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It’s time once again for the most densely packed, intense daily read in blogdom, The Nightly Ramble.

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Welcome, dear reader to the most intense nightly read anywhere in the ‘sphere, Bitsblog’s Nightly Ramble.

  • Charlie Rangel’s scandals just keep going on.  It strikes me that were the press to have actually been doing it’s job, they’d be

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Eric Florack on September 22nd, 2008

Now to the snarkiest, most densely packed read available anywhere in the blogoshphere, BitsBlog’s Nightly Ramble:

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You have not seen this person holding this sign before. You can go about your business. Move along.

  • Heard this one on a local talk show… BO saying:

    “If we’re going to ask questions about who has been promulgating negative

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Eric Florack on September 17th, 2008

OK, before you start, it turns out there’s a lot of texture on those old historical markers, that make them a bear to touch up, and my graphic tools aren’t up to that drill.  At least one of you should

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Another busy day, here in Busytown.

  • In case you didn’t notice, the Markets went UP today. Bigtime, up. Meanwhile, Oil goes below $92/BBL. I guess we can reschedule the end of the world, huh?.
  • If Iran, who likes to

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Eric Florack on September 15th, 2008

First day back from the camping trip. And yes, I’ll get to those pics; I promise. But there’s lots going on.

  • Offshore drilling is coming up for a vote. Democrats are finally being forced by political reality, and by

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Eric Florack on September 12th, 2008

  • By the time you read this, I’ll already be soaking up the outdoors by the lakeshore, and soaking, is the word.  Remember that 30% chance of rain? We’re now to 70%. and as of noon, the whole of upstate NY

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Eric Florack on September 11th, 2008

  • Looks like we’re going to get the camper out this weekend. The weather models are saying a 30% chance of showers Saturday and Sunday, so we’re going to take off early on Friday night and run to Golden Hill State

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Eric Florack on September 10th, 2008

  • Does anyone on the planet doubt that Obama book was written to advance the cause of his presidential candidacy? Why, then, is it so hard to understand that Oprah Winfrey having him on to promote that book, is a direct

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  • Martin makes the point I’ve been making about Fannie and Freddie… that this does not constitute a government takeover or government growth at all, for that matter, since they were governmental creations in the first place.  And Billy responds

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  • I’d say, Billy, that there’s a major difference in the perception of justice when you involve the religious freedom component. To put that into the same context as OJ Simpson, however, …which in my view is a connection that

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Lots of ground to cover, today, but too little time to do it in..

  • Interesting news; apparently that brilliant speech from Palin last night was genuine… the teleprompter for at least part of the speech was broken…. as David has

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  • I find it interesting that the press is so busy bashing Sarah Palin’s 17 year old kid for a pregnancy, when it spent over two years hiding from sight the story of John Edwards ‘love child’, don’t you?
  • The left

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