Eric Florack on October 1st, 2008

Welcome, dear reader, to the most intense nightly read in the ‘sphere… The Nightly Ramble….

A busy Wednesday, and a new month. Let’s get to it.

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Eric Florack on September 30th, 2008

Welcome, dear reader, to the most intense nightly read in the ‘sphere… The Nightly Ramble….

  • Leaving aside the issue of the Republicans who bolted off the bailout plan yesterday, changing their vote from ‘yes’ to ‘no’, (I’ll get back to

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Welcome, dear reader, to the most intense nightly read in the ‘sphere…  The Nightly Ramble….

Lots to cover today, as always and as dictated by events, most of it to do with the bailout which at this point (About

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Eric Florack on September 26th, 2008

Welcome, dear reader, to the most intense nightly read on the ‘sphere: Bitsblog’s Nightly Ramble.

Lots going on.

  • So, Ol’ Gaffe-O-Matic Biden and, one assumes, B. O. both think John McCain is wrong on security? Is that why they both

Continue reading about Nightly Ramble:All This And a Large Fries

Welcome to the deepest daily read in the ‘sphere… the Nightly Ramble. Lots going on, today… we’ve covered most of the business with the bailout bill, but there’s a lot of other stuff going on too… let’s get to

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Welcome, dear reader to the most intense nightly read anywhere in the ‘sphere, Bitsblog’s Nightly Ramble.

  • Charlie Rangel’s scandals just keep going on.  It strikes me that were the press to have actually been doing it’s job, they’d be

Continue reading about Nightly Ramble: Rangel, the Gift That Keeps on Giving;Summer Gone;What Alternative to the Bailout?; More

Friday, end of the week. Fall is here, with a bang… 43 degrees this morning and even colder in some of the hills south of I90, and up in the Adirondacks. Leaves are changing the birds are flocking. Let’s see

Continue reading about Nightly Ramble:Captions; Purists; Krugman Handed His Head;Bit Calls for an Investigation of Democrats And Their Roles in the Failure of Freddie Mac And Fannie Mae; More;

You have not seen this person holding this sign before. You can go about your business. Move along.

  • Heard this one on a local talk show… BO saying:

    “If we’re going to ask questions about who has been promulgating negative

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Eric Florack on September 17th, 2008

OK, before you start, it turns out there’s a lot of texture on those old historical markers, that make them a bear to touch up, and my graphic tools aren’t up to that drill.  At least one of you should

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Another busy day, here in Busytown.

  • In case you didn’t notice, the Markets went UP today. Bigtime, up. Meanwhile, Oil goes below $92/BBL. I guess we can reschedule the end of the world, huh?.
  • If Iran, who likes to

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Eric Florack on September 15th, 2008

First day back from the camping trip. And yes, I’ll get to those pics; I promise. But there’s lots going on.

  • Offshore drilling is coming up for a vote. Democrats are finally being forced by political reality, and by

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  • Martin makes the point I’ve been making about Fannie and Freddie… that this does not constitute a government takeover or government growth at all, for that matter, since they were governmental creations in the first place.  And Billy responds

Continue reading about Nightly Ramble: Fannie And Freddie a Case of Democrat Corruption; Wimp Factor; McCain Leads; Krauthammer Gets One Wrong.

  • I’d say, Billy, that there’s a major difference in the perception of justice when you involve the religious freedom component. To put that into the same context as OJ Simpson, however, …which in my view is a connection that

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Lots of ground to cover, today, but too little time to do it in..

  • Interesting news; apparently that brilliant speech from Palin last night was genuine… the teleprompter for at least part of the speech was broken…. as David has

Continue reading about Nightly Ramble:Palin Speech(more); Press Getting Petty; Revenge is Ours, Say the Democrats; More.

Continue reading about Nightly Ramble; Anbar Now Under Iraqi Control; Palin’s Daughter Preggers… But…; Left Backs Down on Baby Rumor; Bitmobile Portrait; More