Eric Florack on December 5th, 2007

Canada.com:

Last month, an EKOS Research study for Transport Canada found seven out of 10 Canadians freely admit to exceeding speed limits from time to time, with another 11 per cent copping to speeding “only on highways.” Average speeding margins

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Eric Florack on December 5th, 2007

Comedy Central is running a caption contest. Here’s the topic:

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Yes, those are Romney stickers they’re wearing.

Hey, CC; If I sent you a mailnote would you advertise my site for me?

Yeah, right.

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Eric Florack on December 5th, 2007

We’re still looking for you and your blog to become Swamp Stompers.

We’re also looking for additional writers for BitsBlog. Traffic at BitsBlog has been growing at a rapid pace of late. Drop feedback, and let’s talk.

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Eric Florack on December 5th, 2007

Jason says today:

NRO symposium on the Teddy-bear Intifada has some modest proposals but they don’t go far enough. In response to the alleged insult, we should deliberately and emphatically insult Islam: it is a vicious supremacist ideology that has

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Eric Florack on December 5th, 2007

Via Memeorandum, I see Jules Critenden suggesting that while Bush Bashing is fun, the Democrats are missing out on what they claim to want… Political progress in Iraq.

In fact, progress, there, is….

 …Incremental, though significantly more progress than, say,

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Eric Florack on December 5th, 2007

I’m quite certain you’ll have seen this house:

A Christmas story House

(A nod to the Cleveland Plain Dealer’s Scott Shaw who took this photo… and that oughta be a clue, actually.) Yes, that’s the house in “A Christmas Story” which will doubtless being

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Eric Florack on December 5th, 2007

This is rich….

A blog on a site promoting Al Gore’s climate change documentary, An Inconvenient Truth, has been hacked by penis pill-promoting spammers.

Links on the blog portion of the climatecrisis.net site point to websites hawking online pharmaceuticals

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Eric Florack on December 5th, 2007

From ABC’s The Blotter:

Wayne DumondA Missouri mother says she will do “whatever it takes” to stop former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee from becoming president, because he freed the man who went on to rape and murder her daughter, Carol

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Eric Florack on December 4th, 2007

MOSUL AIRPORT REOPENS FOR COMMERCIAL FLIGHTS AFTER 14 YEARS; RELIGIOUS PILGRIMS BOARD IRAQI AIRPLANE FOR HAJJ

Posted: 04 Dec 2007 06:13 AM CST

MOSUL AIRPORT REOPENS FOR COMMERCIAL FLIGHTS AFTER 14 YEARS; RELIGIOUS PILGRIMS BOARD IRAQI AIRPLANE FOR HAJJ

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Eric Florack on December 4th, 2007

I couldn’t resist this one:

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This one’s from Fark. There’s more, there, too.

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Eric Florack on December 4th, 2007

I’m often asked why I railfan. Someone wrote and asked me that today.

It”s really a family activity.  I wrote to this point about 5 years ago… while sitting just west of my office here… in a little burg called

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Eric Florack on December 4th, 2007

WaPo:

Norman Hsu, Democrat fundraiserThe U.S. Attorney in Manhattan formally indicted one-time Hillary Clinton fundraiser Norman Hsu today, laying out what prosecutors described as a “massive fraud scheme” that allegedly left investors in Hsu’s fictitious clothing businesses taken to the tune of $20

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Eric Florack on December 4th, 2007

Captain Ed:

Recall the pushback when we linked to the Zogby poll that showed Hillary’s support eroding at the end of November? The numbers showed Hillary losing ground against all Republican contenders, and had some correlation with Rasmussen’s numbers as

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Eric Florack on December 4th, 2007


WASHINGTON (AP) -(Via KOMO) A former aide to Sen. Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., was in federal custody after being arrested on a charge of attempting to sexually exploit a minor.

James Michael McHaney was fired Friday from his job as a

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Eric Florack on December 4th, 2007

Mark Steyn really should have his own category for this stuff.  The man is a master.

You can’t assimilate immigrants and minorities unless you give them something snark2.jpgto assimilate to. It’s one thing to teach children their history “warts and

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