Eric Florack on June 28th, 2004

Amongst all the encouraging news coming in this morning, is This Story: from the Brits about the idiodic thug Mike Tyson. (No, I won’t call this idiot a boxer.)

“Boxing legend Mike Tyson has been sleeping in homeless shelters

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Eric Florack on June 28th, 2004

CNN says gas prices are down again, and are continuing to fall.

And have you noticed that there isn’t nearly the noise being made about this, as they made during the run up a few months back?

The reason’s simple

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Eric Florack on June 28th, 2004

McQ over at Q and O points up an AP write-up describing the early handover of power to the interem government in Iraq.

BAGHDAD, Iraq – The U.S.-led coalition transferred sovereignty to an interim Iraqi government two days early Monday

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The New York Times > Washington > The NYT:

“Iraqis, Seeking Foes of Saudis, Contacted bin Laden, File Says
By THOM SHANKER

Published: June 25, 2004

WASHINGTON, June 24 – Contacts between Iraqi intelligence agents and Osama bin Laden

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Eric Florack on June 26th, 2004

Just a note of a couple milestones in the life of this blog:

Sometime today, I’ll be posting my 1500th post in this blog.
Also, sometime today, if the trends hold, this blog will have taken it’s 400,000th hit.

These

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The UPI wire last night::

“Baghdad, Iraq, Jun. 25 (UPI) — An apparently authentic document from Saddam Hussein’s regime confirms cooperation between Iraq and Osama bin Laden, the New York Times reported Friday.
The Iraqi document, obtained by the

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Eric Florack on June 25th, 2004

FOX News is reporting:

“President Bush currently has an advantage over Democratic candidate John Kerry in both the two-way matchup and three-way matchups. If the election were held today, the poll finds Bush at 48 percent and Kerry at 42

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Eric Florack on June 25th, 2004

WASHINGTON (AP): ” Vice President Cheney cursed at Democratic Sen. Patrick Leahy during a confrontation on the Senate floor while members were having their annual group picture taken earlier this week, Leahy and Senate sources said Thursday.”

Allow me

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Eric Florack on June 24th, 2004

This one’s been making the rounds of bloggers… I’ve seen this one most recently over at Miller’s Time. Might be fun. Let’s see.

1. Where were you when you heard that Ronald Reagan died?

Sitting right here… updating my Blog.

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Eric Florack on June 24th, 2004

For all of the complaints from the left about the right concentrating on Bubba Clinton’s taking advantage of an intern, then lying about it

Ann Coulter has noted a trend:

“Since Clinton was impeached, liberals have been trapped in

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If ever we needed more evidence that there are in fact solid ties between Saddam and Al QaedaThis will do quite well, indeed.

AlGore; Rabid moron.

UPDATE
RNC Communications Director Jim Dyke’s response was short sweet true and devistating:

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Eric Florack on June 22nd, 2004

WorldTribune is reporting:

“The United States has sent a tough message to Saudi Arabia that did not rule out abandoning of the kingdom’s oil sector.

U.S. officials said the Bush administration has warned that Americans would not stay in Saudi

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Eric Florack on June 22nd, 2004

I’m already on record as projecting this farce’s demise by no later than mid-summer. Looks like I got it right; Boortz notes this morning:

“The Wall Street Journal reported yesterday that several employees still have not been reimbursed for their

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Eric Florack on June 22nd, 2004

You will have seen the ad; Good milk comes from happy cows, says the ad. Implication being that the weather is gentler so the cows are happy and therefore…. You get the idea.  Here’s an example. Look around a bit;

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Eric Florack on June 22nd, 2004

The New York Post is reporting today:

“June 22, 2004 — Fake circulation reports by Newsday and the Chicago Sun-Times have sparked questions about the entire newspaper industry and the Audit Bureau of Circulations, the group responsible for monitoring the

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