Eric Florack on December 9th, 2008

LA Times:

Dennis Yost, 65, the lead singer of the 1960s soft rock group the Classics IV, died Sunday at Fort Hamilton Hospital in Hamilton, Ohio, of respiratory failure, according to a hospital spokeswoman.

he Classic IV had a

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davidl on December 8th, 2008

Posted by Patrick Appel, quest blogging on Daily Dish, Miss Andrea Sullivan’s blog, with respect to her obsession with proving Trig Palin to be a bastard::

I don’t believe Sarah Palin is capable of pulling off such a cover-up. And,

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davidl on December 8th, 2008

BO’s parade keeps getting smaller. Steve Hildebrand, Puffington Post:

I could go on and on. The point I’m making here is that our new president, the Congress and all Americans must come together to solve these problems. This is

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Eric Florack on December 8th, 2008

Welcome, one and all to the most intense nightly read on the ‘sphere… BitsBlog’s Nightly Ramble.

A cold, cold Monday, today. Buffalo had 14 degrees, this morning. Syracuse had a low of 5. My truck struggled to life this morning,

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davidl on December 8th, 2008

Put a caption on this photo.   Story.

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Eric Florack on December 8th, 2008

Surfing the Washington Times, this morning, I happen across Andrew Breitbart.  I’d heard about the incident he writes about, here, but hadn’t given it much thought, until now.

Anyone who has attended a frat party will have an

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Eric Florack on December 7th, 2008

Pear Harbor, Battleship Row, the USS Arizona, December 7th, 1941
It was 67 years ago, today.
I wonder at how much we as a people have forgotten.

The battleship in this picture, at the time of the attack, had something on the order of a million gallons of heavy fuel

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davidl on December 7th, 2008

Corrupt

“Cold Cash” Jefferson left out in the cold.

When Mrs. Pelosi become Speaker of the House, she vowed to “drain the swamp.”    Rather than draining her swamp, Mrs. Pelosi has allowed her swamp to become even more infested.   Well yesterday,

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Eric Florack on December 7th, 2008

Found a few houses off Orchard Park Road in West Seneca, outside Buffalo last night. Donna took these. As always, drill once to get the description, drill twice to get the full sized shot.

Now, should you happen to be

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davidl on December 6th, 2008

Democratic presidential candidate, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., left, answers a question from plumber Joe Wurzelbacher in Holland, Ohio, Sunday, Oct. 12, 2008. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)The open question is just how bleeding stupid is BO, a/k/a  Barack Obama.  It is hard to say.   However there appears to be an unlimited depth to BO’s sheer stupidity.   Mike Allen and Jonathan Martin, Politico, reports on what

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Eric Florack on December 6th, 2008


BY way of looking something up while responding to David’s Scramble this morning, I found a little gem about Black Friday, which explains why I don’t tend to go out to the stores on that day.

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Friday was my

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davidl on December 6th, 2008

DavidL's Breakfast Scramble

The Puffster, a/k/a Tom Daschle, is claiming, albeit without evidence, that somehow Obamacare would be a boom to our economy, Laura Meckler, Wall Street Journal:

WASHINGTON — Former Sen. Tom Daschle, who is slated to oversee health-care policy

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davidl on December 5th, 2008

Just how stupid is Barack Obama? It may impossible to determine.   Consider this tidbit from via Abe Goldberg, Commentary:

Barack Obama is toying with the idea of making a speech from an Islamic capital within his first 100 days

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Eric Florack on December 5th, 2008

Welcome, one and all to the most intense nightly read anywhere on the ‘sphere… BitsBlog’s Nightly Ramble.

Friday. TGIF (Toes go in First).  Lots doing before the weekend, though. Hold on tight, here we go:

  • The Dinosaurs are dying off

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Eric Florack on December 5th, 2008

Attention  Jim Manzi at The Corner:

Here is Andrew Sullivan responding to Ezra Klein’s paean to socialized health care in the U.K.:

One reason I’m a conservative is the British National Health Service. Until you have lived under socialism,

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