Eric Florack on February 6th, 2004

Sad word from the wires this morning…

Fox News says Carlie Brucia has bee found dead.

Not much of a shock, this. There’s too much of a history here.
The criminal justice system failed us again. I’ll do an

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Eric Florack on February 6th, 2004

Reagan’s dusk and dawn – The Washington Times is running an editorial on the Greatest President we’ve ever had; Ronald Reagan. Says the Times:

“Today marks the 93rd birthday of Ronald Reagan. It’s a bittersweet occasion.

Like the birthdays

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Eric Florack on February 5th, 2004

Jen, over at The Greatest Jeneration made quick work of Tenant’s speech.

I plan to do a write up on this for a BitsBit this weekend. Hers is the best I’ve seen so far, though…

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Eric Florack on February 5th, 2004

I’ve activated ATOM, which creates an XML version of the most recent blog entry list. Handy for picking up, say, in your Palm Pilot.

Th url for that feed is:
http://bitheads.blogspot.com/atom.xml

May take a day or so to catch up.

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Eric Florack on February 5th, 2004

LILEKS makes my day with this one:

“What’s the message here? John Kerry is best suited to lead us in the present war because he was a prominent opponant of the last one, which we lost. John Kerry led

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Eric Florack on February 5th, 2004

The Detroit news is reporting:

LANSING — Michigan’s big dance may turn out to be a slumber party.

The strong showing of Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry in the first nine primaries across the nation and his wide lead in

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Eric Florack on February 5th, 2004

President’s Statement on Massachusetts’ Court Ruling:

“February 4, 2004
STATEMENT BY THE PRESIDENT
Today’s ruling of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court is deeply troubling. Marriage is a sacred institution between a man and a woman. If activist judges insist

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Eric Florack on February 4th, 2004

HipperCritical wrote something on the 28th that frankly blows me away.

“Brain tumors suck, and I have one. I just found out about it back in October. The last few months have been quite the ordeal, but today’s the big

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Eric Florack on February 4th, 2004

The Washington Times is running a story today to warm my heart:

Coming-out day …..for conservatives

BOULDER, Colo. — A few years ago, Jeff O’Holleran said he began to realize that he was different from the other boys he knew.

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Eric Florack on February 4th, 2004

The Columbia Journalism Review takes on the left on the subject of the budget. The left keeps hamming that this a a recod deficit. In raw numbers? True. However, CJR goes on to point out:

“As a percentage of the

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Eric Florack on February 4th, 2004

Democrat & Chronicle: Troubling crossing turns deadly

Well, here’s some reality:

I’m not only from Rochester, but I’m a railfan, and one of my offices is within sight of the crossing in question.

I will tell you what the investigation

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Eric Florack on February 4th, 2004

The New York Post says:

“It’s quite clear what’s going on here: Sharpton is using the campaign to funnel money to himself.
The irony is that the campaign is broke – with barely $7,000 in the bank – but the

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Eric Florack on February 4th, 2004

FOXNews is reporting::

“WASHINGTON A 7-pound block of cyanide salt (search) was discovered by U.S. troops in Baghdad at the end of January, officials confirmed to Fox News.”

It gets better:

“The potentially lethal compound was located in what

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Eric Florack on February 4th, 2004

I had a chance to go over the wires, this morning, and look more closely at the returns. I expect I’ll post further about this later in the day, but as I went over it all this morning over coffee,

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Eric Florack on February 4th, 2004

Well, apparently so, anyway.
I’ve noticed in the last 24 hours, a huge upswing in the number of hits this site is getting, both the blog and the BitsBits section.

Based on the referral records, the biggest amount of upswing

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