Eric Florack on February 22nd, 2009

An update was performed on BitsBlog, tonight, to version 2.71. This is a bugfixer. Nothing major. Problems, leave me some feedback.

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davidl on February 22nd, 2009

Steve Gilbert, Sweetness & Light, has up, “:Obama To Half Deficit By End Of Term:”

We get a tip off about the mendacity in this New York Times article early on:

The president inherited a deficit for

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davidl on February 22nd, 2009

Charles M. Blow, New York Times, thinks were are all racists ;

[A] CNN poll from last January found that 72 percent of whites thought that blacks overestimated the amount of discrimination against them, while 82 percent of blacks

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davidl on February 22nd, 2009

Barack "BO" Obama and Mrs. William J. ClintonMrs. Clinton on advancing human rights issues with the ChiComs, via Gateway Pundit:

“But our pressing on those issues can’t interfere on the global economic crisis, the global climate change crisis and the security crisis.”

The difference between antropogenic

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Eric Florack on February 21st, 2009

The other day, I asked the question:

I can’t help but wonder if we aren’t at or beyond a tipping point  against Obama and the Democrats… even from people who supported their election.

Increasingly, I am forced answer that question

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Eric Florack on February 21st, 2009

Generally speaking I have no reluctance to rip Steve Benen a new orifice on any subject.  It is usually fairly easy to do, given the target he presents.   On this occasion, I do have to give him a little bit

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davidl on February 21st, 2009

When the reprohate who thinks  he is Attorney General called us a Nation of Cowards, he surely wasn’t referingn to Heather McDonald, “So says Eric Holder, but what’s really cowardly is racial dishonesty.”   I gave trying to find

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Eric Florack on February 20th, 2009

ramble-hoseWelcome, one and all to the most intnse nightly read on the sphere: This is Bitsblog’s Nightly Ramble.

 This is the firehouse edition, for no reason other than I can.

  • Destroying the mobile middle class: I’ve said it before; Our

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Eric Florack on February 20th, 2009

Kelly Groucutt’s official fan site has the following announcement up:

It is with great sadness that I have to inform the fans that Kelly Groucutt died on the afternoon of 19th February 2009 of a heart attack.

(Sigh)

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davidl on February 20th, 2009

Nadya SulemanHow does a mother of fourteen on welfare afford plastic surgery and in vitro ftertiliation, Celebrity Cafe:

The media has already been speculating how Nadya Suleman, the mother of the octuplets and six kids from a previous in vitro,

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Eric Florack on February 20th, 2009

I got a note from John Hawkins in my feedback last night.  Apparently, John is managed to score an interview with professor Walter Williams.  Longtime readers will know that I have an ocean of respect for the professor .

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Eric Florack on February 20th, 2009

As I said earlier this morning:

 I can’t help but wonder if we aren’t at or beyond a tipping point  against Obama and the Democrats… even from people who supported their election. The amazing part is,  whereas it took Bill

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davidl on February 20th, 2009

Christopher HitchensChristopher Hitchens, fool err hero.   Well both.    A hero is person who risks his life for a noble cause.  Defacing a Nazi sign is a smal but albeit  noble cause.   Doing so in Syria is done at the risk of

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Eric Florack on February 20th, 2009

On the morning of February 17th,I was standing in line getting coffee at the little cafeteria at  my day gig. Behind me were two guys that had obviously been in heated discussion for some time. I don’t know either of

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Eric Florack on February 20th, 2009

From the morning mailbag:

Shortly after class, an economics student approaches his economics professor and says, “I don’t understand this stimulus bill. Can you explain it to me?”

The professor replied, “I don’t have any time to explain it at

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