Eric Florack on April 27th, 2009

Welcome, one and all to the most intense nightly read anywhere on the sphere… The BitsBlog Nightly Ramble

This is the LightHouse Edition

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  • Mother’s day alert:  First of all, let’s take time out for this important message: You do know

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From the Washington Post:

U.S. public health officials did not know about a growing outbreak of swine flu in Mexico until nearly a week after that country started invoking protective measures, and didn’t learn that the deaths were caused by

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davidl on April 27th, 2009

The Barack Obama economic plan, Obamanomics, has failed.  So says  the White House,

April 26 (Bloomberg) — The U.S. economy will continue to contract “for some time to come,” said Lawrence Summers, director of the White House National

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davidl on April 27th, 2009

DavidL's Breakfast Scramble
Conservation:

Me, to waitress: Do you remember by [usual] order?

Waitress: It [already] is in.

Me: [heart patters]

Me, to same waitress: [recalls conservation] Is this what is like in Heaven?

Waitress: [smiles]

Me: [misssion accomplished]

Canucks call Algore

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Eric Florack on April 27th, 2009

Ben Smith, and Jon Martin at Politico:

There was Sen. John McCain’s daughter and his campaign manager who last week demanded that their fellow Republicans embrace same-sex marriage. Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman – the most devoted modernizer among the party’s

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davidl on April 27th, 2009

Memoraundum for Mrs. Clinton, this how you deal with pirates, Associated Press:

NAIROBI, Kenya – The small white skiff approached the Italian cruise ship Melody after dinnertime as it sailed north of the Seychelles, the pirates firing wildly toward

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