Eric Florack on January 23rd, 2004

Bill Gertz and Rowan Scarborough in the Washoington Times this morning:

” A senior Defense Department official tells us one of the alarming after-action intelligence reports that reached the Pentagon is that the communist government of Cuba shared intelligence

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Eric Florack on January 22nd, 2004

No, I couldn’t bring myself to watch the thing. Trying to convince myself these people (?) are American and sane doesn’t work and only serves to make my butt hurt.  I’ll skim the text files when they show up in

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Eric Florack on January 22nd, 2004

One of the things I’ve been looking at is my page stats, because I’m looking at putting these pages on a commercial site. I’m trying to calculate bandwidth needed. I’ve been noting a lot of bloggers using SITEMETER, and since

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Eric Florack on January 22nd, 2004

The Washington Shaft is finally getting around to the conclusion I’ve been saying here for years, now:

“The last recession may have started in the last months of the Clinton administration rather than at the beginning of the Bush

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Eric Florack on January 22nd, 2004

A few days ago, I made reference to the idea that the states were no longer in the financial problems that they once were.
HobbsOnline has the details of one of those states… Tennesee, which at the moment comes out

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Eric Florack on January 22nd, 2004

Anyone who doesn’t understand that Dr. King’s call for racial equality is being twisted, need look no further than the reaction of the idiots running WestSide High in Omaha, as depicted at Omaha.com:

“A small group of Westside High

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Eric Florack on January 22nd, 2004

As an owner of about 25,000 LP’s and a similar number of 45’s, along with all the digital stuff (MP3’s and CD’s), you can imagine this one tweaked my interest a bit.

ELP Laser Turntable: plays vinyl records without a

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Eric Florack on January 22nd, 2004

I’m thinking it was partially the problem. Bootrz points out today:

“By the way … has anyone bothered to ask what this all means for Al Gore?  Al throws his support behind Dean, and it’s a sleigh ride to poll

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Eric Florack on January 22nd, 2004

Drudge is reporting today that:

“The senator from North Carolina ‘strongly opposes investing Social Security in the stock market,’ according to his campaign website.

In a page titled ‘seniors,’ Edwards takes a stand on the controversial issue, declaring how

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Eric Florack on January 22nd, 2004

BBC NEWS is reporting this morning about how closely government workers are monitored:

“A tax office official in Finland who died at his desk went unnoticed by up to 30 colleagues for two days.
The man in his 60s died

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Eric Florack on January 21st, 2004

Looks like Conservative Issues/Com has gone dark. The address still shows on my DNS as going to SimpleHost, but the SimpleHost server rejects all requests.

Sad to see him go; CI was running echoes of my weekly column there for

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Eric Florack on January 21st, 2004

I’m prepareing this site to be moved to a commerical host. As such I’m trying to trim the un-needed bandwidth a bit. An easy way to deal with that is not to display a whole month of posts each time

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Eric Florack on January 21st, 2004

BET.com – The Country’s Most Segregated Cities:

According to BET, they are:

10. Philadelphia
9. Chicago
8. New York City
7. Buffalo-Niagra Falls, N.Y.
6. Cincinnati
5. Newark, N.J.
4. St. Louis
3. Cleveland-Lorain-Elyria, Ohio
2. Detroit
1. Milwaukee-Waukesha,

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Eric Florack on January 21st, 2004

In doing some basic research on Weasely ClarkBar, I’ve stumble onto a story originally run on the Voice of America in early August of 1999. Much has been suggested about why Clark got canned, along with many denials that he

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Eric Florack on January 21st, 2004

Reuters’ Cynthia Littleton reports that:

” Fox served up a reality one-two punch that propelled the network to the top spot Monday evening with the third season opener of ‘American Idol’ and the 9 p.m. bow of ‘My Big,

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