davidl on December 31st, 2008

What in your fabulous five weapons, Catherine Donaldson-Evans and Paul Wagenseil, Fox News:

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The five deadliest conventional weapons in the world are all part of the U.S. Armed Forces’ arsenal.

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davidl on December 30th, 2008

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Gee, I wonder why she didn’t rush into Israel with medical aid when Hamas was launching their 10,000 rockets. Weird.

Tammy Bruce, On Cynthia McKinney,

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mtndew1rambleWelcome, one and all to the most intense nightly read anywhere on the ‘sphere… Bit’sBlog’s Nightlty Ramble.

Nearly the last one of the year. A slower day than some, so tonight’s ramble through the headlines will be a shorter

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davidl on December 30th, 2008

James Taranto, Best of the Web,  goes the quote route:

“I’m really coming into this as somebody who isn’t, you know, part of the system, who obviously, you know, stands for the values of, you know, the Democratic Party.

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davidl on December 29th, 2008

I am given to understnad that one sexual predator in particular and leftards in general  are upset that one  Chip Saltsman included the Paul Shanklin classic “Barack the Magic Negro”  in his Christmas greetings, Peter Yarrow, Puffington Post:

The

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Eric Florack on December 29th, 2008

billboardrambleWelcome one and all to the most intense nightly read on the ‘sphere, BitsBlog’s Nightly Ramble.

I ended up having to go into work today and tomorrow, and so we will see a Nightly Ramble for both those days. We’ll

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Eric Florack on December 29th, 2008

By way of  Glenn Reynolds I note an interesting article in the DC Examiner, today:

It appears that among the many celebrity victims of Wall Street fraudster Bernie Madoff is former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer. Spitzer resigned earlier

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Eric Florack on December 29th, 2008

Inside One WilshireLast night, we had a database server outage.

Early this morning, we had not one, but two web server failures. I’m unclear on how much downtime each of these failures caused, frankly.

On both occasions, the IX folks were responsive.

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davidl on December 28th, 2008

BO’s (Barack Obama) plan to reward his union buddies and give the shaft to the American tax payer has a price tag.   David Axelrod has pegged the cost of the Raw Deal,  Sharon Otterman, New York Times:

Regarding the

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davidl on December 28th, 2008

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As regards global warming, my view is essentially the same as yours: Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW) is a scam, with no basis in science.

Frank Tipler, distinguished mathematical physicist at Tulane University, via William Katz: Urgent Agenda

Hat tip and

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Eric Florack on December 28th, 2008

The LA Times:

Delaney Bramlett, 69, a singer, songwriter and producer who penned classic rock songs such as “Let It Rain” and worked with musicians George Harrison and Eric Clapton, died Saturday at UCLA Ronald Reagan Medical Center in

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davidl on December 28th, 2008

A fool and his money are soon parted.      One Steve McDougal and  San Francisco, both the city and the airport, have concocted a plan for the gullible travers to give away his money, Michael Cabanatuan, San Francisoc Chronicle:

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davidl on December 28th, 2008

It goes without saying that if your mother had considered you a choice and not a person, you would not be posting to blogs.   Maha, Mahablog, writes:

I’m beginning to think that movement conservatism is, at base, a kind

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davidl on December 27th, 2008

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[S]he has no experience, no consistent voting record, and no views of her own. I suspect Governor Paterson is wondering how he’s going to wriggle out of selecting someone so embarrassingly unsuited for office. It doesn’t really sound so great

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davidl on December 26th, 2008

I doubt it was Mrs. Schlossberg’s intent, but Caroline Kennedy has admited her lack of qualifications to be senator,  Larry Neumeister, Associated Press

Caroline Kennedy told The Associated Press in an interview Friday that she knows she will have to

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