLED, 10 DETAINED

Posted: 22 Nov 2007 12:00 PM CST

COALITION FORCES TARGET AL-QAEDA PROPAGANDA, FOREIGN TERRORIST NETWORKS; ONE KILLED, 10 DETAINED

MND-B DINING FACILITIES SET TO SERVE IT UP IN

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Eric Florack on November 23rd, 2007

Little Green Footballs notes:

9/11 Troofers keep popping up at Daily Kos, despite the official Kos disapproval: Screw Loose Change: Daily Kos Allows Crackpot Diary.

The bottom line is, the regardless of the show the left makes of disapproving

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Eric Florack on November 23rd, 2007

I stated here several times over the years that the Democrat party has become the party of the rich.  So imagine the look on my face when Don Lambro, over The Washington Times this morning produces a study which says

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davidl on November 23rd, 2007

Shocking news.  Socialist wife, Bernadette Chirac endorsed the socialist Mrs. William Clinton.   That is the wife of cheating, corrupt. lying French politician, Jacques Chirac,  esdorsed the wife of a  cheating, corrupt. lying US politician, B.J. Clinton.

Claude Raines as Inspector Louis RenultPARIS (Reuters)

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davidl on November 23rd, 2007

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Who decided that my six-year-old should dress like a Vegas showgirl? And one with an abundance of anger issues at that?

Celia Rivenbark, Sun(NY).

 Hat Tip:  Lucianne.

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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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