Eric Florack on October 5th, 2004

Cheney won.
Like the first Presidential debate, give Edwards credit for style, but then again, he being a trial lawyer, you’d expect him to be able to mouth platitudes all day long and SOUND good.

Trouble is, on the substance,

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Eric Florack on October 5th, 2004

local6.com – Politics – Protestors Ransack Bush/Cheney Headquarters In Orlando

Then there’s

Shots fired at Bush Tenn. headquarters

These are two of several such stories today. Let’s put this into perspectrive… Can you imagine a group of Republicans attacking a

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Eric Florack on October 5th, 2004

I said earlier these things come in threes. Apparently this is four.AP is reporting tonight:

“Rodney Dangerfield, the bug-eyed comic whose self-deprecating one-liners brought him stardom in clubs, television and movies and made his lament “I don’t get

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Eric Florack on October 5th, 2004

These things always come in threes, it seems. Scott Muni, Janet Leigh, and one I didn’t know about; Astronaut Gordon Cooper, as noted by Blogs of War

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Tom Galvin has had some time to read and digest the debate transcripts… and fisks them with a vengence this morning. A must read.

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Eric Florack on October 5th, 2004

DRUDGEthis morning…

“Polish President Aleksander Kwasniewski has slammed Dem president hopeful John Kerry for not recognizing Poland’s contributions and sacrifice to the war in Iraq.
I do not think this was out of ignorance – the president emphasized on

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Eric Florack on October 4th, 2004

Occasionally, readers send me stuff that says it better than I can.
This week’s BITSBIT is one such occasion.

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Eric Florack on October 4th, 2004

WaPo:

“In the aftermath of last week’s presidential debate, Bush currently leads Kerry 51 percent to 46 percent among those most likely to vote, according to polling conducted Friday through Sunday. Independent candidate Ralph Nader claims 1 percent of

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Eric Florack on October 4th, 2004

NorthEast Radio Watch by Scott Fybush reports some sad news…

One of the Good guys is gone.  Muni was heard on several stations…. WMCA, WABC, WAKR, WOR-FM, WNEW, and was doing middays on WAXQ until January of this year, when

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Eric Florack on October 4th, 2004

I was looking for updates on Mt.St. Hellens and the whole ground-shaking thing, and found this… thought it of some interest. It’s run by the Forest Service.


Here’s the link to bookmark this ‘nearly live” shot… it’s updated every five

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Eric Florack on October 4th, 2004

AP

“LOS ANGELES – Janet Leigh, the wholesome beauty whose shocking murder in the classic Alfred Hitchcock thriller “Psycho” was credited with making generations of film fans think twice about stepping into a motel room shower, has died. She was

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Eric Florack on October 4th, 2004

WISC-TV says

“Someone burned an 8-foot-by-8-foot Nazi swastika on a home’s lawn near where Bush-Cheney signs were posted. The vandals used grass killer to spray the symbol.”

Ah, yes, those loving, open-minded Democrats.

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Eric Florack on October 4th, 2004

Mark Steyn in Yesyerday’s SUN-TIMES says

” If John Kerry is so polished and eloquent and forceful and mellifluous, how come nobody has a clue what his policy on Iraq is?

As he made clear on Thursday, Saddam was a

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Eric Florack on October 4th, 2004

“(CNSNews.com) – Iraqi intelligence documents, confiscated by U.S. forces and obtained by CNSNews.com, show numerous efforts by Saddam Hussein’s regime to work with some of the world’s most notorious terror organizations, including al Qaeda, to target Americans. They

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Eric Florack on October 4th, 2004

Miller’s Time, who is a lamentably rare voice of sanity from the West cost these days, makes note of a note from California Gov Schwarzenegger: to a Democrat State Legislator wanting to pass a law about teaching students to

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