Eric Florack on June 13th, 2005

Billy:

But I still don't get it. In my little band, I'm playing with three guys who can play just about anything (I'm not kidding: I'm the weakest link in the deal), and they light up like little kids when

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Eric Florack on June 13th, 2005

New York Times is wailing this morning about proposed cuts to the CPB funding…


"It is clear the G.O.P. agenda is to control public broadcasting or to defund it," said Representative David R. Obey of Wisconsin, the senior Democrat on

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Eric Florack on June 13th, 2005

The Democrats are now engaged in an astounding attempt at misdirection.

They’re trying to convince us that Howard Dean is not giving us the real picture of the positions of the Democratic Party. 

In today’s Bit’sBit, I examine the

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Rich Galen, this morning, makes a rather obvious point:

“Let’s make one thing clear about who is complaining about the Chairman of the Democratic National Committee, Howard Dean. Democrats are complaining. Republicans are ecstatic.”

Well, I’m not so sure.

OK…

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Eric Florack on June 10th, 2005

TOKYO(Reuters) - Two kittens picked the wrong place to relieve themselves when they urinated on a fax machine, sparking a fire that extensively damaged their Japanese owner's house. Investigators in the western city of Kobe have concluded that the

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Eric Florack on June 10th, 2005

You KNOW ist’s a slow news day when I the first post of the day on this blog is at noon, and I start the day by linking stories about SETI. Slashdot says SETI won’t be able to cope with

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Eric Florack on June 9th, 2005

Guy, over at Snugg Harbor..(Whose link I really need to update)…. has pikcked up The Music Meme and tagged me with it.

Me? The guy with, literally, 20,000 LP’s in his basement, and a similar number of CD’s?  Music?

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Eric Florack on June 9th, 2005

Contact Music runs a story today that’s making me chuckle into my coffee:

"Legendary movie maker STEVEN SPIELBERG has hit out at Hollywood for not rallying round for Democrat JOHN KERRY's election campaign last year (NOV04)."

You’ve got one of

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Eric Florack on June 9th, 2005

I’m at work so I’m having some problems picking this one up… but the word is that Judge Janice Rodgers Brown has been confirmed.

Update: Confirmed.

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Eric Florack on June 9th, 2005

Some of you will recognize this classic bit:

Watkins I’d like to leave the army please, sir.

Colonel Good heavens man, why? 

Watkins It’s dangerous. 

Colonel What? 

Watkins There are people with guns out there, sir. 

Colonel What? 

Watkins Real

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Ace wins this week’s BIT’S POST OF THE WEEK. Ace notes a stry moving on the AFP saying essentially, that Male Heterosexuality is Dead.

Says Ace:

Don't sweat it, though. Twits, especially of the French variety, are perpetually declaring this

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Ace wins this week’s BIT’S POST OF THE WEEK. Ace notes a stry moving on the AFP saying essentially, that Male Heterosexuality is Dead.

Says Ace:

Don't sweat it, though. Twits, especially of the French variety, are perpetually declaring this

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Eric Florack on June 9th, 2005

Ann Coulter has her doubts about Mark Felt’s claim of being ‘Depp Throat”

Deep Throat was a smoker and heavy drinker, neither of which describes Mark Felt.

Woodward claimed he signaled Deep Throat by moving a red flag in a

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Eric Florack on June 8th, 2005

Ignore of course, the headline suggesting the grades were at par with each other.  Ignore the left’s mantra of Bush is an idiot….Toys in the Attic points out a report in the Globe, wherein the actual grades show Kerry

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Eric Florack on June 8th, 2005

The JunkYardBlog notes that the ACLU is shredding documents.

Apparently, transparency is only good if it’s Republicans.

Better to go read this one.

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