Eric Florack on November 29th, 2006

Polish Airliner

Not sure where I got this one from, but it struck me as funny, this morning.

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WASHINGTON — Fox- American paper money represents an unfair impediment to the blind, and the Treasury Department must come up with new U.S. currency to help the visually impaired use cash, a federal judge ruled Tuesday.

U.S. District Judge James

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Eric Florack on November 28th, 2006

Playing with the layout of the blog tonight. I’m having a little difficulty with the right side bar, attempting to fit the elements from the old blog into the new one.  The turns out that the bit more of a

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davidl on November 28th, 2006

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(H/T Photo:  University Wisconson – Law School

It never fails to amuse my vocabulary challenged male brain these purported scientific studies that show that men and women are different. Gee, I always thought the purpose of Science was to reveal

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Eric Florack on November 28th, 2006

I’ve held my peace about this Atlanta case, because there was something about it that simply did not add up.  Some information at some point was going to start leaping out at us… information that most critics would ignore. 

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Eric Florack on November 27th, 2006

So, I wander over to enemy territory, (know your enemy, and all that) and am faced with:

I have no use for Jim Wallis and I begin to wonder if he really has the interests of Democrats and progressives at

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Eric Florack on November 27th, 2006

Glenn’s right, here.

Hastings is a particularly bad choice.  Indeed, he’s one of the reasons why I was never too worried about who the republicans chose for their leaders; you just knew the democrats were going to do something worse. 

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Fersboo on November 27th, 2006

From today’s USA Today print edition, I have selected a few telling quotes from an article on 7A, ‘Returning rookies reflect on lessons learned’.

Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL)

Stock up on toilet paper, because you’re not going to have

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Eric Florack on November 27th, 2006

It’s warm around these parts.  Unusually so. 

Usually, by this time of the year, I’ve already gone through the ritual of shoveling the driveway twice.  Sometimes, three times if I’m being obsessive about it.  This year… nary a snow throw.

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Eric Florack on November 27th, 2006

Did you happen to see the full page ad in the New York Times bought by Yoko Ono? It ran the Sunday edition. She’s urging readers to accept responsibility for all of the violence and the suffering that’s going on

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Eric Florack on November 27th, 2006

Very true, Billy , it does only go 250 miles per charge… or less….  And, as you say, it then needs three or four hours to recharge on a good day. 

What you fail to reckon with, however, is that’s

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davidl on November 27th, 2006

The Supreme Court sent a clear message to Judith Miller and the New York Times, to wit the minions of Arthur Sulzberger, Jr. are not above the law.

WASHINGTON -(AP)- The Supreme Court ruled against The New

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Fersboo on November 27th, 2006

Via USAToday

MEDICARE SPENDING SEES FIRST DECLINE

Medicaid spending has declined unexpectedly this year, the first drop since the health program for the poor was created in 1965.

The historic reversal will free up billions of dollars in state budgets.

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Eric Florack on November 27th, 2006

…. to Billy Beck.

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Eric Florack on November 27th, 2006

NEW YORK -AP- High traffic disrupted Wal-Mart Stores Inc.’s Web site for much of Friday, one of the year’s busiest shopping days.

The Walt Disney Co. also had problems handling the rush of online activity Friday, while Amazon.com Inc.’s site

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