Eric Florack on September 15th, 2008

“1982. John McCain goes to Washington. Things have changed in the last 26 years, but McCain hasn’t,” says a voice-over in the ad against shots of a Rubik’s Cube, a disco ball, a massive cell phone and an old computer.

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Eric Florack on September 14th, 2008

Numbers will be fouled for a while, but it’s working now.

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They are now backing out the upgrade and returning to the old system. More at

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Eric Florack on September 14th, 2008

It’s a virus — and it’s spreading. Do a Google News search for “since the Great Depression,” and you come up with more than 4,500 examples of the phrase’s use in just the past month.

But that doesn’t make any

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Eric Florack on September 14th, 2008

We’re back. Despite the rain that popped up form time to time, things went very well indeed. Turns out it didn’t rain nearly as much as they thought. I’ll be posting pictures tonight or perhaps tommorow. I have a few

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davidl on September 13th, 2008

Well look who landed at the Weekly Standard:

Obama Reinforces McCain Campaign Talking Points

The campaign should really start sending out carbon-offset and organic soap gift baskets because every time a Democrat talks, things seem to get a little

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davidl on September 13th, 2008

Classy Cassy Fiano links maybe the most classless, and for sure the most clueless, political ad of the season:

I think, with the selection of Joe Biden as his running mate, Obama may have inherited foot-in-mouth disease. Here we have

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davidl on September 12th, 2008

Color me confused.   If you listen to most leftards and were so stupid as to actually believe them, you’d think that humans had one of five genders and could change at will by simple virtue of which restroom they choose

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davidl on September 12th, 2008

Bit rambled:

I’ve not seen it yet, but I gather the interview with Palin and Gibson went pretty well.  From the clips one gets the impression that Gibson was a little on the stiff side.  Here’s some of it.

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Eric Florack on September 12th, 2008

  • By the time you read this, I’ll already be soaking up the outdoors by the lakeshore, and soaking, is the word.  Remember that 30% chance of rain? We’re now to 70%. and as of noon, the whole of upstate NY

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davidl on September 12th, 2008

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I think the media so far has been the biggest loser in this race. And they continue to have growing credibility problems

Mark Penn, via Jonan Goldberg, National Review..

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Eric Florack on September 12th, 2008

Sister Toldjah:

In a page 1 story on Gov. Palin, the WaPo headline reads: “Palin Links Iraq to 9/11, A View Discarded by Bush.”

Unfortuntely for them, they got it wrong – again – as Bill Kristol points out

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So, Obama has been losing ground as he gets more shrill. What’s his solution to the problem? Get even more shrill.

Senator Barack Obama will intensify his assault against Senator John McCain, with new television advertisements and more forceful attacks

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Eric Florack on September 11th, 2008

  • Looks like we’re going to get the camper out this weekend. The weather models are saying a 30% chance of showers Saturday and Sunday, so we’re going to take off early on Friday night and run to Golden Hill State

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Eric Florack on September 11th, 2008

08:37am— 

I’d come into work just like any other morning.

Where I was working at the time is closed, now, and so is the department that I was working for. But I can see he layout of the place in

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Eric Florack on September 11th, 2008

I awoke this morning to a disturbing note passed along by a reader, pointing me to this from Rasmussen:

Thirty-two percent (32%) of likely voters say the Supreme Court is doing a good or excellent job. The latest Rasmussen Reports

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