on April 17th, 2010

Jones To The Grindstone.com

Adding stress to an already stressful situation is not a good idea, especially when dealing with the U.S. Army. While deployed in the desert, around a dozen men found out their wives back on the post

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Eric Florack on April 17th, 2010

I know. it’s been a week or so since you’ve heard from me.  It’s shameful the way I’ve let my writing here slide. I plead guilty with this as an excuse… I managed to locate a new job that looks

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davidl on March 26th, 2010

DavidL's Breakfast Scramble
Obama administration stuck on stupid, Jackson Diehl, Washington Post:

Obama has added more poison to a U.S.-Israeli relationship that already was at its lowest point in two decades. Tuesday night the White House refused to allow non-official photographers

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Eric Florack on March 22nd, 2010

Some comments on the events of last night, in no particular order:
The costs of this thing will be its undoing.  And ours, I suspect.  The move towards governmental power will invariably accelerate. Exponentially so, when given such a boost

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Eric Florack on March 7th, 2010

Hello from Colton, California.

I know I’ve not written much lately It’s been a challange keeping my batteries charged and writing on this thing takes lots of juice.

As of today I am perhaps 8 to 10 days from becoming

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davidl on February 23rd, 2010

DavidL's Breakfast Scramble
Dumbo proven right, for once. The dim witted one said that if he were elected  president, the rise of the oceans would stop, Guardian (UK)

Climate scientists withdraw journal claims of rising sea levels

Study claimed in 2009 that

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davidl on February 15th, 2010

Some in the left are upset with Ann Coulter’s latest drive by punditry at the expense of the Strutting Delaware Blue Hen, b/k/a Vice President Joe Biden, from Marc Schenker, Associated Content:

Coulter referred to Biden as a drunken

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Eric Florack on February 5th, 2010

As this is wriiten, I’m on my way back to Casa de Bit. Let’s just say the situation up north didn’t work to our mutual satisfaction.

I may or may not blog much today, since I was up all night

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Eric Florack on February 2nd, 2010

Well as you know I made it in @ HO Wolding in Wisc last night.

I’m really glad they didn’t figure on my doing anything but falling over because I did exactly that.

Woke up at about 4:30 local.  My

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Eric Florack on February 2nd, 2010

Amherst WI- Well, I got here anyway. I pulled in at 7:30 local time last night… 22 hours after I got on the bus and about 35 hours since I slept last. 

The place itself doesn’t look bad. It’s not

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davidl on January 31st, 2010

In a firefight, it is not numbers which matter, but rather firepower.   Roger Ailes may have been numbered but he was not out gunned,  Noel Sheppard, Newsbusters:

There was a marvelous fireworks display on Sunday’s “This Week” when Fox

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Eric Florack on January 28th, 2010

Welcome, one and all, to the most intense nightly read anywhere on the web; the BitsBlog Nightly Ramble.


  • STATE OF THE ONE: If you’re interested in reading the speech, it’s here. Frankly, I had thought to do a running commentary

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davidl on January 20th, 2010

The democrats lost a Senate seat in the bluest of states, Massachusetts, because they were blind to concerns the ordinary American voter, from  Mark Katherine Ham, Weekly Standard:

Democrats fooled themselves into believing the town-hall/Tea Party caricature and ignored the

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on January 3rd, 2010

JonesToTheGrindstone.com

It’s Friday night, already past 10, and the line to get in is forming. Everybody has got their best face forward–carefully selected images. No ugly faces.

Everyone has their most put out there and their words carefully chosen. You

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