Eric Florack on February 12th, 2008

John Hawkins, over at Right Wing News, looks at the list of possible VP’s that McCain is likely to chose from. Some interesting choices.  It’s my view that who he picks, in the end will matter only as

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davidl on February 12th, 2008

DavidL's Breakfast ScrambleLocal Hero: Out of the thirty-six car pile up, me and Bit boggged about here and here, we have a local hero, from WHEC-TV:

While dozens of cars and trucks were crashing into each other in blinding, blowing snow

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Eric Florack on February 12th, 2008

Fox News Channel’s Jamie Colby has a new report up talking about the big showdown in Berkeley, CA tonight – TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 12TH – when patriots from around the nation will hold an all-day pro-troop demonstration and protest against the

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davidl on February 11th, 2008

A fundamental division between conservatives snd liberals, is that conservatives believe that decisions have consequences.   Liberals pine for a world free from consequences.  Yet another female discovers that accepting gender feminist myth leads to adverse outcomes.   Lori Gottlieb , Atlantic

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  • John Hawkins points out MSNBC‘s David Shuster isn’t alone.

    We all know by now about the controversy surrounding MSNBC’s David Shuster and his allegation that Chelsea Clinton was being “pimped” by her family in order to drum up support

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Eric Florack on February 11th, 2008

Tom LantosWASHINGTON -(AP)- Rep. Tom Lantos of California, the only Holocaust survivor to serve in Congress, has died, his spokeswoman said Monday.Lynne Weil said that Lantos, 80, passed away at the Bethesda Naval Medical Center in suburban Maryland.Lantos, a Democrat who

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davidl on February 11th, 2008

DavidL's Breakfast Scramble

Conversation this morning:

Me: Good Moring.

Neighbor: How you doing?

Me: Cold!

Neighbor: Very

Thirty-six car pile-up near Scottsville, NY, Rochester, Democat and Chronicle:

Thirty-Six car pile-up, I-390, Scottville, NYFebruary 11, 2008 7:28 am – The scale of Sunday’s chain-reaction pileup on Interstate 390

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Eric Florack on February 10th, 2008

Me in email just now:

I don’t see it as those working against McCain as the ones selling out. Indeed, I see a vote for McCain as selling out both the party and the country. I fail utterly, to see

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Yes, Civil war in both parties seems likely to me.

The usual suspects are already complaining about civil war happening in the Democratic Party…. Frank Rich, at the New York Times, for example, perhaps without intending to, marks the

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Eric Florack on February 10th, 2008

People have been saying $#!t like this for a while now, and I’m sick of it.

If Barack Obama becomes the next US president he will surely be assassinated, British Nobel literature laureate Doris Lessing predicted in a newspaper interview

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davidl on February 10th, 2008

It is insane to use food stuffs for motor fuel.   It causes more damage to the environment and increases the cost of food.   Stephen Leahy. Environmental Journalist:L

Feb 8 (IPS) – Biofuels are making climate change worse, not better,

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Eric Florack on February 9th, 2008

Bluto observes:

From the Timesonline:

A government minister has warned that inbreeding among immigrants is causing a surge in birth defects – comments likely to spark a new row over the place of Muslims in British society.

Phil Woolas, an

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davidl on February 9th, 2008

Is the Reverend Jesse Jackson available to forgive David Shuster?  Mrs. Clinton in a letter to MSNBC:

“Nothing justifies the kind of debasing language that David Shuster used and no temporary suspension or half-hearted apology is sufficient.

“I would urge

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Eric Florack on February 9th, 2008

Jeanne Cummings over at The Politico:

John McCainWith John McCain poised to win the Republican nomination, Democrats are already gathering ammunition to use against him in the general election.In more than a few instances, the best fodder has been provided by

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Eric Florack on February 8th, 2008

Look, gang… in the end, David Shuster called it like it is.. he told the truth of the matter.

That, in fact is what has the Clinton camp so riled.  Well, of course that and if they act angry enough,

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