Eric Florack on August 3rd, 2010

I notice that the most recent gamble of our tax money involves the Chevy Volt…

Keep in mind, this is the president who told us that the GM and Chrysler bailouts were an unvarnished success. What a lot of people

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Eric Florack on August 2nd, 2010

Hey, Bruce:

This “Ground Zero” mosque controversy has begun to rankle me. It is my understanding that those who want to build the “ground zero” mosque own the property there.

Secondly, it really isn’t adjacent to the old World Trade

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Eric Florack on August 1st, 2010

Noted today an article in the McClatchy News wire… a service that I seldom scan anymore. Today, they offer up something fairly useful.

The first paras:

BAGHDAD — Shiite Iraqi militants have trained in Iran in preparation for attacks against

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Eric Florack on July 18th, 2010

An interesting John Hawkins interview with Victor Davis Hanson:

Victor Davis Hanson: I think that’s just part of what it means to be a privileged Westerner. It means that you’re going to be wracked by self doubt and you’re going

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Eric Florack on July 11th, 2010

(Sigh)

It’s become obvious that I’m unable to post regularly to the blog in the current set up work conditions, absent a laptop computer to put in the truck with me.

So, until I get one,  you’ll need to bear

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Eric Florack on July 4th, 2010

I see it as nothing short of alarming that we go forward with the Fourth of July /Independence Day celebrations as if nothing was wrong; as if the instrument which has served better than any other to protect our freedoms

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Eric Florack on July 3rd, 2010

I’ve been watching the nonsense over GOP Chair Steele’s comments on Afghanistan, with a somewhat jaundiced eye.

Look, the DNC may like to claim that Steele is “betting against our troops and rooting for failure in Afghanistan”, but  what’s

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Eric Florack on June 30th, 2010

Good evening Mr. And Mrs. America and to all the ships at sea, and welcome to the most intense nightly read anywhere on the web; The BitsBlog Nightly Ramble


  • GOP Disappointed In Schwarzenegger? Sure and there’s a damned good reason

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Eric Florack on June 29th, 2010

Good evening Mr. And Mrs. America and to all the ships at sea, and welcome to the most intense nightly read anywhere on the web; The BitsBlog Nightly Ramble

  • THE ULTIMATE INSULT? Apparently those who don’t like the tea party

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Eric Florack on June 28th, 2010

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

  • AS REGARDS DAVE WIEGEL...Does anyone not understand that the reason that the Post hired him in the first place

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Eric Florack on June 26th, 2010

Attention countrymen. 
This is your fearless leader speaking. 
A couple things in the mechanics of running a web site …

1: I have upgraded the WordPress software to version 3.0.  To most users this won’t change a thing. 

2:I finally

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Eric Florack on June 21st, 2010

Yes, I know, it’s been some time since I’ve cracked an editor open on this site.  It’s shameful, but you guys know the situation.  And anyway, and David is been doing a bang up job of keeping this site active

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Eric Florack on June 20th, 2010

t was nearly the end of the day, today , when I finally realized that I had not written anything in terms of a comment on the day.

Usually I tend to take the attitude that if I don’t have

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Eric Florack on June 7th, 2010

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Eric Florack on June 6th, 2010

For the first time in recent memory I can quote something coming off Dean Esmay’s site:snark2.jpg

After an explosion, deaths, and months of oil spewing into the Golf, 12% more people want the health care reform law repealed than are

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