Eric Florack on February 4th, 2005

Interesting thread over at OTB; Outside The Beltway : Fascists and Nazis, Democrats and Republicans… and a side comment from me;

“I’m not sure which damages the Democratic Party more… that they’re seriously considering Howard Dean as their leader,

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Eric Florack on February 4th, 2005

Word from the Captain’s Quarters that it’s the first mate’s birthday. Go drop a line.

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Eric Florack on February 4th, 2005

Tomas Kohl is about ready for the Job market. If you can help the man, go drop him a line.

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Eric Florack on February 4th, 2005

The American Indian Movement has a post up you want to see if you’ve been following this nonsense at all… It appears that contrary to his claims, ward Churchill is not a member of the American Indian movement.

By the

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Eric Florack on February 4th, 2005

All well and good. But without the hive, you don’t exist, either. Granted, that it may be an over-abundance of cold meds that cause me to be flippant enough to respond to this at all, but it seems to

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David Limbaugh has a real barn-burner, here.An example:

“Iraq: Boy, have we screwed up here, and the Iraqi elections proved it. Even our lies about Bush’s supposed WMD lies aren’t going to work anymore. So we’re going to change

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There’s been a lot of chatter about this the past 24 or so. Best write up I’ve found so far is the one by Bozel.  Seems there are those on the left who can’t accept the idea that the

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Eric Florack on February 4th, 2005

Robert Burns, who writes about Military affrais for AP says this morning that Rumsfeld tried to resign twice to remove the heat from President Bush and the President wouldn’t accept his resignation. This tosses a wrench into the claims of

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Eric Florack on February 4th, 2005

So, we see the usual suspcts getting all into a lather because A Lt. General mumbled somehting about it being fun to shoot people.

Only thing is, that’s not what he said.

“You go into Afghanistan, you got guys who

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Eric Florack on February 3rd, 2005

DoesTHIS really shock anyone?

Look, I don’t mind someone making a buck. I just didn’t feel the need to be involved OTOH, the kind of funds this guy was raising suggested a certain commitment to his readers.  Of course

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Eric Florack on February 3rd, 2005

I’m in a hospital waiting room, banging away on my laptop, today. Sorry for the dearth of posting. I only had time to grab a quick update of my web server cache and copy it to my laptop before leaving.

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Eric Florack on February 3rd, 2005

9:10 P.M. EST

THE PRESIDENT: Mr. Speaker, Vice President Cheney, members of Congress, fellow citizens:

As a new Congress gathers, all of us in the elected branches of government share a great privilege: We’ve been placed in office by the

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Eric Florack on February 2nd, 2005

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Eric Florack on February 2nd, 2005

The Glittering Eye reminds me of somehting I’d forgotten… today would have been Ayn Rand’s 100th birthday today.

I don’t always agree wth her writings, but they’re worthwhile.

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Eric Florack on February 2nd, 2005

Boortz today nails it in these paragraphs, saying what he wishes the President would say tonight. I do, too.

“I read about one Iraqi man whose father was imprisoned and then murdered by Saddam Hussein 14 years ago.  Since his

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