Eric Florack on June 21st, 2005

Just in case there was any question of my thoughts on the matter.

Dick Durbin needs to be the EX senator.
One way or the other. It would be helpful to Democrats if he resigned, but lacking that, forcing him

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Eric Florack on June 21st, 2005

Michelle Malkin puts up a link to an onit you’ve gotta see to understand.

The family balmes the idiots demiase on…you guessed it.. the right wing.

He had strong political opinions and followed Amy Goodman's radio broadcast "Democracy Now." Alas

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Eric Florack on June 21st, 2005

I’ve not said muc at all about the so-called “Downing street Memoes” because I’ve had serious doubts about their origins… and as it turns out, it’s starting to look like it was the correct posiiton to take. Captain’s Quarters lays

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Eric Florack on June 21st, 2005

James at Outside The Beltway notes something that’s bothered me of late. He points to, of all places, the NYT’s John Tierney, who wonders…..

......why Homer Simpson has managed to replace Ward Cleaver as the archetype of fatherhood in American

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Eric Florack on June 20th, 2005

Ed at Captain’s Quarters passes on some news I’d not heard… Bit’sBlog regular and fellow blogger Everything I Know is Wrong author Sean is having some health problems.

Ed’s family, so will be the best place to track Sean’s problems

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Eric Florack on June 20th, 2005

Steven Coffman mentions a need for a 12v fridge for under $100.

I have found the Thermo-electric Coleman cooler, (http://www.avidoutdoors.com/co40quthco.html) to be very useful. It’s a shade over $100 list, add the 110v power supply and you go to

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Eric Florack on June 20th, 2005

Mark Steyn joins the throngs nailing Dick Durban… only he does it better.. in this morning’s WaTi.

Update:
Some wise-guy left a suggestin for bumper-stickers for Durbin’s next election in my mailbox:

Wear a Turban?
Vote Durbin!!

(Chuckle, shake of

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Eric Florack on June 20th, 2005

Fathers day was yesterday. I wrote somethng for Bit’s Bits, on Father’s day morning, and then never posted what I wrote because it needed some serious touching up. And given the events of Father’s day itself…(A road trip, and some

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Eric Florack on June 19th, 2005

It’s been nearly five years my father’s been gone, now. Actually, I’m surprised by the length of time. Like an unwatched pot… “Oh, that’s boiling already?”

I’ve always considered it something of a cruel, ironic joke, that he should have

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Eric Florack on June 17th, 2005

The Jawa Report notes the latest Kos idiocy, this time about Durbin.
Jawa makes a serious attempt to help Kos get his cranium out of his rectum. I doubt it’ll work, but it was a good try, Jawa.

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Eric Florack on June 17th, 2005

TTLB looks nice now that the bandages are off. Check it out

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Eric Florack on June 17th, 2005

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Will someone please explain to me why I should give a hot steaming crap about Tom Cruise proposing to a girl half his age, much less the degree of coverage I’m seeing in the press this morning?

I certainly

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Eric Florack on June 16th, 2005

You may recall I made mention last week of a couple who had been maried 80 years..

Sad news today from the wirse, that the male half of this couple has just died… two weeks after the anniversary.

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Eric Florack on June 16th, 2005

Boing Boing has some details.

Yeah, I know… bad pic. Well, (shrug) it’s fast, anyway.

You know, I still have a few of the cheat books on that one. Earned a lot of beer with those books. I also have

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Eric Florack on June 16th, 2005

Media Blog on National Review Online makes note of a lot of chatter about global warming again.

Which, of course, is a lot of chatter about somehting that quite simply doesn’t exist.

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