Eric Florack on May 21st, 2004

In a post over at the evangelical outpost, Joe Carter does a pretty fair job of bringing to light some of the UNSCAM abuses, but introduces a new source of scam… Chalabi. Apparently Chalabi himself was covering evidence in

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Eric Florack on May 21st, 2004

As I predicted, we’re going to see a price drop in the near future on fuel. The way this is timing out, it’ll be mid to late July.

Matt Drudge has the story:

“Saudi Arabia will propose an increase

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World Net Daily is running a story about Bill Cosby, who apparently has not lost his ability to tell it like it is.
I’ll see if I can find a better read of his comments, and when I do I’ll

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Slings And Arrows came back from a blogging break to suggest something I’d not thought of:

“As the press doesn’t want us to forget, casualties in Iraq are ‘mounting.’ Currently the count is at 775 dead. The relation of that

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Eric Florack on May 20th, 2004

KELOLAND.COM is reporting that Thune is within the margin of error, tied with Daschle, in what will amount ot the hottest Senate race this season:

“49% of voters would support democrat Tom Daschle. 47% would vote for republican John Thune.

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Raw feed:


‘Source’ Notes Syrian Technicians Killed in Yongch’on
Train Explosion Incident

JPP20040507000021 Tokyo Sankei Shimbun (Internet
version-WWW) in Japanese 07 May 04 Morning Edition
[Corrected version — changing “Ryongchon” to
“Yongch’on”; unattributed report: “DPRK Train
Explosion: Syrian Technicians on

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Eric Florack on May 19th, 2004

Ed at Captain’s Quarters is reporting that the stories about the demise if that Iraqi wedding party under the wilting US attack were a little offbase:

“I know that the original reports didn’t mention the 3 AM attack time, which

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Eric Florack on May 19th, 2004

This one’s going to take a while for some of you to understand. Be prepared, you might need to tote lunch for this one.

First, we’re not dealing with record prices… Not by a longshot. The most expensive gas we’ve

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Eric Florack on May 19th, 2004

CYBERGRASS? The Internet Bluegrass Music Magazine – Selwyn Blakely Dies From Heart Attack

Some of you from usenet and the blogging world will understand my lukewarm comments, here. For the rest, trust me, I’m being as kind as I know

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Eric Florack on May 19th, 2004

The WSJ:

“In the scandal over the U.N. Oil-for-Food program in Iraq, Kofi Annan’s main line of defense has been that he didn’t know. Perhaps he should take a closer look at internal U.N. Oil-for-Food audit reports, more than

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This story actually broke yesterday afternoon.WorldNetDaily says:

“Four people have been arrested in connection with the beheading of American businessman Nicholas Berg, according to a senior Iraqi source. “

All except the guy who did it.

And by the

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Eric Florack on May 19th, 2004

A Daily Telegraph article being re-run in the Chicago Sun-Times reports that France is suffering under it’s socialism… they’ve just not figred that out yet. In this case;

The French government Monday described the 35-hour working week as a financial

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Eric Florack on May 18th, 2004

Dizzy Girl: The War Hits Home…

Go drop a note to Gennie.

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Eric Florack on May 18th, 2004

Ed over at the Captain’s Quarters has a serious breakout of the Defense Dept find on Sarin gas in that IED of the other day. I’ve been holding back on commenting because I get the idea that it’s not all

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Eric Florack on May 18th, 2004

Well, I’m stoked.
I’m a longtime reader of Miller’s Time, nearly every day, but I confess it’s never caught my eye in his sidebar, until tonight… he’s got BitsBlog listed as “Required Reading”. I take this as high praise

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