Eric Florack on August 8th, 2007

I’ve already made mention of this, but a post from McQ and the timing of it as regards other conversations, I think deserves a response:

Hit number 756

[Yawn]

Says the real home run king:

“I would like to

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Eric Florack on August 8th, 2007

Yep… so says Gallup.

We’re seeing some slight hints of positive news for the Bush administration.  For one thing, Bush’s job approval rating has stopped its downward trajectory.  Bush hit bottom with his administration low point of 29% in early

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Eric Florack on August 8th, 2007

Michelle Malkin gets today’s “Snark of the day” award, in her reaction to the Press melting all over Caroline Giuliani. snark2.jpg

HEADLINE NEWS! A teenager disagrees with her father!

Yes, who indeed would have thought it would come to this?

malkin3.jpgTrust

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Eric Florack on August 8th, 2007

Billy;

Saw your note this morning…. As I stated in my comments we have seen this before.  It’s a typical ploy of Erb and his ilk, once cornered on a factual point to claim “it doesn’t matter. ” Aesop and

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Eric Florack on August 7th, 2007

Rick: You say:

Decloaking Beauchamp will not bring us closer to “victory” in Iraq – if such a thing existed outside of the fevered imaginations of an ever dwindling number of conservatives. It will not make up for Abu Ghraib

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Eric Florack on August 7th, 2007
  • Raining here, today. So much for getting any work done on the trailer.
  • Honorable mention at OTB’s Caption Contest.. For once it wasn’t just the trailer park.
  • TNR has released a statement on Beauchamp. Basically, the story amounted to

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Eric Florack on August 7th, 2007

Ace, regards the “Premium” content wall coming down. Seems, the Times has decided nobody’s paying the extra freight for Dowd, etc… and so they’re taking the wall down.snark2.jpg

NYT Threatens: Now You’ll All Have To Come Up With New Excuses

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davidl on August 7th, 2007

Huugo Chavez with Sean PennThis one was simply way too easy to pass up on.  Hugo Chavez staged a photo-op with Sean Penn.  Ian James, Associated Press:

LA GRITA, Venezuela – Aboard the presidential jet, a grinning Hugo Chavez put a hand on

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Eric Florack on August 7th, 2007

James Joyner takes on the word    “Poor”

Julian Sanchez takes issue with the use of the words “underresourced” and “underprivileged” as euphemism for “poor,” arguing that the former is ungrammatical and the latter incoherent.

He’s right, I think, that “poor”

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Eric Florack on August 7th, 2007

Gerry Rafferty, call your office…

Bret Baier last night:

ronpaul.jpgTexas congressman and Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul — who is campaigning as a critic of congressional overspending — has revealed that he is requesting $400 million worth of earmarks this

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Eric Florack on August 7th, 2007

(Voice of America)- Mia Farrow has offered to relinquish her freedom so that an ailing Darfur rebel can get safe passage out of a hospital.

In an August 6 letter posted on her website, the 62-year-old actress-activist made the offer

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Eric Florack on August 7th, 2007

I’ve been seeing this meme for several days now, ever since it started coming out that we were actually winning, militarily, in Iraq.  I guess I’m a little surprised that the comments are coming from this source, but I’ll

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Eric Florack on August 7th, 2007

McQ does a fair job of following up on this Beauchamp thing:

“They told stories at times they had personally raped, cut off ears, cut off heads, taped wires from portable telephones to human genitals and turned up the

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davidl on August 7th, 2007

garbageGarbage in, garbage out.  One Chris Goodall demonstrates.  What an attention grabbing headline:

Walking to the shops ‘damages planet more than going by car’
 

Shame the headlines is not supported by by facts contained within the article itself.

Walking

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Eric Florack on August 7th, 2007

Rush mentioned this yesterday, while I was in the truck, and I didn’t get the chance to write it down. But I see Boortz mentions it this morning:

It’s a blog called Duvallbuck’s Diary. In this blog you will

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