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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Eric Florack on May 18th, 2004

CFRA out of Ottawareports :

“Actor Tony Randall has died, according to his publicist.
The Emmy-winning actor best known as one of TV’s ‘Odd Couple,’ died at 84.”

(shrug)
Here’s a pic of Randall and wife Heather just last

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Eric Florack on May 18th, 2004

Dennis Prager discusses the topic in this week’s BIT- Unequal news coverage, particualrly as regards Nick Berg.

Paul Crespo follows up with the angle on Prison abuse.

remember, both of these were covered in this week’s BIT

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Eric Florack on May 18th, 2004

The Mobile Register says today:

Edward Kennedy ought to resign from the U.S. Senate. Likewise, Sen. Kennedy’s protegé John Kerry ought to publicly disassociate himself from, and denounce in no uncertain terms, his mentor’s latest inflammatory remarks. His remarks on

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Eric Florack on May 18th, 2004

Belmont Club is a blog I’ve linked to previously. Today they’re running a fine bit on something I’ve been watching for some time; the use of the press as a weapon. I have been of the idea for weeks that

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Eric Florack on May 17th, 2004

MediaGuardian is reporting:

“Piers Morgan was last night sacked as editor of the Daily Mirror as the newspaper apologised ‘unreservedly’ for publishing photographs of Iraqi prisoner abuse that were faked”

The report goes on to report:

“The Daily Mirror said

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Eric Florack on May 17th, 2004

The AP and the local NBC outnet in Portland report that

Two Portland disc jockeys were fired from a local radio station after playing an audiotape of the beheading of Pennsylvania native Nick Berg by Iraqi militants, and cracking jokes

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FOXNews.com – Top Stories – Sarin Gas Released by Iraq Roadside Bomb

Sarin?
I thought that stuff didn’t exist.
Wasn’t that the anti-war crowd’s claim?

Hmmm..

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Eric Florack on May 17th, 2004

The Telegraph:

“CIA interrogators have seized on an admission by Saddam Hussein that he fears torture at the hands of his Iraqi enemies, and are threatening him with a quick handover to the new government in a renewed effort

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Eric Florack on May 17th, 2004

Neal Boortz is interesting as usual, today:

“Let’s go back a few weeks.  Remember that huge explosion in Korea?  At first we heard that thousands were killed.  That number was eventually reduced to hundreds.  The explosion, however, was huge.  North

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Eric Florack on May 15th, 2004

Roger L. Simon has the definition of torture.

I won’t comment, because Roger does an excellent job of it.

I’m considering adding Roger to my blogroll.

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Eric Florack on May 15th, 2004

The New BIT is up, called Signs of desperation on the Left

Comment here.

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Eric Florack on May 15th, 2004

-East Syracuse, NY–

We’re doing some more railfanning, today, sitting just outside the old Amtrak station in East Syracuse. This facility is an intermodal facility… not a very large one, but the biggest in the area, and along the old

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Eric Florack on May 13th, 2004

The AP is reporting:

WASHINGTON – The U.S. government warned a young American to leave Iraq, and offered him a flight out of the country, a month before his grisly beheading was broadcast on an al-Qaida-linked Web site, officials said.

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