Eric Florack on December 5th, 2008

OJ Simpson is sent up for 15 years.

Fox:

O.J. Simpson was sentenced Friday to at least 15 years in prison for armed robbery and kidnapping in a failed attempt to recover sports memorabilia from two collectibles dealers.
There will

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davidl on December 5th, 2008

Sarah PalinOprah Winfrey has her knickers in a twist because the ‘Cuba, Sarah Palin has not agreed to do Winfrey’s show, Extra:

“I said I would be happy to talk to Sarah Palin when the election was over,” Oprah reveals

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Eric Florack on December 5th, 2008

Lots going on up north.

 

OTTAWA (Reuters) – Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper won a rare suspension of Parliament on Thursday, managing to avoid being ousted by opposition parties angry over the minority Conservative government’s economic plans and an attempt

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davidl on December 5th, 2008

I enjoyed this one.  Michael Goldfarb, Weekly Standard, smacks Atlantic with a dead fish, b/k/a Miss Andrea Sullivan:

But the Atlantic‘s own credibility has been damaged by the continuing “investigation” into the maternity of Trig Palin, known to

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Eric Florack on December 4th, 2008

Welcome one and all to the most intense nightly read anywhere on the sphere… Bit’sBlog’s Nightly Ramble.

Thursday, already? Let’s get busy, here.

  • Will someone please explain to me how it is anyone takes Eliot Spitzer seriously at anything?  Here

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Eric Florack on December 4th, 2008
Message from Torranto at “Best of the Web”:
 

Saxby Chambliss“Chambliss’s victory assures the GOP of at least 41 Senate seats. It also lays to rest one of the nastiest McCarthyite smears of recent times: the repeated assertion by Democrats and the

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davidl on December 4th, 2008

James Lewis, American Thinker[sic], is completely blind to the lessons of tragedies like Blacksbug and Mumbai:

It now appears that 10 commando-trained terrorists with Pakistani jihadist training were able to kill at least 172 people and wound almost

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Eric Florack on December 4th, 2008

Oops!

More ballots found in the Senate Race in Minnesota.

This time, those ballots… this time from Minneapolis, leaves Fraken with a net loss of 46 votes.

Franken’s reaction? predictable as steam off the street in a summer shower:Denial.

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davidl on December 3rd, 2008

Put me down as a cynical skeptic   While the death of Jdimytai Damour was a tragic accident, it does not fit into a larger pattern.

(CNSNews.com) – A pro-union group is suggesting that the death of a temporary

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BitsBlog... The Early Days

Welcome, dear reader, to the most intense nightly read anywhere on the ‘sphere…BitsBlog’s Nightly Ramble

Tonight, we ramble back through time a bit.

This pic to the right… (no, the OTHER right…) was the first BitsBlog World Headquarters.

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Eric Florack on December 3rd, 2008

From Radio Buddy Scott Fybush, we get news about the passing of one of the key players in Radio duing my time in that business:

Bill Drake spent most of his career out west, but the wizard of streamlined

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Eric Florack on December 3rd, 2008

We see by way of the Halifax Chronicle-Herald that Ted Rodgers has died.

Ted’s father was a radio pioneer at CFRB. As a result of Ted’s leadership, and some luck of course, the company now owns most of the big

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Eric Florack on December 3rd, 2008

From Fox, we get this important news:

The chairman of the British Lap Dancing Association, speaking at a legislative hearing Tuesday, made an odd assertion, given his livelihood — a lap dance is “not sexually stimulating,” he said, the

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Eric Florack on December 3rd, 2008

And as if by magic, or perhaps more correctly by way of some evil curse, 175 ballots show up in the Franken Coleman race, giving Franken a net gain of 37.  Total difference, ~50 or so.

Forgive me, but I

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Eric Florack on December 2nd, 2008

WordPress v2.7RC1 is up at the WordPress and looking pretty good.

If you’re a blogger, and want a peek here’s where to look behind the scenes.

It’s quite a change from the interface WP has had for the last few

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