Eric Florack on November 20th, 2009

An outright brilliant column from Doctor Charles Krauthammer this morning:

For late-19th-century anarchists, terrorism was the “propaganda of the deed.” And the most successful propaganda-by-deed in history was 9/11 — not just the most destructive, but the most spectacular and

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Eric Florack on November 20th, 2009

Guys… the mail server got moved this monring. As a result the distribution lists are gone and so are you old mailboxes as I warned would happen, so I’m sending this in the clear. Please drop a note to my

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Eric Florack on November 20th, 2009

After the DNS servers figured out where we were after the change of sever, I started beating up on this new configuration. routersAs it turns out, the Apache hosted system we’re on now is about twice as fast as the

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Eric Florack on November 19th, 2009

TMZ is reporting:

Senator John Kerry‘s daughter, Alexandra Forbes Kerry, was arrested early this morning on suspicion of DUI … law enforcement sources tell TMZ.

It went down in Hollywood at 12:40 AM. Alexandra, a 36-year-old film producer

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davidl on November 19th, 2009

I had this one up earlier, but thing it got posted to the old server, and is lost forever in cyber never land.   Oh well. Don’t mistake me for an Lindsey Graham fan.    However Graham makes Attorney General Eric Holder

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Eric Florack on November 19th, 2009

Looks like we’re on the new server, and all is well.

Speed of access seems good, too.

Posting can commence at will.

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davidl on November 17th, 2009

I do some hiking and more than a wit bit of trail maintenance.   Needless to say,  I have opinions on both.   The only publicly funded and maintained trails in decent repair are those ADA compliant monstrosities that got funded with

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Eric Florack on November 16th, 2009

Either today or tomorrow, the 17th or the 18th of November, BitsBlog will be moving to it’s new server.  This means the system will be totally offline for the move and then only partially available thereafter as the DNS servers

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davidl on November 16th, 2009

Good news, the turd Gregory Craig has been dismissed as White House counsel, from a clearly heart broken  Steve Clemons, Blogs & Stories:

Gregory Craig, White House counsel to President Obama and national security advisor to Obama during the

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Eric Florack on November 16th, 2009

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

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Eric Florack on November 16th, 2009

The following letter read on Glenn Beck’s show, is rapidly circulating around the country. Americans everywhere identify with this 53-year-old woman. She has given us a voice. Once you read this, you will want to forward it to all of

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Eric Florack on November 15th, 2009

Today’s BitsBlog Snark of the Day comes to us by way of a discussion on my Facebook page: snark2.jpg

Janice Kozma
“these are the times that try men’s souls.”
I don’t think so.
These are times when hearts and

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Eric Florack on November 15th, 2009

From Lori Montgomery at the Washintgton Post:

A plan to slash more than $500 billion from future Medicare spending — one of the biggest sources of funding for President Obama’s proposed overhaul of the nation’s health-care system — would sharply

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davidl on November 15th, 2009

Sam Youngman, Hill:

Even as he travels through Asia, President Barack Obama said Saturday that he has ordered a full investigation of what happened last week at Fort Hood, Texas, and he promises accountability for mistakes made that allowed

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davidl on November 14th, 2009

So why did the Associated Press Fact Checker cross the street?   Answer: We don’t know.   No AP “Fact Checker” is smart enough to find a street, much less cross itFrom a purported AP Fact Check of Sarah Palin’s book,

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