Eric Florack on September 11th, 2011

Reposted from 9/13/01

It is recorded in our history books that when he looked down at the ship full of smiling, victorious faces… faces of his flyers, just having returned from Pearl Harbor, Japanese fleet Admiral Yamamoto was quiet, pensive,

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Eric Florack on September 11th, 2011

08:37am—

I’d come into work just like any other morning.

Where I was working at the time is closed, now, and so is the department that I was working for. But I can see he layout of the place in

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davidl on September 10th, 2011

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“The White House Press Office has vomited all over my inbox.”

From Callie Schweitzer, Talking Points Meme. via Twitter.

Hat tips: Chris Moody, Ticket and Karen, Lonely Conservative.

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davidl on September 9th, 2011

from Eugene Robinson, Washington Post:

The war our enemies began on Sept. 11, 2001, is long over. Perhaps now, after 10 years of anxiety and self-doubt, we can acknowledge our victory and begin the postwar renewal and reconciliation that

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davidl on September 9th, 2011

Reax to Obama’s State of the Union, jobs, campaign speech:

Michelle Malkin

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Eric Florack on September 9th, 2011

Liberty Township, PA– Yes, I’m still here. The roads around here opened up last night,  but in all the excitement of the floods and road closings and such I must have kicked up a bit of road junk. I’ve got

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Eric Florack on September 8th, 2011

Liberty, PA– I’m along Interstate 80, as I write this.  I started down from Rochester, last night, bound fpr Monroe Township, NJ.  I never made it.  As I got to the PA border, I started getting word that just about

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Eric Florack on September 7th, 2011

Clayton, NY— I’m here dropping a load of Pepsi products, and will run to Rochester, grab another trailer and run it to Monroe Township,NJ before I call it a day. It’s been raining since I left on Sunday night, non-stop.

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davidl on September 7th, 2011

DavidL's Breakfast Scramble
Going green means going nowhere, from David Brooks, New York Times:

New clean-energy sources could address environmental, economic and national security problems all at once. In his 2008 convention speech, Barack Obama promised to create five million green

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Eric Florack on September 6th, 2011

Allentown, PA– I’m dropping off a load here, having brought it from Avon, NY last night. I’ll be leaving here in an hour or so for Harrisburg,PA, and from there to Rotterdam,NY, outside Albany. It’s raining here… has been raining

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Eric Florack on September 5th, 2011

Rochester, NY— I’m home today, but will leave for Allentown PA tonight, for a couple of short hops. Four or five days out., in total. It’ll be a little cooler, and my truck is running well, so it should be

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davidl on September 5th, 2011

DavidL's Breakfast Scramble
Dumbo, a one trick donkey, from William A. Jacobson, Legal Insurrection:

Whenever Obama’s in political trouble, he gives a speech.

Whenever he’s in a lot of trouble, he gives a major speech.

When he’s on the verge of

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davidl on September 3rd, 2011

DavidL's Breakfast ScrambleThe lame streamers said a lot  about Barack Obama in the Aught Eight campaign.   Was any of it true?   From Rosslyn Smith  American Thinker:

If anything, Obama’s situation is almost the opposite of Truman’s. Obama has long dwelt inside

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Eric Florack on September 2nd, 2011

Well, I’m not sure but it appears we are back.
Looks like there was an RPC call to Blogrolling.com, a site which has apparently gone down, hidden in my sitecode. I’ve removed it, but have in that process fouled some

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davidl on September 2nd, 2011

DavidL's Breakfast Scramble

The Obama recovery plan, spend money, and imagine jobs, from Karin McQuillan, American Thinker:

Obama tells us his stimulus plan was a brilliant success. Yes, it plunged us into economy-destroying debt and deficit.  The alternative would have been

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