Eric Florack on July 2nd, 2004

Here’s a new series for you; “Claim and Response.” I’ll post these as they occur to me. The intent here is to take some common leftist claims and skewer them.

The claim:

“Ending poverty will end terrorism”

The question:

“Explain

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Eric Florack on July 2nd, 2004

KPHO Phoenix is reporting Brndo has died, casue of death unknown.

Sad; I rather liked him.

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WOD

Eric Florack on July 2nd, 2004

Ipse Dixit is today’s Website Of The Day

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Eric Florack on July 2nd, 2004

Discussion time, as we head to the next election:

I’ve been called a great many things politically, most of them inaccurate.

But this subject came up elsewhere, and I thought I’d re-post my comments here, since it’s as close as

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Eric Florack on July 1st, 2004

My Trusty Palm Pilot, on which I pre-write a goodly portion of this site, just woke up to remind me this is Canada Day.

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Eric Florack on July 1st, 2004

Spiderman 2 opened with, in terms of screens and dollars, about a four to one ratio over Rotundo Moore’s trash.

Apparently, the American people figure Spiderman 2 the more believable fantasy.

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Eric Florack on July 1st, 2004

Yep.
I’ve been aware for some time now that the folks over at Paramount had a rather fully developed language for the Klingons, but I’ve never seen it used outside that environment.

All that changed this morning when I noted

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Eric Florack on July 1st, 2004

It’s a part of the Green Party and the site and the group are both products of the Green Party Convention. apparently they’re finally admitting their real motives… They are Luddites of the first order. Sounds weird, to me, but

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Eric Florack on July 1st, 2004

“We resent very deeply the false war crimes charges he made coming back from Vietnam in 1971 and repeated in the book “Tour of Duty.” We think those cast an aspersion on all those living and dead, from our unit

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The Instant One has come up witha beaut, and is herewith saluted:

NORM GERAS notes that another anti-war pundit has admitted she hoped for failure in Iraq, regardless of the cost to Iraqis. 

Glenn goes on to note that:

Fortunately,

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Eric Florack on July 1st, 2004

FOXNews has the story we’ve been waiting for.

“BAGHDAD, Iraq – Saddam Hussein (search), as defiant as ever, appeared in an Iraqi court Thursday but rejected war crimes and genocide charges against him.
‘I am Saddam Hussein, the president of

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Eric Florack on June 30th, 2004

AP is reporting::

“NEW YORK (AP) – Stocks pushed back into positive territory in late trading Wednesday as the Federal Reserve announced a widely expected 0.25 percentage point increase in interest rates.”

What caused all this?

The economy is

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Eric Florack on June 30th, 2004

QandO takes the time to judge Rotundo Moore by his own standards.

Moore a Sex offender?
Moore responsible for the death of John Candy?
Moore a NABMBLA member?

The facts on these and more do not look good for the

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I’ve been saying for months that these bozos were going to get desperate. The best example so far this week isThe Irish Trojan’s Blog:

“All the external factors seem to point in Bush’s favor: the economy is improving,

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