Eric Florack on November 28th, 2007

Hehehe… Democrats.Org  has come up with one of the more stupid moves I’ve seen in a long time:

For months now, Democrats have been tracking the Republican presidential frontrunners in the field, compiling a video library of candid moments as

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Eric Florack on November 28th, 2007

Over at The Glittering Eye, Dave Schuler extends the argument he’s made in the commentstongue-in-cheek post on the fact that the media continues to ignore the ethnic-religious component of the rioting in France.He argues that the problem goes

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davidl on November 28th, 2007

You have good liars and you have chronic liars.  Nobody seems to be believing B.J. Clinton’s  latest.  The New York Times is reporting that B.J. now clains to have opposed the war, “from the beginning

Sadly for B.J.

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Eric Florack on November 27th, 2007

I tend to use a lot of older equipment around here.  The fastest server at Casa de Bit is a PII/400 that I’ve cracked up to around 700 or so with some added cooling. The other two are PII/400’s.

I’ve

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Eric Florack on November 27th, 2007

Robert Bindinotto:

The Muslim world is not fooled by our talk about spreading democracy and values. The evidence is too overwhelming that we do not hesitate to support dictators and install puppet governments when it serves our interests. When democratic

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Eric Florack on November 27th, 2007

The “Rightosphere Temperature Check For November: Special GOP Primary Edition” is now up at RWN.

John Hawkins says in mail this morning:

 In this poll, right-of-center bloggers ranked the top 5 GOP contenders on everything from electability to fiscal

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Eric Florack on November 27th, 2007

McQ gets into a fairly well detailed examination of our energy policy woes:

We hear (and have heard) political promises to make the US “energy independent” by x number of years coming from all the current presidential candidates. And

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Eric Florack on November 27th, 2007

The echo hadn’t died on Trent Lott‘s resignation announcement, when the left started pushing this “Trent Lott is Gay” rumor.  A little strange that such a rumor should be quashed by HuffPo of all places.

Not very strange

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In the past few months, Ron Paul has dramatically raised the profile of libertarianism inside the Republican Party. My small-l libertarian friends seem more comfortable describing themselves as such, even though they’ll go out of their way to disassociate themselves

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Eric Florack on November 25th, 2007

Dale Franks:

Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez, the former US military commander in Iraq, has given the Democratic response to the President’s weekly radio address. Apparently, the general doesn’t much like the president.

Retired Army Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez, who led

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Eric Florack on November 25th, 2007

I note Gauis at Blue Crab Blvd, noting a story on the AP wire…

The Associated Press is quick to clear Paul Bunyan of the dirty deed, but Babe the Blue Ox has been decapitated.

KLAMATH, Calif. – Babe

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Malibu-(LA Times)-The most destructive fire in Malibu in nearly 15 years raced through parched canyons Saturday, consuming 49 homes and forcing the evacuation of thousands of residents.The so-called Corral fire burned 4,700 acres before the fierce Santa Ana winds

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Eric Florack on November 24th, 2007

You might be interested in learning that I’ve done some very significant work in the area of speeding up performance on site.

Mostly, it has to do with optimization of the database that drives the site.  The database is now

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Eric Florack on November 24th, 2007

Billy notes:

Rich Nikoley is barely hinting at the depth of my contempt for anyone entertaining the least infatuation with Barak Obama.

I actually have more respect for Rodham’s troops. At the very least: they’re committed ideologues and they’re not

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Eric Florack on November 24th, 2007

The San Francisco Chronicle has recently activated a devious system by which it deceives commenters on its website, SFGate.com. Here’s how it works:If you make a comment on an article posted at SFGate, and if the site moderators then subsequently

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