Eric Florack on January 2nd, 2009

And yes, if the sole purpose of your site is to sell something, (not limited to various prescription drugs at fabulously low prices, or car insurance or website hosting, or the latest brand of condoms, or the latest African bank

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davidl on January 2nd, 2009

You don’t have to have actual eyesight to see that Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg is woefully unfit to serve as a United States Senator, but apparently working eyes help.  We all know that New York governor David Paterson is legally blind. 

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Eric Florack on January 2nd, 2009

Apparently due to some weird filtering I had going on in my inbox, there’s been an awful lot of traffic coming in from John Hawkins over at Right Wing News, that I’ve been missing. Mostly, what I’ve been missing is

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Eric Florack on January 2nd, 2009

I’ve added a line at the end of each post:

Bookmark on del.icio.us

This link will only work if you have the del.icio.us plugin running on your browser… and if you’ve already got that, you’ll know what to do with

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davidl on January 2nd, 2009

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For Hamas, the only thing more prized than dead Jews are dead Palestinians.

Charles Krauthammer, Washington Post.

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davidl on January 2nd, 2009

Fidel Castro's chair

Fifty years Castro’s Cuba, Damien Cave, New York Times:

Here in South Florida, where roughly 850,000 Cubans have settled over the years, repeated waves of painful exile and family separation define the Castro era. The revolution never met their

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davidl on January 1st, 2009

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Roland Burris is a disagreeable mediocrity as a politician.

Voters have rightly rejected him numerous times in his bids for higher office—governor, U.S. senator, mayor of Chicago—because he’s at least six parts ego to one part performance, a charmless, presumptuous

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davidl on January 1st, 2009

Israel’s iron fist:  death of a senior Hamas leader has been confirmed:

GAZA (Reuters) – Israel killed a senior Hamas leader in an air attack on his home on Thursday, striking its first deadly blow against the top

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Eric Florack on January 1st, 2009

HangoverI begin to think that my body is reacting out of habit. I woke up this morning with a headache that would kill most mortals, my tongue had gone cashmere, my stomach was threatening a violent rejection of anything resembling

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Eric Florack on December 31st, 2008

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davidl on December 31st, 2008

The Jerusalem Post, reports on the Israeli Air Force attacks the Gaza Strip:

The air force struck Wednesday at more than 25 targets throughout the Strip, including a Gaza City mosque that the army said was being used to

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Eric Florack on December 31st, 2008

lakecg-rambleWelcome, one and all to the most intense nightly read anywhere on the ‘sphere… BitsBlog’s Nightly Ramble.

Last day of the year and all of that. We may or may not go out tonight to capture some photographs of fireworks

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Eric Florack on December 31st, 2008

Been doing a lot of stuff in the background today.

Updated a few plugins, tape backups, added some functionality, did some database cleaning.

Out of all of that, about the only thing you’ll see… you may not even have noticed…

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davidl on December 31st, 2008

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Roland Burris is more qualified to be undemocratically appointed to the Senate than Caroline Kennedy is.

Jonah Goldberg, National Review.

Nice way to end the year, tying together two recent blog theme.    Good snarks  run in the Goldberg  family.

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Eric Florack on December 31st, 2008

OTB’s James Joyner says he’s got a new daughter. He’s got pics up, too.

Many congrats, James. Now at the very least, you’ve got another reason to party tonight.

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