Eric Florack on May 15th, 2008

Me at Outside the Beltway, yesterday:

For most of my adult life, I’ve worked in the Downtown area of Rochester, at one job or another. For the first year or so, and on and off after that, I tried

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Eric Florack on May 14th, 2008

Derb has decided to side with John Ratzenberger, who is on a kick to keep tinkering alive.

I think they’re both right. Understand; I wrote most of this without bothering to actually read Derb’s article. The first couple paras of

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davidl on May 14th, 2008

Well at least this black reverend manages to keep his allegations pausible, video:

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It would explain why Andrew Sullivan is so avid about BO.

Hat tip:  Ace

 

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Eric Florack on May 14th, 2008
  • You’re quite right, Billy, McCain may end up actually winning this thing, but at what cost to the Republicans, in terms of having to make them more like socialist Democrats? And by that same token, what is the level
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davidl on May 13th, 2008

Mrs. William Clinton

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) – Hillary Rodham Clinton coasted to a large, but largely symbolic victory in working-class West Virginia on Tuesday, handing Barack Obama one of his worst defeats of the campaign but scarcely slowing his march toward the

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davidl on May 13th, 2008

It is clear, and sadly predictable that John McCain has fallen for the hoax of anthropogenic global warming,.    Roy Spencer on “McCain’s Assault on Reason:”

John McCain’s global-warming speech on Monday made it clear that there will be

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  • At some point, someone with some brains is going to show up and figure out that all the candlelight vigils ever held don’t mean squat for stuff like this. And for that matter, stuff like this. And stuff like this,
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davidl on May 13th, 2008

It is not the investor owned oil companies driving up the price of oil.  Doctor Sowell, Townhall, explains the price of oil in terms simple enough for even BO and  Mrs. Clinton to be able to understand:

With all

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Eric Florack on May 13th, 2008

Ed Morrissey:

I guess this means it’s on. O’Reilly gets the worst of this exchange for not comprehending that the Geneva Conventions bind nations to standards of conduct regardless of reciprocation and for many different kinds of detainees and

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Eric Florack on May 13th, 2008

Hume last night:

The Reverend Jeremiah Wright may have stepped down as pastor, but the Trinity United Church of Christ may continue to haunt Barack Obama.

Newsmax reports the new Senior Pastor, Otis Moss, has called biblical patriarch Abraham a

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Eric Florack on May 12th, 2008

Added a couple BitsBlog functions tonight.

I don’t know if I’ll keep them, but let’s try them and see.

The first one is “BitsBlog Tags”. These are collections of posts that the system thinks are related to the current topic.

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davidl on May 12th, 2008

Tim Eberly of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution really needs to learn some journalism basics:

A 24-year-old man shot and killed a teenage intruder Friday after the youth and some other juveniles tried to break into the his northwest Atlanta home,

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Eric Florack on May 12th, 2008

Remember a few days ago I remarked about how Obama had fired one of his staffers for talking to Hamas?

Well, of course Obama’s been running up the flag of denial over the matter, and treating this guy like he

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davidl on May 11th, 2008

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Corn ethanol is becoming the Emily Litella of energy.

Don Surber.

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